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What happened in history on this day: November 25?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1997 - Toshiba announces it is discontinuing the Infinia line and pulling out of the consumer desktop PC market.
- 2007 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A laptop computer appears, to be used to set off dynamite by its defective battery. The "Clippy" helper icon from Microsoft Office appears.
- 2011 - Serbia issues a 22-d postage stamp for the 130th Anniversary of Journalist Association depicting a laptop computer.
Video Game history:
- 1996 - The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reverses the August 1994 decision in favor of Alpex Computer versus Nintendo, over patent infringement of video game technology. The court rules that Alpex's bit-mapped memory system is different from Nintendo's system.
- 1997 - Sega announces that The Sega Channel for the Genesis will be shut down. 20 million homes had access but only 150,000 subscribed to the service.
- 2007 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A video game controller and a steering wheel controller appear.
- 2008 - Square Enix releases the Chrono Trigger video game for the Nintendo DS in the USA.
- 2010 - Disney Interactive Studios releases the Epic Mickey video game for the Nintendo Wii in the US.
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