* Andy Warhol makes a digital painting of Debbie Harry at the Commodore Amiga product launch press conference in 1985

Since the launch of Kinder surprise in 1974 there have been 2 publicly recorded choking fatalities, in 1985 and in 1989, associated with parts of a toy from the product.

New product development aims to eliminate defects by testing in the factory before launch, but some may occur during its early life.

Following the product launch, the General Mills marketing department found that sales performed dramatically better if the composition of the marbits changed periodically.

* Edward Gelsthorpe, ( 1923 – 2009 ), marketing executive called " Cranapple Ed " for his best-known product launch.

There are several reasons for this, including: the association with cDc ; the tone of the initial product launch at Def Con ' 99 ( including that the first distribution of BO2k by cDc was infected by the CIH virus ); the existence of tools ( such as " Silk rope ") designed to add BO2k dropper capability to self-propagating malware ; and the fact that it has actually widely been used for malicious purposes.

The term ' launch window ' is often used metaphorically, particularly in economics, to describe the launch of a product, the ' window ' describing a key opportunity for the product to be released.

In 2006, their hit single " Can't Give You Anything ( But My Love )" was used as the base for a Japanese advertisement campaign by Gatsby, to launch their new male hair styling product, ' Moving Rubber '.

* Participation in software release and post-release activities, including support for product launch evangelism ( e. g. developing demonstrations and / or samples ) and competitive analysis for subsequent product build / release cycles

* Test marketing-a small-scale product launch used to determine the likely acceptance of the product when it is introduced into a wider market

While Nvidia had yet to launch a product in the add-in board market that sold as well as 3dfx's Voodoo line, the company was gaining steady ground in the OEM market.

* There is no need to regression test the existing product, saving on QA time associated with the new product launch, and reducing time to market.

It is not uncommon for grey market traders to introduce a product into a market months in advance of the official launch.

This was evident with the launch of the iPhone 4, where international grey market traders bought large quantities at Apple ’ s retail price then shipped to countries where the product was not available adding a substantial margin to the resale price.

As part of a commemorative celebration marking the 10th anniversary of the Apple II series ' development, as well as Apple Computer itself celebrating the same anniversary, a special limited edition was introduced at product launch.

The replacement for the MG F, the MG TF sports car was, inevitably, a relatively low-volume product, but it had consistently been the most popular car in its sector since its 1995 launch.

* Edward Gelsthorpe, ( 1923 – 2009 ), marketing executive known as " Cranapple Ed " for his best-known product launch

This type of white paper is best used to supplement a product launch, argue a business case, or support a technical evaluation at the bottom of the sales funnel.

* 1900 – Philippine – American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U. S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.

* 1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.

The American Embassy in Bangui again temporarily suspended operations on November 2, 2002 in response to security concerns raised by the October 2002 launch of François Bozizé's 2003 military coup.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.

* 1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.

* 1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first " jumbo jet ", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.

To promote American patriotic heritage in schools, she helped launch the National Anthem Project.

Following accusations of forced labour on the large American-owned Firestone rubber plantation and American accusations of slave trading, the Liberian government asked the League to launch an investigation.

* 1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.

* 1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.

He hired one of Ronald Reagan's former campaign aides, Linda Goodson Robinson ( the wife of American Express president James Robinson ) to launch a public relations campaign prior to the trial.

However, the price was raised and its American launch debuted at $ 649. 99.

In 1986, following the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, American Physicist Richard Feynmann, having served on the Rogers Commission estimated that the chance of an unsafe condition for a launch of the Shuttle was very roughly 1 %; more recently the historical per person-flight risk in orbital spaceflight has been calculated to be around 2 % or 4 %.

Following pressure by the American Rocket Society, the National Science Foundation, and the International Geophysical Year, military interest picked up and in early 1955 the Army and Navy were working on Project Orbiter, two competing programs, the army's which involved using a Jupiter C rocket, and the civilian / Navy Vanguard Rocket, to launch a satellite.

* 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful " grand assault " during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

Challengers many spaceflight accomplishments included the first American woman, African-American, and Canadian in space ; three Spacelab missions ; and the first night launch and night landing of a Space Shuttle.

The early era of space exploration was driven by a " Space Race " between the Soviet Union and the United States, the launch of the first man-made object to orbit the Earth, the USSR's Sputnik 1, on 4 October 1957, and the first Moon landing by the American Apollo 11 craft on 20 July 1969 are often taken as the boundaries for this initial period.

Eisenhower greatly underestimated the reaction of the American public, which was shocked by the launch of Sputnik 1 and by the televised failure of the Vanguard Test Vehicle 3 launch attempt.

Harrison Storms, the North American designer who was responsible for the X-15 rocket plane, and went on to head the effort to design the Apollo Command / Service Module and Saturn V launch vehicle's second stage was moved by the launch of Sputnik to think of space as being the next step for America.

Though not expected to be either a commercial or critical success, The Terminator topped the American box office for two weeks and helped launch the film career of Cameron and consolidate that of Schwarzenegger.

Pitt had been lobbied by an American merchant Thomas Cumming to launch an expedition against the French trading settlements in West Africa.

* January 13 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Fort Fisher begins when United States forces launch a major amphibious assault against the Confederate stronghold of Fort Fisher, North Carolina.

The Atari 7800 version was a launch title and featured co-operative play, it was the built in game on the European Atari 7800 release.

A deeply modernized version of the R-7 is still used as the launch vehicle for the Soviet / Russian Soyuz spacecraft, marking more than 50 years of operational history of the original Sergei Korolyov's rocket design.

A more ambitious, nuclear-powered version was intended for an unmanned Jupiter mission, the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter ( JIMO ), originally planned for launch sometime in the next decade.

A development study for a longer range version of the Polaris missile achieved by enlarging it to the maximum possible size allowed by existing launch tubes started in 1963.

On March 11, 1997, id Software released WinQuake, a version of the non-OpenGL engine designed to run under Microsoft Windows ; the original Quake had been written for DOS, allowing for launch from Windows 95, but could not run under Windows NT-based operating systems because it required direct access to hardware.

In addition, a major launch game had been rushed ; the 32X version of Doom was missing ten levels present on the PC version, though three of those levels ( five on the SNES ) were not present in other console ports of Doom either.

A preview release of NeXTSTEP ( version 0. 8 ) was shown at the launch of the NeXT Computer on October 12, 1988.

Numan also launched a Jagged website to showcase the new album, and made plans to have his 1981 farewell concert ( previously released as Micromusic on VHS ) issued on DVD by November 2006 as well as releasing the DVD version of the Jagged album launch gig.

Satellite launch from the modified version of Ruslan.

Other German experiments with JATO were aimed at assisting the launch of interceptor aircraft such as the Messerschmitt Me 262C, as the Heimatschützer special versions, usually fitted with either a version of the Walter HWK 109-509 liquid fuelled rocket engine from the Me 163 Komet program either in the extreme rear of the fuselage or semi -" podded " beneath it just behind the wing's trailing edge, to assist its Junkers Jumo 004 turbojets, or a pair of specially rocket-boosted BMW 003R combination jet-rocket powerplants in place of the Jumo 004s, so that the Me 262C Heimatschützer interceptors could reach enemy bomber formations sooner.

GM had planned to launch a Pontiac version of the Corvair ( dubbed " Polaris "), but " Bunkie " Knudsen — whose niece had been seriously injured in a Corvair crash — successfully argued against the idea.

Its upgraded version, the Atlas-D rocket, would later serve as an operational nuclear ICBM and be used as the orbital launch vehicle for Project Mercury and the remote-controlled Agena Target Vehicle used in Project Gemini.

Unfortunately, problems with the early version of the launch vehicle left Ranger 1 and Ranger 2 in short-lived, low-Earth orbits in which the spacecraft could not stabilize themselves, collect solar power, or survive for long.

With the launch of Sputnik 1 & 2 the previous concern, of the right of satellite overflight, had become moot: those satellites were launched by an early version of the Soviet R-7 rocket, the basis of the USSR's early ICBMs, and definitely military, as well as roughly 40 times larger than the Vanguard launcher.

Among the regrettable high-tech weapons systems he gave the green light to: the MX missile ( still no basing system ), the TV-guided Maverick missile ( fighter pilots become sitting ducks when they launch them ), the F-18 fighter ( costs more, performs worse than the planes it replaced ), the Aquila Remotely Piloted Vehicle drone ( worse than the Israeli version, 16 times as expensive ), the DIVAD gun ( no amount of money could make it work ), and the Apache helicopter ( the Pentagon recently grounded the entire fleet ).

The only software available at the launch ( except ROM firmware ) was an included magnetic tape with an early version of BASIC, several programming examples ( both for BASIC and FOCAL ), and several tests.

From 2008, major expansion saw Today broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays too, the weekday version running from 5: 30 am until 9 am weekdays, the launch of the Nine Early News, the axing of the Sunday program, National Nine News becoming Nine News after poor ratings losing to Seven News, Nine Late News was launched then renamed as Nightline and the 11 am bulletin be renamed as Nine Morning News, running from 11 am until noon weekdays.

At one point, in a later beta version of Outlook Express 5, Outlook Express contained a sophisticated and adaptive spam filtering system ; however this feature was removed shortly before launch.

The latest version is the Proton M, which can launch into geostationary orbit or into a geostationary transfer orbit.

The VX220 carried the Lotus internal model identification Lotus 116, with the code name Skipton for the launch 2. 2N / A version and Tornado for the 2004 introduced 2. 0 L Turbo.

Morning Exchange was Cleveland's entry into the franchise ; with its light format, ABC ( after a brief but failed effort to launch the Los Angeles version nationally as AM America ) launched a national version of Morning Exchange in fall 1975 under the name Good Morning America.

Thrash metal band Anthrax, at the end of their cover of another Black Sabbath song, " Sabbath Bloody Sabbath " from their 1987 EP I'm the Man, launch into an abbreviated version of " Sweet Leaf " which fades to silence after several seconds.