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Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car provides an inside look at the birth of the lithium-ion battery, from its origins in academic labs around the world to its transition to its new role as the future of automotive power. It chronicles the piece-by-piece development of the battery, from its early years when it was met by indifference from industry to its later emergence in Japan where it served in camcorders, laptops, and cell phones. The book is the first to provide a glimpse inside the Japanese corporate culture that turned the lithium-ion chemistry into a commercial product. It shows the intense race between two companies, Asahi Chemical and Sony Corporation, to develop a suitable anode. It also explains, for the first time, why one Japanese manufacturer had to build its first preproduction cells in a converted truck garage in Boston, Massachusetts. Building on that history, Long Hard Road then takes readers inside the auto industry to show how lithium-ion solved the problems of earlier battery chemistries and transformed the electric car into a viable competitor. Starting with the Henry Ford and Thomas Edison electric car of 1914, it chronicles a long list of automotive failures, then shows how a small California car converter called AC Propulsion laid the foundation for a revolution by packing its car with thousands of tiny lithium-ion cells. The book then takes readers inside the corporate board rooms of Detroit to show how mainstream automakers finally decided to adopt lithium-ion. Long Hard Road is unique in its telling of the lithium-ion tale, revealing that the battery chemistry was not the product of a single inventor, nor the dream of just three Nobel Prize winners, but rather was the culmination of dozens of scientific breakthroughs from many inventors whose work was united to create a product that ultimately changed the world.

MobileMail (OTCBB: MBMU) - Wednesday's shares decreased 25.00% to $0.45 per share with a total of 36,750 shares traded. The company is very pleased to announce that both Nigel Nicholas and Ian Downie have been appointed to the board as Non Executive Directors. Nigel & Ian have combined experience of over 45 years in creating excellent companies with outstanding financial track records across a variety of industries, especially within the telecommunications and I.T. sectors. Nigel & Ian will focus on MobileMail's aggressive rollout of its operations, especially with regards to securing more content and distribution channels with leading UK operators and content providers, as well as bolstering the US sales channels and utilising their extensive contact base and exemplary knowledge of the industry to actively pursue further M&A activity in 2007, allowing MobileMail to significantly add to its revenue in 2007. The first acquisition target has been identified, with revenues in excess of $4m, that fits perfectly with our strategy to become the leading provider of leading-edge mobile content and interactive services across North America, Europe & Asia. Nigel Nicholas brings significant experience, knowledge and energy to MobileMail. He has 25 years of director level experience in developing and implementing winning strategies and operational plans within Ecommerce, Internet and Mobile Telecoms. Nigel is the CEO and co-founder of Move2Mobile Limited, the foremost Wireless Business Incubator and Accelerator in the UK. Before that, he was Director of Strategy and Operations at Lucent Technologies and, as part of their GSM infrastructure business unit, developed and executed the Business Strategy that grew the business unit from \"start up\" to a US $1.2 billion enterprise with over 2,000 employees in 5 worldwide locations in 3 years. Prior to that he was Chief Financial Officer for AT&T Network Systems for 6 years covering the UK & Ireland. Ian Downie has a proven track record of creating successful technology focused businesses having successfully supported over 50 start-up to early maturity companies in the last 3 years alone. Ian has established an extensive network of contacts across the industry, notably with; British Telecom, CISCO, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, O2, Orange, Oracle, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, SUN, Symbol, and Vodafone among many others. His wealth of knowledge and experience in identifying industry niches and exploiting market opportunities will significantly increase the pace of our accelerated development in 2007, reflected in a healthy flow of new sales agreements and of course revenue. Ian also brings with him excellent working knowledge of securing contracts and working with the very highest caliber brands such as Coca Cola, IBM, Starbucks, Vodafone, Becks, Europcar and Somerfield among others. His proven ability in identifying opportunities and closing large deals will significantly assist the company in moving forward with its strategy of further M&A activity within the mobile industry. With direct access to a large number of highly innovative and dynamic mobile companies, Nigel and Ian are an excellent addition to the current management team. With a total combined portfolio of over 500 companies MobileMail is in an excellent position to hand pick and approach the very best companies in this exciting and fast growing mobile industry. With expected revenues in the mobile gaming & content market increasing from $2.4 billion in 2006 to a huge $7.2 billion by 2011(1), MobileMail is ideally positioned to grow exponentially in 2007 and beyond. Nigel Nicholas will extend MobileMail's portfolio of content and distribution channels and content providers both within the UK and also will expand and strengthen the European & US sales channels. Finally, Nigel will establish collaborations with leading companies within the business to significantly enhance MobileMail's acquisition strategy. Gary Flint, Director of Business Development comments, \"We are all delighted that MobileMail has assembled such an excellent and experienced board of directors. Both Nigel and Ian have a proven track record of creating winning business strategies within the technology sector as well as in-depth specialist knowledge of the mobile industry. MobileMail is embarking on an aggressive growth strategy and through recruiting such highly qualified and experienced industry professionals we have taken huge steps towards achieving our goal of becoming the leading mobile content and service provider. I am looking forward to utilising their skills and contacts to significantly add to our bottom line in 2007 through our planned M&A activities with in the industry.\" Nigel Nicholas adds, \"The mobile entertainment industry is rapidly changing. MobileMail has identified a huge opportunity to establish themselves as a market-leading provider of mobile content and services through their planned consolidation within the industry.

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