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Nov. 4trh, 1984, with only $1000 start up Capitol, Michael Dell creates Dell Computers. Dell pioneered the “Sell direct to customers” approach and a new company was born. All in 1984.

3dfx, Godzilla, the Morris Worm, UMAX and UNIVAC 1 predicting the Presidential election are all discussed in the Week in Tech History.

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The Podcast didn’t go as smoothly. There was a small glitch in recording apperatus. Some content was nixed because of that (2 minor events). Nonetheless the show is pretty much intact. We talk about Moons of Mars, new Apple and AMD machines, Windows 1.01, MMORPG, GIF format patents expire and the problem at LAX that left people stranded for 10 hours.

Oh yeah – we can’t forget about King Kong vs. Godzilla….

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I am reminded of the old Godzilla movies when I hear “Android”. But in all reality, this is not much different. We just don’t see a cardboard city get demolished by 3 guys dressed in costumes.

Google has given themselves not only a humungous undertaking in aquiring Android, but also a new buzzword that has been passed back and forth many times in the last few weeks. Since it’s silent aquisition back in August, the news has been anything but ‘quiet’. Companies getting on the bandwagon, putting in the hours to make this thing a success. But the real question is – Is this something that the massess want, or will this become another piece of diregarded technology.

It’s safe to say that everyone wants a phone that can do more than take phone calls. Text messaging has become more viable way of communicating. According to www.cellsigns.com, 79% of the US owns a mobile phone, and by Dec of 2006, they averaged over 18 billion text messages a month. That has been steadily growing month by month, so it may be safe to say this number is a lot bigger now. By 2010, they predict over 100 Million people will be text messaging.
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