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Microsoft
Old high school friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen form a partnership known as Microsoft to write computer software. They sell their first software to Ed Roberts at MIT, which has produced the Altair 8800, the first microprocessor-based computer. -
GPS Technology
The GPS was originally developed as a navigation system by the United States military, the Global Positioning System uses a network of satellites around the Earth to pinpoint the exact position of a receiver anywhere on the planet. -
PC
In January "Time" names its 1982 "man" of the year -- the personal computer. PC's have taken the world by storm, dramatically changing the way people communicate. IBM dominates the personal computer market, benefiting both from the production of its own machines as well as "clones" produced by other companies. -
Wi-Fi
is a popular technology that allows an electronic device to exchange data wirelessly (using radio waves) over a computer network, including high-speed Internet connections. Intended for use in cashier systems -
Digital Camera
In 1994, the Apple Quicktake 100 camera was the first to connect to the home computer by a USB wire. Year after year, digital cameras became equipped with more features and began to gain larger megapixel sensors. -
Camera Phone
Philippe Kahn of Lightsurf enterprises in the US, invented a mobile picture sharing structure, and the first cameraphone to make use of this was the Sharp J-SH04, which was developed in the late nineties and received a commercial release in 2001 in Japan. -
Mozilla Firefox
The Mozilla Firefox project was created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch of the Mozilla browser. Firefox 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004 -
USB Flash Drive
Introduced in 2002, USB drives encapsulate flash with a memory controller in a small package offering high capacity, fast transfer rates, flexibility and convenience; some feature built-in hardware encryption and password protection -
Youtube
The online video sharing and viewing community - was invented in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. -
Electronic Money
Credit cards gave us greater convenience for spending, greater security and the ability to spend money anywhere in the world. They also brought us internet fraud and record levels of debt that have contributed to the global credit crunch. -
Steam Powered Car
On Aug. 25, Charles Burnett III smashed a record that had stood for more than a century: the land-speed record for a steam-powered car. -
Google virtual goggles
Details are scant about the rumored glasses, but the basic idea is to beam contextually relevant information straight to your eyeballs. Like augmented reality apps, the glasses could deliver an added layer of information about, say, a landmark you're looking at, or offer up a discount to a restaurant that catches your gaze -
Home 3D printer
Personal 3-D printers are getting more powerful and more advanced every year.The intended audience is engineers and industrial designers looking to test out their ideas. -
Car GPS Tracking
Car Gps Tracking is fairly common in new vehicles, providing drivers with tracking and navigation. However, latest technology inventions have made car gps tracking systems more sophisticated, allowing for a wide range of additional uses. A car gps tracking system that integrates with traffic information would give drivers the ability to select routes in real time that were more fuel efficient, less congested, faster or shorter. -
A 1 Terabyte SD Memory Card
Many computers still don’t come with that much memory, much less SD memory cards that fit in your digital camera. Yet thanks to Moore’s Law we can expect that the 1TB SD card will become commonplace in 2014, and increasingly necessary given the much larger swaths of data and information that we’re constantly exchanging every day (thanks to technologies like memristors and our increasing ever-connectedness). -
Cloud Computing
The advantages of cloud computing is that it eliminates the difficulty and expense of maintaining, upgrading and scaling your own computer hardware and software while increasing efficiency, speed and resources. Your computer's processing speed, memory capacity, software applications and maintenance requirements are minimized
