Newstream.com Digest: Medicine Cabinet Safety Campaign, Motorola Report: Bluetooth Technology--Turning 'Wired' Into 'Wireless' and More Free Multimedia Story Packages for Journalists.Business & News Editors/City Desks NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 2000 There's new material available to journalists from Newstream.com! Journalists can visit http://www.newstream.com now to download FREE multimedia content (video, audio, photos, graphics, PowerPoint slide shows, spreadsheets, charts and text) for the following features: -------------------------------------------------- REVEALING 'THE MAGIC OF MATH' TO KIDS Against the backdrop of U.S. national survey entitled "Kids on Math," yielding surprising results from young people, Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. unveils the Akamai Foundation Akamai Foundation is a non-profit organization that sponsors mathematics competitions. It was originally founded, and it is supported financially, by Akamai Technologies. and The Magic of Math program designed to strengthen math education for children. The foundation will award college scholarships to top math students as well as sponsor students in international competitions. Get more information about survey results here and video including footage of World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee (person) Tim Berners-Lee - The man who invented the World-Wide Web while working at the Center for European Particle Research (CERN). Now Director of the World-Wide Web Consortium. Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen's College at Oxford University, England, 1976. . You can reach the story or register to access it at http://www.newstream.com/ -------------------------------------------------- CAPITALONE.COM CELEBRATES ONE MILLIONTH ONLINE CUSTOMER; ADDRESSES ONLINE SHOPPING CONCERNS Online shoppers often look, but don't touch. Research finds 73 percent of consumers simply don't feel comfortable using their credit card online, the most convenient method of payment on the Internet. See how leading credit card issuer Capital One, which has more than a million customers enrolled for online servicing of their credit card account, found the right fit for its customers with its first major Internet initiative. You can reach the story or register to access it at http://www.newstream.com/ -------------------------------------------------- CUBIC INTRODUCES TWO MORE NEXTFARE(TM) SMART CARD TECHNOLOGIES The company which gave the world its first transit-based smart card system, Cubic Transportation Systems (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :CUB), now introduces two new additions -- a fully operational contactless smart card A smart card that uses radio frequencies to provide a wireless connection to the reader. The transmission range is only a couple of inches, but allows the card to be quickly passed by a reader in applications such as secured entrances. See smart card and UltraCard. payment system, allowing cardholders to add value to their smart card from a p.c. or laptop and a "touchless" gate entry. You can reach the story or register to access it at http://www.newstream.com/ -------------------------------------------------- PMC-SIERRA TO ACQUIRE SWITCHON NETWORKS Acquisition adds high-speed classification and packet processing expertise for Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (IP) routing and addresses new market segments including Web switches and security systems. You can reach the story or register to access it at http://www.newstream.com/ -------------------------------------------------- HEATHER SMALL  The of this article or section may be compromised by "weasel words".You can help Wikipedia by removing weasel words. LIVE TO THE WORLD VIA VISA INTERNATIONAL WEBCAST Marking its one billion card milestone, in an Olympic first, Visa International will use its sponsorship of the Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. and an alliance with BMG BMG Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (Germand: Federal Ministry for Health) BMG Be My Girl BMG Blue Man Group BMG Bertelsmann Music Group BMG Be My Guest BMG Browning Machine Gun BMG Bulk Metallic Glass Entertainment to combine the worlds of entertainment, marketing and Olympic sports The Olympic sports comprise all the sports contested in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. The current Olympic program consists of 35 sports with 53 disciplines and more than 400 events — the Summer Olympics include 28 sports with 38 disciplines, and the Winter Olympics in a special concert from Sydney by Heather Small, the voice of M People. You can reach the story or register to access it at http://www.newstream.com/ -------------------------------------------------- PHARMACISTS ACROSS AMERICA URGE CONSUMERS TO 'REVIEW, REMOVE, AND RESTOCK' In preparation for the first cold and flu season
You can reach the story or register to access it at http://www.newstream.com/ -------------------------------------------------- BLUETOOTH TECHNOLOGY -- TURNING 'WIRED' INTO 'WIRELESS' With so many electronic gadgets like cell phones, personal organizers, computers and printers, you can easily be adrift Verb 1. be adrift - be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore" drift, float, blow in a sea of connecting wires and cables. Well, be adrift no more. A new wireless technology offers hope, as this report from Motorola shows. You can reach the story or register to access it at http://www.newstream.com/ -------------------------------------------------- CONSUMERS WATCH HARVESTS AT TOP WINERIES VIA THE WEB Live visits to Bordeaux, Tuscany and Napa Valley Napa Valley, Calif.: see under Napa. Napa Valley greatest wine-producing region of the United States. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2990] See : Wine are just a click away through a new Website launched by WineToday.com. HarvestWatch 2000(TM) allows consumers to log on and travel along with experts to the top international wine estates for inside look into the harvests, and personalities, of each. You can reach the story or register to access it at http://www.newstream.com/ -------------------------------------------------- We provide this free and unrestricted content in a format that is "web-ready" (GIFs, JPGs, Streaming Video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. , etc.) saving you time and effort in building your on-line news stories. You must be a registered journalist to download content from www.newstream.com. If you have any questions on Newstream, please contact info@newstream.com ------------------------ ABOUT NEWSTREAM.COM: Newstream.com is a joint venture of Business Wire (www.businesswire.com) and Medialink (www.medialink.com) Newstream.com, staffed by on-line news veterans, is dedicated to providing registered journalists with compelling and timely multimedia content: video, audio, photos, graphics and text from newsmakers in the fields of Technology, Science, Health & Medicine, Business & Finance, Entertainment, Consumer News, Sports, Lifestyles, Travel & Tourism and World and Government News. |
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