Words from Nerds 98: It’s The News

• XBox Sales Up, Wii Sales Down. Activision discontinues Guitar Hero
• iPhone with a keyboard? What chu talkin about?
• Glass? Who cares about glass-es? LG doesn’t…
• Do you get Flash on your phone? Maybe, maybe not.
• Microsoft IE9 hits RC level !
• Take your *asterisk* to Mars.
• Put on your Thinking Cap!
• And take care of your eyes, from the Cleveland Clinic.

Nerd History:

• Feb 16, 1899 – Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland’s first football club is founded.
• Feb 15, 1965 – O Canada! A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
• Feb 16, 1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
• Feb 14, 1989 – First GPS satellites.
• Feb 15, 2001 – First draft of the complete Human Genome is published in Nature
• Feb 17, 1965 – Michael Bay, American film director