Apple wasn’t the first company to launch iPhone
The very first iPhone wasn’t launched by Apple. The device was created by Infogear which was later acquired by Cisco. [more...]
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The very first iPhone wasn’t launched by Apple. The device was created by Infogear which was later acquired by Cisco. [more...]
The World Wide Web was born at CERN, a high-energy physics facility located on the borders of Switzerland and France. The WWW was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. [more...]
Internet was born at ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, a part of the United States Department of Defense. Its direct predecessor, ARPANET, became functional on 20th October 1969. [more...]
Ray Tomlinson invented the modern email messaging system. He sent the first message over ARPANET but was skeptical of telling everyone what he had invented. [more...]
The origin of the name of the world’s favourite search engine, Google. It is actually a misspelling of the word googol which means 1 followed by a hundred zeros. [more...]
Mac alert sound Sosumi's name comes from the legal battle between Apple Computers and The Beatles Apple Records. When you say it aloud it sounds like "So Sue Me". [more...]
Brief on the legal battle between Apple Records owned by the Beatles and Apple Computers because of infringement of trademark by the latter. Here is how the lawsuit was settled and how the electronics giant launched the iTunes music store and the iPod music player. [more...]
How do I view a deleted web page?
Is there a way to view a deleted web page - one that is no longer available? Yes there is and the solution is quite simple. [more...]
The Cars.com domain name and the accompanying site were owned by Classified Ventures, LLC, which itself was a joint venture of several companies. In 2014, Gannett Company, Inc., one of the firms from this group, bought the remaining stake for USD 1.8 billion. After the acquisition, the Cars.com domain was valued at $827 million and the entire company at $2.5 billion. [more...]
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