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• National Museum of American History Acquires Wireless Picturephone Prototypes

  - 2007-10-25

  To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Valeska Hilbig, +1-202-633-3129, or Melinda Machado, +1- 202-633-3129, both of Smithsonian National Museum of American HistoryWASHINGTON, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History joined with inventor Daniel A. Henderson to acquire two prototypes and related documentation for a pioneering wireless picturephone technology developed...

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• National Museum of American History Acquires Wireless Picturephone Prototypes.

  - 2007-10-25

  WASHINGTON, October 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History joined with inventor Daniel A. Henderson to acquire two prototypes and related documentation for a pioneering wireless picturephone technology developed in 1993. Henderson recently was awarded six U.S. patents for innovation...

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• MUSEUM OF US HISTORY ACQUIRES WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY COLLECTION.

  - 2003-04-29

  $all $anr $lei $us $tec $tel $net (Full text of statement. Contact details below.) WASHINGTON, April 28 PRNewswire-ASIANET - The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History received a collection of early cell phones and other wireless technology devices dating from the early 1970s to the...

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• Detroit Free Press Home Computing Column.

  - 2001-09-22

  By Heather Newman, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 22--Lawrence Technological University is spiffing up its technology. The Southfield college officially opened its $20-million Technology and Learning Center on Friday. It includes things from virtual-reality caves, television studios...

  Tags: CAD, network, NETWORKING, Smithsonian Institution, SOFTWARE, TVs, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• PageWriter Makes History.(Product Information)(Brief Article)

  - 2001-08-06

  Wireless may still be a new technology, but it's already gone down in history. The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will include Motorola's PageWriter 2000 in its permanent collections. When it was introduced in 1996, the PageWriter was the first ...

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• Wireless messaging goes to the museum.

  - 2001-08-06

  BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-- Wireless messaging is now officialy history. The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History selected Motorola Inc.'s PageWriter 2000 as part of the museum's permanent collections. Introduced Sept. 10, 1996, the PageWriter was the world's first two-way text messaging,...

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• E-classrooms among charms of State Chamber meeting

  - 2000-12-07

  Business leaders from across the state soon will get a glimpse of what's been going on in some Oklahoma classrooms. Video conferencing technology that Southwestern Bell is installing in more than 200 public schools across Oklahoma will also facilitate the leadership change at the State Chamber's annual meeting Tuesday. ...

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• Dobson adds its one-millionth customer

  - 2000-08-23

  Dobson Communications on Tuesday said that it has added its one- millionth customer -- just 10 years after it began providing wireless phone services in Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. Dobson awarded the customer, David Ogle of Woodward, an all- expense paid, seven-day cruise to Alaska for him...

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• Digital Broadcast enters agreement with OCU

  - 2000-06-22

  Digital Broadcast Corp. has signed an excess capacity airtime lease agreement with Oklahoma City University for the use of excess airtime capacity on OCU's Instructional Television Fixed Service B and G group channels. Through the use of this spectrum, Great Neck, N.Y.-based Digital Broadcast plans to offer digital...

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• Delta Air Lines` customer care system named Computerworld Smithsonian Award Winner; Airline's new, customer-focused system receives prestigious award for technology innovation.

  - 2000-06-07

  M2 PRESSWIRE-7 June 2000-DELTA AIR LINES: Delta Air Lines` customer care system named Computerworld Smithsonian Award Winner; Airline's new, customer-focused system receives prestigious award for technology innovation C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06062000 ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines` (NYSE: DAL)...

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