Ultimately, it wasn't Protestant conscience that eradicated slavery, but the ascendance of mass-production lines and innovations such as the steam engine.
Mr. Pichai said in an interview that "you'll see some overlap" between Chrome and Android, but Google "views these as choices for users" and that both operating systems will help promote Google applications such as the Web-search engine.
That long tail includes about a hundred databases of specialized information that the search engine is now working on indexing, such as the Security and Exchange Commission's online filings and the online collection of medical journals known as PubMed.
So Boeing is considering various compromises, such as a small extra engine in the tail, to give the aircraft more thrust.
In the pre-earnings article, we had expressed our concerns regarding the increasing competition that Baidu faces from players such as Qihoo, which launched a competing search engine during the third quarter.
FORBES: Baidu Shows Strong Customer Growth But Mobile Questions Remain
This vehicle brings together MQB elements that could underpin a future generation of SUVs, such as the front and rear suspensions, the 190-horsepower TDI Clean Diesel engine from the new EA288 family, and a six-speed DSG dual-clutch automatic transmission.
ENGADGET: VW unveils CrossBlue plug-in SUV with iPad mini headrests and 85MPGe efficiency (eyes-on)
Programs he has gone after in the past include agricultural subsidies, defense programs such as C-17 military transport planes, and an alternate engine for the Pentagon's Joint Strike Fighter.
The large engine manufacturers, such as Cummins, Peterbilt, Caterpillar, and Navistar are all building LNG engines.
The company already has a standalone product-search service that specializes in "hard" goods such as electronics and draws traffic from the main search engine.
The capacitor will power electrical components such as the air conditioning and stereo, which are normally powered by an alternator connected to the engine.
FORBES: Mazda Bets Big On Diesel With The All-New 2014 Mazda 6
He saw Silicon Valley celebrities such as John Doerr grab the limelight as they proclaimed the Internet to be the greatest legal money engine ever created.
Already, the search engine has spawned businesses such as search-engine marketing and optimization, or Web arbitragers, and companies that live by serving Google's voracious computing needs (see: " The Search Industrial Complex").
Meanwhile, the feds' fuel-economy administrators are currently operating at a dead run trying to keep up with a host of new, highly digitized fuel-saving technologies, such as "Eco" throttle mapping and stop-start (the engine cuts out as the vehicle coasts or stops), which were practically invented to hack the EPA testing cycle.
WSJ: 2013 Ford C-Max Hybrid Review: A Fine Car Falls Way Short on MPG | Rumble Seat by Dan Neil
The answer that B9 is proposing is a coastal cargo ship that combines massive carbon-fibre DynaRig sails - such as those used on the superyacht, the Maltese Falcon - with an engine that runs on bio-gas made from food waste using a process called anaerobic digestion.
In such a power plant, which is also known as a flat engine, the cylinders oppose each other horizontally.
Not only can S Note be used for play, it also brings serious productivity features such as an equation analyzer, shape recognition and integration with the Wolfram Alpha logistics engine.
Selected titles have also been optimized for 3D such as Mini Motor Racing, developed by The Binary Mill and powered by Unity Engine, which also supports LG's Dual Play feature.
ENGADGET: LG adding more games to its Cinema 3D Smart TVs in 2013 HD
The few hybrids BMW has introduced previously, such as the ActiveHybrid 7 and ActiveHybrid X6, which use an eight-cylinder gasoline engine instead of a six-cylinder, have not sold well.
FORBES: BMW ActiveHybrid 3 Review: A Lot Of Fun On Slightly Less Fuel
Management decided to take a measured approach, selling off smaller defense units such as the Norden electronics business (bought by Westinghouse in 1994) while retaining the engine and helicopter businesses.
FORBES: How The Pentagon's Top Ten Contractors Dealt With The Last Downturn
Other new-economy stars, such as Lenovo Group, Tencent Holdings and search-engine Baidu, are already in the second 500 of our list.
For example, in a February 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of 2, 253 adult respondents answered they would not be OK with a search engine (such as Google) keeping track of their searches and using the results to personalize future searches.
Utilizing effective search engine optimization strategies such as optimizing web content and obtaining quality backlinks could increase the page rank of these sites without having to resort to an international investigation.
With 90% of Ceradyne's revenues coming from such big defense contractors as Hughes, Martin Marietta and McDonnell Douglas--and with the ceramic car engine still several years off--Moskowitz is now searching hard for nonmilitary ceramics applications.
Robust growth in countries such as China, Spain and Brazil eases the burden on the U.S. to be the primary growth engine, he says.
It also lacks such civilized touches as a clutch or a transmission--again, too much weight--so even with the engine idling, it wants to go about 50mph.
It also lacks such civilized touches as a clutch or a transmission--again, too much weight--so even with the engine idling, it wants to go about 80 kilometers per hour.
Connecting more people to the Web world-wide creates more potential users of its Web-search engine and other services such as YouTube and its Google Play media and app store.
WSJ: Google to Fund, Develop Wireless Networks in Emerging Markets
应用推荐