Thursday, September 29, 2016

1. who was sitting under an apple tree in Apple's original corporate logo? Issac Newton
2. in what year was the first phone using the android operating system sold in the united states? 2008 t-moblie g1
 3. which software developer appeared in the movie triumph of the nerds and aardvark-d 12 weeks with geeks? Daniel Singer "Dan" Bricklin
4. which united states president's speech did peter norvig turn into a light hearted powerpoint presentation? Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
 5. what is the difference between a serif and sans serif font? Serifs are semi-structural details or small decorative flourishes on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. An example would be the Times New Romanfont. Sans serif does not have these details or flourishes. An example would be the Arialfont.
6. In what year did the United States Department of Revenue first provide tax forms and booklets in Adobe PDF format on its Web site? Never!
 7. what company did bruce artwick form in 1977 and what game did it license to microsoft in 1982? SubLogic
8. which company coined the term word processor in the late 1960s? IBM
 9. microsoft included the disk volume organization optimizer in its early operating system to defrag which storage medium? defragment the 5¼-inch floppy disks
10. bernd fix ,stari st ,g data and uvk 2000 are names of which category of security tools? Antivirus software

Friday, September 23, 2016

Chapter 3 Search Sleuth 1.what are four 10-letter words composed of letters on a keyboard’s top row? PEPPERROOT, PEPPERWORT, PERPETUITY, PEWTERWORT, PIROUETTER, PREREQUIRE, PRETORTURE, PROPRIETOR, REPERTOIRE, REPETITORY, TETTERWORT 2.Which company is credited with developing the first phablet? AT&T EO 440, "the first true phablet" 3.Who wrote the official five-note Intel signature jingle? Walter Werzowa 4.What trait do Belle, and Deep Blue, Hydra, Gravity Pipe, MDGRAPE-3, and Deep rack share? They are supercomputers that are apart of top 500 computer share. 5. For which purpose was the Barcode Battler developed? It was a handheld game console that player could use to battle against one another. 6. In which shopping center was the first ATM installed in the US? When was it installed? On September 2, 1969, Chemical Bank installed the first cash machine in the US at its branch in Rockville Centre, New York. The first cash machines were designed to dispense a fixed amount of cash when a user inserted a specially coded card. 7.Which company has a self-service kiosks located in the Empire State Building in New York City and the Willis Tower in Chicago? RedBox 8. What is the name of the predictive text imput method that Martin King and Cliff Kushler developed? T9 9. JPL’s Frederic C. Billingsley used the word, pixel, to describe which images in 1965? to describe the picture elements of video images 10. Who created the first video game joystick in 1967? Ralph H. Baer

Friday, September 16, 2016

Chapter 2 Search Sleuth 1.Who were the original developers of Skpye, and how did they determine the name of their company? .Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Founders Software developer was Estonisnd Athi Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. Sky peer to peer was abbrivated to Skyper but domain names were used commonly so they dropped the r and SKYPE was born. 2.which was the first partial message transmitted on ARPANET “Lo” 3.what is the cost of membership for a country to join the w3c? In order to promote a diverse Membership that represents the interests of organizations around the world, W3C fees vary depending on the annual revenues, type, and location of headquarters of an organization. 4.in which city was the first public commercial internet cafe opened in the us? Wayne Gregori in San Francisco when he began SFnet Coffeehouse Network in 1991. Three Internet cafés subsequently opened in the East Village neighborhood of New York City: Internet Cafetm, opened by Arthur Perley, the @Cafe, and the Heroic Sandwich. In 1996, the Internet café Surf City opened in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. 5. what was the first registered domain name? Symbolics.com It was registered March 15, 1985, to Symbolics Inc., a computer systems company in Cambridge, Mass. It was registered March 15, 1985, to Symbolics Inc., a computer systems company in Cambridge, Mass. 6. what was the content of twitter founder jack dorsey's first tweet just setting up my twttr 7. which browser first used the current web feed icon shown in figure 2-9 on page 65 in this chapter? Internet Explorer 8. which U.S president issued the first directive making GPS technology freely available for civilian use? President Ronald Reagan U.S. Air Force 9. who is responsible for translating twitter text into more than 20 languages? An indispensable and vibrant community of thousands of translators work through our Translation Center to help make Twitter available to people throughout the world. 10.What was ebay’s original name and what was the first item offered for auction and what was the first item offered for auction? AuctionWeb, a broken lazer pointer for $14.83