Alienware - hardware, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell, Inc., mainly produces desktops and laptops specialized for video editing, audio editing, and gaming.
CEO - Nelson Gonzalez
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
Headquarters - San Jose, California
Found by John Warnock and Charles Geschke.
Acquired Macromedia, in December 2005.
Bruce Chizen, CEO
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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Founded by - Jerry Sanders, III, Ed Turney, John Carey, Sven Simonsen, Jack Gifford and three members from Gifford's team, Frank Botte, Jim Giles, and Larry Stenger.
Headquarters - Sunnyvale, California.
Hector Ruiz, AMD CEO
Took over ATI in 2006.
Slogan - "Smarter Choice"
Phenom- Dual core and Quad core processors.
Bulldozer and Bobcat - New processor cores, to be released in 2009.
Puma, Griffin - Mobile processors to be released in 2008.
Fusion - merges a CPU and GPU on one chip.
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Autodesk, Inc.
Headquarters - San Rafael, California.
Carl Bass, CEO
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Apple Inc.
CEO - Steve Jobs
Apple Computer headquarters complex, Building 1, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California.
Lisa (1983), the first commercial personal computer to employ a graphical user interface (GUI), also the first personal computer to have the mouse.
Macintosh (1984)
PowerBook (1991)
Apple was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne[10] (and later incorporated January 3, 1977[3] without Wayne, who sold his share of the company back to Jobs and Wozniak) to sell the Apple I personal computer kit.
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Borland Software Corporation is a software company headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn.
Best known for its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) business consisting of software development tools, including the award-winning Borland Developer Studio (Delphi®, C++Builder®, and C#Builder®) and JBuilder® product lines.
Tod Nielsen - CEO
Slogan - "The Open ALM Company"
In November 2006, the company announced its decision to separate the Developer Tools Group into a wholly owned subsidiary called CodeGear.
First product was Turbo Pascal.
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Google
Colours - Blue Red Yellow Blue Green Red
Google started as a research project at Stanford University, created by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively (a combined 47 years old).
Google's name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.
Google receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica.
On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms.
Google has a world-class staff of more than 2,668 employees known as Googlers. The company headquarters is called the Googleplex.
The basis of Google's search technology is called PageRank™, and assigns an "importance" value to each page on the web and gives it a rank to determine how useful it is. However, that's not why it's called PageRank. It's actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page.
Googlers are multifaceted. One operations manager, who keeps the Google network in good health is a former neurosurgeon. One software engineer is a former rocket scientist. And the company's chef formerly prepared meals for members of The Grateful Dead and funkmeister George Clinton.
Executive Management Group
Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer
Larry Page, Co-Founder & President, Products
Sergey Brin, Co-Founder & President, Technology
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The Hewlett-Packard Company
World's largest information technology corporation (by revenue).
Headquartered in Palo Alto, California
Slogan - "Invent."
William (Bill) Hewlett and David (Dave) Packard both graduated from Stanford University in 1934. The company originated in a garage in nearby Palo Alto during a fellowship they had with a past professor at Stanford during the Great Depression. Hewlett and Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Packard won the coin toss but named their electronics manufacturing enterprise the "Hewlett-Packard Company".
One of the company's earliest customers was The Walt Disney Company, who bought eight Model 200B oscillators (at $71.50 each) for use in certifying the Fantasound surround sound systems installed in theaters for the movie Fantasia.
Mark Hurd, CEO
HP is recognized as the symbolic founder of Silicon Valley.
HP bought Compaq in 2002.
LoadRunner is an industry-leading performance and load testing product by Hewlett-Packard.
The HP Bobcat was an early computer made by Hewlett Packard.
PowerHouse is a trademarked name for a family of byte-compiled programming languages originally produced by Quasar for the Hewlett-Packard HP3000 mini-computer. It was composed of three components:
Quiz: a report writer
Quick: an interactive, character-based screen generator
QTP, a batch transaction processor.
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International Business Machines Corporation (known as IBM or "Big Blue")
Headquarters - Armonk, New York, USA
Founded in 1888 as the Tabulating Machine Company by Herman Hollerith.
The Xbox 360 contains the Xenon tri-core processor, which was designed and produced by IBM in less than 24 months. Sony's PlayStation 3 features the Cell BE microprocessor designed jointly by IBM, Toshiba, and Sony. Nintendo's seventh-generation console, Wii, features an IBM chip codenamed Broadway. The older Nintendo GameCube also utilizes the Gekko processor, designed by IBM.
Samuel J. Palmisano - CEO
Slogan - "THINK", "I think, therefore IBM" (old)
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Microsoft Corporation
Headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
Founded to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s.
In 2006, Bill Gates announced a two year transition period from his role as Chief Software Architect, which would be taken by Ray Ozzie.
Microsoft Office 2007 Interface - Ribbon.
Microsoft online magazine - Slate.
Slogan - "Your Potential, Our Passion."
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McAfee, Inc. is an antivirus and computer security company headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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Opera Software - Norwegian corporation
Headquarters - Oslo, Norway
Vision - "to deliver the best Internet experience on any device."
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