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2002 – While in Bankruptcy since the following September, Roxio – along with the Private Media Group – came in and took over the $2.43 million dollar company. They took all logos and names and rebranded it “Napster 2.0″. This time, Napster was a pay site – merging technologies with Roxio Pressplay.The sale completed in 2003

Ultimately, the company was purchased by Best Buy in 2008.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• DVD Jon releases the crack to WMV9 codec
• ICANN and the US Commerce Memorandum of Understanding
• Playboy files suit against Rusty n Edie’s BBS

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1977 – Most of the time, we skip over movie releases, unless it has had a definite impact on the Tech and geek community. That is the case with this movie. Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Richard Dreyfuss, and Teri Garr was released to 272 US theaters. It was produced on a budget of US$20 million, amd would gross US $5,379,460 in the opening weekend.

It also changed the way I ate mashed potatoes.

• 3Dfx Interactive unveils the Voodoo
• ICANN selects 7 top level domains (TLD)
• Intel launches the i7

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1984 – Osbourne Vixen is debuted. ZILOG Z80a processor – comes with 64k RAM – 2 -390 kb disk drives. It came with the CP/M OS, Wordstar, Supercalc, M-Basic and would cost you $1,498. The Encore was also introduced for $2,195

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Other Day in Technology History

• ICANN elects its first Board of directors
• The first electronic wristwatch
• Windows XP Home, Pro is released.

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1989 – 4 years after resigning from Apple, Steve Jobs and his newest company NeXT finally release the NeXTstepOS. It is a Unix based system, with some aspects of BSD and using the Mach kernal. This is the OS that will eventually merge into Apple when Jobs comes back.

1990 – The NeXTstation is finally released. It used the 68040 Motorola processor running 33MHz and the 68882 math co-processor running at 25 MHz. 2.88 MB floppy, 8 MB RAM, monochrome monitor, all for $4.995.If you wanted 4096 colors, that would cost you – $7,995.

Other items in the Day in Tech History:

• ICANN is formed
• Transformer takes down the Hadron Collider
• Microsoft stock splits for the first time

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May 29th 2008 – Comcast had a different type of attack. This one opened the eyes to how our records in ICANN were being handled. The infamous “Comcast Hack” was where hackers did not attack the servers themselves, but they found a way into Network Solutions and changed the DNS of the webpage. Once the DNS is changed, the homepage would then redirect to servers of their choosing.

Other historical notes – The Woodstock of the web. We also heard about the first computer patent and the Dell computer fraud. This is all on the Podcast

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This last week I saw an interesting trend. Various websites I visited all of a sudden looked different. They ditched their old design and brought a new look to their WebPages. Even here at Geekazine, we are a few days away from introducing a new look. So why did everybody choose this time to change?

I remember back when the web was in its infancy, I read an interesting article where they asked the question – When is the best time to redesign your site? They suggested that if you redesign it too much too quickly, people will start to get turned off and decide to travel elsewhere on the information superhighway.

However, sometimes a redesign is what’s needed to bring more traffic. Moving items in a “More ergonomical” fashion might give a site a better ease of use, therefore people will choose your site over the competitors. And of course, more viewers may mean more money – in theory at least.

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to change a process that turned “Domain tasting” into a real big issue for many domain customers. The group agreed that it should change how the 5 day grace period on registering a domain name works. The grace period was to give people a chance to remit if they made a mistake on purchasing a domain name. It was also a chance to give a business time to do some market research on the name. But will this be the answer, or will this cause more headaches for legitimate domain purchasers?

Domain tasting is a term cooked up to define the grace period of a domain purchase. Let’s say a customer wants to register “thisismydomain.com”. They purchase the name, in which they have 5 days to turn around and say “I made a mistake and don’t want this one”. The idea was for people who misspell the name (in this case, we’ll say the customer registered “thisismydoman.com”) or decide to take their business in another direction a chance to back out of the transaction.

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Apple Leopard News:

2 Million Copies Sold – MacDailyNews
Adobe Apps on Leopard: What You Need to Know – John Nack on Adobe Blog
Mac BSOD? – CNet
Holes in Max OS – builder.au
Hack to run Leopard on a PC – Information Week

On the Geek:

Seagate Offers 5% refunds on Storage Products – Geek.com
NEC SX-9 Fastest Computer Ever? – Geek.com
Hitachi Bringing Ultri-Thin LCD HDTVs – Geek.com
Samsung 30nm 128 GB Memory Cards – Geek.com

Cool Geek Stuff:

Computer Repair Utility Kit – Technibble

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