August 19, 2003: The Sobig.F virus was first discovered on this day. 24 hours later, it took down many a network by sending out emails with subjects like Re: Approved, Re: Details, Re: Re: My d

August 18, 1992: Wang Computers had been growing, but their financial outlook didnt seem good. In 1992, they filed for Bankruptcy protection. They eventually got out of bankruptcy, but not before the

August 17, 2006: Dell announced in 2006 they will begin putting AMD processors into Dimension desktops and later in the year Dell AMD servers will be available. On that same day, they announced that after an internal investigation into its accounting p...

August 16, 1999 The Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA) announced they joined in a six-company lawsuit brought by Acclaim Entertainment against the Class, Paradigm and Razore 1911>Razo

How does the kids nursery rhyme play into technology? Well in 1877 these were the first words uttered out by Thomas Edison in making the first audio recording. Sometimes we take for granted audio we

August 14, 2008 Fifty-Five Netflix distribution centers go offline due to an undisclosed error. While they didnt let us know what happened, they did say that it only affected the core of mail-based

Datallegro a warehouse application had been sued by XPrime, where Cary Jardin (CEO of Datallegro) used to work. Datallegro was in mid acquisition by Microsoft at the time. The acquisition complete

It was 1981 when IBM rolled out the first PC model 5150. Of course they had other computers, but nothing that targeted the home market as the PC would. The 5150 contained a 4.7 MHz processor, 16k or RAM and 40 k of ROM. All for $1,565.

Red Hatis a Linuxdistribution and a vendor. They are on the S&P 500 company list for it. Founded in 1993, this company has provided a more professional type of open source software giving pay sup

On this day in 2009, the Day in Tech History started. I was running the show as Week in Tech History, then went to a daily format to increase listeners. The show has been running for over 1000 episo