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Almost Didn’t do the show tonight because of another issue that put me in a very bad place. 8-12 inches snow coming down here in the Midwest. Looking for a better Webcam Producer – Webcammax doesn’t get it. We are giving away another copy of Diskeeper 2010. We also go through a correction on information from the 5 Tech Things.

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I – S.U.N. (Straight Up News)
Rhapsody Gets Away from Real
Superbowl Finally Beats M*A*S*H*
Foursquare and Zagat
Intel Security Chip Hacked
Microsoft Says It’s the Battery’s Fault
Macworld is Happening
Kindle Books Under 2000 Words
New Texas Instruments Chip with GPS, Bluetooth, FM
Pwnage Tool for 3.1.3
Aperture 3 in Apple Store
Will iPad Survive?
Android Censored in Application Store
Google Translator
Intel Exec Guilty in Galleon Case
Verizon Blocks 4Chan
Intel Launches New Itanium
Lawmakers Find Other Ways To Pay for Roads

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1889 – The first commercial jukebox was installed in San Francisco, CA. It was called the “Nickel-in-the-Slot”, and played wax cylinder records. Within 6 months it would earn $1,000. The word “Juke” – by the way – means ‘disorderly house’ – therefore this is a disorderly box of music.

Put another  nickel in – in the Nickelodean – All I want is having you – and Music, music, music.

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Other Technology History Facts

• Dr. Who first airs on the BBC
• Nintendo releases the Gameboy color
• Security hole in Gmail discovered

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We celebrate Eyebrow day as today Marx (pun intended) Groucho’s birthday. He was born in 1890 and died 3 days after Elvis.

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Here are your 5 tech things you should know for this week:

• Rocky Mountain Bank Gmail snafu
• Michael Tchao and the Apple Tablet rumor
• Warner Music and YouTube
• Security Essentials
• LightPeak

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1997 – MCI was under a bid to be purchased by British Telecommunications. Worldcom came in and outbid BT to snag up the company. What made this the coup de grace is it would make Worldcom the #2 telecom provider, under AT&T. The $37 Billion dollar merger would finalize on November 10th. Then, September 1998 – MCI Worldcom would officially launch. This all crumbled in 2002 when Worldcom filed for bankruptcy.

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Other items in this Day in Tech History

• Happy Eyebrow Day in honor of Groucho Marx. He was born in 1890
• Google sued over GMail in Germany
• Microsoft Jellyfish
• The Apple/IBM alliance

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Google recently took the Beta label off of Gmail and Google Docs. Gmail has been in beta for over 5 years – with a 3 year private beta. By being in Beta, one could easily write off an issue or even think the accountability and liability might not be theirs. So shouldn’t the ISO put some regulation on this small tag?

Google started with Gmail back on April 7th 2004. They were in a Closed Beta – which meant that you had to get an invitation to use it. However, it wasn’t a difficult thing to get an invitation. My entry into Gmail wasn’t until December of that year.

3 years later – Feb 2nd, 2007 to be exact, Gmail removed the restriction. However, the Beta tag stayed on. It generally went unnoticed until this last July 6th, when Google decided to remove the tagline.
Google Docs had a shorter span – Technically starting in August of 2005. I say technically, because it was launched as a program called “Writely”. Google Spreadsheet came in June of 2006 and by October 10th, the two had merged to start Google Docs. Once again – Beta until July 6th of 2009.

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In 1993, Chris Clark purchased Pizza.com. He figured it would be a great domain to have. Boy was he right, but it took him 15 years to realize it.

After a couple attempts he decided to squat on the domain for a while – That is until last year. Chris decided after he heard Business.com was sold for 7 Million to try auctioning off his domain. He contracted the domain selling site Sedo.com to help out.

The end result: Chris sold the domain for $2.6 Million.

Other items on the Quickcast: Week in Tech History include Netscape forming, Netscape forming the Open Source initiative called “Mozilla”. Gmail goes into beta and also incorporates Google Calendar. All this and a lot more tech history in the Podcast.

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Amazon went down. Twitter goes down. Gmail went down. Now Netflix experienced a big outage. Is there anything that won’t stay up? This week, we explore that question.

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4th of July – Tons of new PR – Record high visitors – 300 – SPARTANS! – Microphone fix – Firefox and ustream – Follow up on “Welcome to the Mess we call Social Networking”

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