How The iPad Totally Changed The World In Just Three Years

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Apple's iPad was released to the world three years ago on April 3, 2010.

At the time, a lot of people were underwhelmed. We even called it a "big yawn," and said, "Jobs introduced something that is probably going to sell in the range of a few million units this year, much closer to one of the company's Macs than its runaway hits like the iPod and iPhone. Not the company's next huge growth story."

Oops. We got that one very wrong!

In the three years since the iPad launched, it's changed everything. It truly was a revolutionary device. Here's a quick run down.

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The cellphone is 40 years old today

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On April 3rd, 1973, Motorola engineer Marty Cooper placed the first public call from a cellphone. In midtown Manhattan, Cooper called Joel Engel — head of rival research department Bell Labs — saying "Joel, this is Marty. I'm calling you from a cell phone, a real handheld portable cell phone." The call was placed on a Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, which weighed 2.5 pounds, a far cry from today's 4-ounce handsets.

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Twitter celebrates 200 million users on its 7th birthday

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Twitter has posted a video to commemorate seven years since Jack Dorsey made the first ever tweet. The video features several crucial moments in the history of the service like the first use of retweets and hashtags, the first tweet from space, and a shout-out to new video service Vine.

Other moments include events that shook the world both on Twitter and beyond, such as the Japanese tsunami, the Tahrir Square protests in Egypt, and President Obama getting the most retweets ever upon his re-election. In a blog post to accompany the video, Twitter notes the recent milestone of reaching 200 million active users — an increase of 60 million over the past year — and says that more than 400 million tweets are sent every day.

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9/11: A Tribute – Eleven Years On

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Tuesday, 11th September 2001 started off as any normal day for most people in the world. Of course, some were waking up to greet their birthday or wedding anniversary or with contractions indicating that their baby would enter the world that day, but very, very few people had any idea it would be a day and a date etched on the memory of the world – perhaps even the perpetrators didn't really understand quite what they were creating.

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43 Years Ago Today, We Walked On The Moon

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As lovers of technology and slaves to the news cycle, we all get caught up in the next new thing. The cynic in me notes that the 43rd anniversary of the moon landing – an occurrence that changed the course of history with a completeness and intensity that few warmongers have ever been able to induce – is just another moon landing anniversary. It isn’t the 25th or the 50th or the 100th. It’s just something that happened 43 years ago today at about 8pm UTC. In short, two men – born helpless as the rest of us – through time, training, and sheer will, were thrust into space by the greatest minds of our generation and then stepped onto a lunar soil that the New York Times reported as being fine and powdery.

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The First Television and Telephone Satellite Launched 50 Years Ago

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On July 10th, 1962, NASA launched the first Telstar satellite. The spherical satellite—which actually looks like a model of the Death Star—was the first to relay television and telephone signals through space.

In fact, just two days after launch on July 12, 1962, the satellite transmitted a television signal across the Atlantic Ocean from Andover Earth Station in Maine to the Pleumeur-Bodou Telecom Center in Brittany, France. According to the excellent history at Telstar50.org, the first images from the United States were of President John F. Kennedy and the first beamed over from France were of singer Yves Montand, along with clips of sporting events. Telstar 1 was also responsible for the first telephone calls—some 400 of them—sent through space.

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Happy 5th Birthday iPhone: Best Roundup of iPhone Infographics, Icons and Wallpapers

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An Awesome device revolutionized Apple itself “iphone”. which iPhone sales were a tiny slice of Apple pie in around 2007. In 2012, it accounts for 58% of the company’s revenue. Don’t Forget about the iPhone Resolution which made us forget the old phone calling system and listening to the songs, itunes are big part of that and Facebook brought Instagram [a popular photo sharing App].

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Happy 40th birthday, Atari!

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Before Halo, before Call of Duty -- heck, even before Mario -- there was Atari.

While the video game itself might have been invented before Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney decided to start the company, it was Atari that effectively launched the video game industry. And it was on this date 40 years ago that Atari began its march toward history.

Five months after the company opened its doors on June 27, 1972, it introduced the world to Pong, and the way America (and the world) played games changed. Five years later, the company would launch a new revolution with the introduction of the Atari 2600 home gaming console.

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5 years of the iPhone: 250 million shipped, $150-billion revenue

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It's fascinating to look at how far the iPhone has come in just five years.

Apple Inc. celebrates the five-year anniversary of the launch of the popular smartphone Friday, prompting a look today by Strategy Analytics at what the iPhone means to the seemingly unstoppable technology giant, and where it goes from here amid heightened competition.

Since it launched in the United States June 29, 2007, iPhone models have brought in $150-billion (U.S.) in revenue around the world, the Boston-based research firm said. That's 250 million devices shipped.

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STAR WARS 35th Anniversary: Timeline (Infographic)

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More than a mere blockbuster, the Star Wars franchise became a record-setting media empire. Six live-action films and a computer-animated movie have filled theaters. An animated Star Wars TV series has been on the air for four years, with a fifth season set to debut in the fall; a live-action series, “Star Wars: Underworld,” is in preproduction. Profits from licensed merchandise have dwarfed box office revenue, and an estimated $20 billion worth of toys, clothing, prop replicas and other memorabilia have been sold since 1977.


It all began in the early 1970s, when young filmmaker George Lucas wanted to bring back “Flash Gordon,” a space hero serial from the 1930s, as a feature film. Rights to the property could not be secured, so instead, Lucas decided to make a new fantasy film in the same spirit of swashbuckling adventure.


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15 Years Ago Today, IBM Changed The Way We Thought About Computers

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15 years ago today, IBM's famous chess-playing computer, Deep Blue, beat world champion Garry Kasparov at his own game, making history and changing the way people thought about computers.

Murray Campbell was a member of the original team behind the famous chess-playing computer and we had the opportunity to catch up with him this morning.

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