10 Greatest Rebirths In Tech History


#5 Yahoo’s second innings that is on right track

It seems Yahoo! finally has got some traction in the internet business, all thanks to Marissa Mayer.  For Mayer, aside from a brief kerfuffle when she killed off work-at-home privileges for pajama-wearing Yahooligans, it's been pretty smooth sailing. No shareholders have called for her head. No internal memos describing chaos and disarray have been leaked. Top talent is slowly being drawn back or retained instead of them being lured by the prospects of other companies. And while Mayer hasn't produced any miracles yet, those achievements alone put her ahead of the last half a dozen who've occupied the Yahoo CEO's chair before.

#4 Tablet/pen computers

The fully powered computers that you can hold in one hand and tap your commands on its screen, called as tablet computers, are not the creation of present. So the iPad or some tablet experiment by Microsoft before iPad, was not the first for tablet computers, way back in 1991, the companies like GRiD, Moment, Go, and others did that. The difference- they were clunky, pen-based, and not nearly as sexy or popular as the iPad and its countless imitators. Now pens are making a comeback as well with devices like the stylus-based Samsung Note.

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