Steven Jobs was born February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He grew up with one sister, Patty. Paul Jobs was a machinist and fixed cars as a hobby. Jobs remembers his father as being very skilled at working with his hands.

In 1961 the family moved to Mountain View, California. This area, just south of Palo Alto, California, was becoming a center for electronics. Electronics form the basic elements of devices such as radios, televisions, stereos, and computers. At that time people started to refer to the area as “Silicon Valley.” This is because a substance called silicon is used in the manufacturing of electronic parts.

As a child, Jobs preferred doing things by himself. He swam competitively, but was not interested in team sports or other group activities. He showed an early interest in electronics and gadgetry. He spent a lot of time working in the garage workshop of a neighbor who worked at Hewlett-Packard, an electronics manufacturer.

Jobs also enrolled in the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Club. There he saw engineers demonstrate new products, and he saw his first computer at the age of twelve. He was very impressed, and knew right away that he wanted to work with computers.

While in high school Jobs attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard plant. On one occasion he boldly asked William Hewlett (1931–2001), the president, for some parts he needed to complete a class project. Hewlett was so impressed he gave Jobs the parts, and offered him a summer internship at Hewlett-Packard.

What is Android?

Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.

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يتسم بسرعة كبيرة في الأداء ويقرأ الكتب الإلكترونية

الرياض: خلدون غسان سعيد
بعد 6 شهور من ضجة كبيرة صاحبتها تكهنات الخبراء والمحللين حول منتوج جديد باهر من شركة «آبل» في عام 2010، قطعت «آبل» الشك باليقين نهاية الأسبوع الماضي، بإعلانها عن جهاز «آي باد» iPad) الذي يمكن اعتباره جهازا هجينا يقع بين الكومبيوترات المحمولة وجهاز «آي بود»، مع تقديم بعض المزايا الإضافية. وتعتبر «آبل» هذا الجهاز الأكثر تقدما لغاية الآن، وهي تقدمه بسعر مناسب. ويبدو أن بيع أكثر من 75 مليون جهاز «آي فون» و«آي بود تاتش» ليس كافيا لـ«آبل»، حيث إنها تستهدف شريحة جديدة من المستخدمين، هم محبو تصفح الإنترنت وقراءة الكتب الإلكترونية الذين لم يشعروا بالراحة عند استخدام أجهزة «آي فون» و«آي بود تاتش»، نظرا لصغر الشاشة.
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There was a day, years ago, when Internet Explorer 6 was the latest thing, a high-performance browser with useful features. But those days ended, and Microsoft got saddled with the reputation as a browser laggard that IE7 and IE8 didn’t help.

Microsoft’s Office 365, the next piece of a broader play by Microsoft to bring its suite of Office server tools and collaboration work flows onto the cloud, is expected to launch sometime next year.

The company is already in the stages of testing it with small businesses and has a list of some 60,000 organizations, which are waiting to get access. In the meantime, Microsoft is continuing to fine-tune the product and expand its testing group–both in scale and the size of the companies that are being allowed in.

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From the moment Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Tab, it has promoted the smaller 7-inch display as a feature. However, hints that Samsung is working on a 10-inch version of the Android tablet suggest that could just be marketing hype, and that Samsung recognizes that size really does matter for a tablet.

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When you’re listening to music, it’s likely your earbuds are plugged into an Apple device. Making a phone call? One out of every five people buying a smartphone are choosing an iPhone. And Apple’s share of consumer laptop sales jumped to 10.6 percent in the last quarter.

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The mobile device of the most technical equipment complex on the one hand Tkdt circuit in which a small area and the mobile device to hold millions of calculations every second during the acoustic pressure waves that are sent and re-decoding the sound waves that reception to be able to talk and listen to those who call them.

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