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Every Week, we’ll give you a Pre-cap of what will the Day in Tech History (www.dayintechhistory.com) will be talking about. Of course, the day in tech history is a daily rundown of technology history – 365 days a year. So there is always a new podcast to listen to!

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• October 24: 1861 – Western Union Completes the first transcontinental telegraph line across US
• October 25: 2001 - Windows XP is Released
• October 26: 1936 – First electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into operation
• October 27: 1983 – Richard Stallman announces GNU
• October 28: 1955 – Happy Birthday Bill Gates
• October 29: 1945 – IBM created the first hard disk drive
• October 30: 1938 – Orson Wells “War of the Worlds”

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We got a new batch of tech things for ya this week:

• HTC buys 51% of beats. Could they be stepping up the mobile markets?
• Apple surpassed Exxon to be the most valuable company in the US. Will they be able to keep it?
• Walmart closing MP3 store. Why not merge into the Video streaming business?

• 5 Things That I Learned: Bruce Willis is GI Joe…

• Happy 30th anniversary IBM PC. Long live the PC. But the PC is dead…
• Anonymous denies the November 5th Facebook takedown is theirs. But someone did post the video and people can lose if that happens. Should those people be treated like Terrorists?

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Another episode of the 5 Tech Things is in the can. Small issue with the monitor as the adapter cable unplugged. Also a bad hair day, or what? Still, Jeffrey plows through and gets your 5 Tech Things

• MySpace is sold for pennies. What will an ad company do with them?
• If you are a content creator in California, then you got a blow dealt by Amazon when they announced to their affiliates they cannot continue.
• Google+ – Not really anything more than a launch.
  • 5 Things that I learned – Weird Al is back and better than ever!
• IBM announces PCM memory – 100x faster than Flash
• Tablets are coming – TouchPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab this weekend, Olivetti is going overseas first. Archos is putting out a $99 tablet and LeapPad has a Tablet for kids!

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This week we also talk about the Windows/IBM announcements, the first use of the WWW, Atari STacy and so much more.

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