The 2010 timeline

1. Jan27
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   Steve Jobs unveils the iPad

   At a San Francisco event, Apple introduced a 9.7-inch tablet starting at $499, mocked for its name and praised for its screen. It went on sale in April and sold almost 15 million units by the end of the year.

No events recorded for February in this category.

No events recorded for March in this category.

1. Apr3
   TechVerified

   The iPad goes on sale

   The Wi-Fi iPad reached US stores on 3 April and sold more than 300,000 units on its first day; the 3G model followed at the end of the month and international sales in May.

2. Apr29
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   Steve Jobs publishes "Thoughts on Flash"

   In an open letter Jobs explained why the iPhone and iPad would never run Adobe Flash, citing reliability, battery life and touch, and declared HTML5 the future of the mobile web.

1. May14
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   Google admits Street View cars collected Wi-Fi data

   Google disclosed that its Street View cars had been recording payload data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks, triggering investigations in a dozen countries.

2. May19
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   Google I/O: Android 2.2, Google TV, WebM and the Font API

   At its developer conference Google announced Android 2.2 Froyo with Flash support, open-sourced the VP8 codec as WebM, previewed Google TV, and launched the Google Font API.

3. May22
   TechVerified

   Bitcoin Pizza Day: 10,000 BTC for two pizzas

   Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 bitcoins, then worth about $41, for two Papa John's pizzas, the first documented purchase of real goods with bitcoin.

4. May25
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   "Responsive Web Design" is published

   Ethan Marcotte's A List Apart article combined fluid grids, flexible images and media queries into a single approach and gave it a name that stuck.

1. Jun10
   TechSupported

   Adobe releases Flash Player 10.1

   Adobe shipped Flash Player 10.1 for desktops and, within weeks, Android 2.2 phones, with hardware video acceleration and touch support, while Apple's devices remained Flash-free.

2. Jun15
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   Microsoft Office 2010 goes on sale

   Office 2010 arrived with the Ribbon in every app and free Office Web Apps in the browser, Microsoft's answer to Google Docs.

No events recorded for July in this category.

1. Aug27
   TechSupported

   The $139 Kindle ships

   Amazon's third-generation Kindle, with a sharper E Ink screen and a Wi-Fi-only price of $139, became the company's fastest-selling Kindle.

No events recorded for September in this category.

1. Oct9
   TechVerified

   Google reveals its self-driving car project

   Google disclosed that its modified Toyota Priuses had driven 140,000 miles on public roads with minimal human intervention, the first public word of the project that became Waymo.

2. Oct20
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   Apple's "Back to the Mac": new MacBook Air and the Mac App Store

   Apple introduced 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Airs with flash storage from $999, previewed Mac OS X Lion, and announced a Mac App Store that opened in January 2011.

3. Oct24
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   Firesheep exposes session hijacking on open Wi-Fi

   A free Firefox extension let anyone on a shared network take over other users' Facebook and Twitter sessions with one click, pushing major sites toward HTTPS.

No events recorded for November in this category.

1. Dec21
   TechVerified

   The FCC adopts its Open Internet Order

   The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 for net-neutrality rules against blocking and unreasonable discrimination by fixed broadband providers, rules later struck down in court in 2014.