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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. Henn Tan holds up a ThumbDrive during an interview in Singapore in January 2006. The thumb drive was all that—and more. Tan did give Toshiba its music player.

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AlixPartners study finds post-crisis auto industry facing new set of challenges; sales projected below historical levels for foreseeable future

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This will put unprecedented pressure on all players to pick the right business models, the right legal and capital structures, and the right partners. million in 2006. Emerging nations have gone from being just sources of cheap parts and labor to being bona fide markets, not to mention bona fide competitors.

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

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Advertising info Legal disclaimer Accessibility Privacy policy Terms & Conditions Help. Every big carmaker seems to be developing one, and governments are vying with each other to support them. All rights reserved.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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For just a little more than half that amount, we could fund a fifty-fold increase in spending on R&D for the kind of game-changing technological breakthroughs—like smart grids, ultra-efficient batteries or even cheap, manageable fusion—we will need to end our addiction to fossil fuels. Sheehan (2006), STI Working Paper, OECD.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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nationals and legal residents. Cheap debt issuance alone, even if backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. The federal American Clean Energy and Security Act proposes to disburse dividends via tax refunds to all U.S. Financing Investments and Other Public Expenditures. Flexible Debt Capital. Mr. Donovan is C.E.O. Renergie”).

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