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Cellular Antics: Nokia and Apple Lawyer Up
They have been negotiating for a couple of years over licenses based on Nokia’s claim that Apple has appropriated Nokia technology for the iPhone. Now it looks as if negotiations are either breaking down or being taken to a higher level. Firs...
5 Tech Things Ep 18 – La La
I thought it would be a cool idea to do the 5 Tech things outside. After all, there was 17 inches of snow and 5 degrees – not to mention the studio is being re-done. Unfortunately, the mic battery was going and all I g– wa- stat-c for 15 ...
Not iAPPlicable
Apple has pulled over 1,000 apps by an outfit called Molinker from its App Store. There are suspicions that the developer is reponsible for the highly favorable reviews they have received. You can read more here. This whole Apps Store phenomenon fa...
Day in Tech History December 6th – Encyclopedias and Playstations.
Brought to you by Stitcher – For iPhone, Blackberry, Palm Pre and now Android First Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica IBM 2420 Playstation sells 300,000 Apple Shares fall Opera v.5 is released ...
DITH Nov 17 – Jerry Yang Steps down
2008 – After battle upon battle between Microsoft, Google and shareholders (including Carl Icahn), Jerry Yang finally announced to all he was stepping down. The previous days, Yahoo had hit it’s lowest share price, $8. With that, the fail...
DITH Oct 28 – Happy Birthday Bill Gates
1955 – Bill Gates was born. That’s it. Oh yeah – 30 years later he puts Microsoft up for IPO. Mozy Unlimited Backup – $4.95/Month! Use code “Geek” for 10% off! Please add to your favorite aggregator. RSS Feed – iTunes –...
DITH Oct 27 – Dell Takes number 1 spot: How times have changed
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 ...
DITH Oct 23 – the first iPod
2001 – The first iPod is launched. 5 GB and 6 GB models and were developed in less than a year. iPod actually was a reference from 2001: a Space Odyssey. The trademark was already taken by another company, but the product – an Internet Ki...
DITH Oct 15 – Birth of Token Ring
1985 – IBM announced, with co-developer Texas Instruments, the Token Ring network along with PC Network software. The TR only did network transmission speed of 4 Mbps (It didn’t hit speeds of 16 Mbps until 1989), and worked over standard...
DITH Oct 6th – Michael Dell says Apple should be shut down
1997 – Gil Amelio just was removed as CEO. People were calling for Steve Jobs to return, but others thought that would be a bad investment. Michael Dell was asked what he would do, he came back in saying Apple should close the doors and give th...
DITH – iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon
2006 – The book iWoz: from Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-founded Apple and had Fun Doing it. (**WHEW!**) came out. It was a book that was written to dispel some of the rumors and misconceptions on many dif...
DITH Sept 19
Try GoToAssist free for 30 days – GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts. ATT Acquires NCR NT3.51 SP5 released Ruby 1.6.5 released Apple recalls power supplies...
DITH Sept 18 – The NeXT computer
1989 – 4 years after resigning from Apple, Steve Jobs and his newest company NeXT finally release the NeXTstepOS. It is a Unix based system, with some aspects of BSD and using the Mach kernal. This is the OS that will eventually merge into Appl...
DITH Sept 12 – Steve Jobs starts a new company
1985 – Steve Jobs tenders his resignation at Apple and 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 Le...
999 on 9-09-09 (technically)
OK, so I was looking at my numbers just after midnight CST and found out that Geekazine has pushed 998 articles in the last 2 years. That makes this one 999, with the next being 1000. It’s a great milestone that just happened to do so on 9-9-09...
