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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Leap Wireless International, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) announced today that Doug Hutcheson, chief executive officer, and Perley McBride, EVP & chief financial officer, will participate in an analyst-led discussion at the Citi 2013 Internet, Media and Technology Conference to be held at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The discussion is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, January 8(th) beginning at approximately 9:45 a.m. Pacific Time....
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Leap Wireless International, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP), a leading provider of innovative and value-driven wireless communications services, announced today that Doug Hutcheson, president and chief executive officer, will participate in an analyst-led discussion at the Goldman Sachs 21st Annual Communacopia Conference to be held at the Conrad New York in New York City. The discussion is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, September 19(th) beginning...
John Neumann for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Did you find some of your favorite websites acting wonky this weekend? If so, you may want to blame the omniscient keepers of all knowledge for that. No, not the galaxy-sized blue-skinned creatures that keep the universe in balance, but the big brains at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS), who monitor the gaps between atomic and planetary time and work to keep everything synced. As such, these...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Is there anything a scientist can’t do? Looking past the state of mobile computing — which is already pretty amazing, when you think about it — there are scientists and researchers who are planning trips to the moon as well as growing bio-computers, living computers, in their labs. What will they think of next? With some clever understanding of the Earth’s rotation and a little trickery, scientists at the National Physical...
SAN DIEGO, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Leap Wireless International, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP), a leading provider of innovative and value-driven wireless communications services, announced today that Doug Hutcheson, president and chief executive officer, and Jerry Elliott, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will participate in an analyst-led discussion at the 40th Annual J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference to be held at the Westin Copley Place...
ARNHEM, the Netherlands, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - The Wonder Weeks Predicts Age-Related Leaps in Mental Development of Infants - Worldwide bestseller now available on Kindle Finally... Now we know why a baby is Crying, Cranky and Clingy at set times. All due to leaps in the mental development. "I wish more pediatricians knew about this concept! I have been trying everything to find answers for my child's recent lack of sleep,...
An attempt to eliminate leap seconds and permanently change how time is measured has been postponed until 2015 by the International Telecommunications Union. ITU Radio-communication Assembly delegates on Thursday were unable to come to an agreement on whether to stop adding leap seconds to the world’s atomic clocks to keep them synchronized with Earth’s rotational cycles. The ITU will now spend the next three years conducting further studies “to ensure that all the technical...
For at least ten years experts have been debating the use of leap seconds, tiny bits of time added to calendars and clocks in hopes of reconciling the difference between atomic time used by computer systems and time as defined by measuring the Earth’s movement around the sun and its daily, but slightly slowing, rotation. Governments have been split on the issue but are expected to make a decision this week at a UN telecom meeting, says the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) on...
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Leap Wireless International, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP), a leading provider of innovative and value-driven wireless communications services, announced today that Doug Hutcheson, Leap's president and chief executive officer, and Walter Berger, Leap's executive vice president and chief financial officer, will conduct a short presentation and participate in an analyst-led discussion at the Goldman Sachs 20th Annual Communacopia Conference in New York City....
SAN DIEGO, July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Leap Wireless International, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP), a leading provider of innovative, value-driven wireless communications services, announced the preliminary results of its 2011 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, held earlier today. Based on preliminary estimates provided by Leap's proxy solicitor, stockholders have voted to elect all seven of the Company's director nominees, including its new nominee, Mark A. Leavitt. As previously announced, in...
