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A computer is a machine that manipulates
data according to a list of instructions. The first devices that resemble modern
computers date to the mid-20th century (around 1940 - 1945), although the
computer concept and various machines similar to computers existed earlier.
Early electronic computers were the size of a large room, consuming as much
power as several hundred modern personal computers.[1] Modern computers are
based on tiny integrated circuits and are millions to billions of times more
capable while occupying a fraction of the space.[2] Today, simple computers may
be made small enough to fit into a wristwatch and be powered from a watch
battery. Personal computers, in various forms, are icons of the Information Age
and are what most people think of as "a computer"; however, the most common form
of computer in use today is the embedded computer. Embedded computers are small,
simple devices that are used to control other devices — for example, they may be
found in machines ranging from fighter aircraft to industrial robots, digital
cameras, and children's toys. The ability to store and execute lists of
instructions called programs makes computers extremely versatile and
distinguishes them from calculators. The Church–Turing thesis is a mathematical
statement of this versatility: any computer with a certain minimum capability
is, in principle, capable of performing the same tasks that any other computer
can perform. Therefore, computers with capability and complexity ranging from
that of a personal digital assistant to a supercomputer are all able to perform
the same computational tasks given enough time and storage capacity.
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About.com
About.com is an online source for original
information and advice, and is among the top 15 US Websites (Nielsen Online
Spring 2008). It is written in English, and is aimed primarily at North
Americans. It is owned by The New York Times Company. The site’s content is
dynamic, attempting to keep up with new information and changing consumer
interests. About.com is divided into topic sites, which are grouped into
channels and cover subjects from home repair to pediatrics and model railroading
and weather. The content is written by a network of over 700 journalists, called
Guides, who have some experience in their particular fields. Each Guide looks
after one subject and is the exclusive writer for that subject. Content on the
site can take the form of articles, online courses, interactive quizzes, videos
and so forth.
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Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced
a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) is an American computer software
company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Adobe was founded in
December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company
after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell the PostScript page
description language. In 1985, Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in its
LaserWriter printers, which helped spark the desktop publishing revolution. The
company name Adobe comes from Adobe Creek, which ran behind the house of one of
the company's founders. Adobe acquired its former competitor, Macromedia, in
December 2005.
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Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based
subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is best known for operating a website that
provides information on web traffic to other websites.
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Answers.com
Answers.com is a website that presents
reference content in over four million entries, collected from multiple sources.
Launched in January 2005, the website is the primary product of the Answers
Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW) (previously GuruNet), an Israel-based Internet
reference company with offices in New York City and Jerusalem and founded by Bob
Rosenschein in 1999.
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Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL, LSE: 0HDZ, FWB:
APC), formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation
with a focus on designing and manufacturing consumer electronics and closely
related software products. The company's best-known hardware products include
the Macintosh line of personal computers, the iPod line of portable media
players, and the iPhone. Apple's software products include the Mac OS X
operating system, iTunes media browser, the iLife suite of multimedia and
creativity software, and Final Cut Studio, a suite of professional audio- and
film-industry software products.
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Ask.com
Ask.com is a search engine. It is a
business division of IAC Search & Media, and was founded in 1996 by Garrett
Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was
implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. Three venture capital firms,
Highland Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, and The RODA Group were early
investors.
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CNET Networks
CNET Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNET) is a
publicly-held media company based in San Francisco, California, United States
and co-founded in 1993 by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie. On May 15, 2008, it
was announced that CBS Corporation would buy CNET Networks for US$1.8 billion.
The deal is expected to close in the third quarter.
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Dell
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL SEHK: 4331), a
multinational company based in Round Rock, Texas, develops, manufactures, sells,
and supports personal computers, servers, data storage devices, network
switches, software, televisions, computer peripherals, and other
technology-related products. As of 2008, Dell employed more than 95,000 people
worldwide.
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Download.com
Download.com is an Internet download
directory website, launched in 1996 as a part of CNET. Download.com offers
content in four major categories: Software (including PC, Mac, and mobile),
Music, Games, and Videos, offered for download via FTP from Download.com's
servers or third-party servers. Videos are streams (at present) and music is all
free MP3 downloads, or occasionally rights-managed WMAs or streams.
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Facebook
Facebook (branded as "facebook") is a
social networking website launched on February 4, 2004. The free-access website
is privately owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks
organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with
other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update
their personal profile to notify friends about themselves. The website's name
refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some
American colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty,
and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus.
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Gmail
Gmail, officially Google Mail in Germany
and the United Kingdom, is a free Web-based email (webmail), POP3 and IMAP
e-mail service provided by Google. On April 1, 2004 the product began as an
invitation-only beta release. On February 7, 2007 the beta version was opened to
the general public. With an initial storage capacity of 1 GB, it drastically
increased the standard for free storage.
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Google
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG and LSE: GGEA)
is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to
its Internet search, web-based e-mail, online mapping, office productivity,
social networking, and video sharing as well as selling advertising-free
versions of the same technologies. Google's headquarters, the Googleplex, is
located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2008 the company has
19,156 full-time employees. As of October 31, 2007, it is the largest American
company (by market capitalization) that is not part of the Dow Jones Industrial
Average.
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Google AdWords
AdWords is Google's flagship advertising
product and main source of revenue. AdWords offers pay-per-click (PPC)
advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads. The
AdWords program includes local, national, and international distribution.
Google's text advertisements are short, consisting of one title line and two
content text lines. Image ads can be one of several different Interactive
Advertising Bureau (IAB) standard sizes. Google's AdWords division is based in
Ann Arbor, Michigan, the company's third-largest facility behind its Mountain
View, California, headquarters and New York City office.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an
American multinational computer technology corporation. It develops,
manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for
computing devices. Microsoft's best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows
operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software. These
products have prominent positions in their respective markets, with market share
estimates as high as 90% or more for Microsoft Windows as of 2006 and for
Microsoft Office as of 2003. One of Bill Gates' key visions for the company was
to "to get a workstation running our software onto every desk and eventually in
every home".
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MySpace
MySpace is a popular social networking
website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal
profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults
internationally. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, USA, where
it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media;
which is owned by News Corporation, which has its headquarters in New York City.
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Softpedia
Softpedia is a site that indexes
information and provides downloads for many games, drivers, mobile phones, and
software for the Windows, Macintosh, and Linux platforms, as well as PDAs and
other devices. The site also indexes major technology, science, health, and
entertainment news both from ticker servers and from in-house sources. As of
April 2007, it is one of the top 500 websites according to Alexa traffic
rankings. The site was originally known as Softnews.ro, but was changed to
Softpedia near the end of 2003.
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SourceForge.net
SourceForge.net is a source code
repository and acts as a centralized location for software developers to control
and manage open source software development. SourceForge.net is operated by
Sourceforge, Inc. (formerly VA Software) and runs a version of the SourceForge
software, forked from the last open-source version available. A large number of
open source projects are hosted on the site (it had reached 178,832 projects and
1,861,990 registered users as of 2008, although it does contain many dormant or
single-user projects).
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, open
content encyclopedia project operated by the United States-based non-profit
Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology
for creating collaborative websites) and encyclopedia. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy
Wales and Larry Sanger, it is currently the largest, fastest-growing, and most
popular general reference work on the Internet. Wikipedia is a project that
attempts to summarize all of human knowledge.
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Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American
public corporation incorporated and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, in
Silicon Valley and a global Internet services company. It provides a range of
products and services including a Web portal, a search engine, the Yahoo!
Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and posting. It was founded by Stanford University
graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in January of 1994 and incorporated
on March 1, 1995.
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