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Communication Satellite “Birds”of the 1968 Olympic Games
The replicas of the covey (flock) of synchronous communication satellites that were used to televise the 19th Olympic Games from Mexico City to audiences in Europe and Japan. The satellites are shown at Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, California where they were built for NASA and Comsat Corporation. In the center is a full- scale model of the Intelsat II satellite, which was used by Comsat to send color TV direct to Japan via a Hughes ground station installed near San Jose, California. Left of Intelsat is the NASA’s ATS-3 (Application Technology Satellites), which transmitted the picture portion of the Olympics to Europe and the Early Bird (right) transmitted the voice commentary of the European telecast in a dozen languages. These communication satellites went into orbit over the Atlantic in April 1965.
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Photo of the day: A penguin sticks its head out of the water on May 16 during a preview event for the opening of the new June Keys Penguin Habitat at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, Calif. These flightless birds are a near-threatened species that originated in the cool climate of South America’s Strait of Magellan. Although penguins have existed on our planet for more than 50 million years, environmental issues caused by commercial fishing and tourism are threatening their future survival. Over the course of the 1980s, 40,000 oil-coated Magellanic penguins washed up on the shore of the Chubut Coast every year as the result of illegal dumping of petroleom-contaminated ship ballast water into the ocean.
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Sutro Tower peeking out above the fog, taken from the the top of Mount Tamalpais.
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Apple Inc. is in talks with Canada’s two biggest telecom companies about becoming partners in the launch of iTV, a device combining features of the wildly popular iPad tablet with those of a television set, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Rogers Communications and BCE, parent of Bell Canada, are already testing the device in their labs, Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper reported, citing an unnamed source.
Cupertino-based Apple has neither confirmed nor denied speculation that it was working on iTV, which the industry believes would involve a new device enabling a user to buy and view licensed content, along the lines of the iTunes model.
Read more: Apple in talks on iTV with Canada telecoms
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The secret story of how Steve Jobs hired an unknown musician to work at iTunes. It all began during a trip to Memphis in 2009. While Jobs was recuperating from an emergency transplant, he visited Sun Studio, where Elvis Presley made his earliest recordings. Jobs took a tour with Matt Ross-Spring, an engineer at Sun, and local musician David Brookings (pictured above).
A few weeks after Jobs’ visit, Brookings got an email from someone at Apple with an invitation to come to California. Jobs was so impressed with Brookings that he offered him a job building up the early rock and blues sections of iTunes, Ross-Spang said.
When contacted, Brookings declined to comment. But sources in the Memphis music community confirmed details of the visit, as did Ross-Spang, who was one of the only other people present for Jobs’ surprise visit.
“You hear all these stories about what an innovator he was and what a great businessman but also how demanding it was to work for him,” Ross-Spang said. “The Steve I met was a really nice guy, and he changed one of my best friends’ lives forever.”
Photo: DavidBrookings.net
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tuaw:
Hand-drawn sketch
of Apple’s 1970’s headquarters.
Jobs and Woz were so far apart!
(via cdespinosa’s posterous)
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