Every one of us probably knows what a computer is and what it is capable of doing. It is practically one of the greatest inventions of all time. But who would have thought that this extremely popular machine started as a device, made usually of wood, with a frame that holds rods for columns of […]

Before, the term “computer” did not refer to the popular device that we know of today. A computer was a job title; it literally meant “somebody who computes.” If you have heard of the saying that the first computer was a person, it is true.
Today though, the term computer refers to something else. Yes, […]

The Macworld Conference and Expo is the most awaited event for devoted, die hard Apple fanatics every year. This event is where Steve Jobs, Apple’s visionary founder unveils the company’s newest gadgets to the world.
On January 2008, Steve Jobs appeared carrying a large brown envelope during his customary keynote address. From the […]

Whenever I see the ad, “Get a Mac,” that Apple Computer is running, I always get a good laugh seeing it. The 24 series ad shows two persons, one signifying a Macintosh computer and the other a Windows PC computer, talking with each other with the “Mac” upstaging the “Windows PC” every time.
This […]

In the year 2005, Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: To educate people living in third world countries who had no access to computers by introducing an affordable model that would cost only one hundred dollars each. He wanted to bridge the gap in terms of education and computer literacy between developed countries and those […]