Dick Brass, vice president of technology development at Microsoft, said the technologies will launch a lot of new areas such as eBooks, tablet PCs, ePads and ePaper, with eBooks to come out of the gate first with "major announcements" in about six months.

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Major League Baseball used to have a gate receipt sharing system during the regular season ( they still have one for the postseason), but it was eliminated when larger revenue sharing mechanisms were introduced in 1997.

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Of the major studios, Sony, Disney, Fox, Lions Gate, and MGM only release titles on Blu-ray, while only Universal is exclusive to HD DVD.

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Lions Gate Entertainment, which recently listed Carl Icahn as one of its major shareholders, is actually performing well for the year, up more than 12%.

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He predicts that leagues like Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League, which rely on the live gate for a significant portion of their revenues, will feel a greater impact than the National Football League, which is more television-driven.

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Industry-wide, the major international airlines on average delivered 77.64% of their flights to the arrival gate within 15 minutes of their scheduled arrival time.

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In 1939 it was the site of the Golden Gate International Exposition, and later, the Navy operated a base there that was a major shipping-out point for sailors headed to the Pacific.

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Among all major international airlines, South African Airways led the pack with 94.71% of all flights reaching the arrival gate on time.

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