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1981 – Before Michael Scott was the head of Dunder Mifflin in the Office, he was the Apple Computer President. In his tenure, Mike sends an internal memo talking about how Apple needs to become a Typewriter-less company. The memo outlines their process for doing so and how it’s a campaign for all offices to ditch the Typewriter and get an Apple II. The memo was attached with a note with specific instructions for Ken to get rid of his DEC word processor ASAP.

**Note – Mike Scott of “The Office” (NBC) and Mike Scott of Apple are of no relation. Purely coincidental.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Texas Instruments Patents the integrated circuit
• Patrick Naughton, Mike Sheridan and James Gosling begin devolpment of Java
• Microsoft offers a Bid to buy Yahoo for 44.6 Billion

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Mary Somers – a “Brand ambassador” of NBC Universal – had a New Years resolution to not eat junk food. One that she adheared to; until the Consumer Electronics Show stepped in. Jon Accarrino introduces us to Mary, in which she tells us why CES has ruined her resolution.

The NBC Universal trailer was a great place to relax, rehydrate, re-fuel, get a few articles out and get back onto the show floor. They had 2 trailers – one for the tech of NBC, and the other as a “Green Room” for staff.

We at Techpodcasts Network would like to thank our friends at NBC Universal for rolling out the “Peacock Carpet”. We truely felt like stars with them. Their hospitality will remain a real highlight in this years’ event.

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The last day of the Consumer Electronics show is upon us and we were completely ready for it. Because the 9 person team was so efficient, we were able to cover most of the show in the 3 days. Today it was walking through the International side, catching a couple more interviews throughout the other halls, and of course stream the Day 2 Live Show from the NBC Universal booth.

Kara Karsten joined us on camera since not only did she review the one of two videos we created, but this item became the pick of the day. The Zeo Personal Sleep coach.

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The second day of the Live show was another success. Once again our friends at NBC Universal let us borrow the stage to show people the cool items we found while on the floor of CES. Todd Cochrane, Andy McCaskey and myself interviewed several people including:

• Jeff from PogoPlug
• Derek from Pleo
• JR from YouRockGuitar
• Bob Crane from C.Crane and the GeoBulb
• John from Aluratek
• The As seen on TV Hat

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Well, the first of two shows is completed. What a time over at NBC Universal. Thanks to everyone who helped us have a successful show. 8500 watched the live stream.

During the show we had the following guests:

• Ted on Red Camera
• Chris from Map Lock
• Daniel from Yurbuds
• Alex from Connectify
• Bre from MakerBot
• Jon from Blue

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Day three of the Consumer Electronics Show and I am happy of the day. The live show from NBC Universal drew 8500 people. Thanks to all who watched the show and remember – we will be back on the stage Sunday at noon.

Andy had a small voice problem, so he did a limited amount of talking. We still went through some great products, but the product of the day was the WavIT – an iPhone remote control system. This device allows you to control any device like a remote for the iPhone. It’s not out yet – should be around in a few months. But when we used it, we created remotes, we used the presentation functions and a lot more.

Of course, remember to put the phone in Airport mode when you present the device…

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The TechPodcasts Crew will be borrowing the stage of our friends at NBC Universal for this live broadcast at CES 2010. We will be starting at 4 PM PST (7 PM EST). We have a great lineup of items including MapLock, Connectify, Blue Mic, MakerBot, Pogo Plug and Yurbuds.

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Day 2 has a lot of great footage in the South Hall. We also find out some important news about our show from the NBC Universal Stage. We got moved up an hour.

We did the wrapup show of Day 2 with a special guest. Sukhjit Ghag talked about what Sony is displaying this weekend. 3-D technology, blogging and gaming were some of the items in the hall.

We then continued with the wrapup show. Today’s Product of the Day – Dyyno is an online streaming program for professionals. They have paid plans, but also have a free account you can use to try out this great product.

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

• Comcast NBC
  • What will happen to Hulu?
• McAffee – Mapping the Mal Web
  • Hong Kong Drops
  • .CM, .COM, .CN, .INFO top bad boys
• B(lack)SOD
  • Could be Malware
• SLR iPhone
  • 18-55mm lens on iPhone
• Waterloo Iowa at 105Mbps
  • Is it a test market, or is there something to come?

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2001 – Mark Cuban and Phillip Garvin launch HDNet, the first High Definition TV signals. It was available both through cable and satellite television. The channel got some news for their exclusive HD coverage of the US invasion of Afghanistan.

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Other items in the Day in Tech History:

• Facebook Botnets
• NBC changes from Silverlight to Flash
• MP3.com pays 250 Million

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