He started Palm Computing and allied with Casio and Tandy to produce an electronic organizer called Zoomer.

The organizers of the year's event, called generals, enter the municipal palace to have the municipal president sign a document turning over the main plaza of the town to the "general in chief."

Mr. Urban said workers in Stalowa Wola held a rally early in the day, at which he said organizers called on the workers not to strike.

But the main organizer of Watertown's new coffeehouse, called Different Drummer Internet Cafe, said he did not expect such confrontations this time around.

Parents held the hands of preschoolers, young people banged on drums and some pushed strollers piled high with sleeping bags, tents, bottled water and canned tuna as part of a campaign the organizers called Homesh Is the Beginning.

As a continuation of the 2006 U.S. immigration reform protests, the organizers called for supporters to abstain from buying, selling, working, and attending school, in order to attempt to demonstrate through the extent to which the labor obtained of illegal immigrants is needed.

In 1921, a London printer and stationery marketer, Norman & Hill Ltd., began importing the organizers, called Lefaxes.

"There has never been a time of such drastic and irretrievable information loss," says Stewart Brand, creator of the "Whole Earth Catalog" a generation ago and an organizer of a sobering conference earlier this year called "Time and Bits."

Yet, despite missing their speed goal, the organizers of the event, called Flashmob 1, insisted that they had achieved an important milestone in their quest to make the power of the fastest computers available beyond the walls of giant corporations and military laboratories.

It was steak dinner in a private room of the "21" Club in June 1991, and the top Democratic executives on Wall Street were gathered at a round table to hold one of a series of meetings with Presidential aspirants in what an organizer called "an elegant cattle show."