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Junkyard Find: 2007 Mini Cooper S

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The "New Mini" first appeared in North American showrooms as a 2002 model, as part of the turn-of-the-century wave of retro-styled machinery that included the Volkswagen New Beetle , Chrysler PT Cruiser and Chevrolet HHR. Here's an '07 Cooper S model in a Colorado yard.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. It happened as well in 2002 when IBM sold its disk drive business to Hitachi at that time.

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

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John Shegerian: When we got into the industry [in 2002], Al Gore had not yet won his awards for “ An Inconvenient Truth.” Five years of banging the drum, and thanks to this article, we were finally off to the races…comparatively. or hold corporate data for ransom. There was no iPhone or Internet of Things. Comparatively.

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

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The product also had to attract corporate customers, although it was unclear how many of those there would be. For some corporate customers, the fact that IBM now had a personal computing product meant that these little machines were not some crazy geek-hippie fad but in fact a new class of serious computing. Department of Justice.

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Continental extends term of Nikolai Setzer as CEO, appoints new board member for automotive group sector – ET Auto

Baua Electric

After graduating in economics, he began his career as a financial analyst at WestLB’s investment banking subsidiary in 2002, where he became vice president of corporate finance in 2005. He is also a member of the Automotive Board.

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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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His office was not damaged, but the attack jump-started his long career at DARPA, which he joined in 2002. The articles are great. The two organizations signed a corporate membership and sponsorship agreement in 2018 to collaborate on several areas of mutual interest. I read it religiously because it's just so good.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. He recruited Rippel and Cocconi for both jobs.

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