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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

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The Assembling of IBM’s Parts Back in the late 19th century, as the U.S. Time-recording devices tracked when workers arrived and left, while scales weighed everything from meat at a butcher shop to industrial machine parts. The end of the war opened up Europe’s huge market, and smaller ones in South America and parts of Asia.

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

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In his CES talk, Fields said that rapidly advancing connectivity; software and sensor technology; and big data were the enablers behind the Smart Mobility projects—eight in North America, nine in Europe and Africa, seven in Asia and one in South America. Dynamic Social Shuttle, New York and London.

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NYU-BMW i report explores future urban mobility; sustainability and resilience

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A new study released by BMW i and New York University (NYU) finds that, in the coming years and decades, fundamental changes in the demographic makeup of cities will profoundly alter the way people travel. The automobile’s evolution from a stand-alone, independently operated vehicle to one that operates as part of a network.

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Ham Radio Jamming, Wireless Industry Battlegrounds, and IoT in Space

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After coordination with operators in South America and Europe, the source of the interfering signals—which sound like “the unfortunate offspring of a frog and a Dalek ”—was quickly identified as Cuba. Marzetta knows better than anyone else how to improve massive MIMO for the next cellular generation—he invented the technology.

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BMW MINI E Powered by AC Propulsion?

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The MINI E will initially be made available to select private and corporate customers as part of a pilot project in the US states of California, New York and New Jersey. The BMW Group aims to start series production of all-electric vehicles over the medium term as part of its Number ONE strategy.

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