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This week on the 5 Tech Things You Should know:

1. Google TV – What we should be looking forward to with Google Android for a Television Set top box
2. Commodore might be coming back with a new system
3. A Sprint / HTC Phone might be coming along with 4G service.
4. The FBI wants to go undercover to some social Networks. A 30 Page DOJ document has been drafted. What does that mean to you
5. A joke at SXSW that Conan has joined Revision 3. Sometimes jokes turn into reality. Should we get on Facebook and petition it?

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Happy Presidents Day!

2005 – YouTube, the popular video sharing website, is established by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Google bought out YouTube on October 9, 2006 for $1.65 Billion. The official launch didn’t happen until November of 2005. With an upload every 20 minutes and over 1 Billion views a day, YouTube has definitely grown to a video powerhouse.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Intel demonstrates the Willamette processor
• Kevin Mitnik is arrested by the FBI
• The Pirate Bay trial begins in Sweeden

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2000 – Kevin Mitnick, who was imprisoned for 5 Years in hacking IBM, Motorola and DEC; then a big chase with the FBI, was released from prision. He was still ordered to not log onto a computer.

2003 – Kevin Mitnick finally logs back onto the Internet after the 3 year probation. He fought the prohibition from the Internet and got it reduced to 3 years. No word as to where he went on his first login.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• AOL acquires Personal Library Software
• Intel stamping serial numbers on processors
• Microsoft’s Injunction to package Java from Sun Microsystems.

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This day in tech – 2006 – Dell announces that they will begin putting AMD processors into Dimension desktops and later in the year Dell AMD servers will be available.

Other items:

• The first CD is made
• FBI search a SD “Forensic Tech Solutions” that had gained access to some government computers.
• US rules on Grokster for Peer to Peer and accountability

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This week we talk Kinetoscopes, Apollo 15 and Lunar Modules, Microsoft and Nintendo Lawsuits, TRS-80, SCO, FBI and a whole bunch of acronyms.

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