Interact 2002 Multimedia Festival - September 2-15.

The Missing Persons Registry

Each year over 30,000 people go missing in Australia - that's one person every 17.5 minutes. Police cannot single-handedly find all people lost, missing, abducted, or wanted.

The Missing Persons Register (TMPR) at http://www.personsmissing.org helps close the gap. Additionally information is available about adoptions, genealogy and reunions. TMPR is a FREE Community Service sponsored by The Personals Network. It acts as a international resource library and advertisers database, with people finding services, search tools, advice and much more.

RoboCup Junior

RoboCup Junior is a school-based competition that has given students the avenue to prove to the world that they can employ cutting edge technology to solve a series of robotic challenges, viz. Dance, Rescue and Soccer.

Since its introduction in Melbourne at Interact 2000, RoboCup Junior is the educational game that has taken the world by storm. Even though RoboCup Junior has enjoyed enormous international growth, the Australian Finals still remain the premier event of the world competitions.

More info at www.robocupjunior.org.au

Air Portal wireless network

Delivers the Internet, wirelessly, at broadband speeds to restaurants, cafes, hotels and convention centers across Australia.

Today we accessed the Air Portal service from the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre, and used the service to access the Internet to visit the Missing Persons Registry website. The Air Portal service is used by highly mobile business professionals who need to connect to the Internet at high speeds to conduct business and retrieve personal information (e.g. Email) from their wirelessly enabled laptops or handheld devices.

More info at www.airportal.com.au

iPAQ

The iPAQ Pocket PC is reportedly the No.1 selling pocket PC in Australia. The latest model is iPAQ H3970

Features:
> 64MB RAM/ 48MB ROM
> Transflective screen for easy viewing outdoors
> In-Built expansion through Secure Digital SD slot > Super fast Intel 400Mhz
> X-scale processor
> Built-In Bluetooth for wireless connectivity
> Price = $1499 SRP Inc

More info at : www.hp.com.au

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