On May 28 2009, Yahoo! announced that it would be closing its social network service called Yahoo! 360°.
What is Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in California. It is famously known for its web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services, including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website. Yahoo! itself claims it attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages."
Yahoo! Inc. was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. To read more about Yahoo!, please refer to this article.
Whats is Yahoo! 360°?
Yahoo! 360° was a social networking and personal communication portal operated by Yahoo! made available in 2005. It enabled users to create personal web sites, share photos from Yahoo! Photos, maintain blogs and lists, create and share a public profile and see which friends are currently online. To read more about this topic, please refer to this location.
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Microsoft Launched Kumo
On May 14 2009, Microsoft Launched a beta version of their new search engine code named Kumo. This engine would later be known as Bing.
What is Bing Search?
Bing (known previously as Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is a web search engine (advertised as a "decision engine) from Microsoft.
Bing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego for release on June 1.
For more details about this, please refer to this article.
What is Bing Search?
Bing (known previously as Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is a web search engine (advertised as a "decision engine) from Microsoft.
Bing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego for release on June 1.
For more details about this, please refer to this article.
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Homepage Virus Struck Thousands of Microsoft Outlook Users Worldwide.
On May 9 2001, A computer virus described as an “email worm” called Homepage struck thousands of Microsoft Outlook users worldwide, causing serious damage.
The email carrying the worm had an attachment named homepage.HTML.vbs. Those who did not have file extension viewing enabled would see only homepage.HTML.
If the attachment, homepage.HTML.vbs, was executed, the worm would mass-mail itself to all recipients listed in any Windows address book. The worm then deleted all the sent messages from the Sent folder and the Deleted Items folder with the subject line "Homepage". The worm then modified the registry of the infected machine as an internal indicator to itself that the mailing routine had been performed.
What is a computer virus?
A computer virus is an executable program. Depend on the nature of a virus, it may cause damage of your hard disk contents, and/or interfere normal operation. For more details about computer viruses, please refer to this article.
The email carrying the worm had an attachment named homepage.HTML.vbs. Those who did not have file extension viewing enabled would see only homepage.HTML.
If the attachment, homepage.HTML.vbs, was executed, the worm would mass-mail itself to all recipients listed in any Windows address book. The worm then deleted all the sent messages from the Sent folder and the Deleted Items folder with the subject line "Homepage". The worm then modified the registry of the infected machine as an internal indicator to itself that the mailing routine had been performed.
What is a computer virus?
A computer virus is an executable program. Depend on the nature of a virus, it may cause damage of your hard disk contents, and/or interfere normal operation. For more details about computer viruses, please refer to this article.
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Shipping Ten Million Copies of Windows 3.0
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Launching Twitter Japan
On April 22 2008, Twitter - The micro-blogging social website launched its Japanese version. The release of Twitter in Japan came as a result of the massive service usage by the Japanese users.
In fact, according to some sources, there were more than twice as many Tweets from Tokyo (28,874) as from New York (14,367) or San Francisco (14,348).
To read more about Twitter, please refer to this article.
Saturday, 20 April 2013
That must be why we’re not shipping Windows 98 yet
On 20 April 1998, At COMDEX and while demonstrating Windows 98, Bill Gates came out with these famous words after a blue error screen popped up in front of the entire audience while his assistant Chris Capossela tried to connect a scanner to the computer.
This was made as an attempt to show case the automatic plug and play feature for hardware drivers installation.
To know more about Windows 98, please refer to this article published on Wikipedia.
This was made as an attempt to show case the automatic plug and play feature for hardware drivers installation.
To know more about Windows 98, please refer to this article published on Wikipedia.
Friday, 19 April 2013
Commodore International released B700 and P500 series of Micro-computers.
On April 19 1982, Commodore International released the B(700) and P(500) series of microcomputers, featuring a 6509 CPU, 64KB RAM expandable to 256KB, 28KB ROM, an 80×25 green phosphor monitor, a built-in 94-key keyboard, two 5.25-inch floppy disk drives, and several I/O ports.
These machines ran Basic as their operating system, and the price ranged between $1,700 up to $3,000.
What is Commodore International?
Commodore International (or Commodore International Limited) was an American home computer and electronics manufacturer. It owned a subsidiary called Commodore Business Machines (CBM) which played a major role in developing home and personal computers in the 1970s and 1980s.The company developed one of the world's best-selling desktop computers, the Commodore 64 (1982) and released its Amiga computer line in 1985.
To read more about the history of this company, please refer to its article published on Wikipedia.
These machines ran Basic as their operating system, and the price ranged between $1,700 up to $3,000.
What is Commodore International?
Commodore International (or Commodore International Limited) was an American home computer and electronics manufacturer. It owned a subsidiary called Commodore Business Machines (CBM) which played a major role in developing home and personal computers in the 1970s and 1980s.The company developed one of the world's best-selling desktop computers, the Commodore 64 (1982) and released its Amiga computer line in 1985.
To read more about the history of this company, please refer to its article published on Wikipedia.
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