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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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While there, he investigated how to build hardware to run more modern business applications and Web services. In 2004 Barroso was tasked with investigating ways to build more efficient data centers. Rao authored more than 14 books and 400 journal articles during his career. In 1995 he joined the Digital Equipment Corp.

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Nissan Promises EV for 2010

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Nissan is a first tier OEM building a pure EV in the U.S. - Check out the article: Nissan to launch electric car in Tennessee. Here’s a snippet from the article: A top Nissan official in the U.S. Here is the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link] car-tennessee. for sale to regular folks.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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The logical place to build a small computer was inside IBM's General Products Division, which focused on minicomputers and the successful typewriter business. He obtained 8088 microprocessors from Intel , made sure Microsoft kept the development of DOS secret, and quashed rumors that IBM was building a system. and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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