COMDEX/Fall attendance soars towards all-time record mark.LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 1994--Heading into its closing hours, COMDEX/Fall attendance soared towards, and perhaps past, the 200,000 mark, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. executives of the sponsoring Interface Group. Keynoters Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. from Microsoft, Novell's Bob Frankenberg, and Intel's Dr. Andy Grove all agreed that, when it comes to personal computers and their networks, the best is yet to come. Said Gates on Monday to a capacity audience of more than 8,000 at the Hotel Aladdin Theater The Aladdin Theater (also known as the Cocoa Village Playhouse) is a historic theater in Cocoa, Florida, United States. It is located at 300 Brevard Avenue. On October 17, 1991, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. for the Performing Arts: "Kids at school, parents at the office, cops at a crime scene -- everyone will benefit from the wealth of tools and information available at our fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. ." The concept of "information at your fingertips" was first unveiled by the Microsoft chairman in a keynote presentation at COMDEX/Fall '90. Since that time, much of his original vision of an easier-to-use computer has become a reality -- for business, home and mobile (wireless) markets. Interface Chairman and COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). founder Sheldon G. Adelson reported late Thursday that exhibitor space commitments for COMDEX/Fall '95 were up substantially from a year ago. "Next year will be another COMDEX record-breaker," he said. CONTACT: Interface Group Peter B. Young, 702/774-2250 |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion