Deciphering the Codenames #3

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List of code names and their original finalized version names of Apple:

1. Alpine- iPhone OS 1.0

2. Bismol, Lanai- iBook

3. Cabernet- Macintosh II

4. Columbus- iMac

5. Dulcimer- iPod

6. Gizmo- Apple Watch

7. iTV- Apple TV

8. K48- iPad

9. Madrid- iMessage

10. Mesa- Touch ID

Read a Bit & Take a Byte #6

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1. Identify the logo.

Image Source: www.kali.org

Answer: Kali Linux

2. X was created by three former Infosys employees Piyush Agrawal, Pankaj Chhaparwal and Pravin Hegde on November 1, 2004. X was later acquired by Times Internet in November, 2014 and turned out to be the 7th most googled site in India in 2014. In 2014, the app X crossed the 10 million downloads mark and became the most downloaded app in India. Identify the app X.

Answer: CricBuzz

3. X, founded in 2014 by Eric Bauswell and Jamie Bianchini, which has its core locations as San Jose, California and Eastern Sierra Nevada town of Minden, Nevada. X produced world's first smart candle which could be lit and extinguished with the help of iPhones. Identify X

Answer: LuDela 

4. X is regarded to be the think tank of Google or more precisely the technology incubator of Google. X was found by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen in 2010 & X was formerly known as "Google Ideas". But in 2015, they renamed it to the present name X. It was built to understand global challenges and apply technological solutions, for countering extremism, online censorship and cyberattacks, to protect access to information. Identify X. 

Image Source: www.elpoderdelasideas.com

Answer: Jigsaw 

5. XY is an app developed by X Software Scandinavia AB, a firm with its base working site as Stockholm, Sweden, by Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam in the year 2009. X was initially launched for Blackberry Mobile and was later spread to other mobile phones too. As of December 2014, X had reached 100 million users worldwide. Identify the app X.

Answer: Truecaller

Read a Bit & Take a Byte #5

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1. Identify the person and his claim to fame.

Image Source: www.wikipedia.org

Answer: Randy Adams ; Founded the first e-commerce website and managed the team which invented  both Adobe Acrobat and PDF.

2. Google announced a new app called X on September 27, 2016 in an event conducted at New Delhi in relation with 'Google For India'. This app X helps the users to save videos for offline viewing, giving options over quality and file size so it's clear how much data a download may use. According to Google, the app X depends on 4 concepts: relatable video recommendation, offline video, cost effective data usage and social experience. Give me the name of this app X designed especially for places like India with low connectivity.

Answer: Youtube Go

3. X, founded by Gulshan Kumar in 2001, is a music label owned by Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited (SCIL), an Indian music company which is also engaged in film distribution and production. X has also credited its influence in the manufacturing of other commodities like incense sticks (Rajni Industries) and washing powder (Gopal Soap Industries). Recently, X became the first South Asian channel to hit the 10 million subscriber mark in Youtube. Identify X.

Answer: T- Series

4. Identify the logo and the founder of the company.

Image Source: www.logospike.com

Answer: Reddit ; Founder- Steve Huffman, Alexis Ohanian

5. X is a startup company started by Rohit Rai and Satyaprakash Buddhavarapu in 2013 which deals with big data & machine learning. This Hyderabad based tech giant was acquired by Apple in 2016. Apple showed interest in the open-source project termed ‘FiloDB’ of X, which is essentially attempting to apply the concept of machine learning to analyse big data. Identify the startup X.

Answer: Tuplejump

Give Me Your Father's Name #2

1. Father of Compiler- John Backus

2. Father of C Programming- Dennis Ritchie

3. Father of Computer Programming- Ada Lovelace

4. Father of Search Engine- Alam Emtage

5. Father of Personal Computers- Henry Edward Roberts

6. Father of www- Tim Berners Lee

7. Father of Microprocessor- Ted Hoff

8. Father of Pentium Microprocessors- Vinod Dham

9. Father of wi-fi- Vicky Hayes

10. Father of Mobile Phones- Martin Cooper

Give Me Your Father's Name #1

1. Father of IBM PC- Philip Donestridge

2. Father of Computer Science- Alan Turing

3. Father of Artificial Intelligence- John McCarthy

4. Father of Super Computers- Seymour Cray

5. Father of USB- Ajay Bhatt

6. Father of Information Theory- Claude Shannon

7. Father of Video Games- Ralph H. Baer

8. Father of Cybernetics- Norbert Wiener

9. Father of Robotics- Ismail Al- Jazari

10. Father of Assembler- Nathaniel Rochester

Deciphering the Codenames #1

                                          Coding And Decoding...

List of code names and their original finalized version names of Microsoft:

1. Chicago- Windows 95

2. Memphis- Windows 98

3. Janus- Windows 2000

4. Whistler- Windows XP

5. Longhorn- Windows Vista

6. BlackComb- Windows 7

7. Threshold- Windows 10

8. O' Hare- Internet Explorer 1

9. Rincon- Internet Explorer 7

10. Spartan- Microsoft Edge

Read a Bit & Take a Byte #4

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1. X, the world's first tablet made exclusively for women, was a product of Eurostar (a Middle East firm). X was first announced in October, 2012 but later it was relaunched as a valentine day gift of 2013. X runs on Android 4.0 (Ice cream sandwich) and has a 1.5GHz processor, 16GB of internal storage, and an SD card slot. The preloaded apps on shopping, grocery, cooking, etc. are arranged on a lighter pink background. Identify the tablet X.

Image Source: www.guardian.com

Answer: ePad Femme

2. X, founded by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll in June 2012, is a short-form video sharing service where users can share six-second-long video clips. X had its origin in Florida and was later acquired by Y in October 2012. Dunkin Donuts was the first company to use X as an entire television advertisement and the first ever sale of X as art was Angela Washko's "Tits on Tits on Ikea". Identify the service X and the company Y.

Answer: Vine

3. X was created by Chris Wetherell, launched on October 7, 2005, as a platform for serving news and information to people. The predecessor of X was "JavaCollect" and in September, 2007 it was revised under the leadership of Kevin Systrom, the founder of Y. The service X was discontinued from March 13, 2013 and the offer was given to the users that they could use another service Z to retain their subscriptions and files. Identify X, Y and Z.

Answer: X- Google Reader Y- Instagram Z- Google Takeout

4. An internet cafe which was opened in the year 2007 by Medoune Seck was later changed into world's first X. He opened it as Equinoxe cyber cafe in 2007 in Dakar, the capital city of Senegal, but was soon set back due to the frequent power cuts and large electricity bills. The idea of X was initiated by Google for which Medoune Seck applied himself. What was created there as X?

Answer: Tablet cafe (It was world's first tablet cafe!!!)

5.  

Image Source: www.phonearena.com

Identify the phone and what was its claim to fame?

Answer: Disney Magic 1 - First Smartphone of Walt Disney Company