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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Apple phases out computers in Best Buy, Circuit City, Office Max and Sears
• Free-PC will no longer give away Free PCs
• Microsoft releases Windows XP SP1

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2009 – You can be #2, but not be doing all that great. This was the case for Circuit City. A failed buyout opportunity from Blockbuster and they were at the same point as CompUSA a couple years prior. Therefore, officials announced they will be closing the remaining stores and selling all assets.

Ironically enough, Circuit City’s website assets were acquired by SystemMax – the same company that holds Comp USA’s web assets.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Burger King De-Friend promotion on Facebook
• Patrick Spence hands the Renegade BBS to Jeff Herrings
• Lotus v. Borland

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Psystar came on the scene with a very interesting proposition: Get a PC with Mac OS X. Can it be done?

Ever since the switch from PowerPC to Intel, Mac software has been attempted and successfully installed on PC’s with Intel and AMD processors. So the next step would be to have someone package it up, right?

Well, no. Apples’ End User License Agreement states that the OSX software can only be run on Mac approved hardware. Therefore, Psystar breeches the agreement.

Psystar still continued on. Only hours after the websites caught on about this company, the website went down. People started speculating more about this “Publicity stunt”. The company “PowerPay” ended their contract with Psystar because they were not honoring the Service Agreement.

Psystar said “That’s OK. We’ll use Paypal”.

A year later, they’re still around fighting the good fight. Or is it a good fight? Maybe Psystar is the true “PC Hunter”. After all, they show you that you can have your cake and eat it, too.

Mmmm. Cake.

In the podcast we also talk about the Blockbuster – Circuit City bid, the debut of the Apple II, a $14,000 Apple I and The Osbourne and Osbourne II.

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New Recording Machine  – VIA website a joke! – First time at Circuit City – Fish & Snake – Podcaster Meeting – No Go in LV.

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Another show in the books. Thanks to all that participated. We talked about many different items including the iPhone, Circuit City and a lot more. The main topic was what should happen to Yugo (Yahoo).

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In the first hour I join onto another uStream cast of GSPN.tv and we talk about Apple. The main subject was iPhone. We talked about applications and how you can use the phone.

Hour 2 was back at the desk talking tech. We discussed the Circuit City closings, Video displays and so much more.

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We got a couple hours of Carmelly goodness! This week we talk about:

Crossloop

www.theforcefield.net

Plurk

Splashtop on Asus

Blockbuster City.

Talkshoe

Facebook Open Source.

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