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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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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

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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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Unfortunately, this conference focused primarily on setting a cap on carbon emissions and providing financial aid to developing countries to build capacities to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. Other transaction costs include the search of partners, the drafting of contracts, legal assistance, etc. Scenario No.