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 Google® Android™ Operating System Flavors: 1.0: Astro (Sept 23, 2008), 1.1: Bender/Petit Four (Feb. 9, 2009), 1.5: Cupcake (April 30, 2009), 1.6: Doughnut/Donut (Sept. 15, 2009), 2.0/2.1: Éclair (Oct. 26, 2009/Jan. 12, 2010), 2.2: Frozen Yogurt (May 13, 2010), 2.3: Gingerbread (Dec. 6, 2010) [NFC: Near Field Communication, tags embedded in a posters & stickers, Video chat in Google® Talk, Easter Egg], 3.0/3.1/3.2: Honeycomb (Feb. 22, 2011) [Multicore, USB On-The-Go], 4.0: Ice Cream Sandwich (Oct. 19, 2011) [1080p], 4.1/4.2/4.3: Jelly Bean (June 21, 2012/Nov. 14, 2012/July 24, 2013) [4K, Bi-Directional Text, Gapless Playback], 4.4/4.4w: Rowntree-Nestlé® Kit Kat candybar (Oct. 31, 2013/Nov. 3, 2014) [Wireless Printing], 5.0/5.1/5.1.1 Lollipop (Nov. 12, 2014/March 9, 2015/July 9, 2016) [64 Bit], 6.0/6.0.1 Marshmallow Plant (Oct. 5, 2015/Dec. 7, 2015) [Unicode, Android Auto], 7.0/7.1/7.1.1/7.1.2 Nougat (Sept. 6, 2016/Oct 1, 2016/Dec. 5, 2016/April 2, 2017) [Calibration, Keyboard GIFs, Picture-in-Picture], 8.0/8.1: NaBisCo: National Biscuit Company® Oreo (Aug. 21, 2017: Solar Eclipse/March 5, 2018) [Downloadable Fonts], 9.0 Pie (Aug. 6, 2018) [Gestures], 10.0: Android Q (Sept. 3, 2019) [MIDI, AVI, HDR10+], 11.0: Red Velvet Cake Recipe (Sept. 8, 2020) [Screen Recording, Braille Keyboard], 12.0: Snow Cone (Oct. 19, 2021) [H.265/MPEG-H Part 2 Video]. Note: Alphabetical Order: Google® is now under parent company Alphabet Inc., a multinational holding company & conglomerate created by Google’s Larry Page & Sergey Brin Oct. 2, 2015 on website abc.xyz. Each flavor has a Custom Creations of New Jersey Android™ lawn statue by Giovanni Calabrese or Themendous. “Google is continuing its tasty tradition of naming Android versions after American sweets & desserts starting with consecutive letters of the alphabet. In recent times we’ve gobbled up Android Gingerbread, enjoyed hints of Honeycomb & hankered after Ice Cream Sandwich. Now Google’s digital dessert cart looks like it will be overturned by a stampede of Android lovers hoping to grab a fistful of Jelly Beans.” Natasha Lomas, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean release date, features & more, Crave: CNET UK ©May 15, 2012 Note: Icing sugar sets gelatin bean molds after 48 hours. Commercial jelly beans are polished with beeswax. “Google ended the practice of giving major release titles based on desserts, arguing that this was not ‘inclusive’ to international users. Android VP of engineering Dave Burke did reveal during a podcast that there were references to ‘qt’ - an abbreviation of quince tart, within internal files & build systems relating to the release. The statue for the release is likewise the numeral 10, with the Android robot logo resting inside the numeral 10.” Wikipedia Ben Schoon, How to check out Google’s Android 12 Snow Cone 3D statue, 9to5 Google ©Oct. 19, 2021, Tom Bedford, Android 11 features, release date, phones, Easter Egg & everything you need to know, UK: Future Plc.® Tech Radar ©Oct. 8, 2020, Fionna Agomuoh, Android Easter Eggs: Check Out Google’s Hidden Mascots From Gingerbread To Lollipop, USA: NY: International Business Times, 7 Hanover Sq., 5th Fl. 10004 ©Oct. 22 2014, Andrew Allen, Android Easter Eggs: The definitive list, USA: OH:Android Guys ©Sept. 21, 2018. Marshmallow warning: “Under Marshmallow, microSD cards can be formatted to a specific device - meaning they will be unusable elsewhere - & treated as another part of internal storage by the Android system.”

How to install Google® Apps (GApps) on your Android Device/Phone: If any of these apps already exist on the device, reinstall isn’t necessary. [With some tablets there are certain default apps that start when you turn on the tablet that will lock up the tablet at boot if you disable or delete them. Slatedroid] Depending on which GApps update.zip you downloaded [(Freeware Lovers) AgileSoft Resource® AndroZip can zip & unzip], navigate to data/apps or system/apps & find .APK Android PacKage files. Double click or press on the file to install. [If an error message received, go to telephone/tablet: Settings: Applications: Unknown Sources: Allow installation of non-Market applications checkbox.]
 Google® Apps.zip List based on Android 2.2 Frozen Yogurt Operating System (dated 09/10/2010): Google® Maps™ 4.2.1.apk (GPS: Global Positioning System Satellite. “Report your location to the 911 operator when placing an emergency call. Some designated emergency call takers known as PSAPs: Public Safety Answering Points may not be equipped to receive GPS: Global Positioning System location information from your phone.” “TTY: TeleTYpewriter, also known as a TDD: Telecommunications Device for the Deaf or Text Telephone, is a telecommunications device that allows people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who have speech or language disabilities to communicate by telephone. The TeleTYpewriter device will connect using a special cable that plugs into your [cellular tele]phone’s headset jack. To turn TTY Mode on or off. 1. From home tap Dialer > Menu> Call settings > TTY mode. 2. Tap TTY Full, TTY HCO: Hearing Carry Over, or TTY: VCO: Voice Carry Over to turn TTY: TeleTYpewriter mode on. ...It is recommended TeleTYpewriter users make emergency calls by other means including TRS: Telecommunications Relay Services, analog cellular & landline communications. Wireless TeleTYpewriter calls to 911 may be corrupted when received by PSAPs: Public Safety Answering Points rendering some communications unintelligible. The problem encountered appears related to TeleTYpewriter equipment or software used by PSAPs: Public Safety Answering Points. The FCC: Federal Communications Commission & the wireless industry & the PSAP: Public Safety Answering Points community are currently working to resolve this.”), GrandCentral® Google Voice™ Mail 1.0.apk (USA Only: Telephone call routing & voicemail. “Google Voice provides no direct phone support contact number.”), Google® VoiceSearch 2.1.4.apk (Also called Voice Recognition: Search, write messages, & initiate calls by voice in English, French, German, Italian & Spanish. Official blurb: “Voice Search by Google lets you speak just about any query that you would normally type into Google Search. After you launch the app, wait for ‘Speak now’ prompt, then speak. That’s it. Google search results for your query will appear in your browser. If you have Android 2.2 Froyo & higher then you can also call your contacts, get directions, & control your phone with Voice Actions. Examples: ‘Send email to John Smith – See you in London next week’ ‘Call Pizzeria Venti in Mountain View’ ‘Weather in New York’ ‘Note to self – do the laundry’”), Google® Eyes-Free Team® Accessability Options (Kickback.apk: Vibrate, Soundback.apk: Sound Feedback, Talkback.apk: Screen Reader with Computer Voice “Also known as ‘speech synthesis’, TTS: Text-To-Speech enables your Android device to ‘speak’ text of different languages” Jean-Michel Trivi, Android Developers’ Blog: An introduction to Text-To-Speech in Android™ ©23 Sept. 2009 “Text-To-Speech (TTS) technology may not be available in some devices. To check if your phone is capable of speech synthesis: Menu - > Settings - > Voice Input & Output - > Text-to-Speech Settings. If not installed, your device may ask you to install the TTS Engine. An Internet Connection may be required.”- Movin’App), Car Dock (Large icons with automobile Bluetooth® connection. “Bluetooth is a short-range wireless communications technology that devices can use to exchange information over a distance of about 30 feet. ...Please power off the Bluetooth function while using hearing aid devices. Hearing aid & wireless phone rating values are added together. A sum of 5 is considered acceptable for normal use. A sum of 6 is considered for better use. A sum of 8 is considered for best use.” FCC: Federal Communications Commission Hearing Aid Compatibility & Volume Control, USA: United States of America How to Fix Bluetooth Pairing Problems, Techlicious ©Dec. 29, 2015 Where I find out Bluetooth® Smart™ a.k.a 4.0 of 2013 doesn’t work with Bluetooth® Classic 2.1 of 2007 anymore. :'( ), GenieWidget.apk (Google® News & Weather), GoogleQuickSearchbox.apk, Google® PassionQuickOffice 3.3.apk (Office Suite opens MicroSoft® Word, Excel, Powerpoint files. Discontinued June 2014), Google® YouTube 1.3.apk (Online videos in Adobe® FLash Video format: .FLV born Feb. 15, 2005. Turn CC: Closed Caption button on to see language subtitles. 2013 Update: HTML5 video trial videos in h.264 4+ or WebM VP8 CODEC: COder DECoder. Also for Apple® iPad & iPhone in 2012.), Facebook 1.3.apk (born 2004, worth $96 billion according to NBC® Tonight Show May 8, 2012. CBS® News reports MySpace data merge July 31, 2012. PBS Newshour March 12, 2013: COO Sheryl Sandberg with professional writer Nell Scovell book Lean In, Knopf Pub. ©March 11, 2013. ISBN: 0–385349947. Stu Woo, The Facebook Not Just for Students, USA: Brown Daily Herald ©Nov. 3, 2005, “Legal experts agree public information sources such as Facebook can be legally used in criminal or other investigations.”), Twitter 1.0.1.apk (chat/newsfeed program born July 2006 with posts grouped together by topic/type with hashtags: words or phrases prefixed with a “#” sign. Celebrity hired writers called ghost tweeters. The “@” sign is used for mentioning or replying, which requires registration. Scans & imports telephone contacts for database.)

GApps you will need to run Google® Play™:
1. Install: OneTimeInitializer.apk - Make sure the steps are installed in order.
2. Install: SetupWizard_1.3.apk - Google® Account.
3. Install: GoogleServicesFramework.apk - Google® Account Syncing
4. Install: Google® Contacts[.apk] (GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk, ContactsProvider.apk [database], GoogleCalendarSyncAdapter.apk [registers calendars on device], GooglePartnerSetup.apk)
5. Install: GoogleFeedback.apk [log crash report], GoogleBackupTransport.apk [backing up: save apps to Google servers], MediaUploader.apk
6. Install: Google® Talk_1.3.apk Chat Program (with gdTalk.apk, TalkProvider.apk, IMProvider.apk, gTalkService.apk) [This is optional on some devices. Discontinued Feb. 2015.]
7. Install: Google® eMail: GMail.apk [This is optional on some devices.]
8. Install: Android MarketPlace with MarketUpdater (Vending.apk a.k.a Market_1.8.2.apk, Updater_1.0.apk). Do NOT open them. Power off the device.
9. erronr’s Diablotek_Fixer.rar ReadMe: “Now that you have moved all of the [GApp] files over you need, it’s time to get them working. If you look at the apps installed after the date & time you will see rw-r--r-- on most of the apps [in Speed Software® Root Explorer app]. The ones you just pasted over will show rwxrwxrwx. Search the folder you just pasted the apps in (/system/app) for all of the apps that DO NOT show rw-r--r--. 1 by 1 long press on 1 of the apps & select permissions. You will see a bunch of check boxes. On the left you will see Owner, Group, Others. Each one of those has a check box horizontally for read, write execute. You want the end up with Owner having read & write selected & Group, Other to only have read selected. When you press OK that file will then have a value it should of rw-r--r--. If it shows anything else long press again & try the permissions. ...After you have done all of the files then turn your tablet off, then back on. When you restart you will have the Google Apps installed.”
10. Turn the device back on. Select launcher as the default action if there is a prompt.
11. Open Android MarketPlace: Accounts & Settings has a new option to enter a Google account! 1st run, a permission request may appear when Sync attempts to contact Google services. Grant as required. Download an app & wait 1-48 hours before next step
12. To get your phone or device to show up on the Google® Play™ website: Log in to play.google.com website with the same account you used on the phone/tablet.
13. Click on My Market Account link.
14. Click settings. If you see your device you are done.
15. Click Dashboard link under Personal Settings
16. Under Calendar (I know weird place for it), click on Manage Mobile devices
17. Go through Verify Device steps
18. After struggling for hours researching & trying every option out there, I finally found a work-around. Download this app 1st, then access the market through it. It will register your phone with the Android Market. www.appbrain.com/app/oo/com.boonex.oo Badabing! No problem-O! - TamiRoo [Note: AppBrain is an alternate search engine for Google® Play™. So is Goce Bonev® Android Blip, Nicolas Sorel® AndroLib, Columbia Broadcasting System Interactive® CNET® Download.com (USA: George Westinghouse Electric 1886)]
19. Hey, you have to do your own work <grin> install the alternate markets but if you don’t have access to the Google® Android MarketPlace from another device you should build yourself an Android SDK: Standard Development Kit AVD: Android Virtual Device Emulator with Android MarketPlace. Just installed NPR News, CNN & USA Today™ from mine. I’m in app heaven! - GJSmith3rd: Eken® Slate Droid Discussion Forum The Largest Android Tablet Forum in the World with 50,000 Members! Canada: ON: Toronto: VerticalScope Inc.:111 Peter St., Ste 600 M5V 2H1, +1-416-341-8950

Google® Android Market Security Tool March 2011: Combats DroidDream, a Trojan rootkit in pirated applications that allows hackers to steal information such as IMEI: International Mobile Equipment Identity Number & IMSI: International Mobile Subscriber Identity numbers, phone model, user ID, & service provider. Automatically installed to all infected devices. The only guaranteed way to get rid of the Trojan is to factory reset. [Note: IMEI: International Mobile Equipment ID# printed inside phone battery compartment. It can be displayed on screen by typing *#06# into the keypad on most phones. In Android it is in the About Phone option in settings menu. Used for stopping a stolen phone from accessing a network, whether or not the phone’s SIM: Subscriber Identity Model is changed. IMSI: International Mobile Subscriber ID# stored on a SIM card. Cell phones that do not use a SIM: Subscriber Identity Model Card have ISMI: International Mobile Subscriber ID# data programmed in to their memory. - Phone firms defend security record, BBC, 2002-01-08. SIM: Subscriber Identity Module card lock, simlock, network lock or subsidy lock built into GSM: Global System for Mobile phones by phone manufacturers to restrict use of these phones to specific countries & network providers. IMSI: International Mobile Subscriber Identities may be restricted by: MCC: Mobile Country Code (will only work with SIM issued in 1 country), MNC: Mobile Network Code (e.g., T-Mobile, Vodafone), MSIN: Mobile Subscriber Identification Number (i.e., only 1 SIM can be used with the phone). Unlock code referred to as the master code, network key, or multilock code. Once a valid code is entered, the handset will display Network unlocked. A hardlocked phone is one in which a telecom provider has modified the firmware on the phone to make it impossible to manually enter the unlock codes in any way. The only solution to SIM-unlock such a phone is to change the firmware to a firmware which has not been modified by any telecom provider, a so-called unbranded firmware. Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Finland, Israel, Thailand forbid SIM locking & contract/phone bundling outright.

It is reported Google uses Android smartphones to report the location of Wi-Fi access points it encounters as phone users move around to build vast databases containing physical location of hundreds of millions of access points. These databases form electronic maps to locate smartphones, allowing them to run apps like Foursquare & companies like Google to deliver location-based ads. The company can pinpoint a smartphone user with an accuracy of within 98 feet. In 2010, Google admitted that vehicles, which it had used to gather photographs for its Street View service since 2007, had scooped up data from unsecured home & business Wi-Fi networks in the U.S. & other countries. “[a]llow[ing] Google’s location service to collect anonymous location data. Collection will occur even when no applications are running” when a new phone is set up. - Mike Swift, Google emails highlight value of location data, USA: San Jose Mercury News ©April 29, 2011, Ryan Rosario, ByteMining® Location Tracking on Android, USA: University of California Los Angeles ©April 2011, & Jared Newman, Researchers Discover Android Data Leaks: What You Need to Know, USA: San Francisco: Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr. (1937-2014) Foundation® International Data Group Publishing Inc® PC World, ISSN: 0737-8939 ©May 17, 2011. NBC Today Show, March 13, 2013: Google fined $7 million for 2007-2010 unsecured data collecting. Google makes $7 million an hour.

Sascha Segan, CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access vs. GSM: Global System for Mobile What’s the Difference? USA: New York: Ziff-Davis Publications® PCMagazine, ISSN: 0888-8507 ©Aug. 22, 2012 “CDMA & GSM are shorthand for the 2 major radio systems used in cell phones. To be considered GSM, a carrier must accept any GSM-compliant phone. That’s not the case with CDMA. ...3G CDMA networks (known as EV-DO: Evolution Data Optimized) also, generally, can’t make voice calls & transmit data at the same time. Once more, that’s an available option (known as SV-DO: Simultaneous Voice & Data Optimization), but one that U.S. carriers haven’t adopted for their networks & phones. On the other hand, all 3G GSM networks have simultaneous voice & data, because it’s a required part of the spec.” Federal Communications Commission, Plan Ahead for Phase Out of 3G Cellular Networks & Service, USA ©Oct. 28, 2021 “This will affect older 4G mobile phones that do not support Voice over LTE: Long Term Evolution (VoLTE or HD Voice)”. Telephone: Greek: τῆλε (tēle, far) & φωνή (phōnē, voice), together meaning distant voice. “Many telephones have an integrated speakerphone function which can be activated by pushing a single button. This button transfers the sound input & output from the handset to the ambient microphone & loudspeaker. Devices designed specifically for speakerphone use often have multiple microphone inputs arranged radially around the device to maximize sound input. Half-duplex speakerphones only allow sound to travel in 1 direction at a time, either: 1) into the speakerphone from the telephone line & out of its internal speaker to its user, or 2) from its user, into the microphone, & out through the telephone line. While the users of the speakerphone are speaking, the phone only transmits sound to the telephone line; its internal speaker is cut off & no sound arriving from the telephone line can be heard by the user. While the user of the speakerphone is quiet, the speakerphone only receives sound from the telephone line & its internal speaker broadcasts that sound to its user. There is a very definite, noticeable switching action each time the phone ‘changes directions’ & a cough or other transient noise in the room may interrupt incoming sound from the far end of the telephone connection. Full-duplex speakerphones are able to transmit & receive simultaneously & there is no discernible change of transmission direction. These phones are much more complicated & often employ sophisticated digital signal processing algorithms to sort out the incoming sound & the sound in the room for echo cancellation. Their cost is also higher than for a half-duplex speakerphone. A failure to be properly calibrated can be indicated by the occurrence of echoing, ringing sounds, or feedback.” - Wikipedia: Speakerphone

IDG: International Data Group® International Data Corporation® InfoWorld Inc® Android Tablets.net: The Android Tablets FAQ ©Aug. 4, 2010 “18 million tablets shipped in 2010 with Apple Capturing 83% share. The official requirements for Adobe® Flash on Android™ include Android™ 2.2 & a CPU better or = to the Olivetti-Acorn Computers® ARM: Acorn RISC: Reduced Instruction Set Computing Machines® Cortex A8 CPU: Central Processing Unit. The Android tablet market is currently dominated by low cost tablets, typically below $200 & originating from Shenzhen shanzhai: mountain stronghold factories. Shanzhai factories have traditionally been involved with cloning cellphones, & other consumer electronics. However, tablet devices or MID: Mobile Internet Devices are becoming more & more popular, as it is far less risky to manufacturer & has far fewer legal implications such as IMEI: International Mobile Equipment Identity faking. Larger firms who have promised Android tablets have not yet delivered substantial products, creating a flood of low-end Android devices.” “AppWELT is PC-WELT’s special magazine for all smartphone users (Google® Android™, Apple® iPhone, Blackberry Ltd.® Blackberry, PSION® Symbian, MicroSoft® Windows Phone 7 & Co.). ....also includes a CD-ROM with tools for smartphones. AppWELT was 1st published January 3, 2011.”

Computer Tablets at Big Lots! Why Buy? Android 5X5B USA: OH: 300 Phillipi Rd 43228 ©July 2012. What is a tablet? A portable media device, PC: Personal Computer, electronic Book reader & Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits® MP3: Moving Pictures Experts Group Audio Level 3 player all in one! Tablets feature a touch screen & typically connect to the internet via a WiFi (Wireless Fidelity Radio) connection. What can I do with a Tablet? Browse the web & check email. Download e-books, music & movies. Install apps from a market such as Google Play, Amazon, GetJar & more! What is Android? A mobile operating system produced by Google that powers many of today’s tablets. Newer versions are 2.2, 2.3, 3.2, & 4.0+ & feature better web browsing & video support. What is WiFi? A wireless internet connection found in many public areas such as libraries, coffee shops, malls, etc. Locations usually indicate if they are a wireless area with an icon in their establishment. A home wireless (WiFi) network is required in order for your new tablet to use all of its functions. Tablet features will only work with a wireless connection to the internet. What are Apps? Apps or Applications are programs that can be downloaded & installed to your tablet! There are 100s of 1000s of Apps available from hot games to magazines & social networking. Make the most of your digital experience! Memory cards, cases, chargers & cables. Models: Manufacturer contact info: Pandigital® 800-715-5354 (Engadget, Pandigital Goes ‘Belly Up’; Will No Longer Honor Warranties ©Nov. 21, 2012) Southern Telecom® Slick® WebSurfer Tablet +1-877-768-8481, Siemens/Kraftwerk Union® Osram® Sylvania: +1-888-571-0866, Friedrich Christian Delius (1943-), Berlin: Verlag Klaus Wagenbach Publishing ©1972, Yifang Digital Co. Ltd.® NextBook™: HQ: Hong Kong. USA: +1-888-415-5177.

ReadWrite Study: Apps Are for Android, Games For the iPhone, Dan Rowinsk¡, USA: Alcatel-Lucent ©Dec. 22, 2011. “A study done by Xyologic shows that of the top 25 app publishers for iOS, only 1 does not produce games. Of the top 25 for Android, only ½ are game publishers ...The top publishers in the Android Market were Google, Facebook, Rovio: Finnish for Bonfire [2003: Hed Family Owners: Angry Birds], Adobe [Acrobat, PhotoShop: PS Touch], DroidHen [Ying Liu, Rm. 1101, Building 37, Nong 595, Yongtai Rd., Shanghai 200123: Fruit Slice, Zoo Trip, Zombie Duck], Magma Mobile [2009: FR: Bubble Blast, Pinball], HTC: High Tech Computer Corp.® Glu Mobile Inc. [2001: USA: San Mateo, CA: $79 million NASDAQ: GLUU. Bonsai Blast, Guitar Hero 6. Ran Formosa Plastics 台塑集團-VIA 威盛電子®WonderMedia Technologies® Wonder App Store a.k a Beijing Zhangzhongda MIG Information Technology Co. Ltd.® ASC: App Store Connect for their wm8650 ARMv5 tablets. Forbes ranked VIA CEO Chen Wen-Chi with his wife Cher Wang of HTC Taiwan’s Priestess of the PDA: Personal Digital Assistant according to Bloomberg, as the 5th richest of Taiwan. Cher’s late father Yung-Ching Wang founded Formosa Plastics Petrochemicals.], Jiubang Digital Technology Co.® Go Dev Team® 3G Market [Est. 2010: Guangzhou (Canton City): Pron. Gwahng-zoo on CBS News This Morning, Smartphone Security Dec. 26, 2012 with news anchor Sharyl Attkisson & Dr. Jason Hong of the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University with weigh-in by Techonomy CEO David Kirkpatrick], Kittehface Software [Live Wallpaper: Not all handsets support the live wallpaper feature. If you’re unsure, please check for a live wallpapers category], MicroSoft® Skype Ltd: Skye Peer to Peer [VoIP: Voice over Internet Protocol group video-chat, conference call, text message & voice-call program that does not provide the ability to call emergency numbers, such as 112 in Europe, 911 in North America, or 100 in India & Nepal. In Oct. 2014, MicroSoft disabled all older Skype software so it will not log-in; requiring new programs.], Notes, Nikolay Ananiev [Bulgaria: Tiny Flashlight, Bebbled], Swiss Codemonkeys [Paint Your Easter Egg], NHN: Next Human Network [Korea: Naver.com search, Line Instant Messager, Kakao], Marconi Vodafone Group plc.® Yahoo! [March 31, 2017: Yahoo! Mail discontinues Android™ versions <5 & Apple® iOS <4. Aug. 2016: Verizon buys Yahoo!], Handcent [SMS: Short Messaging Service], Music Genome Project® Pandora’s Box [1999: Banned in China & Unavailable in Ireland: “If you use Pandora’s Android app, beware: Pandora’s channeling your personal info to 3rd party advertisers, including your birthdate, gender, Android ID, & GPS information. The Veracode company found software code that ties the app to 5 online ad companies: Opera® AdMarvel, Google® AdMob, comScore (SecureStudies), Google.Ads, & Medialets. The ad libraries, are designed to routinely assess a smart phone’s status: geographic location, connection to the wireless net & what software it is running.” ConsumerReports. United States Patent No. 7,003,515], AI Factory Ltd. [2003: London: Backgammon], Kaufcom GmbH Games [Switzerland: Gingerbread Run, Talking Joe Ostrich], Runnergames [Hong Kong: Yoo Ninja], Backflip Studios [2009: USA: Boulder: NinJump] & Polarbit AB [2005: Sweden: Penguin Palooza].
...iOS publishers were dominated by games: HTC® Glu Mobile, Ubi Soft® Gameloft [France], RealNetworks® Big Fish Games [2002: Seattle: Zuma’s Revenge!], Rovio, CAPsule COMpany [Osaka: ¥66.5 billion], EA-Chillingo® Crystal [UK: Johnny Coghlan, Architect: Gareth Reese. Distributor for Rovio® Angry Birds 1st published for the Apple® iPhone in Dec 2009.], Storm8 (Team Lava) [2009: USA: 1000 Bridge Pkwy, Redwood City, CA 94065. +1-650-596-8600. Founders: Zynga’s Garrett J. Remes, CEO Perry Tam, Perry’s wife Laura Yip, William Siu, Chak Ming Li], Outfit7 [2009: UK: Andrej Nabergoj: In a Class Action Lawsuit for passing Talking Tom Cat information to advertisers without permission. Lalo v. Apple, Inc et al, Case Number: 5:2010cv05878, Dec. 23, 2010], EA: Electronic Arts [USA: Redwood City, CA. Founder: Trip Hawkins. Subsidiary: indiePub® 2007-2012: Kona’s Crate], Gamevil® Com2uS [Korea: ZENONIA 3, Kami Retro,. CEO: Byung Joon ‘James’ Song, Pres: Kyu Lee, CFO: Yong Kook Lee. Bought Com2uS 2013: Inotia3: Children of Carnia Ad Free, Homerun Battle 1.6], Halfbrick Studios [2001: AU: Age of Zombies], DeNA Company Ltd.® Mobage [moh-bah-geh] (BackFlip/NG:MOCO® Plus+) [2006: JP: Online Games part of Yahoo!® Japan. In Dec. 2007 the Japanese government banned wireless carriers from allowing children under 20 years old to use any interactive mobile Web site. “For now teens get around the ban by getting their parents to sign a release form, lying about their age or buying phones at a retailer not owned by 1 of the 3 biggest wireless carriers.” - Chana R. Schoenberger, Japan’s Richest: Queen of Mobile, Forbes Magazine: USA ©May 19, 2008, CEO: Tomoko Namba. DeNa bought Plus+ Publishing Group for $400 million in 2010.], Zynga/Newtoy/NaturalMotion, Streetview Labs [USA: San Francisco: Tap Zoo], 腾讯控股有限公司 Téng xùn: Galloping Message: Tencent® My App Store [est. Aug. 21, 2009: QQ Browser, QQPlayer: Video player Version 1.1 plays videos on Android™ Éclair ARMv5 processer & supports SMI subtitles, MKV embedded subtitles & multiple audio tracks, QQGames, WeChat/Weixin Social Media instant messenging & bill pay est. 2011 with ½ the country using it. 3rd largest internet company in the world behind Google & Amazon: Kejizhongyi Ave, Hi-tech Park, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong (Canton), China. Founder: Zhang Zhidong. Chairman: Mr. Ma ‘Pony Ma’ Huateng. Die NAScionale PERS®: The National Press, Capetown, South Africa: owns 50% of 10¢ Holdings Ltd., Brazilian companies Editora Abril: April Editorial Press, BuscaPé: Search, Compera nTime, Mail.ru, Tradus auction & Polish Gadu-Gadu: Chit-Chat. Funded India’s largest online bookseller, Flipkart Bookstore, Bangalore, Karnataka. Founders Sachin Bansal & Binny Bansal worked for Amazon.], NimbleBit [2008: Powray, CA: Founder Ian Marsh. Tiny Tower, Pocket Frogs], PopCap [2000: USA: Seattle. Jason Kapalka’s Bejeweled, Plants Vs Zombies 73 MB. EA bought in 2011 for $1.57 billion], Saban Entertainment® Playforge [2009-2013: Zombie Farm, Kris Ligman, Report: Playforge to shutter, entire staff facing layoff, Gamasutra ©Oct. 25, 2013], Clickgamer [EA® Chillingo®], Burbn [Instagram: “Rival photo app Hipstamatic laid off its entire staff today. ...PicPlz is allowing users to log in to reclaim saved photos before flushing its system on Sept. 3.” Stephanie Mlot, Hipstamatic Drops All But ‘Core Team’ of Employees, PC Magazine Online. ©Aug. 16, 2012. Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, Feb. 20, 2014: Facebook buys Instagram for ¾ million, Instant Messaging firm WhatsApp est. 2009 for $19 Billion with 1.2 billion subscribers & Oculus Rift for US$2 billion. There is no desktop version of Instagram!?! I say. Windows 10, Apple® iOS & Android™ versions.] & Orangenose Studio [2010: Taipei: 0.03 Seconds].

How To Find Android Apps For Your Tablet, eReader, or Other Large-Screen Device, TechMedia Network® Laptop Magazine, February 28th, 2010 by K. T. Bradford: As excited as I am about the slew of Android-driven tablets & other non-phone devices coming out in the new few weeks & months, the lack of the official Android Market on many of them is dampening my enthusiasm. Android is a great OS, & without apps it’s pretty limited. The manufacturers behind these devices usually offer their own app stores, & it takes time to build numbers. Just ask Palm. So what’s an Android lover to do? Don’t despair, there are ways to install your favorite apps on your tablet, eReader, or other large-screen device. You just need to find the app’s APK (installation) file. Click to install. Here are 5 easy ways to find your favorite Android apps:

1. Download the APK from the developer’s website. Some developers allow users to download the file from their websites even if they’re available through the Android Market. Depending on the developer, you may also find versions of the app optimized for larger screens.
2. Search 3rd-party app stores. No, the official Google Market isn’t the only one. There are many independent repositories such as Accel Partners® GetJar® App Store [2004] [Ilja Laurs: Oracle®JavaME™, PSION® Symbian, BlackBerry Ltd.® BlackBerry, Apple® iPhone], ViewSonic® AndAppStore [2009-2017], Slide.Me LLC® Slide.Me MarketPlace a.k.a Mobentoo (SAM: Sylvania Apps MarketPlace) [April 2008] [Catch, Ttorrent, PDFLite: Yong Zhang ‘yongzh’® NESoid, Gameboid, SNESoid, N64oid, Ataroid, Gearoid: Pulled from AndroidMarket May 29, 2011: He has moved them to Slide.Me], Freeware Lovers GmbH® Android Freeware [2008] [Direct Web Download: Kontact Adresse: Orchideenstraße 5, 90542 Eckental, Deutschland: Metago® ASTRO, Xeudoxus® Privacy Inspector/Privacy Blocker, Lupis Labs® Robo Defense Game, Waryam: MixZing® Media Player Ad-Free, Yuku® HI-Q MP3 Recorder, Quartic® RealCalc Scientific Calculator, RIM: Research In Motion® DataViz® DocumentstoGo, Video Downloader, Angry Birds. Freeware Pages: BlackBerry Ltd®; BlackBerry, Palm Inc.® Palm, MicroSoft® Windows Mobile & PSION® Symbian] & Brothersoft [2002-2017] [ “Carrefour: Crossroads, a French company, has 31 European-style hypermarts in China, including 3 in Beijing, handling ½ the consumer-goods sales in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, & Chengdu.” - Professor Brett Wallach.] You should also check out the app stores created for specific devices, as they may allow you to search & download from a web browser, like the Camangi Webstation® Camangi MarketPlace [2009]. Some of these markets have a store app that works similarly to the Android Market, installing the apps for you.
3. Haunt device-specific forums & websites. If an Android gadget is lucky enough to have gathered a fanbase, those dedicated users are likely on the hunt for their favorite apps, too. You may be able to find a forum topic, FAQ, or a wiki with links to APK files for popular apps or repositories. For instance, the users at ArchosFans have had months to find & test a variety of apps they can’t find in Archos® AppsLib. They’ve even created a dedicated wiki page for them with download links.
4. Google It. Sometimes the easiest thing to do is simply search for [app name] APK & see what comes up. You might find it on a buried page on the developer’s website or repository. Be careful, though, because many hits will come from anonymous uploads on file storage or torrent sites. Don’t download a virus in your zeal to obtain your favorite note-taking app.
5. Get them from your Android phone. If you have access to the official market then you can grab almost any APK from your phone. 1st, download something that will allow you to make backups of your apps. I like Metago Inc® Astro File Manager because it allows me to choose which apps to back up. On the app’s main screen, tap the Menu button > Tools > Application Manager/Backup. Choose the apps you’d like to move to your tablet, then tap Backup. Once that’s done, connect your phone to your PC, find the ‘backups’ folder, then copy the APK files to your computer or storage device, then transfer them to your Android device. You may not be able to make copies of every app, & transferring paid ones may break the TOS or EULA, so be mindful. Using your favorite apps on all of your Android devices is the 1st step to Android bliss. If there’s one you can’t find or discover doesn’t work with your gadget, drop a line to the developers. The tablets are coming fast & furious this year, & Android’s life outside of phones may be more robust & rewarding than they realize.
6. clhromeo, Introductory Computer Class: How to use a laptop trackpad / left vs. right click, Google® YouTube Video © April 28, 2016 Demo with a Microsoft® Windows Laptop Computer & a Google® Chromebook Laptop Computer “There is often an area marked on the right or left where you can run your finger up or down to scroll through a document. ...As touchpads began to be introduced in laptops in the 1990s, there was often confusion as to what the product should be called. No consistent term was used, & references varied, such as: glidepoint, touch sensitive input device, touchpad, trackpad, & pointing device.” - Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Touchpad, USA: San Francisco: Wikimedia Foundation ©March 29, 2017. George E. Gerpheide, Methods & apparatus for data input, Patent US 5305017 A ©Apr 19, 1994.

3rd Party App Stores
1. Alternative Android Market List [“Here is my 1st attempt at using Google® docs to collaborate on a document. Here is the link to get to the spreadsheet, no sign-in required to edit.” - Smoke signaler, R3 Media® Android Community: Alternative Android Markets / Android Mart® Publish/Sell Your Applications to Worldwide Android App Marketplaces! “1 of the challenges facing Android developers & ISV: Independent Software Vendors today is the fragmentation of app distribution. With Android being an open platform, mobile device & OS: Operating System manufacturers, wireless carriers & operators, or any participant of Android ecosystem can start an app marketplace & use whatever leverage they have to get distribution business. Consumers can shop for apps, & now they can choose venues too. ..Apple’s App Store & Google’s Android Market still do not have distribution service for all countries in the world as of late 2010. It could be regulatory, tax, legal, or technical problems that stop them from providing marketplace access to all developers. With our presence on various worldwide app marketplaces, it is possible for us to bring as many developers access to as many countries as possible. As an example, China has a huge wireless user base that many developers do not know how to sell to. We can help those developers localize, submit & sell their apps on major Chinese Android marketplaces.” - Alex Zeng. Digi-Go Publishing, 712 Hillcrest Dr. Garland Texas 75040, digi-go.com]
2. Caíxa Magica® Aptoide [2009] [Portugal: Server where you can create your own repository! Client where you can download from repositories. Paulo Trezentos, R Frei José María, Vila Lusitano Horta dos Figueíras, Evora, PT 7005-495. Xu.Hel® Apk Top: AVG: Anti-Virus Guard Technologies® AntiVirus Pro 2.81, X-Rite Inc.® Pantone 1.0, Infraware, Inc.® Polaris Office.]
3. Gerikon Ltd.® 4pda: Apple® iPhone OS, Google® Android™, MicroSoft® Windows Mobile [2008] [Russia: Arabic Numeral Registration.]
4. Mobango Inc.® Mobango [July 2009] [UK: London: VC company: Kajaine House, 57-67 High Street, London HA8 7DD. Téléphone: +1.02036176200. CEO: Fabio Pezzotti: Applications, games, ringtones, themes]
5. Mobile Network Ltd.® Android Freeware [November 7, 2007] [Direct Web Download: Bulgaria: Haskovo Province: Veselin Nedev, Mobile Network, Prolet 3, Haskovo 6300. Téléphone: +359.888264294]
6. Panda Electronics® PandaApp® Game Download Center [Android™, Apple® iPhone, MicroSoft® Windows Mobile, PSION® Symbian] [2008] [Direct Web Download: English: China: Fujian Province: TM Websoft Inc.® Fuzhou WebQuanzhi #58, Building 851, Fuzhou, CN 3500000]
7. Shanghai The9 Information Technology Co., Ltd.® 9Apps: 九城游戏中心 [2011] [China: English Menu: The9 a.k.a Ninetowns (NASDAQ:NCTY). CEO: Jun Zhu. Building 3, 690 Bi Bo Rd, Zhang Jiang, Pu Dong District, Shanghai 201203.]
8. Alibaba® 淘宝: Tao Bao App Market (Yun 雲: Cloud) [July 4, 2012] Alibaba® PP助手 Assistant [Eastern China: Zhejiang (Chekiang) Province: Hangzhou (Hangchow): Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang’s online shopping company expanded for Android™. Sept. 2011: NY Times notes an executive leaving to spend more time with the family a euphamism for being fired. Yahoo! Founder Jerry Yang leaving his Alibaba as well. “Taobao’s app allows logging in, buying & account management on Taobao.com’s ubiquitous consumer shopping site. It has nice features over & above the standard mobile site, such as voice search, viewing history, & much easier scrolling.” Steven Millward, Chinese Android apps blossom, with help from un/91.comofficial markets, forums, CBS: Columbia Broadcasting System® CNET® Asia, Sinobyte ©Feb. 15, 2011. CNET® mySimon (indexes USA prices by zip code), PriceGrabber.com, BizRate & Shopzilla (affiliated). Bought USA Social Media Instant Messaging, video chat & gaming app Tango Labs® Tango est. 2009 for $215 million in 2014. Tango allows subscribers to connect only to each other.]
9. BAIDU 百度: Countless Times® myApp 吧 (Android Operating System: BAIDU® Yi 易: Simple a.k.a Qiushi: 百度•易平台: 2011-2015) [July 4, 2012], BAIDU® NetDragon Websoft Inc.® 91 Wireless® [91.com], BAIDU® NetDragon Websoft Inc.® 安卓市场 Hi-Market [2009] [Apps download through BAIDU Browser. Registration: Chinese mobile telephone #: Eric Xu: HQ: Baidu Campus, Shangdi 10th St, Haidian District, Beijing (Peking), China 10085: BAIDU Browser with cellular telephone identification tracking 1st releasesd Oct 26, 2011 for Android Éclair™ with icon of spaceman. (NASDAQ: BIDU) established in year 2000. “The name Baidu, whose literal meaning is 100s of times, is a quote from the last line of Xin Qiji (1140-1207)’s classical Song Dynasty poem Green Jade Table in The Lantern Festival 青玉案·元夕. The poem compares the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one’s dream while confronted by life’s many obstacles. ...100s & 1000s of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, & there she stood.” Founders: Yanhong “Robin” Li, who developed his Feb. 5, 1997 US Patent #5920859 RanDex site-scoring algorithm for search engines results while at IDD Information Services® Dow Jones Inc. in New Jersey & the software program for the online edition of The Wall Street Journal. Asia Electronics Corporation® Aquamarine Networks® Jota Text Editor Now for Google® Android™ Oreo. pandora@aquamarine.sakura.ne.jp: Megarita 1-19-35, Higashi Muriyama Tokyo, S4BB® WorldDict German: Android 1.6> / Direct Web Download: China: 58 Hot Spring Branch Rd., Fuzhou, Fujian 350001. Switzerland: Riedstraße 1, Rotkreuz, Zug 6343 CH +41.798319275.“In July 2013, Baidu bought 91 Wireless for $1.85 billion USD, recording the most expensive deal that time. ” - Eva Yoo, The Top 10 Android App Stores In China 2015 TechNode ©Sept. 22, 2015. Games: Absolute Force 3D, Conquer, Disney® Fantasy, EA® Dungeon Keeper, Era of Faith, Eudemons, Heroes of Might & Magic, Monster & Me, Yuan, Tou Ming Zhuang, Transformers, Stock Tycoon, Way of the Five, Zero. Baidu AntiVirus (2006), Baidu Baike: China Digital Village Encyclopedia (2006), Baidu Ditu: City Map (2005), Baidu Du: Read: eBooks (2007), Baifubao: Online Payment (2008), Baidu Fanyi: Translate (), Baidu Guoxue: Library: Ancient Chinese Literature (2006), Baidu Hao123 (2004), Baidu Hexun: Finance (2006), Baidu Hi: Instant Message (2008), Baidu Japan (2007), Baidu Jingan: Experience (), Baidu Luobo Kuaipao (2021), Baidu Qiyi: Movies (2004: Geo-restricted to China viewing only), Baidu Shìpín: Video (), Baidu Soucang: Bookmarks (2006), Baidu Tieba: Paste Bar: BBS: Bulletin Board System (2003), Baidu Tongji: Search Ranking Index (2006), Baidu Tuan: Shop (), Baidu Túpiàn: Image Search (2003) :Baidu Wangpan: Cloud (2012), Baidu Wenku: File Sharing (), Baidu Xīnwén: News (2003), Baidu Youa: Shopping (), Baidu Zhidao: Knows (Forum for asking questions online: 2005), Baidu Zhishu: Index (), Baidu Zhuanli: Patent Search (2007), Chinalawinfo.com® Legal Search (2006), Yellow Pages (2005)-EMI® Music Master (2005)-Blind Search (2007)-Country Statistics (2007)-Culture Search (2006)-Dictionary (2004)-Directory (2003)-Education & University Search (2006)-Entertainment Channel (2008)-File Search (2004)-Front Page Celebrity (2007)-Game Channel (2007)-Gov. Info (2006)-Greetings (2005)-Hot Discussion (2007)-Industry Report (2007)-Local Search (2003)-Love-Mobile Ringtones (2005)-Mobile Website (2004)-MP3 Search (2002)-Tianhe Music Group® Music Box (2006)-Olympic Channel (2007)-Postal Codes (2006)-RSS: Really Simple Syndication News (2004)-[Blog]Space (2006)-Talk: 百度说吧-Top of the Charts (2003)-Train & Flight Schedules-TV (2007)-Union-Voice Search (2008)-Youth Search Filter (2006)-Weather. Wikipedia References: China Analyst: Baidu’s 57 Products/Services: Introduction & History: Olde URL: http://www.cnanalyst.com/baidu.html]
10. Yulong Coolpad Co.本站地址® 酷派市场 Coolmart [May 2009] China: Guangdong Province (Canton): Shenzhen: Makers of the Coolpad: 3,000 excellent chinese language applications. Executive Vice President: Li Wang
11. ChinaNet Jiangsu Province Network® Yangbo® Mu Mayi: 木蚂蚁: Mumayi Market: [2010] [Direct Web Download: “There exist many unoffcial Android application markets in China. Unfortunately, they are the biggest repositories of smartphone malware. In this project, we would like to write crawlers for these markets ....& collect hosted applications on a large scale. These applications can then be tested for malicious activities. ” - Xiang Pan, Biyan Zhou, George Liu, Crawling Chinese Android Markets Power Point Presentation, USA: Northwestern University Network Penetration & Security EECS 354 ©2011.]
12. Huang Kaipeng® Fei Peng Market飞鹏网: FPWAP Android & Apple Market [May 5, 2010] [Direct Web Download: No Registration: China: Hubei Province: Zhou Peng, Wuhan City 430000, Téléphone: +86.18671329601: UC Browser, Maxthon Browser, Opera Browser, Wallpapers, Games.]
13. Liu Zhefeng® Àn Fêng Network® Anfone 安丰网® T-Market [October 7, 2010] [China: Fujian Province: Registration: Links: Shi Naiqing® News 浪涛网, Fuding Wang® 安豆苗 [andoumiao.cn]]
14. mAPPin Inc® 机锋软件: GFan Center [2007] [Direct Web Download: China: Beijing (Peking City): Terry Tan: 12F, ChaoyangSOHO, Dongcheng District: Shows cute little robot eating an m: Between 300,000 & 400,000 apps: application software are downloaded daily. China2Valley.]
15. Downjoy Information Technology Co. Ltd® 地瓜游戏中心: DiGuayOuXi® for Google® Android™, Apple® iPhone [d.cn] [June 1, 2010] [Beijing (Peking). China: Floor 13, Huayi Holding Building, #11, Caihefang Rd, Suzhou St., Haidian District, 10008 CN: Founder & CEO: Yongquan “Harry” Xiao established 2004. Claims they are the largest mobile gaming store in China: Ads for Rovio® Angry Birds Space, DJ Net & NG:MOCO:) games. - Nye Sha, C//4: Chinese domestic mobile application stores tend to be free ©Dec. 6, 2010]
16. Han Yuan® 安智市场 Anzhi a.k.a Shanda® Go Market [goapk.com] [February 2010], Shanghai Telecom® ChinaNet Shanghai Province Network® Ndoo Inc. 安卓应用® N多网: N-Dimension Market a.k.a Shanzhai: Mountain Stronghold Market [May 2010], Shanda® 云中书城: Yun Zhong Shu Cheng: Library in the Clouds (Bambook Sunflower eReader a.k.a Fujitsu-Qualcomm® Mirasol) [October 2010] [Direct Web Download: 20% Chinese e-Reader Market Shèngdà Hùdòng Yùlè Yôuxiàn Göngsî: Co-Founder: Chen Qiao. Shanghai Game publisher founded by ex-Sina employees, NASDAQ: GAME, whose flagship game is Korean developer WeMade Entertainment® Chuan Qi (The Legend of Mir 2). “The team of Goapk is mainly from NetDragons’ 92.com & hiapk.com.” - Chief Editor Eric Hong, Shanda invested tens of millions of RMB in Android appstore Goapk.com, GameLook ©June 15, 2011 “Chengyu, or idioms are an integral part of Chinese culture. Usually 4 characters long, the idiom may or may not have the literal meaning of the characters it is composed of. Sometimes. when there seems to be absolutely no correlation between the characters & the chengyu’s meaning, a story accompanies the idiom to explain why it is understood the way it is.” - David Wu, The Essence of China ©Sept 6, 2012. / Shanda funding: Android PIT reports the Ndoo market has collected >2000 Chinese applications & games. ]
17. Jam City Inc. (formerly Social Gaming Network) [2008] [USA: Palo Alto, CA: Founder: Shervin Pishevar. CEO former LucasArts executive Randy Breen. Bought by MySpace founder & CEO Chris DeWolf in April 2010. SGN boasts 1 in 3 iPhones & iPod Touches running its games. Tee Morris, All a Twitter, USA: Pearson ISBN: 0-7897-4228-4 ©2010]
18. 凌动智行 Link Motion® NetQin Mobile Security, Inc. 网® FLMobile: Fei Liu Tech Co.®飞流手机软件® FeeLiu Apple® iPhone & Android™ GameCenter [2005] [China: Shanghai (NYSE: NQ): Offices in Beijing (Peking), Hong Kong, Taipei, London, Zug, Switzerland & USA Silicon Valley, Founder & CEO: Dr. Lin Yu, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Networking & National Laboratories. Publishes NetQin® Antivirus Software. NetQin Companies: Nation Sky, Rui Feng Technology® Rightiphone of Chengdu.]
19. NetEase Inc.® iAndroid AppYao 要应用 [163.com] [November 5, 2007] & NetEase Inc.易趣網® Yôu dâo: Theres a Way Search Engine [2007] [Direct Web Download: Wàng Yì: Net(work) Ease. HQ: Beijing (Peking), China: NASDAQ NTES: $7.8 billion: Search engine has Chinese-to-English dictionary. Founder & CEO: Lei “William” Ding. MMORP: Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game: Mèng Huàn Xï Yóu: Fantasy Westward Journey. “The Chinese government & NetEase, the licensee for [Vivendi-Universal® Blizzard Entertainment’s] World of Warcraft in China, have imposed a modification on Chinese versions of the game which places flesh on bare-boned skeletons & transforms dead character corpses into tidy graves. ...<2 months after beginning operation of World of Warcraft in China on September 19, 2009, NetEase was ordered to immediately stop charging players & to cease accepting registrations. A press estimate indicated that if World of Warcraft were shut down in China, the loss of subscribers would have caused Activision Blizzard’s earnings to fall from 65¢ per share to 60¢ per share.” Alexei Oreskovic, China clamps down on Activision’s top online game, Reuters ©Nov. 2, 2009. World of Warcraft ©Nov. 23, 2004 requires a paid subscription with game cards or credit card. Warcraft: Orcs & Humans ©1994, Warcraft II, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Dec 10, 2013: NBC reports the US National Security Agency follows Warcraft game players.]
20. Sina 新浪® EUREKA (Shanghai) Information Technology Co. Ltd® KUQU酷趣网 [kuqu.com] [2009], Sina 新浪® Weibo 微博 (pron. way-bore): Microblog [September 2009], 新浪小说_新浪旗下小说阅读平台Sina 新浪: Xînlàng: New Wave® Book [1999] [China: Registration: NASDAQ: SINA. $482 Million. CEO: Charles Chao. Board Chairman Mr. Daolin Mao is married to CCP General Secretary Jintao Hu’s daughter, Haiqing Hu. Lynn Fan, “weibo means microblog in Chinese” - Sunny Ye, Sina Weibo...Launches New URL, Tech Rice ©April 4, 2011 ]
21. Sky-Mobi Ltd ADR® MaoPao Application Store [51mrp.com] (Sky-Mobi® Opensky SDK: Standard Development Kit) [2009] [Login & registration: Online Game Engine is Opensky China’s leading appstore with revenues of $81.2 million USD in 2009. Google® Android™ (2008), PSION® Symbian (1998-2012). Founder & CEO: Tao Song. CFO: Carl Yeung. Games: Happy Dou Di Zhu, Legend of Sky & Swordsman, Fantasy of the 3 Kingdoms. “The company [enters into contracts with handset manufacturers to pre-install this store into the handsets.” - Chinese Media Industry: Global Media Market Intelligence G2Mi.com, Advertising Age White Paper, Heernet Ventures Ltd. ©Sept. 30, 2011, P604 of 737]
22. Carriers: TELUS [Open Handset Alliance], Telstra [Androidland Store, Melbourne], Rogers/SaskTel [Canada], ECTESA® CubaCell, Lintel® Africell Holding [Lebanon: Gambia, Sierra Leone], Bezeq [Israel], Bhutan Telecom Ltd., Micronesian Telecommunications Co., Safeway Grocery Jordan [“Safeway Jordan is part of The Sultan Center. The Sultan Center owns: TSC: The Sultan Center Telecom (Sole telco for the Kuwait Free-Trade Zone), ATCO, Horizon Telecom Services Co. (Bahrain), & Arabian Information Technology Solutions Co. USGC: United Security Group Co. specializes in security services, security equipment, K-9 dogs, valet delivery, transportation & cleaning services.” www.safeway.com.jo], Fujitsu® VietTel [Owns 60% of state monopoly Télécommunications d’Haiti in 2010 with Haitian Government at 40%. Currency: Haitian gourde. Phone service to: Laos: kip, Cambodia, Mozambique & Peru], Budget Telecom S.A. [France: Montpellier: Khaled Zourray et Pascale Greppo’s VoIP est 2000 for France, Spain, Italy & Belgium], Corsica Télécoms
    Mobile phone batteries can be recharged using a solar panel or motorcycle battery in areas without electricity. “In some parts of the world, mobile phone sharing is common. Families & groups of friends often share 1 or more mobiles among their members.” Update: The Jinhan U-Mate Commander Pro telephone ©2012 uses SIM cards & has a ‘non-electrical charging system that manually hand cranks with a USB connector.’
23. Carrier: América Móvil Sociedad Anónima Bursátil de Capital Variable® Claro® Ideas (Digital Rights Management: Region-restricted ClaroVideo) [Nov. 15, 2010] [México: GPS: Global Payment Solution Systems® Value Transfer System™ USA-México money wire. El anclaje a la red (tethering) está prohibido (prohibited). Incorporated in México by Carlos Slim Helú: The richest man in the world. NYSE & BMV: AMX, NASDAQ: AMOV, BMAD: AMXL. Central & South American widget appstore available on devices exclusively for 210 million Telcel® phone subscribers - WIP. Wireless Industry Partnership América Móvil® TracFone Prepaid/SafeLink® Apple iPhone, CompUSA, Claro® Argentina-Brazil-Chile-Dominican Rep-Ecuador-El Salvador-Guatemala-Honduras-Nicaragua-Paraguay-Perú-Puerto Rico-Uruguay, Comcel® Colombia, MiPhone® Costa Rica-Jamaica-Panamá. Owns 3% Apple Computer, 8% The New York Times, Benjamin Newton Duke Mansion at 1009 Fifth Ave, NY, 23.7% Telekom Austria (Mobilkom® Liechtenstein, Mobiltel® Bulgaria, Velcom® Belarus, Vipnet® Croatia, Si.mobil® Slovenia, Vip mobile® Serbia-Macedonia), 30% KPN Netherlands, 40% Imperial Tobacco (British), 50% Hershey Candy, Jarritos del Sur, Fundación Carlos Slim Helú® Museo Soumaya (named after his late wife Soumaya Domit: 66,000 pieces, religious relics & coins from the viceroys of Spain), Fundación del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México A.C. (Plaza Mariana Basilica de Guadalupe), Química Fluor Chemicals, Gruppo Financiero Inbursa Bank, Sears-Roebuck Mexico, General Tire, Reynolds Aluminio Mining, Bimex Hotels, Sanborns Restaurant/Books & Volaris Airline. NBC Tonight Show July 11, 2013 reports the USA National Security Agency monitoring Mexico telephone calls.]
24. Carrier: Alexander Graham Bell Telephone Co.® AT&T: American Telephone & Telegraph (ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange Plain Text .txt) [1875 / Oct. 1960], Bell Telephone Laboratories® TTS: Text-to-Speech Synthesizer .tts [Jan.13, 1976], Bell Labs: The Life of Everything: Léon Bottou, Yann LeCun, Patrick Haffner: Summer in Welsh & Paul G. Howard® Dèjâ vu®: Already Seen electronic Book .djvu, djv (Freeware Lovers) Pavel Tiunov® VuDroid [1996], USA Post Offices & 2013 Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife Conservation Postage Stamp Contest (Christine O’Keeffe’s squirrel & seal), AT&T® Mexico S.A.U. [2016], BCE: Bell Canada Enterprises® Bell Mobility [1986] [USA: TX: GSM: Global System for Mobile / LTE: 700 MHz/1700 MHz: Bell System refers to all telephone companies owned by AT&T, referred to internally as BOCs: Bell Operating Companies: Western Electric Co (telephone manufacture), Western Union, ITT: International Telephone & Telegraph Co. est. International Bell Telephone Co, 1879. Cuba: Bell Carribean regional operating companies. AT&T Entertainment: DirecTV & Lumen Technologies® AT&T U-verse® (2008) Digital Subscriber Loop fiber-optic 26Mbps internet with Alcatel-Lucent® VRAD: Video-Ready Access Device boxes. Wire speeds 1.5-18Mbps. Acquired Super-Regional carrier Leap Wireless® Cricket Communications Inc. Mar. 14, 2014. NBC reports July 11, 2013 the average monthly USA cellular telephone bill is $73.00. AT&T World Traveler Plan: If you don’t want to pay for data roaming charges, turn Data Roaming off & use Wi-Fi says Hyde Flippo. The USA Federal Government’s subsidized telephone service is Lifeline. Lifeline credit para una sola línea telefónica por cada hogar, línea fija o celular: for 1 telephone line per household, landline or cellular. ©July 12, 2013. medical records / ASCII: A 7-bit telegraph code allowing digital devices to communicate written language. Control codes for data transmission. SOM: Start of Message, EOM: End of Message, EOA: End of Address, EOT: End Of Transmission, SYNC, ACK: ACKnowledge. Bob Berner introduced escape sequence. Messages recorded on 9-track magnetic tape & paper tape. Used for AT&T: American Telephone & Telegraph’s TWX: TeletypeWriter eXchange & mandated by President Lyndon Baines Johnson on all Federal Computers purchased on & after July 1, 1969. The other text: IBM: International Business Machines® EBCDIC: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code text files. “Western Electric® UNIX: Uniplexed Information & Computing Service®, Apple® Macintosh Apple Operating System, MicroSoft® Windows, MS-DOS: MicroSoft-Disc Operating System & other systems differ in line ending convention & character encoding outside the 128 character ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange range. Conversion software for most computers.” Memorex® 650 8 inch 175KB FFD: Flexible Floppy Disk introduced 1972. / NJ: Murray Hill: Bell Labs: Bell is Breton for the Life of Everything. French dèjâ + vu: ever, yet, already + seen. The vision of the sun 6 months above & below the equator. Beul means mouth. Electronic book format. Chilin Shih & Springer, Bell Labs® Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis: The Bell Labs Approach ©Oct. 31, 1997, ISBN 978-0792380276. - Wikipedia / México: Formerly known as Nextel México. / Canada: Montréal, Québéc: CEO: George A. Cope. Qualcomm® CDMA: Code Division for Multiple Access (2005: 600kb/s) & Ericsson® GSM: Global System for Mobile™ HSPA: High Speed Packet Access+ (2009: 7Mb/s) 850 & 1900 MHz: MegaHertz radio frequencies: Toronto & NYSE: BCE. $19.49 billion. “The Bell Telephone Company of Canada & Northern Electric were structured similarly in Canada to the analogous portions of the Bell System in the United States; the regional operating company (Bell Canada) sold telephone services as a local exchange carrier, & Western Electric (Northern Electric) designed & manufactured telephone equipment. As part of the consent decree signed in 1956 to resolve the antitrust lawsuit filed in 1949 by the United States Department of Justice, AT&T & the Bell System proper divested itself of Northern Electric & Bell Canada. Northern Electric renamed itself Northern Telecom in 1976, which in turn became Nortel Networks in 1998.” Wikipedia. NERD: Northern Electric Research & Development, Bell Aliant (Atlantic), BellWest, NorTel (ON), Northwestel (BC, AB, NW TER), Télébec (QC), Virgin Mobile Canada.]
25. Carrier: Aircel® PocketApps™ (Digital Rights Management: Infosys® Flypp™) [January 5, 2010] & Maxis Communications® Maxis 1Store [September 24, 2010] [Chennai (Madras), India: Aircel# logon: “Aircell’s battle with some companies allowing VoIP: Voice over Internet Protocol calls on flights is another example of the growing conflict of interest between incumbent operators & new VoIP operators.” Wikipedia: Mobile VoIP COO: Mr. Gurdeep Singh. COO: Mr. SD Shibulal. Aircel ownership: 74% Maxis, 26% Sindya Securities & Investments Private Ltd, whose current shareholders, according to The Star, are the Reddy family of Apollo Hospitals Group of India. / Malaysia: Maxis# logon: Owners: Exoil Trading/Usaha Tegas Investment Co. oil billionaire Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan & Saudi Telecom 25%. “Maxis most popular service is its prepaid brand Hotlink. ...They are currently heavily promoting a new IDD 132 service, which offers cheaper calling rates mobile & landlines in selected countries, at a rate of 8 sen (roughly 3¢ US) per minute which is, at certain times for many subscribers, even cheaper than a local call.” ringgit. Oracle® Java™-PSION® Symbian-BlackBerry Ltd.® BlackBerry. Maxis eBuuk Store [July 6, 2012-Feb. 15, 2014] “After downloading the app (Maxis eBuuk for Android) you can browse a huge selection of best sellers, new arrivals, sales & reccomendations in English, Malay, Chinese & Indonesian. ...Kindly notice that in order to register the app, you should have a valid Maxis number.” - Android Zoom]
26. Carrier: Bharti® Airtel App Central [February 10, 2010], SingTel® Apps Shop (Google® Play™ Direct Carrier Billing Aug 12, 2013) [February 5, 2010], PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia–Telkom Indonesia: Telkomsel® Appzone [2010] [New Delhi, India: Airtel GSM: Global System for Mobile# >1,250 apps. $18.24 billion: 52.7% Bharti: Sunil Bharti Mittal, 34% SingTel, 4.4% Vodafone. 2010: Buys Zain Africa BV® Celtel: Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia & Telecom Seychelles. SEAS: Seychelles East Africa Submarine cable. 3G-4G Network: Ericsson India, Nokia Siemens, ZTE: Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Co. & Huawei. Wikipedia: “In the 2000s mobile telephony in Africa has been booming. Africans who have access to broadband connections are estimated to be in percentage of 1% or lower. ...Power availability is also scarce, with vast rural areas that are not connected to power grids as well as frequent black-outs in major urban areas such as Dar es Salaam. ...In 2006 Africa contributed to only 2% of the world’s overall telephone lines in the world. As a consequence of this general lack of connectivity, most Africa-generated network traffic is routed through servers that are located elsewhere.” /Singapore: Chairman: Simon Israel, CEO: Chua Sock Koong, Chairman Great Eastern Life: Fang Ai Lian. Ms Gan Siok Hoon, SingTel’s Vice President of mCommerce. Its other mobile companies are: Advanced Info Service (Thailand), Globe Telecom (Phillipines), Citycell (Bangladesh), Lankacom (Sri Lanka): Singtel phone # & login. Exclusively for Singtel’s 3.1 million subscribers. / Indonesia: Jakarta City (Batavia, Djarkata City), Java (Jawa): IDX: TLKM, NYSE: TLK, LSE: TKID. CEO: Arief Yahya, CFO: Honesti Basyir, COO: Rizkan Chandra, CTO: Indra Utoyo. GSM# $7.838 billion. rupiah. Cards: simPATI, Kartu As, kartuHalo. Apple® iPhone, & Sony-Ericsson® Java-based apps: application software.]
27. Carrier: Martin & Olivier Bouygues Télécom [pron. bwig] [1987] [France: €32.706 billion. Euronext Paris Stock Exchange: EN. Est: 1952. CFO: Philippe Marien. Bouygues Construction, Bouygues Immobilier, TelBINA Istra motorways, Alstom railways, Metro France Press, TF1: Télévision France 1 Group: TV Breizh: Breizh a.k.a. Brittany: Little Britain, Breton/Bretagne, France. Built: Parc des Princes, Musée d’Orsay 1986, Grande Arche, Mosquée Hassan II 1992, Channel Tunnel 1994, Bibliothéque nationale de France 1995, Pont de Normandie: Normandy Bridge 1995 & Stade de France 1998. Historical: French woman recieves a trillion-euro mobile bill, Agence France-Presse ©Oct, 11, 2012: (Solenne San Jose of Bordeaux) “Bouygues Telecom said the mix-up had been due to a printing error & a subsequent misunderstanding between the client & staff at their call centre.” Denis Lherm, Bouygues Telecom réclame des milliards à une ancienne cliente , Sud Oueste ©Oct 10, 2012]
28. Carrier British Telecom Plc.® Litmus Apps [Dec. 15, 2008-June 17, 2011] [City of London, England: Royal telegraph, post office, & telephone monopoly founded 1846 as Wheatstone & Sir William Fothergill Cooke’s Electric Telegraph Co. Royal Post/GPO: General Post Office founded 1660. Chris Godsmark, BT to pull the plug on phone museum, UK: England: The Independent: 2 Derry St. London W8 5TT ©Nov. 5, 1996. O2 branding in 2002 by Vallance Carruthers Coleman Priest with brand consultancy Lambie-Nairn.Telefónica buys £18 billion. Networks: O2 PLC. (former British Telecom® Viag Interkom [.de], KPN: Koninklijke PTT: Postbank-Telefon-Telegraf Nederland® Telefort Mobiel [.nl], Cellnet-Esat Digifone [.uk]), Cesky Telecom, Eurotel Slovakia), BT Mobile® UK, Spain, Italy & Netherlands uses Vodafone UK, Vodafone Spain (GSM900/1800MHz:2G, UMTS:3G.), Vodafone Omnitel BV® Vodafone Italia & 6Gmobile network. KPN: E-Plus, Getronics, Telfort-Tiscali, Simyo, Ortel, Hi, BASE, Vybemobile, Blau Mobilfunk]
29. Carrier: Cheung Kong Hutchinson Holdings Ltd.和記黃埔® John Duflon Hutchinson Asia Telecom / Hong Kong Electric: 香港電燈有限公司® TOMPDA: 手机软件 & 3UK [2010] [Hong Kong, China: UMTS: Universal Mobile Telecommunications System: Est. 1863. CEO Hong Kong Billionaire Li Ka-Shing 李嘉誠爵士, age 88, the 2nd richest person in Asia & richest person in Hong Kong with an estimated net worth of US$31.5 billion. Named Cheung Kong, Chang Jiang or the Yangtze River, the longest river in China. Owns 0.8% of Facebook, Index Ventures® doubleTwist (March 2007: USA: Monique Farantzos, President & Chairman, Jon Lech Johansen. Syncs iTunes media library from a computer to a mobile device through USB: Universal Serial Bus.), Somo Mobile Marketing Agency® Summly (2009: London: News Aggregation App. Apptimiser Ad Network), Wibbitz (2015: Tel Aviv: Zohar Dayan & Yotam Cohen: Paid Text-to-Video for Publishers.), Zoom Video Communications, Inc.® Zoom Video (Jan. 2013: USA: San Jose, CA.: B2B: Busines to Business Video Conferencing software for ‘Enterprise Networking’ by WebEx CISCO Systems®. Eric S. Yuan & David Berman.) & Spotify AB® Spotify (Oct. 7, 2008 DRM Adware: Stockholm, CEO Daniel Ek, Martin Lorentzon: Music, podcast, & video streaming service.) Australia, Sri Lanka (GSM/EDGE at 900/1800 MHz. HSPA services using 2100 MHz), Vietnam (moved from CDMA to GSM: dông) & Indonesia. “The early days of UMTS saw problems in many countries. Overweight handsets with poor battery life were 1st to arrive on a market highly sensitive to weight & form factor. The Motorola A830, a debut handset on Hutchison’s 3 network, weighed >200 grams & even featured a detachable camera to reduce handset weight. Another significant issue involved call reliability, related to problems with handover from UMTS to GSM. ...In most networks around the world this is no longer an issue.”]
30. Carrier: China Mobile 手机中国下载® MM: Mobile Market 商场 & Bookuu Mobile Book Store, CNMO: Zhôngguó Yídòng Tôngxin (Android Operating System: Borqs® 蜜蜂 OPhone or OMS: Open Mobile System & Tapas Mobile Tech Ltd.® 点心 DianXin [mandarin: dee-an sheen] cantonese: Dim Sum or Tapas) [August 2009], Ying Yong Hui® 应用汇 AppChina (formerly AppOnHand) (Tapas Mobile Tech Ltd® 点心 DianXin: Dim Sum) [2010] [Zehjiang Xinhua Books: 29 Jhrong Ave., Xicheng District, Beijing (Peking), China: CDMA2000: Code Division Multiple Access 2000: .The world’s biggest Telco: Open Handset Alliance: Voice over IP: Internet Protocol a violation of their terms of service: Direct Download with China Mobile#: Largest wireless operator in China with ¾ billion subscribers. Formed in 1998 from China Telecom. Chairman & Chief Executive: Xi Guohua, Dept. of Data Service Manager: Liu Xin. Tapas CEO: Lei Zhang. “The country has already pulled ahead of the U.S. as the world’s largest smartphone market by volume. This is an incredible statistic given that 3G penetration in China stands at only about 18% currently. ...As the country grows & the average Chinese buyer sees an increase in buying power, we expect to see a growing shift in demand from 2G to 3G smartphones.” Trefis Team, Apple Faces A China Mobile-Sized Stumbling Block Limiting Its Reach , USA: Forbes ©Oct. 10, 2012, Internet Archive: Star Chang, Android Malware Found in China Mobile’s App Store Racks Up Huge Phone Bills, M.I.C. Gadget ©July 18, 2012, Trojan MMarketPay.A. More info here Android Malware Forensics / eMail Registration: Firm incubated by Li Kai-fu, former head of Google China. “AppChina gives the option of downloading an app from its site straight to the afore mentioned PeaPod desktop utility” - Steven Millward, 8 Alternative Android App Stores from China, Tech in Asia Pte Ltd.: 157B Rochor Rd., Singapore SG 188432 ©Sept. 8, 2011]
31. Carrier: China Telecom 中国电信® eStore (Xiaolingtong: Personal Handy-Phone System) [October 2010] [China Telecom Corporation Limited: 31 Jinrong Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, 100033, China, Phone: (8610) 66428166 Open Handset Alliance: Voice over IP: Internet Protocol a violation of their terms of service: Trunkbow® mPayment system. 138 million subscribers. Formed in 1994 at the breakup of Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications into a duopoly. Operates: Jitong, China Net Communication, China Telecom Americas. “Just as we have observed in other developing regions, in China cell phones have become the real Net, to the extent that China Telecom recently announced that it will no longer invest in fixed Internet connections in rural areas” - Octavio Kulecz, Alliance internationale des éditeurs indépendants, Mobile Phones | Digital publishing in developing countries., 38, Rue Saint-Sabin, Paris, FR 75011]
32. Carrier: China United Network Communications Group: China Unicom 中国联通® WoStore (Android Operating System: UPhone® UniPlus) [February 2010], ZTE: Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Co. 中兴通讯股份有限公司® App Store 中兴应用商店 [China Unicom: No.18 Su Zhou Road, Chang Yuan Da Sha, Bldg A2, Unit 911,Haidian District, Beijing (Peking), China: China Unicom # login: 2nd largest wireless operator in China. 236 million subscribers. Voice over IP: Internet Protocol a violation of their terms of service: 沃: Wo: Fertile. Chairman: Chang Xiaobing. Formed in 1994 at the breakup of Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications into a duopoly. Google® Android™, PSION® Symbian, Oracle® Java™, Apple® iPhone - Ankush Johar Corp, Wireless Federation: China Unicom & ZTE: Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Co. Plan to launch WoStore, 315, Chiswick H Road, London W44HH GB Haymarket Media Pty Ltd® Brand Republic Asia: China Awards 3G Licenses, Jan. 2009, Australia: 52 Victoria St, McMahons Point, Sydney, New South Wales NSW 2060]
33. Carrier: Chunghwa Tien-hsin/Telecom 中華電信: Zhînghuá Diànxàn [1996] [Taiwan (Formosa Island): Taipei: China State Telephone Company (NYSE: CHT, TWSE: 2413): SIM cards are available in both standard sizes & micro-SIMs for the iOS devices.]
34. Carrier: CNTE: Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España® MóviStar (Mob4Hire Billing System: Grupo Planeta SA® Mundo: World eReader: 169€) [Enero 2011] [Futura Network® Campus Party Conference: Madrid, Spain: Spanish public telephone monopoly. €129.623 billion. NYSE, Buenos Aires, Lima & Madrid: TEF, Euronext: TFA, London: TDE, Frankfurt: TNE5, Tokyo: 9481. CEO/Director/Chairman of the Board: César (Emperor) Alierta a.k.a Cesareo Alierta Izuel Tomas Catan & Jason Sinclair, Télefonica Chief Gets Mixed Verdict in Trading Case, USA: Dow Jones & Co. Inc.® The Wall Street Journal ©July 18, 2009, 3 brands/marca: Movistar for Spain & Latin America, O2 for Europe & Vivo for Brasil (IANA ID# 1458: Alameda Chucri Zaidan, 860 2nd andar Iado A Saõ Paulo SP 01404-001). Telefónica Atento, Telefónica Unifón (Argentina), Movicom (Uruguay), Movistar Móviles de Centroamérica (1998: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panamá: All formerly Bell South), MóviStar Chile (former Compañía de Teléfonos de Chile), MóviStar (Colombia-Ecuador-Perú-Venezuela: All formerly Bell South), MóviStar México (Cedetel, Bajacel, Movitel, Norcel & Pegaso);.Uno-e (online banking), Rumbo (travel), Atrea (real estate with Spanish bank BBVA), Azeler (cars), & Maptel (online maps). Manuel Baigorri, Bloomberg Business Week: Telefonica Reaches E-Book Deal With Planeta in Challenge to Amazon Kindle ©Mar. 1, 2012]
35. Carrier: CPRM: Companhia Portuguesa Rádio Marconi® Portugal Telecom® TMN: Telecomunicações Móveis Nacionais App Store [2010], Marconi Vodafone Group plc.(previously GEC: General Electric Co. plc)® Vodafone 360 Shop [2009-2011], MCI: Microwave Communications Inc. doing business as Verizon Business® Verizon VZApps [2010-2011], MCI: Microwave Communications Inc doing business as Verizon Business® AOL Tech. Fringland Ltd® fring™ [Jan. 2007-Feb. 2017], Marconi Vodafone Group plc.(previously GEC: General Electric Co. plc)® Olive Telecom® Olive Office [2011-2012] [Portugal: Guglielmo Marconi: CTT: Correlos, Telégrafos e Telephone, est. 1533 as Correio Público, King Manuel I, State-owned monopoly until 1994: Login: Portugal, Brazil (R$: Real), Macau/China, 41% Timor Telecom. Owns 75% AfricaTel Holding Company: Guinea-Bissau (CFA: Communauté Financiere Africaine Franc), Cape Verde (CVT: Cabo Verde Telecom: Esc: Escudo), Angola (Unitel: Kz: Kwanza), Namibia (MTC: N$), São Tomé & Principe (CST: Companhia Santomense de Telecomunicaçoes: Db: Dobra). / London-USA: Chairman: Sir John Bond. CEO: Vittorio Amedeo Colao. The world’s 2nd-largest mobile carrier. LSE & NASDAQ: VOD: Originally for HTC: High Tech Computer Corp.® Desire, Legend, Magic, Wildfire, Motorola® Milestone phones. Launch Markets: South Africa (Vodacom® South Africa includes Lesotho-Mozambique-DR Congo: Rand), Tanzania-Kenya (British East Africa Shilling. Now each country has own), Turkey (₤: Lira), India (৲:), Egypt (E£: Sole Egyptian long-distance provider), Romania (Leu), Czech Republic (Koruna), Hungary (Ft: Forint.), MTS: Moscow Telefonnaya Set Russia (Ruble), UK (£), Germany, Spain, Portugal & New Zealand (was BellSouth). Phone Coverage: Albania (L: Lek), Azerbaijan, Fiji, Finland, French Polynesia (Pacific Mobile Telecom), Ghana (cedi), Greece, Vodafone Iceland (Undersea Cable from Scotland-Faroe Islands to Iceland: Financial Crisis: Oct 2008: Private Bank Failure: Glitner, Landsbanki/Icesave & Kaupthing Singer & Friedlanders’ 9.5 trillion Icelandic króner/€50 billion debt), Malta, Qatar (QAR: Qatari riyal), Sweden (kr: kronor). / Tethering applications are in violation of the USA terms of service & are blocked from Google® Play™. Vodafone owns 45% Verizon with AT&T using CDMA. Verizon bought MCI–WorldCom, est 1963, after its 2003 bankruptcy where CEO Bernard Ebbers overextended himself ‘in excess of $400 million in margin calls’.(WCOM pre-bankruptcy & MCIP post-bankruptcy). Verizon buys Alltel (disbanded 2016) & partners with Time-Warner Cable Oct. 30, 2012 with the goal of creating what NBC’s Tonight Show calls the slowest TV, Internet, phone service in the entire world, Ladies & Gentlemen. 3 mobile phone service brands cover all Russia: Sovintel® a.k.a Golden Telecom Beeline (Designed by Wolff Olins & Marina Willerr: Alfa Group, Telenor), North-West GSM® MegaFon (Alfa Group, TeliaSonera, Telecom-invest), & Sistema® MTS (Sistema, Deutsche Telekom, Siemens). NSA: National Security Agency has bulk archived Verizon consumer email & calls, monitoring telephone/Internet under Operation Prism & Blarney, Internet Security Researcher Ken Weston. Informant Edward Snowdon: NBC® Today Show June 7, 2013. Buys Cable & Wireless Worldwide PLC a.k.a Imperial & International Communications Ltd. (Panamá, Carribean: Montserrat, Jamaica, Turks & Caicos, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Vincent & Grenadines). / Verizon bought AOL May 12, 2015: Founders: AOL VP Avi Shechter, Boaz Zilberman & Alex Nerst. VoIP: Voice over Internet Protocol: audio voice only calls & 2-way video calls from mobile phones. Calls destined to GSM: Global System for Mobile & PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network networks passed through a circuit switch such as a SIP: Session Initiation Protocol. / Gurgaon, India: Chairman: Arun Khanna. In partnership with VIA Technologies® Wondermedia® 8650 ARMv5 processor. Comcast Xfinity® the future of awesome™ Your guide to summer! 9 Ways to Make the Most of the Season #J-62453 Cover Photo: Getty Images ©June 23, 2014 “Thank you for being an XFINITY® Customer! We want to show our appreciation. That’s why we compiled these 9 easy ways to make the most of your XFINITY services – enjoy your summer. Read on & enjoy! 1. Take Control. 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Find security – & peace of mind. With XFINITY Home service, you can rest easy. Remotely control your home with 1 app: real-time text & email alerts, live video monitoring, lighting & thermostat control & more. Make sure your kids get home safe & monitor your pets when you’re not there. Go to comcast.com/home-security for more. 7. Get yourself a new phone - & money back. We’ve teamed up with Verizon Wireless to bring you the best at home & on the go. Get the latest devices, plus special savings, when you purchase through Comcast. Switch to Verizon Wireless or add a new device to your existing account & get a $100 Visa® prepaid card by mail. Stream or download XFINITY On Demand™ shows & movies to your smartphone or tablet. Enjoy over WiFi or exclusively over Verizon Wireless 4G LTE. Call 1-855-711-8008 to learn more. 8. More channels, more movies & more shows! Get more of the entertainment you love. 9. The speed you need. Enjoy reliably fast speeds with the most coverage for all rooms, all devices, all the time. Think fast. If you want to kick it up a notch, try the best XFINITY Internet has to offer. Chat, surf, stream HD movies & TV shows & game online – with no delay. Limited to residential customers & not available in all areas. Standard installation charges up to $500. Call for restrictions & complete details. Features & programming vary based on service level. Hotspots included only with Performance Internet or above service. Comcast® Internet Essentials™/Internet Básico 1-855-8-INTERNET o 1-855-SOLO-995 para español/XFINITY® Internet Economy Plus Hotspots available in select locations only. Standard data charges apply. XFINITY Home License #s: CA: 7118 OR CCB License: 192945. WA: COMCABS892DS, TX: Home Security: B-02571, B-16922, ACR-1818, ACR-1672104, NM: 373379, UT: 8226921-6501.30. Verizon Wireless activation fee/upgrade fee/line: Up to $35. Up to $350 early termination fee/line.” Josie Cox & Patricia Kowsmann, Markets Tumble On Portuguese Bank Woes: “Fear of Fear” Drives Broad Selloff Amid Concerns About the Country’s Biggest Lender , WSJ ©July 10, 2014 “Worries over the financial health of a major Portuguese lender spooked global markets Thursday” That bank is Espíritu Santo: Spirit of the Saints. Wishing it some Midsummer white health.]
36. Carrier: Deutsche Telekom AG® Danger Inc® Download Fun [Oct. 1, 2002-Sept. 21, 2010], T-Mobile® Mall & Qik Inc.® T-Mobile Video Chat [2011-2014 / 2011-2016], (Google® Play™) E-Booki T-Mobile Poland a.k.a Legimi® Legimi Reader (Cloud: MyBox) [2010], Boost Mobile® BoostApps [2000] [Germany: Est: 1495, Kaiserliche Reichspost: Imperial Postal Service, Jannetto de Tassis of Das Fürstenhaus: the Princely House of Thurn & Taxis a.k.a Princes della Torre e Tasso. NYSE: DTE. HQ: Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia. CEO: René Obermann. Deutsche Telekom AG® Programm Manager for Android provides an overview of German TV programs for the next 14 days. Germany has a per minute charge for all calls: gespräche: domestic (Inlands), international (Auslands: Outlands), & local (Ort: Town). T-Mobile International AG: T-Mobile USA (‘Uses a different band than AT&T for its 3G data signals, the iPhone will only work at 3G speeds on the T-Mobile 1900 MHz network’)-Canada-Puerto Rico, Croatia-Macedonia-Montenegro, Netherlands, T-Mobile Deutschland: Germany-Czech-Slovakia-Hungary, T-Mobile Poland (Legimi ePubs stored in the cloud: Read-out-loud is a paid feature.), Telecom Argentina® Personal (formerly Sociedad Licenciataria Norte Sociedad Anónima Bursátil de Capital Variable®) Personal Paraguay Ownership: Werthein Group & France Télécom: Northern Argentina including all of Buenos Aires. In 1990 the monopoly of state-owned phone service ENTel was split into 2 territories: France Télécom was given the upper half of the country, from the middle to the north, & Telefónica was given the southern part. At privatization in 1990, the wait was 4 years to get new service & 40 days for repair. In 2005, the Bank of New York was appointed as trustee, registrar, paying & transfer agent for Telecom Argentina’s $1.5 billion debt restructuring. El País: Un recurso de Claro traba ingreso de otra telefónica móvil en Uruguay, ©Aug. 28, 2009. Ying Liu, Datafile of Latin American Telecommunications, LynxTech: 12670 Seventh St. 18, Monterey, CA 93940 USA. Nicole Hong, Ken Parks & Matt Day, Argentina’s Markets Pull Back After Debt Default, USA: Dow Jones & Co. Inc: Wall Street Journal ©July 31, 2014 / T-Mobile GSM#: Open Handset Alliance: Tethering applications are in violation of T-Mobile USA’s terms of service. Nick Sears, Vice President of T-Mobile, founder of Android Inc.® Oct. 2003. The Danger Hiptop/pre-2011 T-Mobile Sidekick phone running the Danger Operating System. Andrew E. Rubin, co-founder of Danger, a founder of Android, Inc. Danger, Inc. was bought by MicroSoft. On Feb. 28, 2011 Engadget reported MicroSoft would discontinue Danger’s cloud service. Qik by Ramu Sunkara, Bhaskar Roy & Nikolay Abkairov of Redwood City bought by MicroSoft, renamed Skype Qik & dismantled. “Among the disclosures from Snowdon that were published in [Amazon] The Washington Post & the Guardian was that Skype, the Internet calling service, was among the systems that provided data to the NSA’s secret PRISM database.” Ken Dilanian, Officials, USA: The Tribune Washington Bureau ©June 29, 2013. / T-Mobile purchases SPRINT: Southern Pacific Railroad Intercontinental Network of Telecommunications-NEXTEL® Aug. 2020. HQ: SPRINT, Abilene, Kansas, USA. CEO: Dan Hesse. VP Development & Distibution: Jason Ford: 4 oligopolic USA railroads: SPRINT (NYSE:S), Northbrook-Southern, CSX & Union-Pacific, control 90% freight. Warren Buffet bought 1 railroad in 2009 & owns H.J. Heinz foods. Sprint launches ‘guarantee’ for unlimited plans, The Associated Press, July 12, 2013: $50 a month voice/text + $30 a month unlimited data. Notes AT&T & Verizon ditched unlimited data offerings to new customers & late last year introduced shared data plans that allow all of a family’s devices to share a pool of monthly data usage. / Boost: Slogan: Cartoon Network® Aqua-Teen HungerForce Master Shake’s Where you at? Wireless CDMA: Code Division for Multiple Access Pre-pay Service: Website buying & shipping. Activate online or 1-888-BOOST-4U. Flat-rate unlimited plans. No overage, roaming, activation or convenience fees. Nationwide SPRINT® or NExtel® National Network. NII® Brazil, NExtel® Argentina (Olga Cossenttini #360-363, Dique 4 Complejo Puerto Madero Centro, Buenos Aires), Chile, Perú, Canada, Boost Mobile Fiji, Nexus® ReachOut Mobile® Lifeline USA. SPRINT bought out General Wireless® MetroPCS & NExtel (formerly FleetCall®). Cleyson L. & Jacob Brown Telephone Co.,1899, consolidated as United Telephone & Electric Co. Southern Pacific Communications, a unit of the Southern Pacific Railroad, in 1972 sells surplus system capacity to corporations, circumventing AT&T’s monopoly. 1980s merger Sylvania® GTE: General Telephone & Electronics Corp.-SPC: Southern Pacific Communications-UU: United Utilities.]
37. Carrier: Etisalat: Emirates Telecommunications Corporation® Ufone [2010] [U.A.E: Ittisâlât, literally Communications: Voice over IP: Internet Protocol a violation of their terms of service. Numeric IP addresses, anonymous proxies, explicit content, & the entire Israel country code top-level domain blocked. Ebtikar Card Services SIM/smart card manufacturing & payments. Etisalat Nigeria: 1st cellular network in Africa to launch the Samsung® Galaxy Tab. Etisalat® Afghanistan, India (Swan Telecom), Ivory Coast (Atlantique Telecom® Moov: Bénin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Gabon, Niger, Togo), Egypt, Saudi Arabia (Mobily), Sudan (Sudatel), Mali (Sotelma), Somali Telecom, Qatar (Emir’s Law #34 November 2006 lifts Qtel: Qatar Telecom monopoly. “Qtel runs & manages the Qatar Data Centre that hosts AT&T’s 1st global node (AGN) in the Middle East. On February 3, 2008, Qtel reported that a [undersea] cable connecting Qatar to the United Arab Emirates has been damaged, causing disruptions in already damaged Middle Eastern communication networks. According to Egypt’s transport ministry, there were no ships in the area. The problem is said to be related to the power system.”), Tanzania (Zantel), Sri Lanka (MIC: Millicom International Cellular: Bhasha Lanka Private Ltd.® SETT Web Browser: Exclusively for ALL etisalat users Tues. Nov. 1, 2011: CEO Dhankika Kaushalaya Perera. Android 2.1> Sinhala/Tamil transliterated into Latin script. 2.2 needed for Indic script. Hindi Web Browser: Android 2.2> “Devangari Script: The script used for Hindi, Marathi, & Nepali. Uses Hindi Unicode web fonts, It does NOT use bitmap fonts unlike Opera Mini, so really cost effective & faster than any other browser for reading Hindi.” 528 milion speakers. SETT Bengali Ad-Free license preferences. Android 4.4=> Unicode Scripts: Brahmi [Prakrit/Sanskrit: Jaina lists 18 scripts], Gupta/Late Brahmi [for Magadh], Bhattiprolu [for Telugu], Kadamba/Pallava [for Kannada: Atom Eater, Khmer, Malay, Burmese, Thai, Lao, Mon, Bali], Goykanadi [for Konkani], Sharada/Saraswati [for Kashmiri], Kalinga [for Oriya], Assamese/Ôxômiya, Dogri, Gujarati, Gurmukh [Script used for Punjabi], Khudabadi [for Sindhi], Mithilakshar [for Maithili], Malayalam, Meitei [for Manipuri], Saurashtra, Drendzongké [Sikkimese]) & Pakistan (PTCL: Pakistan Telecommunications). “The Emirati government, as part of its support to the National Transitional Council in the course of the 2011 Libyan civil war, requested Etisalat assist the NTC restore mobile communications to the rebel-held areas of Libya, which had been cut off by the government of Muammar Gaddafi. Etisalat provided the equipment needed to restore the main mobile network of Libyana, the primary carrier in the country.” - Wikipedia.]
38. Carrier: Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. Ltd. 遠傳電信® SmartApp® S市集 Market [www.smartapp.tw] [October 2010] [Taiwan (Formosa Island): Chinese: Ruiguang Road, Taipei 468, China. Tél: (02) 4495888]
39. Carrier: France Télécom S.A.® Orange App Shop [December 2009], Orange TV® Dailymotion [March 15, 2005], Orange-Sony® Deezer (was BlogMusik) [September 2007], Orange® StarMedia [August 1996], & France Télécom® Voila Search Engine (formerly Echo) [September 1996] [Est: 1878. PTT: Posts, Télégraphs et Téléphones. €43.5 Billion. UK, France & Romania: Embedded on Orange GSM telephones. Prices added to existing Orange bill. “Orange AppStore. Turn your WiFi off. You must be connected by 3G to use it since Orange use that to identify your phone.” moshbeard: Yahoo! Answers. Orange Group: Investment AB Kinnevek Group® Millicom (Sweden/Luxembourg: OMX: MIC-SDB) & Tele2 (OMX: TEL2), Leo® Algeria (dinar), Orange Armenia (ARD: Armenian Dram), Orange Austria, Mobistar® Belgium, Orange Botswana (BWP: BotsWana Pula: Rain Blessing in Setswana replaces the South African Rand), Burundi (Burundian franc), Namibia (N$ =Rand), Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equitorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal (CFA: Communauté Financiere Africaine Franc), Dominica (EC$: East Carribean), Dominican Republic (peso), SAIT® DR Congo-Zimbabwe, Mobinil® Egypt (E£), French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, Saint Barthélémy/Ouanalao, Saint Martin (€), French Polynesia (Mara Telecom liquidated. Now Tikiphone SA® VINI: CFP: Change Franc Pacifique), Israel (Google bought Waze traffic GPS for $1 billion, ABC: June 12, 2013), Orange Jordan (1999: 60% Jordan Telecom, 35% France Telecom, 5% Arab Bank), Kenya (shilling), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg (former VOXMobile), Madagascar (Malagasy ariary), Mauritius (Mauritian rupee), Moldova (L: Moldovan Leu), Morocco (49% Méditel: Moroccan dirham), North Korea (koryolink: won), Poland (Telekomunikacja Polska: Currency: złoty: golden), Portugal (Optimus), Slovakia, Spain (Ya.com), Switzerland, Thailand (baht), Orange Tunisie (Tunisia dinar/Tuntel), Uganda (Uganda shilling), Vanatu (Vt: vatu). / Dailymotion CEO: Cédric Tournay, CTO & Founder: Olivier Poitrey, Co-Founder: Benjamin Bejbaum, EVP Global Content: Martin Rogard, SVP & General Counsel: Giuseppe de Martino. HQ: 140 Blvd. Malesherbes, 17th arrondissement, Paris: Video sharing for 34 countries/16 languages. Slogan: A Breton word meaning host call, genetive Ó Sluagháin: Regarder, publier, partager: Watch, publish, share. Not for USA until 2013 & banned in Kazakhstan since August 2011. Сокращенное решение Сарыаркинского районного суда города Астаны от 8 августа 2011 года № 2-4780/2011, zakon.kz. ©2011-08-11.]
40. Carrier: Japan Telecom® ソフトバンク株式会社: SoftBank Mobile Group® 株式会社: ACCESS Co. Ltd.® NetFront™ Life Browser & Amazon Kindle Silk Browser by NetFront™ [February 2010], SoftBank® GungHo Online Entertainment/Oak Pacific Interactive® Xiaonei 校内网: Campus Network a.k.a Ren-Ren: 人人网: Everyones’ Website [December 2005] & ACCESS® Palm Computing Inc.® Palm Software Store [Dec. 16, 2008-Dec. 31, 2009] [Open Handset Alliance: UMTS: Universal Mobile Telecommunications System™ 3G Tokyo, Japan: TYO: 9984/OTC Pink: SFTBF. Revenue: ¥3.202 trillion. Chairman & CEO: Masayoshi Son: Runs Willcom of Okinawa, is the biggest shareholder of Yahoo! Japan Corp. / HQ: Ren Ren Inc. Jing An Center, #8 N. 3rd Ring Rd. E., Chaoyang District, Beijing (Peking). NYSE: RENN: Chinese Facebook for college students purchased by SoftBank. Instant Message Chat, point system for repeated use. Currency is Xiaoneidou, or Xiaonei beans: 校内豆 used to purchase gifts, advertising, commence the Purple Bean service: 紫豆服务, & game coins. Founder, Chairman & CEO: MIT & Stanford Business School Graduate Joseph Chen. / Palm Founder Jeff Hawkins in 1992. 3COM: Computer Communication Compatibility bought USRobotics, owner of Palm Inc., in 1997, Software division named PalmSource 2002 & hardware division named palmOne Inc. 2003. Japan Telecom® ACCESS, acquired PalmSource for US$324 million in 2005, running the Palm Software Store from Dec. 16, 2008-June 6, 2009. Alan Grassia, Smartphone Fanatics: Palm Halts Production of Handhelds ©February 2009. Hewlett-Packard purchased Palm for $1.2 billion in an all-cash deal July 1, 2010. TCL, who manufactures phones under the Alcatel® OneTouch brand acquired Palm January 6, 2015. 38 million devices sold since 1996 from hardware manufacturers including Palm, Inc., Samsung, IBM: International Business Machines, Aceeca, AlphaSmart, Fossil, Inc., Garmin, Group Sense Personal Digital Assistant, Kyocera, PiTech, Sony, & Symbol. The Palm Operating System recognizes only 2 file extensions Palm Resource Code .prc. or Palm DataBase .pdb, the default text file database format on Palm devices. It is a RLE compressed ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange text file using line ends to mark the end of the paragraph. No text formatting is allowed. Palm Database Programmer Rick Bram. Originally used on PalmOS devices by Aportis Technologies & called DOC, AportisDOC & PalmDOC. PalmSource Inc.® Palm Digital Media Secure eReader -er.pdb uses PML: Palm Markup Language DRM: Digital Rights Management. iSilo -is.pdb is a large, proprietary format made popular in the days of Palm devices. It’s an old format, & has its die-hard fans, as evidenced by the hefty pricetag. iSilo, as a format, is hard to convert *from* but easy to convert *to*. This app comes with the CIA World Factbook. Haodoo® Cbook u.pdb [2010]: Supports PalmSource® PalmPilot DataBase: .pdb (big5 Chinese encoded). Notes: Strictly a Chinese reader with vertical text layout. “Vertical layout styles applicable to books with a language code indicating Chinese, Japanese or Korean with an expected mix of Han characters, hiragana, katakana, &/or hangul.”]
41. Carrier: KDDI: Kokusai Daini Denden Idô Corp: 株式会社® au® LISMO: LISten MObile Music Store [pron. risu] (Digital Rights Management: ソニー: Sony® Chaku-Uta: うたとも™ CPRM-AAC .KMF) [January 2006], KDDI-Toshiba® Biblio Leaf [Dec. 25, 2010], 東京芝浦電気: Toshiba: Tokyo Shibaura Denki K.K® Toshiba Book Place (K-NFB Reading Tech Inc® Blio .xps) [Sept. 28, 2010-Sept. 28, 2014], KDDI® Мобиком Корпораци: Mobicom [Mar. 18, 1996] [Tokyo, Japan: CDMA: Code Division for Multiple Access 1X WIN phones: Open Handset Alliance: TYO: 9433. CEO: Takashi Tanaka. Revenue: US $36.83 billion. Kyocera: 12.76%, Toyota: 11.09%, Master Trust Bank of Japan: 4.94%, Japan Trustee Services Bank: 4.15%, State Street Bank & Trust Co.: 3.32%. Mascot for music service is LISMO-kun squirrel. According to ZYXYZ company, the brand establisher, the name au is based on the Japanese verbs for meet & unite (both pronounced au). KDDI explains au comes from 2 letters which stand for few words. A is for access, always & amenity, & U is for unique, universal & user. Slogan: access to u – Wikipedia / The Biblio Leaf is a solar-powered black & white eReader exclusively under KDDI phone contract. / Mitsui Group zaibatsu: family-controlled vertical monopoly owns Toshiba. CEO: Norio Sasaki. Revenue: ¥6.3 trillion. “Membership in a keiretsu has traditionally meant loyalty, both corporate & private, to other members of the keiretsu or allied keiretsu.” Owns UK Westinghouse, one of the world’s largest producers of nuclear reactors. eBook software Blio discontinued. Ami Hamilton, Toshiba Opens E-Book Store for Laptops, Access Communications, Business Wire ©Sept. 28, 2010 & John Hrabe, The Huffington Post, USA: HQ: 15 Walnut Street, Suite 2, Wellesley Hills, MA, 02481: Raymond Kurzweil sold his Omni-Font OCR: Optical Character Recognition company (1978) to Lernout & Hauspie in 1980. Following the bankruptcy of the latter, the system became a subsidiary of Xerox. Kurzweil Computer Products co-founders David Boucher & Harry George formed Interleaf in 1981. Kurzweil Music Systems, est.1982, by musician Stevie Wonder & programmer Bruce Cichowlas sold to Young Chang in 1990 & acquired by Hyundai. Synthesizer-sampler Kurzweil-250 (1984). Kurzweil 1000 text-to-speech converter (1987) has a computer read electronic & scanned text aloud. 1999, Kurzweil created a hedge fund called FATKAT: Financial Accelerating Transactions from Kurzweil Adaptive Technologies. - Colleen Taylor, Ray Kurzweil Joins Google In Full-Time Engineering Director Role; Will Focus On Machine Learning, Language Processing, USA: AOL®TechCrunch ©Dec.14, 2012/ Ulaanbaatar: Red Hero, Mongolia: Newcom 40%, Sumitomo Bank, KDDI. In 2016 consolidated into KDDI, with KDDI taking a majority share. Other Mongolian Telecom Mobile: Skytel, Unitel, G-Mobile.]
42. Carrier: KT: Korea Telecom® Sun Kyung Telecom: 에스케이텔레콤® ONE Store [2011], Samsung:삼성전자: 3 Stars Group® Samsung Galaxy Apps (Open Handset Alliance) [September 2006] & Turkcell AppMarket a.k.a Turkcell T-Market (formerly Uygulamala Pazari & Samsung Android Market) [September 14, 2009] [Korea does NOT use GSM. Uses CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access 3G: Daegu, South Korea: Founder Lee Byung-Chull: 1938. KRX: Korean Exchange: 005930/LSE: London Stock Exchange: SMSN. Multi-National 재벌: Jaebol (from Jae: wealth or property + bŏl: faction or clan). ¤317 trillion Won: “There are several dozen large Korean family-controlled corporate groups which fall under this definition. ....The acquisition of Korea Telecommunications, an electronic switching system producer, was completed at the start of the next decade in 1980.” Wikipedia: Samsung. Subsidiary of the state monopoly telephone company Korea Telecom: Games, broadcasting, cartoons. CEO: Seong Min Ha. KRX: 017670/NYSE: US $13.601 billion. “As with many other Chaebols SK Group’s chairmanship was inherited from father to son: from its founder the late Chey John-hyun to its present chairman Chey Tae-won. Chey Tae-won is married to the daughter of the former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo.” / #1 App Gateway to & from Korea. Powered by the Ubinuri® AMS: Application Management System: Ubinuri: 3907 EnC Venture Dream Tower 6, Guro 3-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul, Korea 152-775. AppzilApp® Counter Fire 1.4.1: Not compatible with ARMv5 Generic Tablet says Google® Play™. Game authentication & 50 MB download. / Google® Android™ (July 2009), Samsung® Bada: 바다: Sea (April 2010-Feb. 2013), Samsung® LiMo: Linux Mobile™ (release date moved 2011 to 2014 & renamed Tizen), Windows Mobile: Note to Samsung Users: Some Galaxy S devices cannot download this app (Mika Mobile® Battleheart 1.2 RPG) due to its size exceeding 30MB. Please be aware of your device’s limitations before attempting to purchase. Zepto Lab® Cut The Rope (17MB) scales beautifully on Honeycomb Tablet - PCMag Online. ShopNBC: Sun. Feb. 6, 2011: Samsung® Galaxy Tablet $799.00 the price without AT&T 3G 2 year Wireless Service. The plot thickens yet again in the seemingly endless patent war between Apple & Samsung. A new ruling by a regional court in Düsseldorf, Germany has granted Cupertino a preliminary injunction, blocking the sale & advertising of the Samsung® Galaxy Tab 10.1 across Europe, save for the Netherlands. According to The Telegraph, the likely appeal will take about a month to be heard by the judge who granted the injunction. - German Apple suit ruling blocks Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sale in Europe, Brian Heater, Engadget ©Aug. 9, 2011. Wi-Fi Tabs: When I Charge My Wi-Fi Galaxy Tablet From A Completely Drained Battery, I Am Unable To Turn It On. Why Is That? Important: You will not be able to simultaneously charge & use your Galaxy Tab if you are connected to a PC’s USB port. The USB connection on a PC does not provide enough power for you to charge & use the device at the same time. If you need to simultaneously use & charge the device, we recommend you use the factory travel charger. If your Galaxy Tab won’t turn on: 1. Charge the device using the factory charger for 1 hour. The battery charging indicator may take up to 10 minutes to appear on the tablet’s screen. 2. Disconnect & attempt to turn it on by holding the power button for 15-20 seconds. 6 hours of additional charging will be needed with the device turned off. If it does not turn on they suggest another power outlet, then another power adapter, then another USB cable (might have a short in the cable) & finally customer service. Soft reset. Volume Up+Home+Power buttons until it shows Restore screen & do a factory reset. / GSM Telephone#: 35 million+ subscribers. 51% Çukurova Group owned by Mehmet Emin Karamehmet, Turkey’s 2nd richest man, 37% TeliaSonera AB, 12% Alfa Group. Çukurova grew out of industrial agriculture, textiles, banking [Pamukbank, Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi], newspapers, & television media. Albtelecom® Eagle Mobile [Çalik Holdings & Türk Telekom - The Economist Newspaper Ltd: Turkish corporate governance ©April 21st 2012]
43. Carrier: LG: 법인: Lak-Hui Chemical Industrial-GoldStar Telecom® [pron. lucky] LG SmartWorld™ (Open Handset Alliance) [July 14, 2009] [South Korea: Jaebol founder: Koo In-Hwoi, 1947. ¤191 Trillion Won. KRX: 003550. 1st launched for Windows Mobile Phones in Singapore & Australia. Now updated with Android™ Éclair. 70 countries by 2015. For LG phones & smart TVs only. :-( Powered by Handster GmbH & Co.: 601 Skokie Blvd. Suite 105, Northbrook IL 60602 USA, Markstraße 9 D-39625 Kalbe/Milde Germany bought out by Telenor® Opera.]
44. Carrier: M1 Telecom® MiWorld AppShop [May 11, 2010-May 11, 2015] [Singapore: Login needs M1 mobile GSM# Home Broadband or Fixed Voice ID. Chairman: Teo Soon Hoe, CEO: Karen Kooi Lee Wah. SGX: B2F. Owners: Keppel Telecoms 19.89%, SPH Multimedia 13.84%, Telekom Malaysia Bhd. 29.51%, Khazanah Nasional. Axiata Group Berhad the international operations arm of Telekom Malaysia Bhd. “Axiata’s mobile subsidiaries & associates operate under the brand name ‘Celcom’ in Malaysia, ‘XL’ in Indonesia, ‘Dialog’ in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), ‘Robi’ in Bangladesh, ‘Smart’ in Cambodia, ‘Idea’ in India, ‘M1’ in Singapore & ‘MTCE’ in Iran (Esfahan).” - Wikipedia. CEO: Dato’ Sri Jamaludin Ibrahim. MYX: 6888.]
45. Carrier: Mobile Telecommunications Network® MTN App Store (formerly Play) [March 2009] [Johannesburg, South Africa: Private: CEO: Phuthuma Nhleko. Owners: Belgacom 57.6%, Swisscom 22.4% & MTN Group 20%. Store announced March 2009 with Android phones not shipped to Africa that year. 7 app stores in Africa for 2012 & Oware game. Service Areas: Afghanistan, Bénin (Benin Telecoms fixed line. Mobile: Bell Bénin Communication, Globacom), Guinea Conakry, Guinea-Bissau, Sudan, Syria (STE: Syrian Telecommunications Establishment fixed line), Uganda, Botswana Mascom, Cameroon, Congo S.A., Côte d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Ghana, Irancell (Iranian law limits home subscribers to <128kbit/sec), Liberia: Lonestar Cell, Nigeria, Rwandacell, Swaziland, Spacetel® Yemen, Zambia – MTN Brings West African Board Game To App Store, IT News Africa ©March 23, 2012]
46. Carrier: Motorola Global Telecom® Zhi-Jian-Yuan: Place for Apps Wisdom a.k.a SHOP4APPS MotoAppStore (Android Operating System: Borqs® 蜜蜂 Ophone) [January 21, 2010], EasyLink Zhiyuan Wireless Technology Co., Ltd.® eOe Mobile® 优亿市场 eOe Market [August 2009], Liánxiäng: Connected Thinking® 乐商店: Lenovo LePhone App Store (Android Operating System: Liánxiäng® Mondrian) [May 2010] & Doùbàn® SouApp搜应用 [April 8, 2010] [China Only: “Accessible through mobile browser, mobile client, or MML: Motorola Media Link. MyLocker account stores purchased goods to be deployed to your handset.” PacificNet, Inc.Ventures® 手机之家: imobile, est. 2002, NASDAQ: PACT, Manager: Liu Lei, Rm 2303, 23/F, Tower A, TimeCourt, No.6, Shuguang Xili, Chaoyang District, Beijing (Peking)xiom 100028 picked to run the Motorola Telecom Store in 2007. “PacificNet’s gaming products are specially designed for Chinese & Asian gamers. PacificNet’s gaming clients include the leading hotels, casinos, & gaming operators in Macau, Asia & Europe.” PacificNet iMobile Partners with Nokia to Provide Online E-Commerce Distribution in China, United Business Media® PRNewswire ©May 23, Xinhua News Agency. pron: sheen′·hwah. 2010: Skyhook Wireless sues Google (preliminary injuction denied) alleging Google blocked Skyhook’s mobile positioning service (XPS) from Motorola’s Android mobile devices. Motorola had terminated their contract with Skyhook as Skyhook wanted to disable Google’s location data collection functions on Motorola’s devices, which would have violated Motorola’s obligations to Google & its carriers. 2011 Update: Google bought Motorola for $12.5 billion. Motorola the leader in television set-top box revenues for 2011. / China: Chinese: Founder: Jin Yan.Technical Director Ma Wanzheng of Motorola. Chaoyang District, Beijing City (Peking City) Triumph Beiyuan Rd. 170, Block C, Room 1202. / Registration: Lenovo: Le- (Legend) + novo Latin for new. Chinese company name is liánxiäng: association or connected thinking. Chinese Academy of Sciences, acquired IBM in 2005 for $1.75 billion & Motorola. CEO Yang Yuanquing. / Chinese SNS: Social Network service & store. Douban ebooks. Douban Radio streams music. Founder: IBM research scientist Ph.D Bo Yang.]
47. Carrier: Nepal Telecom [Nepal’s MCC: Mobile Country Code is 429. Nepal Telecom’s MNC: Mobile Network Code is 01. IMSI analysis is the process of examining a subscriber’s IMSI: International Mobile Subscriber Identity Module to identify the network the IMSI belongs to, & whether subscribers from that network may use a given network (if they are not local subscribers, this requires a roaming agreement). If the subscriber is not from the provider’s network, the IMSI must be converted to a Global Title, which can then be used for accessing the subscriber data in the remote HLR: Home Location Register. Outside North America the IMSI is converted to the MGT: Mobile Global Title format, E.214.]
48. Carrier: NTT: Nippon Telegraph & Telephone® 株式会社エヌ · ティ·ティ· ドコモ: DoCoMo, Inc. Market® Join jAPPan [2011] DoCoMo Digital Germany GmbH® net mobile AG® Bankverein Werther AG [2000], NTT DoCoMoCapital® Evernote Corporation®, NTT® Guamcell [2012] [Japan: Sanno Park Tower, Nagatachö, Chiyoda, Tokyo: Open Handset Alliance: TYO: 9437. ¥6.948 trillion. CEO: Ryuji Yamada: “The Bell System owned 54% of NEC & NTT before the 1956 boundaries were emplaced”: Name officially an abbreviation of phrase, do communications over the mobile network, & is also from a compound word dokomo, meaning everywhere in Japanese. Provides phone, video phone (2001: UMTS: Universal Mobile Telecommunications System™ 3G FOMA: Freedom of Mobile–Multimedia Access), i-mode (1999: Compact HyperText Markup Language monochromatic display: no tables, frames, style sheets), & mail (i-mode mail, Short Mail, & SMS: Short Messaging Service) services. Company mascot is Docomodake, a mushroom hero in the Nintendo DS® Boing! game. He also has a wide variety of merchandising such as cell phone straps, keychains, & plush dolls. As 1 type of advertising method, there are many types of Docomodakes such as mother & father. musume (daughter), jiji (grandpa) which symbolizes the plans NTT Docomo offers. NEC: Nippon Electric Corporation. July 2012: NTT Docomo acquires Buongiorno for €209 million. April 2013: NTT Docomo buys net mobile AG. net mobile AG® Astral Commander 1.4 game mentioned by Waryam in 2011. Evernote is an online app only: Notes saved on their servers. - Wikipedia]
49. Carrier: Camillo Olivetti® TIM: Télécom Italia Mobile App Store (Open Handset Alliance), TIM: Téléfonica Italia Móviles® Brasil App Store (Digital Rights Management: Qualcomm® Plaza Retail™) & Camillo Olivetti® TIMGate (Biblet eReader: ePub: electronicPUBlication & Adobe® PDF:) [Todos: All 2010] [Italy, Brazil, Bolivia: BIT: TIT, NYSE: TI: Chairman: Giuseppe Recchi, Director: Marco Patuano. Telecom Italia SpA: 22.4% Telefónica, 5% Marco Fossati’s Findim Group S.A. Login: Telephone#, Password: Store For: Oracle® Java™ (1998), Nokia® Novarra® BREW: Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless® (2001) & Google® Android™ (2008). Qualcomm® CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access 2G Telephone Standard. Biblet Store changed to QuboLibre 2012, TIMreading 2014.]
50. Carrier: TaiwanMobile 台灣大哥大® matchApps 軟體商店– (match Market) [2010] [Taiwan (Formosa Island): Sanrio® Sugarbunnies. “Today’s Taiwan Mobile’s logo is more colorful but still have the look of the original satellite gateway station of Iridium with hexagonal shapes. The older logo used to be all red & had a legacy red from the now defunct Pacific Electric Wire & Cable Co. Ltd.” Google® Android™, Apple® iPhone, BlackBerry Ltd.® BlackBerry, MicroSoft® Windows Mobile 6.5, PSION® Symbian S60 V6 & S3. Mike Hsieh: 6F, #172-1, Sec. 2, Keelung Rd., Taipei City 106, Taiwan, China]
51. Carrier: Tata Group® Tata Indiacom a.k.a Virgin Mobile India: Croma Electronics® Megastore [2011] [Qualcomm® CDMA: Code Division for Multiple Access & Ericsson® GSM: Global System for Mobile™.Tata Group owns Taj Hotels Resorts & Palaces with a revenue of $347.85 million & properties in: USA, England, Australia, South Africa, UAE, India including the Taj Mahal, Falaknuma Palace, Jai Mahal Palace, Nadesar Palace, Rambagh Palace, Umald Bhawan Palace & Usha Kiran Palace, Maldives, Malaysia, Bhutan & Sri Lanka. Founder: Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata. Chairman: Ratan Tata. Tata Power, Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Chemicals (British Salt), Tata Global Beverages (Good Earth Teas, Eight O’Clock Coffee & Tetley), Tata AIG General Insurance, Tata McGraw-Hill.]
52. Carrier: Telefonaktiebolaget AB Lars Magnus Ericsson® Appia Venture Capital® Ericsson Estore formerly Ericsson Mobility World (Open Handset Alliance) [Feb. 15, 2010] [Wireless Valley: Kista, Stockholm Municipality, Sweden: OMX: ERIC B/ NASDAQ: ERIC $226.9 Billion: Owner: Marcus Wallenberg Swedish Banking family: Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken. Est. 1876 as a telegraph equipment repair shop by Lars Magnus Ericsson: The worlds’s largest mobile telecommunications equipment vendor with a market share of 35% & the inventor of Bluetooth. Invents GSM: Global System for Mobile™ 2G telephone standard (has 4 radio frequency bands: 850, 900, 1800, 1900MHz. GPRS: General Packet Radio Service 2.5G & EDGE: Enhanced Datarates for GSM Evolution 2.75. “Because Bell’s invention was not patented in Sweden & a Swedish private competitor, Allmänna Telefon, was thus able to find an independent equipment supplier in Lars Magnus Ericsson.” – Wikipedia “The design of the service [GSM] is moderately complex because it must be able to locate a moving phone anywhere in the world, accommodate the relatively small battery capacity, limited input/output capabilities, & weak radio transmitters on mobile devices. ...The phone will search for the nearest mobile phone mast (also called a Base Transceiver Station) with the strongest signal. ...The call setup request message is handled next by the Mobile Switching Center, which checks the subscriber’s record held in the Visitor Location Register to see if the outgoing call is allowed. If so, it routes. ...During a GSM call, speech is converted from analogue sound waves to digital data by the phone itself.” The GSM standard can transmit digital data. “This allows a mobile phone to act like any other computer on the Internet, sending & receiving data via the Internet Protocol.” - GSM Standard: Wikipedia. 3G UMTS: Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (2001) Speeds: HSPA+: High-Speed Packet Access Evolved 3.75G (28 Mbps), DC: Dual-Cell-HSDPA: High-Speed Downlink Packet Access, LTE: Long Term Evolution 3.9G, E-UTRA 3G. In some instances, 3G networks do not use the same radio frequencies as 2G. “12 companies accounted in 2004 for 90% of the [3G] patents (Qualcomm, Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens, Motorola, Philips, NTT DoCoMo, Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, Hitachi, InterDigital, & Matsushita-Panasonic). ITU: International Telecommunication Union ‘a minimum data rate of 2 Mbit/s for stationary or walking users, & 384 kbit/s in a moving vehicle,’” - Wikipedia: 3G. “There are very few 3G phones available supporting all 3G frequencies (UMTS850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz). Nokia has recently released a range of phones that have Pentaband 3G coverage”. Saeed Kamali Dehghan, Iranian consumers boycott Nokia for ‘collaboration’, UK: The Guardian, ©Tuesday 14 July 2009 16.22 EDT “Wholesale vendors in the capital report that demand for Nokia handsets has fallen by as much as ½ in the wake of calls to boycott Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) for selling communications monitoring systems to Iran. Some Tehran shops have removed Nokia phones from their window displays. The Iranian authorities are believed to have used Nokia’s mobile phone monitoring system to target dissidents. NSN spokesman Ben Roome said: ‘As in every other country, telecoms networks in Iran require the capability to lawfully intercept voice calls.’ ...The SMS: Short Messaging Service boycott, meanwhile, has apparently forced TCI into drastic price hikes. The cost of an SMS has doubled in recent days. Protesters view the move as a victory.” ]
53. Carrier: Telenor Telephone Co.® Opera Software ASA® Opera Browser [2011] University of California at Santa Barbara National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis® Ecological Metadata Language .eml (Request for Comments-822 MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) [1997] VimpelCom Ltd.® Global Telecom Holding® Warid Telecom® MyAppsMall [Aug. 15, 2012], Telenor Telephone Co.® Opera Software ASA® Vivaldi Browser [April 22, 2020] Norway: Fornebu close to Christiania (Oslo): Scandinavia (Telenor), Cambodia (SoTelco), Laos (Millicom Lao), Malaysia (DIGI TelCo), Thailand (DTAC), Bangladesh (GrameenPhone), India-Pakistan (Uninor), Czech Rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Armenia-Georgia-Russia-Ukraine (VimpelCom Ltd.)-Kazakhstan (KaR-tel)-Kyrgyzstan (SkyMobile)-Tajikistan (Таком)-Uzbekistan (Unitel)-Yugoslavia (Mobi 53). Red O logo: Web browser created in 1994 by Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner & Geir Ivarsøy during their tenure at Telenor. Browser for MicroSoft® Windows, Apple® Macintosh Apple Operating System, Google® Android™, MicroSoft® Windows Mobile, BlackBerry Ltd.® BlackBerry, Samsung® bada, Nokia® Novarra® BREW: Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless, Nintendo® DS & Wii, Oracle® JavaME™, PSION® Symbian/S60 & finally Apple® iPhone OS/iOS 4.2>. Opera Mini Browser Frequently Asked Questions [August 16, 2009] webpages for Android 1.5> saved as OBML: Opera Binary Markup Language in internal phone cache. Opera Browser Mobile [October 15, 2010] webpages for Android 1.6> saved as .MHTML in Download folder on SD: Secure Digital card. .MHTML contains pictures & text. These files open in Mac/Windows Opera or Windows Internet Explorer. Both browsers have back/forward arrows, tabs, copy/paste, pinch zoom. User Agent: mobile or tablet. Opera Mobile Classic 12.1.9 will not crash in Android Lollipop™ :-). “The .mhtml (Web archive) & .eml (e-mail file) file extensions are interchangeable (the files can be renamed). The 1st can be sent by e-mail (& displayed by the email client if the html code is basic enough) & an e-mail message can be saved to a file & renamed to a Web archive extension. ...Some email clients save individual messages as separate files, while others use various database formats, often proprietary, for collective storage. A historical standard of storage is the MailBOX .mbox format (1982). The specific format used is often indicated by special filename extensions. .pst (Unicode/ANSI), MicroSoft® .msg (MAPI: Messaging Application Programming Interface Binary).” – Wikipedia: Email Vulkil, How to view Devanagari font sites in Android ©July 8, 2011: Though Android has capability to view Devnagari fonts, some companies like HTC: High Tech Computer Corp. etc. still haven’t given this luxury to us yet. ...If your phone does not display Devnagari fonts by default, inbuilt browser will also not be able to show the Devnagari fonts. But we can still view these sites by using Opera Mini Browser. 1. Enter opera:config in address bar. Make sure you delete the www. before entering opera:config. Also, you must be connected to net for changing these parameters. 2. Go to end of page displayed. There would be an option Use bitmap fonts for complex scripts, change its value to Yes. ...If you have couple of minutes, please go to: Google Issue 4153 & just post a simple comment, We want Hindi font support by default in android. There were 5000 comments for Arabic language support & it was included in Gingerbread. if you are not able to install Opera Mini install, try Opera Mobile. / Lahore, Pakistan: Warid phone # & login. For Warid prepaid & postpaid subscribers. Download 1000s of free mobile applications & games. Oracle® Java™, PSION® Symbian, Google® Android™, Blackberry Ltd.® BlackBerry & MicroSoft® Windows Mobile. – Warid introduces MyAppsMall, Flare ©Aug. 15, 2012. / V Logo: Browser for MicroSoft® Windows, Apple® Macintosh Apple Operating System, LINUX & Google® Android™, 5.0>: Tracker blocker, Ad blocker.
54. Carrier: TeliaSonera AB® Omnitel Programles [2010] [Lithuania: Sturegatan 1, Stockholm: Merger of Telia & Sonera. Denmark [Telia], Sweden [Halebop], Finland [Sonera], Norway [NetCom], Belarus [“TeliaSonera delivers mobile devices can be intercepted by police officers that regimes & to tap phones that dissidents are using, but Telia Sonera turn away from him & would not comment on alleged interception of private individuals, tailgating, disappearance of dissidents. (a)As in Belarus” Wikipedia], Afghanistan [12.5% Roshan: Persian for Clear Meaning 51% Aga Khan, 36.75% Monaco Telecom. “In January 2003, Roshan was awarded the 2nd GSM license in Afghanistan at a time when there was virtually no telecommunications infrastructure in place; national calls were prohibitively expensive & Afghans had to travel abroad to make an international call.”], Estonia [Eesti Telekom], Lithuania [Omnitel], Latvia [LMT/Lattelecom: Latvia now on the € :-)], Moldova [74% Moldcell], Georgia [Geocell], Kazakhstan [Kcell], Azerbaijan [Azercell: 43%, 57% Turkcell], Nepal [80% Spice Nepal & Ncell], Russia [MegaFon], Spain [76.6% Yoigo], Tajikistan [Tcell], Uzbekistan [UCell]. Radiolinja & TeliaSonera the 1st telephone companies in the world to offer SMS: Short Messaging Service texting in 1995. SMS is used to send welcome messages to mobile phones roaming: connecting to different networks between countries. – The Mobile World, Global Multinationals: Consolidating Customers, Issue 40, pg 21 23, Oct 2006]
55. Carrier: Virgin Group Limited® Virgin Mobile [2001] [UK: The School House, 50 Brook Green in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham: British branded venture capital conglomerate organisation founded by business tycoon Richard Branson. Companies House class it as a holding company; however Virgin’s business & trading activities date to the 1970s. Net worth is £5.01 billion. Consists of >400 companies. Although Branson retains complete ownership & control of the Virgin Brand, the commercial set-up of companies using it is varied & complex. Each of the companies operating under the Virgin brand is a separate entity, with Branson completely owning some & holding minority or majority stakes in others. Occasionally, he simply licenses the brand to a company that has purchased a division from him, such as Virgin Mobile USA (Sprint-Nextel), Virgin Mobile Australia (SingTel), Virgin Radio & Virgin Music (now part of EMI). The brand name arose when Branson & a partner were starting their record shop. The current logo was originally sketched on a paper napkin & remains largely unchanged since 1979. - Wikipedia.]
56. Carrier: Vivendi® SFR: Société Française de Radiotéléphonie Mobile, Vivendi® HSN: Home Shopping Network, NBC: National Biscuit Company® Netflix (Digital Rights Management: MicroSoft® VC-1 Video on Amazon® EC2 Cloud Server) [September 1999], General Electric-Comcast® NBCUniversal® Hulu: 互录: Interactive Recording (Proprietary Adobe® Video on Amazon® Cloud Server) [March 12, 2008] [France: Est: 1853 as La Compagnie générale des eaux: The General Water Company. Multinational French telephone company. Président: Jean-Yves Charlier, CEO: Stéphane Roussel. Products: Neufbox Evolution, SFR TV,, mobile phones. €12,577 billion. UMG: Universal Music Group, Canal+ Group, Maroc Telecom, Gabon Telecom, Mauritel, Activision Blizzard. GE' General Electric® RCA: Radio Corporation of America (from British owned Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America & the Pan-American Telegraph Company) formed October 17, 1919. “In follow-on agreements, RCA also acquired the radio patents that had been held by Westinghouse & the United Fruit Company.” The company acquired Hertz (rental cars), Banquet (frozen foods), Coronet (carpeting), Random House (publishing) & Gibson (greeting cards) / USA: Los Gatos, California. NASDAQ: NFLX. US$3.61 billion. MicroWarehouse Marc Randolph, CEO: Reed Hastings, CFO: David Wells, CTO: Neil Hunt. In February 2007, the company delivered its billionth DVD & began to move away from its original core business model of mailing DVDs by introducing video-on-demand via the Internet Subscription service in USA (36> million customers)-Canada (Sept 22, 2010)-Latin America (Sept 5, 2011)-UK/Ireland (Jan 9, 2012), Scandinavia (Oct 18, 2012), Netherlands (Sept 10, 2013: 40.4 million global) for: Roku Player [May 2008], TiVo® Premiere DVR: Digital Video Recorder [Oct 2008], MicroSoft® Xbox 360° [Nov 19, 2008], LG-Panasonic-Philips-Samsung-Sharp-Sony-AmTran Technology’ Vizio Smart TVs [Jan 2009], Sony® PlayStation 3 [Nov 2009], Broadband Internet Connected INTEL:INTegrated ELectronics chip computers running MicroSoft® Windows or Apple® Macintosh Apple Operating System X [2010], Nintendo® Wii/3DS [Jan 13, 2010], Apple® iPad [April 2010], William & Charles Barnes & Clifford Noble® Nook® [Nov 2011], Amazon® Kindle [2011], BlackBerry Ltd.® BlackBerry 10 [2011]. HTC: High Tech Computer Corp.® Evo View Tablet [June 25, 2011] & 9 Android Smartphones [2011]. Ashlee Vance, Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley’s Elite, BloombergBusinessweek ©May 09, 2013: “On a normal weeknight, Netflix (NFLX) accounts for almost ⅓ of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That’s more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com (AMZN), HBO Go, iTunes, & BitTorrent combined. Traffic to Netflix usually peaks at around 10 p.m. in each time zone, at which point a chart of Internet consumption looks like a python that swallowed a cow. By midnight Pacific time, streaming volume falls off dramatically.” / USA: “In September 2007 that Hulu acquired Bejing-based startup Mojiti & used its platform for the basis of the product.” USA & Japan geo-restricted, ad-serving Internet video on demand subscription service for: Apple® iPad, Roku Player, Smart TVs, TiVo® Premiere DVR: Digital Video Recorder, Nintendo® Wii/3DS, Sony® PlayStation 3, & MicroSoft® Xbox 360°. Internet Apple® Macintosh Apple OS X 10.4/Linux/MicroSoft® Windows eXPerience: PC video will load in Adobe® Flash Player 10.1.53.64> with either MicroSoft® Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla® Firefox 2, Apple® Safari 3 or Google® Chrome Browsers. Supported 6 Android Smartphones in 2011.]
57. Carrier: Yataraporn Teleport [Rangoon, Myanmar (Burma): Minister Thein Tun (resigned), President Thein Sein (2011). Historical: “The telecommunications sector is decades behind any of Myanmar’s neighbors, with a mobile-phone penetration rate of 9%, compared with more than 100% in Thailand - meaning more than 1 cellphone per person - & 70% in Cambodia. The Myanmar market is crippled in part by expensive SIM cards, which cost $150 to $350 in a country with a per capita annual income of roughly $379. The cost of a SIM card is about $4 in neighboring Thailand.” Shibani Mahtani & Celine Fernandez, Telecom Officials Face Corruption Probe in Myanmar, USA: Dow Jones & Co. Inc: Wall Street Journal pg.A9 ©Jan. 25, 2013.]
58. Carrier: Zain Group® MTC: Mobile Telecommunications Co.® Zain Create [March 20, 2009] [Kuwait: Customer#: $6.42 billion on Kuwait Stock Exchange: CEO: Nabeel Bin Salamah: For: Bahrain: 2 Seas, Iraq(na), Kuwait, Jordan, MTC Touch Lebanon, Saudi Arabia & Sudan Full-track audio & video downloads, java™ & online games. Telephone service: Wana Morocco - Zain Press Release, Zain Create to offer a vast world of digital entertainment, Zawya [Zawya.com] ©March 20, 2009]
59. FTP Web Browser
60. Broken Link Checker
61. Online Gaming: Internet Payments [May 11, 2011] [CAPCOM® Smurfs Village: 4-year-old made Associated Press News for downloading $500 worth of smurfberries, Bionic Panda Games® Aqua Pets: pearl purchases are non-refundable, Bitsize Games® Fish Tycoon: buy meds, eggs, plants & sell fish, HWADOSOFT® Jewellust, LoLStudio® Treasure Fever: “Lost the papayas, DID NOT GET MY PURCHASE.” Amy, Nubee PTE LTD® Coins vs Zombies: In app purchases, people say it lags, stops at level 200, Yo Yo Games Ltd.® SkyDiver HD 1.0.2: GameMaker SDK developed by CEO Sandy Duncan, ex VP Xbox Europe & purchased by online gambling & sports betting software firm Playtech, LSE: PTEC, for £10.65 million, Bakumens Inc.® Zombies VS. Ninja [CNET: 5 year old buys £1710.43/$2,500 worth of keys & ecstasy bombs in 10 minutes], (oYo) Games® Attack of the FanBoys: In-game currency via PayPal Holdings Inc, The Pill Tree® SpaceCat 3D: “Forget 666, the number of the beast is 7,222,078 a.k.a patent number for in-app billing” – sla_shalafi.
62. Online Gaming: Large Downloads [May 11, 2011] [According to Eric Chu, Google® Play™ increased its download size from 50MB to 2GB in May 2011. Jet Set Games Inc.® Highborn 1.2.3: Because of the current file size restrictions carriers place on their 3G & 4G networks Highborn cannot be downloaded via these means. As a result, those who purchase Highborn must have an active Wi-Fi connection in order to download the application. - Amazon.com]

Applications Forums
1. BlogSpot Waryam Soomro® Mobile Downloads (Not a repository: just has links) [February 2010-September 2011] [Blogspot.com: Registrant: DNS Admin Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 +1.6502530000. CEO & Founder: Larry Page 8%, Co-Founder: Sergey Brin 8%: Alawar Entertainment Inc.® Alabama Smith in Escape from Pompeii is 78.2MB (Russia: 200+ casual games), Coconut Laboratories LLC. (downloadAPK.NET) Coconut Labs® Lullaby Sheep 1.2.1, HyperDevbox Japan® ExZeus Arcade, fzusa® Mad Race Ad-Free 1.3: 5.28MB (China), MicroSoft® Mojang® Minecraft Game: Minecraft creator Markus Persson ©2009, (ApkPure) MoPower® Horror Rush / Monkey Touch® Super Rush 1.0.4: 1.9MB (Android™ 1.5> Super Rush girl who was abandoned in a haunted graveyard...), (Amazon) Trese Brothers Software® Star Traders RPG Elite 3.9.0, Anima Games® Toy Crafter 1.0, HIT Entertainment® Thomas Game Pack 1.1 [the tank engine], Games Incompatible with ARMv5 Unknown Generic Tablet: GoTow.Net® Hex Defense 1.3.2, (Amazon) Gibs & Gore® Micronytes 1.3.0, Canvas Games® Nature’s Jewel 2.4, (Amazon) ideaBox® Rainy Day, Marco Mazzoli® Spirit 1.5 (asteroids), (GetJar) 3DSquad® Undead Swarm 1.1 (1GHz CPU & 512MB RAM), Deemedya/Galapagos® Trial XTreme 1.1 (motorcycle race), KONAMI: Kagemasa KOzuki, Yoshinobu NAkama, & Tatsuo MIyasako® ビーマニ® DanceDanceRevolution S 1.0.0 Japanese (39 MB), (Arcade Museum) KontoraI, X-Men 1.1.
2. FileSonic Cyberlocker: Ilmu Grafis Komputer® Android BOS: Android Apps & Games Pack Feb 2011 Live Wallpaper/Weather: (Slide.Me® MarketPlace) Aurora Softworks® Quadrant (Poland: Krakow: telephone specs), LevelUp Studios® Beautiful Widgets, Rootbeer Software® Redialer, GreyThinker® Extreme Call Blocker Droid $4.99, Michael Diener® Rain Alarm Pro, Mobilityflow® Animated Weather, MobiTobi® Gentle Alarm™
   Radio/Photo: Audials® RadioTracker, Doggcatcher® Podcast Player (tracks behavior), Dooblou® SECuRET Camera UK/WiFi File Explorer Pro, Effective Apps® Photo Enhance Pro (Android™ 1.6>), Fluffy Apps® Extensive Notes Pro, JEFIT, (Google® Play™) Niko20® Electrum Drum Machine (USA: OR: Salem)
   Games: Arb Studios LLC.® 3D Bio Ball HD, ArtOfBytes Ltd. Gdansk® GRave Defense Gold, Camel Games® Forbidden Brakes, Curved Cat Games® Tales of Pocoro, Hexage Ltd.® EVAC HD, Koehlers® Piggy Drop, Kronos Games Online® Sheep Launcher Plus! (phone size only), Mike Zaimont® Jelix Full (2010), Naim Cesur® iKamasutra 1.04: 13.6MB (censure), Smartpix Games® Crystallight Defense, (A Apks.com) TC Games/Terry Chen Games® ShootMe (apples): 38KB, True Axis Pty. Ltd.® Jet Car Stunts, XiMAD Inc./ZiMAD® Bubble Birds Premium: 7.94MB (Eugene Devyatyh; 400 Beale St. Suite 103, San Francisco, CA 94598/Minsk: Premium is ad-free. Bubble Birds 5 now earliest supported at 65MB. Apple® iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry: Blackberry Empire & PSION® Symbian)
   Discontinued: Reflexive Entertainment/South Wind Games® Airport Mania, Escapist Games® Star Chart, Apps by Andy® WhoIsIt, Crazy Dude Software® Crazy Home/Better Keyboard, Don’t Need Coffee® GeoStar, François DesLandes® Pure Messenger, Happy Maau Software LLC.® Math Reference (Apple® iOS), InnoWeb Tech LLC.® GOTO Screen Locker (June 4, 2010-Dec. 9, 2013), Josh O’Clock® Vertigo Towers, Junsuke® Weigh Weight EX, Oliver Lan® Touch Calendar, Measured Software® Galataxi (UK), Mindjet® Thinking Space Pro, Mobile Merit Apps® UltimateFavesPro, Samalyse® TapeMachine (memory hog), Shsh Software® aTAKEphONE Dialer.

News & Forums
1. Verizon® AOL Tech. Engadget [2004] Engadget’s Holiday Anti-Gift Guide, Stuff you don’t want, December 22, 2010. AOL USA HQ: 770 Broadway, New York City. Its global offices include Bangalore, India; Dreieich, Germany; Dublin, Ireland; London, England; & Tel Aviv, Israel. Verizon bought AOL in May 2015.]
2. Verizon® AOL Tech. Gizmodo [2002] [Creator Peter Rojas. Nielson versions in: Gizmodo en Español, Gizmodo Brasil, Gizmodo Japan, Silicon.fr, Übergizmo]
3. Verizon® AOL Tech. TechCrunch, TechCrunch Europe [2009] [JooJoo was produced by Fusion Garage. Originally, Fusion Garage was working with Michael Arrington/TechCrunch to release it as the CrunchPad. In November 2009 Fusion Garage informed Arrington it would be selling the product alone. Arrington responded by filing a lawsuit against Fusion Garage. On November 11, 2010. Fusion Garage announced that the Joojoo tablet at its current iteration is at its end of life & the company will be exploring several new platforms that will not have backward compatibility.]
4. FonPit AG® AndroidPIT [Oct. 19, 2010 ] [Germany: Pasteurstraße 42, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany 10407. Telefon: 49 / 30 / 60985754: Multiple Language: Hello Kitty Puzzle],
5. Fuze Inc.® Fuze Meeting (formerly CallWave Inc.) [2010] [USA: San Francisco: For BlackBerry Ltd.® BlackBerry, Apple® iPhone/iPad, Google® Android™, Mac/PC. $15/month fee. “Videoconference with multiple friends with Fuze Meeting on Android Market. Get tons of live video with Ustream.tv. TV Shows Stream aggregates & links to streaming TV. Trial, $8.03 on Android Market.” – Your Guide To the Latest Tablets & Smartphones, by John Chase, Photograph by John David Becker, USA: Time Inc.® Entertainment Weekly, pg 51-54, ©April 15, 2011]
6. Ashutosh® Discover My PC.com: Android Partitions Explained: boot, system, recovery, data, cache & misc, by Haroon Q. Raja ©May 19, 2011 [/boot: includes the bootloader image .nbh & the kernel. Without this partition, the device will simply not be able to boot. uboot, loads kernal into RAM: Random Access Memory & kernal will look in root file system for the process found under system/core/init & launch it. a locked bootloader prevents installing a modified or entirely new operating system. /system: contains the entire operating system, other than the kernel & the bootloader. /radio:you can not brick a phone unless you are flashing radio/SPL packages. a bricked phone cannot boot into bootloader, recovery or normal operation modes. you can only see 1 screen on the phone & it will be the 1st splash screen. fastboot: name of a tool used to manipulate the flash partitions of the android developer phone. It can boot the phone using an image which resides on the host machine rather than in the phone flash. the fastboot program works in conjunction with firmware on the phone to read & write flash partitions. it needs the same USB: Universal Serial Bus Implementers Forum, Inc.® USB On-the-Go device setup between the host & the target phone as ADB: Android Debug Bridge. retail android devices have fastboot protocol disabled. JB Online Media, LLC® XDA Developers® [Newbie Guide] adb/fastboot/bootloader/android 101, USA: Joshua Solan, 1400 N Providence Rd, Suite 303, Media, PA 19063-4623 from creators NAH6 Crypto Products B.V. , /recovery: alternative boot partition that lets you boot the device into a recovery console. by replacing your recovery image, you might not be able to have ota: over the air updates. boot loop fix: boot into recovery. go to wipe in recovery mode & clear delvik cache. restart phone. /data: also called userdata. wiping this partition performs a factory reset on your device, restoring it to the way it was when you first booted it. /cache: stores frequently accessed data & app components. /misc: contains miscellaneous settings in form of on/off switches. if it is corrupt or missing, several of the device’s features will not function normally. /sdcard: SD: Secure Digital card.]
7. GizChina: Access Facebook-YouTube-Twitter in China [2011] [Zhang Wenhua, Spring Gardens, Qingdao 266102, Shandong, China: Wikipedia: “Foreign microblogging services like Twitter, Facebook, Plurk & Google+ are censored in China. The users use Chinese weibo: microblog services”. Microblog: small web-log published on the World Wide Web consisting of entries displayed in reverse chronological order so the most recent appear 1st “allow users [people] to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images or video links. These small messages are sometimes called microposts.” Phrase invented by Jorn Barger 1997. Peter Merholz separated web-log to we-blog in April 1999 & Evan Williams of Pyra Labs® Blogger removed the we in 1999. Google bought Blogger & named it Google® BlogSpot. Blogger is banned in China along with YouNow, Inc.® Mirabilis® BlogTV (Israel: 2004), True Ventures® Automattic, Inc.® WordPress (USA: San Francisco: 2003: blog: 30 year-old Founder & CEO Matthew Charles Mullenweg. Bought LearnBoost a.k.a CloudUp as a “For-profit venture capital startup holding student records in Grads®”in 2013.), Verizon® Yahoo!® Ludicorp® Flickr (photo: 2004), Yahoo!® Geocities Japan (1994), Verizon® Yahoo!® Tumblr (blog: 2007), Verizon® Yahoo!® Video, Yandex® Fokti Inc.® Fokti: Slavic for Fotografii (Russia: 1998), MIT ΦΔΘ’s Andrew Houston® Dropbox Inc.® (file share: 2007), Google® Appspot (2008), Amazon Inc.® IMDB: Internet Movie DataBase Ltd. (UK: 1990. Col Needham), Google®Sites (Feb. 28, 2008), Google® YouTube (Feb. 14, 2005), Niwango Inc.® Nico-dó: Smile (Japan: video: Dec 12, 2006: Founder: Nobuo Kawakami), Twitter® T.Co (Web address shortener owned & used by Twitter. Twitter is blocked in North Korea & Iran.), BBC: British Broadcasting Co., Nowigo Inc.® Scribd (USA: San Francisco: 2007. CEO: Trip Adler), Wikimedia Foundation® Wikipedia (USA Encyclopædia: San Francisco: Jimmy Wales: 2003), Sunshine Press® Wikileaks (Iceland/Australia: 2006), Norwegian Broadcasting Corp, NBC: National Biscuit Company, Time-Warner® CNN: Cable News Network, Deutsche Telecom® Xing/Open Business Club GmbH (Hamburg: 2003: Bought Turkish Social Network Cember & Spanish Social Networks Neurona & eConozco, merging them.), Edelman® Technorati™ (2002: USA: “The company’s core product was previously an Internet search engine for searching blogs. The website stopped indexing blogs & assigning authority scores in May of 2014 with the launch of its new website, which is focused on online publishing & advertising.” “A fake blog, sometimes shortened to flog or referred to as a flack blog, is an electronic communication form that appears to originate from a credible, non-biased source, but which in fact is created by a company or organization for the purpose of marketing a product, service, or political viewpoint. The UK Chartered Institute of Public Relations’ social media guidelines cite the Consumer Protection from UnTrading Regulations 2008 & state that both astroturfing & fake blogs are not permitted. ...One notorious example of identity cloaking, resulting in a fake blog, was exposed when Edelman, an international public relations firm, created a fake blog in 2006 called Walmarting Across America.” - Wikipedia) & Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive (USA: San Francisco: May 12, 1996).]
8. Phone Arena [Not Italia: Domains by Proxy LLC.: Reviewed: WierdHat® Rough Animator: Oct. 13, 2014: 38.54 MB: USA: NY: NY: Jacob Kafka, Stupefix Inc.®Legend: Jul. 9, 2015: USA: CA: SF: 169 11th St. 94103: 6 sec. videos, Smackall Games Pvt. Ltd.® Lyan 3D: Where did it go? Needs Internet to run: Dec.14, 2015: India: Chennai: 3/1A Ramarao Garden, 2nd St. Royapettah 60014, miSoft® Animation Creator HD: Apple® iOs Only, Visual Blasters LLC.® Flip A Clip: Apr. 2, 2012: 36.38MB: USA: FL: 150 SE 2nd Ave. Miami 33131]

Shopping eBay: electronic Bay Area Inc. (originally AuctionWeb)® DealTime & Shopping.com, eBay® Craig Newmark® Craig’s List, eBay® PayPal Holdings Inc.& eBay® StubHub! Tickets [affiliated: USA Multi-National: HQ: 2025 Hamilton Ave., San Jose, CA 95125. CEO: Nike Board Director John J. Donahoe. Past: Jeffrey Skoll, Hewlett–Packard Margaret Cushing Whitman, The Power of Many, USA: CA: San Francisco: Crown. ©2010. ISBN 978-0-307-59121-0. Founder: Pierre Morad Omidyar, 1 of the World’s Richest Men according to Forbes Magazine. Owns 25% of Private Multi-National For-Profit Company Craig’s List. Bought Eric Baker & Jeff Fluhr’s StubHub est. 2000. “Still in our survey, conducted by the Consumer Reports National Research Center, only about 1 in 5 respondents bought online.” Online or In-Store? Finding the Best Deals: Electronics sites rate high in survey, lag in usage, Consumer Reports Electronics Buying Guide, Yonkers NY, USA: Consumers Union of United States Inc.: Spring 2009, ISSN: 1530–3713, Bar Code: 0745108256. eBay® Red Laser Barcode Scanner promoted on CBS News Malicious Mobiles of Nov. 25, 2011. Can link to library catalogs via WorldCat & local settings. eBay mobile applications discontinued to meet May 25, 2018 standards introduced by the European data protection law known as GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation. “We use cookies, web beacons, unique identifiers, & similar technologies to collect information about the pages you view, the links you click, & other actions you take when using our Services, within our advertising or email content. We supplement the personal information we collect directly with information collected from 3rd parties & add it to your account information. For example, we collect & use demographic & other information that is publically available in an applicable jurisdiction, additional contact information, credit check information, & information from credit bureaus, as allowed by applicable national laws. We allow you to share information with social media sites, or use social media sites to create your account or to connect your account with the respective social media site. Those social media sites may give us automatic access to certain personal information retained by them about you (e.g., content viewed by you, content liked by you, & information about the advertisements you have been shown or have clicked on, etc.). If you provide us with access to any site with video content, then you agree that we can share your video viewing with, or obtain information about your video viewing from, 3rd-party social media sites for at least 2 years or until you withdraw authorization or connection to the social media site. You control the personal information you allow us to have access to through the privacy settings on the applicable social media site & the permissions you give us when you grant us access to the personal information retained by the respective social media site about you. By associating an account managed by a social media site with your account & authorizing us to have access to this information, you agree that we can collect, use & retain the information provided by these social media sites in accordance with this privacy notice. If you click on a link provided via a social media plug in, you are voluntarily establishing a connection with that respective social media site. If you give us personal information about someone else, you must do so only with that person’s authorization. You should inform them how we collect, use, disclose, & retain their personal information according to our privacy notice. If you reside in Canada you are contracting with eBay Canada Ltd., 500 King St. W., Ste. 200, Toronto, ON M5V 1L9, Canada; If you reside in a country within the European Union (except the United Kingdom) you are contracting with eBay GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Ring 2-6, 14532 Kleinmachnow, Germany; If you reside in the United Kingdom you are contracting with eBay (UK) Ltd., 5 New St. Sq., London, EC4A 3TW, United Kingdom; If you reside in any other country, you are contracting with eBay Marketplaces GmbH, Helvetiastraße 15/17, 3005 Bern, Switzerland. If you use our eBay Customer Guarantee services & reside in France, Italy or Spain, you are also contracting with eBay Services S.à r.l, 22-24 Blvd. Royal, 2449 Luxembourg for such specific services. The company you are contracting with is your data controller, & is responsible for the collection, use, disclosure, retention & protection of your personal information in accordance with our global privacy standards, this privacy notice, as well as any applicable national laws. Your data controller may transfer data to other members of the eBay Inc. corporate family who have signed our BCRs, as described in this privacy notice. We may process & retain your personal information on our servers in the U.S. & elsewhere in the world where our data centers are located. May 1, 2018” ]
1. eBook Reader: Sales & Discounts
2. The Black Friday, TGI Black Friday Tablets, Camel [USA: Submit an Ad, News Archives: All listed deals &/or ad scans on this site may or may not be accurate. Nothing can be confirmed until the ads actually come out. TheBlackFriday.com doesn’t guarantee validity of any information available on this website.]
3. Bill Bain Capital® Staples Inc.® Copy & Print™ [1998] [Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Apple 2.0: Mac news from outside the reality distortion field: Staples sells the iPad also-rans, Time-Warner® Fortune Magazine ©Mar. 28, 2011: “Your tablet is waiting. That was the subject line of the e-mail that landed in my inbox at 4:36 a.m. Monday. It came as a surprise to me, because the last time I checked, the iPad 2 that I finally broke down & ordered on March 23 wasn’t scheduled to ship until April 21. So I took the bait, opened the e-mail, & got roundly switched. Staples (SPLS), which bills itself as the one place that makes technology easy, is not on Apple’s (AAPL) list of approved iPad resellers. Since the iPad 2 assembly lines can’t keep up with the crushing demand, Staples is trying to slip through the window of opportunity with its your tablet is waiting campaign. Staples’ tablets have supply problems of their own. Only 1 of the 3 items it describes as having arrived - Motorola’s (MOT) Xoom – seems to be in stock. The other 2 - from Research in Motion (RIMM) & Dell (DELL) are available for pre-order only. 1 of them, the BlackBerry Playbook, hasn’t even been released.” BBC: On Sept. 24, 2012 tablet maker Fuhu, partly owned by Acer Inc., alleged the Tabeo tablet copied their Nabi Android™ tablet & stole trade secrets. Fuhu is aware their chargers have ac adapter tips longer than the depth of the Nabi2 Tablet microDC power jack, leading to breaking off or damaged jacks & suggest on their Facebook website to go to Bill Bain Capital & Jerome Kohlberg-Henry Kravis-George Roberts® Toys R Us for a Christmas 2013 replacement charger. The Nabi2 will not charge through USB in sleep mode, it must be powered off & charged 8 hours using a USB charge/sync cable or the included black USB charge cable. The white USB data cable included does not charge. Sascha Segan, Does the Nexus 7 Have Quality Problems? PC Magazine Online. ©July 20, 2012: “They’re [(peg)ASUS® Google® Nexus 7 Tablets] just cases of bad components, manufacturing, & assembly. Screen separation & creaking, backlight bleeding, broken microUSB port, microphones. Don’t be afraid to exchange your tablet for a fresh one if you see something wrong.”]
4. CostCo® PhotoCenter [NASDAQ: COST. 7th largest retailer in the world & largest retailer of wine in the world: AmTran Technology® Vizio Tablet of Taiwan available by Amazon, Costco, Sam’s Club, & Walmart for $299 - PCMagazine Online Aug. 8, 2011. Upload .BMG: BitMap Graphic, .JPEG: Joint Photographics Expert Group digital files from telephone/tablet SD: Secure Digital card. Dry Creek Photo Pro Hints: “If you can not trust the colors displayed on your monitor, all other color management is a waste of time. Calibrating & profiling your monitor should, therefore, be your 1st priority. The most basic calibration tool, other than ignoring calibration altogether, is Adobe® Gamma. This is certainly better than nothing, but leaves much to be desired. The sole advantage is that it is free (once you purchase Photoshop). The primary problem is that your basic eyeball calibration is highly influenced by ambient lighting, how much sleep you’ve had, & how much coffee is coursing through your veins. Obtaining a consistent viewing environment is difficult under these conditions. If you are stuck with eyeball calibration, Norman Koren put together a set of charts that work.” / USA Only :-(. California based Retail Inkjet Solutions (RIS): PH000002B 0614 ©2014: Costco does not exchange cartridges, nor do we fill them with Universal Ink. Instead, we refill & return the same cartridge, & use cartridge specific ink to closely match OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer colors. Our machine-controlled processes ensure the highest refill quality. The refilled cartridge should be used within 90 days. Always store in a cool place & avoid direct contact with plastic bags. When transporting reuse the plastic clip or place the cartridges in a letter-size envelope. Print head damage can be caused by printing after the cartridge runs dry. Physical & electrical damage may also prohibit a successful refill. Supported: HP®, Canon®, Epson®, Lexmark®, Dell®. [U.S] Federal law prohibits any company from requiring you to purchase only their products & prohibits a manufacturer from voiding your machine’s warranty simply by using alternative cartridge solutions. For more details, please refer to: Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (U.S. Code - Title 15, Chapter 50, Sections 2301-2312)]
5. Best Buy® (Uses Ε: Epsilon Data Broker. Publicis Groupe bought Epsilon & Conversant.) [2011] [HQ: Richfield, MN: Founder: Richard M. Schulze: With the right technology, people can do wonderful things. It’s still a little too complex – Best Buy Mobile™ Buyer’s Guide August 2014: Has reviews of electronics they sell. Using QR: Quick Response Scan Codes in their Sunday Circulars. “CompUSA is dead, Apple has retail stores & deals with BestBuy. ...This tax law change Apple is behind?” - The WinAmericaCampaign group? The problem is Adobe & Google are ALSO in that group.. RTF: “So what? People won’t know! We just won’t mention Google & Adobe. Besides, if they do, we’ll boggle them with sweatshop accusations even though Droids are being built in the same factories! The mind can sell itself anything . . . Oh, yeah. Watch out for RIM as the hot new tablet maker. Right. And I’ll keep an eye on Daewoo as the hot new auto maker.” Systemax Inc.® Tiger Global® Tiger Direct: 1996: Multi-National: NYSE: SYX. Discover credit card ad coupon: “Valid at both Tiger Direct & CompUSA stores” Save on back to school with Discover® ©EX BTS July 2012. On September 17, 2012, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission alleged that Gilbert Fiorentino, who in addition to serving on the board was the former chief executive of Systemax’s Technology Products Group in Miami, ‘obtained >$400,000 in extra compensation directly from firms that conducted business with Systemax.’ Fiorentino agreed to settle the SEC charges by paying a $65,000 fine & consenting to a permanent bar from serving as an officer or director of any publicly held company. Press Release: SEC Charges Former Systemax Director in Compensation Scheme: 2012-190, Washington, D.C. ©Sept. 17, 2012 On Nov. 2, 2012, it was announced that Systemax would drop both the CompUSA & Circuit City storefront brands by consolidating their businesses under the TigerDirect brand & website. Consumer-reported difficulties obtaining rebates led by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum resulted in $300,000 settlement.]
6. Dayton-Hudson Corp® Target (Uses Ε: Epsilon Data Broker) [Multi-National: NYSE: TGT. Revenue: $69.865 Billion. Restocking Fee: Communications Manager: Molly Snyder. Target Photo Ad Copy: “Those serendipitous candid shots - photographs harness the unique ability to preserve the special moments of our lives & create artifacts for future generations to look back on.” Dec. 19, 2013: ABC News America’s Money sponsored by Aleve Pain Reliever & Walgreens: The US Secret Service is investigating a data breach. Credit card magnetic stripes skimmed since Black Friday. Update: Becca Mitchell, Nearly 4,000 Virginia EPPICards canceled after Target data breach, USA: WTKR NewsChannel 3 © Jan. 3, 2014, The Virginia Department of Social Services says nearly 4,000 EPPICards that may include child support payments & Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits were cancelled after the Target data breach. Xerox is working on replacements. 100 million accounts affected. Fri. June 28, 2013: USA Oregon Department of Agriculture notes the death of 50,000 bumblebees in a single day poisoned by Safari® pesticide at the Wilsonville Target linden trees. Beekeeper Gary Rondeau notes neonicotinoid insecticides cause the plant itself to become toxic, noting injection or soil application will “kill bees just as dead, but without the drama of having them drop out of the branches into a parking lot. Instead, they fly home & spread the toxin to others in the colony before succumbing to its effects, dying without notice.” Still selling this insecticide for home use, you have been warned...SOS]
7. Walgreens Photo (Uses Ε:Epsilon Data Broker) [Photo Center website browse/edit button allows you to access digital photos from your telephone/tablet (SD: Secure Digital card directory, Color RGB: Red Green Blue 200 ppi: pixels per inch> JPEG: Joint Photographics Experts Group), Facebook (4×6 prints only), & ones you’ve uploaded to your Walgreens albums (Use full resolution in upload settings). Same-Day Photo Pickup Service Dec. 2012 with retouch & drawing capablity. In store sales associates reserve the right to monitor & prevent offer abuse. WellWishes Card Team: “All of our holiday card illustrations are done in-house & are made purely with magic. ...The trees are all white, With wintery snow glaze, From Walgreens to you, Happy Holidays!” - David, Photo Writer, Snaps by Walgreens]
8. Kroger® i-wireless LLC.® Access Wireless [2006] [ HQ: Cincinatti, Ohio: CEO: David Dillon, President: Don McGeorge. United States mobile virtual network operator that uses the Sprint CDMA, EVDO, WiMAX & LTE networks to provide nationwide wireless coverage. Domestic roaming (except 9-1-1 calls), & accessing service abroad from a subscriber’s cell phone is not currently available. “Kroger’s part ownership of a data mining firm allows it to use the reams of information its shopper cards collect in many ways, including giving shoppers coupons mainly for products they regularly buy. Simon Hay, chief executive of dunnhumbyUSA, the data mining & marketing operation Kroger co-owns with a London-based company [Tesco PLC]. ...dunnhumby, named for founders Clive Humby & Edwina Dunn, who are married. DunnhumbyUSA has signed up such other big clients as beverage maker Coca-Cola Corporation, The Home Depot Corporation, consumer products maker Procter & Gamble, department store chain Macy’s Inc. & food makers General Mills Inc. & Kraft Foods Inc. Dan Sewell, Grocer mines data to mail coupons, Kroger uses information from loyalty cards to target its customers, The Associated Press, Jan 11, 2009. Kroger: Baker’s, City Market, Dillons, Food4Less Fremont, Fred Meyer, Fry’s (Frys Electronics: 1985-2021: USA HQ: 600 East Brokaw Rd., San Jose CA 95112: In 1972, Charles Fry sold the Fry’s Supermarkets chain for US$14 million to Save Mart Supermarkets. In 1985, his sons joined together to open Fry’s Electronics), Gerbes, Jay C, King Soopers, Kroger, Owen’s, Pay Less, Ralphs & Smiths. Google® Play™ / Silvia Pikal, San Francisco Battles to Uphold Nation’s 1st Cellphone Radiation Law, Canada: AB: Calgary: 451-1500 14th St. SW T3C1C9: Mobile News Media Network Corp.® +1-915-412-5411 ©July 21, 2011 [www.mobilemag.com/2011/07/21/san-francisco-battles-to-uphold-nations-first-cellphone-radiation-law/]...On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 11-0 to approve legislation that would require retailers to educate consumers on cellphone radiation risks. The law mandates retailers display educational posters & hand out fact sheets with each cellphone purchase. Retailers would have to give tips on how to reduce radiation, but they do not have to mention cancer. This is an amended ordinance ...would have forced retailers to display the SAR: Specific Absorption Rate of each cellphone: non-ionizing radiation that gets absorbed into the user’s local tissues. The World Health Organization announced that cellphone radiation was possibly carcinogenic based on an increased risk of glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer, associated with cellphone use. The WHO upgraded cellphones to a 2B classification, which means there is limited evidence. Also on the list of 2B classification are pickled vegetables & coffee. ...A 2004 Swedish study found an increased risk of acoustic neuroma, a type of benign brain tumour, was associated with mobile phone use. The risk occurred only if the cellphone user had operated cellphones for more than 10 years. Additionally, there is evidence that suggests cellphones lower sperm count & disturb sleep. ...At any rate, it’s crucial that information regarding the safety of cellphones should be made available to the public, as the industry that relies on selling cellphones to make profit clearly cannot be relied on to provide that information.]
9. Jardine-Matheson Holdings Ltd. a.k.a Ewo 怡和 (pronounced Yee-Wo) Happy Harmony® Dairy Farm Holdings Ltd. [London/Hong Kong: 1 of the original Hong Kong trading houses or Hongs 洋行 that date back to Imperial China & the Opium Wars of 1840: British East India Co. Laird & Surgeon Dr. William Jardine (1784-1843), Banker James Matheson, Baronet Alexander Matheson (1805-1881), Hugh Matheson, Banker Hollingworth Magniac, Banker John Abel Smith, Henry Wright, Qing Dynasty Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu who wrote Queen Victoria, to submit in obeisance in the presence of the Emperor & ordered the arrest of opium trader Lancelot Dent, head of Dent & Co.,Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group, Jardine Pacific, Jardine Cycle & Carriage, Jardine Motors, Jardine Strategic, Hongkong Land, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group & Astra International. Owns 21% Rothschilds merchant banking house. Dairy Farm owns: 7-Eleven (telephone cards), Starmart, Shop N Save, IKEA, Giant Hypermarket (Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Vietnam, UAE, Japan), Shopwise Hypermarket, Cold Storage (Singapore), Food World, Hero, Jasons Market Place (Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan), Lucky, Oliver’s, Rustan’s, ThreeSixty, Wellcome]
10. LeClerc Mobile [French supermarket chain that sells their own telephone SIM cards.] / REWE-Leibbrand Zentral Gruppe® BILLA: BILliger LAden, German for Inexpensive Shop [Germany/Austria: €48 billion. CEO: Alain Caparros, Chairman: Heinz-Bert Zander. European hypermarket chain: Italy, Croatia, Czech Rep. Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine. with Google® Android™ app. Owns: XXL, Penny Markt, Selgros, nahkauf, toom Market, MERKUR, Standa, Kaufpark, ProMarkt Electronics & Furr’s Grocery Stores, a supermarket chain in Texas & New Mexico, USA. (Roy Furr, 1907-1975, was chairman of the board of Farm Pac Kitchens, Rore Realty Company, & Crone Oil Company.)]
11. Repair Trade Groups: PSA: Professional Service Association, Executive Director: Ron Sawyer, International Society of Certified Electronics Technicians. Repair costs vary from $50 to $120 an hour. Independent repair services, especially for out-of-warranty repairs, are usually less than retailer & manufacturer services. - Consumer Reports Electronics Buying Guide, Yonkers NY, USA: Consumers Union of United States Inc.: Spring 2009, ISSN: 1530-3713, Bar Code: 0745108256]
12. Office Depot® Copy & Print Depot™ [Multi-National: HQ: Boca Raton, Florida. NYSE: ODP. CEO: Roland C. Smith, CFO: Mike Newman. $17 Billion USD. Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Panama, Poland, Sweden, Thailand. Merged with Office Max® ImPress™ Nov. 5, 2013.]
13. Sam Walton® Sam’s Club & Wal-Mart Photo, Walmart México y Central América, Wal-Mart® Vudu (TruFilm® MPEG-4 HDX CODEC: COder DECoder) [May 2008] [USA Multinational: $468 Billion. Chief Merchandising Officer: Duncan Mac Naughton: “10 super-efficient distribution centers account for ½ of Mexico’s supermarket sales. Labor unions know that ⅔ of Wal-Mart’s employees get no health benefits & work at the minimum wage. Independent stores die so often that Wal-Mart has picked up the nickname of the merchant of death. Consumers benefit, even the ones who refuse to shop at Wal-Mart. That’s because the surviving stores in the community cut their prices by an average of 13%.” - Professor Brett Wallach. Wal-Mart owns UK Supermarket Asda. / USA: Internet video-on-demand rental by Alain Rossmann, Wireless Application Protocol creator. Vudu Box (May 2008-Jan 8, 2010), Smart TV-Connected HDTV & Blu-ray players from LG, Magnavox, Mitsubishi, Samsung, Sanyo, Sharp, Toshiba, AmTran Technology® Vizio. Sony® PlayStation 3, MicroSoft® Xbox 360°, Roku.]

Web Browsers A mobile browser, a.k.a microbrowser, minibrowser, or wireless internet browser, is a web browser designed for use on a mobile device such as a mobile phone that displays Web content for their small screens. Software must be small & efficient to accommodate the low memory capacity & low-bandwidth of wireless handheld devices. As of 2006 some browsers handle: CSS: Cascading Style Sheets 2.1, JavaScript, Ajax: Asychronous JavaScript & XML: eXtended Markup Language. Websites designed for access from these browsers are referred to as wireless portals or collectively as the Mobile Web. The mobile browser displays web pages written in HTML: HyperText Markup Language, XHTML: eXtended HyperText Markup Language Mobile Profile (WAP: Wireless Application Protocol 2.0), or WML: Wireless Markup Language (which evolved from HDML: Handheld Device Markup Language). — Wikipedia
clownboat: It’s like a candy store of Android browsers out there & it took me a while to set several up to my liking & see which worked best for me (tip of the hat to Home Switcher for ease of comparing what you’ve got installed). xScope is definitely the one I use. Are there any Android™ browsers that support loading a Oracle® Java Applet in-browser? No :'( Note: Adobe® Flash 10.1.105 for Android™ Éclair & Frozen Yogurt adds support for NBC® Hulu. Flash 10.2 is for Honeycomb & Gingerbread & may not run at all on FroYo, slowly on others. Flash 11.1 runs on all of them. Flash is on until Dec. 2020.
1. Google® OS Browser [Oct. 22, 2008] Adobe® Flash: Bookmarks in sqlite3 database in browser’s data directory. /data/data/com.android.browser/databases/browser.db. Download folder, links download as HTML: HyperText Markup Language formatted text, 8 window max, pinch zoom: “The included browser can’t handle EBSCO: Elton Bryson Stephens COmpany databases. I ran this on our library catalog & most of our databases with no problem, but the Ebsco ones didn’t allow any search entry. Weird.”
2. Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. 奇虎® 360安全浏览器 Browser & Qihoo 360 AntiVirus [Sept. 20, 2011] China: Green e icon: Multi-National shopping site & search engine founded by Hongyi Zhou & Xiangdong Qi in 2006 expanding to apps in 2012. Steven Millward, 360 Browser for Android, Yet One More Choice for Chinese Netizens, Tech in Asia Pte Ltd.: 157B Rochor Rd., Singapore SG 188432 ©September 20, 2011: “Desktop & mobile web browser apps in China are increasingly becoming freebies, like tea-bags at hotels, from companies desperate to be remembered amongst a crowd of competitors. And so Qihoo 360 has launched a mobile browser for Android this week, in a bid to keep ahead of major rivals such as Tencent. The 360 Browser for Android has 3 separate versions: for smartphones, 7-inch tablets, & 10-inch ones as well.”
3. Sakura Internet Inc. さくらインターネット｜サーバーホスティングサービス® Angel Mobile Browser 0.789 Gold: 1.72 MB (ApkPure) [May 31, 2011] Saves whole web page: text & pictures: Japan: 3778 Tokyo Stock Exchange: Blue globe logo: Adobe® Flash: Android 2.2>: Back/forward, tabs, copy/paste, pinch zoom, bookmarks, gestures, screenshot, translate, page rank, view source. Set as default browser. Galapagos Browser Android 1.6> disabled with a notice for Angel Browser. Jun I, 1- 8-14 Minami-Honmachi, Chuo-ku, 541-0054, Osaka
4. Google® Chrome Mobile Browser [June 27, 2012] USA: Colored ball logo: Adobe® Flash: Original Android™ 4.0=>. Version 82-present: Android™5.0=>: JR Raphael, writing for ComputerWorld noted “Functions separately from the stock system browser” 31 languages, View CSS 3D animations, HTML5 video & SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics. Link preview allows zooming in on multiple links to ensure the desired 1 is clicked. To Save a Page choose Print from the Menu; it will create a digital Adobe® Portable Document File. Sam Byrd, Chrome for Android™ now lets you download webpages & read them offline, USA: DC: 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW 20036: Vox Media Inc.® The Verge ©Dec. 8, 2016: Browser Version 55 will save a whole webpage when you press the download arrow icon to the right of the star icon in the searchbox; storing it in the following directory: /data/data/com.android.chrome/app_chrome/Default/Offline Pages/archives/.
5. Sho Tachibana® Dual Window Web Browser Beta: 60.25KB (Apk20) [July 1, 2010] Android 1.6>: You can browse 2 web sites at the same time.
6. MicroSoft® Edge Browser (UpToDown) MicroSoft® Edge Browser [Feb. 12, 2018] Saves webpage text only: USA: Blue e logo: Android 4.4> 51.85MB: Reading Mode, Barcode, Voice Search, MSN Newsfeed, WebGL 2.0: Very speedy. Bugs: Battery Hog, Keyboard not popping up, Newsfeed USA only. Apple® iOS est. Nov. 30, 2017.
7. Exsoul-ish® Exsoul Web Browser (UpToDown) [2011] Saves webpage as Adobe® PDF: Portable Document Format: Japan: B/W X logo: Adobe® Flash: Android 2.1>: back-forward buttons, 12 windows, bookmarks. Version 3.0: Saves webpage on the SD: Secure Digital card in ExSoulDownload folder.
8. Mozilla Labs® FireFox Mobile Browser [Dec. 2012] [Saves webpage text only: USA: CEO: Gary Kovacs. Discontinued all versions <82. “If you’re on an older version of Android (pre-5), you won’t be able to download the new upgrade to Firefox for Android.” Change the default language of Firefox for Android™ by tapping the menu button. Tap Settings, then Language. Tap the menu under Browser Language. Select language from list. History: Ver. 4-19: Android 2.1> ARMv7 Only/ Official support for the Nokia N900 Maemo device ceased with version 7. Ver. 20-31: Android 2.2>, ARMv6 600MHz, 384MB RAM, Ver. 32-47: Android 2.3>, Ver. 48-55: Android 4.0> Ver. 56-Mozilla® Firefox for Android™ Version 68: Android 4.1> Numbering jumps to straight to version 79: Android 5.0>. FonePit AG® AndroidPit, Install Adobe® Flash Player on Mozilla® FireFox for Android™ 4.4 Kit-Kat Operating System
9. TomPodd Apps® InBrowser: Incognito Browsing 1.66: 68KB for Android™ & Apple® iOS [Nov. 30, 2010] Sweden: Tommie Tommie, Hemmagatan 14, 41669 Gothenburg: Sunglasses & fedora-hat clad silhouette: Adobe® Flash: Slogan: Entertainment without a trace. Android 1.6> Supports agent cloaking (no more mobile-version of sites). User Agent: Android™, Google® Chrome, Mozilla® Firefox, MicroSoft® Internet Explorer, Apple® iPad-iPhone. Download files, images & video to SD: Secure Digital Card in InBrowser-folder (long-press on a link to download). Only 1 or 2 ads on the start/error page & thats it. Doesn’t go to https sites. Quits when you get a text or call. Video doesn’t work. - Joel: Google® Play™ Version 2.4.3 Google® Play™ scanned clean.
10. Jig.Jp Co. Ltd. アプリ · 携帯アプリなら® Jigbrowser+ (ApkPure) Jigbrowser+ 1.8.2: 4MB [June 4, 2012] Japan, Shinjuku: CEO Taisuke Fukuno, 2-5-12 Shinjuku, Forecast Shinjuku Ave. 10F, 160-0022: Black cat logo. Android 2.2> tabs, notepad, double tap zoom, mobile pages only. Also for Oracle® Java™ phones. Not for Huawei-Alcatel® Venture PCS phone.
11. Lunascape Corporation ルナスケープ® Lunascape Web Browser 3.0: 1.7MB (ApkPure) [2011] Japan, Tokyo: Founder & CTO: Asuka Nishide, Founder & CEO: Hidekazu Kondo, COO: Yuki Sekiguchi: Moon logo: Downloads webpage text to Android/data/iLunascape/downloads on SD: Secure Digital card. Android 2.1> 6 tabs, bookmark manager. Turn on edit mode & drag the bookmarks in the order you want them. Tel: +81366757350. For iPhone, Windows Phone.
12. Maxthon Asia Ltd.® Maxthon Browser (Freeware Lovers) Maxthon Browser 2.1.2 [2010] China: Blue M logo: MxBrowser folder: Android 1.6>: Add-Ons: Advanced Gesture, Bookmark Backup, File Manager, Missed Call, RSS: Really Simple Syndication News, Task Killer, Web Snapshot. Maxthon CEO: MingJie “Jeff” Chen. Room 308, China Electronics Plaza B, Dan Ling Street #3, Haidian District, Beijing (Peking) 100080. Telephone: +86 10 51651772. - Vygantas Lipskas, Interview with Jeff Chen the CEO of Maxthon Ltd, FavBrowser.com ©October 24, 2010
13. Netpia Inc 넷피아 모바일® 자국어주소 브라우저 - 넷피아 NLIA: Native Language Internet Address Browser: 688KB [April 21, 2011] & (9Apps) Netpia Inc® 아이비아이 홈주소창: IBI Browser 1.4: 2MB [April 21, 2011] South Korea: N logo: United States Patent Application 20080294796, Inventors: CEO: Pan Jung Lee, Bae, Jeen Hyun, Lee, Suk Moon, Won, Jong Ho: Adobe® Flash Browser: Android 2.2>. 16F, Woolim Blue 9 Bldg. A, 240-21, Yeomchang-dong, Gangseo-gu, Seoul, Korea 157–779 Tel: +82-2-3665-0123. / IBI blue logo: “Netpia was able to unite the market of the Korean Internet Address following the bankruptcy of its competitor, Real Names, in July of 2002. With the commercial service of the Korean E-mail Address beginning in July of 2003, we are putting our best efforts for the completion of the Korean Internet Address service. Unique feature allows users to go to desired websites by typing initial consonants of each character. Once the beginning phonemes of the characters are typed in Korean, the NLIA browser redirects the user to the specific website without typing English URL or searching through search engines. Supports 80 different languages in 95 countries all around the world. Add & edit bookmarks.” - AppShopper.com
14. Khmer Innovation® Riem Browser 0.01 Beta: 65.89KB (ApkFun) [2011] Cambodia: VTrust Building #10 Street, Mittapheap, Commune, 7 Makara, Phnom Penh: Android 1.6> Uses Khmer Unicode Web Fonts. Doesn’t support Android OS 2.1.x. Please make sure before you make installation with the OS beside 2.1.
15. Envisinex® MIXXHQ® Save This Page 1.4: 648KB (Android APK) [Dec. 14, 2010] Press share button in the browser you are using. Selecting this program saves entire webpage as HTML: HyperText Markup Language code text with pictures to Android/data/com.envisinex.savethispage/cache folder on SD: Secure Digital card.
16. Fenrir Inc.® Sleipnir Mobile Web Browser [Sept. 8, 2011] Japan: Osaka: President & Founder: Yasuyuki Kashiwagi: Horse chess icon: Adobe® Flash Browser: Original Android 2.1>, Apple® iPhone, MicroSoft® Windows Phone: windows, tabs at bottom, bookmark import. Hold down a link or bookmark to open a page in the background. No text save. The names Sleipnir & Fenrir are from Norse mythology where Sleipnir is the 8-legged horse of the god Odin & Fenrir is a monstrous wolf. - CNET® Japan. Android operating system <4.04 does not come with Armenian fonts installed. Google Issue: 4230: Armenian character support.
17. BMG: China-Sohu Inc.搜狐® Sogou Inc.搜狗® Sogou World Wide Web Browser [2011] / BMG China-Sohu Inc. 搜狐® Sohu: Search Fox Market [2012] / BMG China-Sohu 搜狐® 土豆網: Tudou: Potato Video [April 2005] / BMG China-Sohu 搜狐® 優酷: Youku: Excellent Video [Dec. 2006] / BMG China-Sohu Inc. 搜狐® ChangYou Games [Dec. 2007] / BMG: China® IT Home® Mofang: 魔方优化大师 / Carl Bertelsmann Verlag AG® RCA: Radio Corporation of America-NuvoMedia® Rocket® Book .rb [1998-2003] [Direct Web Download: ITC: Internet Technologies China: NASDAQ: CYOU, YOKU & SOHU. HQ: Sohu Internet Plaza, Haidian District, Beijing (Peking), China: Dragon Boat Festival Themes! Founder: Charles Zhang. Youku: Victor Koo. CFO: Carol Chang. Chinese subtitled Western films. Tudou: Licensing issues block some videos to international IP addresses. Changyu CEO Tao Wang. Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games: Long Ba Bu, Blade Online. “On April 6, 2007, Sohu made a request that Google stop providing its Google Pinyin Input Method Editor software for download because portions of Sohu’s IME software, Sogou Pinyin, were allegedly copied in order to construct it. The detection of the alleged copyright infringement was found due to a suspicious error found in both IMEs, notably the translation of the pinyin ‘pinggong’ which erroneously produces the actor & comedian Feng Gong. On April 9, 2007, Google’s spokesman [Ms.] Cui Jin has admitted that the pinyin Google IME ‘was built leveraging some non-Google database resources.’” Sumner Lemon, Google Admits Using Outside Source for Chinese App, IDG News Service: PCWorld ©April 19, 2007. Search Fox Market for Google® Android™, Apple® iPhone, PSION® Symbian. Links: 114啦, 酷安网 [coolapk.com], XuRong Zhou® Jz5u: 绿色下载站, Kugou: Empress Consort: 酷狗音乐: Cool Dog Music, Nihao.Net Ltd® Meishi China 美食天下: Food World, Xin Net Tech Co.® PPTV网络电视, Aixiu® 软吧手机软件 [ruan8.com] / Germany-USA eReader with 600 OEB: Open Electronic Books at BOL.de. Est: 1835. Owner: Mohn Family. Bought out by GEMSTAR-TV Guide International & discontinued: What about my Rocket Reader? I upgraded to more memory, too. Once Gemstar bought them, they discontinued the whole web interface for downloading your books, so you were stuck with what you had. - Engadget: Worst Gadget Flops of All Time “Consumer demand for books to be read on screens remains largely theoretical. A trio of software companies Microsoft, Adobe Systems & Gemstar-TV Guide International – have been racing ahead to push formats for publishing electronic books, designed to make them more difficult to copy & easier to read. But their competing formats are incompatible. Now, the competition to set a standard for electronic publishing is about to become even more confusing. Reciprocal, a small company that provides Random House, Time Warner, & other publishers with digital distribution services for all 3 formats, is introducing a 4th of its own, the 1st for both personal computers & the popular Palm series of digital organizers. Among other things, that means that when the software becomes available early next year, millions of consumers will be equipped for the 1st time with the necessary equipment to buy & read electronic books for a pocket-size device, & publishers will see how many people really want to do so.” - Another Contestant Wades into E-Book Format Wars, David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times, Nov. 6, 2000. 2009 PriceWaterHouse Cooper survey recorded 35% of Germans never hearing of an eReader: Nein, habe ich noch nie gehört. 43% heard of it & didn’t know what it was: Ja, habe ich shon gehört und weiß ungefähr was das ist. 18% knew the meaning of the word. Ja, Ich kenne den Begriff & weiß was er bedeutet. & 2% owned one Ja, Ich besitze einen E-Reader. - Christina Müller, Stefan Spiegel, Franka Ulrich, E-Books in Deutschland: Der Beginn einer neuen Gutenberg-Ära? Straße 19, Düsseldorf 40227 DE ©2010]
18. Michael Kolb® KolbySoft® Steel Browser 0.1.7: 249KB [Discontinued: Dec. 5, 2008-2010] Android 1.5> Web-Kit: back/forward, bookmark, zoom.
19. Sofix Co. Ltd. 株式会社ソフィックス® SxBrowser (Apk Monk) SxBrowser 1.33: 728KB [June 3, 2011] Japan: Yokohama: Crescent moon logo: Adobe® Flash: SxBrowser folder: Saves webpage. Saves html, images in hidden subfolder with same name. eg. hi.html /.hi Android 1.6>: back/forward buttons, windows, copy/paste. User Agent: Apple® iPhone, PC, Original. Address: 222-0033, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Shin Shin 3-18-16 traffic building. Tel: 045-473-3559.
20. Huawei 华为® App Gallery 华为应用市场 (pron. hwah-way) Tian Tian: 天天, ® 天天浏览器: Sky Browser Mini 3.6 (GetJar) [2011], Shuidushi Information Technology Ltd. 上海水渡石信息技术有限公司® 天天动听官: TTPod: Tian Tian Music Player (9Apps) [2008] Shenzhen, Guangdong (Canton), China: 华 = flower & 为 = achievement or action. Largest telecommunications equipment maker in the world, having overtaken Ericsson in 2012. Founder: Ren Zhengfe 任正, CEO: Yu Chengdong, Chair: Ms. Sun Yafang, CTO: Liu Sanqi. Board: Guo Ping, Xu Zhiju, Xu Wenwei, Li Jie, Ding Yun, Ms. Meng Wanzhou, Ms. Chen Lifang, Wan Biao, Zhang Pingan. Supervisory Board: Liang Hua, Peng Zhiping, Ren Shulu, Tian Feng, Deng Biao. Ascend, Ideos telephones $185.176 billion: Rainbow around blue globe icon: Adobe® Flash Browser: No html download: Android 2.0> version 2.2/GingerBread version 2.3. Windows, copy/paste. if set as default browser will prompt on startup for latest software version. “Market with Chinese Android applications built right in! The world’s 1st high-definition audio & video online play at video sites: Youku, Potatoes, Fantastic Art, Cool Play, QQLive, Sohu, Pipi & so on. Ninetowns game privileges.” Contact: heyang@huawei.com: Guangzhou, Guangdong / TTPod: Now Shanghai Shuidushi Information Technology Co., Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Alibaba Group Holding Limited. Shanghai: Rm 810 No.1369, Wuzhong Rd, Minhang District, 201100 CN.
21. X-Labs® XScope Browser Pro 6.50: 1MB (PG) X-Labs® XScope Browser Pro 7.27: 1MB (APKHere) [Discontinued: Nov. 22, 2009-Nov. 2017] USA: FL: Guanghua “Gary” Sui, 3824 Greystone Legend Pl., Oviedo, FL 32765. Atomic Logo : Adobe® Flash Browser: Android 2.1–3.2 for Version 6.50. Android 4.0> for Version 7.27: Bookmark import/export.
22. Yandex: Яндекс LLC® Яндекс.Браузер: Yandex Mobile Btowser [Oct. 1, 2012] NASDAQ: YNDX, MCX: YNDX: Russia: Lev Tolstoy St. 16, Moscow 119021, CEO & Founders: Billionaires Arkady Volozh, & Arkady Borkovsky: Arkadia Software & Ilya Segalovich (1964-2013). Ver. 1-18: Android 4.4> Ver. 19-20: Android 5.1>. Browser Languages: English, Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek. The browser is available for Windows, macOS, Android & iOS. Yandex Search, Yandex AntiVirus (2012), Yandex Catalog, Yandex Direct, Yandex Fokti, Yandex Mail, Yandex Maps, Yandex Money, Yandex Music, Yandex News, Yandex Taxi (Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus & Turkey), Yandex.Translate, Yandex Video, Ya.ru, Moikrug.
23. Anasthase® Zirco Browser List of Zirco Derivatives Violating General Public License [Discontinued: July 2010-July 2012] Zirco Folder: “Does not support SSL: Secure Socket Layers - Frosty. Windows, images & embedded objects overlay each other. Very poor browser, no text copying. No access to Android bookmarks. - Pino. Memory leaks.” / “(Nokora) uses the Google Web Font Nokora for reading Khmer Unicode websites. It requires Android 3.1 or Android 4.0 as Khmer text rendering may not be correct on Android 3.0 or earlier. The Harfbuzz text rendering system found in versions 3.1 or 4.0 render Khmer well, & there is no Khmer font installed in the system yet. This application is a temporary solution for Khmer people who are using new Android phones & want to read the news in the Khmer language.”
24. Speech-to-Text Convertor: Nuance Communications Inc.® Dragon Dictation & Dragon Search (Speech-to-Text Converter) [2010] [Voice search: “Web access through smartphones now outpaces access through laptops or desktops. Library vendors such as Innovative Interfaces, OCLC: Ohio College Library Center® WorldCat OPAC: Online Public Access Catalog, 1971, Gale, & others are offering mobile apps. While many apps are reviewed in blogs, some library apps have been reviewed in library-related journals such as Library Journal.” - Susan Kendall, Mary Nino & Sandra Stewart, USA: Computers in Libraries. 30.2 ©Mar. 2010: p14.]
25. Text-to-Speech Convertor: (A Apk) Bernard Segonnes® MultiReader (Android™ TTS: Text-To-Speech extended) [2009] [http://bsegonnes.free.fr: Speaks MicroSoft® Word, RTF: Rich Text Format, PowerPoint, Adobe® PDF: Portable Document Format, EPUB: ElectronicPUBlication & text documents in: Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish & many others. Works with several different voice services. - YAAM]
26. Text-to-Speech Convertor: Epidream Media Production Company® ideedle Software® Talkadroid TTS: Text-To-Speech Reader & Translator 3.1.1: 9.18MB [2009] [Android 1.6> Open Handset Alliance: The ideedle Software team lead by Dominick John & Douglas Vernooy. Basic Android version comes with 8 SVOX Mobile Voices; more can be added. Unfortunately at the moment we [SVOX AG] are only offering our software via Android Market: “Installation fails because of a locked file. ...Remove the SD: Secure Digital card & install the voice to internal telephone memory. Move the voice from internal memory to SD: Secure Digital card using Android Settings -> Applications” Voices: English: Dark Lord-Ghost-Benny-Grace-Michael-Oliver-Olivia-Victoria, Spanish: Angelica-Juan-Noelia-Pablo, French: Aurelie-Chantal-Luc-Nicholas, Italian: Bianca-Marco, Portuguese: Catarina-Joachim-Luciana, German: Marcus-Petra und Dutch: Jan-Lena, Danish: Sara-Norwegian: Nora-Swedish: Klara, Finnish: Satu, Czech: Iveta, Polish: Eva, Russian: Katja-Yuri, Turkish: Cem-Leyla, Greek: Ariadne, Arabic: Malik, Hungarian/Magyar: Judit Mariska, Cantonese: 粵語 Hei Wan, Mandarin: 普通话 Yun, Korean: Sang-Mi Sora, Japanese: 日本 Misaki, Thai: Kanya]
27. Malware: Malicious software: Software that aids in gathering infomation about a person or organization without their knowledge or asserts control over a computer without their knowledge. 5 Types: system monitors [change computer settings: slow Internet connection speeds, changes in browser/software settings], trojan horses [self-install], adware [displays advertisements], chargeware [illegitimate mobile charges] & spyware [reporting websites visited for marketing purposes from cookies file]. Unwanted behavior: significant activity, disk usage, network traffic, applications freezing, failure to boot, &/or crashes. Anti-Virus softare scans & removes. Notes that unlike viruses or worms it does not transmit or copy itself to other computers. - Wikipedia.
28. Spyware: Phones Home Cookies File: MoboTap Inc.® Dolphin Browser Mini, Regular, HD & Zero [Jan. 8, 2011 / 2009 / 2009 / Dec. 18, 2013] USA: Sunnyvale, CA: CEO Yongzhi Yang: Green & white dolphin logo: Adobe® Flash Browser for Android 2.0> in Mini while HD 6.0 up to version 8.5.1 needs Android 2.2> to play Adobe® Flash. HD <6.0 discontinued. Also for Apple® iPhone/iPad: Saves HTML only, no pictures, phones home cookies files: back/forward, tabs, pinch zoom, gestures, mobile/pc toggle, save page as screenshot. Sameed, Addictive Tips: Dolphin Browser HD 6.0 Leaves Beta ©July 19, 2011 42+ add-on widgets for HD only: Ad Blocker, Alexa® Rank, Bookmarks to SD: Secure Digital Card, Brightness, Browse Faster Task Killer, Compact Page Toggle, Dynotes Mobile® Morning Coffee (crashes phones), Fullscreen (<ver 4), Google® Docs Viewer (v4.5>), Google® Near Me (battery hog), Google® Similar Pages, Google® Translate, Google® YouTube Search (crashes), CBS® Last.fm® DolphinFM (uk/us/de), DolphinTV, MicroSoft® Bing Search (v2.0>), MoboTap Inc.® Dolphin Jetpack (v.9> HTML5 for Android™ Gingerbread> Needed for Adobe® Flash 11.1 support in Android™ KitKat. Android™ Lollipop needs Dolphin 11.30 whose JavaScript is still buggy :-( Built-in to latest Dolphin 14), MyPDF Web Service (buggy: no Chinese, inline pictures over article), Password Manager (ads), QR Share (barcode webpages), RSS: Really Simple Syndication Web Logs (2000): PhoneDog LLC.® Android & Me, Scott Webster® Android Guys, Valnet Inc.® Artem Russakovskii® Android Police: Looking After All Things Android (150+ advertiser cookies), MobileTweek Inc® AndoidSPIN, Mobile Burn, SoftNews Net SRL® Softpedia (Open Handset Alliance), Antonio Wells® Android Tapp, ReadItLater® Cloud Server, Shiny Shake (battery hog), Show IP: Internet Protocol, Super Video Player (plays mpg4 choppy), Tab History, Tab Mix Plus (close, duplicate, copy tab address), Tab Reload (v2.3>: for stock tickers & auction sites), Tab Switcher, Text Adjust (crashes), Twitter, Ultimate Flag (website identifier that identifies you: ‘After install, check what really has permission. The entire phone is theirs’ - JOE), Whois, Wikipedia (crashes Droid X), WorldCup 2010.
29. Spyware: Phones Home: Jiangyin Ninesky Technology Co. Ltd.® 九天浏览器: Ninesky Browser 1.1: 1MB (AppsAPK) [2011] Android 2.1> Apple® iPhone: No page save. Tel: 0086-510-86969009. Fax: 0086-510-86969008. FBlock C, Yunting Town Industrial Area.
30. State Security Block: University of Cambridge® Orweb: Proxy + Privacy Browser [2011] England: Requires installation of Orbot TOR: The Onion Router that needs a rooted phone. Does not work in China: Android 2.0> Select text or zoom. “Able to circumvent web filters & firewalls.” Orweb Website
31. State Security Block: CloudMosa Inc.® Puffin Web Browser [May 4, 2018] USA: CA: 20863 Stevens Creek Blvd., Ste. 560, Cupertino 95014: Puffin bird logo: Adobe® Flash transcoded on their servers. Games are not optimized & have no. sound. Another had no problems: CEO & Founder: Ex-Google Employee Shioupyn Shen. Mamdouh Abouzahab: Versions 1.6.2629: Dec 26, 2011 for Android™ Frozen Yogurt to 6.0 April 2018 for Android™ Ice Cream Sandwich discontinued. Version for Apple®. Will not run at all without Internet connection. “For geo-restricted websites, if you’re based outside the US, you may not be able to view the webpage content based on your current locale. ...Puffin has been blocked by the Great Firewall of China since 6/1/2012. Puffin Web Browser is no longer sold in China.”
32. State Security Block: Alibaba Group® UC Mobile New World Ltd.® UCWEB Browser [2011], 金山软件: Jīnshān Ruǎnjiàn: Gold Mountain Software a.k.a KingSoft® WPS Office, DuoKan Inc.® 多看阅读 DuoKan Reader [2010], Beijing Times Intercommunication Telecom Engineering® MiRen: 迷人浏览器: Bewitching People Browser a.k.a MIUI天气: Millet Browser 1.2: 3.4MB [2008], Xiaomi Corp/Millet Technology® MIUI天气 Store 小米应用商店 (Android Operating System: Xiaomi® 小米手機 Millet MIUI Phone) [March 8, 2012] China: Guangzhou (Canton City): Squirrel logo: Adobe® Flash Browser with UC Mobile New World Ltd.® UCWEB Browser Version 7.2>, Android 2.0> & proprietary UC Flash Plug-In: 1.1.2.0 .upp: 1.26 MB.: Save page button saves webpage with pictures as .uhtml in UCDownloads folder on SD: Secure Digital card. Version 8.6.1 to Version 9.3 saves webpages as .HTML with pictures in a folder & has the Adobe® Flash plug-in built-in. Version 10.02.53 will install an Adobe® Flash 11.1 plug-in. Version 10.10 & 11.0 have removed save page. It can be added from the UCWeb Add-Ons Page & found in the tools icon in the menu; swiping from right to left to get to the 2nd screen. Ver. 12.2 ballooned to 138MB. Now at Ver. 13. Security Blocked on India June 2020 / KingSoft Office: “Q: How can I switch to the language that I need? A: The app will identify the language setting in your (Android) device automatically. For example, if you set the system language to Russian, the app will be displayed in Russian when you open it.” Security Blocked in India June 2020 / Pinwheel logo: Adobe® Flash Browser: Saves HTML web page to miren_browser folder on SD: Secure Digital card, import-export HTML: HyperText Markup Language formatted bookmarks: Yahoo!, MicroSoft® Bing 餅 (Chinese lard-wheat crust pastry: Mooncake/Suncake), Google search: Android 1.6>: back/forward, tabs, pinch zoom, popup blocker, scroll with volume buttons. Layout: Google® Chrome, Apple® iPhone & iPad. Unicode: Chinese: Big5, GBK, Japanese: ISO-2022, MicroSoft® Kanji a.k.a Shift_JIS: Japanese Industrial Standard, EUC_JP: Extended UNIX: Uniplexed Information & Computing Service®, Coding JaPanese “Technically it should be Mi-Zen, but that’s Chinese pinyin system for you. It means attractive (literally bewitching people), Miren is a Chinese Android browser ported to English, & occasionally you’ll find a few bits in Chinese that wasn’t translated (such as page loading, please wait). Miren tries to use the full screen available, by making the onscreen controls auto-hide.” KS Chang, Android Alternative Web Browsers Review Comparison, USA: CA: San Francisco: HubPages Inc., est. Aug. 6, 2006 by Paul Edmondson, © 2011 “In 2011, traffic to revenue-sharing sites, including HubPages, was slashed following changes to Google’s algorithm ‘Panda’. HubPages made strenuous efforts to recover from the setback, while most of its competitors gave up & closed their doors. In 2014 HubPages acquired its largest competitor, Squidoo. Anyone may contribute Hubs & to earn income, members must hold a valid Google® Adsense account.”, KS Chang, Android AVI: Audio Video Interleave Format Video players, USA: CA: San Francisco: HubPages Inc. ©2011 “These apps mostly support the SRT: SubRip Text format for subtitles & usually need them to be named exactly the same as the video file & placed in the same folder.” Abhimanyu Ghoshal, Android.App.Storm: Choosing the Best Video Player for Your Device ©July 29, 2012 Twist Video Player, RockPlayer, VPlayer, MoboPlayer, MX Video Player, mVideoPlayer. / Xiaomi MI-ONE Plus: Shŏujī: Telephone for China Telecom has: GSM: Global System for Mobile, WCDMA: Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA2000, December 18, 2011: 1999RMB/$310.00. Jun Lei is President of Xiaomi, UC Mobile & Jïnshän ruânjiàn: Gold Mountain Software a.k.a KingSoft. Jun Lei’s Joyo is now Amazon China. LEI Jun. F/4, Building B, Guangzhou Xinxigang, #16 Keyun Rd, CN 510665. DuoKan: Android 2.2>: ePub. Rumor: Xiaomi Acquires E-Reader Software Firm Duokan, Tencent Tech, 11/02/12.
33. Adware: Azione Co. Ltd.® Awalker Co. Ltd 株式会社エーウォーカー® Nator: ネーター: Coordinator Browser (UpToDown) Nator Browser 1.0.2.3 Beta: 1.44MB [June 5, 2011] [Japan: Osamu Date, 3-14-14 Hachiman-dori, Chuoku, Kobe-city, Hyogo-ken 658-0085. Japanese Adobe® Flash Vertical Browser: B/W Globe: Android 2.1> “The main feature - emoticons can be entered for Mixi, Mobage, GREE, Amoeba, Crooz, Decolog.” barcode scanner, copy/paste, view source. Up to 4 tabs, Up to 5 bookmarks: long push to edit or delete Bukkumakutaitoru: bookmarks. Press on tab to view History. Images can be saved once the page is displayed in the image storage.” / GREE is Japan’s largest social networking website overtaking rival billionaire Kenji Kasahara’s Mixi. Yoshikazu Tanaka, $2.2 Billion, worked for fellow billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani at online shopping site Rakuten. Left in 2004 to set up Gree at a tech incubator; company name inspired by American social psychologist Stanley Milgram’s concept of 6° degree of separation. Eventually transitioned the site into mobile gaming to better compete with rivals. Bought Aurora Feint, whose game was spyware, in April 2011 for $104 million USD. Forbes Magazine: The World’s Billionaires: Yoshikazu Tanaka © March 2011:],
34. Ad Networks: Apple® IDFA: ID For Advertisers, Google® Android Advertising ID, Facebook App User ID: AdChoices (2009: USA: The Digital Advertising Alliance: Led by 6 trade groups; The American Association of Advertising Agencies: the 4A’s [1917: NYC: CEO: Marla Kaplowitz, Chairman: Bill Koenigsberg], American Advertising Federation [1905: DC], Association of National Advertisers [1910: NYC: CEO: Bob Liodice], Data & Marketing Association formerly Direct Marketing Association, IAB: Interactive Advertising Bureau [1996: Trade Association: NYC: CEO: Randalll Rothenberg: Mediascope Europe. www.iab.com], Network Advertising Initiative [1999]. UM: Universal.Harrison King McCann-Alfred Erickson logo. Also Canada, EDAA: European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance), Alibaba® AdChina, Virtual Minds AG® AdClear, AdCombo, Adform, AdGate, Adify, AdInfo, Mentorship Intl.® AdKandi® (UK: 48 Grove Ave., Sutton, SuSM1 2DP), AdKnowledge, Opera® AdColony® AdMarvel, Vincent Yan® AdMaster, Admia, Google® AdMob/AdSense/AdWords (2000: Closed AdWhirl)/DoubleClick, Adpeak, Nancy Gohring, Adscend Denies Facebook, AG Allegations, USA: IDG News Service ©Jan. 27, 2012, Nathan Collier, Mobile Menace Monday: upping the ante on Adups, Jan. 2, 2019: Shanghai Adups Technology®, Aduru, AdView, AdWo, Quentyn Kennemer, Say Goodbye to AirPush: You can Now Disable Notifications in Jellybean, USA: MD: Phandroid © Jun 29th, 2012, AmazonAds, Apkmore, Appboy/Braze, AppFlood, Kaufcom GmbH® AppHandy, Applovin’, News Corp.® Appitalism, MobiMeme Inc.® Appolicious™, AppSamurai, AppShake, Artemis, 33Across® AttentionX, ironSource Israel Ltd.® Aura & Supersonic (Rothshild 63, Tel Aviv, Gush dan 65785: Spearmint Web Browser: 2012-2014), Badpush, Bounce X, Boxpush, BraveAds (“Brave announced by the co-founder of the Mozilla Project & creator of JavaScript, Brendan Eich.” Developers: Brendan Eich, Brian R. Bondy, Marshall Rose, Yan Zhu, Garvan Keeley, Aubrey Keus, Sergey Zhukovsky, Brian Johnson, Brian Clifton, Cezar Augusto. Wikipedia: Codename Lisa), Apple Inc.® Burstly, Beeswax® Buzz, Bypush, Cambridge Analytica (London: Cambridge University Psychometrics Centre: Founder: Christopher Wylie. CEO: Alexander Nix, Researcher Cambridge University Psychology Professor Aleksandr Kogan. Data-Mining: Facebook: This is Your Digital Life Personality Quiz, Mercedes-Benz, MetLife, Brewer AB InBev), Captify, Casee, Cauly, Kingsoft® Cheetah Mobile® Cheetah Ads (CM: Clean Master & ArmorFly Web Browsers), ChartBoost, Clevernet, comScore/SecureStudies, Cnappbox, Xaxis® Copilot, Appodeal-Perk.com Inc.® Corona Labs (USA: CEO Pavel Golubev), Fabric® Crashlytics, Criteo, Daoyoudao, DemandBase, Dianjin, Mandalay Digital Group® Digital Turbine/LogiaAd (bought Xyologic GmbH/Xyo), BuzzCity® Djuzz Store, Dowjin, Dynamicit, Deutsche Telecom® emetriq, Everbadge, Arthur Charles Nielsen Sr.® eXelate, Facebook Audience Network (Emil Protalinski, Facebook settles with FTC: Federal Trade Commission, USA: Ziff-Davis Publishing ©Nov. 29, 2011), Feiwo, Dentsu Aegis Network® Fetch, Verizon Media® Flurry (2005), Ftad, GallMe, Claria Corp.® Gator, Generisk, Genpuah, Getadpush, Qualcomm® Gimbal, Goodadpush, Alliance Data Systems® GreyStripe, Gummycube, GumGum Inc.® Verity™ (2010), Apple Inc.® Quattro Wireless, Inc.® iAd (Lalo v. Apple, Inc et al, Case Number: 5:2010cv05878, Dec. 23, 2010), InfoScout, Softbank® InMobi® Aerserv, Fyber/Inneractive® INNEX, Instal, Integral Ad Science, iPromote, Tapinator Inc.® InAppFuel, Inc. (NYC: Bought Rocket Mind Inc.), Teads® InRead, SMAC: Social Media Advertising Consortium Trade Association® Tagged Inc. (Oct. 2004: USA: San Francisco. CEO Greg Tseng & Johann Scleier-Smith after their internet incubator firm Jumpstart Technologies fined $900,000 for violations of the CAN-SPAM Act, then the largest ever penalty for spam. Headed by former Electronic Arts/Pogo VP Andrew Pedersen paying $1.4 million in legal settlements for sending deceptive bulk e-mail. Acquired Digsby Instant Messenger, Topicmarks Natural Language Processing, WeGame & Hi5 Social Network. Blocked in Qatar in 2009 & named Tagged: The World’s Most Annoying Website by Time Magazine columnist Sean Gregory on June 11, 2009), Leaderform S.p.A.® JoinTag, AOL: America OnLine Millennial Media Inc.® JumpTap/Millenial, Millennium, Salman Amin Khan Online Academy (USA: Mountain View, CA: Hedge fund analyst at Connective Capital Management. Data-Mines the academic progress of students 13> as they work online lessons, logging their location & monitoring their Web browsing habits, selling it to ad agencies. “Data is the real asset,” founder Sal Khan. Time Magazine‘s 100 most influential people in the world April 18, 2012. On the cover of Forbes Magazine with the story $1 Trillion Opportunity by Michael Noer ©Nov 19, 2012), Kiip, Knewton (2008: NYC: HQ: 100 5th Ave. CEO Jose Ferreira “London Tech City a.k.a Silicon Roundabout is a technology cluster located in Central & East London. It broadly occupies the part of London’s East End between Old St. the boundary of Central & East London with its locus next to the Shoreditch area. It is the 3rd-largest technology startup cluster in the world after San Francisco & New York City.”), China Music Corp.® KuGou 酷狗音乐 (Music streaming service & ads KU Music Asian Music Awards a.k.a. Cool Music Asia Festival), China Music Corp.® Kuwo, KyView, Leadbolt, Leanplum, LifeStreet, Liftoff, TripleLift® LiveRamp Identity Link™, LoopMe, Magnite/Rubicon, MDotM, Media Education (USA: MA: 60 Masonic St. Northampton: Executive Director UMass Amherst Communications Professor Sut Jally [1955-]. Excessive hashtagging on Facebook targeted ads. Security breaches. CEO Eli Pariser’), Medialets, Inc., Mintegral, MoatAds, Velti® MobClix, MobGold (bought Hong Kong Ozura World® Mobeep 2011-2014), Matomy Media Group® MobFox, MobiDash, MoBrain, Mobusi, MobVista, MOcean, Mocore, Moolah Media, Moplus, Twitter® MoPub, Ideon Media Digital Ad Network® nexopia™ (2003: Canada: Toronto: Timo Ewalds. The website is a prime target for online predators. Interac Online Banking), Rakuten® Nextperf, OpenX, Dzanc Books® OpenView Mobile, News Corp® Ontela® Photobucket (2003: Max Read, USA: Gawker Media Aug. 12, 2012 documents programs called fuskers downloading photos without consent.), Pontiflex Ad Network, Türk Telecom® Programatik, Propeller, Pubmatic, Quantcast, RevMob, SendDroid, Sizmek, Smaato (San Francisco), SnapChat Inc.® Snap Ads (Icon is a ghost. Videos & pictures embedded with telephone numbers. USA: Venice, CA. CEO: Stanford University Billionaire Evan Thomas Spiegel Jr, ΚΣ Kappa Sigma Fraternity brother Robert Murphy, LightSpeed® Venture Capital, Institutional Venture Partner $4 billion), Stack, StartApp, Taboola, Clickky® Tagline, Tapdaq, TapIt!, EA-Offerpal® TapJoy (Halpern v. Shulka No. A128583, Kevin Halpern, Plaintiff & Appellant, v. Anu Shukla et al., Defendants & Respondents, Court of Appeals of California, 1st District, Division 3. June 28, 2011), TapSense (San Francisco), Taptica, Temelio, Thunder® ThunderApps/Prestashop (Facebook/Microsoft BotBuilder), Adobe® TubeMogul, TF1 Publicité, Tremor, Epom® UniMobile, Unity Technologies ApS® UnityAds/Unity Games Engine (Denmark), EA® Vdopia, VE Global, Vibrant Media®, Imagini Europe® VisualDNA™, VoApp, IDG Ventures India® Vserv, Vungle, Wooboo, Weborama (Paris), Wu Feng® Mobile Marketing, xAd Inc./GroundTruth® xAd Smart Creative™ (NYC: +1-888-324-7893: Siegel+Gale Branding. CEO Dipanshu Sharma left. CFO: Stephen McCarthy, Chandra Kholia, Craig Hagopian, Sunil Kumar), Yandex Mobile Ads, Yeahmobi, Yekrand, YoLo Apps Srl. (Hanoi: mTower), Youme, Youmi, OutBrain® Zemanta™, Komli Media® ZestAdz, Zucks
35. Wikimedia Foundation® Wikipedia List of Video Hosting Services: Nowcom® Afreeca (S. Korea), Anime44 (Korean/Asian Drama), Saba® Aparat (Persian), JOYY® Bigo (Singapore), MicroSoft® Bing, Hewlett-Packard® Blinkx, Break, BuzzMedia® Buzznet, Clipmass (Thai), Beijing Video Technology Ltd.® DaCast (French/English), France Télécom® Dailymotion, EngageMedia, Facebook, Globo® Globo Video, Gogoanime, MTV® iFilm, Kapook (Thai), TalentTrove® Lafango, MoboVivo (Canada), OneWorldTV (London), Carbonite® Phanfare, Gozprom Media® RuTube (Russian), Upload2, Time-Warner® Veoh (Israel), Video44, Samba® Videolog (Portuguese), Tencent® Sanook! & Mthai (Thai), Socialvio (Thai), Integrated Units® Tune.pk, Netinfo® Vbox7 (Bulgaria), VideoJug (London), Videoweed, Vidoosh (Iranian), Vidzur (Singapore), Newsweek® Vimeo (USA: English/Spanish), BurstCloud Co.® YourUpload, Video Edit: Clesh
36. Malware: CynosureX International® aBrowser [2010] & Jirasak Submanee® WebCapture Plus Browser [2011] Needs Internet to run: Connects to a malware server on 1st run. 1 man reported it tried to hijack his Facebook account & replicated viruses through his email. Updated in 2017 for Lollipop as Pyrope-Browser. / Fred: Malicious app spams your phone. TrustGo Security considers it a high risk app. Don’t get it!!!
37. Former App Stores BlackBerry Ltd.® BlackBerry World [April 1, 2009-Jan. 4, 2022] BlackBerry Ltd.® Scorel∞p AG (Scorel∞p SDK: Standard Development Kit) [Dec. 2008-July 8, 2014] [Munich, Germany: Landsberger Straße 110, 80339, CEO: Marc Gumpinger: Cross-platform social gaming network for: Google® Android™ (Dec. 11, 2009-Dec.1, 2014), Samsung® Bada: 바다: Sea (Oct. 11, 2010-Feb. 2013), Apple® iOS (April 16, 2009- Dec.1, 2014), BlackBerry 10 (April 15, 2011-Dec. 1, 2014) & MicroSoft® Windows Phone (Oct. 2010-Dec 1, 2014). The game code will receive an error similar to a no-network situation. ...Ultimately, the game developers should remove game code using Scoreloop services, to ensure a continued & smooth user experience. Games: Night Time Creations® Falling Marbles, iELF® Fireball, BitWhiz® Grenadier, MassHabit Games® Pond Defense, Jewels, Mouse Trap! Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM 1998-2013), $18.435 billion, renamed itself BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) Jan. 30, 2013. Wikipédia: BlackBerry Internet Service was in 91 countries with 80 million users. 1st BlackBerry device, the 850, was introduced in 1999 as a 2-way pager in Munich, Germany BlackBerry pulls the plug on its pioneering mobile phone, CBS News ®Jan. 4, 2022], Creative Labs® ZiiStore [安息: Singapore: 2010-2012], DMC Worldwide Advertising® Copia eReader Bookstore [Hong Kong: Aug. 3, 2010-Nov. 22, 2010], Shaghal, Ltd.© eMatic App Shop Google® Play™’s list of supported devices does not list eMatic: [July 21, 2012-July 11, 2013], Zeng Faner® ApkShare [Shenzhen: 2010-2014], FASMICRO: First Atlantic Semiconductors & Microelectronics Nigeria Ltd.® Fasmicro Android App Store “We’re Africa’s only IC: Integrated Circuit Design Firm.” [June 2011-June 2012], 3M® txtr GmBH® [RIF: Ruhe in Frieden: Berlin: Nov. 22, 2010-Jan 28, 2015], pdassi für Android™ App Shop [Hamburg: Aug. 2009-Juli 2016], ESSEC Ventures® Appoke MarketPlace [Repose en paix: :Avril 1, 2010-Avril 1, 2013 Avenue Bernard Hirsch, BP 55105, Cergy Pontoise Cedex +33 1 344 3285], Pixello Studio® YAAM: Yet Another Android Market [Avril 14, 2011-Mar. 27, 2013 FR: Martillac: Simon Cleriot, 12], Victor Belov® ÞYCMaþKeT: RusMarket [Покойся с миром: Kaluzhskaya Oblast: 2010-2012], Pantich® Android Freeware [Feb 2010-Feb. 2018], enTourage® EDGe Content Store [RIP: Feb. 2010-May 27, 2011], Patrick Hart Enterprises® Android Downloadz [USA: OR: 19790 SW Yocom Ln., Beaverton 97007, +1-503-998-5489: Jun. 25, 2010-Mar. 1, 2018], MKS Ventures LLC® Apptown [USA: PN: 440 Deer Rn Ct, Limerick 19468: Developer: Sean Kendorski. Thank you for your support.: 2010-Dec. 13, 2013], MobiHand Inc® Symbian-Guru Appverse: Symbol of a Buddha, Only Android Store & AndGeeks Store (formerly Michael Martin® GoogleAndBlog) [2009-Sept. 6, 2012: Chapter 11 Bankruptcy], Justin Heikkinen® Mobspot Inc.® [USA: CA: 219 Encina Ave.,Redwood City 90061: 2010-Aug 2, 2012], Oracle® CISCO Systems® AppHQ® [July 11, 2011-July 2, 2012], Oracle® SUN: Stanford University Network Microsystems® Java™ [Jan. 21, 1996] USA: $268 Billion: Responsible for The Great Firewall of China: Discontinued CISCO® Cius android tablet. Java 2, released Dec. 8, 1998 as J2SE 1.2, flavors are: Java EE: Enterprise Edition (Internet), Java ME: Mobile Edition (3 billion mobile telephones), & Java SE: Standard Edition according to Wikipedia. Oracle® CISCO® EOS: Entertainment Operating System™ Social Publishing platform ran from Jan 7, 2009-May 21, 2011, Velocity Micro® Cruz MarketPlace USA: VA: 7510 Whitepine Rd, Richmond 23237. 800-296-4312: [2009-March 26, 2017], General Mobile® StoreOid [Huzur içinde yat: Istanbul:: July 16, 2010-Jan. 12, 2012], OSATEK® Android Pazari [2010-2012], Plastic Logic® Skiff Store (Digital Rights Management: Adobe® truVue PDF: Portable Document Format) [Jan. 2010-Jun. 2010] UK: Silicon Fen, Cambridge: Chairman: Hermann Maria Hauser, founder of Acorn Computers (bought by Olivetti), The Active Book Company (bought by AT&T), Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd. (Solexa Ltd.® Illumina Personal Genome Sequencing service) & Cambridge Network Ltd. (semiconductors): -Skiff was acquired by News Corp. in June 2010. “Soon after it was announced the reader device would not be brought to market.” Tadeas Kriz® Blapk.Market [CZ: -Feb. 2010], Pedersen Elektronikk® Adroia [Hvil i fred: NO: Sept. 29, 2010-May 31, 2012]

E Books An electronic book (also e-book, ebook, electronic book, digital book) is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images or both, readable on computers or other electronic devices. The Oxford Dictionary of English defines the e-book as an electronic version of a printed book. E-books are usually read on dedicated hardware devices known as e-Readers or e-book devices. Personal computers & some cell phones can be used to read e-books. — Wikipedia. Note: “Some devices & ebooks stores will have geographical limitations or will not be available in all areas. Please read each site’s terms & conditions before making your purchase. ” - When I Have Time by Sara Rosso, How to Read an eBook: Formats, Devices, Dedicated Readers & iPhone Applications ©March 10, 2009
1. Mobile Read® The Big List of Android™ eBook Reader Apps [2010]: [Deutsch oder Englisch: Privately owned, operated & funded community. Dan de V. “On the face of it there seems to be a lot of choice around for epub reader software for Android until you realise most / all of the above are unable to read Adobe® DRM: Digital Rights Management epub which is nominally still the standard. So I suggest an update on the above list to clearly state which software can read what type of DRM: Digital Rights Management epub (if any).”]
2. IDPF: International Digital Publishing Forum® OE: Open Electronic PUBlication .oepub (NO Digital Rights Management) [2007-2016] [Seattle, WA: It supercedes the open ebook standard: Open Electronic PUBlication combines 3 IDPF standards: 1) OCF: Open Container Format: all files needed for a book together as a compressed ZIP(py) file, 2) OPF: Open Publication Format: describes structure of book in XML: eXtended Markup Language & 3) OPS: Open Packaging Structure, describes content markup (either XHTML: eXtended HyperText Markup Language or DAISY: Digital Assessible Information SYstem Consortium® DTB: Digital Talking Book .dtb (DRM: PDTB: Protected Digital Talking Book SMIL: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language). It supports color images PNG: Portable Network Graphics, JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group files. It does not support video or sound. “The electronicPUBlication utilizes 1 of 3 Digital Rights Management encryption technologies tied to different stores: Barnes & Noble’s Nook™, Apple’s iBook, & Adobe® ADEPT which is licensed to all comers (Sony, Fictionwise, Kobo, etc). Books from a given store will only be usable with devices tied to that store or with applications linked to the bookstore. Hence the Kobo app on your tablet. Also keep in mind that there are many commercial sources that *don’t* use DRM: Digital Rights Management.” / Switzerland: DAISY ebooks present in an audible format, refreshable braille or large print. Books can be heard on standalone DAISY: Digital Assessible Information SYstem Consortium players, mobile phones (gh, LLC® MathSpeak™, ClickHear/ReadHear™ Mobile Screen Reader for Android™ & Apple® iPhone ) & computers (MicroSoft Windows: DaisyWorm, ButtercupReader, DAISYPlayer, Dolphin EasyReader, Apple Macintosh OS X: CUCAT® Oleara, Daisy Delight, Don Johnston Inc® Read:OutLoud). “Content from both the NLS: National Library Service for the Blind & RFB&D: Recording For the Blind & Dyslexic [USA] organizations utilizes proprietary encryption extensions to the DAISY standard. ...This is done to prevent unauthorized individuals, such as those who do not have a qualifying disablilty from accessing the materials. ” Wikipedia]
3. Adobe Systems Inc.® PS: PostScript PDL: Page Description Language .ps [Dec. 1982-1999: PostScript does not support Unicode], Adobe Systems Inc.® Type 1 Fonts a.k.a Adobe® PostScript Fonts (2 parts: a screen font & printer font. Level 2, 1991: Asian Fonts called Multibyte or CID: Character IDentifier-keyed Fonts) [1984], Adobe Systems Inc.® MacroMind Director .dir (Shockwave Web Plug-In 1995) [1987-2017], Adobe® Illustrator™ 1.0 (EPS: Encapsulated PostScript .eps) [Jan. 1987], Adobe® Photoshop® 1.07 (PhotoShop Document .psd) [1991], Adobe® Premiere ® 1.0 (FilmStrip .flm) [Dec. 1991], Adobe Systems Inc.® PDF: Portable Document Format .pdf (Digital Rights Management: Adobe® Content Server) [June 15, 1993], Adobe Systems Inc.® FutureWave Software® Animator (FutureWave Software® Flash Plug-In) [May 1996-Dec. 2020], Adobe® InDesign 1.0 [August 31, 1999], Adobe Systems Inc.® ePublication .epub (Digital Rights Management: ADEPT: Adobe Digital Experience Protection Technology) [June 19, 2007] [USA: CA: San José: 151 S. Almaden Blvd. previously 1585 Charleston Rd., Mountain View. NASDAQ: ADBE. 1-800-833-6687. Adobe Creek in Los Altos, California runs behind John Edward Warnock (1940-)’s 1982 house. Corporate logo designed by Marva Warnock, John Warnock’s wife. Charles Geshecke (1939-). In 1992, Adobe acquired OCR Systems, Inc. In 1994, Adobe acquired Aldus: Aldus® PageMaker ©1985, Aldus® TIFF: Tag Image File Format, Altsys® FreeHand ©1988, Aldus® PhotoStyler ©1991, CoSA: Company of Science & Art® After Effects ©Jan. 1993, LaserTools Corp & Compution Inc. In 1996 acquired Ares Software Corp. In 2002 acquired Canadian Accelio® JetForm. Digital Editions requires online registration for Adobe ID #. Adobe Content Server does not support MicroSoft® Windows Mobile, PSION® Symbian or Palm® Palm Operating Systems: PDF Version 1.7: ISO 32000-1:2008. Creator: John Warnock. PDF derives from PostScript, without language features like loops, & with added support for features like compression & passwords. PDF files are made with Adobe® Acrobat software & read with Adobe® Reader software. DRM: Digital Rights Management in Portable Document Format Viewer: “Adobe Systems announced that as of March 30, 2009 the Adobe Content Server would no longer activate new installations of Adobe® Reader or Acrobat & the ability to migrate content from Adobe Content Server 3 to Adobe Content Server 4 would cease mid-December 2009. Anyone who failed to migrate their DRMed PDF files during this 9 month window lost access to their content the next time they had to re-install their copy of Adobe® Reader or Acrobat.” Currently, all PDF capable printers support PostScript. Most PostScript printers do not support direct PDF printing. Press-ready PDF is PDF/X-1 (all fonts need to be embedded & all images to CMYK: Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-BlacK or spot colors). RIP: Raster Image Processors are used to convert PDF files into a raster format suitable for imaging onto paper & other media in printers, digital production presses & prepress in a process known as rasterisation. - Wikipedia. / Director: The new name for VideoWorks II. Acquired by Adobe in 2005. Makes stand-alone Windows & Mac programs. The Shockwave player was developed for the Netscape Nevigator 2.0 world wide web browser by Macromedia Director team members Harry Chesley, John Newlin, Sarah Allen, & Ken Day along with the standalone Afterburner utility to compress Director files for Shockwave playback. The 1st large-scale multimedia site to use Shockwave was INTEL: INTegratedELectronics’ 25th Anniversary of the Microprocessor. Futurewave Software® Animator, the software used to make Flash files, renamed Adobe Animate in 2016 with a focus on HTML5. “Flash Player cannot display Shockwave content, & Shockwave Player cannot display Flash content.” / Illustrator: PostScript™ vector drawing program. Open 2 windows on desktop, 1 to show the work in progress, & another to show a preview. Convert fonts to paths is the 1st thing I learned in this program, Thank You! Quark launches QuarkXPress 1.0 this year. QuarkXPress® Arabic XT, Arabic Phonyx, Hebrew XPressWay. Quark Express® .DCS: Desktop Color Separations format has 5 files; a main file with only a preview image & the extension .eps that points to 4 high resolution files with extensions that mark the color data they contain: CMYK: Cyan Magenta Yellow or blacK. “Because the main file has lines in it that refer to the other files, you cannot simply rename DCS-files in the Macintosh Finder or Windows Explorer. If you want to change the name of a DCS-file, it is best to open it in Photoshop & use a Save As to save the file using a different name. JPEG compression has often posed problems with OPI-systems & older RIPs sometimes also choke on the decompression.” / Photoshop: Digital photo editor adds support for CMYK: Cyan Magenta Yellow BlacK 4-color printing. 1st commercial digital camera the 1990 Dycam Model 1/Logitech® Fotoman using Fairchild Semiconductor® CCD: Charged Coupling Device image sensor. For version 3> flatten layers for printing. / Premiere: Non-Linear Digital Video Editing: Apple® QuickTime VideoSpigot format 160 × 120 pixel movie with 8-bit audio. FilmStrip format consists of a sequence of equal sized 32-bit true-color uncompressed images with a 16 pixel high grey bar containing SMPTE: Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers format timecode & frame number introduced in Adobe® Premiere 2.0. Adobe® Photoshop to Version 11 a.k.a CS4 can open each frame using a plug-in. Used for rotoscoping: painting on video frame-by-frame. If you change resolution, delete alpha channels or alter the color mode or you won’t be able to save it back to FilmStrip Format. Richard Harrington, Understanding Adobe Photoshop: Digital Imaging Concepts & Techniques, USA: CA: PeachPit Press © March 10, 2006. CS6: Choose File >Export > Render Video. Adobe Media Encoder options: DPX: Digital Picture Exchange format, H.264/MPEG-4: Motion Picture Experts Group 4th Dimension or Apple®QuickTime™ MOVie which is required for export of alpha channels & uncompressed video. / Desktop Publishing program that replaced Aldus® PageMaker 1985-2002. InDesign Interchange format .inx does not support versions earlier than InDesign CS: Creative Suite Edition (3.0) of 2003, the 1st version for MicroSoft® Windows. Middle Eastern version supports right to left typesetting. Languages: CJK: Chinese-Japanese-Korean, Danish-Norwegian-Swedish, Dutch-German, Finnish, Greek, Turkish, Hungarian, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech-Polish-Ukrainian-Russian / “Adobe Digital Editions uses .epub format for its e-books, with DRM: Digital Rights Management protection provided through their proprietary ADEPT: Adobe Digital Experience Protection Technology mechanism. The recently developed INEPT framework & scripts have been reverse-engineered to circumvent this DRM: Digital Rights Management system.” Nate Hoffelder, Adobe is Spying on Users, Collecting Data on Their Libraries ©Oct. 6, 2014: “Adobe is gathering data on the ebooks that have been opened, which pages were read, & in what order. All of this data, including the title, publisher, & other metadata for the book is being sent to Adobe’s server in clear text. ..Adobe isn’t just tracking what users are doing in DE4; this app was also scanning my computer, gathering the metadata from all of the ebooks sitting on my hard disk, & uploading that data to Adobe’s servers. ...Wireshark. This nifty little app can be used to log all of the information that is sent or received by your computer over a network. [Benjamin Daniel] Muussler & I both saw that data was being sent to 192.150.16.235, 1 of Adobe’s IP addresses. [Gerald Combs’] Wireshark logged all of the data sent to Adobe, & on request spat out the text files.”
4. Amazon Kindle (Digital Rights Management: Kindle® AZW [.azw], Topaz [.tpz] & Kindle Format 8 [.kf8]), Mobipocket SA. [ .mobi/.prc: Mar. 2000-Jan. 2, 2012] [2009], Time-Warner® Amazon AppStore for Android v.1.38: 6MB [March 22, 2011], Time-Warner® CIG: Cambridge Information Group® Amazon LibraryThing (Contextual Query Language: Z 39.50 Internet Protocol) [August 29, 2005], Amazon Warehouse Deals [2009], Time-Warner® Amazon® Lexcycle® Stanza [2008-Aug. 2010], & Amazon® Justin.TV® Twitch [Mar. 19, 2007] [Owns Abebooks. USA Multi-National: NASDAQ: AMZN. AppStore expanded in 2014 to 236 countries. :-) Registration requires credit card: All Sales Final: Website will save applications that must be installed later by the telephone/tablet using the Appstore app with Wi-Fi or 3G. AppStore app must be installed (AND connected to the Internet for Mancala) for many applications to run. Angry Birds RIO is modified for this so people suggest Angry Birds RIO from Google® Android MarketPlace which is not modified & is smaller. The Amazon® AZW format is based on the Mobipocket® .mobi standard, with a different serial number scheme (it uses an * instead of a $). Ebooks are delivered over the Amazon wireless Whispernet. Amazon bought Mobipocket SA & discontinued it. DaoCaoXieReader 稻草鞋 (FDB, TXT, HTML, EPUB, OEBOOK, MOBI) & Zhang Yue® iReader 读书 (Android 1.6>: Nokia® UMD: Universal Mobile Document, TXT, HTML, CHM, PDB [mobi/ereader]) “It [iReader] reads secure eReader (.pdb) & Mobipocket secure (.prc). The Mobipocket is a hack. You put in the PIN: Personal Identification Number as opposed to using the actual Mobipocket Reader software which is device dependent. And it auto scrolls.” Support Tel: 400-881-3311 (Only for China). Kindle for Android 1.6> [6/28/2010] lets you read all of your Kindle ebooks. If you have a Kindle, you can read your ebooks on both the Kindle & Android device. The Kindle has built-in spying & deletion capabilities. Kindle Fire: MicroUSB charging connector 4 terminals: +5 VDC, +12VDC, Serial Digital & Ground. Larry E. “This time I took the USB connector out of the frame & looked at it under a microscope. The interface connector pins were fine. The pins [metal prongs] that make connection [to] the board above were really oxidized, especially the negative pin. ...I then wired brushed the pins, & bent them foward. This connector would have been ok to use if it were soldered to the board.” mikebrungs: new microUSB, rockhoptec.com, mouser.com or digikey.com. Wang Han-hua, remains as Amazon’s country manager. In China, Amazon has 10 operations centers across the nation, & boasts 400,000 square meters of logistics-oriented floor-space. Not quite as big as the 1.47 million square meters throughout the US, though. But Amazon reports that only 57% of its revenue comes from its American operations.” Steven Millward, Amazon Goes It Alone in China, With a New Name & URL, Tech in Asia Pte Ltd.: 157B Rochor Rd., Singapore SG 188432 ©Oct. 27, 2011. / Portland, Maine: LibraryThing a social cataloging web application developed by Tim Spaulding for storing & sharing book catalogs & book metadata in English, Australian, Canadian & USA libraries. CIG: Cambridge Information Group Education Group owns Sotheby’s Institute of Art & CIG: Cambridge Information Group® [Frederick Leypoldt] Richard Rogers Bowker LLC® [1868] is the library distributor of the program & the only U.S. agent for issuing ISBNs: International Standard Book Numbers invented by Frederic Gordon Foster in 1967. “Publisher of the Library Journal since 1876; Books in Print listings are several million, a number that is only exceeded by Amazon. The Library & Book Trade Almanac, formerly The Bowker Annual, is a resource for librarians, publishers, & booksellers which provides reviews of ‘key trends, events, & developments’ in the industry; statistics on book prices, numbers of books published, library expenditures, & average salaries; explanations of new legislation & changes in funding programs; & other information.” Wikipedia. CIG: Cambridge Information Group® UMI: University Microfilms International® ProQuest Online Information Service [1938]: USA-UK: University of Michigan alumnus Eugene Power preserves books from the British Museum on microfilm. In his autobiography Edition of One: The Autobiography of Eugene B. Power, Founder of University Microfilms, USA: Michigan: University Microfilms ©1990 ISBN 0-8357-0898-5, Power details the development of the company, including how University Microfilms assisted the OSS during World War II. “By June 1938, Power worked in 2 rented rooms from a downtown Ann Arbor funeral parlor, specializing in microphotography to preserve library collections. This was the foundation of University Microfilms International & Proquest.” Publishes university doctoral dissertations in lieu of offset printing beginning in 1952. Databases include: newspapers, periodicals, & dissertations. / Lexcycle® Stanza Version 3.0: June 4, 2010: Complete libraries made unusable updating to it. Website info ceased August. By Jan 2011 Wikipedia cited abandonment. In 2012 Amazon removed it. CEO: Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post for $250 million. / Justin Kan: USA: San Francisco, CA: Melita Kuburas, It’s confirmed: Amazon to buy Twitch for $970M in cash, Stream Daily TV ©Aug. 25, 2014]
5. Apple Inc ® iTunes Store, App Store, iBook Store IBA: Internet Book Author .iba (Digital Rights Management: Veridisc® FairPlay) [April 28, 2003 / July 10, 2008 / March 2010] Newton Inc® Newton .pkg (No Digital Rights Management) [1993] [USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Europe (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Greek, English languages only), Scandinavia, France, Ger many, Japan, Mexico: Apple ID Registration possible without specifying a credit card.. (ApkMirror) Apple Inc.® Apple Music for Android 4.3> All iTunes tracks contain customer’s full name & e-mail address account as metadata in the file. iTunes+ files are purchased Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits® AAC: Advanced Audio Coding audio files (.m4a) rather than protected AAC: (.m4p). Each app is protected with iTunes FairPlay. Real-Time location-based information is collected on all iTunes users ages 13> & may be provided to public & governmental authorities within or outside your country of residence on request. With the launch of iPhone 3G & 2.0.1 iPhone OS firmware for iPod Touch & iPhone owners, the App Store allows people to download applications through the iTunes desktop software or the App Store on their iPhones (Designer Jonathan Ive), iPod Touch (2010), iPad (April 2010) which have Apple® UDID: Unique Device IDs. French, German, American, & British stores are localized for their respective countries & have different catalogs including but not limited to Music, Music Videos, Movies, TV-Series, & iPhone Apps. On 3 December 2004 the British Office of Fair Trading referred the iTunes Music Store to the European Commission because it prevents consumers in 1 EU: European Union country from buying music from stores in other EU countries, in violation of EU free-trade legislation. USA store contains Starbucks Entertainment® Bookish Reading Club & iTunes Latino. Starbucks physical book reading clubs launched in the USA in 2006 & in the UK in 2007 according to The Independent. Diwan Book Club at Starbucks in Kuwait. Bangkok Book Club: Lang Suan Starbucks. “PlayFair, software removes Digital Rights Management features from Apple’s FairPlay audio files, potentially allowing files from Apple’s iTunes Music Store to be downloaded to non iTunes-iPod devices.” - Wikipedia. IBA: iBook Author is based on the ePUB: electronicPUBlication standard, with proprietary CSS: Cascading Style Sheet tags. A current limitation of books (though not PDF: Portable Document Format documents) is that they can only be read on a iOS portable device & cannot be read inside iTunes on a user’s Mac or PC. Alex Pham, Apple to wrap digital books in FairPlay copy protection, Los Angeles Times ©Feb. 15, 2010, Andrew Wray, Apple’s Fair Play DRM for iBooks cracked, Mobile Nations ©Saturday, Feb 25, 2012, Lauren Indvik, App Store Stats: 400 Million Accounts, 650,000 Apps, UK: Aberdeenshire: Banchory (Beannchar: pron. Bangor): ,Mashable ©June 11, 2012. From 2007 to 2011, Apple spent $647 million on advertising for the iPhone in the USA. “The average selling price has remained fairly constant for most of the phones lifespan, hovering between $622 & $660.” - Dan Rowinski, 4 Real Secrets We’ve Learned So Far About Apple, ReadWrite (formerly ReadWriteWeb), USA: Alcatel-Lucent ©Aug. 8, 2012:. Internet Phone Operating System: iPhone OS 1.0-1.1.5 (June 29, 2007) [GSM EDGE 2G data standard: USA/Europe], iPhone OS 2.0-2.2.1 (July 11, 2008) [C-J-K, Russian, GPS: Global Positioning System, Wi-Fi 802.1x: 80 countries: Apple® App Store] iPhone OS 3.0-3.1.3 (June 17, 2009) [Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian-Malay, Thai: cut/copy/paste/multi-delete, voice recording, change telephone #, encryption, in-app purchasing, Bluetooth™, VoiceOver™, iAd™] , internet Operating System for iPhone & iPad: iOS 4.0-4.3 (June 21, 2010) [CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access: Hungarian-Vietnamese: MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface, parental controls, Hotspot, Apple® AirTouch™ printing, AirPlay™ video, FaceTime™ VoIP: Voice over Internet Protocol, iBooks, GLONASS: GLObal NAvigation Satellite System Russian global positioning system] , iOS 5.0-5.1.1 (Oct. 4, 2011) [Hindi: Twitter, S/MIME e-mail, Group messaging, calendars, iMessage chat, iCloud® allows over-the-air software updates & Apple® iTunes is no longer needed to activate iOS devices. 5.1.1 fixes WiFi disconnect.], iOS 6.0-6.1.6 (Sept. 19, 2012) [Multi-Touch Screen, Siri GPS: Global Positioning System, FaceTime™ over Cellular], iOS 7.0-7.1.2 (Sept. 20, 2013) [Square Photo Mode, Spotlight Search Engine, TouchID, iWork, iCloud Keychain 256 bit AES: Advanced Encryption System, Issues with battery drain while devices in sleep mode.], iOS 8.0 (Sept 17, 2014) [3rd Party Keyboards allowed: Supported devices: Apple® iPhone 4S>, iPod Touch 5th generation>, iPad2>, iPad Mini. CarPlay], iOS 9 (Sept. 16, 2015) [Split-screen for iPads, motion wallpaper for Apple® iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus & iPad Pro. Apple® App Store requires all new apps & app updates to be 64-bit.], iOS 10 (Sept. 13, 2016) [Promoted with a ‘audio jack free’ iPhone 7 with corded Lightning EarPods® its power connector not electrostatic discharge in an ear & AirPod® Bluetooth Smart™ headphones. Demo phones’ paused music every time a new set entered the vicinity: alerting me Bluetooth causes ringing in local area hearing aids this way. Threaded eMail, ApplePay™. Pop-up alert fot 64-bit iDevices running 32-bit apps Andrew Cunnngham of ArsTechnica calls 32-Bit Shaming. Somebody call Weird Al. 0-:-) No A5/A5X chip support for Phone 4S-iPad 3<-iPad Mini-iPod Touch 5<. Supported Devices: iPhone 5>, iPad 4>, iPad Air & Pro, iPad Mini 2>, iPod Touch 6.], iOS 11 (Golden Master Preview Sept.12, 2017) [64 bit software only, barcode scanner, indoor maps],  iOS 12 (Sept. 17, 2018) [For new iPhone XS Max, iPhone 6S/6S Plus> &, iPad/iPad Pro 2017> VoLTE available only on iPhone 6>.], iOS 13/iPadOS 13 (Sept. 19, 2019) [Dark Mode, For iPhones with >2GB RAM. “Issues include battery drain, call-dropping, & ringtones not functioning properly, resulting in frequent software updates & patches.”], iOS 14/iPadOS 14 (Sept. 16, 2020) [For iPhones that can run iOS 13. Front camera mirroring. Exposure compensation, VP9 CODEC. iPhone 12: 5G: Sub-6GHz frequency bands, 12-megapixel camera], iOS 15/iPadOS 15 (Sept.20, 2021) [FaceTime™ web links, Dictation]. The iPhone has Wi-Fi: Wireless-Fidelity & cellular connectivity: 2G: 2nd Generation, 3G: 3rd Generation, 4G: 4th Generation, & LTE: Long Term Evolution. Music/App download until 2012 by Wi-Fi only. 2012 cellular file size limit <20MB. Wikipedia: “It was revealed as part of the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures that the American & British Intelligence agencies the National Security Agency (NSA) & the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) respectively, have access to the user data in iPhones, BlackBerrys & Android phones. They are able to read almost all smartphone information, including SMS: Short Messaging Service, location, emails & notes.” - Marcel Rosenbach, Laura Poitras, Holger Stark, English translator Christopher Sultan, Privacy Scandal, Der Spiegel ©Sept. 7, 2013, iPad power: how to transfer files, USA: MacWorld ©May 19, 2011 / Newton: Unicode format released to the public by Newton, Inc. prior to that company’s absorption into Apple Computer. Supports internal links & grayscale images. A package file can contain multiple books. For Newton OS: Newton MessagePads, eMates, Werner von Siemens Secretary Stations, Motorola Marcos, Digital Ocean Seahorses & Tarpons. The Foxconn® Belkin® USB: Universal Serial Bus to Serial Adapter for Macintosh Apple® F5U103-MA, Operating Systems 7-9, recognize: Newton, Psion, Palm V, Palm III, Palm Pilot PDA: Personal Digital Assistants, Apple Style Writers, Epson & HP: Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 850-855C-870Cse Printers & Wacom Artz II Serial Tablets. Macintosh OSX disabled serial tablet support.]
6. Beijing University Founder Electronics Co. Ltd. 全称“方正® APABI: Author Publisher Artery Buyer Internet Reader® Chinese E-book Treasure House .ceb xeb (Encoded Binary File: CEBX: Common Electronic-document Blending XML) [2006] [Haidian District, Beijing: 5F/ Mudan Technology Building, No. 2 Huayuan Road 100191: 2nd largest personal computer vendor in China. Calis Reference , China Yearbook Database, China Ancient Book Database, & China Corpus Juris Database.]
7. Hanwang Technology Co. Ltd® Hanvon® WISEreader Store® Hanwang TeXT .htxt .mtxt (Digital Rights Management: Adobe® Digital Editions) [2009] [60% Chinese eBook market: HQ: Hanwang Tower at Z Park. CEO: Liu Lingjian. HTXT encrypted files linked to an individual reader unique to Hanvon devices. An earlier version was called MTXT. In addition to reading English books, pre-loaded Chinese books can be all you need for Chinese reading no matter if you are a Chinese or a westerner learning Chinese. You can also go to company site & download 1000s of Chinese & English books. Media Format Supported: EPUB; ElectronicPUBlication, Adobe® PDF: Portable Document Format, MicroSoft® DOCument, TXT: TeXT, HTML: HyperText Markup Language, Image: JPG: Joint Photographics experts Group, Aldus® TIF: Tag Image File, BMP: BitMaP, PNG: Portable Network Graphics, GIF: Graphic Interchange File, MP3: Fraunhofer® Moving Pictures Experts Group 1 Audio Level 3]
8. MicroSoft® Windows Phone Store (Digital Rights Management: Windows Live ID#) [Oct. 21, 2010-Jan. 14, 2020], MicroSoft® Literature Format .lit (Digital Rights Management: PassPort) [Aug 2000-Aug 15, 2011], MicroSoft® Live Search Books (Digitizer: Windows Live Publisher) [Dec 5, 2006-May 24, 2008], MSN: MicroSoft Network® Windows Live Messenger Service (Digital Rights Management: MicroSoft Passport NETwork .NET Passport ID a.k.a Windows Live ID) [July 22, 1999-Oct. 31, 2014], MSN: MicroSoft Network® Zune Marketplace (Digital Rights Management: JANUS Plays For Sure WMA: Windows Media Audio & WMV: Windows Media Video) [2006-Aug. 31, 2008], MicroSoft® Windows Marketplace for Mobile (Operating System: MicroSoft® Windows Mobile Classic a.k.a Windows CE: Compact Embedded a.k.a Windows Mobile Pocket/ PocketPC (April 19, 2000-Feb. 2010) [Oct. 6, 2009-May 8, 2012], Nokia® Ovi: Finnish for Door Store (Operating System: Nokia Series 40/60 & PSION® Symbian^3 Telephones: Nokia® UMD: Universal Mobile Document Photobook .& Timex-Sinclair PSION: david edwin Potter Scientific Instruments ON Plc.® TCR: Text Compression for Reader .tcr (Barry Childress®) [May, 2009-Jan. 25, 2012] [ Rich Edmonds, MicroSoft Supports Windows Phone 7 & 8 until July 8, 2014, Windows Phone Central ©Mar. 16, 2013: Microsoft’s Switch to Windows Phone app for Android attempts to prove you’re not missing out, Engadget ©April 30th 2013 “Ever since its launch, Windows Phone has faced criticism for lacking a broad app selection compared with its main mobile OS competitors. Microsoft is out to convince users otherwise, & in a rather cheeky move, has launched the Switch to Windows Phone app for Android. Available now on the Google Play store, the app takes note of all the software currently on your Android handset & sends those details to SkyDrive. Add that SkyDrive account on a WP8 device, & you’ll be offered official WP8 apps which correspond to the ones found on your Android phone, or apps that match up best if official versions aren’t available.” Update: Store has moved on to Windows Phone 10 as of Nov. 20, 2015 which uses the Windows NT: New Technology Network Operating System framework/kernel by David Cutler (1942-). MicroSoft’s File Hosting Service SkyDrive, previously Windows Live, is now called OneDrive with 5GB available for a phone. Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice in England ruled Sky Broadcasting has sole use of the term SkyDrive in July 2013. Windows 10: Home, Pro, Pro Education, Enterprise, Education, IoT Core, Mobile & Mobile Enterprise. “Although marketed as a converged platform, & as with Windows Phone 8, using a Windows NT-based kernel, Windows 10 Mobile still cannot run Win32 desktop applications, & is compatible with software designed for Windows Phone 8” For a desktop computer to run it you need a minimum of a 1 GHz speed processor with NX bit, SSE2, PAE, 2 GigaBytes of RAM: Random Access Memory installed inside & 16 GigaBytes of hard disk space. Windows XP: eXPerience required a Pentium 233MHz speed processor, 64MB RAM: Random Access Memory & 1.5 GigaByte disc space & it looks like Vista back in ’06 was the beginning of needing a hard drive 15× bigger. / USA: Bill Gates at $72 billion on the Forbes List. Jamie Rigg, Microsoft Reader E-Book System Comes To Its Conclusion, Devin Coldewey, AOL®TechCrunch ©August 15th, 2011: DRM-protected LIT files are only readable in the proprietary Microsoft Reader program, as the .LIT format, otherwise similar to Microsoft’s CHM: Compiled Help Manual format, includes Digital Rights Management: ConvertLit features. In August 2006 Amazon stopped selling DRMed Adobe® PDF & Microsoft® LIT format ebooks. Customers were unable to download purchased ebooks 30 days after that date. - Wikipedia: Obsolescence / Miguel Helft, Microsoft Will Shut Down Book Search Program, The New York Times ©May 24, 2008: 750,000 British Library books & 80 million journal articles digitized. “We certainly expect to go on with this,” said Carole Moore, chief librarian at the University of Toronto. “Corporate sponsors are interested in whatever works for their commercial interests & their shareholders. Long-term preservation is not something you can look to the commercial sector to provide. It is what research libraries have always done.” / Messenger discontinued in 2013 after MicroSoft bought Skype Technologies. / USA Only: Every month songs became useless until the Zune was synchronized back with Microsoft Online. In April 2008, Microsoft sent an e-mail to former customers of the now-defunct MSN Music Store: “As of Aug. 31, 2008, we will no longer be able to support the retrieval of license keys for the songs you purchased from MSN Music or the authorizaton of additional computers. You will need to obtain a license key for each of your songs downloaded from MSN Music on any new computer, & you must do it before Aug. 31, 2008. If you attempt to transfer your songs to additional computers after Aug. 31, 2008, those songs will not successfully play.” - Wikipedia: Digital Rights Management. / “Windows Mobile was the predecessor of Windows Phone & these 2 operating systems should not be confused, because the operating systems are completely different: ...thus Windows Mobile cannot be updated to Windows Phone.” Wikipedia “The service was available for use directly on Windows Mobile 6.x devices & on personal computers. It was announced at the 2009 Mobile World Congress, & began operation on 6 October 2009, featuring an initial 246 applications.” The last version of Windows Mobile, released after the announcement of Windows Phone, is 6.5.5. / UK: London: Text Compression for Reader a file format used by the PSION: david edwin Potter Scientific Instruments ON electronic-book reader software. In 1998 PSION: david edwin Potter Scientific Instruments ON renamed its EPOCh graphical operating system Symbian & spun it off into a separate corporation. “Psion registered the trademark NETBOOK in various territories, including European Union Community Trade Mark 000428250 & U.S. Trademark 75,215,401, which was applied for on 18 December 1996 & registered by USPTO: United States Patent &Trademark Office on 21 November 2000. ...INTEL [INTegrated ELectronics] began use of the term netbook in March 2008 as a generic term to describe ‘small laptops that are designed for wireless communication & access to the Internet’, In response to the growing use of this term, on 23 December 2008 Psion Teklogix sent cease & desist letters to various parties including enthusiast website(s) demanding they no longer use the term. Similar marks were rejected by the USPTO: United States Patent &Trademark Office citing a ‘likelihood of confusion’ under section 2(d), ...Psion withdrew from the consumer devices marketplace in 2001. It was announced on 15 June 2012 that Motorola Solutions had agreed to buy the company for $200 million.” MicroSoft finalized purchasing Nokia in Sept. 2013, laying off 18,000 people. The Finland Headquarters is now called Microsoft Mobile. CEO: Stephen Elop. Nokia inventor of HSUPA: High-Speed Uplink Packet Access 3G telephone standard. Nokia mobile telephone ebooks are made with MicroSoft.net & MBookMaker. Cover photo is a JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group <16KB.]
9. Rakuten Inc.® 楽天市場 Rakuten Ichiba [Feb. 1997], Rakuten® Overdrive Media Software, Rakuten® Ozon Bookstore (Galaxy eReader: Bell Labs® Dèjâ vu®: DJV, MicroSoft® RTF: Rich Text Format & DOCument Files, Dmitry Gribov® FictionBook® FB2, Adobe® PDF: Portable Document Format & ePub: electronicPublication) [1998], Rakuten Inc.® Kobo® Bookstore (Kobo eReader: Digital Rights Management: Adobe® ADEPT: Adobe Digital Experience Protection Technology ePUB: electronicPUBlication) [February 27, 2009], Rakuten Inc.® Viber Media® Viber [Dec. 2, 2010], Rakuten Ibc.® Viki Inc. [2010], Rakuten Inc.® Wuaki.tv. [2010] [Tokyo: Online Shopping Site with International Shipping by MDM Inc., now called Rakuten: Optimism. Masaya Mori: 森正弥 is Director of RIT: Rakuten Institute of Technology. Yukihiro Matsumoto, chief designer of the Ruby programming language, a Fellow. Rakuten Café in Shibuya, Tokyo by Kashiwa Sato. Acquired: Buy.com: Shopping USA, Priceminister, Ikeda: Rakuten Brasil, Tradori: Rakuten Deutschland. Owned by Billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani, Japan’s 3rd Richest Man with a net worth of $9.4 billion according to Bloomberg who put him on their Bloomberg Billionaire Index. Hiroshi Mikitani led a group that acquired a minority stake in Pinterest for $100 million. / USA: “Overdrive & now get all kinds of ebooks via my library - awesome!” - Google® Android™ App Reviewer for Velocity Micro Cruz Store who also enjoyed Peter Dornbacher® Zebra Paint, intellijoy® Kids Connect the Dots, Prestige Worldwide Games® Barnyard Buddies, Toho® ゴジラ: Godzilla Monsters Lite. / Russia: Called Russia’s Amazon: 14 shipping methods & 18 forms of payment. / Canada: Kobo™ is an anagram of Book. Bought by Rakuten Nov. 8, 2011 for $315 million after Borders bankruptcy & expanded to Japan, Australia, Austria-Germany-Italy, BenLux-France, Brazil, Philippines, Portugal-Spain, South Africa, Turkey, UK-Ireland under Chairman Takahito Aiki. Kobo books are NOT refundable. Opening the Borders Reader (July 7, 2010: Android 1.6>) which ran Kobo will prompt you to install the latest version of Kobo. Nate Hoffelder, The Digital Reader: Latest Cruz Reader firmware update drops Borders, adds Kobo app ®July 1, 2011, Chris Walters, Borders Gets Into Business, Relaunches Shortcovers As Kobo Books, The Consumerist, Consumer Media LLC © Dec 16, 2009: Kobo Inc, formerly Indigo Books & Music® Shortcovers, the largest book retailer in Canada....Mike Serbinis, senior manager at Shortcovers, “This is a great opportunity for books & digital media, ...While Amazon & Sony have taken quite a closed approach, we’ve gone for the open approach – you can read our books on almost any device, or buy books from other stores & just synchronise them through your Shortcovers library. ” - Claudine Beaumont, E-books: Is the writing on the wall for books? E-books will soon be a billion-dollar business: has this new industry finally reached a tipping point? UK: Telegraph Media Group ©30 Apr 2009 / Las Vegas & Cyprus-registered. Development in Belarus & Israel: Founded by Israelis Talmon Marco, Igor Magazinnik, Sani Maroli & Ofer Smocha: 858 million subscribers: Instant Messaging, Internet voice calling: called Viber Out, Video Chat with Viber users using 3G or Wi-Fi. Profile photo set to Nobody in privacy settings will prevent it being seen in the unencrypted Viber Telephone Directory. Share ‘Using App’ status unchecked will not broadcast when you read messages & gaming scores. In 2014 Rakuten purchased for $900 million. / Singapore: Rakuten acquired digital content platform Viki Inc. in 2013 / Spain: Rakuten acquired video-on-demand Wuaki.tv in 2012.]
10. Sharp® SpaceTown® XMDF: ever-eXtending Mobile Document Format (Digital Rights Management: Encrypted Binary File) [1999 / April 30, 2011] [Japanese e-book format developed by Sharp for its Pocket Zaurus PDA: Personal Digital Assistant in 1999. Tim Conneally, Sharp unveils Galapagos e-readers to support Japanese XMDF e-book, e-Manga format, Beta News ©Sept. 29, 2010 : Sharp on Monday announced its plans to launch an E-reader business in Japan under the name Galapagos which will include 2 Android-based E-book readers & a cloud-based bookstore [Galapagos Marketplace] with about 30,000 pieces of content. XMDF, already in use on millions of mobile phones in Japan, supports vertical text formatting & Ruby subscript characters (aka furigana), & lets publishers embed video, audio, & style effects in their documents.]
11. DDC: Digital Distribution Center® BestKniga [April 2010] Dmitry Gribov® FB: FictionBook .fb2 (NO Digital Rights Management) [2004] Alex Yanchenko® Wordoholic Reader for Android™ [Russia: “> 30,000 titles. It works with dozens of publishers, including AST, Biblion, Eksmo & AdMarginem.” - Digital Publishing in developing countries 1 XML: eXtended Markup Language file. Images are converted to Base64 & reside inside the binary tag, so the size of the embedded images is increased 37%. Often FictionBook files are distributed inside Zip archives & do not need to be extracted to read.]
12. Debenu Pty Ltd.® Planet PDF (Digital Rights Management: Adobe® LockLizard Safeguard Portable Document Format Security) [2011] [Classic literature to download & share.]
13. Ingram® VitalSource® VitalBooks .vbk [1994] [USA: Copy & pasting & printing are definitely still limited.]
14. Mantano SAS.® Bookari Reader .epub (Digital Rights Management: Adobe® RMSDK: Reader Mobile Standard Development Kit) [2007] [France: Paris: 2 rue du Helder, 75009; Android™ Note-taking, text-to-speech, fonts. “Bookari was once Mantano Reader. The name changed. You can also buy books directly from the service. It supports a variety of formats, including EPUB2, PDF, & others. The free version contains advertising while the $5.49 pro version does not.” Joe Hindy, 15 best reader apps for Android, Android Authority: Domains By Proxy, LLC. ©2018. Android Authority’s data collecting cookies crashing my phone now.]
15. Nuazure® Pubu Bookstore [2011] [Login: Taiwanese store with >5000 titles. iPubu for Android read’s EPUB: ElectronicPUBlication & Adobe® PDF: Portable Document Format. Cheng-Yen Chuang No. 12-47, Nantai Rd. Sinsing District, Kaohsiung, Republic of China, TW]
16. Saraiva e Siciliano S.A® Mega eStore [2010] (Format: Zahur Klemath Zapata® Digital Book Inc.® Digital Book Format .dbf) [1992] [Brazil: Publishing house & largest bookstore chain in Brazil with 92 stores. USA: 242 East 2nd St. Suite 4D, New York, NY 10009. Tel: 1-212-260-1723: Offered digital books on floppy disc. “Digital Book Format at 8th International Book Fair in Bogotá, Colombia. According to data from the consultancy firm Tendencias Digitales, in 2007 70% of Internet users in the region claimed never to have made a purchase through the web. According to data from CERLALC, in Mexico, Colombia & Brazil, sales of physical books through Internet channels between 1998 & 2004 did not exceed 0.2% of the total.” Cf. Richard Uribe, La distribucion del libro en América Latina, pg 7, CERLALC ©September 2006.]
17. Zinio Publishing & Technology Services Company® Zinio .zno (Digital Rights Management) [Nov. 2009] [San Francisco, CA, USA: Offices in London, Paris, Barcelona & Taipei. Privately held by Gilvest LP, an investment entity owned by entrepreneur David H. Gilmour of Fiji Water, Barrick Gold & the South Pacific Hotel Corporation. MicroSoft® Windows, Apple® Macintosh OSX, Apple® iPhone/iPad, BlackBerry Ltd.® BlackBerry, Google® Android™ Frozen Yogurt.]
18. Hongshee Software® Wisbook [2004] [Readers supporting Asian scripts in horizontal & vertical modes. Searching for the popular formats, aozora bunko & chm, will also yield many results]
19. DKI Technology® SnowLamp Reader 1.0.3 [April 23, 2010] [Korea: Seoul: Blue snowflake icon: Menus & help in Korean. - Ayo Isaiah, Make Tech Easier: How to Scan APK Files & Check If They Have a Virus ©2017]
20. iMAP Systems® SmartBooks (Android™ TTS: Text-To-Speech) (GetJar) [2010] & (Google® Play™) Alex Kravchenko® Smart AudioBook Player [Aug. 5, 2014] [ePub supports Persian & Arabic. Text highlight: Text-to-Speech is buggy. 2012: Android 4 is not compatible with old program & will need version 2.5.5 to avoid memory paging errors. - Khamosh Pathak, Complete Guide To Listening To Audiobooks on Android, Guiding Tech ©Aug. 5, 2014]
21. FoOtOo Lab® ShuTong: Dragon Reader: 龍騎士 Lóng qíshì: 1.41 MB (Apk-dl) [June 19, 2011] [China: Fuutoo Labs® ShooTong: Dragon Knight Reader: Android 2.1>: ID: org.footoo.bookassistant: Runs on WonderMedia® ARMv5 Tablets & in their store. This connects to a special electronic Book store so I will have to find out some more information about this. It has a barcode scanner for ISBN: International Standard Book Number books. Wu Jin Harlon Institute of Technology, Box 321, Harlon CN. cliffwoo@footoo.org]
22. Grupa SPOT® myLibra reader® [“The rendering of custom epub created by Humanoid Apps® Calibre is the best. De Marque® Feedbooks® Aldiko had issue with floating table (Hong Kong: Tiffany Wong: Pro: reads Adobe® DRM: Digital Rights Management), dMobile System Co. Ltd® MoonReader had basically too many issues that I can’t even list (Pro: Chinese: TTS: Text To Speech, TXT: TeXT, HTML: HyperText Markup Language, Non-DRM ePUB: electronicPUBlication, Nokia® UMD: Universal Mobile Document, FictionBook: fb2, OPDS: Open Publication Distribution System Arabic & Hebrew special edition), Geometer Plus® FB: Favorite Book Reader simply has no support for table at all (TTS: Text-To-Speech), Lantean Studio® StarBook (Chinese: .stk proprietary format created using supplied Windows software. electronicReader introduced 2006 ran Linux operating system) had good rendering but very slow. Nook had same issue as Aldiko.” - HoushaSen, May 17, 2011 Google® Play™]
1. Louis Braille® le braille [1825] & Louis Braille® Decapoint a.k.a Raphigraphie: Greek: Raphis: Point + Graphein: Write [1839] [“Braille Technology is capable of revolutionizing the lives of thousands of people because it allows them to engage in the virtual world that can not be perceived through their eyes.” Tactile reading & writing system that allows one to pass one’s fingers over characters, each of which is an arrangement of 1 to 6 embossed points. It is an adaptation of the Parisian National Institute of Blind Youth: L’Institution des Enfants Aveugles founder Valentine Haüy (1745-1822)’s 1784 caractères en relief linéaire: raised letter reading system using paper pressed across a copper wire combined with Charles Barbier de La Serre’s 1810 wartime système d’ecriture nocturne: night writing system that allowed battlefield soldiers to communicate without speaking. 36 sounds of French in a 6 line, 6 column table coded in 2-12 points en reliefs: raised dots. Braille (1809-1852) reduced the dot grid, added music & math notation by 1829. Braille held the position of organist in Paris at the Church of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs in 1834 & the Church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul in 1845. His carbon-paper based Raphigraph: Greek: Raphis: Point + Graphein: Write Braille typewriter produced by Pierre-François-Victor Foucault in 1841 with his lettres ordinaires explaining the operation of the typewriter. A white bust of Braille is at his birthplace of Coupvray, SE of Paris in Seine-et-Marne. A black bust of him by Étienne Leroux is at the Bibliotèque national de France: French National Library. His remains are at the Panthéon. - Wikipedia. The Braille embosser is an impact printer that renders text as tactile Braille cells. Using Braille translation software, a document can be embossed with relative ease. The fastest industrial Braille embosser is the $77,000 Belgian-made NV Interpoint 55, 1st produced in 1991, which uses a separate air compressor to drive the embossing head & can output up to 800 Braille characters per second. Duplex embossing requires lining up the dots so they do not overlap (called interpoint because the points on the other side are placed in between the points on the 1st side) - On-line Dictionary of Computing. / Louis Braille’s tactile Roman font with punctuation used by the blind & sighted. Each letter contains 10 embossed dots in height & different dots in the width to produce the graphic form of print. The Home Sweet Home Dot-Matrix font resembles it. Pierre-François-Victor Foucault made the Raphigraph TypeWriter in 1841. It pushes all the points of 1 column of characters at the same time into paper. “A sample of decapoint. The relative efficiency of braille can be seen, as the line at the bottom is the braille transcription for the 1st 2 lines of decapoint: je vous prie de commander une planche pour la grille ci-jointe.” - Wikipedia.]
2. James Gall® Gall: Love Triangular Alphabet [1826] [Edinburgh Blind Asylum Founder James Gall (1784-1874): Gall: Love in Breton: Angular Roman type using both capital & lowercase Roman letters: Used for a time at the Blind Asylum in Edinburgh, Glasgow & London. - Wikipedia: Tactile Alphabet]
3. Thomas Mark Lucas® Britannic: Bright Souls or Universal Alphabet a.k.a Lucas: Glimmering Systems of Printing for the Blind [1830-1891] [London Society for Teaching the Blind founder Thomas Mark Lucas (1764-1838): Lucas: Glimmering in Breton/British like the Lu(nar): Moon. Stenographic embossed shorthand: letters consist of lines with or without a dot at 1 end. / Brittia: Villemarqué placing it near Raz, Armorica, where there is a toponym baie des âmes / boé an anaon: bay of souls.]
4. Belfast Auxiliary Society-Ulster Society for Promoting the Education of the Deaf & the Blind® Jordanstown Schools [1831] [Belfast Day School for the Deaf & Dumb @ College St Congregational Church (now Donegall St), Belfast moving to Queen’s University Medical Dept on Lisburn Rd, Belfast in 1845 & finally to Jordanstown in 1961 where the University of Ulster & Belfast High School are located. Jordanstown, pop. 5,494, a townland & electoral ward in Country Antrim, Northern Ireland within the urban area called Newtownabbey. Seafront beach Loughshore Park sits on the shore of Belfast Lough in pre-industrial maps as Carrickfergus Bay. Nearby is the village of Cushendall from Breton/British: Cois Abhann Dalla: Foot of the River Dall: Blind otherwise known as Bun Abhann Dalla meaning bottom of the River of the Divine Blind One & formerly Newtown Glens. / My grandmother said the River Jordan divides the countries of Israel & Jordan itself not unlike this dividing Ireland in half after listening to The Sisters of Mercy Floodlands album // “English is used in the Blind Department. Northern Ireland Sign Language is practiced in the Deaf Department with several children from families where Northern Ireland Sign Langage or/& Irish Sign Language is used on a daily basis. However the schools promote the Total Communication policy with the focus on using Signed English.” - Wikipedia]
5. Edmund Fry System [1832] [Fry (1754-1835) is the name of young salmon. PLAIN ROMAN CAPITALS ONLY: In 1832, the Edinburgh Society of Arts offered a gold medal for the best method of printing for the blind. No fewer than 19 systems were submitted, 16 of them using arbitrary symbols. The medal was ultimately awarded to Dr. Edmund Fry, of London - Fry & Co. Printers [1764-1835] Vision Australia]
6. Julius Reinhold Friedlander® Philadelphia Line Letter [1833], Samuel Gridley Howe Embossed System for the Blind® Boston Line Letter [1835] & William Chapin® Combined System [1868] [USA: USING ALL CAPITAL LETTERS at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind founded by Julius Reinhold Friedlander (1803-1839). Printer Jacob Snider engraved the text on copper plates in a round hand. Sample embossed printing mentioned by Arkadia Press author Edith Willoughby under the school as Overbrook School for the Blind: The Gospel of Mark & Lux en Tenebrae Magazine. / usa: angular roman lowercase letters only: Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876)’s Acts of the Apostles ©1835. Director of the New England Asylum for the Blind in Boston (now Perkins in Watertown) & with Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) in 1848 established the Victorian sanitorium Massachusetts School for Idiotic Children in Waltham. Many argued the disabled did so well in schools like Dr. Howe’s that they should remain permanently incarcerated there. The Massachusetts School renamed Fernald State School after its eugenics proponent & 1st superintendent Walter Elmore Fernald (1859-1924) in 1925. Fernald School scene of eugenics in the 1920s & medical experiments in the 20th century: 1946-53 joint experiments by Harvard University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor of Nutrition Robert S. Harris exposed young male children to doses of radioactive isotopes. The Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments reported to the United States Department of Energy in 1994 documents revealing the experiment was conducted in part by a research fellow sponsored by the Quaker Oats Company. Neither the children nor their parents ever gave adequate informed consent for participation in a scientific study. 17 subjects received radioactive iron as a supplement. The 2nd study with 17 related subexperiments exposed 57 subjects to radioactive calcium between 1950 & 1953. The highest dose of radiation any subject was exposed to was 330 millirem, the equivalent of <1 year’s background radiation in Denver. Ricci v. Okin class action lawsuit led to improvements beginning in the 1970s. The school was shut down November 13, 2014. - BRONNER F, HARRIS RS, MALETSKOS CJ, BENDA CLEMENS ,E: (January 1956). Studies in calcium metabolism; the fate of intravenously injected radiocalcium in human beings. The Journal of Clinical Investigation 35 (1): 78-88. doi:10.1172/JCI103254. PMC 438780. PMID 13278403. SHARPE LM, PEACOCK WC, COOKE R, HARRIS RS (July 1950). The effect of phytate & other food factors on iron absorption. The Journal of Nutrition 41 (3): 433-46. PMID 15428911. & KURLAND GS, FISHMAN J, HAMOLSKY MW, DBERG AS (April 1957). Radioisotope study of thyroid function in 21 mongoloid subjects, including observations in 7 parents. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 17 (4): 552-60. doi:10.1210/jcem-17-4-552. PMID 13406017 / USA: Napoleon Bonaparte Kneass Jr. (1843-1898) “N.B. Kneass, Jr a Philadelphia printer who adapted the lower case forms of Boston line letter & capital letters from a rival tactile system known as Philadelphia Line.” - U.S. Library of Congress® National Library Service for the Blind & Physically Handicapped, Braille: Into The Next Millennium, pp. 41-46, Washington D.C. ©2000. ISBN: 0844410217 ]
7. John Alston® Alston Type [1837] [ROMAN CAPITAL LETTERS WITHOUT SWIRLS OR SERIFS similar to the modern Orator typewriter font. Letters are very square shaped & lines almost touching. Alston (1778-1846) Treasurer at Glasgow’s Asylum for the Blind & manufacturer of ginghams & pullicates, for the firm in Glassford Street. Press used to produce booklets for Charles Baker, Superintendent of the school for the Deaf & Dumb in Doncaster. In 1840, the complete Bible was produced in 19 volumes. This was the 1st embossed bible in the world in any type. - Andrew Aird, Glimpses of Old Glasgow, Glasgow Digital Library ©1894. Chromolithography invented this year.]
8. James Hatley Frere® Frere Type [1838] [Phonetic system: James Hatley Frere (1779-1866) 6th son of John Frere, F.R.S. [q. v.], of Roydon, Norfolk, & Beddington, Surrey, by Jane, daughter & heiress of John Hookham of London (Burke, Landed Gentry, 7th ed., i. 689). Characters consist of straight lines, half circles, hooked lines, & angles of 45°, together with a hollow & solid circle. In 1871 it was in use at only 3 home institutions. Letters etched in copperplate stereotype. Books are read left to right with alternating lines right to left. - Frere, James Hatley. Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885-1900.
9. William Moon System of Embossed Reading [1845] [ISO 15924: Moon, 218. Embossed symbols derived from the Roman alphabet developed by Doctor William Moon (1818-1894), a blind Englishman living in Brighton, East Sussex after his pupils had difficulty learning to read the then-popular Frere-type. Moon type used by English Christian missionaries in Qing dynasty China, for the Ningbo dialect. In 1889, The Chinese Times, Volume 3 had an article about the romanization of the Ningbo dialect. / British & Foreign Blind Society for Improving Embossed Literature for the Blind founded by Dr. Thomas Rhodes Armitage is the ancestor of the RNIB: Royal National Institute of the Blind. Moon books for fluent readers can be borrowed from the RNIB Library Service & books for children from Clearvision Project. The Martha Arnold® Lending Library for the Blind Ancestor of the NLB: National Library for the Blind: 73 Fairfax Road, South Hampstead, London. The Manchester & Salford Blind Aid Society was incorporated into the NLB as its Northern Branch. By the 1990s the lending stock came to 46,000 titles in Braille, Braille music, Moon type & Large Print formats. The library was merged on 2, January 2007 with the RNIB.]
10. Frances Batty Shand® Cardiff Institute for the Blind [1865], Leeds Incorporated Institution for the Blind & the Deaf & Dumb [1866]_Worcester College for the Blind Sons of Gentlemen [1866], Galloway’s Society for the Blind [1867] [Wales: Cardiff & the Vale of Glamorgan. Founded by the daughter of a Jamaican plantation owner, who employed 4 blind men to make baskets for coal ships. “By 1900 >100 blind men & women were employed making baskets, brushes & mats.” / Founded by the Vicar of Leeds, Reverend D.R. Atley on Albion: White Moon Street. Sign Language Interpreting Service, British Sign Language & Sensory Awareness. - Yorkshire Evening Post / Ancestor of the NCW: New College Worcester, a Specialist Special School for students ages 11-19. It has moved from its original home at The Commandery, the former English Civil War headquarters of King Charles II to the village of Powick in 1887 & then to its present location of Whittington Road, Worcester in 1902. Merged with the Chorleywood College for Girls with Little or No Sight in the 1980s. “Students learn to become independent through mobility lessons with the school’s mobility training officers, as well as basic living skills sessions in school. (Independent Living Skills, formerly known as DFL: Design For Living). New college will also teach Braille to students if necessary.” / Registered Charity #526088, 1 of Lancashire’s oldest charities, established in 1867 following a public meeting in the Corn Exchange, Preston, England. Provides Talking Newspapers & Magazines producing >3.500 tapes & CDs each week. Current titles include: Lancashire Evening Post, Ormskirk Advertiser, Lancaster Citizen, Moorecam Visitor, Lancaster Guardian, Longridge News, Garstang Courier, Farmers Guardian, Methodist Recorder, The Voice, Salvation Army War Cry, Asian Awaz & The Prestonian.]
11. William Bell Wait System® New York Point [1868-1916], Joel West Smith® Modified braille a.k.a Revised braille a.k.a American braille [1878-1918] [Dot code system 1-4 spaces wide × 2 spaces tall with no capitals or punctuation: William Bell Wait (1839-1916), a teacher at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind, adapted it for use in >20 languages, music notation & invented devices available only in New York to type & print embossed material. Widely used in the United States before the braille system universally adopted there. - Wikipedia. American Association of Instructors of the Blind approved & in 1890 the only dot type for books from the government-supported American Printing House for the Blind. 1909: Out of favor when an ink-printed translation showing a lack of punctuation presented to New York Public School District Administrators accompanied by a letter from Helen Keller stating grammatical errors on standard typewriters traceble to New York Point illiteracy. “He died a disappointed, embittered old man.” Robert B. Irwin, As I Saw It, USA: New York: American Foundation for the Blind ©1955 / Dot code system 2 spaces wide × 3 spaces tall using New England Asylum for the Blind/Thomas Handasyd Perkins word order. Joel West Smith (1837-1925) lost his sight in 1862 at a 4th of July Party when a cannon exploded prematurely. Missouri School for the Blind Administrator Dr. John T. Sible, est. 1850, renamed it American braille. No books in this type published until the 1910-1911 school year. Typewriter by David Abraham (1896-1978) in 1951 for Director Edward Waterhouse called The Perkins Embossing Machine: La machine à écrire Perkins. The fact Perkins (1764-1854) was an opium merchant makes noone proud & trying to remove it during the USA National Opiate Awareness Week, Sept 26, is not a smooth move. Machine Information: “Elle est munie de 6 touches correspondant à chacun des 6 points de la matrice braille, d’une touche d’espacement, de 2 commandes annexes permettant le retour arrière et le retour chariot et d’un mécanisme pour faire avancer le papier comme sur une machine à écrire classique.”]
12. International Congress on Work for the Blind® Unified international braille or World braille [1878] [Dot code system 2 spaces wide × 3 spaces tall for France, Britain, Germany, & Egypt. “Under international agreement, most braille alphabets follow the French order for the 26 letters of the basic Latin alphabet. This agreement was made to avoid the chaos of each nation reordering the Braille code to match the sorting order of its print alphabet.” Wikipedia The Hora Jucunda, a braille magazine published in Edinburgh, opened its columns to a discussion of the merits & demerits of braille as early as 1893. Offset printing: 1875. 1876 added 200 English contractions & abbreviations. Abbreviations as slid for should, bl for blind, rcv for receive, dcv for deceive, etc.]
13. Hot Metal Typesetting [1886] [For Letterpress printing. Injects molten lead into a glyphed mold; creating lead sorts & slugs used to press ink onto paper. 2 methods: Lanston Monotype Corporation® Monotype Composition Caster System® punched paper-tape, with all characters cast separate. Linecaster System with a whole line as a slug: Ottmar Merganthaler GmbH® ,Linotype (bought by Monotype in 2007), Intertype Corporation® Intertype (bought by Harris Automatic Press Co.), Ludlow® Typograph (bought by Linotype), Monoline (bought by Linotype). All machines had non-qwerty-keyboards. Linotype molds circulated through the machine. When a key pressed, a brass matrix passed through an assembler front, past a rotating wheel & into the assembling elevator (which served the same purpose as the hand compositor’s stick & adjusted line length in picas). When the space band key near the keyboard pressed, a space band would drop out of the box into the assembling elevator. When the line approached the correct length, a bell chimed. If short, matrices could turn sidewise or not seal. If long, the elevator carrying the matrices & space bands would not seat properly in front of the mold slot. When the line assembled, the typesetter pressed a lever. A bar forced movable sleeves on the space bands upwards to fill out the line to the exact width of the mold. Plunger injected molten metal into mold cavity. Machine separated mold disk, metal pot, & elevator. Mold disk turned, passing knives trimming base & height before sliding down into a ‘galley’ next to the typesetter. The slug galley was transferred to the composing table to be set in the form, & once the press run was completed the slugs would be remelted & oxidized metal (dross) skimmed off. “Although strictly speaking not typesetting, stereotyping (electrotype or nickeltype) could be used to cast a reproduction of an entire typeset page (or pages imposed in a forme) using a mold made with an impression using flong (similar to papier-mâché). The ensuing casting could be made curved for use on a rotary press or flat for the slower flat bed presses. This technique was often used in newspaper production.” – Wikipedia]
14. Frank Haven Hall® braille Stereotypemaker [1893] [Frank Haven Hall (1841-1911): Illinois Institution for the Blind: 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago: Embossed metal sheets of brass, zinc or iron, covered with print paper, rubber blanket & inserted into the press. Plates stored at the American Printing House for the Blind.]
15. Society for the Relief of the Destitute Blind in New York City now AFB: American Foundation for the Blind [1899] [USA: New York, NY: Institution for blind children with philanthropist & retired silk-manufacturer Moses Charles Migel (1866-1958) as a book reader in 1899. Moses Charles Migel financed le braille of 1917 & formed the American Foundation for the Blind selling braille writers, magnifiers, audio blood pressure monitors, directories, periodicals & talking books.]
16. St. Dunstan’s: Holy Brown One [1915] [UK: London; Harcourt St. Founded by Newspaper Publishing Magnate Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet (1866-1921), who lost his sight due to glaucoma. The Illustrated London News in 1915, which said: in a corner of London’s most beautiful park is a house where miracles are worked.. The Charity of The Pearly Kings & Queens:-) founded by Henry Croft The Pearlie-King of Somers Town (May 24, 1861, St Pancras Workhouse, Somers Town, London - January 1, 1930 St Pancras Workhouse). The mother-of-pearl buttons produced at factories in the East End of London inspired by the clothes of costermongers: apple vendors. Croft participated in charitable pageants & carnivals to raise money for hospitals. Free support to vision impaired ex-Armed Forces & National Service personnel in the UK. Re-named Blind Veterans UK in 2012. Centres in Brighton est. 1938, Sheffield & Llandudno, Wales.]
17. Kent: Clear Water Association for the Blind [1920][72, College Rd, Maidstone, ME 15 65, UK. Kent means Clear Water in Breton/British. For vets whose sight had been damaged during WWI. According to Wikipedia, the charity provides a specialist 1-to-1 service for people with dual sensory impairment (deafblind) & produces the Digital Kent Talking newspapers. Transcription service to companies & organisations who want to make their information accessible to sight impaired people available in digital audio formats: James Russell® CD: Compact Disc, MP3:, DAISY:... large print or Braille.]
18. Wilhelm Ritzerfeld® Alfred Blake Dick Co.® Spirit Duplicator [1923] [Because this is a Halloween website, says Jim. :-) “The term ‘spirit duplicator’ refers to the alcohols which were a major component of the solvents used as ‘inks’ in these machines. The device coexisted alongside the similar mimeograph...The technology remains useful where electrical power is unavailable, or where the only remaining originals of legacy documents requiring duplication are in ‘spirit master’ form.” Wax colorant coated sheet(s) impressed onto backside of design creating a printing plate. Paper to be printed moves through printer with a clear duplicating fluid: a toxic solvent 50/50 mix of isopropanol & methanol, spread across each sheet by an absorbent wick. Pigmented wax dissolves under printing drum..” US Patent: 359088A/2967475 © 1928/1961. Berlin: Organizations-Mittel GmBh Co.® Ormig-V, USA: Ditto Business Systems® Ditto Machine. UK: Block & Anderson® Banda, France: Roneo. Aniline purple, red, green, blue, black, orange, yellow, brown fade under UV light/direct sunlight. Wikipedia: M P Doss, Information Processing Equipment, USA: New York ©1955, Irvin A. Herrmann, Manual of Office Reproduction, New York ©1956.]
19. Jewish Braille Institute of America® International Hebrew Braille Code [1936] [Unlike Hebrew & in keeping with Braille, Hebrew Braille is read from left to right. Founded April 22, 1931 in the Manhattan borough of New York City by Leopold Dubov, Rabbi Michael Aaronson & funded by the National Federation of Temple Sisterhood, now known as the Women of Reform Judaism. It adapted the Moon writing system into Yiddish & Hebrew & devised an international Hebrew Braille code. Helen Keller (1880-1968) was an avid reader. Publications are available in English, Hebrew, Hungarian, Russian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish & Yiddish. The organization maintains a circulating library of books particularly related to Judaism & Jewish culture. — Wikipedia]
20. Catholic Guild for all the Blind [1936] [USA: Now Fr. Thomas Carroll Center for the Blind, 770 Centre St. Newton, MA 02458-2597: VP Rabih Dow, of touché fencing, blinded in a Lebanese bomb blast & taken to the US for medical treatment. Commenting on Mount Lebanon where he grew up: “Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand. ...It is a fun process & its also a very rewarding process. ...Life is full of journeys. We land some & we fall into others by circumstances out of our control. Journey through loss is one of those journeys. And so, long ago & far away from here my life journeys began at this metaphoric place.” He paints on glass. “So if you look back at this it’s all due to the war. ...My family lost the family business a few times during the war. Direct hit, or robbery or what have you. It is the impact of war that is not seen, not measured.” - Neda Ulaby, Arab.American Stories, Producers: Jeff Forster, Warren David, Funds: American Druze Foundation, PBS: 2:00pm, Aug 1, USA: WTVS Detroit MI ©2012]
21. René Alphonse Higonnet et Louis Marius Moyroud® PhotoTypesetting [September 1946] [France: Machines expose characters onto photographic film/paper for offset printing. Machines convert marked-up copy typed on paper tape to codes that control phototypesetters. Developed photo paper/film called ‘cold type’. Paste-Up: Long galleys of 1 column type pasted onto layout boards to create a full page of text for magazines & newsletters. A stat camera used to photograph the paste-up mechanical, & the final offset printing plates created from the camera’s negative. Photon Corporation® Lumitype, Ottmar Mergenthaler GmbH® Linotron, Lanston Monotype Machine Corporation® Monophoto, Alphatype, Varityper. – Wikipedia.]
22. Bhãratï braille [1951] [India-Bangladesh-Pakistan, Sri Lanka-Ceylon & Nepal: Unified international 6-dot braille code for writing the languages of India: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Oriya, Sinhala , Tamil, Telugu & Urdu. When India gained independence, 11 braille alphabets were in use. Vowels are written as full letters following the consonant in the order they are pronounced. Diacritics: The pointing symbol is used for consonant letters by adding a dot to another consonant.]
23. Abraham Nemeth® Nemeth Code for Mathematics & Science Notation [1952] MacKichan Software Inc® SNB: Scientific NoteBook .snb, Scientific Word .sw & Scientific WorkPlace .swp [1998] [USA: 19307 Ith Ave, Suite C, Poulsbo, WA 98370-7370: “Scientific Notebook is a software program based on an easy-to-use word processor that can create textbook quality print documents that contain text, mathematics, & graphics. In addition, it formats mathematics in a way that is ideal for transcription into Nemeth Code (the braille code used for mathematics)” - Susan A. Osterhaus, M.Ed, Secondary Mathematics Teacher, Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired]
24. Intelligent Machines Research Corporation® RCA: Radio Corporation of America® OCR-A: Optical Character Recognition-A Font [1952] [USA: Cryptanalyst David H. Shepard’s Apparatus for Reading 1953 U.S. Patent 2,663,758 to convert paper type to computer machine code. Commercially marketed to: Reader’s Digest (sales reports to punch cards, sort returned coupons printed by an RCA: Radio Corporation of America Drum printer using the OCR-A font), Standard Oil Company (reading credit card imprints for billing). Ohio Bell Telephone Co. - Herbert Schantz, The History of OCR. Manchester Center, VT: Recognition Technologies Users Association ©1982]
25. Word Processor [1960] [Stand-alone office machine in the 1960s combining the keyboard text-entry & printing functions of an electric typewriter with a recording unit, either tape or floppy disk with a dedicated computer processor for editing of text. Proprietary systems in $10,000 ballpark. As of 2009, only 2 U.S. companies, Classic & AlphaSmart still make them. - Wikipedia]
26. IBM: International Business Machines® GML: Generalized Markup Language [1963] [Invented by Charles Goldfarb, Edward Mosher & Raymond Lorie whose surname initials are used to make the term GML: Generalized Markup Language. Used for IBM: International Business Machines System 360° Mainframe Computer’s text formater SCRIPT; indicating where paragraphs, headers, lists, tables are in the document. SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language is descended from it. ISO 8879: 1986.]
27. Ted Nelson® HyperText : Hyper: Greek for Beyond + Text [1965] [Term coined by American sociologist Theodore Holm Nelson, son of director Ralph Nelson & actress Celeste Holm, who worked with inventor Andries van Dam at Brown University to develop the Hypertext Editing System in 1967 on an IBM System 360° Mainframe Computer for the Apollo Space Program. Douglas Carl Engelbart at SRI: Stanford Research Institute demonstrated a hypertext interface to the public in December 1968 on a SDS: Scientific Data Systems 840 computer running NLS: oN-Line System with a computer mouse invented by himself & Bill English. Andries van Dam & assistant Bob Wallace refined hypertext FRESS: File Retrieval & Editing Service in 1968 to run as a terminal-program & WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get type editor on different types of mini-computers with a light-pen. This is now called a word-processor. Andries van Dam called the files electronic books. ETI: Electronic Book Technologies a spin-off company from the Brown research project. Nelson published The Home Computer Revolution in 1977. Wikipedia: “Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately acccess, usually by a mouse click or a keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images & other presentational devices. ...The most famous implementation of hypertext is the World Wide Web, 1st deployed in 1992.” John Markoff, Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies, [January 25, 1925-July 2, 2013], USA: The New York Times ©July 3, 2013]
28. MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology® DOTSYS BrailleEmboss / Duxbury Systems® Duxbury Braille Translator [1969 / July 1976] [USA: Duxbury, MA: Student-designed software written in FORmula TRANslation to operate on different computers; producing embossed paper braille. Program stored on a magnetic tape reel & recoded into COBOL: COmmon Business Operating Language by Massachusetts Institute of Technology employees Bob Gildea, Jonathan Millen, W. Reid Gerhart & Robert Mann for commercial use as the Duxbury Translator for English & Spanish braille. Added Arabic, French, Swahili, Bharati braille & others for 150 languages. Software for: Digital Research Inc.® CP/M: Control Program/Monitor (1978), Phase One Systems® OASIS: Online Application System Interactive Software operating system for ZiLOG® 8080 (1979), MicroSoft® DOS: Disc Operating System (1985), Apple® Macintosh Apple Operating System (1989) & MicroSoft® Windows (1991)]
29. Digital Typesetting [1976] [The nascent state of then newly developed electronic publishing tools (expecially those that provided input to phototypesetters)]
30. Donald Ervin Knuth® TeX .tex [1978] [Traditionally used by technical writers & science authors. With this format, it is possible to typeset complex mathematical formulae quite easily. 1st version written in the SAIL: Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory programming language to run on a Digital Equipment Corporation® PDP: Programmed Data Processor-10 computer under Stanford’s WAITS: Westcoast Alternative to Incompatible Time Share operating system. TEXNH: Greek for Art & Craft is the root word of technical. “Mr. Knuth, author of The Art of Computer Programming, creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, the related METAFONT font definition language & rendering system & the Computer Modern family of typefaces. Version numbers of his TeX software approach the number Pi, in that versions increment in the style 3, 3,1, 3,14, 3,141 & so on. Similarly, version numbers of Metafont approach the base of the natural logarithm e. His TeX-XeT allows a user to mix texts written in left-to-right & right-to-left writing systems in the same document.” - Wikipedia]
31. Word Processing Programs Software [1979]
    “In printing, Preflight is the process of confirming that the digital files required for the printing process are all present, valid, correctly formatted, & of the desired type. 1st used in a presentation at the Color Connections conference in 1990 by consultant Chuck Weger. Preflight checks: embedded images & graphics provided & available to application, fonts are accessible to the system, in a compatible file format & not corrupt, image files are in formats the application can process, correct color format, & correct resolution, required color profiles are included, confirm page layout document size, margins, bleeds, marks & page information all fit within the constraints of the output device & match specifications, confirm the correct colour separations or ink plates are being output.” Wikipedia: Nick Moyes: Professor Ron Bertolina, Preflighting Digital Files, Graphic Arts Technical Foundation: GATFWorld Magazine ©1995
    • Historical: ISMAI: Information Sciences Management Associates Inc.® ComputerLand® MicroPro International® WordStar (English Only: No extension letters) [RIP: Rest In Peace: June 1979-1992] [USA: CA: San Leandro: Founder Seymour Ivan Rubinstein (1934-) won the WordStar lawsuit filed against him in 1990 by William H. Millard (1932-). An ISMAI 8080 computer is in the movie WarGames ©1983. Non-WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get Word Processing Program written in INTEL: INTegrated ELectronics® 8080 processor assembly language by John Robbins Barnaby for micro-computers running Digital Research Inc.® CP/M: Control Program/Monitor operating system. Sold on 8 & 5¼″ floppies with a retail price of $450. The MS-DOS: MicroSoft-Disc Operating System version arrived in 1982. Time-consuming, knowledge & labor intensive escape sequences required for printers hand-entered into program memory. Machine-language programs in a patch area for printers. Printing to Diablo® Daisy Wheel Printers, Dot-Matrix Printers or IBM® Selectric Typewriters. MailMerge program. “2 files were required: a) a DAT(abase) file, being a list stored in a comma delineated format. ...For example: Mr, Michael, Smith, 7 Oakland Drive,... b) a master document containing the text of the letter, using standard paragraphs (a.k.a boilerplate text). The writer placed & fields, e.g. &TITLE&, &INITIAL&, &SURNAME&, &ADDRESS1& to be substituted consecutively by the data items read from the DAT file.” Industry adopted WordPerfect by 1985 when MicroPro announced exclusivity to IBM: International Business Machines with hard disks. Write&Set has WordStar DOS: Disc Operating System file format.Thomas J. Bergin, The Origins of Word Processing Software for Personal Computers: 1976-1985, IEEE: Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers Annals of the History of Computing 28 (4): 32-47. DOI:10.1109/MAHC.2006.76, ©Oct-Dec 2006]
    • Historical: Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance® WordMate [Dec.1982-April 1986] [Word processor by Wilton H. Jones for MS-DOS: MicroSoft-Disc Operating System. Uses the same key sequences as Wang WP: Word Processor computers & includes the Wang Document Summary screen for each document. Hardware interface cards for file-transfer with Wang WP: Word Processor computers (1972-1986), Novell, 3COM: Computer Communication Compatibility & IBM: International Business Machines PC: Personal Computer Token Ring networks. Supported 100s of daisy-wheel & dot-matrix printers. The company changed names to SoftWord Systems, then Multimate International, while renaming WordMate to MultiMate. Spanish version called MultiTexto.]
    • Historical: XyQuest® XyWrite a.k.a North American Software GmbH® Euroscript (Plain Text IBM437 extended ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange file with markup in guillemets) [June 1982-Jan. 1993] [USA: MA: Billerica. Programmer David Erickson’s assembly language DOS: Disc Operating System word processor shipped on 5¼″ floppy disc. Modeled on the mainframe-based ATEX typesetting system. A XyWrite command compared 2 files open on the same screen, automatically putting the cursor on the location at which the 2 files 1st differ. Version 4, on 3½″ floppy disc, created under contract to IBM: International Business Machines in 1990 who cancelled it, has WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get. Windows 3.0 version 1992 by The Technology Group, Inc. - Peripherals: Mastering XyWrite, New York Times ©1988. David H. Rothman, XyWrite Made Easier – Taming the World’s Fastest Word Processor', Tab Books ©1987.]
    • Historical: Lotus Development Corp® Lotus 1-2-3 (Digital Rights Management: Key Disc Copy Protection) [1982], Lotus Development Corp.® Lotus Notes (email) [1989-2012] [USA: MA:: Cambridge “In November 2012, IBM: International Business Machines announced it will be dropping the Lotus brand & moving forward with the IBM: International Business Machines brand only to identify products including Notes & Domino.” IBM Drops Lotus Brand, Takes Notes & Domino Forward, eWeek ©November 2012]
    • Historical: Apple® MacInTalk [April 1984-April 2001] Paul C. Pratt® Mini vMac Emulator Gil Osher® Mini vMac for Android™ [Aug 20, 2011] [MacInTalk needed to run Kendall J. Redburn’s Halloween Night II ©1989. T/Maker Company® WriteNow & Apple® MacWrite the original word processors for 1984’s Apple® Macintosh Apple computer. Distributed on an Macintosh Apple formatted 400KB floppy disk. Will run on Mini vMac. USA: GA: Marietta: 1060 Princeton Walk SE. 30068. Android device version 1.6>, Mac Plus ROM image named vMac.ROM & Mac software .img or .dsk extensions placed in minivmac directory on a SD: Secure Digital Card. Adam Rosen, Adam’s Apple: Vintage Mac Networking & File Exchange, Low End Mac: Cobweb Publishing, Inc.® ©Dec 19, 2007: Orchard Logic ;-) “Apple® LocalTalk Bridge free extension for System 6/7 allows a Mac[intosh Apple] computer equipped with both Ethernet (1991) & LocalTalk (1984: RS-422 Serial) ports to talk to older Macs via LocalTalk (3-pin DB-9 or DB-8 DIN connectors or Farallon® PhoneNet: RJ-11, 4-wire telephone cable w/terminating resistors at each end]) & newer Macs via Ethernet. Enable File Sharing on the Bridge machine & you have a server the older systems can talk to. ...Mac floppies came in 400K (single sided), 800K (double sided) & 1.4 MB HD: High Density flavors. Nearly all floppy-equipped Macs [Macintosh Apples] can read/write 800K disks; some old models won’t read HD floppies, & some newer models won’t handle 400K format. USB floppy drives work with OS X. Some floppy drives may not mount 400K disks on the desktop, yet they can write 400K volumes with Disk Copy.”]
    • Ziff Brothers Investments-Vector Capita® COREL: COwpland REsearch Laboratory® SSI: Satellite Systems International® WordPerfect® Tumbleweed Communications Co.® Envoy: Messenger .evy (Proprietary) [March1980/March 1994] [Canada: Ontario: Ottowa: Private: Ziff-Davis: William Ziff’s sons Dirk, Robert, & Daniel (Nanette Byrne, Bloomberg ©Oct. 8, 2006). Michael Cowpland producing CorelDRAW, Corel Photo-Paint, Corel ChemLab Studio & acquiring Fractal Design Corporation® Painter, MicroGrafx® Designer, Jasc Software® PaintShop Pro, Ulead Systems Inc. 友立資訊: pinyin: Yǒulì Zīxùn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Iú-li̍p-chu-sìn® Video Studio & SSI: Satellite Systems International® WordPerfect. No Unicode or Asian/Complex/Multibyte Fonts: “Worldwide user base of 20 million in 2005” Envoyé(e): French for messenger. Envoy was a portable document file format created by a special printer driver in WordPerfect & viewed in the Envoy Distributable Viewer, which also worked as a web browser plugin. Bruce Bas & Brigham Young University Computer Science Professor Dr. Alan Ashton running on a Data General Corporation computer. The common file name extension of WordPerfect document files is .wpd. Older versions of WordPerfect also used file extensions .wp, .wp7, .wp6, .wp5, .wp4, & originally, no extension at all. Runs on: MicroSoft® DOS: Disc Operating System (1982-1997, 1986: Library for Novell NetWare), Apple® IIe/MacIntosh (1982-1989/1996: 3.5e), DEC: Digital Equipment Corp.® Rainbow (1983), Apricot® Apricot, Texas Instruments® TI Pro, Radio Shack® Tandy2000, Zenith® Z-100, Commodore® Amiga/Atari ST (1987), DEC: Digital Equipment Corp.® VAX: Virtual Address eXtension Management System (1987-1989), IBM: International Business Machines® 370°/OS/2 (1988), Victor 9000, Western Electric® UNIX: Uniplexed Information & Computing Service® (1988: 30 flavors: AT&T, NCR: National Cash Register, SCO: Santa Cruz Operation, Microport, Pyramid Tech, Tru64, IBM® AIX: Advanced Interactive eXecutive, Motorola® 8000, Hewlett-Packard® HP9000, SGI: Silicon Graphics International® IRIX: Integrated Raster Imaging System, Stanford University Networks® Sun-3. Western Electric® UNIX: Uniplexed Information & Computing Service®, Operating System invented January 1, 1970), NeXT® NeXTSTEP (1991: The lowercase e decided by Paul Rand), MicroSoft® Windows (1991: 5.1: DOS drivers obsolete, Needs Windows print drivers, 1993: Novell GroupWise Office, 1994: 6.1, 1996: 7.0, 1998: 8.0, 9.0: Integrated with Ventura Publisher, 10, 11, X2, 2006: X3, 2008: X4: No edit JPEG2000 Adobe® Acrobat 9, 2010: X5: MicroSoft® Office 2007, 2012: X6: Win 9X-ME-XP-Vista-7, 2016: X8: Win 7), LINUX: LINUs torvald’ UNIX (1995-2000)
    • MicroSoft® Word DOCument .doc, Rich Text Format .rtf, Compiled Help Manual .chm, MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension HyperText .mht [Autumn 1983 / 1987 / 1992], MicroSoft® OOXML: Office Open eXtended Markup Language .docx & .docm (Digital Rights Management: RELAX NG® WordProcessingML: Markup Language) [December 7, 2006] [MicroSoft® Word is not compatible with any screen reader currently manufactured. Richard Brodie, Charles Simonyi, & David Luebbert developed the 8-bit Rich Text Format shipping as part of MicroSoft Word 3.0 for Macintosh. All subsequent releases of MicroSoft Word for the Macintosh & all versions for Windows can read & write files in Rich Text Format format. RTF supports inclusion of JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group, PNG: Portable Network Graphics, EMF: Enhanced Metafile, MicroSoft® WMF: Windows Metafile, Apple® PICT(ure), Windows Device-Dependent bitmap, Windows Device Independent bitmap & OS/2 Metafile picture types in hexadecimal or binary format. Not all of these picture types are supported in all RTF readers. When a RTF document is opened in software that does not support the picture type of an inserted picture, such picture is not displayed at all. Microsoft’s Office 2010 resource kit is discontinuing enhancements to RTF. Some new features in Word 2010> will not save properly to RTF. Unicode with Word X on a Macintosh, John McGhie, ©2002: “To print the document, you will have to Save As RTF then print it from TextEdit. As far as I know, you cannot get Unicode characters into PDF: Portable Document Format yet, because the [Adobe®] PDF: Portable Document Format writer is a Carbon application.” / MHT: Saves an entire web page with pictures as a file. Openable with MicroSoft® Internet Explorer Windows version only & Opera Browser in all versions. / OOXM Not to be confused with OpenOffice.org XML or MicroSoft Office XML formats says Wikipedia. Zipped XML: eXtended Markup Language-based file format introduced in MicroSoft® Office 2007 as the defacto file format for representing spreadsheets, presentations & word processing documents. Some older versions of MicroSoft Word & MicroSoft Office are able to read & write docx files after installation of the compatibility pack provided by MicroSoft, with equations converted into images that cannot be edited. OpenOffice.org Version 3.2 has read/write support even for password-protected Office Open XML files. KOffice version 2.2> imports Office Open XML files. Other products with import support: Apple® Macintosh Apple OS X® TextEdit, iWork, IBM® Lotus Notes, Corel® WordPerfect, Kingsoft® Office a.k.a WPS: Word Processing System Office. wps & Google® Docs]
    • Historical: StarDivision® StarOffice/StarSuite .sxw (StarWriter), .sxc (StarCalc) [1985-2000] OpenOffice.org® ODF: Open Document Format .odt (Text), .ods (Spreadsheet), .odp (ImPress) [April 2002-April 2011] (Amazon) Joerg Jahnke® Mobile Document Viewer Full 1.5.2 Android, Thomas Taschauer® OpenOffice Document Reader [Lüneburg, Germany: Marco Börries: StarWriter for ZiLOG® 8080 micro-computers, AMSTRAD: Lord Alan Michael Sugar TRADing® CPC: Color Personal Computer, Commodore 64, MicroSoft® DOS: Disc Operating System, MicroSoft® Windows, IBM: International Business Machines® OS/2, Linux & Apple® PowerMacintosh computers. Bought by SUN: Stanford University Network Microsystems in August 1999 at version 5.2 & released July 2000 as OpenOffice.org, which subsequent versions of StarOffice were based on, with additional proprietary components. Partnered with RedFlag Chinese Software in 2007. StarSuite, the version of StarOffice with Asian language localization, included Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese & Traditional Chinese. After acquiring SUN, Oracle Corporation discontinued it. Bugzilla: Embed Type1 &TrueType fonts. christof.pintaske 2004: “Microsoft Office embeds [TrueType] fonts using MicroType Express technology licensed from Agfa Monotype. We would need to license this technology from Agfa in order to be able to use these fonts in imported MS Office documents. ...In TrueType fonts: No Embedding Allowed, Preview&Print, Editable, & Installable. ...Type1 would require much more work in this regard.” sergey_feo: “In OOo [Adobe®] PDF: Portable Document Format there is also a *huge* problem with font substitution: you believe to have included a specific font while OOo, really, has embedded Times New Roman instead of Times, Arial instead of Helvetica or, even, fonts that were used with a text style that is no longer utilized in the main content or that belong to the same font family of a font that has not the ‘embedding’ bit set.” lukeatbrowelldotinfo 2010: “The technical ability to embed fonts in Open Office documents is essential for any serious document standard going forward. [Adobe®] PDF: Portable Document Format has it, [MicroSoft®] DOCX has it, even the open web now has it. Without action, obsolescence threatens the ORACLE investment in the OpenOffice brand.”]
    • SoftMaker Software GmbH® SoftMaker Office® TextMaker Document .tmd (Text), PlanMaker Document .pmd (Spreadsheet) & Presentations Document .smd (Slide) [1989] [Nuremberg: Martin Kotulla: DOS: Disc Operating System word processor expanded in version 10 to MicroSoft® Windows, MicroSoft® Windows Mobile/Windows CE: Compact Embedded, Linux & Android™. Reads & writes MicroSoft Word (.doc), OpenDocument (.odt), Pocket Word (.psw, .pwd), Rich Text Format (.rtf), HyperText Markup Language 4.0 (.htm), & plain text files (.txt). dictionary, thesaurus. SoftMaker Office 2012 for Linux reads & writes: DOC, Excel® Spreadsheets (XLS), PowerPoint® (PPT) & DOCX, XLSX, PPTX introduced with MicroSoft Office 2007 & 2010]
    • Nisus Writer [1989] [Apple Computer® Macintosh Apple Operating System™ WorldScript® word processor with voice recording. Multiple languages in 1 document. WorldScript® is compatible with Apple® Macintosh Apple Operating System 7.1 of 1992. For Apple® Macintosh Apple OSX Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources]
    • Mariner Software® Mariner Write [1990] [USA: Apple® Macintosh Apple Operating System Word Processor now expanded to the Apple® iPhone & iPad.]
32. Beida Chinese Laser Typesetting System [July 27, 1979] [The principal part of the project for Chinese Laser Typesetting System was completed, with a negative plate of newspaper in octavo format successfully outputted from the laser Typesetter.]
33. University of Birmingham® RCEVH: Research Centre for the Education of the Visually Handicapped® Screen Reader [1980] [For the BBC: British Broadcasting Co.® Micro & NEC: Nippon Electric Co.® Portable computers. “Software attempts to identify & interpret what is being displayed on the screen, re-presenting it to the user with text-to-speech, sound icons or a braille output device. Some screen readers can read text in more than 1 language, providing that the language of the material is encoded in its metadata.” - Wikipedia]
34. Ottmar Mergenthaler Linotype GmbH® Linotronic 300 Imagesetter [1984] [Ultra high-resolution large-format computer printer that exposes rolls or sheets of either black & white photographic film or bromide paper to laser light. Red safe-light film development. Bromides are similar to ordinary laser prints with 4 major differences: Paper size can be bigger (12'' to 44''), higher resolution (1200 to 4800 dots per inch), darker blacks, cost is 100 times>. “The main use of bromides is for proofing documents before expensive lithography plates are made. Proofing on bromide paper is much easier than film, since it doesn’t require a light table or other backlighting in order to read. Because of the uptake of platesetters, this function of imagesetters in modern printing houses has been reduced, although not completely eliminated, with proofs made on special proofing printers instead. Adobe’s RIP: Raster Image Processors have been named for United States’ rockets (vis. Atlas, Redstone, etcetera) ” Wikipedia]
35. Haloid XeroX Corporation® Unicode 88 UTF: Unicode Type Format [August 1988] Haloid XeroX® Ventura Publisher [April 1986-October 2002] [USA: Mountain View, California: ISO/IEC 10646: MicroSoft® Windows 95 needs an install of MicroSoft Layer for Unicode. Joe Becker from Xerox published a draft proposal for an international/multilingual text character encoding system, tentatively called Unicode. He expanded ASCII to 16 bits to encompass the characters of all the world’s living languages. The 1st volume of the Unicode standard was published October 1991. 2nd volume, covering Han ideographs, published June 1992. “In 1996, a surrogate character mechanism was implemented in Unicode 2.0, so that Unicode was no longer restricted to 16 bits. This increased the Unicode codespace to over a milion code points, which allowed for the encoding of many historic scripts (eg. Egyptian Hieroglyphs) & 1000s of rarely used or obsolete characters that had not been anticipated as needing encoding. ...1000s of fonts exist on the market, but fewer than a dozen fonts - sometimes descibed as pan-Unicode fonts - attempt to support the majority of Unicode’s character repetoire.” - Wikipedia: Unicode UTF-8: Unicode Type Format-8 bit [Nov 2003] can display multiple languages on the same web page. Each Unicode Character Set code point is encoded using 1 to 4 octets: 8-bit bytes. 1st 127 characters = 1 byte Latin ASCII. Next 1,920 characters need 2 octet bytes to encode: Latin-based alphabets, Greek, Cyrillic, Coptic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac & Tāna. 3 octets for East Asian Scripts & Basic Multilingual Plane. 4 octets for CJK: Chinese-Japanese-Korean, Thai, Hindi, Sinhalese, Scripts & mathematical symbols. The last Unicode hexadecimal number ends at U+10FFFF. / John Meyer, Don Heiskell, & Lee Jay Lorenzen:,Typesetting software distributed worldwide for IBM® 8086 PC: Personal Computer with Digital Research, Inc® GEM: Graphical Environment Manager Operating System. MicroSoft® Win16 (1990), Apple® Macintosh Apple (1990-1994) & IBM: International Business Machines® OS/2 (1990-1994). “Designed to interface with many word processing programs, including WordPerfect, WordStar, MicroSoft Word.” Pagination, flowing text, paragraph tagging, & codes for attributes/special characters. Adobe® PostScript, Hewlett-Packard® PCL: Printer Command Language, InterPress® Imagesetters, & dot-matrix printers.]
36. Ultimate Technographics® Impostrip® [1989] [1st digital imposition software. Imposition the arrangement of pages on a printer’s sheet. Some office laser print drivers have booklet printing. “To understand how the pages are related to each other, an imposition dummy may be used. This is made by folding several sheets of paper in the way the press will print & fold the product. A little copy is then created, & this can help paginate the product.” Moveable type pages were assembled in a metal frame called a chase, & locked into place using wedges called quoins. Photographic film sheets were combined manually on a light table, in a process called stripping. Digital PostScript/PDF single pages combined into a PostScript/PDF file with imposed sheets for printing. The imposition proof a.k.a blue copy is the last test performed before beginning the print run. - Wikipedia: American Printer, Kay Johansson, Peter Lundberg, Robert Ryberg. ed. A Guide to Graphic Print Production. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-76138-9.]
37. Tim Berners-Lee® HyperText Markup Language .html / .htm [March 1989] & Robert Cailliau & Tim Berners-Lee® World Wide Web [August 6, 1991] & W3C: World Wide Web Consortium® Link Checker [HyperText Markup Language, defined as an application of SGML: Standardized General Markup Language, is the language in which web pages are written. World wide web announced on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. 1st photo on the web uploaded by Berners-Lee in 1992, an image of the all-female 1960s-style pop-music CERN: Conseil Européene pour la Recherche Nucléaire house band Les Horribles Cernettes: Surfing on the Web. “The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages & navigate between them via hyperlinks.” Navigation also called surfing the web, after Vinton Cerf (pron. Surf) who invented IP: Internet Protocol in 1968 & who also invented e-mail: electronic mail for MCI: Microwave Communications Inc. in 1982. Wikipedia Sources: Silvano de Gennaro, Les Horribles Cernettes: The First Band on the Web, CERN Music Club: Bands & Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web: The Original Design & Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor, USA: NY: News Corp® James & John Harper, NYC ©1999. ISBN: 0-06-251586-1]
38. Hummingbird Communications Ltd® No Hands Software® Common Ground DigitalPaper .dp (Digital Paper Format) [Dec. 21, 1992-Dec. 21, 2002] [Toronto, Canada: Programmers: Nick Gault & Michael Reeds. Viewer application can be embedded into the document with the choice of ProViewer or MiniViewer. Font embed option with each font consuming 4KB. Fonts can have jaggies on printouts. For Windows 3.x & Macintosh. In 2006, Hummingbird became a division of OpenText Corporation. - Patrick Marshall, Acrobat, Common Ground extend beyond document viewing, InfoWorld Media Group Inc. ©1997]
39. Farallon Computing® Replica [July 1993-2000], Farallon Computing® PhoneNet & Farallon Computing® SoundEdit [Jan.1988-2004] [USA: CA: 2470 Mariner Sq Lp, Alameda: Program distributed on a floppy disc & designed to run on an IBM® 286 computer. Replica Creator is a printer driver to make a Replica file from any kind of document. Replica Viewer is the viewing program. Uses App!e® TrueType fonts & pictures are screen-captured as low resolution bit-maps. If there is no MicroSoft® Windows metafile data on the picture it will not print. Trial version repwin.exe distributed on H&R Block® Compuserve, Verizon® AmericaOnline, Byte Magazine® BIX: Byte Information eXchange, Ziff-Davis Publishing® ZiffNet, News Corporation now Dan Bruns’® Delphi & the Internet. “3 retail products this summer. ...There a number of electronic page turners we have not reviewed here – Northern Telecom’s Helmsman [Canada Telco], Interleaf’s WorldView [bought by ecommerce BroadVision® QuickSilver], Frame’s FrameViewer [Frame Technology Corporation bought by Adobe Systems Inc.], Thaumaturgy’s EDDARS: Electronic Document Distribution And Retrieval System [bought by Gale 1993-2020], to name some of the better known. We also have not included electronic book software products, such as EBT’s DynaText, [News Corp.’s HarperCollins Publishers LLC.] Voyager’s Expanded Book or IBM’s BookManager. All of those products are aimed at the professional market.” - Acrobat, Replica, Common Ground: page turners for ad-hoc distribution, The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing, United Business Media LLC ©September 1993: ©2012 Gale Reference. / Steve Capps’ SoundEdit audio recorder & waveform editor shipped with Farallon Computing® MacRecorder Sound System microphone. Macromedia® SoundEdit 16 in 1991 adds 16- bit CD quality sound, Apple® QuickTime™ soundtrack editing & audio plug-ins. Adobe Systems merger discontinued it. - Steve Capps by missionEdit: Anastasia at Wikipedia Teahouse]
40. TEI: Text Encoding Initiative® eXtensible Markup Language .xml [1996], eXtensible HyperText Markup Language .xhtml / .xhtm [Jan. 26, 2000] eXtensible Markup Language Paper Specification .xps [2000] & TEI: Text Encoding Initiative® SVG: Scalable Vector Graphic File .svg [2000] [Family of markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely-used HyperText Markup Language, the language in which web pages are written. XHTML is an application of XML: eXtensible Markup Language, a more restrictive subset of SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language. Developed to parse pages faster; the W3C: World Wide Web Consortium provided guidance on how to publish XHTML 1.0 documents in an HTML-compatible manner & serve them to browsers not designed for XHTML such as MicroSoft® Internet Explorer 6.0, who continued not to support it through versions 7 of 2006 & 8 of 2009. On July 2, 2009 the W3C: World Wide Web Consortium allowed the XHTML2 Working Group’s charter to expire, acknowledging HTML5 would be the sole next-generation HTML standard, including both XML & non-XML serializations. Wikipedia / XML used for text captions. “Create 1 of 2 types of XML documents. Link the XML document to the captioning component in Flash, or embed the XML into the FLV.” - Professor Tom Green, Humber College School of Media Studies, Toronto, Captions for Video with Flash CS3,, Digital Web Magazine ©June 4, 2007. “Subtitle, also called as Captioning, is a textual version of dialog in films, television shows & video games. ...In modern days, subtitles are 3 types: 1) Hard Subtitles: They are built-in into the picture & cannot be removed. 2) External Subtitles: These are external individual files, generally with .srt extension & contain only 1 language or the couple of .sub & .idx to provide up to 32 languages. 3) Soft Subtitles: They are hidden within the video file & can be removed temporarily using the video player menu.” Internet Archive: Nikhil Tamhankar, All about Subtitles - Intro, History, Types, Create & Play ©Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012. Adobe Systems Incorporated.® “SVG: Scalable Vector Graphic is a vector format that describes images as  shapes,  paths, text, & filter effects. The  SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics format is entirely XML: eXtended Markup Language-based.” CISRA: Canon Information Systems Research Australia © Sept. 2007 ‘Printing requires advanced color management not present in SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics. In SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics by default colors are assumed to be sRGB’ Opening SVG in Illustrator: Boris B. ©April 20, 2009, USA: Adobe® Help Forums: KDS4444 Jun 5, 2014 11:26 PM “The year is now 2014. I am using Illustrator CC 17.0.0. I am still having this same (original) problem: when I open an SVG file in Illustrator, even an SVG file that Illustrator itself generated & saved just minutes earlier, I get the image with my gradients all gone, my clipping masks screwed up, & several of my symbols missing. I can see the image just fine in Google® Chrome that Illustrator made into an SVG 1 minute, & then if I close Illustrator & re-open it & open the same SVG file, it will be a hot mess.” Larry G. Schneider “[Illustrator 17.1] The box in the: SVG save dialog called Responsive which needs be unchecked. It’s been brought up here before found this esp 4 Illustrator CS6 producing corrupt SVG files.”]
41. Internet Mail Consortium® Versitcard Electronic Business Card .vcf, .vcard [Dec. 1996] [USA: Apple, AT&T-Lucent, IBM & Werner von Siemens: Google® Android™ does not natively support this file. Dan Lynch is using Handcent SMS: Short Messaging Service app to read them. “vCards are often attached to e-mail messages, but can be exchanged in other ways, such as on the World Wide Web or instant messaging. They can contain name & address information, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, URLs, logos, photographs, & audio clips....Photographs may point to an external URL or may be embedded in the vCard as a Base64 encoded block of text.” - Wikipedia]
42. YadaByte® TomeRaider .tr2 .tr3 (Proprietary Digital Rights Management) [1999] [UK: 4000+ electronicBooks on their website. Apple® iPhone & MicroSoft® Windows Mobile editions support full HTML: HyperText Markup Language. For PSION® Symbian there is only the older TomeRaider2 format, which does not render images. Palm Inc.® Palm: No tables, CSS: Cascading Style Sheets or font support.]
43. Franklin Electronic Publishers® eBookMan Reader (Digital Rights Management: SEB: Secure eBookMan Binary, FUB: Frankin Universal Binary .fub, .seb) [Fall 2000-2002] [“The products were sold in BOOKMAN Book Card (MMC a.k.a Joint Electron Device Engineering Council® solid-state storage MultiMediaCard), digital (Franklin Reader, MobiPocket Reader), or other formats.” - MobileRead: FUB Wiki]
44. Hi® HI Reader™ .hi & .kml [2000] [Korean reader running emOS: Embedded Multimedia Operating System. MobileRead says 1st generation hardware of 2000 had poor battery management & dim backlight. DC: Direct Current socket suffers from oxidation & center pin failing after a couple of years. Reader supports KML, TXT: TeXT, MicroSoft®DOCument, HTML: HyperText Markup Language, MP3: in Korean, English, Chinese & Russian.- eBook Architects: Formats]
45. Ceriance Corporation® RepliGo® .rgo (Propietary Digital Rights Management) [2000] [USA: CO: Fort Collins: No sound or interactivity. Image & table support. Convert MicroSoft® Office documents & web pages viewed in Internet Explorer 5.5>. For: Google® Android™, PSION® Symbian, Palm Inc.® Palm, MicroSoft® Windows Pocket PC, RIM® BlackBerry]
46. CDisplay® Comic Book Reader .cbr (RAR) Comic Book Archive .cba (ACE) .cbz (ZIP) .cb7 (7z) .cbt (TAR) [July 2003-April 2004] [Icon is a Comic Balloon: CDisplay’s inventor David Ayton died in April 2004. His MicroSoft Windows program for Win 98-NT-XP-Vista-7 compiled with Borland C++ Builder 5.0 ended at version 1.8 & popularized the comic book archive file format. Loads JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group, PNG; Portable Network Graphic, & GIF: Graphic Interchange File images alphabetically; presenting them for viewing 1 or 2 at a time.“CBR’s are zipped folders of JPEGs; if you rename the file as a .zip & extract it to a folder *anything* that can do slideshows can display them. Even a DVD: Digital Versatile Disc player on a TV.”]
47. 超星数字图书馆: Beijing SuperStar Information Tech. Ltd.® ChinaMaxx Library: Chao xing ji tuan shen zhou ke chuang ji shou xian gong xi® .pdg (SSReader® Format Not Published) [Sept. 4, 2007] [China: OCR. “The company scanned a huge number of Chinese books in the China National Library. There are also some other commercial e-book formats used in Chinese digital libraries.” Rm 710 Tower C, BGM Tech Center, #9 3rd St. Shangdi, Haidian District, Beijing (Peking), CN 100085.]
48. Conrad Wolfram Research® CDF: Computable Document Format .cdf [July 21, 2011] [USA: “Interact with online documents, input their own data, & generate results live. ‘So imagine an illustration of atoms in a textbook. In CDF: Computable Document Format, the atoms would be seen moving. A student could then, in an experiment, alter certain elements by inputting data & the atoms would react, bouncing madly within the document box, as was demonstrated in the briefing... Infographics, those illustrative representations of complex information, are popular, but rather dead according to Wolfram. ‘They are fixed. Now you can input your own information for live computation. Imagine a growing news story on earthquakes’, he says, with live graphics that change with seismic conditions. ...CDFs can currenly be authored using Mathematica8.” - Kathy Ishizuka, Wolfram Launchs PDF Killer: New digital format makes static documents interactive, USA: School Library Journal, RLG: Robert L. Johnson Equity Partners® MSI: Media Source Inc.® ©July 21, 2011]

E-Book Websites
1. Michael S. Hart® Project Gutenberg [1971] [The granddaddy of all e-book pages, Project Gutenberg founded the same year as the text format has volunteers adding pre-1923 books (novels, plays, poetry, works of nonfiction) to its collection continually. Choose a version ending in .txt to view immediately on your computer screen. Gutenberg eReader in Android MarketPlace $2.99 supports text & html.]
2. Der Spiegel® Projekt Gutenberg-DE [1994] [Gunther Hille: Projekt Gutenberg-DE claims copyrights on all its products. In 2004 the German project ran a proofreading website using Distributed Proofreaders software, without mentioning the resulting books would not be as free as those of the American project. “People started proofreading in good faith, only to find out later that the fruits of their labour would receive a copyright claim & be sold, without renumeration going to the volunteers.” Distraught Wikipedia author suggests the Nemesis-Archive (Greek nemos: Sacred Grove) of German literature. - Heise News]
3. University of Pennsylvania Library® Online Books Page [1993] [Online reading & PDF download: Listing >30,000 Books on the Web. Foreign Languages. Edited by John Mark Ockerbloom.]
4. ABU: L’Association des Bibliophiles Universeles® la Bibliothèque Universelle [April 1993] [Paris: The Association of Universal Book Lovers is dedicated to producing e-text versions of public domain French texts. In France a Bibliothèque is the equivalent of a USA Library, while the French Librarie is a bookseller store. “L’accès libre au texte intégrale d’oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis 1993. 288 textes de 101 auteurs.”]
5. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science® ULIB: Universal LIBrary (formerly The Million Book Project) [1996] & Carnegie-Mellon University® Panopto Video [Free-to-read public-domain books in many languages, using OCR: Optical Character Recognition to enable full text searching. Mirror sites in India, China, Internet Archive, Bibliotheca Alexandrina. “Books that have been scanned to date are not yet all available online, & no single site has copies of all the books that are available online. In partnership with the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization, the United States National Agricultural Library, & university libraries with quality agriculture collections, the project is digitizing materials & developing plans for a knowledge network.” Partners: NSF: National Science Foundation, University of California Libraries at Merced, Digital Library of India, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, 22 scanning centers in India, 18 centers in China, including a mega-center in a free-trade zone to avoid customs delays with shipments of books from the United States, Egypt & Hawaii. - Wikipedia]
6. Michio Tomita® Aozora Bunko: Blue Sky Library [1997] [Japanese digital library also known as the Open Air Library created to provide broadly available, free access to Japanese literary works whose copyrights had expired. Driving force behind the project was 1 man — Michio Tomita. Files can be downloaded in PDF format or viewed in HTML format. - Wikipedia]
7. Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde® DBNL: Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren: Society of Dutch Literature® Digital Library for Dutch Literature [1999] [Editor: René van Stipriaan. Contains 1000s of literary texts.]
8. University of Alicante® BVMC: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes ò MCDL: Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library [1999] [Alicante, Spain: 1st digital archive of Spanish-language texts on the Internet. Miguel de Cervantes is a 16th century Spanish author. Books are in TEI® XML: eXtended Markup Language format. Àreas: Literatura Española, Biblioteca Americana, Biblioteca Joan Lluis Vives, Letras Galegas.]
9. Bibliotecas Rurales Argentinas: Biblioteca Virtual Universal: Argentine Rural Libraries Assocation® Universal Virtual Library [1999] [Crecer Project: Cambiar idioma: change language: Spanish, English, French, Italian. Contador: Dr. Juan Carlos Ostrovsky. Bibliotecas Latinamericanas: Godoy Cruz 2087 CP 1414, Ciudad de Buenos, Argentina. Institute of Peruvian Studies® La Biblioteca Virtual de Cholonautas: This title caught my attention: No más danzas de ratones grises: sobre interculturalidad, democracia y educación, López, Luis Enrique]
10. TifloNexos® TifloLibros [1999] [Buenos Aires, Argentina: Primera biblioteca digital para ciegos de habla hispana: 1st Spanish-speaking digital repository for the blind: Adolfo Alsina 2604, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, 1090.]
11. Elaleph [April 17, 1999] [Argentina: 3 de Febrero 2274 6B, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 1428: Spanish book seller.]
12. Libros en Red [2000] [Argentina: Spanish e-book seller. Free s: libros gratis: ¡Publica tu libro! Somos pioneros en edicón en e-book y en papel. ¡Y ahora también editamos tu libro en Amazon® Kindle Edition y en Barnes & Noble® Nook Book!]
13. Loïc Roussel, Hadrien Gardeur, David Julien® Feedbooks [June 2006] [Public domain digital library based in Paris, France. E-books with high-quality typesetting in multiple formats: EPUB, Kindle, & PDF.]
14. Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH® Zeno [September 2007] [Pronounced tseno: Digital library with German texts, started by Zenodot, a German publishing house & sister enterprise of Directmedia Publishing GmbH. The largest fulltext online digital library in the German language. - Volltextbibliothek Zeno.org startet mit kostenlosem Lesenmaterial, Heise Online, ©September 30, 2007]
15. Cuneform Digital Library Initiative, Marefa, Nashiri, Project Laurens Janzoon Coster, Project Sugita Genpaku, The Latin Library
16. Europeana [November 20, 2008] [3 million digital objects: films, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers & archival papers from the past 2,000 years & >1,000 institutions in the 27 EU states. EU Information Society Commissioner Vivian Reding. Connecting our cultural heritage - Wired Magazine]
17. Ventus Publishing® BookBoon [1988] [Denmark: No registration: PDF books for students & travelers. - Stockton, CA Library]
18. Book Yards [2002] [Canada: Pick a language flag at top. Videos, search engine.Classic Romantic French & English Authors: Honoré de Balzac, Yeats, Chaucer. Pierre Lefebvre, 5000 Industriel /15, St. Eustache, Québéc J7R53]
19. DigBib: Digital Bibliotek [March 17, 2004] [An archive of German literature. Karl-Marx-Str. 175, Berlin, 2043, DE]
20. EBook Lobby [2008] [UK: Categories range from business, art, computing & education. Some are online & some are links to other websites for a download. Adam Gaines, 52 Mitford Close, Washington, NE380HB GB]
21. StartSpot Mediaworks, Inc.™ Book Spot™ [1997] [USA: No registration: Free PDF files. 1033 University Pl, Suite 420, Evanston, IL 60201]
22. MathThinking Technologies Inc.® Free ComputerBooks [1998] [Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Technical Books, Lecture Notes & Tutorials. 12 top level categories, & over 150 sub-categories. — HKDC: HongKiat, 20 Best Websites to Download Free e-Books, Domains by Proxy LLC. & Nels Dzyre, 10 Free Android Video Editors To Help Perfect Your Videos On-The-Go, HongKiat ©2018: HongKiat uses Google® DoubleClick, DART Cookie & Web Beacons. “If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at me[at]hongkiat[dot]com. ©2018” Fresh Squeezed Apps® VidStitch (Combine photos, videos & soundtrack into a collage for Instagram. Battery hog.), Zeoxy® AndroVid Video Editor Pro (UK: Dorset: 3 Innes Ct. Station Rd. Merge, split, trim & transcode videos on-the-go. Add text, music, & effects.), NexStreaming Corp® KineMaster (Korea: Apple® iPhone & Google® Android™ :-\ $4.99 per month to remove watermark. Import Video Formats: Commission électrotechnique internationale® Motion joint Photographics Experts Group 4th Dimension .mp4 1999, 3rd Generation Partnership Project® .3gp, Apple® Quicktime™ Movie .mov 1993: All 3: ITU: International Telegraph Union’ Video Coding Experts Group® H.264 Baseline/Main/High Profile & AAC: Advanced Audio Coding LC: Low Complexity /PCM: Pulse Code Modulation, Export Video Format: .mp4 with H.264 Baseline & AAC: Advanced Audio Coding LC: Low Complexity), antvPlayer® Media Converter (Convert videos into  Commission électrotechnique internationale® .mp4 1999 that KineMaster likes, 3rd Generation Partnership Project® 3gp, MicroSoft® AVI: Audio Video Interleave Format 1992, Commission électrotechnique internationale® MPEG: Motion joint Photographic Experts Group & Adobe® FLV: FLash Video formats), (Google® Play) Roman 10® VidCon: Video Convertor Android™ (837kB. Compatible with Android™ Éclair 2.0>: Battery hog. Alka Saha, Techgyd.com “ffmpeg library support allows it to convert any video format to mpeg4 & h.264 videos including formats like Microsoft® ASF: Advanced Systems Format, WMV: Windows Media Video & AVI: Audio Video Interleave, Adobe® FLash Video, Commission électrotechnique internationale® MPEG: Motion joint Photographic Experts Group & DV4: Digital Video 4 est. 1995, Xiph® OGG & OGV, Real Networks® RM: Real Media, Google® WEBM est. 2010, Rovi® DIVX: DIgital Video eXpress [3 DivX CODECs: COmpressionDEcompressions; the original MPEG-4 Part 2 est. 2001, H.264/MPEG-4 HD: High Definition & HEVC: High Efficiency Video Coding Ultra HD.], Steve Lhomme® MKV: MatrosKa Video est. 2002, Apple® QuickTime™ MOVie. ”.Extract audio into Frauenhofer® MP3 or AAC: Advanced Audio Coding. Maintain original quality by adjusting settings of the video.), QuVideo Inc.® VivaVideo Pro (China: Pro unlocks Watermark & 5 Minute Duration Limit. Matt Dunn claims a Caller ID Trojan on regular version. 4/18/2018. Sky Kelsey This app is malware. It will send ad tracking information each time you install another app 4/12/2018), Wondershare Software Hong Kong Ltd.® FilmoraGo (Hong Kong: Developer: Ivan Guo, Flat/Rm. 901, 9/F Finance Building, 245 Des Voeux Rd. Central: Supports 9:16 portrait project ratio for mobile telephones. Transitions & Filter Effects. Export Video Format: .mp4 with H.264 Baseline & AAC: Advanced Audio Coding LC: Low Complexity. Filmora Title at end.), CyberLink Corp.® PowerDirector Pro est. 2014 & ActionDirector Mobile Video Editor est. 2016 (Taiwan: Jau Huang. PowerDirector Version 3 for Android™ Gingerbread to Marshmallow operating systems, Version 4 for Jellybean to Oreo operating systems. Fee to unlock & remove watermarks.)]
23. Many Books [Free ebooks in multiple languages]
24. PDFbooks [2007] [Zaire: 4,700 downloadable public domain e-books.]
25. Huang Lang® Shucang [May 14, 2011] [Canada: Chinese. Huang Lang, Blue Cross Centre, 3rd Floor, 644 Main St. Moncton, New Brunswick E1C9J8]

9 Apps for Printing From Your Android Phone, By James Adams | 21 October 2010
1. Mobile Dynamix® Printershare™ Premium [Demo, $12.95]: The app will use the Wi-Fi network to locate printers. Select contacts, web pages, or pictures you wish to print & press the button. The version of Printershare will print test pages & up to 20 pages. The premium version removes those limitations. [2017 “Print on nearby wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth™) & direct USB-OTG connected printers, Print on Windows shared (SMB/CIFS) or Mac shared printers; Print via Google Cloud Print .”]
2. BreezyPrint Corporation® Breezyprint [$]: Works with any specified printer over the wireless network. 14-day Trial. Windows drivers only. [“Dear CNET, You have missed the point of the exercise ENTIRELY. It is about printing from the phone WITHOUT the computer! ....I wanted to print to my NETWORK printer which is NOT attached to the PC. It is attached to my WiFi ROUTER. I would LIKE to send a PDF from the phone TO THE IP of my printer, which is on the same WiFi LAN as my phone. As I do from: my laptop, my PC, my PDA. Having to turn on the PC or running it & subsidizing ComED on the off-chance I MIGHT wanna print a page or 2 one day = FAIL!” TomaszK1 - CNET® Android Atlas]
3. Seikikōgaku kenkyūsho 精機光學研究所: Precision Optical Industry Co. Ltd.® Canon キヤノン株式会社® Easy PhotoPrint [$0]: Japan: For Canon® Pixma wireless inkjet printers. For Google® Android™ 1.6>, Apple® iOs, MicroSoft® Windows Phone 7.0>. [30-2 Shimomaruko 3-chome, Ohta-ku, Tokyo 146-8501. TYO: 7751, NYSE: CAJ. ¥3.557 trillion. Founder: Goro Yoshida, Takeshi Mitarai, Saburo Uchida. Chairman & CEO: Fujio Mitarai. Canon after Buddhist bodhisattva Guan Yin: The Goddess of Mercy, known in Japanese as Kannon. Ichiro Endo is the inventor of the Canon® Bubble Jet Printer in 1985, The World’s 1st inkjet printer. Inkjets use dye-based ink that fades under direct light & is not waterproof without specialized coating or lamination after printing. U.S Patent 6,319,530 food-grade color edible ink cartridges print on rice paper/frosting sheets. Trend: lightfast pigment ink. Professional wide format printers employing a wider range of inks (solvent, acrylic, fabric), most of which require piezo inkjet heads & extensive maintenance. When a microchip reports cartridge is empty or out of date the printer stops printing. Service codes & circuit ‘flashers’. Tracking dots. Canon’s 1st laser printer, dry all-in-1 toner cartridge with CD-player laser for Canon® PC: Personal Copier-20 (1982. Toner #LBP-CX), HP® LaserJet (1984: No Adobe® PostScript® Toner #HP92285A), Apple® LaserWriter (1985: Adobe® PostScript®/Haloid XeroX–Diablo Data Systems® Diablo 630 [Daisywheel]. Toner cartridge #M0180. A 77lb beast :-)). “The concept was to package the printer toner with all the other components that tended to wear out & require service (e.g. photoconductive drum, charging & cleaning systems) in a customer replaceable cartridge. When the toner was depleted, the customer plugged in a new cartridge & in effect had an almost new printer.” Used until Canon’s 600dpi Microfine Toner of 1992. – Jim Hall, HP LaserJet — The Early History (PDF: Portable Document File) USA: Boise, Idaho: Hewlett-Packard ©2011]
4. CyCom Technology Corp.® CyPria [¥450]: Japanese, English, Chinese: Supported Seiko Epson セイコーエプソン株式会社® Stylus Wi-Fi inkjet printers. [“Epson® Aculaser printer is not a PostScript printer, nor does Epson sell any optional PostScript software drivers for purchase. The regular printer driver that comes with the printer does not understand EPS: Encapsulated PostScript formats, which is why images may not print or will appear bit-mapped or pixilated if they do.” Epson® Claria inks smudge easily. Epson has lost their court cases due to ink.] [iProof Systems Inc.® PowerRIP™ ScreenPrint PostScript® 3™ Compatible Print Driver (2006 DRM: Online Activation Code: Apple® OSX 10.2–10.4) For 15 models of Epson Stylus Inkjet Colour Printer: Pro 4000, 4800, Color 1520, 3000, Photo 1270, 1280, 1290, R1800, 2100, 2200, R2400, Color Pro 7600, 7800, 9600, 9800. Make a Composite Proof from DCS: Desktop Color Separations: Quark® 6, Adobe® InDesign® CS, Adobe® Acrobat 7 CMYK Aldus® TIFF: Tag Image File Format 2400 resolution, Adobe® Illustrator 10. 56 step iProof Press Color Match™ colorbars. “Evaluate your proofs in standard lighting conditions such as 5000 kelvin brightness, or in daylight preferably within 3 feet of a north window. Soft natural daylight is the key to proper illumination.” ]
5. Hewlett-Packard® HP iPrint Photo, Hewlett-Packard® –Samsung: 3 Stars: 삼성전자® Samsung MobilePrint [$0]: USA: iPrint for HP Wi-Fi Printers. Print Adobe® PDF: Portable Document Files, full page printing: A4, letter or legal size paper. [HP® Business Inkjet 2600 PostScript 3 Emulation, HP® DesignJet 120 PostScript 3, HP® 10PS Proofer w/CtP Harlequin RIP/HP RIP. Aug 5, 2011: Suggestions for personal PostScript® Level 3™ Printer? Xerox® Phaser 3250N monochome, Dell® 3110DN. Scott W: “HP: Hewlett–Packard® PCL: Printer Command Language means nothing on a Mac. For Macs it’s either Adobe® PostScript® or Apple Computer® Easy Software Solutions® CUPS: Common UNIX: Uniplexed Information & Computing Service®, Printing System & CUPS is not great.” – Adobe Forums. / Korea/USA: For Samsung Wi-Fi Printers only. Print directly by Wi-Fi. For Android™ 2.1>, Apple® iPhone OS 3.2> & MicroSoft® Windows Phone 7>]
6. Burazā ブラザー工業株式会社® Brother iPrint & Scan [$]: Nagoya, Japan: For Brother Wi-Fi Printers. Print up to 5 4×6 in. copies of a document. [TYO: 6448. ¥497 billion. Founded 1908 as Yasui Sewing Machine Co. Chairman: Yoshihiro Yasui. Laser models that have Adobe® PostScript®3™ & Color Inkjet All-in-Ones. BL_3/BR: BRother-Script® 3™ is their postscript language emulation printer driver. “When printing a Adobe® PDF: Portable Document File that uses fonts that are not embedded in the file, characters may be replaced with characters of a different font, or may be garbled.”]

Replace your laptop with a tablet, by Patrick Miller, PC World, September 2011: Tablets are slick, lightweight, & fast. No wonder they’re the new tech hotness. If you still can’t imagine letting go of your beloved laptop, here are a few tips to help make your transition to a tablet easier.
1. First, be sure to get a good virtual network computing app so that you can log in to your home or work PC from your tablet over an Internet connection. A VNC app serves as an inexpensive & highly practical insurance policy in case you run into an application or website that your tablet can’t handle. In a recent roundup of remote-login apps, we rated LogMeIn Ignition ($30) as our top choice on the iOS side, & Dell® Wyse Pocket-Cloud Pro ($15) as the best option on the Android side.
2. While you’re at it, deck out your tablet with a few sweet office-productivity apps: RIM: Research In Motion® DataViz® DocumentsToGo ($15, iOS/ Android) & Google® Quickoffice HD ($15, iOS/Android) should cover basic office-document writing & editing needs.
3. iPad owners who pine for a laptop’s physical layout (& its hardware keyboard) might like the $120 ClamCase, which functions as an all-in-one iPad case, stand, & Bluetooth keyboard (accessories that you’d probably buy anyway) & resembles a laptop. With the ClamCase, you can switch to a standard laptop layout whenever you need to buckle down & get serious work done.

Beckett Media LLC® Beckett Guide to Phone Apps Magazine Your Guide to Smartphone Security: 6 ways to protect your phone – & your personal data – from vicious hackers, by William Bonin, Jr, Issue #7: October 2011: 4635 McEwan Road, Dallas, TX, USA 75244. +1-972-991-6657. ISSN: 2158-608X. $9.99 USA, President: Brian Gulledge, Editor: Erin Lang Mascerola, Art Director: Chelsea Harrison, Ad Traffic & Digital Coordinator: Patty Burnell. Published 4 times a year. ...More & more smartphone owners are learning the hard way that viruses, spyware & phishing attacks are as prevalent on smartphones as they are on PCs.
1. Set your phone to lock after a period of time & set up a password on your phone — Ponemon Institute
2. Remote wipe: erase all the data on your phone if lost. Netqin Antivirus from Shanghai remotely locates, locks, or erases a lost phone.
3. Beware 3rd Party Apps: “As more & more smartphones become available, one of the great advantages is a growing app market that doesn’t require you to purchase apps from a single vendor. But that blessing can also be a curse: The lack of central oversight of the apps available in the marketplace opens the door for hijinks. If your smartphone is linked to an approved app store then you don’t have much to worry about. However, even Android Market, the official app store for Android phones, has found a number of ill-intended applications available on its shelves. WARNING: Apps purchased through 3rd party sites are particularly susceptible to infestation” Trend Micro estimates 45% of smartphone users have been victims of malware attacks. Lookout Inc® Lookout Mobile Security scans for malware & spyware.
4. Clamp Down on Permissions: “What to do if you must purchase 3rd party apps? When applications install, they ask your permission to access certain data on your phone. Don’t just blindly accept all of these requests. Does a Solitaire game really need access to your contacts? If a permission request seems suspicious don’t accept it. See if the app will work properly without the permission. And if not, do a little investigating on your own to see if the app developer has a bad reputation.”
5. Careful with the Bluetooth: Discovery feature turned off will not advertise your phone is available for connecting to. Mentions stealing data as bluesnarfing. “If you use a Bluetooth, be careful where you use it – the public Wi-Fi may end up costing you in the end!”
6. Don’t lend your phone to strangers. Don’t respond to text messages or follow links in text messages you receive from an unknown sender. Don’t allow social networking applications to have access to your contacts, passwords or log-ins. Don’t use your personal smartphone for business unless you’ve taken steps to secure your company’s confidential business data. Kryptos Communications® Kryptos &$4.99 month & NitroDesk® TouchDown Exchange encryption for business. (Nearby ad for VegasSports® Sports Gambling Software).
   Android software mentioned in issue:
   • Zynga Game Network Inc.® [San Francisco, CA, USA: Private company founded in January 2007 as Presidio Media by CEO Mark Pincus, Scott Sale, Kyle Stewart, Michael Luxton, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, Steve Schoettle with EA® Bing Gordon on the board. Named changed to Zynga that July with Studios President: EA® Steve Chiang. CFO: Dave Wehner. Its symbol is a pitbull. San Francisco city attorney’s office vandalism complaint in August 2010 over Davis Elen Advertising pasting fake $25,000 bills on city sidewalks promoting the game Mafia Wars. $9 million out-of-court settlement to Psycho Monkey LLC® Mob Wars, the David Maestri January 2008 hit widely credited with sparking the development of dozens of Mafia-themed titles now on the market according to Patrick Hoge of the San Francisco Business Times. Both sued Disney® Playdom® Mobsters of Mountain View, CA. Members added to the player’s mafia by Social networking sites such as Facebook (2004-2016), MySpace (2003-2012), Friendster (2002-2011), Bebo: Blog early blog often (2005-2016) & Yahoo! (1998-2014) Zynga’s other Facebook games are: Ayakashi: Ghost Guild, Bubble Safari, CastleVille, ChefVille, FarmVille, FrontierVille a.k.a Pioneer Trail, PrivacyVille, YoVille, Clay Jam, Dojo Mojo: Ninja Kingdom, Dream Heights, Drop7, Fashion Designer, Pathwords, Pirates: Rule the Carribean!, Chess with Friends, Hanging with Friends, Scramble with Friends, Words with Friends, Solstice Arena, Sudoku, War of the Fallen, WordTwist, Yakuza Lords, Zynga Poker. Discontinued Games: Adventure World, Attack!, Café World, CityVille, CoasterVille, Ben Webb® Dope Wars, Dragon Wars, Dream PetHouse, Dream Zoo, Empires & Allies, Fashion Wars, FishVille, ForestVille, Gang Wars, Ghost Racer, Guild of Heroes, Heroes vs. Villains, Hidden Chronicles, Hidden Shadows, It Girl, Montopia, Mojitomo, Music Pets, My Heroes Ability, Party Place, PetVille, Poker Blitz, Ponzi Inc., Prison Lockdown, Roller Coaster Kingdom, Ruby Blast, Space Wars, Special Forces, Street Racing, The Ville, Treasure Isle, Triumph, Vampire Wars, WarStorm, Zynga Slingo. Players can accept credit card offers, take surveys or buy services from Zynga’s partners or Zynga by credit card or PayPal from within the game to obtain game credits. On October 31, 2009, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch said Zynga intentionally worked with scam advertisers & lead generation made up ⅓ of Zynga’s revenue. Arrington republished a video of a speech by Pincus. In the speech, Pincus said: So I funded [Zynga] myself but I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away. I mean we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this Zwinky toolbar which was like, I don’t know, I downloaded it once & couldn’t get rid of it. *laughs* We did anything possible just to get revenues so that we could grow & be a real business – Mark Pincus, Speech from Startup@Berkeley. In March 2010 Zynga started selling prepaid cards at >12,800 stores across the US. In September 2010, Gawker reported Zynga had set up a Platinum Purchase Program allowing members to purchase virtual currency in amounts over $500 at favorable rates by making a payment via wire transfer. As with other social game companies, Zynga depends on a small core of large spenders, known within the industry as whales for a large part of its income. (Pincus told Time Magazine in 2009 they employ a behavioral psychologist). Ryan Tate, author of the post, speculated that the program was a way for gaming addicts to feed their obsession, & compared the secrecy of the program to the secrecy of drug deals. In October 2010 Zynga filed a patent application relating to the ability to purchase virtual currency for cash on gambling & other gaming sites. Subsidiaries: Zynga India (Bangalore), Zynga Ireland, Zynga Toronto (formerly Five Mobile), Zynga Eugene (formerly Buzz Monkey Software), Zynga Seattle, Zynga Austin (formerly Challenge Games), Zynga ATX (formerly MarketZero online poker tracker company), Zynga Germany (formerly Dextrose AG), Zynga with Friends (formerly Newtoy Inc.), Zynga Chicago (formerly Spooky Cool Labs), Zynga Turkey (formerly Peak Games. Bought for $1.8 billion), NaturalMotion (UK: Oxford: Purchased for $527 million in Jan. 2014), Gram Games (Merge Dragons! creator. Bought for $250 million), Small Giant Games (Empires & Puzzles for $700 million), November Software, Floodgage Entertainment (2011-2012), Wild Needle (2011-2012), Zynga China (formerly XPD Media shut down Feb. 2015), Zynga Dallas (formerly Bonfire Studios: shut down June 3, 2013), Zynga Boston (formerly Conduit Labs: shut down Oct. 2012), Zynga New York (formerly Area/Code: shut down June 3, 2013), Zynga East (Baltimore, formerly MyMiniLife, creator of Farmville, shut down Feb. 2013), Zynga Los Angeles (formerly Serious Business: shut down June 3, 2013, NASDAQ: ZNGA stock de-listed Dec 16, 2011-June 3, 2013), Zynga Japan (formerly Unoh Games: shut down), Zynga OMGPOP™ (Draw Something: Soho, NYC formerly iminlikewithyou shut down June 3, 2013). - Wikipedia
     “The company behind Farmville is sealing a deal with Google & has been embraced by Apple & Facebook. That such companies would associate themselves with the exploitation of children & financially depleted addicts is alarming, even in hyper-aggressive Silicon Valley.” - Ryan Tate, The Way We Live Now: How an Army of Junkies and Kids Enriches Tech Titans, USA: Gawker Magazine ©August 5, 2010 1:23 PM
   • Games: EA: Electronic Arts® Maxis® Sims 3 Ambitions $6.99 & Popcap® Bejeweled [Difficult to download on some Android™ phones. Digital Rights Management technologies to limit number of systems game can be installed on by requiring authentication with an online server. Examples are Sony® SecuROM & Valve Software Corp.® Steam.], (Amazon) Lima Sky® Doodle Jump, (ApkPure) Sandlot Games® Cake Mania Lite, (ApkFollow) Cake Mania 3, Gameloft® The Oregon Trail, THUP Games LLC® Monkey Preschool Lunchbox.
   • Media: Lifeware Solutions® Deluxe Moon, (Freeware Lovers) Lifeware Solutions® Deluxe Moon Lite Android™, NBC-Universal Inc® MLB: Major League Baseball Advanced Media LP® At-Bat, World Wrestling Ent Tough Enough [NBC Rock Center Jan. 10, 2013 noted ¼ of all USA traffic fatalities in 2011 involved telephone use. The rush of dopamine to the brain when hearing a phone chime text meant for you is a powerful intoxicant. Blackouts 1st step to alcohol poisoning. People die from alcohol poisoning. NBC Mad Money Feb. 28, 2013: Alkermes CEO said 80,000 yearly in the USA CDC], NBC-Universal Inc® Fandango [Adware: Ticket purchase: Many complain it crashes a lot.- Mauro Lanari.], ESPN ScoreCenter, (Vapor Games Review) Cartoon Network® Spiritonin Media Games® Robot Unicorn Attack by Scott Stoddard (phone size only), Redbox: DVD Rental, Insight Venture Partners® Direct Revenue LLC® Jango Radio Mobile [$5 billion: Jeff Horing & Jerry Murdock. Exec Board: Robert Rubin, 70th Secretary of the US Treasury & Steve Friedman, former Chairman of Goldman Sachs. People v. Direct Revenue LLC, No. 401325/06 N.Y. Sup.Ct., N.Y. Cty., Mar. 12, 2008 for pop-up ads.], Studio One Networks Global® National Football League [Founder: Bob Blackmore, formerly NBC Television Head of Sales & American Advertising Federation Chairman. President Andrew Susman, Feb, 13, 2008: “We asked for functionally unlimited bandwidth, & we got it. But then we had to feed it, 24/7. We have created a media universe of perpetual diminished return on investment, across virtually all media channels.” Wow.], (Apk Monk) Touch Multimedia srl® Magic Mirror Hairstyler Lite [Android 2.2: ensure your phone shoots photos clear enough to accurately fit your face into the hairstyle creator. Ver. 3.1: Android 4.0 & WindowsPhone 8.1: Hairstyles & coloring for men & women. 2 male & 2 female characters. Take a photo or choose 1 from the library.], MicroSoft Research® The Zumobi Network® Sporting News (Brandblast Ads), (Freeware Lovers) Evenflow® Eurosport, (Amazon®) Arcane Software® Sports Radio Droid: Worldwide, eXcelarz Interactive® SportsEye Soccer, Deep Powder Software® Disney® Marvel Superheroes/Warner Brothers® DC: Detective Comics™ Universe [USA: Craig Gordon, 3697 Ecker Hill Dr. Park City, Utah 84098], Belgian Waves® ShootMe (screenshot app) [The Untouchable: “Just for all your information, ShootMe is iced, because of that you can’t find it on the market anymore”. IceCold Apps® Screenshot Ultimate does a s’maith-in: smashing job], (UpToDown) Mizu Software® Relax & Sleep, MyFitnessPal LLC® Calorie Counter, Melodis Corp® SoundHound [Google® Android™, Apple® iOS, Windows Phone & BlackBerry 10. Unlike competitor Shazam, SoundHound can recognise music tracks from singing, humming, speaking, or typing, as well as from a recording.], Yelp Inc. [Multi-National Corporation founded by PayPal Bankers CEO: Jeremy Stoppelman, David Galbraith, Max Levchin, & Russel Simmons: NYSE: YELP, $232.98 million: HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA: Location tracking. Venue reviews for Argentina-Brazil-Chile, Canada-USA-Mexico, Australia/NZ, Japan, Singapore, Turkey, UK-France-Spain-Austria-Germany-Netherlands-Denmark: Owns Qype & SeatMe., Lalo v. Apple, Inc. 5:2010cv05878]
   • Money: 7bit® Call Confirm [“No more accidental calls. Raises up a confirm dialog on any calls. Number, photo & contact name on it help your decision.”], TriNet Group, Inc.® App7 Inc. Expense Cloud Accounting, Top Best Alternatives to DealLeak® DealLeak [Adware crashed Chris H.’s, phone in his 2014 Amazon review.], Gannett Media® Froogloid LLC® Key Ring Rewards Card: 650+ Global Retailers, Gas Buddy USA-CAN, Intuit Inc® Mint Personal Finance & Intuit© GoPayment [credit card reader with 2.7% swipe fee], Silicon Trance LLC® ClearCheckbook [Brandon O’Brien: collegebarscene@gmail.com: 13104 Candelaria Rd Albuquerque, NM 87112],MasterCard® ATM Hunter, Total Beauty Media® Beauty Products Reviews [USA: Beverly Hills, CA], TriMirror Inc.® TriMirror Fashion: New York/Toronto
   • Global Positioning System Tracking: Code Sector® Maverick [Google, Bing & Open Street Maps. Expanded to Yandex, OSM, Multimap, OutdoorActive, Cykloatlas, HikeBikeMap, Open Piste, NearMap], Armond Avanes® aCar, Atomic Softwares® Bike Repair [Wants Telephone ID], (Amazon®) Global Motion Media Inc® EveryTrail [uses 100MB memory], (Frandroid) Humanoid Apps® MilesTrac [France: Jambrin-Rozier Ulrich, 14 avenue des Arts, Saint-Maur des Fossés, 94100], INRIX Inc® Traffic [Open Street Maps], Megabus.com, MyNature Inc.® Animal Tracks, NYU® Ride the City: Cyclist Maps, Pishtech® My Fishing Advisor (Freshwater USA), RepairPal® Car Care Confidence: USA, WirelessESP® Speedbump
   • Romance: Ticketmaster® Match.com & Plenty of Fish [Disney-ABC Domestic Television: Katie Couric: Online Love Traps: A fairy tale turned horror story! Jan. 28, 2013: Nev Schulman of MTV Catfish estimates 10% online profiles are fake. InvestiDate book author Maria Coder suggests 5 senses telephone-photo-post-work-hospital-background check.], Accel Partners® Ian Adie® Etsy: Latin And If for Android [USA only :-(], Stitches by Lina Suarez, Beekeeper Labs® Yarn Shopper, CrazyFiberLadySoftware® Knit Counter, (ApkPure) Handmade Interactive® QuiltCalc, Moorhen Apps® Knitters’ Friend [convert knitting needle, crochet & steel crochet sizes from metric, UK & US], (Amazon) Winkpass Creations® Knot Guide
   • Android Tablet Apps: xAd Inc.® Earth Networks® WeatherBug for Honeycomb [3.28MB: 8,000 tracking stations across USA; 85 TV Broadcasting Partners. xAd Raises $42.5M Series E, Acquires WeatherBug; Accelerates Location Technology to Predict Where Consumers Will Go Next, xAd Website ©;Nov. 15, 2016. Bundled with AOL Installer back in 2002], 4 Pixels® Air Control Game, (APK Pure) Chris Stewart® Tweetcomb for Twitter [“TweetComb is a Twitter client for Android designed to make searching easier.” Version 2.5 is for Android™ JellyBean-Marshmallow & is 3.45MB.], Amazon® ComiXology® Comix , KoolAppz® Tailgating Recipes, Maxelus.net® Live wallpapers, Mikrosonic® Music Sketchpad, MobiSoftApps™ Stock Ticker Pro [Live Wallpaper Worldwide] [Jordan: Ibn Sina Complex, Office 302, Qibyah St., Jabal Al Hussein, Amman], (APK Pure) NBC-Universal® NBC Sports Talk [Ads: Needs 64MB memory], NBC Universal-Abhu Dhabi Media® Vevo LLC® Vevo Music Videos, Sony® Qello Concerts [CEO: Brian Lisi: Rights Flow® Licensing Music Videos $4.99@ Android™ Gingerbread], Unnamed Applications® Sports Calendar $1.99 [View schedules & add event to Google Calendar. Leagues are grouped together by sport. NFL, NHL, MLB, MLS, NBA, UFC, NASCAR, PGA, NCAA.. .]