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Credit card history, how it has come along since 1999. This is from How Stuff Works, and talks about the size of the credit card: "A credit card is a thin plastic card, usually 3-1/8 inches by 2-1/8 inches in size, that contains identification information such as a signature or picture, and authorizes the person named on it to charge purchases or services to his account -- charges for which he will be billed periodically." he first universal credit card -- one that could be used at a variety of stores and businesses -- was introduced by Diners Club, Inc.

criterion B explains how online subscription works

how google reader

Criterion B describe how hyperlink works

an example for subscription model. also being paid

Article is about face blurring technology in Google (based on alogartithms)

Picture and some details about the car used to take street view images for google.

This article describes the 11 lens camera that Google uses to take pictures to update its street view feature.

Google's description of how Street View works.

Facts about Google Street view, the cameras they use, etc.

RSS

This article discusses some minor impacts on a few stakeholders but goes well into detail about the IT features and explains the technology and methods involved in cyber-attacks.

This article discusses how many users use the programs to illegally share music, video..and how it works, the IT behind it. what the procress of downloading and sharing illegal files.

The primary function of a Web server is to deliver Web pages to clients. This means delivery of HTML documents and any additional content that may be included by a document, such as images, style sheets and JavaScripts. Most webservers have limitation, and if reached could cause breakdown of server, or "crash."

Article about how improvements have and could be made to Twitter's technology

Update on number of servers the company has to run the massively popular social website, Facebook. It has been updated from the orginal 10,000 to an existing 30,000 servers. Facebook is also responsible of logging 300 million users data. Facebook gets about 25 terabytes of log data everyday. 

Article about the technology behind using twitter from a scell phone.

Information about the ruby programming language which is what Ruby On Rails is based on which is partly responsible for twitter's user interface.