Download The History of Computing By Nikki Kenny

By Nikki
Kenny
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational software
corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that
develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of
products and services related to computing. The company was
founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975. Microsoft is
the world's largest software maker measured by revenues. It is
also one of the world's most valuable companies.
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The company's 1986 initial public offering, and subsequent
rise in its share price, created an estimated three
billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft
employees. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified
from the operating system market and has made a number
of corporate acquisitions. In May 2011, Microsoft acquired
Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in its largest acquisition
to date
Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational
corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California
that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics,
computer software and personal computers. Its bestknown hardware products are the Mac line of
computers, the iPod music player, the iPhone
smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. Its
software includes the OS X and iOS operating
systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web
browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and
production suites. The company was founded on April
1, 1976, and incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on
January 3, 1977. The word "Computer" was removed
from its name on January 9, 2007, reflecting its
shifted focus towards consumer electronics after the
introduction of the iPhone
Intel Corporation is an American multinational
semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered
in Santa Clara, California. Intel is the world's largest
and highest valued semiconductor chip maker, based
on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of
microprocessors, the processors found in most
personal computers. Intel Corporation, founded on July
18, 1968, is a portmanteau of Integrated Electronics
(the fact that "intel" is the term for intelligence
information was also quite suitable). Intel also makes
motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers
and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphic chips,
embedded processors and other devices related to
communications and computing
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM, is an
American multinational technology and consulting
corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York,
United States. IBM manufactures and markets computer
hardware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting
and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe
computers to nanotechnology.
The company was founded in 1911 as the Computing
Tabulating Recording Company (CTR) through a merger of
three companies: the Tabulating Machine Company, the
International Time Recording Company, and the
Computing Scale Company. CTR adopted the name
International Business Machines in 1924, using a name
previously designated to CTR's subsidiary in Canada and
later South America. Security analysts nicknamed IBM Big
Blue in recognition of IBM's common use of blue in
products, packaging, and logo
A console game is a form of interactive multimedia used
for entertainment. The game consists of manipulable
images (and usually sounds) generated by a video game
console, and displayed on a television or similar audiovideo system. The game itself is usually controlled and
manipulated using a handheld device connected to the
console called a controller. The controller generally
contains a number of buttons and directional controls
(such as analog joysticks) each of which has been
assigned a purpose for interacting with and controlling
the images on the screen. The display, speakers, console,
and controls of a console can also be incorporated into
one small object known as a handheld game console.