JR Simplot, the billionaire founder of the Boise, Idaho-based agriculture business that bears his name and who helped make French fries a staple of the American diet and waistline, died on May 25 at the age of 99. After pioneering the first commercial frozen French fry in the late 1940s, Simplot eventually became a major supplier of Idaho potatoes to McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s.
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/ 13 September 2007
The world’s largest cellphone maker, Nokia, said on Thursday it will join rivals — including Samsung and Sony Ericsson — to produce a fast flash memory card with high capacity to ease and speed up downloads for handset users. The technology is expected to be ready in 2009.