• Posted Nov. 20, 2014, 9 a.m. - 9 years, 3 months ago

Anniversary of Windows 1.0

Today is the anniversary of the day that Windows 1.0 was officially launched. Windows, developed by Microsoft, launched 1 …

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  • Posted Sept. 4, 2014, 8 a.m. - 9 years, 6 months ago

Google founded September 4th 1998

Today, Google is the most widely used search engine, with users the world over utilising it as their portal in …

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  • Posted Sept. 3, 2014, 9 a.m. - 9 years, 6 months ago

Country Spotlight: Netherlands

The Netherlands is a small yet densely populated country and is the second largest exporter of goods after the United …

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  • Posted July 24, 2014, 8:54 a.m. - 9 years, 7 months ago

Country Spotlight: Germany

Boasting the largest national economy in Europe and with a strong leaning toward engineering, manufacturing and the service industry, it …

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  • Posted July 21, 2014, 9 a.m. - 9 years, 8 months ago

Anniversary of the Rejection of the EU Software Patent Directive

The subject of software patents remains a complex and controversial one and in July 2005 the EU Software Patent Directive …

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  • Posted July 3, 2014, 9 a.m. - 9 years, 8 months ago

IBM Announce the Model 650 Computer

Image of IBM 650

In July 1953 IBM announced the release of the IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data-Processing Machine, and such was its success …

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  • Posted May 6, 2014, 9 a.m. - 9 years, 10 months ago

Anniversary of the EDSAC’s First Calculations

The EDSAC

With early and significant breakthroughs being made in computing during the 1940’s, the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC …

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  • Posted April 27, 2014, 9 a.m. - 9 years, 10 months ago

IBM 370/135

IBM Logo

42 years ago today IBM installed the first IBM 370/135 mainframe computer,  just one of the models included in …

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  • Posted April 24, 2014, 9 a.m. - 9 years, 10 months ago

Anniversary of Windows Server 2003

 

April 24th 2003 saw the release of Windows Server 2003 by Microsoft, with the server operating platform set to …

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  • Posted March 24, 2014, 1:40 p.m. - 9 years, 11 months ago

Anniversary of the Launch of Apple’s OS X

Following the successful launch by Apple of the Mac OS X Server 1.0 on March 16th 1999, the Mac …

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