March 31 – GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons is chastised for an online video of him killing an elephantĪpril 5 – Mozilla absorbs Thunderbird group anonymous April 6 – Sony websites go down from Anonymous attack March 30 – Google settles with FCC over Google Buzz privacy issues March 28 – Robert Kimball steps down as CEO of RealNetworks March 28 – James Gosling (Java founder) joins Google
March 26 – Paul Baran, who was instrumental for developing the Internet, passed away March 22 – New York court rejects the Google Books settlement Ultimately, AT&T will back out of the acquisition. March 11 – Japan Earthquake and Tsunami AT&T – T-Mobile March 20 – AT&T announced intention to purchase T-Mobile for $39 billionĪT&T announced it would being going after T-Mobile. Unfortunately, it came with a lot of retaliation. March 11 – DOJ wins access to WikiLeaks Twitter accounts. March 1 – Bank of America online banking goes down The iPad2 also increased the screen resolution and added a front-facing camera. Second generation iPad, using the new Apple A5 chip. March 1 – Paul Devine admits he took part in a Money laundering scheme while at Apple. This enabled tablet support and holographic user interfaceįebruary 6 – Ken Olsen, founder of DEC, passes awayįebruary 11 – Microsoft and Nokia announce partnershipįebruary 21 – CEO and COO resigned due to fraud probeįebruary 24 – Google rolled out algorithm change, which hurt sites re-aggregating content. Honeycomb February 2 – Google shows off HoneycombĪndroid shows the world version 3.0 – a.k.a. January 20 – Google CEO Eric Schmidt steps down, Larry Page takes his place January 19 – Johnny Chung Lee – Kinect researcher – jumps from Microsoft to Google January 13 – IBM Watson to take on Jeopardy Verizon has taken 1/3 of the iPhone market. Nonetheless, this broke the long-standing AT&T domination of the iPhone market. It had little issues, like you couldn’t talk and surf at the same time.
The rumor mill was running wild, but on January 11th, Apple finally announced that Verizon will be getting the iPhone4. January 11 – Google announced they will be dropping H.264 iphone January 11 – Apple announces that iPhone will be coming to Verizon January 10 – AMD‘s CEO Dirk Meyer resigns If you see something missing, please let me know.
Of course, this is a list that will be completed in the next couple weeks. So I went through all of 2011, and found those dates that shaped tech history for the year. But as we are only days from the end, it’s time to look back at what happened and reflect. It’s been an interesting year, this 2011.
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