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Facts about Microsoft

“If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.” ““ Bill Gates

•  The first Operation System Microsoft coded was Xenix, which was a version of UNIX under a different name. But it was MS-DOS made for IBM PCs that gave it a foothold in the software market.
• The original name of MS DOS was 86-DOS Which was not build by Microsoft, they just made few alterations on that OS.
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•   Bill Gates wrote a class scheduling program for his school. He        tweaked the program’s code so that he was placed in

Facts About LinkedIn

If you want to know more than you thought possible about LinkedIn, you should read its 132-page prospectus with the SEC. But who would want to troll through all that data?

Luckily, we have some nerds who love to do just that. We sliced some of the more interesting stats found within the professional networking site’s filing for an IPO and serve them to you in bite-sized nuggets.

• Million Added Every Two Weeks. During the second half of 2010, LinkedIn’s
  membership base grew, on average, by 1 million new membersevery ten days.

Linkedin

• Metrics Rising. Registered users  grew from 55 million at the end of 2009 to 90 million at the end of 2010. Page views grew from 2.8 billion to 5.5 billion.

• Global Growth. By the end of 2010, 50% of members were located outside the U.S. LinkedIn’s international headquarters are located in Dublin, Ireland and they have offices in Canada, India, Australia, the Netherlands and the U.K. (For more on LinkedIn user demographics see this SlideShare presentation.)

• Worth A Fortune. LinkedIn’s membership includes executives from every company listed on the 2010 Fortune 500.

Terrific Twitter Facts and Figures

Those who follows my blogs and those who are in touch with me, may know that I always prefer TWITTER than all other social networking sites.Thus in this regard here is a piece of information on twitter.

Twitter has always suffered an image problem and is not usually taken very seriously by the general public. Its name doesn’t help with some people even saying that ‘Twitter is for twits’. Despite this glamor and brand problem this has not held back its growth after its humble origins and launch in 2006.
Since then Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and is

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If you visit a cyber cafe and find any black pin attached to the CPU as shown in the picture, do not use that system. This pin is actually a connection which saves all your data you enter in the system. It is a hardware keylogger, very powerful, it records each and every action on your system.
It is a risk to your privacy over the net, at risk are passwords, banking, or any other data you enter.
Please *SHARE* this information among your friends and secure them too...

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50 Facebook Facts And Figures

The rise and rise of Facebook is producing a scramble by marketers and companies to leverage its huge global database and traffic.

Google is looking over its shoulder as Facebook grows at over 10 million users a month and sits currently at number two on web traffic rankings according to Alexa.com.

Last year Facebook surpassed Google for the top ranking for total time spent online.

Google is even being forced to continually adjust its search engine algorithms to cater for the a social web that provides more prominence for social channels in its search results. Facebook has also become the 3rd largest video website with 46.6 million viewers sitting behind number one ranked video content property provider Google with its YouTube site and Yahoo at second ranking.

50 Facebook Facts and Figures

1. 1 in every 13 people on Earth is on Facebook
2. 35+ demographic represents more than 30% of the entire user base

Dictionary Meaning of Yahoo!

ya·hoo 

NOUN:
pl. ya·hoos

A crude or brutish person.

wanna proof then check out the following link............
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/yahoo

Computer Science History in Dates

http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?gclid=CMOs9dnckbMCFUwb6wodH2cA0Q

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50 Amazing Google Facts and Figures

• The original nickname was BackRub due to the backlink technology used to determine site importance but eventually changed the name to Google originating from the misspelling of the word “Googol (the mathematician’s term for the number one followed by one hundred zeros) to signify the large quantities of information for people that it would provide.

• Google began as a research project in 1996

• Google.com domain went online in 1997

14 Facts of Google

#1

The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

What happens in one minute on Internet?