1996
Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) announces that the company has shipped ten million units of the PlayStation video game console worldwide. The total sales include 4.2 million units in Japan, 3.45 million units in North America, and 2.35 million units in Europe.
A woman in Aurora, Illinois is charged for punching another shopper in the head while fighting over the last Nintendo 64 video game system available at a Best Buy store.
1998
Version 1.2.0 of phpMyAdmin is released. Visit the official phpMyAdmin website.
Version 2.2.8 of the FreeBSD operating system is released. Visit the official FreeBSD website.
1999
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) releases the 533MHz K6-2 processor. Price: US$167 in 1,000-unit quantities
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) releases the 750MHz Athlon processor, fabricated with 0.18-micron technology. Price: US$799 in 1,000-unit quantities
Forbes magazine estimates the personal wealth of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, to be roughly US$7.3 billion.
The General Electric Company (GEC)/Marconi sells its Electronics Systems division to British Aerospace.
2000
The Brazilian website of SMS Tecnologia Eletronica Ltda is hacked by the hacking group “prime suspectz”. The website is hosted on a server running Linux. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The Brazilian website of Tecnolatina is hacked by the hacking group “prime suspectz”. The website is hosted on a server running Linux. View an archived version of the defaced website.
2002
Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly files an appeal of the ruling U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly made on the settlement of the antitrust case against Microsoft.
2005
The Mozilla Corporation releases version 1.5 of its Firefox web browser, the first first major update of the application since its initial release November 9, 2004. Visit the official Firefox website.
The National Institute on Media and the Family releases its Tenth Annual MediaWise Video Game Report Card characterizing the video game industry-operated rating system as “beyond repair.” Read the Tenth Annual MediaWise Video Game Report Card.
Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans, announces the launch free city-wide wireless Internet access, the first such program in the U.S. Nagin reports that the service should be available city-wide in about a year.
Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) releases an update for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) in the U.S. via Internet connection, Memory Stick, or Universal Media Disc (UMD) disc. The update adds Really Simple Syndication (RSS) version 2.0 for audio streams and Windows Media Audio file playback.
2007
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reports that, in the second phase of Operation Bot Roast, thirteen warrants have been served in the U.S. and abroad, resulting in eight indictments for acting as “bot herders,” operating a global botnet that infected over one million computers and caused an estimated US$20 million in financial damages and losses. Among those indicted were Ryan Brett Goldstein, 21, of Ambler, Pennsylvania, who conducted a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack at the University of Pennsylvania.
The NASDAQ Stock Market, which tracks lists technology firms, announces that it will launch an index to specifically track the performance of companies that offer internet-related services, like e-commerce sites, internet access, search engines, web hosting, and website design. Senior Vice President Steven Bloom explains, “It is logical for Nasdaq to extend investment opportunities through a new benchmark for this dynamic, evolving sector.”
ZMP, inc. of Japan begins selling a bipedal robot that operates on Microsoft’s new robotics software, a system that Microsoft hopes will make it easier to transfer technological advances from one robot to another.
2010
Microsoft announces that sales of its Kinect for the Xbox 360 has surpassed 2.5 million units since its release twenty-five days earlier, following strong sales over the Thanksgiving weekend. Read the official Microsoft press release. Visit the official Kinect website.
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