Successful partnerships

Who are these guys?
Any ideas?
(Here's a hint...they know a fair bit about computers ...hehe!)

This is a photograph of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard taken at the garage where they started their electronics business way back in the middle of the last century.
They flipped a coin to see if their modest little company should be called Packard-Hewlett or the now globally famous brand of Hewlett-Packard!

The rest, as they say,
is history!

Click here to watch a short video about the Hewlett-Packard story. As you watch, answer these questions:
1 Which university did Bill and Dave attend?
2 When did they start their company?
3 What was the name of their first product?
4 Who did they sell it to?
5 Which film was the product used in?
6 What kind of values was the company built on?
7 What are Bill and Dave handing out in the photograph?
8 What three elements came together to form this "marriage"?
9 What is the typical annual revenue of the company?
10 Which two areas of business does the company focus on today?

Now, click here to read about this and other successful partnerships. Click on the photographs at the bottom of the page and read about the 10 other famous partnerships. Do some further research on one of these partnerships and prepare a one minute presentation to give to the class.You may choose another successful partnership if you wish but check with your teacher first!

Have fun with your research and good luck with your presentations!
Andy

The Annoying Orange

Since his first appearance on youtube in October 2009, the Annoying Orange has gone viral with around 150 million views worldwide. What is it that makes this infuriating little character so endearing? Love him or hate him, it seems like the Annoying Orange and his pals might be around for a while.

But what do you think? Let us know whether you think he's funny, if you have a particular favourite episode and why the hell he is so popular.

Here's what Lisa's class thinks:

I really love the Annoying Orange because its humour is sometimes acid and others cruel and I think people love it. Its annoying voice and way of treating the other characters I believe are the main reasons that make people watch it over and over again and laugh each time they watch any video of the Annoying Orange. I personally think that lately, the new episodes aren’t as fun as the older ones but I still spend a great deal of time watching them.

Alejandro Vinué

The annoying orange is not funny at all. I hate it. It’s everything but annoying. It’s so stupid that you can’t even get annoyed or angry like the fruits in the videos, and the orange s so lame with it’s solitary life in the small kitchen.

Mica and Nacho

In my opinion, the annoying orange is very funny because it has a lot of creativity using fruits that have voices. It’s great to watch how the orange annoys the other fruits with his comical laugh. I think that those videos are very popular because people are not used to that type of humour and the best thing is that you have hundreds of videos from the annoying orange. Personally I’ve only watched a few episodes due tothe fact that I think it's a waste of time, as every video last on average ten minutes.
Tony Kaminker

My own opinion: I think that the annoying orange is a very creative and original series. Nevertheless it became clear that, in order to keep making one episode per week, the lack of imagination would be evident. New episodes aren’t about encounters of the orange with other vegetables and fruits, but with movie characters such as the villain of Saw. Anyway nothing prevents you from laughing about the silly jokes :P
Matias Dwek