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Old 04-17-2007, 06:43 AM   #1
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Kent, WA ? April 17, 2007 ? At a press conference held today at Kent Station, the City of Kent announced that Amiga, the world?s premier provider of multi-media enabling technologies, purchased the naming rights for the proposed Kent Events Center through a multi-million dollar sponsorship agreement. The center will be known as the "Amiga Center at Kent." Under this agreement, Amiga?s technology will be integrated to make this the most technologically-advanced events center of its size in the United States.
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Amiga produces and distributes technologies and applications for wired and wireless devices ? regardless of operating system or carrier ? including cell phones, digital TV, gaming devices, PDAs, smart phones, personal computers, home servers, etc. Amiga was at the forefront of the tech boom in America and today is the third most recognized brand in Europe. Amiga is developing groundbreaking new technologies that will raise its profile in the U.S. over the next few years.
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lets see how this goes, we here at this forums who have followed this new amiga run by bill mceven. know how things have gone, what have been promised in the past and not fulfilled... lets hope city of kent will not have to deal with the same troubles we amigaen have had. if bill mceven is up to his usually trickery, hopefully the people of kent city have the tar and feather ready...
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Old 04-17-2007, 06:54 AM   #2
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... people of kent city have the tar and feather ready...
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Old 04-17-2007, 07:02 AM   #3
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... and today (Amiga) is the third most recognized brand in Europe...
I really want to know which part of Europe they surveyed to draw this conclusion. Most of the people I know have no clue about what Amiga is, they hardly even remember Commodore :-(
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Old 04-17-2007, 07:04 AM   #4
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The “Amiga Center at Kent” will bring tens of thousands of people to the city for events such as Amiga’s international developer conferences and for Amiga’s new product launches.


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Old 04-17-2007, 07:34 AM   #5
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I bumbed into this today when I was checking out userclubs at amiga.com. Boy oh boy :-D

and they still use that the world’s premier provider of multi-media enabling technologies, which cracks me up every time
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Old 04-17-2007, 08:00 AM   #6
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funny how its not even listed as a news article on the "City of Kent" website. No mention of Amiga either. They're probably busy with website changes.

whats funny is that at one time Amiga fired Bill McEwen

http://www.cucug.org/amiga/aminews/1999/990901-cucug.html

but now he 0\/\/Nz them. lol
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Old 04-17-2007, 08:31 AM   #7
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Pretty impressive considering they don't even have a product for sale.

But of course, this is naming rights for the yet-to-be-built convention center. Now that Amiga Inc is involved, it will, of course, never be be built ;-)
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Old 04-17-2007, 08:39 AM   #8
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It'll be built Real Soon Now(TM).

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Old 04-17-2007, 08:43 AM   #9
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Amiga was at the forefront of the tech boom in America and today is the third most recognized brand in Europe.


If someone would make an independent survey on that, I am quiet sure they won't even be among the top 250.

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Amiga is a New York based company and its president, Bill McEwen is a local whose family has lived in Kent for more than 30 years.
So he must be good friends with the city major then to make such a deal without having any references or "technology" I suppose?
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:06 AM   #10
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Can someone please contact someo ne in kent and get an offical answer for this ?

Amiga Inc does it again
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:10 AM   #11
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I think there's a typo on that press release.. it says "17th April" when surely it should say "1st April"...?

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That statement is an outright lie as far as I can see.... Amiga Inc didn't even exist in the technology boom of the 80's - the Amiga was a computer made by Commodore, not Amiga Inc. - and as a semi-European I can tell you it'd be lucky to be in the top 200 brands. I don't hold anything against Amiga Inc. as I can understand their situation, but this sort of nonsense isn't doing them any favours...
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I emailed a few folks.
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:37 AM   #13
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Poor Kent ;-)
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:51 AM   #14
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funny how its not even listed as a news article on the "City of Kent" website. No mention of Amiga either. They're probably busy with website changes.

whats funny is that at one time Amiga fired Bill McEwen

http://www.cucug.org/amiga/aminews/1999/990901-cucug.html

but now he 0\/\/Nz them. lol
This is hillarious!

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Old 04-17-2007, 09:52 AM   #15
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I just dont know what to say, how stupid are Amiga to spend that much on a PR stunt.
They could have bought a boat load of MP4 players OEM and sold them just like Commodore did... at least that would have been a product, but nooo lets sponsor Kent.
On the up side it does show they did have some money left.
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