Most people today have herd the term Development or Design in respect to websites, online stores and web software but do they actually know what these are and what each part entails. Design – refers to the actual creation of your website visually. This is either done in Photoshop or Illustrator and is only a visual representation, an image if you will and then that design needs to be developed. Development (Coding) – Is taking a concept visually or conceptually and use …
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Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone. On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, his rival. The phone Cooper used, if you could call it that, weighed a staggering 2.42 lbs and measured in at 228.6x127x44.4mm. In 1983, Motorola released its first commercial mobile phone, known as the Motorola DynaTAC …
Technology has given us great things that we can’t image life without them however, the industry is not always perfect. Since the late Steve Jobs we always said it was his attention to the details and his ability to see outside of the box that attached his name to so many successful projects however, even he had unsuccessful ventures. Considering the smaller details in your business can make a difference between success or failure. CodeMedia 360 are experts in understanding your …
10. Transistors Transistors were first developed in 1947 by Bell Laboratories and allow precise control of the flow of current through circuit boards. A transistor is the active component in almost all modern electronics systems. Moore’s law predicted that over the history of computing hardware the amount of transistors in integrated circuits will double every two years, influencing their impact on the evolution of technology. 9. Graphene Graphene will completely revolutionize technology. Created at the University of Manchester, UK, graphene …
In Palo Alto there is a house with a plaque that labels it as the birthplace of electronics. It was in that house in 1912 that Lee de Forest and his collaborators first successfully utilized the vacuum tube to amplify sound. This technology became the basis for radio, radar, television, tape recorders and ultimately electronic computers. De Forest and his associates were working for the Federal Telegraph Co. which had been established in Palo Alto in 1909 by people associated …
When people think of Google they think of Google Search however, their search would not be worth a dime if it wasn’t for their PageRanking algorithm. The PageRanking algorithm is used by Google Search to rank websites in their search engine results. PageRank was named after Larry Page, one of the founders of Google. PageRank is a way of measuring the importance of website pages. According to Google: PageRank works by counting the number and quality of links to …
Fuelled largely by the PBS television series “Triumph of the Nerds” some years ago, and by the earlier writings of Silicon Valley gossip columnist Robert Cringely in the beautifully titled “Accidental Empires – how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can’t get a date” (Penguin, 1992), a popular belief has sprung up that the Internet was invented in the Pentagon in 1969. The theory goes on to suggest that the Internet network invented …
