2018 April

April 26, 2018

Wide World of Tech #16 - Travel Plans!

Welcome
Tech News
- VMware Release
- Nutanix Release
- Amazon Prime Numbers
- Scality Funding
Sports News
- NFL
- NBA -playoffs
- NHL -playoffs
Placing Bets
- Stanley Cup winner?
Big Topic
- Dell Technology World & Interop
This week/day in tech history
- April 13, 1965: Moore’s Law was first discussed in a paper by Gordon Moore.
- April 9, 2012: Facebook purchased Instagram
- April 8, 1991: Java development begins as the team at Sun began work on “Oak”, which was renamed Java
Final Word

April 12, 2018

Welcome
Tech News
- Panera Bread
- Apple & Intel
Sports News
- NCAA Basketball - Finals
- UFC Crazy
- Masters
- MLB -Astros!
Placing Bets
- Masters -Who will win?
Big Topic
- Facebook in the news AGAIN and concerns about your data.
This week/day in tech history
- April 1, 2004: Invite only gmail beta
- April 4, 1994: Netscape Founded
- April 4, 1975: Microsoft Founded
- April 6, 1986: EMC goes public
- April 6, 1992: Microsoft releases Windows 3.1
Final Word

April 5, 2018

Welcome
Tech News
- Facebook still in the news
- Facebook/Google storing data
- Self-driving cars
Sports News
- MLB -Opening Day!
- March Madness - UConn upset in Women's bracket!
- NFL - When a catch is a catch?
- NHL -Goalie Madness
Placing Bets
- March Madness -Who will win it all?
Big Topic
- Bad Actors!
  - Kong Take
  - Gina Take
This week/day in tech history
- 3/24/1959: TI gives the first demo of the integrated circuit. It was created to prove resistors and capacitors could exist on the same device.
- 3/30/1951: Census Bureau recieves the 1st UNIVAC
- World Backup Day!
- March is Women’s history month!
  - Jean E. Sammet: Made one of the first programming languages (FORMAC was the first widely used general language and system for manipulating nonnumeric algebraic expressions).
Final Word

April 5, 2018

Welcome
Tech News
- Facebook in news again!
- Google paying to true up employees
Sports News
- March Madness update
- Tiger is back and so are golf fans
Placing Bets
- Dell Match Play winner
Big Topic
- AI bias
This week/day in tech history
- 3/21/2006 @jack sends the 1st tweet. When did you join? (Gina 7/2007)
- 3/25/1995 1st wiki created wiki wiki web
- 3/22/1993 Intel begins shipping the Pentium chip
- March is Women’s history month!
  - Donna Dubinsky was the co-founder and CEO of Palm (and Handspring and Numenta).
Final Word