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    online service, Xbox Live. The brand was introduced on November 15, 2001, in the United States, with the launch of the original Xbox console. The first console in the series, the Xbox, was the first console offered by an American company after the Atari Jaguar stopped sales in 1996. It reached more than 24 million units sold as of May 10, 2006. Microsoft's most recently released console, the Xbox 360, was released in 2005 and has sold over 77.2 million consoles worldwide as of April 18, 2013. The

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    1. Legal Name of the Company Per the 10-k filling of Apple, there legal name is Apple Inc. However their name used to be Apple Computer Inc. Apple switched their name in 2007 because Apple Inc. started to make more than just computer by adding phones, iPads, iPods and more to their company for selling. () 2. Why Apple Interest Me? Apple is an interesting topic to talk about, between how many different successful products they have to all the new inventions they make. Apple Inc. Company interest

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    House, Techno, and Trance are subgenres of electronic dance music. Electronic dance music became mainstream in the 1970s. The Moog synthesizer which was released in the mid 1960s is the first iconic instrument of electronic music. The 1970s can be described as the synthpop and disco era in which, Kraftwerk was a significant German band made in 1970 who used rhythmic sounds of bands like Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple and combined it with the futuristic sounds of the Moog synthesizer and vocoder. Giorgio

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    This essay will talk about how Nintendo is currently the best company in the video game race. It will discuss all of Nintendo’s innovations to the video gaming industry as a whole and how without Nintendo, the video game industry would be drastically different. An example of an event that would have altered the video game industry without Nintendo would be the Video Game Crash of 1983, where video games were being reproduced at a rate where all copies couldn’t be sold and how all of the games at

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    Characteristics of Business Leadership Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age. Jobs mastered digital technology and capitalized on his intuitive marketing sense. He largely came to define the personal computer industry and an array of digital consumer and entertainment businesses centered on the Internet. Coming on

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    GAMES Convenience of Emulators: (Sinh Ly) The legal aspects of emulations and emulators are tied with its association with ROMs, as defined by Nintendo as Read Only Memory, which are usually illegally ripped (2015). An emulator is a software that attempts to replicate the functions of another platform, in this case, a gaming console or portable system, to run the code and interpret data from plugins that can interpret signals from a controller and used with the program (Newman, 2013). The creation

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    Apple was founded by Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniak. They both were high school friends, interested in electronics, and both ended up dropping out of school and getting jobs in companies in Silicon Valley, Steven Wozniak in Hewlett-Packard and Jobs in Atari. They designed a motherboard which would become the Apple-I. Both the friends tried to sell the machine, but success eluded them. On April 1, 1976, Apple Computer was born. In 1977, they came up with a better device named as Apple-II. It was the first

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    The advances in technology over the past few years have been remarkable. There are many reasons that most children between eight to eighteen, in different parts of the world, especially in the U.S have started playing video games, including violent video games. Video games were first introduced in 1970. Since then, they have become a favorite activity and past-time for many of today’s youth and children. While many of the games are educational or based on heroes, others allow players to rob or even

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    The video game crash peaked at around 3.2 billion dollars in 1983 and then fell to approximately 100 millions dollars by 1985 and this caused one of the major companies of the time (Atari) going from 10,000 employees in Silicon valley to less than a thousand in six months. Some of the key sectors in Australia is retail, fishing, education and training, construction and transport. In 2016, the retail market in Australia is currently

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    The First to Market Business The first to market business model can arguably fit into any of the other business models. A freelancer can create a new technique and test it on the market. The solution, and specialization business model are also often considered the same as the first to market model. Yet again, I classify this as a unique model of its own because of the increased risk involved. The other models can be replicas or replacements for traditional goods and services. However, the

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