X Prize sponsors plan other prizes
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Sponsors of the $10 million (euro8.13 million) Ansari X Prize, which helped propel a privately built manned rocket into space this week, announced Thursday a plan to offer other prizes to spur innovation in other fields.
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A Canadian team vying for the $10 million X Prize is scrounging for parts, while the heavy favorite, Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne, is ready for a launch next week. By Dan Brekke.
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The SpaceShipOne team will attempt to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize on Monday, the 47th anniversary of the start of the first space race when the Soviet Union launched its Sputnik satellite.
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ALAMOGORDO, N.M. - The New Mexico Museum of Space History will be shipping names to the stars with the first X-Prize launch into space...
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Regardless, space competitions are poised to become big business.
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The Uefa president gets up to a lot more than we thought according to your efforts. This week's lucky winner is David Squires, who wins a Â£100 bet with BlueSquare. Second prize, Carlton Books's The England Cricket Miscellany, goes to John O'Reilly. Next week we want to see your takes on Lord Coe's Olympic logo shenanigans. Send them to gallery@guardian.co.uk by 6pm on Tuesday June 12 as a jpeg or gif, complete with a TITLE and CAPTION. Anybody who forgets will be made to listen to Sir Alex Ferguson's iPod.
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Peter Diamandis founded the Ansari X-Prize in 1996. Named for the Ansari family of Dallas, Texas, and funded through private donations and corporate sponsorships, the X-Prize is a $10 million purse aimed at jump-starting space tourism.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft is emphasizing areas of its business where it needs to catch up to competitors by tying partner team compensation to specific product deployments, such as enterprise search, a top executive said Tuesday. At the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, COO Kevin Lynch said in a keynote that field leaders for Microsoft partner teams in countries around the world will be compensated more this year for making customer wins in key product areas. In addition to enterprise search design wins -- particularly against Google -- Microsoft will pay more compensation to partner team field leaders in several other product areas where Microsoft is late to market against entrenched competitors, such as the Microsoft Dynamics business applications and Forefront Security product suite, he said. Other product deployments that will earn teams more compensation are: Office Sharepoint Server licensing and growth, including wins against IBM's Lotus Notes; SQL Server revenue growth, in particular competitive wins against Oracle and IBM; Windows Server license and revenue growth, particularly wins against Linux; and unified communications using Office Communications Server 2007, which will be available later this year. "These are the key metrics that your field, the people that support you in the world, what they get compensated on in the next year," Turner said, speaking to thousands of partners Tuesday. Other areas of focus that will win partner field support teams more compensation are customer satisfaction, which remains top of mind at Microsoft to help partners be successful in the field, Turner said. In fact, he offered customers the option of contacting him directly if they come across unhappy or dissatisfied customers that Microsoft could help placate. "We're not going to let our competition outthink, outrun or outhustle us," he said. "We're asking you to take customer service and customer satisfaction to the next level. I want to know if there is something in the way of taking care of a customer and treating them the way they should be treated."
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ST. LOUIS It&#39;s a big day for a big check in St. Louis where Burt Rutan&#39;s Mojave Aerospace Ventures will get a 10 (m) million-dollar check as winners of the Ansari X Prize.
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The X PRIZE Foundation announced today the appointment of Bretton S. F. Alexander to the position of Executive Director, Space Prizes and Wirefly X PRIZE Cup.  Alexander previously worked for presidents William J. Clinton and George W.
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Hal Finney writes &quot;The X Prize Foundation, which recently awarded the Ansari X Prize for achieving a milestone in private space flight, is asking for suggestions for new X Prize ventures, under the name of The WTN X PRIZE.
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For Tyson Gay and other newly minted world champions, competition will continue, not for medals but for marketing and sponsorship dollars.
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Trex hopes to gain market share and deck the competition.
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The X Prize and Next Fest team up to offer the biggest X Prize ever, winner to be announced on September 13 in Los Angeles.
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ALAMOGORDO, N.M.  -- The New Mexico Museum of Space History will be shipping names to the stars with the first X-Prize launch into space...
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MOJAVE, Calif. The builders of SpaceShipOne are trying to decide whether to proceed with another flight into space next week to win the 10 (m) million dollar X Prize.
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Winners of April's Boston Marathon will go home a little richer this year, as chief sponsor John Hancock Financial Services yesterday announced an increase in prize money.