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November 3, 1999: REAL Networks Admits to Data Collection

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1999 – Real Networks admits to collecting data without telling users with their software program RealJukebox player. When the issue was brought up by a competitor, Real apologized and issued a patch to change the collection process. For any software to collect data, they must inform you and give you an option to opt out.

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UMax releases PowerPC Mac
Godzilla is released
McAfee manager arrested for laundering money

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November 2, 1931: DuPont DuPrene (Neoprene) Introduced

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1931 – E.I. DuPont announces to the world they have come up with a new substance that is a Synthetic rubber called DuPrene. Made from Acetylene, salt and rubber, this combination would eventually be renamed NeoPrine in 1937. The announcement was made at the American Chemical Society in Akron, Ohio.

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2001 – Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice reach terms on Antitrust
2002 – DeLi Linux is released
2007 – Lenovo removes IBM label from computers

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October 31st, 1892: Happy Anniversary Sherlock Holmes

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Happy Halloween! 1892 – Arthur Conan Doyle publishes the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. After Doyle attended medical school, he moved to London, where he practiced medicine and wrote the first Sherlock Holmes story, “A Study in Scarlet”.

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IBM OS/2 1.1 released
First public version of Sketch
Google privatizes Jotspot

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October 30, 1938: Orson Welles, the War of the Worlds

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1938 – Orson Welles shocks the nation with radio broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” by H. G. Wells. A large number of listeners who tune into the program ten minutes late (because the singer on the Edgar Bergan show was not that great). Because of this, they didn’t know this was a fictional story and start to panic. The story was brought through a series of “Newscasts” that Welles portrayed the reporter on the street and how these giant machines landed and began to attack the population.This event would launch Orson Welles career. Of course, he would go on to create Citizen Kane, Othello, Don Quixote and other classic cinema pieces.

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1986 – First Fibre-optic cable
1995 – Oracle announces Websystem
2007 – Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor says “Take my music”

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October 29, 2013: William Lowe, Inventor of the IBM PC Passes

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2013: If you grew up in the 80’s, you knew what an IBM PC was. Even in the 90’s and 00’s, the PC was what you had in the corner of the house to do homework on, surf the internet, work out expenses and more.

William C. Lowe was the man that brought that all together. He joined IBM in 1962 and left in 1991. It was in 1981 that the IBM PC debuted.

Did you know IBM was late in the PC game? In order for them to beef up a PC division, they almost bought Atari.

Instead, they decided to go with an open architecture with the PC. It took one year to develop and in the end the IBM PC could be purchased for $1,565.

We remember William C. Lowe with admiration.

1955 – Reynold Johnson brought a new idea to life. Using magnetic cylinder memory, His team put 50 platters – 24 inch disks – into a series. The end result – the first hard drive was born. The device was then produced as the IBM 350 (debuted September 4th, 1956), which was put into the IBM 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), which was debuted in September 13th, 1956 – with the IBM 355 (hard drive) and IBM 650 (RAMAC) on September 14th. It ran at 1,200 rpm and held 5 MB of data.Reynold Johnson’s prototype weighed one ton. The 350 cost $10,000 / MB.

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Maxtor DiamondMax
Brad Silverberg leaves Microsoft
DC Comics goes online

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October 28, 1955: Bill Gates Birthday

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1955 – William Gates Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates has a son. William Gates III was born in Seattle, WA. Bill Gates, of course, went on to start Microsoft. Bill was CEO of Microsoft until he retired in 2008. In 2000, he started the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Interestingly enough, 30 years later in 1985, Bill Gates put Microsoft up for IPO. That’s a birthday present…

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Apple unveils MessagePad2000
Digital Millennium Copyright Act goes into Law
Palm merges Handspring – forms PalmOne

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October 27, 1999: Dell PC Sales Were #1

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1999 – Dataquest, a company that monitors PC sales, has shown a trend that Dell had maintained a 5% lead over Apple for 2 consecutive quarters. Therefore, Dell had become #1 in computer sales for 1999. Of course, a recent report mentioned that Apple could now buy Dell if it so inclined.This Day in Tech History podcast show notes for October 27

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Windows Azure launches
Internet Explorer 4.0 releases
The ARPANET stops functioning

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October 26, 1998: First Computer Run by Using Thought

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1998 – A Georgia man became the first person that ran a computer controlled by thought. The subject (known as J.R.) was paralyzed due to stroke. Dr Roy Bakay and Dr. Phillip Kennedy implanted a glass cone into J.R’s brain, which would allow him to mentally control the PC.

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Sig Hartmann resigns from Commodore
Sony introduced the PS2 in the United States
Facebook releases Scribe
JVC announced U-format video recorders

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