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GE and Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation Establish Partnership; Great Lakes Offshore Wind Farm

Green Car Congress

GE and Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation ( LEEDCo ) of Northern Ohio have formed a long-term partnership beginning with the development of the first fresh water offshore wind farm in the US and involving a broad range of other initiatives.

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Microsoft joins Baidu Apollo project to advance autonomous driving; global Azure cloud support

Green Car Congress

—,Kevin Dallas, corporate vice president, Microsoft. Companies such as BMW, Ford, Renault-Nissan, Toyota and Volvo are all using or have announced plans to adopt Microsoft’s intelligent cloud technology to help with services like driver assist, predictive maintenance and voice-controlled media.

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

Cars That Think

The product also had to attract corporate customers, although it was unclear how many of those there would be. For some corporate customers, the fact that IBM now had a personal computing product meant that these little machines were not some crazy geek-hippie fad but in fact a new class of serious computing. Then disaster struck.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. In the U.S.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

For Steven Jobs, the 29-year-old chairman of Apple and the Macintosh project’s director, it offered a chance to prove himself in the corporate world after a temporary setback: although he cofounded Apple Computer, the company had declined to let him manage the Lisa project.

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Opinion: Blaming Rising Fuel Prices on High Temps is Dumb

The Truth About Cars

However, heat can also complicate maintenance efforts at refineries and slow down the overall process. You’re unlikely to see this in a headline, but corporate greed is intensely relevant here.& & These companies have investors prepared to dump their stock if they think the needle is moving in the wrong direction.

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