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The first call on a handheld mobile phone was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper.
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In 1991, NCR Corporation with AT&T Corporation invented the precursor to 802.11, intended for use in cashier systems.
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Unveiled in November 1992 IBM's Simon is credited as being the first ever smartphone.
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As such, it is no surprise that it was none other than Tetris that made an appearance as the first game featured on a cellphone. Tetris appeared as the first mobile game in 1994 aboard the Hagenuk MT-2000, a phone designed and manufactured in Denmark by the Hagenuk corporation.
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True telecom and internet convergence is possible because of VoIP
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The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) developed the system, which originally used 24 satellites. It became fully operational in 1995.
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The first 3G networks were introduced in 1998
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Google is created.
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BlackBerry 850 was the first BlackBerry device introduced in 1999. Supporting email and limited HTML browsing, the small device featured a monochrome screen. The BlackBerry 5810 was the first model with phone capabilities but a headset was required.
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While modern web APIs were officially born with Roy Fieldings dissertation Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures in 2000--Web APIs first appeared in the wild with the introduction of Salesforce on February 7th, when the company officially launched its API at the IDG Demo 2000 conference.
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