2001
Apple Computer and Hewlett-Packard (HP) announce a joint project to invest US$41 million in the Ofoto, Inc. start-up, an online photography community.
Compaq introduces the iPaq Pocket PC H3150 handheld computer, featuring a 206MHz Intel StrongArm processor, 16MB RAM, and a grayscale screen. Price: US$349
Infogrames Entertainment announced the completion of its acquisition of Hasbro Interactive, now renamed “Infogrames Interactive” from Hasbro. The acquisition includes Atari video game titles and intellectual properties.
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. reveals plans to acquire Dallas Semiconductor Corporation for US$2.5 billion in stock.
The Walt Disney Company reveals that it will shut down its Internet portal, Go.com, cutting four hundred jobs. The portal has been steadily loosing money, costing Disney over US$800 million just in second-quarter charges.
2002
Version 4.5 of the FreeBSD operating system is released. Visit the official FreeBSD website.
2003
AOL Time Warner posts a loss of US$98.7 billion dollars for the year 2002, the largest annual loss in U.S. corporate history. The total includes a US$45.5 billion write down off the value of the company. Visit the official website of AOL Time Warner.
Registration of the top level domain (TLD) for the Netherlands (.nl) opens to the general public.
Yahoo! introduces the LAUNCHcast Plus music subscription service. Visit the official LAUNCHcast Plus website.
2004
Microsoft offers US $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the creator of Mydoom.B, the Mydoom variant designed to launch a distributed denial-of-service attack on the company’s website. However, even as the hunt for the worm’s creator intensifies, the spread of Mydoom.B begins to decline as bugs in its code prevent it from spreading as rapidly as first anticipated.
2007
Symantec announces plans to acquire Altiris, a developer of service-oriented management software. Visit the official Altiris website.
YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley announces that the company will pay its content contributors a share of their videos’ advertising revenue. The site isn’t the first to take such steps. MetaCafe and Revver both already pay video providers. Visit the official YouTube website.
2009
Swiss police announce that they have arrested sixteen suspects and seized 1.1 tons (1.2 U.S. tons) of marijuana as well as cash and assets valued at 900,000 Swiss francs (US$780,000) as the result of the discovery of a large marijuana plantation discovered last year using Google Earth.
2010
Google announced that it will discontinue its support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 web browser beginning March 1st after discovering that the application was exploited in the cyberattacks launched against the search engine earlier in the month. Read the original announcement.
The series finale of science fiction television series Dollhouse, “Epitaph Two: Return” airs on FOX. (No. 26) It was canceled due to its poor ratings, but the network warned director Joss Whedon early enough in the season that he was able to write a conclusion to the series’ storyline. The series ran for twenty-six episodes over the course of two seasons. Visit the official Dollhouse website. TV.com entry
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