Developers: Shares of most developers gained ahead of planned sales of suburban residential projects.
1888: Philip W. Pratt demonstrates the very first American electric tricycle.
Pratt’s e-trike was built for him by Fred M. Kimball of, naturally, the Fred M. Kimball Company. Pratt took the editor of Modern Light and Heat for a spin around Winthrop Square (above) in Boston.
The vehicle’s 10 lead-acid cells pushed about 20 volts to [...]
It was instantly clear after Sept. 11, 2001, that our security agencies knew little about al Qaeda’s inner workings, could not detect its operatives’ entry into the country, nor predict where it might strike next.
Microsoft plans to start selling Windows 7 to its business customers on Sept. 1, weeks before the full launch of the operating system on Oct. 22. Microsoft is also promoting the Windows 7 OS to businesses through a collection of steep discount prices. Microsoft is betting that Windows 7 will help it boost its bottom line in the midst of the recession while also helping wipe away bad memories of Windows Vista.
– Microsoft
will start selling Windows 7 to business customers in volume on Sept. 1, weeks
before its official retail rollout on Oct. 22.
As it prepares for a massive worldwide push for Windows 7, Microsoft also
announced that businesses purchasing the operating system in volume would be
able to…
On the afternoon of Sept. 25, 2002, a group of marine biologists vacationing on Isla San Jose, in Baja California Sur, Mexico, came upon a couple of whales stranded along the beach. A quick assessment indicated that they had died quite recentl…
