Amaya Toman Remember when Google went under the newly formed Alphabet? This happened at the beginning of August 2015, and this is one of the events that we will recall in our article today. In addition, today also marks the anniversary of the birth of Jan A. Rajchman or the anniversary of the day when the iTunes Music Store finally boasted one million songs on offer.
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Jan A. Rajchman was born (1911)
On August 10, 1911, Jan Aleksander Rajchman was born in England - a scientist and inventor of Polish origin, who is considered one of the pioneers of computer technology and electrical engineering. Rajchman's father, Ludwik Rajchman, was a bacteriologist and founder of UNICEF. Jan A. Rajchman received a diploma at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1935, three years later he received the title of Doctor of Science. He has a total of 107 patents to his credit, mostly related to logic circuits. Rajchman was a member of a number of elite scientific societies and associations, and also headed the RCA Computer Laboratory.
A Million Songs on iTunes (2009)
August 10, 2004 was also significant for Apple. On that day, she solemnly announced that the virtual music store iTunes Music Store already has a respectable one million songs on offer. In the iTunes Music Store, users could find tracks from all five major music labels and about six hundred smaller independent labels from around the world. At the time, Apple also boasted a 70% share of the total number of legal downloads of individual tracks and entire albums, and the iTunes Music Store became the world's number one online music service.
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Google and Alphabet (2015)
August 10, 2015 was the start of restructuring for Google, as part of which it came under the newly established Alphabet company. Sundar Pichai, who in the past worked on the Google Chrome browser or the Android operating system, has recently joined the management of Google. Larry Page became CEO of Alphabet, Sergey Brin became its president.
Other events not only in the field of technology
- NASA sends its artificial satellite to the moon called Lunar Orbiter I (1966)
