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

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From the New York Times: Major League Baseball and Microsoft square off on the relative virtues of Adobe’s Flash Player and Microsoft’s Silverlight in a darkly humorous exchange. Read the full story here.

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Halloween is fast approaching. The office has moved around. Dan Tynan and Technology and Politics. Parts for Dell D600 – Win iTunes GC.

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Open Source seems to be a growing movement. Not everything is part of the “GNU General Public License” though.  Some have even gone as far to make their own Public License standard.

Microsoft does have some Open Source to them, but what would happen if they took their Operating System to that standard? Would people accept the Microsoft OS, or would they finally make the switch to Linux?

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1995 – Free Internet Chess Server brought Online

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Everyone puts them out; the best – and worst – of 2007, all in one article. And Geekazine is no different. However, we’re taking a slightly different approach. It’s more of a look back to see what has happened in the last year and maybe some hints for what should be done in 2008. Gets you wondering what items you lived without a year ago and what you can’t live without today. So without further ado….

Let’s start with the beginning of the year. It was good. PS3 came out in the console wars, and it was predicted that it will win out of the 3 game systems. That still has to happen. SSD was introduced at CES, and it was tech that is long overdue. The static drives can reduce heat, battery consumption and wait times loading the machine. The technology is slowly coming down to earth prices, and when it does, watch out America.

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