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This week’s 5 Tech Things you should know.

• 10 Billion Twitters coming up
• Apple vs. HTC – 20 patents violated
• Hulu looses Stewart and Colbert
• Blockbuster is Still Around? Streaming from TiVo
• RealDVD gives up. Pays 4.5 million

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1889 – The Bundy Manufacturing Co., a maker of time recording equipment, is incorporated. It is the first company that was formed, then eventually acquired by the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, Inc. (C-T-R). Ultimately, that would become International Business Machines (IBM).

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Other items in the Day in Tech History

• Commodore announces the CBM8032
• IE 4.0 is released
• MPAA asks for an injunction of RealDVD

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2008 -Real launches a new program that will allow you to put your DVDs and other format movies onto the hard drive. It instantly became a hotbed of controversy as the software raised the question: can you legally copy the data to another media? The battle started in court and at this current point, RealDVD is on an injunction of sales.

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Other items in the Day in Tech History:

• Realtime updates of VDNS
• RIAA sues 261 including Brianna LaHara, a 13 yo girl
• Richard Kenadek pleads not guilty on Davy Jones Locker BBS

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