Back in the mid to late 1980′s, an IBM-compatible computer wasn’t considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.

Spam filters that catch the word “cialis” will not allow many work-related e-mails through because that word is embedded inside the word “specialist”.

IT professional Nat Morris created a system that feeds his dog while he is away. The system releases food from a food dispenser when he sends a message on Twitter to @FeedToby.

The next android version is named “KitKat”, because KitKats have long been Android engineering head Hiroshi Lockheimer’s favorite- his Gmail avatar was a KitKat icon several years ago.

Google’s founders came up with the number Googol (10100) for the name of their search engine. They asked a fellow graduate student to go book the domain name but he misspelled it as Google and they stuck with it.

In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television’s Channel 1 to mobile Services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not Pre-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.