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March 21: Novell Acquires Corel WordPerfect, Quattro Pro

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March 21, 2013

1994- Novell purchases Quattro Pro (spreadsheet program) and WordPerfect (Word document editor) for $145 million. However, the company ended up selling both software programs to Corel in 1996. Corel continues to update and sell WordPerfect Office x6 – with Quattro Pro in the Professional edition. Wikazine – Full show notes for March 21 The first Twitter post – Just setting up my twttr Hfury Apple TV begins Shipping Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

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January 31: Corel Acquires WordPerfect

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January 31, 2013

1996 – Corel not only gets WordPerfect form Novell, but also Quattro Pro for $180 million in stock and cash. Michael Cowpland (Founder of Corel) called WordPerfect the “Pepsi to Microsoft’s Coke”. I guess that was not the case as OpenOffice (RC maybe?) surpassed WordPerfect users.WordPerfect and Corel have been in flux since 2006, when Vector Capital purchased 72% of the company. Just this last year, they bought up the remaining stock and became privately held once again. Wikazine – Full show notes for January 31 Related articles Mistrial in WordPerfect antitrust case against Microsoft (seattletimes.nwsource.com) January 15: Ralph Baer Patents First Video Game (dayintechhistory.com) Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

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November 24: Novell Owns UNIX, UNIXWare Over SCO Group

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November 23, 2012

Novell wins a pivitol case aganst the SCO Group in 2008.

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November 1: IBM PCjr, Pentium Pro Introduced

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October 31, 2012

In 1995, Intel introduced the Pentium Pro at speeds of 150-200 MHz and 60 or 66 MHz bus. Also, the IBM PCjr was released in 1983

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July 24: WebLoyalty Credit Card Issues, Orbitz, Buy.com

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July 23, 2012

It’s whats known as “Data Pass”. You went up to Orbitz, Buy.com, Fandango, Shutterfly, Priceline or Continental Airlines and purchase something. You are then asked if you want to be a part of the loyalty program. If you say yes, the credit card would be passed to a 3rd party affiliate, like WebLoyalty, Vertue and Affinion. They would then continue to bill your card. This issue broke lose in 2009 and the US Senate commerce Committee started looking into the issue. On Aug 10, 2010, Affinion (parent company to Data Pass) agreed to pay 8 million in damages. An additional $2 million would be paid between 5 – 3rd party companies that included Classmates.com and FTD. A small amount to ...

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