2001 – Dennis Tito became the first “space tourist” in human history paying his own way to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
http://www.space.com/11492-space-tourism-pioneer-dennis-tito.html
2003 – Apple opened the iTunes Music Store with 200,000 songs at 99 cents a piece. Songs could play on any iPod and up to three authorised Macs. Windows users were out of luck but tracks could be burned to unlimited numbers of CDs.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/04/28Apple-Launches-the-iTunes-Music-Store.html
2003 – Apple unveiled the “third-generation” iPod. The new iPods were thinner and featured the bottom Dock Connector port rather than the top-mounted FireWire port. The iPod controls also became entirely touch sensitive.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/04/28Apple-Introduces-New-iPods.html
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It’s our end of April DTNS round table. This month we examine technology issues from a Canadian perspective like; the ease at which fake news can be created, how Canadian telecoms want block websites linked to piracy without judicial review and the digital subscription landscape of Canada.
Amazon raises Prime price, Apple discontinues Airport, Microsoft revenues soar.
Earnings reports from Intel, Microsoft, Amazon and Nintendo. Plus researchers at MIT have successfully kept a pig’s brain alive outside of its body and chip architecture Jim Keller is leaving Tesla and heading for Intel.
Samsung hints at lagging iPhone X sales, IBM launches jewelry blockchain, Tesla loses famed chip architect. 
Is MoviePass the future of movie theater as it backers allege or is it destined to be another casualty of price sensitive consumers? Plus Google rolls out new changes to the venerable Gmail app and a Federal Appeals court rules that a man who created Windows rescue CDs to ship alongside refurbished PCs can go to jail.