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September 15, 2008: Best Buy Purchased Napster

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2008– Napster has been trying to solidify their name since they went legit. They forged the way with music downloads in the 1990’s but struggled after.

Enter Best Buy. They saw the opportunity and laid down $121 Million for the company. Best Buy owned the service until 2011 when Napster merged with Rhapsody. Best Buy still has a minor stake in the music sharing software.

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Sony releases Mylo.
Microsoft buys Visio
Google registers Google.com

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September 14, 1973: IBM Antitrust Lawsuit

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1973 – IBM had a suit filed in January of 1972 by Telex. They accused IBM of monopolizing the “plug compatible” equipment market. This included tape and disk drives, along with other add-on memories.

Judge Sherman Christensen hands down his 222 page verdict. He found that both Telex and IBM were guilty for the allegations waged against each other. Telex is awarded $350 million and IBM will be restrained in its ability to market its computer and software bundles. IBM, in turn, is awarded $22 million.

This suit began a witch hunt and other suits against IBM came up. CalComp, Memorex and Marshall Industries filed suits and won over 3 billion from Big blue.

Data Travellers and Fry Guy
Microsoft became America’s Most valuable company
MS-DOS retired, Windows ME released

Computer/ Day in Tech History

September 13, 1983: Osbourne Declared Bankruptcy

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1983 – The Osbourne I was a computer introduced by Adam Osbourne in 1981. It featured a Z80 microprocessor and the computer would run at least $1800. However, the computer company did not fair too well. They tried to mask their true financial statements in hopes that things would turn around. However once investors found out what was going on, they would start asking questions. Osbourne could not handle the pressure and on this day they filed for bankruptcy.

Reverse Engineering is a legitimate practice
Hacking for Girlies
3COM spins off Palm

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September 12, 1985: Steve Jobs Leaves Apple to Start NeXT

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1985 – After an interesting power struggle with John Sculley, Steve Jobs decides to throw in the towel and tenders his resignation at Apple. He announces at the Board meeting he and other low level employees will be starting a new company – NeXT. The next day, Jobs tells John Sculley that Bud Tribble, Dan’l Lewin, George Crow, Rich Page, and Susan Barnes will be leaving to join him.

Jobs new company would end up becoming the foundation of Mac when it is bought by Apple in 1996 and Steve Jobs comes back to become CEO.

Integrated circuit is demonstrated
Space Race begins
Discman is introduced

Day in Tech History/ Geek

September 11, 2001: 911 Day, 2008: TiVO Announce Phone DVR

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Remembering 9-11 Day

2008 – TiVO and Research in Motion (RIM) announce they will collaborate to give people another option to record their favorite shows. Coming soon, you would be able to set your DVR and review schedules right from your Blackberry device. That way if you forget to set your recorder, you can call up the application and make the change.

It was also the historic day that New York City’s Twin Towers were taken down by a terrorist attack. We at the Day in Tech History commemorate the 10 year anniversary and take a moment of silence in the show to remember those who lost their lives.

Scott Fahlman’s original email on emoticons is found
Operation Cybersnare

Day in Tech History/ Geek

September 10, 1984: First Genetic Fingerprinting Discovered

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1984 – Alex Jeffreys of Leicester, England noticed and deduced that DNA is a unique item from person to person and could possibly be used to identify someone. Hence, Genetic Fingerprinting was born. Alex was originally working on a way to determine heredity of illnesses when he made this discovery.

The Gopher Protocol
The Segway ban
Arizona takes death notices offline

Day in Tech History/ Geek

September 9,1945: First Computer Bug Revealed

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1945 – Grace Hopper is forever immortalized in the computer world as the first person to find a bug in a computer system. Litterally. The bug was a moth in between Relay #70 on Panel “F” of the Harvard Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator.From there on end, “Bug” meant a problem in a computer system. I guess once the moth was removed, the word “Debug” was also added.BTW – The relay functioned properly after the moth was removed.

1947 – It sounds like that same relay finally failed 2 years later.

The first TRS-80 is sold
Sony releases the Playstation
9/9/99 (in 1999 that is)
Script Kiddies hack NBC News

Day in Tech History/ Geek

September 8, 2008: Real Launched RealDVD

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2008 –Real launches a new program that will allow you to put your DVDs and other format movies onto the hard drive. It instantly became a hotbed of controversy as the software raised the question: can you legally copy the data to another media? The battle started in court and at this current point, RealDVD is on an injunction of sales.

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Realtime updates of VDNS
RIAA sues 261 including Brianna LaHara, a 13 yo girl
Richard Kenadek pleads not guilty on Davy Jones Locker BBS

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