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Key Points: We’ve compared three of the best micro SD cards for optimum data storage: Sandisk, Samsung, and Lexar. The Sandisk micro SD card is our overall top choice for best in storage capacity and versatility. If you are looking for the most affordable micro SD card, Lexar provides a great option. Summary Data storage […]

Key Points: Childhood friends Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin co-founded RIM (Research In Motion) in 1984. The company began by building modems and pagers – but would eventually produce the Blackberry. The Blackberry would become America’s preferred smartphone brand due to its workplace functionality and high-level security. By 2016, the Blackberry couldn’t compete with the […]

Key Points: CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and GSM (Global System for Mobiles) are used by phone carriers, and utilized for telecommunication purposes. CDMA and GSM are both are used for 2G and 3G networks, but as more and more networks switch to LTE or more advanced versions, CDMA and GSM are less used. While […]

MP3 vs. MP4: 5 Need to Know Facts MP3 compression can reduce file sizes by more than 90% compared to CD quality audio. If you’re looking for an MP3 setting that matches lossless audio that’s most comparable to CDs while also reducing file sizes, look for 320 kbps bitrates. At that level MP4s are different […]

Technology permeates everything today. While software continues to grow and invisibly manage more of our lives, it’s often the actual physical products that become iconic and associated with certain eras.  Breakthrough personal technology products like the walkman, ipod, and gameboy show this best. Others like TI graphing calculators have been a staple in education for […]

Key Points The iPod Mini was meant to be a slightly cheaper, more visually pleasing answer to the immensely successful iPod. First introduced in 2004, it would be newly reincarnated once more in 2005, in four colors, this time, as opposed to the five previously available with the earlier version. The device was also the […]

Key Points The rise of Napster and the prevalence of MP3s provided an opportunity for Apple soon after the disappointing sales of the Apple Newton. The company’s missing link turned out to be Tony Fadell, a former Phillips executive on a quest for a device capable of streaming music legally and conveniently. Fadell in turn […]

Key Points Following the departure of Steve Jobs from Apple in 1985, John Sculley, the new CEO decided to work towards releasing more portable products. By 1992 he announced to the world the advent of a PDA. The new device was far less costly compared to earlier prototypes and could send faxes, relay data back […]

Twilight of the gods – 20th century The 20th century is a time of ubiquity and decline of mechanical calculating machines. In the first half of the century thousands of companies, primarily in Germany and USA, manufactured millions of mechanical calculators, cash registers, accounting machines, etc. In the second half however, especially after 1960s, when […]

The Conquering of the World — 19th century More than two centuries elapsed between the introduction of the first mechanical calculator (Schickard’s Rechenuhr of 1623) and the first large-scale and low-cost production machine (Thomas de Colmar’s Arithmometer, produced in series from 1850s). The reasons for such a delay (by the way, much longer than that […]

Key Points Tom Van Vleck and Noel Morris created an email facility for MIT’s Compatible Time-Sharing System. The first message using the new command was sent in 1971 and was sent between two machines. In 1996, for the first time in USA more electronic mail was being sent than postal mail. The First E-mail Message […]

Key Points A mathematician and inventor designed his first computing machine. Charles-Xavier Thomas de Colmar (1785-1870) conceived the idea of the arthrometer. In 1840, Thomas Fowler, an English businessman, self-taught mathematician and inventor, created a calculating machine.   1812 Abraham Jakub Stern Around 1810, the Galician Jew Abraham Jakub Stern (1768-1842), a remarkable mathematician, inventor, […]