History of Android Operating System Android‚ Inc. was founded in Palo Alto‚ California in October 2003 by Andy Rubin (co-founder of Danger)‚ Rich Miner (co-founder of Wildfire Communications‚ Inc.)‚ Nick Sears (once VP at T-Mobile)‚ and Chris White (headed design and interface development at WebTV) to develop. Google acquired Android Inc. on August 17‚ 2005‚ making it a wholly owned subsidiary of Google. Key employees of Android Inc.‚ including Rubin‚ Miner and White‚ stayed at the company after
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History of the Philippine Educational System Education in the Philippines evolved from early settlers to the present. Education in the country is in great importance because it is the primary avenue for upward social and economic mobility. Philippine educational system has a very deep history from the past in which it has undergone several stage of development going to the present system of education. Education from Ancient Early Filipinos The education of pre-Spanish time in the Philippines
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INTRODUCTION Brief History of Urban Cooperative Banks in India The term Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs)‚ though not formally defined‚ refers to primary cooperative banks located in urban and semi-urban areas. These banks‚ till 1996‚ were allowed to lend money only for non-agricultural purposes. This distinction does not hold today. These banks were traditionally centred around communities‚ localities work place groups. They essentially lent to small borrowers
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The juvenile justice system has a unique past of historical development‚ from the discovery of childhood to positivist criminology. The juvenile justice system was created with a simple idea in mind- to treat children who have committed crimes differently than adults. The goal of reformers was to create the ideal that juveniles should be treated‚ not punished. Since the 1960’s‚ however‚ the status quo of juvenile delinquency has shifted into a punitive model. Reformers are once again trying to institute
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BSP Releases Report on the Philippine Financial System for the First Semester of 2011 11.03.2011 The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) recently released the Status Report on the Philippine Financial System for the first semester of 2011. The report provides an account of the performance of the banking system and other financial institutions such as non-banks with quasi-banking functions‚ non-stock savings and loan associations‚ offshore banks‚ and trust entities under BSP supervision. Also included
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seat allocation‚ advance identification of preferred candidates to board members‚ unexplained re-evaluations of exams following completion of tests‚ and some twelve other perceived irregularities were identified as the week points of the recruitment system that need to be addressed.
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Introduction The international financial system provides the framework enabling residents of one country to make payments to residents of other countries. Over the past centuries world trade was characterised by great changes in the international financial system‚ beginning with the use for gold and silver in the bimetallism era‚ through the gold standard the gold exchange standard ‚ the Bretton Woods system and the current floating exchange rates. Arguably gold id the oldest metal used both
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CHAPTER 2 SUMMARIZED NOTES A) THE EVOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM 1) THE CLASSICAL GOLD STANDARD ERA (1870-1914) Characteristics: All currencies are valued in terms of their gold equivalent and thus all currencies are linked together. Eg: 1 ounce of gold = $20.67 1 ounce of gold = £4.25 so 1£ = (20.67 /4.25) = $4.87 Money has a value fixed in terms of commodity gold. Since gold is costly to produce‚ governments could not easily increase their
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Question 3a. What were the advantages and disadvantages of the caste system? How did the caste system reflect Indian society. A caste system was used by the ancient Indian society to separate themselves into categories. There are advantages and disadvantages with the use of this system but they all reflected Indian society in different ways. The term Caste and Varna meant “heredity” and “color”. The caste system was originally created to separate the early Aryans from the native Indians
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ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM AT THE ADVENT OF BRITISH RULE 1.0 ’ Objectives 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Mauryan and Gupta Administration 1.3 Major Characteristics of Moghul Administration 1.3.1 Role of the King 1.3.2 Bureaucracy 1.3.3 Army 1.3.4 Police 1.4 Structure of the Moghul Administrative System 1.4.1 Central Administration 1.4.2 Provincial Administration 1.4.3 District and Local Administration 1.5 Revenue Administration 1.5.1 Land Revenue as the Primary Source of Income 1.5.2 Types of Land Tenurial Systems 1.5.3
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