WITH – Week in Tech History Archive
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Week in Tech History – 8-17-09 – 3G issues in iPhone 2.0
Posted on August 17, 2009 | No CommentsBrought to you by Gotoassist Express – Get a 30 day free trial of this great software. Just a reminder – this will be the last “Week in Tech History” produced. Please add “Day in Tech History” to your RSS or iTunes. A new segment will fill this spot shortly. After Apple ‘s release of iPhone 3G, people were noticing connectiviy issues. This was... -
Week in Tech History – 8-10-09 – Switching to Day in Tech History
Posted on August 9, 2009 | No CommentsBrought to you by Gotoassist Express – Get a 30 day free trial of this great software. For the last year and a half, the Quickcast has been running a podcast every Monday reviewing the past history of Technology. The show has been a fun one, but for the last couple months I felt it needs it’s own space. Therefore, WITH will be spinning... -
Week in Tech History – 8-03-09 – Time Warner and AOL Split
Posted on August 3, 2009 | No CommentsBrought to you by GotoAssist Express – Get a free 30 day trial It was something that people talked about for months, but on August 6, 2008, CEO Jeff Bewkes confirms the rumor. AOL will be split off into it’s own company by the next year (which came to fruition on May 28th, 2009) Other Items in Tech History, the Trash-80 is announced, SQL... -
Week in Tech History – 7-27-09 – Yahoo Shareholders Meeting
Posted on July 27, 2009 | No CommentsBrought to you by GotoAssist Express – Get a free 30 day trial It was the best of times, it was the worst of times – for Yahoo, anyway. It was the botched 6 month drama between them and Microsoft that made things so stressful. With Carl Icahn nipping at the heels for a takeover – then subsequent seat offering as a settlement –... -
Week In Tech History – 7-20-09 – Google Knol Debuts
Posted on July 20, 2009 | No CommentsBrought to you by GotoAssist Express – Get a 30 Day free trial It was the system that would rival the Wiki world. Google launched a Beta of their online knowledge system called “Knol”. It was a lot like Wikipedia, except this system would have online advertising. The advantage (at least that some would call): contributors had an opportunity to actually make money off... -
No WITH this Week
Posted on July 12, 2009 | No CommentsHad some technical difficulties with the Podcast rig. Something that I will have to work on tomorrow. For now, WITH will have to hold off until next week. In the meantime – here is the last years’ WITH. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:26 — 10.3MB) | Embed -
Week in Tech History – 7-06-09 – Major DNS issues
Posted on July 6, 2009 | No CommentsBrought to you by Citrix GotoAssist Express – Get a 30 day free trial at gotoassist.com/techpodcasts July 8th: In 2007, developer Dan Kaminsky found a flaw in the addressing of the Domain Name System, or DNS. DNS is found on home to commercial routers around the world. The issue was so severe, that they were not divulging the issue until a patch could be... -
Week in Tech History – 6-29-09 – Ask.com buys Dictionary.com
Posted on June 29, 2009 | No CommentsBrought to you by GotoAssist Express – Get a 30 day free trial July 4th, 2008 – The company that used to be called “Ask Jeeves”, but is now Ask.com officially announced they acquired the Lexico Publishing Group. The LPG is a company that built a series of reference websites. Most notably Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. The transaction was an all cash one, and undisclosed....
