A Decade of Technology – 2015

Continuing our 10 year anniversary celebrations, this month we take a look at 2015.

It’s been a great year for tech and the gadget obsessed amongst you have been spoiled for choice. Wearables finally became cool, the usual plethora of app releases kept us focused on our smart devices.

Some other noteworthy events, products and services:

• Ross Ulbricht, the man behind the website Silk Road, was convicted on February 4.
• Taking to the skies: A drone from Flirtey made a medical delivery on July 17 and became the first government-approved drone delivery.
• In March, Facebook released React Native, an open-source JavaScript framework for developing mobile apps on Android and iOS/
• Google split into two companies on August 10. The new company known as Alphabet is now responsible for Google, Nest, Google Capital, Google Fiber, Calico, Google X, Sidewalk Labs, and Google Ventures.
• Swift was open-sourced to encourage community-driven development of the language itself.
• Google announced it discontinued Google Code on March 12. Thousands of the Google open-source products were moved to GitHub.
• Google launched YouTube Gaming.
• Apple introduced Apple Music, Apple Pencil, and Live Photo
• Apple officially released the Apple Watch on April 24.
• YouTube Music was released on November 12.
• Microsoft released the Surface Pro 4 and the Surface Book on October 26.
• The Internet browser Brave was released in 2015.
• On July 18, eBay spun off PayPal as an independent company.
• In May, Broadcom was purchased by Avago Technologies Ltd. for $37 billion. After the purchase, the company was renamed to Broadcom Limited.
• Google made TensorFlow open-sourced for public use in November.
• After seven years of development PHP 7.0.0 was released in December

Follow us next month to see what happened in 2016.