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We come from a hotel in Palo Alto CA. We just got done with the HP Road Show – Converged Infrastructure. This week on the 5 Tech Things:

• Large File Programs. Josh Lowensen looks at your options.
• OnLive puts gaming in the cloud
• William Shatner creates MyOuterSpace.com
• University of Wyoming studys in Video Games
• The Intel i7 – Why you should think about getting a 6 core processor

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1983 -IBM announces the IBM Personal Computer XT (eXtended Technology). It features a Intel 8088 processor,  10MB hard drive, 128 kB RAM, 40Kb ROM and double-sided 360 kB floppy drive. For $4995, it’s all yours.

The IBM PC XT was the successor to the IBM PC. It was developed until April 1987.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Sierra and Broderbund announce the merge to Sierra-Broderbund
• The first GHz processors begin to ship
• Sun sues Microsoft

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1991 – Sir Tim Berners-Lee showed everyone the first web browser and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor. The Browsers’ name was called “WorldWideWeb”, but was later changed to “Nexus”. Berners-Lee ran it on the NeXTSTEP platform and worked with not only the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), but the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Nexus is not in production anymore.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• 3Com announces they will acquire US Robotics
• Intel introduces the Pentium III
• Yahoo launches Buzz

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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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We saw this wall before CES happened. You can touch the wall and check out what people are saying about Intel. The Core i7 processor was running 500 live links with 20,000 sources. This shows how green a computer can be when you have one i7 on a single power supply instead of 7 or more computers running .

Todd Cochrane talks with Sam on the infoscape proof of concept piece. Two - 7′ x 7′ – 1920×1920 resultion – double-touch screen glass walls. But think about it – How much process in 1 processor can you have?

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As an IT administrator in a previous life, I know that keeping data safe is key #1. It would have been nice to have this product on all the notebooks in the office. Especially one instance where the employee found a legal way around keeping their machine with all of our data on it.

LoJack for Laptops / Computrace creates a partnership with Intel for Anti-Theft Technology – Think of it like a Kill switch if your machine gets lost, stolen, or taken in any way possible. The laptop will be rendered useless until it comes back to the owner, in which they can then turn the machine back on. It litterally Bricks the machine.

Andy McCaskey talks with Stephen at CES about this “poison pill” technology. Best part is this option is incorporated in the laptop – Like a Dell laptop, in where you get a 1 year membership. Even a “wiped” hard drive can be detected and LoJack will load their software to brick the device.

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Bottlenecks. That is one thing companies have to deal with when putting out a faster device. The product may revolutionize in speed, but if the rest of the computer can’t handle it, you have to wait for one to catch up to the other.

Intel always works on that area. They wanted to address the connection throughout a home or business with the speed needed. Enter Light Peak technology. The hope is to eventually replace copper wiring within the house simply because it will become the bottleneck.

Todd Cochrane talks with Robert on this new technology at CES. It won’t be out until next year, but the prototype is pretty impressive. The transfer on LightPeak is 10 Gbps. In the demonstration they have 2 – 4 Gbps 1080p streams running at the same time. Therefore, the parents could be watching an action flick in the living room and the children could be watching a cartoon in 1080p and the network will not be taxed.

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Computers are getting smaller. With a processor like an ATOM Z530 – that needs no fan – and an Intel US15W chipset, you can have a computer in your pocket. Add Video, keyboard and mouse, your computer is set.

Todd Cochrane finds a great box in Compulab called the FitPC2. The device runs at 1.6 GHz and can display an image up to 1920×1080. 6 USDB ports and 802.11g wireless among other cool features. Run Windows XP or Windows 7 and even Linux on this machine.

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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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1968 – Ralph Baer applies for a patent on a TV game system he designed. This, of course, sparks the Video Game age and Ralph becomes the inventor and Pioneer of the field. In 2006, he was honored with a National Medal of Technology for the advancement.

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Other Technology History Facts

• Intel acquires Xircom
• Wikipedia is launched
• Coveritlive and Twitter goes down for Steve Jobs Keynote

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1914 – The first Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line. This, of course, brought a new wave to the Auto and manufacturing industries.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Intel 2.4 GHz processor
• IBM Data 360
• Nortel files Chapter 11

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