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.
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.