This is the seventh annual media event...and the first time foreign journalists are more than domestic ones (50 to 30)and the first that is being simulcast on the web. Gov. Engler will lead off... More later: Walt Walt Boyes BlackBerry service provided by Nextel … [Read more...] about Matt Gonring's intro
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ROCKWELL AUTOMATION FAIR
Manufacturing Perspectives Every year on the day before Automation Fair (kinda like the day before Christmas, see) Rockwell holds a media day. This year, they've gotten former governor John Engler, who is now president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers for what Rockwell chief marketeer, John. Bernardin, calls "a major policy address." Regular readers will be … [Read more...] about ROCKWELL AUTOMATION FAIR
Pinto's View of the Chicago ISA Show
"More of a Networking Event than a Techology Exhibition" From the Jim Pinto e-News The ISA Exhibition in Chicago, October 2005 registered 10,532 attendees, a 27.5% decline compared to 2004. To most neutral observers, it seemed more like a networking event rather than an industry exhibition. And the penguins were there, perched atop the melting ice-berg: the past Presidents and … [Read more...] about Pinto's View of the Chicago ISA Show
The Software Patent Mess
Last week, it was announced by the US Patent and Trademark Office that an individual has filed patents on "the eight basic plots" of fiction. You know, "boy meets girl" etc. How could this be? Is the USPTO that nuts? Well, maybe. The USPTO having issued patents on "business processes" is now in the position of attempting to define what the difference is between a recipe for … [Read more...] about The Software Patent Mess
More on the BPL issue from Bob Landman and the ARRL
ARRL CALLS ON FCC TO SHUT DOWN VIRGINIA BPL SYSTEM In support of Amateur Radio complaints of interference, the ARRL this week formally asked the FCC to instruct the City of Manassas, Virginia, to shut down its broadband over power line (BPL) system. Communication Technologies (COMTek) operates the BPL system over the municipally owned electric power grid. The League says the … [Read more...] about More on the BPL issue from Bob Landman and the ARRL
