WWDC (FM)

WWDC (101.1 FM) – branded DC101 – is a commercial alternative rock radio station licensed to Washington, D.C., serving the Washington metro area. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., WWDC serves as the flagship station for Elliot in the Morning; and the local affiliate for Skratch 'N Sniff and The Side Show Countdown with Nikki Sixx. The WWDC studios are located in Rockville, Maryland, while the station transmitter resides in Silver Spring. Besides a standard analog transmission, WWDC broadcasts over two HD Radio channels, and is available online via iHeartRadio. WWDC also simulcasts over Frederick translator W232CB (94.3 FM).

History

WWDC-FM signed on in 1947 as a beautiful music station. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, it simulcast with its (slightly more contemporary than) MOR AM sister station on weekdays, and played oldies at night and on weekends. In the mid-1970s, it attempted album rock at night for a few months and then flipped full-time to an album rock music format. Its AM counterpart (now WWRC) was the first American radio station to play a Beatles song when it played "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in December 1963.

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), is a conference held annually in California by Apple Inc. The conference is used by Apple to showcase its new software and technologies for software developers. Attendees can participate in hands-on labs with Apple engineers, as well as in-depth sessions that cover a wide variety of topics. Until 2007, the number of attendees varied between 2,000 and 4,200; however, during WWDC 2007, Steve Jobs noted that there were more than 5,000 attendees. The WWDC events held from 2008 to 2015 were capped, and sold out at 5,000 attendees (5,200 including special attendees).

Overview

History

Since 1998, the conference has generally started with a keynote presentation that was usually delivered by Jobs, resulting in the presentations becoming known as "Stevenotes". After Jobs' resignation and death in 2011, his successor Tim Cook delivered the keynotes.

1990s

In 1995, WWDC'95's primary emphasis was a new component technology called "OpenDoc"; a software component technology that allowed end users to compile an application from components offering features they desired most. Apple as one of the OpenDoc consortium (which included Adobe, Lotus, and others) touted OpenDoc as the future foundation for application structure under Mac OS. As proof of the concept, Apple demonstrated a new end-user product called Cyberdog, a comprehensive Internet application component suite offering users an integrated browser, email, FTP, telnet, finger and other services built completely of user-exchangeable OpenDoc components. Claris Works, a principal product in Apple's wholly owned subsidiary Claris Corporation, was demonstrated as an example of a pre-OpenDoc component architecture application modified to enable it to contain functional OpenDoc components.

WWDC 2015

WWDC 2015 was an Apple Worldwide Developers Conference hosted by Apple Inc. The event was held June 8–12, 2015 in the Moscone West convention center in San Francisco, California.

Announcements

WWDC 2015 announced a new iOS, OS X, and watchOS version for their products. For iOS, they have announced iOS 9, which includes a new application named News, the ability to draw on Notes, new app switcher view, a new "Back to (app name)" feature for users to go to their previous application, it will happen if you click a link that takes you to somewhere outside of the application within it, Transit directions on Maps, and more.

For OS X, they released OS X El Capitan (10.11), which includes new Desktops, Transit on Maps, calling out your cursor by shaking your trackpad or mouse, new El Capitan wallpapers, many other more.

For watchOS, they released watchOS 2, which includes Transit, new faces, complications (3rd-party applications), Time Travel and Nightstand Mode.

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