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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

Buying and selling cryptocurrencies is a big business. The fraction that involved buying actual stuff (goods and services) is so small that it’s hard to measure. Corporate Cash The idea of private digital currencies goes back to at least 1994, when the late Edward de Bono wrote of the “IBM dollar.” Customers could convert U.S.

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California Energy Commission awards more than $15M to advance biofuels, plug-in and V2G research

Green Car Congress

Rand Corporation , based in Santa Monica, will receive $4,474,558 to evaluate the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program and projects. The trucks will be tested in various locations, including Google in the Bay Area, the City of Santa Monica and the Port of Los Angeles. Electricore Inc.,

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Advocating electric in the heartland

Electric Auto Association

You buy your own solar panels, you power your house and your car, and the utility wants to get paid for your doing that.” They’re just putting up one more barrier to make sure people keep buying gas guzzlers.” If someone googled me, they’d think I was some kind of radical environmentalist.”

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The Cash Back Hybrid

Plug In Partners

By John Voelcker First Published October 2007 Google , a former CIA director , the Natural Resources Defense Council , a U.S. It includes tax credits for consumers who buy or convert to plug-ins, tax incentives on tooling for carmakers who sell early models, and incentives for utilities to offer discounts for off-peak car recharging.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0" Drivers of converted cars have received high levels of cooperation from dealer service departments so far.

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A Bold New Plan for Preserving Online Privacy and Security

Cars That Think

Cloud providers are single points of failure and prime targets for hackers to scoop up everything from proprietary corporate communications to our personal photo albums and financial documents. For Google to show you your work emails, it has to store many copies across many servers. Barath orders Bruce’s audiobook from Audible.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

Cars That Think

I’m using a word processor with the core features and functions of Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice’s Writer, along with an email client that could be mistaken for a simplified version of Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook, or Mozilla Thunderbird. Xerox buys into computing This wasn’t Xerox’s only big bet on computing.

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