YAHOO!!!

Yahoo is an American internet corporation founded in Santa Clara, California, United states. The company is best known for its web portal, search engine, Yahoo Directory, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, advertising, online mapping and social media websites and services. Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995.

            In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University when they created a website named "David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web". David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web was a directory of other websites. In April 1994, "David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!". Jerry and David soon found they were not alone in wanting a single place to find useful Web sites. Before long, hundreds of people were accessing their guide from all over the world. Word spread from friends to what quickly became a significant, loyal audience throughout the closely-knit Internet community. Yahoo! celebrated its first million-hit day in the fall of 1994, translating to almost 100 thousand unique visitors.Today, Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, and media company that offers a full branded network of services to more than 345 million individuals each month worldwide.

History of Bing

Bing is the current web engine from Microsoft. Bing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at a conference in San Diego. It went fully online on June 3, 2009. Its complete operations started on June 3, 3009. Bing is different from Google in its Algo, Listing style, and search suggestions in real time as queries are entered and a list of related searches based on semantic technology from Powerset, which Microsoft purchased in 2008. Bing includes the ability to Save and Share search histories via Windows Live SkyDrive, Facebook and email. Through focus groups Microsoft decided that the name Bing was memorable, short, easy to spell, and that it would function well as a URL around the world. The word would remind people of the sound made during "the moment of discovery and decision making. Bing is available in many languages and has been localized for many countries

History of Google

Beginning in 1996, Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin built a search engine called “BackRub” that used links to determine the importance of individual web pages. By 1998 they had formalized their work, creating the company you know today as Google. Google was founded in 1998 and was incorporated on September 4, 1998. Since then, Google has grown so quickly. From offering search in a single language, Google now offer dozens of products and services, including different forms of advertising and web applications for all kinds of tasks in scores of language.

People from all over the world use Google, when they search for a thing or item. Google is very popular throughout the world, and it is one of the largest website in the world. Many Business uses Google to create advertising online for their businesses. Google simply aim to display advertising so it’s easier for advertisers and publishers to manage campaigns across different formats, on different websites and for different devices. Google Company also has enabled entrepreneurs and publishers around the world to grow their businesses and become successful by using Google’s Website.

Phillies wrap up fifth straight NL East title

PHILADELPHIA — Hunter Pence clutched a bottle of champagne and jumped around like an excited child opening Christmas presents.

The Philadelphia Phillies won another division crown, and Pence is along for his first postseason ride.

Roy Oswalt threw seven dominant innings, Raul Ibanez hit a grand slam and the Phillies clinched their fifth straight NL East title with a 9-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday night.

“I’ve waited for this moment a long time,” said Pence, the All-Star outfielder who joined Philadelphia in a trade from last-place Houston on July 29.

“It’s incredible, and I’m enjoying the moment. We’ve got a lot of work to do still. The expectation is to win the World Series, but this is one of the steps you gotta make, and to me it’s my first time, so this is great.”

Race for Himalayan quake rescue

New Delhi (CNN) -- At least 18 people -- 13 in India and five in Nepal -- died when a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck the northern Indian state of Sikkim near the border between the two nations Sunday night, local government officials told sister network CNN-IBN.

The dead include three in Nepal's capital of Kathmandu, who died when a wall of the British embassy collapsed, according to Kedar Rijal, Kathmandu police chief. They included an 8-year-old girl, her father and a third person.

The British Foreign Office confirmed a "compound perimeter wall" of the embassy collapsed, adding that its ambassador has met with the community and offered condolences.

Police said in a statement that two more people died in the Nepalese town of Dhara, about 217 miles east of Kathmandu. About a dozen people were injured when they jumped from their houses during the quake, police said.

On Monday morning, Sikkim's chief secretary Karma Gyatso said that seven people had died in that province, 65 suffered trauma and 33 had minor injuries.

Bill Gates Inventions

Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle. During his years at public school, Gates was not challenged and lost interest in school. It was here that he discovered his passion for computers after trying a newly purchased computer that at this school (Personal History). A friend helped him write his first program at this age, and Gates never stopped after that. In high school, he help the staff write programs for payroll. After this success, Bill co-founded a company with friend Allen that the government track street traffic patterns. In Harvard University he met Steve Ballmer, and his dream for Microsoft started becoming a reality.

           Early in 1985, Window was released. However, not many companies wrote software for this new operating system, and many analysts wondered if Windows would succeed. Later, Bill went on to release Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows ME, Xbox, Xbox 360, Window 2000, and his most recent operating system, Windows XP and Windows 7.

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Bill Gates- How a Geek Changed the World.

The 'heart attack proof' diet?

(CNN) -- Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. didn't become a doctor to change the way America eats. He was a general surgeon.

But researching cancer, he stumbled on a fact that changed his career: Certain cultures around the world do not suffer from heart disease, the No. 1 killer in the Western world.

Esselstyn's practice took a dramatic turn -- from performing surgery to promoting nutrition. For more than 20 years, the Cleveland Clinic doctor has tried to get Americans to eat like the Papua New Guinea highlanders, rural Chinese, central Africans and the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico.

Follow his dietary prescription, the 77-year-old Esselstyn says, and you will be "heart attack proof" -- regardless of your family history.

"It's a foodborne illness, and we're never going to end the epidemic with stents, with bypasses, with the drugs, because none of it is treating causation of the illness," Esselstyn says.

The Esselstyn diet is tough for most Americans to swallow: no meat, no eggs, no dairy, no added oils

-You can also watch the video of Doctor Caldwell, by clicking the link below:

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/health/2011/08/19/tlha.gupta.sharon.kintz.cnn

Flash Drive

The USB flash drive is a tiny storage device that uses flash memory. It connects to a computer via a USB port.  A flash drive is usually portable and rewritable. A single device can store anywhere from 64MB to 256GB and more depending on the model’s capacity. Because flash drives are so small and portable, they can also be used to transfer data between two computers. USB flash drives are often used for the same purpose for which floppy disks were used. They are smaller; faster, have thousands of times more capacity.

A USB flash drive has many advantages, when you insert the USB drive into the computer, you do not have to reboot the machine for it to recognize the device. You can start using it immediately. Flash drives are very reliable. The most common use of flash drives is to transport and store personal files such as documents, pictures and videos. Flash drives are used to carry applications that run on the host computer without requiring installation.

Bill Would Provide Federal Funds for 9/11 Memorial

The north fountain before the start of ceremonies on Sunday. A bill in Congress would transfer ownership of the memorial to the federal government and provide $20 million a year in financing

A bill introduced on Friday by Daniel K. Inouye, a Democrat from Hawaii, with New York’s senators, Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten E, as co-sponsors, would clear the way for the federal funds.
It calls for the foundation that operates the memorial and the museum, which is scheduled to open in a year, to turn over the title to the site to the National Park Service. How involved the park service would be has not been decided, but Joseph C. Daniels, the chief executive of the memorial and museum, said he expected the foundation to continue to run the site.

Abacus

The abacus, also called a counting frame. An abacus is a manual aid to calculating that consists of disks (beads) that can be moved up and down on a chain of sticks or strings within a usually wooden frame. The abacus itself doesn’t calculate; it’s simply a device for helping a human being to calculate by remembering what has been counted. Today abaci are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal.

 Abacus helps you keep track of everything. Often used for performing arithmetic processes, mathematics, writing and recorded information. Long before the computer, in the Roman Empire, Ancient Asia, and other parts of the world, people started inventing easier and faster ways of counting and calculating by using abacus.                                              

                   Here is How Abacus Works, and How is it Used.

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