5 Tech Things – Twitter 101

This Week

• Skype Sold
  • Sold to ebay in 2005 for 2.6 billion – Meg Whitman – sore issue
  • 1.9 Billion was sold – 2.75 Billion overall – eBay keeps 35%
  • Silver Lake Partners with venture-capital firms Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, as well as the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
  • Joltid Ltd.  Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, retained the rights to the peer to peer software when they sold the company.
• Snow Leopard Freezes
  • Spinning circle
  • Press the C key

• iPhone to get MMS
  • September 25^th.
  • Software update
• G-Screen
  • Dual screen laptop
  • Windows 7 – Intel Core 2 Duo – 4 GB of RAM – Nvidia GF900M GT discrete graphics – SATA, DVD, 6 or 9 cell batteries -weigh 8.7 pounds
  • Could change the Netbook?
• Twitter 101?
  • Depaul University
  • Digital Editing: From Breaking News to Tweets
  • Utilizing Twitter

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