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Today in Tech History – – July 2, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / July 2nd, 2018

1897 – 23-year-old Guglielmo Marconi received a patent in England for his wireless telegraphy which we now call radio. The Wireless Telegraph and Signal Co. Ltd. was formed a few weeks later.

http://books.google.com/books?id=nKFvnNl9vOEC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=july+2+1897+marconi+patent&source=bl&ots=1NI414s3Yx&sig=GcY7GmafCafXYqNc3fCEDrT2FLg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FmHGT5TTLbPE2QX92pXrAQ&ved=0CFAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=july%202%201897%20marconi%20patent&f=false

1928 – W3XK, owned by the Jenkins Television Corporation, went on the air becoming the first television broadcasting station in the US.

http://online.sfsu.edu/hl/cfj/cfj.W3XK.html

2001 – Bram Cohen first revealed BitTorrent on a Yahoo group called decentralization.

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/decentralization/message/3160

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DTNS 3316 – Automation for the People

Daily Tech News Show / July 2nd, 2018

While much has been discussed about the disruption that automation will have on the job market, businesses and the economy not much work or thought has been giving on mitigating the fallout and the future of work. We discuss how to grapple with the inevitable shift in society as automation becomes a fact of working life.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.

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Today in Tech History – – July 1, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / July 1st, 2018

1874 – Remington started selling the Sholes and Glidden Typewriter, the first mass-produced typewriter to use the QWERTY layout. 1 and 0 were left off as the lowercase l and upper-case O keys could double for the numbers.

http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=christopher-keep-the-introduction-of-the-sholes-glidden-type-writer-1874

1941 – A 10-second TV commercial for watch and jewelry company Bulova aired at 2:29 PM on NBC-owned WNBT, leading into a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies. It was the first legal broadcast TV commercial in the US.

http://mashable.com/2013/08/01/first-tv-commercial-bulova-video/#AJMcFQGtIGqg

1979 – Sony introduced the Sony Walkman TPS-L2. It weighed 14 ounces, was blue and silver, and had a second earphone jack. It was originally marketed in the US as the Sound-About and in the UK as the Stowaway.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1907884,00.html#ixzz1wGwqKzYW

1991 – Finnish Prime Minister Harri Holkeri made the world’s first GSM call over a privately operated network to Vice Mayor Kaarina Suonio in Tampere. The Prime Minister used Nokia gear on GSM’s original 900MHz band.

http://www.ericssonhistory.com/changing-the-world/World-leadership/Who-was-first/

1984 – The book Neuromancer by William Gibson was published. The cyberpunk novel would go on to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards. The book is credited with popularizing the term cyberspace and laying out a blueprint for what the World Wide Web would become.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/167670/neuro.html

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Today in Tech History – – June 30, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 30th, 2018

1945 – The first draft of a Report on the EDVAC was published. It discussed the advantages of using just one large internal memory, in which instructions as well as data could be held.

https://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/wang_archi/supp/appendix_a.pdf

1948 – Bell Labs introduced the point-contact transistor demonstrated by its inventors, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at a press conference in Murray Hill, NJ.

http://www.computerhistory.org/semiconductor/timeline/1947-invention.html

1948 – The FCC authorization of recording devices in connection with interstate or foreign telephone service went into effect. Users of the service had to be given adequate notice including a tone warning signal at regular intervals.

https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-308668A1.pdf

2015 – Apple launched Apple Music, a streaming service for $10 a month along with radio station Beats One.

http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-music-launches-taking-on-spotify/

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DTNS 3315 – Magic Scooter Ride

Daily Tech News Show / June 29th, 2018

It’s our end of June round table show. This month we discuss the developer shift from single player to multi-player games. Are single-player games an endangered species? Plus electric scooter rentals from Bird and Lime electric are gaining fans around the country. We find out what turned one scooter hater into one of their biggest fans! And as GO90 closes its doors we kick around what is and what isn’t working in the new age of streaming TV.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang and Trisha Hershberger.

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Today in Tech History – – June 29, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 29th, 2018

1975 – Steve Wozniak built the first prototype of the Apple I, the first computer to show letters on the screen as you typed them.

http://www.amazon.com/iWoz-Computer-Geek-Cult-ebook/dp/B000VUCIZO

1995 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the space station Mir, the first-ever docking of a Shuttle to a Space Station.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/07/shuttle-atlantis-mir-realization-program-goal/

2007 – The Apple iPhone went on sale for the first time.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/29/technology/iphone_launches/index.htm

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 29, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / June 29th, 2018

Instagram adds licensed music, a floating robot heads to the ISS, Google may get into gaming.

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Today in Tech History – – June 28, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 28th, 2018

1928 – Austrian Friedrich Schmiedl launched his first experimental rocket from a balloon 50,000 feet over Graz, Austria. The rocket was not recovered, but later tests were successful leading to rocket delivered mail.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/23/style/stamps-when-the-speed-of-rockets-delivered-the-mail.html

1965 – Officials in the US and Europe conducted the first commercial telephone conversation over satellite Early Bird I. The satellite also began operating for television transmission “live via satellite.”

http://appel.nasa.gov/2010/02/25/ao_1-7_sf_history-html/

1982 – Microsoft unveiled a new corporate logo with the famous “blibbet” of horizontal lines in the first O. New packaging, and a comprehensive set of retail dealer support materials came along with the blibbet.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/The-History-of-Microsoft-1982

2011 – Google announced their latest social network attempt. Google + let you put friends in circles and share different things with different circles.

http://readwrite.com/2011/06/28/google_circles_googles_radical_new_social_network

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DTNS 3314 – KaiOS Reigns

Daily Tech News Show / June 28th, 2018

Apple may bundle music, TV and news into a single subscription, a new Pew survey shows 74% of American adults think technology was helped their life but 36% think technology is bad for society, and Amazon is acquiring online pharmacy PillPack.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Justin Robert Young.

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 28, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / June 28th, 2018

Amazon buys online pharmacy PillPack, Kroger partners with Nuro for driverless grocery delivery, Sling TV raises prices and adds free content.

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