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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. How secure was the data in these machines? and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” In 1969 Xerox had just bought Scientific Data Systems (SDS), a mainframe computer manufacturer. Networks that link personal computers in offices. The group thought it should have a computer of its own. Goldman tells it differently.

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Are You Ready for Workplace Brain Scanning?

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Neural sensors are now reliable and affordable enough to support commercial pilot projects that extract productivity-enhancing data from workers’ brains. But there are serious questions about whether work should be organized around certain functions of the brain, rather than the person as a whole.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., September, 2009 : Scientific data on warming trends was updated at the “4 Degrees And Beyond” climate conference ( earlier post ), the second synthesis conference on climate change sponsored by the UK government in the last five years.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

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Price tag: about $25,000, made from 95% recyclable materials with a top speed of 65 miles per hour and range of 110 miles per charge. Related Articles Chrysler May Dodge the Banking Bullet Quick Read Apr 28, 2009 Group 1 Automotive Inc. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript Quick Read Apr 28, 2009 Celadon Group, Inc.

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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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This article discusses: (a) why the focus should have been on the transfer of proven renewable energy technology from developed to developing countries; and (b) how this technology transfer can be financed with currently available funds. The Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) was established at the 2007 Bali COP.