Thursday, August 13, 2009

Facts

--NVidia CEO (the name's complicated) worked as a Microprocessor Designer at AMD. Though Nvidia and AMD turn out to be rival companies today.
--AMD: Advanced Micro Devices
--Apple Inc. named its Headquarters as Infinite Loop.
--Apple first created Newton, which later paved way towards creation of iPhone over a period of time.
--Microsoft was ranked the second worst company for the environment out of the 18 companies rated in Greenpeace's Greener Electronics Guide in June, 2008.
--Microsoft Research India developed a project called Digital Green in 2008, which aims to educate farmers in India on how to use azolla - an aquatic fern fed to cows, yielding increased milk production.
--mKrishi is a service that would enable India's farmers to receive useful data on an inexpensive mobile device. TCS made it.
--TCS started off as Tata Computer Centre making punch cards for their sister firms like TISCO.
--Venturebay Consultants Pvt. Ltd. is a subsidiary of Tech Mahindra, the highest bidding company for Satyam.
--VAIO full form : Visual Audio Intelligence Organizer
--nVidia is known to have been derived from the spanish word 'envidia' meaning envy. Also, the GeForce 8 series had the Tag line 'Green and envy' suggesting the same.

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