In 2002, Be Inc. sued Microsoft claiming that Hitachi had been dissuaded from selling PCs loaded with BeOS, and that Compaq had been pressured not to market an Internet appliance in partnership with Be.

Hitachi launched a wearable computer called Poma in 2002.

Many of the AABC firms were bought out by other consulting companies in 2002, most notably, Deloitte ( especially in Europe ), Hitachi Consulting, PwC Consulting, which was later acquired by IBM, and KPMG Consulting, which later changed its name to BearingPoint.

Many of the AABC firms were bought out by other consulting companies in 2002, most notably, Hitachi Consulting and KPMG Consulting, which later changed its name to BearingPoint.

JR East purchased stock in the company in 2002, currently owning 70 %; the remainder being divided between Hitachi ( 12 %), Japan Airlines ( 9 %) and All Nippon Airways ( 9 %).

Its shipbuilding unit, Universal Shipbuilding was created in 2002 when NKK Corp. a predecessor of JFE, merged its shipbuilding unit with that of Hitachi Zosen.

New X ' Trapolis and Siemens train have been progressively introduced since 2002 to replace the ageing Hitachi fleet, which has been largely withdrawn from service.

The " Blu-ray Disc founder group " was started on May 20, 2002 by MIT and nine leading electronic companies: Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, and Samsung.

While Hitachi was likely inspired by z / Architecture ( and formally collaborated with IBM on the z800 model, introduced in 2002 ), Hitachi's machines are not z / Architecture-compatible.

, is a visual novel and fighting game, co-developed by dōjin circles Type-Moon and French-Bread, originally released at Comiket on December 2002.

In 2002 one was lost during the civil war with UNITA forces.

OSCE experts estimate that between 116, 000 and 147, 000 people left Armenia for economic reasons between 2002 and 2004, with two-thirds of them returning home by February 2005.

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

In 2002, Christian Koeberl with the Institute of Geochemistry University of Vienna published evidence and established the site as an internationally recognized impact crater.

Since 2002 the Victorian Industry has seen a significant decline in catches, with the total allowable catch ( TAC ) reduced from 1440 tonnes to 787 tonnes for the 2011 / 12 fishing year.

** edited by Pierre Chiron, Collection Budé, with French translation, Paris, 2002, ISBN 2-251-00498-X

Since 2002, Actium is linked with Preveza on the north shore of the Ambracian Gulf by the Aktio-Preveza Undersea Tunnel, or Aktio-Preveza Immersed Tunnel ( traffic labels ).

The damaged sections of the Pentagon were rebuilt in 2002, with occupants moving back into the completed areas on August 15, 2002.

A 2002 randomized controlled UK university study of 93 people with clinically confirmed idiopathic Parkinson's disease found that participants who received Alexander Technique lessons reported sustained improvements in their physical functioning, as well as reporting themselves to be less depressed and to have improved attitudes towards themselves.

In 2002, Vick set many records and supplied the media with numerous highlights for the season, including rushing for 173 yards in an overtime win at Minnesota, the highest single-game rushing total for an NFL quarterback ever ( Vick's footwear from this game are currently enshrined in the NFL Hall of Fame ).

* 2002 – Render: Spanning Time with Ani DiFranco

The team finished the 2002 season with a 98-64 record and won the NL West Division Title, but were swept out in the NLDS by the St. Louis Cardinals.

As of 2002, the city of Seattle had paid over $ 200, 000 in settlements of lawsuits filed against the Seattle Police Department for assault and wrongful arrest, with a class action lawsuit still pending.

Accidents have occurred, sometimes with a large loss of life, such as the 1988 disaster at Ramstein Air Base in Germany and the 2002 air show crash at Lviv, Ukraine.

British architects Brenda and Robert Vale have said that, as of 2002, " It is quite possible in all parts of Australia to construct a ' house with no bills ', which would be comfortable without heating and cooling, which would make its own electricity, collect its own water and deal with its own waste ... These houses can be built now, using off-the-shelf techniques.

A videotape released with The Wills of the New York and Washington Battle Martyrs, was aired on Al Jazeera on April 16, 2002.

Since the 2002 edition, the Apostles ' Creed is included in the Roman Missal with the indication, " Instead of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, especially during Lent and Easter time, the baptismal Symbol of the Roman Church, known as the Apostles ’ Creed, may be used.

The U. S. Peace Corps returned to Botswana in August 2002 with a focus on HIV / AIDS-related programs after concluding 30 years of more broadly targeted assistance in 1997.

As of July 2002, the fate of the Minas Gerais was still unknown, with China having reportedly made a surprise bid for its purchase.

As of late 2002, the Navy had reportedly become responsible for flying all aircraft with the rivalry having subsided between the two branches of the armed forces.

In 2002 the Embraer R-99A AEW & C equipped with the Ericsson Erieye Airborne Radar and the R-99B SR ( Electronic Intelligence Gathering version ) entered service.

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

2002 ) suggests that Capparaceae as traditionally circumscribed are paraphyletic with respect to Brassicaceae, with Cleome and several related genera being more closely related to Brassicaceae than to other Capparaceae.

A beta test version of AIX 5L for IA-64 systems was released, but according to documents released in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit, less than forty licenses for the finished Monterey Unix were ever sold before the project was terminated in 2002.

On the Validity of Throughput as a Characteristic of Computer Input, IBM Research Report RJ 10253, 2002, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California.

The Lotus. com web page in 2001 clearly showed the company as " Lotus Development Corporation " with " a word from its CEO " by 2002 the " About us " section was removed from its site menu, and the Lotus logo was replaced with the IBM logo.

The International Institute of Infonomics at the University of Maastricht, in the Netherlands, reported in 2002 that in addition to the above, large corporations, and they specifically mentioned IBM, also spend large annual sums employing developers specifically for them to contribute to open source projects.

In 2002, he became a researcher at IBM Almaden Research Center.

Between 2002 and 2015 it is estimated that the DVLA will spend £ 500 million on information technology from IBM.

At the time, Sequent's CEO said its technology would " find its way through IBM's entire product field " and IBM announced it would " both sell Sequent machines, and fold Sequent's technology ... into its own servers ", but by May 2002 a decline in sales of the models acquired from Sequent, among other reasons, led to the retirement of Sequent-heritage products.

According to a May 30, 2002 article in the Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ) entitled " Sequent Deal Serves Hard Lesson for IBM ":

* IBM lays off 200 Portland employees, a January 2002 article, also from Portland Business Journal

Between 2000 and 2002, IBM partnered with the office furniture manufacturer Steelcase, and researched the software, hardware, and ergonomic aspects of the cubicle of the future ( or the office of the future ) under the name " Bluespace ".

The PowerPC 970, PowerPC 970FX, PowerPC 970GX, and PowerPC 970MP, are 64-bit Power Architecture processors from IBM introduced in 2002.

The PowerPC 970 was announced by IBM in October 2002.

In summer 2002 a non-scientific study concluded that various web browsers like the IBM Home Page Reader did not make any distinction between the built in keyboard shortcuts for going in different modes and available access keys in websites.

Select ThinkPad models from 2000 to 2002 came with an UltraPort connector on the top edge of the laptop's screen, and IBM sold a variety of laptop-relevant UltraPort devices, including webcams, speakers, and microphone arrays.

In 2002, Kaiser Permanente abandoned its attempt to build its own clinical information system with IBM, writing off some $ 770 million dollars in software assets.

* IBM CTRE Book, June 4 – 7, 2002

Louis Vincent Gerstner, Jr. ( born March 1, 1942 in Mineola, New York ) was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of IBM from April 1993 until 2002 when he retired as CEO in March and chairman in December.

* " Final Solutions: How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland ," Village Voice. com, March 26, 2002.

* " The IBM Link to Auschwitz ," Village Voice. com, October 8, 2002.

In 2002, the Magnetic Disk Heritage Center began restoration of an IBM 350 RAMAC in collaboration with Santa Clara University.

It was previously known as MQSeries, a trademark that IBM rebranded in 2002 to join the suite of WebSphere products.

The 90 nm process refers to the level of CMOS process technology that was reached in the 2002 – 2003 timeframe, by most leading semiconductor companies, like Intel, AMD, Infineon, Texas Instruments, IBM, and TSMC.

IBM soon discovered that z / VM was not too difficult for new IT staff to learn ( and worked better ), so IBM discontinued S / 390 Virtual Image Facility for Linux in April 2002.