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November 5,1999: Microsoft Found a Monopoly

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1999 – It was over 12 years that we saw Microsoft go through the Department of Justice over Monopoly issues. US district Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued a 207 page Findings of fact on this day. In it, he ruled that Microsoft did have a Monopoly power over the OS in the Intel market. During the week we talked about what leads up to this 207 page ruling.

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  • Aurora SPARC Linux is released
  • Abilene network segment is upgraded to 10 Gbps
  • Google drops the Yahoo – Google deal in pressure from the Justice department
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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 19, 1985: First Blockbuster Opens

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1985 – The first Blockbuster opens it’s doors in Dallas, TX by David Cook. The 29 year old store owner eventually sold it to Scott Beck, John Melk and Wayne Huizenga. Eventually it becomes a nation-wide franchise and online movie and game rental store. Dish Network ultimately purchased Blockbuster for $228 million

The Last Blockbuster

On April 1st, 2019 (not an April Fools Joke), Bend, OR Blockbuster became the last brick-and-mortar store in the world. This was after the last Australian store closed. They are known on Twitter as @LoneBlockbuster

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  • Netscape 4.5 is released
  • Flickr adds Geotagging
  • Korean war stops all color TV broadcasts
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Datallegro, XPrime and Microsoft Lawsuit

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Datallegro – a warehouse application – had been sued by XPrime, where Cary Jardin (CEO of Datallegro) used to work. Datallegro was in mid acquisition by Microsoft at the time. The acquisition completed on Sept 16, 2008. The suit was analyzed by critics as “not relevant”. No word on how that suit ended.

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  • ICCP is founded
  • Atari sues Amiga
  • Apple’s Rooftop is burning
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Palm Debuts m100 line

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August 7, 2000: Palm M-100 released

Palm introduced a couple new devices in 2000, They beefed up the Palm V line with the Palm Vx and Palm VIIx. The company, however, decided to retire the Palm III line and start Palm m100. They debuted the 16MHz model with Palm OS 3.5 and a 2″x2″ monochrome LCD display for $149.The Palm VIIx was $449 and the Vx was $399.

Eventually, Palm was bought out by HP where it was used and discarded. WebOS software is now Open source.

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  • IBM introduces the ASCC
  • First Satellite photos of Earth were taken
  • Apple releases the PowerMac G5
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July 31, 1980: TRS-80 Model III, TRS-80 Pocket Released

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July 31, 1980: TRS-80 pocket was released

Radio Shack released a few new TRS-80 line computers in 1980. One was the introduction of Model III. It contained a Zilog Z80 processor and 4 kb of RAM> The price was only $699.Then again, you could get the TRS-80 for $399 with the Motorola 6809E CPU, or the TRS-80 Pocket computer for $230

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  • Windows NT 4.0 Released
  • Sprint Early Termination Fees
  • Hotmail changes their mail name to Outlook
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July 29, 2009: Yahoo Search Sold to Microsoft

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July 29, 2009: Yahoo! sells search assets to Microsoft

We dealt with the big buyout bid fight between Microsoft and Yahoo back in 2008. Of course, the outcome was that Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang stepped down and Carol Bartz took the reigns. However, Carol did make a bold move in 2009 as she agreed to a deal with Steve Ballmer. Microsoft would get Yahoo Search engine technologies and create a search engine for Yahoo. In return, Yahoo would handle advertising for premium search advertisers. This was a ten year deal.BTW – Recent news stated that Yahoo.jp is using Google in Japan. While it did put a snag in the agreement this week, Yahoo Japan Chief Exec. Masahiro Inoue said Microsoft didn’t localize the service in Japan, therefore, they went with Google.

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  • WindowsNT 4.0 RTM is released
  • 100-nanosecond 64 kbit DRAM
  • Sirius and XM finish their merger
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