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- Leader sues Facebook for patent infringement November 19, 2008
Columbus, Ohio (November 19, 2008) -- Leader Technologies Incorporated of Columbus, Ohio, announced today that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit* against the social networking company, Facebook, Inc. of Palo Alto, California. The complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and alleges that Facebook infringes Leader’s U.S. Patent No. 7,139,761 issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on November 21, 2006. The ’761 Patent generally relates to a method and system for the management and storage of electronic information. Leader seeks damages and an injunction against Facebook for its willful infringement of the ’761 Patent.
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* Leader Technologies Inc. v. Facebook Inc., 08-CV-862-JJF - U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
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- Large Minnesota School District (Roseville) Applauds Alerting System Nov
6, 2008
"Much quicker and more cost effective"
Columbus, Ohio (November 6, 2008) -- After using its health and safety alerting system for nine months, Roseville Area Schools, a prominent Minnesota school district comprising more than 6,400 students, has declared Leader Alert® to be a key communications tool for connecting parents, says Leader Technologies Chairman Mike McKibben. Karen Schaub, Director of Community Education and Public Relations for Roseville Area Schools, described how the district utilized the product in a tense situation. "Our middle school used Leader Alert to quickly notify parents of a precautionary lock-down which was put in place to diffuse a potential confrontation by students from another school." Leader Chairman Mike McKibben credits the leadership of Leader's Minnesota-based sales affiliate, Tyda, with establishing this relationship with the Roseville Area Schools.
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- Leader Phone® Call Summary emails now delivered in real time Nov 6, 2008
Call Summary information now posted online and delivered via email automatically
Columbus, Ohio (November 6, 2008) --
On Nov. 4, 2008, Leader Phone® customers began receiving Call Summary emails at
the end of each audio conference call. The Web 2.0 Call History online also
contains this information, but customers have asked to also get this
report via email. The Call Summary provides an immediate record of the telephone number for each person who participated in the audio conference and how long each person was on the call, as well as other account management information. Customers like this feature because it allows them to immediately print out the report and place it in their files with other information and notes about the call. Customers also find this feature useful for referencing phone numbers quickly. The Call Summary emails also include a one-line features section that will contain productivity and cost reduction suggestions.
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- Central
State University chooses Leader Alert® October
20, 2008
New Health and Safety Alerting System for Central State University
Columbus, Ohio (October
20, 2008)-- Central State
University president John W. Garland announced today that the
school has chosen Leader Alert®, a
health and safety alerting product, for use at its Wilberforce
and Dayton, Ohio campuses of more than 2,100 students. According
to Garland: “This decision underlines our commitment to
our students’ safety in emergency situations.” Garland
says: “Central State believes that Leader Alert offers peace
of mind to parents and students – we know that parents want
to be sure that the university is taking all reasonable precautions
in emergency situations, and we will now be able to contact all
of our students and faculty and staff within minutes.”
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- Get
Green with Leader Phone® Web 2.0 Audio Conferencing July
21, 2008
Higher quality and more features at less cost… and it’s green
Columbus (July 21, 2008)– Leader
Technologies® announced today its Get Green initiative, which
will implement special programs with green non-profits to reduce
communication costs and reduce the carbon footprint of participating
companies simultaneously.
Chairman Mike McKibben
points to Leader Phone audio conferencing as an obvious way for
companies to “get greener.” “Our patented Web
2.0 innovations in phone conferencing have greatly improved calling
quality and service while reducing cost.”
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- Mansfield, Ohio City Schools implement
Leader Alert® system-wide June
25, 2008
School district offers enhanced security to stakeholders with Leader
Alert's opt-in web portal
Columbus (June 25, 2008)– Lloyd
D. Martin, superintendent of Mansfield, Ohio City Schools, announced today
that the school disctrict has chosen Leader Alert®, a health and safety
alerting product, for use in its school district of 4700 students.
Leader Alert, the creation of Leader Technologies
of Columbus, Ohio, makes it possible for a school to quickly and simultaneously
alert thousands of parents and staff by telephone, texting, and email
in case of emergencies ranging from lurking predators to snow days.
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- Columbus Regional Airport Authority
Enhances Emergency Communications June
6, 2008
Westerville-based Leader Technologies® will provide its patented
Leader Alert® system
Columbus (June 6, 2008) – The
Columbus Regional Airport Authority (CRAA) announced today it will
use Westerville-based Leader Technologies’ patented Leader Alert® system
to enhance airport security and make possible the simultaneous alerting
of all key personnel in case of an emergency.
According to Public Safety Director Richard Morgan,
the Airport Authority saw Leader Alert’s unique Web 2.0 alerting
capabilities as a key component in meeting the security needs for Port
Columbus, Rickenbacker and Bolton Field airports. CRAA conducted months
of testing in various conditions and security scenarios before making
its decision.
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- Ohio School Boards Association announces
Leader Alert® endorsement Apr.
29, 2008
Ohio School Boards Association endorses
Leader Alert® for its 700 + member districts
The Ohio School Boards Association announced today
its endorsement of Leader Alert, a health and safety alerting product,
for the more than 700 Ohio public school districts that comprise its membership.
Leader Alert, the creation of Leader Technologies of Columbus, Ohio, makes
it possible for a school to quickly and simultaneously alert thousands
of parents and staff by telephone, texting, and email in case of emergencies
ranging from lurking predators to snow days.
See the June 2008 issue
of OSBA Journal for the OSBA: Working for you article
by Amanda Levy entitled "When seconds count, count on Leader Alert",
or view the article here>> OSBA
Journal Reprint
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- Leader Alert® Supports
Shawnee State University Safety Lockdown Feb.
7, 2008
Leader Alert® quickly
notified over 3500 SSU students, faculty and staff
When the community of Portsmouth, Ohio learned on
February 7th that a fifth-grade teacher at Notre Dame Elementary School
had been attacked in the classroom in front of her horrified students,
they did not know at first whether it was an isolated incident or part
of a larger threat. But Portsmouth-based Shawnee State University
was prepared. Their Emergency Response Team used Leader Alert® to
issue an emergency message that was received within minutes by all 3549
students, faculty, and staff.
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- Leader
supports suburban Cleveland middle school safety lockdown Apr.
27, 2007
Leader Alert® quickly notified 700 Parma
City Schools parents, prevented panic
An April 18 lockdown at Greenbriar Middle School
in Parma, Ohio ended calmly when a 59-year old woman carrying a knife
was quickly disarmed in the school’s entrance airlock, police were
called, and school officials used an Ohio company’s product, Leader
Alert®, to send a 40-second voice alert to the phones of 700 parents
of students within minutes of the incident, avoiding a school closure
and allowing classes to continue.
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- Leader issues White Paper: "The Future
of Campus Alerting" Apr.
20, 2007
Timely and informative alerts can
save lives, unify response, stop rumors, and prevent panic
"The tragedy at Viriginia Tech University on April
17, 2007 has school administrators across the nation looking for better
ways to notify students, faculty, staff and even worried parents, friends,
relatives and alumni about threatening situations. Security experts believe
that timely notices to students and faculty, warning of a possible gunman
on campus, might have lessened or even prevented the loss of life that
followed.
Hindsight is 20-20. No one knows for sure whether
any kind of alert could have prevented the scope of this tragedy. A lone,
crazed gunman with no previous history of violence is impossible to predict.
However, we owe it to the memories of the students and professors whose
lives were lost to try and make sense out of the lessons learned, so that
future lives may be spared the suffering so needlessly inflicted upon
so many."
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- Leader
issued U.S. Patent for Digital Leaderboard® communication engine Nov.
17, 2006
Leader Technologies has been issued a patent by
the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its Digital Leaderboard® Web
2.0, unified communications technology, the core technology that drives
its suite of voice, video and data collaboration products and services.
"Ten years ago I anticipated that the Internet would become the primary
way people and enterprises would collaborate on a massive scale," said
Michael T. McKibben, chairman and founder of Leader, and inventor of the
Digital Leaderboard® technology. "The granting of this patent validates
our vision, leadership, perseverance and it protects our valuable intellectual
property."
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- Leader
teams with Multi-Sector Crisis Management Consortium (MSCMC) Nov.
13, 2006
Leader Technologies has teamed with the Multi-Sector
Crisis Management Consortium (MSCMC) headquarted in Washington D.C.
to provide communication and collaboration services nationally and internationally.
MSCMC is closely affiliated with the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications headquartered at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Go to the Leader Chairman's blog to
get more information and to access a link to Bird Flu - What
to do by Verona Fonte, Ph.D. - a timely threat mitigation
resource.
Chairman's
Blog
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- Leader
hosts former White House security advisor Oct.
26, 2006
Leader Technologies hosted William (Bill) DeGenaro,
a former security advisor to the White House during the Reagan and Bush
(Sr.) administrations. After his service at the White House he was Director
of Strategy & Innovation at 3M. DeGenaro focused his training on innovations
and how to protect shareholder value...
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- Leader
assists Louisiana Governor's Office following Hurricane Katrina Sept.
2, 2005
Leader Technologies responded to an urgent call
Tuesday, Aug. 30, from Louisiana officials following Hurricane Katrina
to provide critical telecommunications services. LeaderPhone® was
deployed immediately, linking the governor with dozens of federal, state
and local disaster recovery officials, said Mike McKibben, Chairman and
founder of Leader...
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- Leader
hosts The Ohio Homeland Security Initiative at The Ohio State University. Dec.
13, 2004
Leader helped bring together experts
from government, academia and industry into a think-tank forum. The forum
focused on state and local first responder "command and control" solutions
that can be implemented now to help overcome the lack of communications
and control that hinders disaster response and costs lives. Participating
companies and organizations included General Dynamics, Cardinal Health,
McDonald's, Sprint, Nextel, Bricker & Eckler, City of Columbus Department
of Public Safety, WOSU-TV, The Ohio State University, Center for Strategic
Management, Tibco, The National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians
and a number of other core technology providers.
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here for the Pre-meeting Press Release (PDF)
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- Leader
Phone® chosen
by State of Kansas as exclusive conference calling provider. Nov.
24, 2004
The State of Kansas has signed a contract
with LeaderPhone®
to provide audio conference calling services to all
state agencies, slashing the cost in half over the previous carrier.
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- State
of Wyoming chooses Leader Phone ® conference
calling services. May
10, 2004
The State of Wyoming has entered into
contract with Leader to expand its use of LeaderPhone Teleconferencing
Services to 38 state agencies. More are planned. Jonathan Downing, Policy
Analyst for the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services says, “Our
employees and business partners have been very pleased with Leader’s
services. They have resulted in a significant cost savings for our programs.
At a time when we are faced with limited resources, Leader’s advanced
and on-demand technologies have assisted us with maintaining a competitive
edge in the provision of teleconferencing services to a state covering
97,813 square miles.”
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- Columbus
Business First June
6, 2003
Cover Story: "Angels' Eyes:
In shadow of big VC deals, small investors
keep entrepreneurs supplied with capital" -- Mike McKibben has spent
the last six years taking his Westerville-based company through an intensive
research-and-development phase...
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- Leader
awarded 2003 Tier I Ohio Award for Excellence May
23, 2003
Business
First, May 14, "Several Central Ohio businesses and organizations
have received Ohio Awards of Excellence. The awards, endorsed by Gov.
Bob Taft [and modeled after the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award],
recognize best practices..." Business First
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- eWeek
Reviews LeaderPhone® January
13, 2003
LeaderPhone® press coverage 1-13-03 - "LeaderPhone
Allows Law Firm To Control, Monitor Calls, Helps Reduce Cost"
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