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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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This Harvard Law Professor is an Expert on Digital Technology

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Using a hand-me-down television set as a monitor, and a dial-up modem, he connected the computer to CompuServe , one of the first commercial online service providers. “It Providing free access to books and legal decisions Much of Zittrain’s work looks at ways to make information more widely available. I gave an enthusiastic Yes!

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

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For more on plug-in hybrids and V2G, see CalCars Resources , University of Delaware V2G Research Center , and papers from a June 2005 conference in Seattle. At various times, theyve been called grid-connected hybrids, full or strong hybrids, electric, pluggable, gridable and many others. What do environmental groups think of PHEVs?

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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Now, connect those vehicles in an Internet-like web and you can greatly enhance the ability of people to move through cities, find places to park and connect to their social and business networks," Larry Burns, GMs vice president of R&D and strategic planning, said in a statement. E-mail Martin. Look at it this way. Video Web 2.0

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