Because of the audio problems on Friday’s show, Tom rereads the headlines from Friday.
Today in Tech History – September 5, 2015
In 1977 – NASA launched Voyager 1 after a brief delay. Although it was launched 16 days after Voyager 2, it’s faster flight path would take it past Jupiter first.
In 1980 – The last IBM 7030 mainframe computer, AKA STRETCH, was decommissioned at Brigham Young University.
In 2007 – Apple introduced the iPod Touch, bringing multitouch functionality to its popular iPod line.
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DTNS 2574 – from DragonCon
Due to a technical failure the audio in this episode is substandard. Our apologies. We included it for completeness but please know we will endeavour to better in the future.
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Today in Tech History – September 4, 2015
In 1888 – George Eastman was issued US. patent No. 388,850 for his roll-film box camera.
In 1956 – IBM introduced the IBM 350 disk storage unit for the RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage.
In 1998 – Larry Page and Sergey Brin filed for incorporation of Google, allowing them to cash a $100,000 check Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun, had written to Google Inc.
In 2013 – Samsung announced a smartwatch called Galaxy Gear that could only be used with its own phones and tablets that ran Android 4.3.
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DTNS 2573 – Headlines
Samsung steals the stage at IFA and North Carolina gets all the bandwidth. Just the headlines today as Tom travels to DragonCon.
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Today in Tech History – September 3, 2015
In 1930 – An experimental electric engine was put in service by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad between Hoboken and Montclair, NJ. Thomas Edison served as engineer at the throttle.
In 1976 – Viking 2 landed on Mars and began taking high resolution pictures, measuring the atmosphere and surface, and looking for evidence of life.
In 1993 – Infogear filed an application for a US trademark on “I PHONE” for its “communications terminals. The company would later register “IPhone” as well. Cisco acquired Infogear in 2000 and later worked out a deal with Apple to share the name.
In 2013 – Nokia announced it would sell its devices and services unit, the division in charge of making mobile phones, to Microsoft for $7.2 billion.
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DTNS 2572 – Acer Detect
It’s an avalanche of product announcements from IFA in Berlin, phones, watches and even a modular desktop PC. Plus, it’s the sequel to Fanmail Friday– What’s Up Wednesday?– where Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson read a bunch of your expert emails about Apple content, Nielsen ratings, smartphone glucose monitors and more.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 86
Movie Draft Update, Mr. Robot Speculation, 500 Days of Summer, Rick and Morty (206), The Shield (703), Feedback (Rick & Morty)
01:07 – Movie Draft Update
03:31 – Mr. Robot Speculation
9:29 – 500 Days of Summer
14:01 – Rick and Morty (206)
17:36 – The Shield (704)
24:23 – Feedback (Rick & Morty)
Today in Tech History – September 2, 2015
In 1859 – A unique combination of solar events including a magnetic explosion severely affected the young telegraph network in North America and Europe. Wires shorted out, fires started and some machines reportedly worked even when disconnected from batteries.
1997 – IBM announced that its RS/6000 SP model parallel supercomputer, was now 58 percent faster than Deep Blue, the computer that beat Kasparov at chess.
In 2001 – At ECTS in London, Blizzard announced an online RPG version of its popular Warcraft franchise, called “World of Warcraft”.
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DTNS 2571 – Just Use a Bigger Tube
Does every tech company need to get into making TV shows and movies? Tom Merritt and Patrick Beja discuss the report of Apple’s original programming and more.
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