Daily Tech Headlines – September 6, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / September 6th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Symantec warns power grid is vulnerable, Microsoft scheduled Surface announcement, Lenovo settles with US FTC.

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Today in Tech History – September 6, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 6th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1947 – The aircraft-carrier Midway became the first US vessel from which a long-range rocket was launched. The rocket had a mishap though, and exploded at 5,000 feet.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Sr6JtOoWghkC&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153&dq=september+6+1947+midway+rocket&source=bl&ots=gYyQ94UlMg&sig=sRfLUXouBxEu86ZmkjyFTr4iGhs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=K-gWUPjzIYivqAG094DYDw&ved=0CHMQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=september%206%201947%20midway%20rocket&f=false

1954 – US President Eisenhower waved a ceremonial “neutron wand” over a neutron counter in Denver, Colorado, to signal a bulldozer in Shippingport, Pennsylvania to begin construction on the first commercial nuclear power plant. It was part of the “Atoms for Peace” program.

http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/pa-heritage/atoms-for-peace-pennsylvania.html

1997 – The USS Grace Murray Hopper, guided missile destroyer, was commissioned by the US Navy in San Francisco, named after the computer pioneer.

http://navysite.de/dd/ddg70.htm

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DTNS 3109 – Q-Bits, not Cubits

Daily Tech News Show / September 5th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comGoogle’s Android store may be headed back to China, Tom’s first take on the Essential phone and Rob Reid let’s us know where quantum computing is at.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja and Rob Reid.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 5, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / September 5th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500YouTube MP3 site gives up fight against RIAA, Pixelmator announces new Pro image editing software coming soon, and Estonia fixing vulnerability in some ID card chips.

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Today in Tech History – September 5, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 5th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1977 – 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.

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/voyager.htm

1980 – The last IBM 7030 mainframe computer, AKA STRETCH, was decommissioned at Brigham Young University.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/September/5/

2007 – Apple introduced the iPod Touch, bringing multitouch functionality to its popular iPod line.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/09/05Apple-Unveils-iPod-touch.html

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DTNS Special – Happy Labor Day!

Daily Tech News Show / September 4th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comTom Merritt and Sarah Lane talk about their plans for DTNS and give their special thanks for supporting us!

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Today in Tech History – September 4, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 4th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1888 – George Eastman was issued US. patent No. 388,850 for his roll-film box camera.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=rAlvAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

1956 – IBM introduced the IBM 350 disk storage unit for the RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage.

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_350.html

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.

http://time.com/3250807/google-anniversary/

2013 – Samsung announced a smartwatch called Galaxy Gear that could only be used with its own phones and tablets that ran Android 4.3.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/4/4693692/samsung-galaxy-gear-smartwatch-announcement

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 4, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / September 4th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500ICO’s banned in China, Roku prepares for an IPO, and Yahoo can now be sued.

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Today in Tech History – September 3, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 3rd, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1930 – 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.

http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/steamtown/shs4a.htm

1976 – Viking 2 landed on Mars and began taking high resolution pictures, measuring the atmosphere and surface, and looking for evidence of life.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html

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.
http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=74431935

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.

http://news.microsoft.com/2013/09/03/microsoft-to-acquire-nokias-devices-services-business-license-nokias-patents-and-mapping-services/

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