Portland, Oregon - Aug, 30-2007: Portland’s team of volunteers consistently raises the bar for the use of new technology at the Little League Softball World Series at Alpenrose Dairy Stadium.

The 2007 technology team, supported by the technicians at InfoArch, Inc. and Matrix Networks, posted photos and game results, along with important visitor information, on the Internet for the 11^th straight year. For the last 5 years, we have posted box scores in real-time (updated every 50 seconds from networked laptops). Our efforts predate any other Little League site, except that which was created by the Williamsport headquarters of Little League Inc.

We have a dedicated blogger who posts daily, and this year, our fans who couldn't be at the games, could sign up for text message cell-phone updates of scores at her website.

We placed 5 television sets around the grounds for viewing our own closed-circuit feed of games as well as the ESPN broadcasts. So even if a fan got up for a hot dog or to buy a souvenir, they wouldn't miss the action. Then overnight videos were digitally captured for DVD sales the next day.

For the third year a play-by-play audio webcast was broadcast during the games, and later posted on the web for replay and download.

For the 5^th year the 2007 World Series had a Wi-Fi network available on all fields to serve media, staff and fans during the event. We had four Wide Area Network Internet feeds provided by Comcast and Freewire Broadband, whose signal came from the tower of a local TV station on a hilltop about 5 miles away.

And last, but not least, for the second year, our telephone calls, faxes and credit card authorizations went out over the Internet. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), provided by Binary Telecom allowed our players to call home for free as often as they wanted.