| Year |
Event |
| 2010 |
Apple introduces the iPad on January 27, 2010. |
| 2010 |
Google Buzz is released February 9, 2010. |
| 2010 |
Apple announces over 10 billion tracks
have been downloaded from iTunes. |
| 2010 |
Ed Roberts passes away
April 1, 2010 (age 68). |
| 2010 |
Hewlett Packard purchased the Palm company,
and the rights to WebOS, in April 2010. |
| 2010 |
Alexander (Sandy) Shafto
Douglas passes away April 29, 2010 (age 89) |
| 2010 |
Stuxnet worm is first discovered. |
| 2010 |
Apple introduces the iPhone 4 on June 24, 2010. |
| 2010 |
Woot.com announces it has signed an
agreement to be acquired by Amazon.com June 30,
2010. |
| 2010 |
Carl Petri passes away July 2,
2010 (age 84) |
| 2010 |
Amazon releases a press release July 19, 2010 mentioning it is now
selling more Kindle books than
hardcover books. |
| 2010 |
The Document Foundation releases
LibreOffice September 28, 2010. |
| 2010 |
Intel releases the AHCI specification in
October 2010. |
| 2010 |
Microsoft announces plans to release Windows Phone 7 October 11, 2010. |
| 2010 |
First all-robotic surgery performed at
Montreal General Hospital October 13, 2010. |
| 2010 |
OpenStack is established. |
| 2010 |
MachinimaSports becomes the 1 billionth
subscriber on YouTube October 28, 2010. |
| 2010 |
United States Cyber Command achieves full
operational capability November 5, 2010. |
| 2010 |
Planet Calypso a virtual planet in the
game Entropia becomes the most valuable virtual item selling for $635,000.00 USD
November 12, 2010. |
| 2010 |
Microsoft first releases the Kinect for the Xbox 360 in November 4, 2010. |
| 2010 |
Maurice Wilkes passes away
November 29, 2010 (age 97) |
| 2010 |
Mark Zuckerberg is named
TIME Person of the Year 2010. |
