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2000 – 10:15 AM, Mafiaboy – a 16 year old hacker from Canada – targets 7 sites with a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS). Amazon, Buy.com, CNN, eBay, E*Trade, MSN and ZDNet are all affected. Mafiaboy would be sentenced to eight months in a youth detention center for this DDoS.
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No Comments »1998 – In 3 years since it’s inception, eBay grew to be a powerful auction site. Therefore, eBay decided to go public. They offered 9 million shares on NASDAQ starting at $18 a share. When all is said and done, they closed the day at $47.375.
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- Qualcom infringed on Broadcom patents
- Myst released
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No Comments »1999 – an ebay user (litterally) puts 500 pounds of Marijuana on the auction block. The auction itself hits up to 10 million dollars. eBay finds out and pulls down the auction, but it does say something for the power of illegal drugs over the internet.
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- Compaq Deskpro 4000N debuts
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- Windows 7 Upgrade
- Mike Smith
- Upgrade can take up to a Day
- Zune or iPod Touch?
- Zune HD not that many applications.
- Does have HD Radio – Where iPod has FM?
- HD has OLED Technology
- Could Zune be the BetaMax of Mobile Devices?
- Zune HD not that many applications.
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- Skype Being Sued
- Joltid – founders of Skype
- own patent P2P Tech
- Niklas Zennstrom & Janus Friis
- Suit since March
- 75 Million / Day & injunction
- 15 Billion since Joltid pulled the patent in March
- Suing ebay and new owners
- “Their allegations and claims are without merit and are founded on fundamental legal and factual errors,” eBay spokesman John Pluhowski said in a statement.
- Can Skype create a new technology and leave Joltid in the dust?
- Can Joltid cause such a rift for the consumer?
- Joltid – founders of Skype
· Windows 7 Upgrade
o Mike Smith
o Can take up to a Day
· Zune or iPod Touch?
o Camera is on the Nano
o Zune HD not that many applications.
§ Does have HD Radio – Where iPod has FM?
§ HD has OLED Technology
§ Light emitting diode that is made of thin films of organic molecules
o Could Zune be the Beta of Mobile Devices?
· Google purchases Re-Captcha, Adobe purchases Omniture
o Let me put in the CAPTCHA to continue. What does that say? Refresh
o Open Source
o Using OCR technology
o Adobe and Omniture
§ Website analysis
· Banking Lawsuit
o $26,000
o Bad verification
o Personal issues
· Skype Being Sued
o Joltid – founders of Skype
§ own patent P2P Tech
§ Niklas Zennstrom & Janus Friis
§ Suit since March
§ 75 Million / Day & injunction
§ 15 Billion since Joltid pulled the patent in March
o Suing ebay and new owners
o “Their allegations and claims are without merit and are founded on fundamental legal and factual errors,” eBay spokesman John Pluhowski said in a statement.
o Can Skype create a new technology and leave Joltid in the dust?
o Can Joltid cause such a rift for the consumer?
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- 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.
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No Comments »1995 – The online auction site eBay has had a lot of success in it’s 14 year run. The company officially founded on this day by Pierre Omidyar, but it was known back then as “AuctionWeb”. The first auction was for a broken laser pointer. It was sold for $14.83.
Makes me wonder how much that laser pointer would be worth if it went back up on the auction block.
Since then the company has grown to a juggernaut in the online Auction business. They even have an ebay slot machine. Just like the auction site, I personally didn’t do too well in profiting from it…
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- Lotus ships “Lotus 1-2-3″
- HP acquires Compaq
- Hubble photographs HUDF
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1995 – Sega launches the Saturn video game console in the US. The 32-bit Cartridge loading system contained the 2 x Hitachi SH-2 32-bit RISC (28.6 MHz). It was launched in Japan and Europe earlier in the year, but didn’t hit the US until this date.
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You could get the system with Virtua Fighter for $399. Below is the teaser commercial for the game system.
Other items in Day in Tech History:
- Ultima I released
- The first Interface Message Processor is connected to the ARPANET
- eBay stops an auction of a human kidney
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2 Comments »According to Bloomberg, EBay’s has found a buyer for Skype–an investment outfit that includes Marc Andreessen, father of Netscape.
It was a marriage that never worked out. Skype has continued to grow, but Ebay was never able to do what they wanted with it. I think that it is probably a good move for both companies:
Skype’s revenue grew 25 percent to $170 million in the second quarter, EBay reported in July. The service added 37.3 million users in the three-month period, for a total of 480.5 million.
Even as the business grew, EBay never made good on its original promise for Skype: integrating the service into its e- commerce site, so buyers and sellers could use it to discuss large purchases. EBay wrote down Skype’s value to $1.2 billion in 2006.
(I know at least one person who is resisting requests from family members, who live on another continent and are on very good terms, to get Skype because of a fear of having no time left to be alone.)
Me, I use free and open source Ekiga when I need internet telephony.
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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 Server 2008 is released. Ebay and Craigslist experience outages while the first Olympic events are streamed through NBC. We also saw Bill Gates and Steve Jobs together on a 5 year deal which gave Microsoft 1oo,000 non-voting shares of Apple.
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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.
Other items in Tech history this week: Hotmail is launched, AOL buys Mapquest, the eBay Baby, in 2001 the P4 1.6 was released at $294 and a lot more in the Geekazine Quickcast
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