McKeesport Teens Seek Support In Order to Fulfill Dream of Competing in FIRST National Robotics Competition

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Aerial Robotics Competition

Aerial Robotics Competition 07/23/2004 04:51 PM

Another DARPA-Sponsored Robotics
Competition

Another DARPA-Sponsored Robotics
Competition 01/04/2004 05:49 PM

High School Kids Beat MIT at Robotics
Competition

High School Kids Beat MIT at Robotics
Competition 03/30/2005 02:05 PM

Linux a national security risk,
competing RTOS vendor claims

Linux a national security risk,
competing RTOS vendor claims 04/09/2004 04:07 PM

Media Seek End to Jackson Gag Order (AP)

Media Seek End to Jackson Gag Order (AP) 05/15/2004 12:01 AM
AP - In court documents filed Friday, Michael Jackson's attorneys agreed with prosecutors that people involved in the superstar's child molestation case should continue to be barred from discussing it publicly.

1-877-YELLOWPAGES is filing to go public
in order to raise money and provide a
free service competing against 411
Directory Services. Founder Bobby
Khalili, a 28 year old millionaire
entrepreneur from Los Angeles is
promising to provide a free alternative
to 411.

1-877-YELLOWPAGES is filing to go public
in order to raise money and provide a
free service competing against 411
Directory Services. Founder Bobby
Khalili, a 28 year old millionaire
entrepreneur from Los Angeles is
promising to provide a free alternative
to 411. 06/17/2004 02:03 AM
1-877-YELLOWPAGES, The nation's first and only YellowPages directory providing business listings over the telephone is filing to go public. [PRWEB Jun 17, 2004]

International Federation of Robotics
Hosts Groundbreaking Advanced Robotics
E-Symposium

International Federation of Robotics
Hosts Groundbreaking Advanced Robotics
E-Symposium 06/05/2005 11:53 PM
The Advanced Robotics E-Symposium will be held online on July 6 2005. Its international outreach, cutting edge topics and line-up of world-renowned experts already makes it one of the 'must-attend' fixtures of this year for organizations, academics, industries and government representatives. [PRWEB May 10, 2005]

Teens Get Support from Bush for Cell
Phone Recycling Drive to Benefit Service
Men and Women

Teens Get Support from Bush for Cell
Phone Recycling Drive to Benefit Service
Men and Women 08/20/2004 02:19 AM
Men and women serving their country are discovering the high cost of calling home from places like Iraq. A concerned brother and sister began a drive to help pay those bills, which has attracted attention from the White House. [PRWEB Aug 20, 2004]

Industry Leading Robotics Vendors,
Associations and Media Firms Sponsor
Emerging Robotics Technologies &
Applications Conference

Industry Leading Robotics Vendors,
Associations and Media Firms Sponsor
Emerging Robotics Technologies &
Applications Conference 05/31/2004 02:13 PM
iRobot, Evolution Robotics, VIA Technologies, Robotics Foundry and Others Sponsor First Robotics Conference to Focus on Commercialization of Emerging Robotics Markets [PRWEB Dec 12, 2003]

Pensioners seek better support

Pensioners seek better support 05/18/2004 01:35 AM
Pensioners are fed up with being ignored by politicians they will say as they meet for a conference in Blackpool.

Bush to seek European support in Iraq

Bush to seek European support in Iraq 06/25/2004 06:51 PM

Bush to Seek European Support in Iraq
(AP)

Bush to Seek European Support in Iraq
(AP) 06/25/2004 03:31 PM
AP - Trying to build a new consensus among allies, President Bush opened a European trip Friday with expectations that NATO will shoulder heavier responsibilities in Iraq.

LikeMac has released Disk Order 1.5 with
advanced archives support.

LikeMac has released Disk Order 1.5 with
advanced archives support. 06/05/2005 11:48 PM

LikeMac Group has released Disk Order 1.5, the latest version of a utility for managing files, folders and archives on Macintosh. The application allows users to do all necessary file operations inside of a single window with two opposite file lists.

HOW BUSH FAILED TO FULFILL HIS DUTY

HOW BUSH FAILED TO FULFILL HIS DUTY 07/01/2004 05:38 AM
at Bush's military records .. Source (Paul Lukasiac) .. DESERTER

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Electronic voting has yet to fulfill
promise

Electronic voting has yet to fulfill
promise 08/12/2004 01:33 PM
SiliconValley.com Aug 12 2004 3:43PM GMT

National Review Selects New Signature
for IT Support

National Review Selects New Signature
for IT Support 07/31/2004 02:05 AM
The Washington DC bureau of the National Review, one of America's most influential journals of opinion, has engaged New Signature to provide information technology support services. [PRWEB Jul 31, 2004]

Bush to Support National Intelligence
Director (Reuters)

Bush to Support National Intelligence
Director (Reuters) 08/02/2004 10:28 AM
Reuters - President Bush on Monday will endorse the creation of a national intelligence director and broadly back other intelligence reforms recommended by the commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the White House said.

Bush Unlikely to Fulfill Vow on Deficit,
Budget Office Projects

Bush Unlikely to Fulfill Vow on Deficit,
Budget Office Projects 09/07/2004 04:10 PM
The president is unlikely to cut the deficit in half within five years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said.

National Project seminar: How eServices
can support local business

National Project seminar: How eServices
can support local business 02/17/2004 04:11 AM
PublicTechnology.net Feb 17 2004 8:07AM GMT

Computer-Support Company “Geeks On Call”
Receives More National Acclaim

Computer-Support Company “Geeks On Call”
Receives More National Acclaim 02/01/2005 09:27 PM
America’s largest independent provider of on-site computer services, Geeks On Call®, has received copious recognition from Entrepreneur Magazine. Chief among these honors is being named to the annual “Franchise 500®,” which is a comprehensive listing of the nation’s most successful franchise companies. In addition, Geeks On Call® was ranked as the 48th fastest-growing franchise company in America. [PRWEB Jan 28, 2005]

Boston is Key to Vigorous Northeast
Expansion by National Computer-Support
Company “Geeks On Call”

Boston is Key to Vigorous Northeast
Expansion by National Computer-Support
Company “Geeks On Call” 04/03/2005 05:31 AM
One of America’s longest-running and most respected providers of mobile, on-site computer services, Geeks On Call®, has begun a major expansion in New England. Following closely on the heels of its recent franchise openings in Connecticut, Geeks On Call® has launched numerous franchises throughout Boston, its suburbs, and southern New Hampshire. Finally, the residents and businesses in these areas can receive the same outstanding services that have made Geeks On Call® so popular throughout America -- namely the nation’s best computer troubleshooting, repairs, upgrades, wired/wireless networking, consultations, and personalized training. [PRWEB Apr 3, 2005]

United States National Guard Selects
Applied Global Technologies to Provide
Enterprise Maintenance & Support

United States National Guard Selects
Applied Global Technologies to Provide
Enterprise Maintenance & Support 08/13/2004 03:41 AM
AGT will handle all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands [PRWEB Aug 13, 2004]

Competition Equalizer Crushes the Google
Adwords Competition

Competition Equalizer Crushes the Google
Adwords Competition 03/14/2005 04:41 PM
Unlock the secrets of the top producing affiliate sellers on Google Adwords. Competition Equalizer gives an advantage to smart affiliate marketers so that they can dramatically increase their affiliate sales by staying one step ahead of their competitors. [PRWEB Mar 13, 2005]

Aspiring Screenwriters Battle it Out in
the First National Screenplay Showdown -
The Competition Gives the Best New
Screenwriters from Around the Country an
Opportunity to Work With A-List
Agencies, Management Companies and
Production Companies Presented by the
Nashville Screenwriters Conference

Aspiring Screenwriters Battle it Out in
the First National Screenplay Showdown -
The Competition Gives the Best New
Screenwriters from Around the Country an
Opportunity to Work With A-List
Agencies, Management Companies and
Production Companies Presented by the
Nashville Screenwriters Conference 06/09/2004 04:35 AM
Bridging the distance between the Hollywood film industry and the best new screenwriters across the country, the Nashville Screenwriters Conference announces its first National Screenplay Showdown. After six years of presenting the best writers and filmmakers in the entertainment industry at the Nashville Screenwriters Conference, the organization has teamed up with Ed Rugoff from the prestigious Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project to give aspiring screenwriters an opportunity to take their work west – all the way to Hollywood. The Showdown evaluates screenplays solely on the basis of story-telling ability, meaning that all genres have the same chance of winning. The winning screenplay writers will find themselves in front of the most prestigious literary agencies and management companies in consideration for representation. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004]

PFSweb Brews E-commerce, Supply Chain
Support for FLAVIA® Beverage Systems -
PFSweb to Provide Ecometry Order
Management, Full Suite of Direct
Marketing Services for Mars,
Incorporated Company

PFSweb Brews E-commerce, Supply Chain
Support for FLAVIA® Beverage Systems -
PFSweb to Provide Ecometry Order
Management, Full Suite of Direct
Marketing Services for Mars,
Incorporated Company 08/02/2004 02:32 AM
FLAVIA® BeverageSystems of West Chester, PA has chosen PFSweb, Inc., (Nasdaq: PFSW) a global provider of integrated business process outsourcing solutions, to provide e-commerce, direct marketing, supply chain support and fulfillment for the supplier of beverage systems and gourmet coffee. The terms of the contract were not disclosed. Flavia is an affiliate company of Masterfoods USA, a Mars Incorporated company. PFSweb's software and services will be teamed with the Ecometry Corporation's Ecometry suite of software solutions for direct marketers. [PRWEB Aug 2, 2004]

IntraLearn to Support BPTech in National
Preparedness Month EffortBP Tech to
offer select “first affected” employee
training courses on IntraLearn LMS

IntraLearn to Support BPTech in National
Preparedness Month EffortBP Tech to
offer select “first affected” employee
training courses on IntraLearn LMS 09/02/2004 02:06 AM
IntraLearn Software Corporation, the leading supplier of configurable e-Learning software applications to the mid-market, announced today that Business Performance Technology (BPTech), a leading e-Learning company, will be using the IntraLearn LSP e-learning platform to offer free courses from a web site established specifically for National Preparedness Month. [PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]

FCC: NBC's "Law and Order" shoot was out
of order

FCC: NBC's "Law and Order" shoot was out
of order 06/22/2005 01:49 AM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing reader Ralph says,

The FCC has busted NBC for unliscensed radio transmissions. NBC was using transceivers that were broadcasting on New York's public safety frequencies while filming an episode of Law and Order.

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WhenU.com Enjoined From Competing
Pop-Ups

WhenU.com Enjoined From Competing
Pop-Ups 01/06/2004 06:53 AM
Slashdot Jan 6 2004 5:25AM ET

AT&T Changes Competing Policy in 7
States

AT&T Changes Competing Policy in 7
States 06/23/2004 11:10 AM
AT&T said today it would stop competing for customers in seven states after a court threw out regulations giving it cheap access to the dominant local telephone networks.

Other News: Competing Codecs

Other News: Competing Codecs 07/06/2004 09:54 AM
A Reuters article looks at the Balkanization of digital music download systems via competing compression formats.

Competing spam 'solutions'

Competing spam 'solutions' 01/25/2004 09:25 AM
Legislation and technology are being turned against spam--but to what effect? Knowledge@Wharton offers a status report.

WhenU.com Enjoined From Competing
Pop-Ups

WhenU.com Enjoined From Competing
Pop-Ups 01/06/2004 03:14 AM
Frisky070802 writes "The NY Times reports that a preliminary injunction has been issued against WhenU.com, a company that distributes software that performs ...

Competing With Microsoft By Ignoring
Them

Competing With Microsoft By Ignoring
Them 04/15/2004 09:02 PM
One thing that you always hear among new startup companies looking for venture capital is figuring out how they're going to avoid competing with Microsoft. Obviously, it's not true of all startups - some of whom are in completely different areas. However, any software (and many services) company always gets the question "well, how will you deal with it when Microsoft enters your space?" Companies that don't have a good answer don't get funded. Robert Cringely's latest column is all about the best way to compete with Microsoft - and it's a bit counterintuitive, but it makes a lot of sense. The companies that have successfully competed with Microsoft have done so by not worrying about Microsoft. In other words, they've been focused on building innovative products that their customers can use. Microsoft, for all it's strong points, doesn't have the greatest track record at actually innovating (I can already hear some of you scoffing). What they are good at (and, you have to admit, they are good at it) is taking innovative ideas that others have come up with, and then putting a nice, user friendly interface on them and getting it out in the market. So, as Cringely points out, when you decide to turn and face Microsoft and compete directly with them, you're going to be in a lot of trouble - because you've set the rules of the game on their terms, and they've got a lot more money and experience to beat anyone else on those terms. Instead, by pretty much ignoring Microsoft, and coming up with new and innovative products companies can out-innovate them, and not face real competition from them.

Next-gen DVD riven by two competing
standards.

Next-gen DVD riven by two competing
standards. 11/13/2003 09:52 PM
EE Times: Next-gen DVD riven by two competing standards. Red lasers are out, so it's blue vs. blu now.

Competing Claims and Interaction Types

Competing Claims and Interaction Types 02/10/2004 02:49 AM
Continuing his review of the W3C's Architecture of the World Wide Web document, Kendall Clark looks further at the principles set out governing interactions on the web.

Next-generation DVD Driven By Two
Competing Standards

Next-generation DVD Driven By Two
Competing Standards 11/14/2003 11:28 AM

Competing standards may shake up e-mail

Competing standards may shake up e-mail 03/06/2004 02:04 AM
Microsoft, Sendmail, and Yahoo are pushing anti-spam protocols

On the benefits of competing audio
formats...

On the benefits of competing audio
formats... 01/27/2004 06:28 PM

There's a fascinating clump of posts going around the place at the moment about the various DRM-based digital audio solutions that you can buy at the moment. The one that kicked stuff off initially was a post on The Sobleizer (A challenge for webloggers: handling organizational difficulties) which included a chunk of stuff about why it's best for people who are going to buy music files with DRM to buy them in Windows Media format. Here's the main chunk of the argument:

When you hear DRM think "lockin." So, when you buy music off of Napster or Apple's iTunes, you're locked into the DRM systems that those applications decided on. Really you are choosing between two competing lockin schemes.

But, not all lockin schemes are alike, I learned on Friday. First, there are two major systems. The first is Apple's AAC/Fairtunes based DRM. The second is Microsoft's WMA

Let's say it's 2006. You have 500 songs you've bought on iTunes for your iPod. But, you are about to buy a car with a digital music player built into it. Oh, but wait, Apple doesn't make a system that plays its AAC format in a car stereo. So, now you can't buy a real digital music player in your car.

(I should mention at this point that Scoble works for Microsoft, but I'll say straightaway that I don't think that's particularly relevant to the argument at hand. Nonetheless, cards on the table.)

So the argument at this point is if you choose lock-in with Microsoft, then your music files will work on a wider variety of media than if you choose lock-in with Apple. Therefore you should choose lock-in with Microsoft. At which point BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow weighs in:

In this world where we have consumer choices to make, Scoble argues that our best buy is to pick the lock-in company that will have the largest number of licensees.

That's just about the worst choice you can make.

If I'm going to protect my investment in digital music, my best choice is clearly to invest in buying music in a format that anyone can make a player for. I should buy films, not kinetoscopes. I should buy VHS, not Betamax. I should buy analog tape, not DAT.

Because Scoble's right. If you buy Apple Music or if you buy Microsoft Music, you're screwed if you want to do something with that music that Apple or Microsoft doesn't like.

Cory's argument then is the fairly commercially radical proposition that we should buy only open music files, that companies should sell open music files (there is a precedent here - Bleep sells DRM-free songs from Warp Records), and even that companies like Microsoft should be using their substantial legal power to fight the record companies to be able to sell DRM-free songs online.

Now I'm not going to argue with that, although - to be fair - I think the current climate makes it pretty unlikely to happen. The various companies concerned are too neurotic about it, and frankly Microsoft has too much to lose from the proposition that intellectual property should be distributed without arcane DRM attached to it. Instead I'm going to argue that even if we're only given the choice between two DRM schemes, we should still not just automatically go for the one that plays on the most devices. Because what does this mean in the end? No more or less than yet another monopoly at the operating system level - the musical infrastructure ends up belonging to Microsoft.

The fact is we shouldn't think in those terms at this stage. We should be trying to create miscegenated musical libraries that we expect digital music manufacturers to support all of, not just some as it suits them or as it suits whichever company ends up dominating the market. We've been down this parth before - the company that owns the monopoly has the least to gain from a rapid pace of innovation, the least to gain from being standards compliant. We've seen it at the level of operating systems, internet browsers and now we're seeing attempts to own and define the one successful format in which music files could sit for the next few decades. These things are too important to be left in the hands of one company. We need to have consumer choice at the level of which DRM (or lack of DRM) we're comfortable with buying, we need variety so that different types of audio file can be released via a variety of business models, we need variety - fundamentally - because otherwise we all lose.

The examples that people cite about competing formats no longer hold true for music. It's not like VHS and Betamax - we're not talking about hardware with different sized slots that you can only fit one kind of music delivery system into. No - with music we mostly have applications on our desktop that can play dozens of different formats - whether we notice it or not. Just the other day, RealOne announced that it could now play Apple-encoded AAC files, and the rumour is that HP's deal with Apple required that the iPod should have its ability to play WMP files restored. These things can play more than one type of file and we should be doing our damnedest to make sure that continues to be the case. It should be obvious to car audio manufacturers that they should be able to play AAC tracks - that there are hundreds of thousands of people across America (and soon Europe) who are going to want to be able to do more things with their bought songs. And it should be obvious to all of us that we want a world in which new formats can be integrated into our listening without any particular effort, or at least without us having to rebuy all our old tracks to work on non-mutually functioning players.

So in the meantime, buy, steal or rip whichever tracks suit you best in whatever format you want and make it your mission to put pressure on all the players (both business players and audio players) concerned to support as many of them as possible as soon as possible. And don't listen to anyone who says that having one organisation controlling the musical infrastructure will result in greater choice. That's never been the case in the past, and I very much doubt it will be so in the future either.

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Competing voice standards via for
developers' attention

Competing voice standards via for
developers' attention 04/21/2004 03:42 AM
Speech technology is now pushing deeper than ever into the enterprise and carrier space. VoiceXML proponents tout their W3C standard and the warm reception the open standards approach has met from the industry. Meanwhile, a group of companies led by Microsoft is pushing a separate specification called Speech Application Language Tag (SALT) that some say may end up stifling voice advances.
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McKeesport Teens Seek Support In Order to Fulfill Dream of Competing in FIRST National Robotics Competition

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