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

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. Ernie Smith For years, 3M’s reel-to-reels had one of the strongest reputations in the music industry; they were built to be of superhigh quality. inch floppy.

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Toyota’s nearest hydrogen powered automobile will likely be a Crown sedan

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In a briefing about Toyota’s drivetrain technique in April, Government Vice President Hiroki Nakajima stated the corporate sees cluster manufacturing of gasoline cells being pushed by way of industrial cars. The sedan is a swish, low-slung 4 door with instantly personality traces for a futuristic, technical glance.

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SpaceX and Dish’s Super-Shady War for the World

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Or—given the outsize personalities involved (including Elon Musk and Michael Dell) and the epic, five-year duration of the dispute to date—maybe more like a space opera. But the corporates fighting over it recently cranked up their clashing. rtay, who was writing about spectrum sharing in 2002. Ofcom, the U.K.

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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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In a new study, KPMG International has identified 10 “megaforces” that will significantly affect corporate growth globally over the next two decades. Total environmental cost 2010 vs growth in environmental cost since 2002 vs environmental intensity improvement. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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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.” or hold corporate data for ransom. From those examples you can see how you need to protect your financial and personal data on an individual level too. There was no iPhone or Internet of Things.

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