Holiday Homework Class X - Apeejay Education Society

CLASS X D
ANDROID
Android is a Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as
smartphones and tablet computers. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and
later bought in 2005, Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance: a
consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for
mobile devices. The first Android-powered phone was sold in October 2008.
Android is open source and Google releases the code under the Apache License. This open source code and
permissive licensing allows the software to be freely modified and distributed by device manufacturers, wireless
carriers and enthusiast developers
CLASS X E
TOPIC : TWITTER OR BLOG
Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read
text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and by July, the social networking site was launched. The
service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over
340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. Since its launch, Twitter has become
one of the ten most visited websites on the Internet, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet.”
Unregistered users can read tweets, while registered users can post tweets through the website interface, SMS,
or a range of apps for mobile devices.
A blog (a portmanteau of the term web log) is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide
Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most
recent post appears first). Until 2009 blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small
group, and often covered a single subject. More recently "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts
written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets,
universities, think tanks, interest groups and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic.