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Airbus President and CEO Noël Forgeard welcomes British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero to witness the unveiling of the A380, the world’s first double-deck passenger aircraft. The ... |
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The Nihon Keizai Shimbun announces, without citing sources, that Sony plans to withdraw from the plasma television business in the first half of 2005 and devote its flat-panel TV operations to liquid crystal display versions. Sony denies the assertion. |
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Boeing's new heavy-lift Delta 4 rocket finally lifts-off from Cape Canaveral after several days of delay. The 230 foot vehicle places a dummy payload and two university research satellites into orbit on its maiden voyage. |
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After spending $71 million on advertising for its pain-killer drug Celebrex in the first nine months of this year, Pfizer bows to pressure from regulators and agrees to pull Celebrex ads from TV, radio, newspapers and magazines, effective immediately. A clinical trial demonstrated that the painkil ... |
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Wal-Mart and Linspire announce that they are now offering a basic Linux laptop for under US$500, the first laptop to be offered new below that price point. |
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Pfizer shares plung after the company announces its arthritis drug Celebrex posed "increased cardiovascular risk" when used in high doses. Celebrex is a COX-2 inhibitor drug similar to Vioxx, which Merck withdrew from the market in September over similar health issues. |
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Hewlett Packard announces that it will move HP's Itanium processor design team to Intel in January, thus effectively ending the last microprocessor development effort within the company. To date, Itanium has not beed broadly accepted in the market, but has seen some success as a high-end server pr ... |
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Beverage Digest announces that Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company will introduce a new diet soft drink in 2005 that will have no calories and be sweetened with sucralose and another artificial sweeter. Although sucralose is very popular with consumers, most health professionals recommend avoiding Coke ... |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say the arthritis drug Celebrex does not carry the same heart attack risks as the drug Vioxx. Research showed that the chances of having a heart attack are nearly three times greater in Vioxx users than in Celebrex users, but other studies are still bein ... |
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Apple has asked anyone who has a certain 15in PowerBook G4 models to return the battery, which could be faulty. |
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Microsoft issues a security patch, deemed "critical," that fixes three publicly disclosed vulnerabilities as well as all previously fixed Internet Explorer security holes to date. |
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In a move to address rival products selling a lower price-points, Apple Computer Inc. announces lower-priced versions of its iPod digital music player with increased battery life. |
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Mattel Corp. announces that it is preparing to launch a Barbie line of clothes, accessories and perfume for adult women later this year. |
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Intel Corp. releases new programming tools which increase the performance of software written for its Pentium, Xeon, and Itanium processors. |
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Microsoft executives unveil plans for upcoming versions of the company's software development tools on the .NET platform. |
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Mozilla 1.0, the first 'official' version, is released. |
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Airbus establishes Airbus Military S.A.S. as a separate company to develop a turboprop powered military transport aircraft, called the Airbus Military A400M, as a replacement for the C-130 Hercules. |
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Microsoft releases Windows 98, which is a minor revision of Windows 95. It controversially integrated the Internet Explorer into the Windows OS, prompting the opening of the Microsoft antitrust case.
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Netscape, the company behind the Navigator web browser, goes public with what turned out to be the largest Initial Public Offering (IPO) in Wall Street history. |
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In the face of significant criticism over its cola formula change, Coca-Cola re-introduces the old formula as "Coca-Cola Classic." |
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IBM introduces its version of a Personal Computer, the PC. It uses Intel and Microsoft technology. |
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Boeing unveils the T-43A, a navigator trainer of the Boeing 737. |
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The Cessna Citation jet flies for the first time. |
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British, French and German governments sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to commence development of the Airbus A300, a 300 seat commerical airliner. |
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The fastener Velcro is patented. It was invented in 1948 by Swiss Engineer George de Mestral after observing the sticky nature of seed pods on his dog's fur. |
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Fanta is invented by the Coca Cola company's major German bottler Max Keith of GHBH to enable trading to continue within Nazi ruled areas. |
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The Concessionaire Convention, which takes place during the German annexation of Austria, concludes with with a "ceremonial pledge" to Coca-Cola and a ringing, three-fold "Sieg-Heil" to Hitler. |
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Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera. |
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Dr. John Styth Pemberton, a pharmacist in Atlanta, invents a carbonated beverage that would become "Coca-Cola." |
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C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive |
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