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Hi Ridi,
Did you EVER get a message back from Grandpadude?
I kept trying to contact him for you through my resources, but sadly, he never responded!
Hi everyone..
Be honest with you that I am very happy to see Comcast offering $$$$ to buy Disney. Besides, I want to see how Eisner will manage himself at a conference with investors in Philadephia pretty soon, but I do not remember how soon it is. Time for him to face how the investors react to him in the conference. I think it is good time for him to depart Dis with a fishing rod over his shoulder.
Have a wonderful Valentine's Day. Here in MN, the weather is so beautiful with the 14 inch snow covering. Climate is not so bad, compared to others with high humidity. I rather stay in MN instead of DC in winter.
DickMN, just drop me a note when you can. Be looking forward to meeting you somewhere in the Twin Cities. My favorite site is Grand Ave in St Paul or The Isle of Lake in Minneapolis.
dej,
Disney isn't safe. And they have NOT been safe for a very long time now!
COMCAST seems to have the upperhand here, right now at least.
Disney SHOULLD be, and NEEDS to BE nervous about this takeover offer, IMHO.
All GIANTS eventually fall due to sheir WEIGHT!
Remember DAVID AND GOLIATH!
I LOVE to speculate, but this is SUCH an ALMOST sure bet! LOL!
RE: What's in it for COMCAST?
In a nutshell, what's in it is this:
DIS is a good target. Financially, they're safe - command-wise, they're in disarray.
If you'd ever plan for a quick kill on a lucrative pray, now is it!
Eisner has hurt Disney, but they're more wounded on the soul than on their livelihood. This is the best opportunity to make use of their internal weakness. It could be 25 years before a similar opportunity arrises, again.
Comcast does the right thing, from a business strategic point of view.
That is not to say that Disney should bow and accept, nor that a sell is in their interest. But you can't blame Comcast for trying...
KD
COMCAST BIDS ON DISNEY!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4239739/
I agree also.
Eisner is worn out and used up !!!
Jobs assails Disney
As much as I dislike Jobs, I have to side with him on this one:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/02/04/financial1931EST0360.DTL&...
DickMN
...As if we didn't already suspect it...
http://www.jp.dk/bagside/artikel:aiid=2233250:img=0/
"... No, I give up! I can't explain it... I just feel it... It has some sort of "sterility" over it..."
I thought you explained it extemely well, KD!!!!!
Hey Meme
I too, am deeply saddened with the demise of hand drawn animation and thank you for your kind words. The good news is that I am not an animator and I am still here.... coming on 15 years with the mouse. But with centralization, outsourcing, cutbacks etc no one is secure these days.
Because of the law of supply and demand, I still believe hand drawn will make a comeback some day. Post Lion King everyone opened an animation studio and novice artist were commanding 6 figure salaries. Now that all the studios have shuttered and there is a large pool of available animators, one could actually hire a crew at a reasonable rate and make a feature with a smaller budget. I believe Steve Jobs is already planning to do just that at Pixar.
Early start for super fast W-LAN
http://www.jp.dk/itogc/artikel:aid=2197030/
(translated)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), responsible for the recognition of the wireless 802.11 standards, expects to be ready with the new 802.11n standard in 2005.
But the company Broadcom will already in the second half if this year be ready with so-called pre-standard equipment. 802.11n allows data transmission of around 100 MB per second.
The three existing standards, 802.11b runs 11MB and 802.11a and -g promised 55MB per second, but have not fully delivered the promised speed. 802.11n should do that.
Broadcom was also first with chips for the 802.11g-standard.
I second your words to Aloha, Meme!
Much as I and my son likes to watch "Finding Nemo" and other Pixar animations, together, something is missing from them - something that can only be generated on a drawing board...
The figures lack that *wink*...
I can't put words to it, exactly, but they are not "human"...
I guess the best way I can describe it is by the difference between hand-blown glass and machine-blown glass (if any of you have actually had a hand-blown glass in your hand...)
...Life doesn't mirror itself in something machine made... It isn't "organic"...
... No, I give up! I can't explain it... I just feel it... It has some sort of "sterility" over it...
KD
Hi Meme - Long time!...
Well, the idea of starting something on our membrane yeast two-hybrid, hit a lot of snags...
Long story, but the Ph.D. student who had worked out the setup, had his documantation in a complete mess. So much so, that two others had to work for most of two years to get the system back to where we thought it was, two years ago.
System, now thoroughly documented, works well, but the biotech hype is not what it once was... Raising venture capital in a market where 90% of all biotech startups are on the verge of collaps, isn't easy...
I guess the short version of this is: We're not planning anything at the moment.
Research is going well.
Putting the last touch on work on a native 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis system to be used in analysing protein-protein interactions in a whole-proteome level. Hope to send out the manuscript in late winter. It should open some eyes... I believe I have, compared to other published native electrophoresis techniques, increased the resolution around 50 fold... It's been a lot of exiting work.
Have a students working for me, now.
That's very exiting!
Not too long ago, I was the one being supervised and provided with projects.
Now, I make up the projects and supervise the students.
I believe she is on the verge of having publishable material ready. Getting to that point is something one thinks will never happen, untill it actually happens.
I kind of fancy the thought of becomming senior author on a publication. It's one of those career milestones that are always somewhere out of sight in a haze, somewhere... untill you suddenly realize you're there... And THEN it really hits you... somebody is having success, working on an idea YOU thought up... Very satisfying feeling, I have to say...
She is one outstanding girl and I can't remember having seen a student with such a flair for research, since.... me...(LOL!)
Yes - science is very international, isn't it?
My student is from Hong Kong...
Hope you've had a splendid holiday and are ready to tackle the new year, head on.
Good luck for your company.
Bristol Meyers is on the list I mentioned and so it should be. DoubleBuy wanted a list of 10, so I gave him that (+ a few of the big and profitable biotechs like Genentech and Amgen)
KD
Aloha - I'm so saddened to hear that not only have you lost your job with Disney, but that drawn animation is no longer with Disney. It is, indeed, the end of an era and a beautiful art form.
While computer animation has its own beauty and realism, there's so much to be said for the artistry of mind to pen and brush.
As an artist, even if not practicing, it actually hurts.
My very best for a better new year!
Meme
DB & KD re: pharmas
Why not go with Bristol Meyers? They're in a slump right now due to not having much in the pipeline. However, they'll come back in that area and right now you can earn about 4% in dividends on your money while it sits there and only pay 15% on the income with little downside to worry about.
That's better than many stocks will offer you even with stock appreciation and lessens the gamble. I'd be very cautious investing right now.
KD, how's your fledgling company doing? Mine may be on its last legs, although we might have found a life line with an investor group made up of cancer doctors. Hope springs eternal. I'd hate to leave this wonderful group of scientists and others. Our lunch talks are a blast as they are a real world view. They come from Taiwan, Singapore, China and Holland.
Meme
Aloha - good to see you. Tough and trying year to be a Disney holder. I hope for you guys that fewer problems will be brewing for you in the new year.
Having mostly a sentimental connection to the mouse, I hate the thought that that very mouse was well and truely retired on almost his 75 birthday, with the closing of Disney animation.
I tend to compare it to a scenario in which GE drops its last electrical appliance product and focusses entirely on its growing banking and insurance business: -Nothing wrong with the business, but it wouldn't be General Electrics, anymore...
For GE, that's a hypothetical situation, anyway. For Disney, I feel it is not...
All the best
Hope the vacation did you good!
KD
Thanks for the best wishes and back to you from me. Sorry I'm late but I've been on a much needed vacation. Have a safe, happy and healthy New Year with good fortune to all.
Peace
Aloha
DB:
What you'd want to target, are the ones with many patents - not the generic drug producers.
I'm sure there are lists, somewhere, over which companies spend the most money on research (= most patents as a rule of thumb).
Here's a list of some of the absolute biggest ones:
Pfizer
Merck
Eli Lilly
Bristol Meyers Squibb (leading provider of anticancer drugs)
Novartis
Glaxo
Astra Zeneca
Roche
Schering-Plough
Amgen
Genentech
Biogen-Idec
Those would be what I'd stick with (and they include a couple of "small" speculative, but highly interesting co's in the biotech field).
Notice that I left out Procter and Gamble, Johnson & Johnson and other big "generic" producers.
KD
KD, not so sure about the largest pharmaceutical companies, my thoughts would be the companies that have the most perscribed drugs for those on medicare, (could be the largest co's?) although a large percentage could be perscribed as generic.
Help me break down this list of the top 200, and lets see who has the best chance, for windfall profits.
http://www.rxlist.com/top200.htm
PS lets try to narrow it to 8-10 companies.
Thanks
DB
Thanks KD, I think this may be the one where they said Medicare would not be able to negotiate prices under the new law.
http://www.theretheygoagain.com/
Re: DB
If the following can be taken as correct:
"Pharmaceutical companies are the biggest winners under the new plan. Demand for drugs will rise, as our already overmedicated seniors will be happy to pass the cost off onto younger taxpayers. Large drug makers will become virtual partners with government, lobbying to make sure their drugs are part of the new system. Those drugs will continue to cost much more in the U.S. than foreign countries, despite efforts in the new bill to change federal rules prohibiting reimportation of drugs.
The Department of Health and Human Services secretary already stated that he will never approve reimportation. Combine this lack of price competition with lengthy patents and protectionist FDA rules, and you have a perfect prescription for record pharmaceutical profits. The pharmaceutical industry reportedly spent $135 million in recent months lobbying for the new Medicare bill. This speaks volumes about how seriously they viewed the stakes involved."
Then I'd say that there is no need to go for specialized drug companies. Go for the biggest ones.
Large companies have proportionally more patents covering them and thus, they'd gain just as much from this as small ones.
So why take the inherent risks that goes with selecting small, if you get the same bonus by buying big and secure?
Shopping list should therefore include Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Glaxo and Astra Zeneca.
I could think of more - how many do you want?
You may also find a pharmaceutical stock fond with a diversified basket. There are several of them, but I'm not intimately familiar with the American fond market and can't recommend...
KD
dejgaard, thought you might be interested in this article.
http://mercola.com/2003/jul/19/medicare_reform.htm
Merry Christmas everyone.
DB
Merry Christmas and best wishes for a peaceful new year to everybody from me, too.
KD
"Do you have any ideas on which Pharms"
If true that price settings have been totally de-regulated, bet would be on chemotherapy producers.
People will pay anything to live - cynical as it may sound.
I'll have a deeper look at it and report back as to which companies it would involve.
KD
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!, and Please have a safe one.
PS MeMe if you insist on drinking that rot gut stuff R/Diet C....;), please let the hubby do the driving, sure would like to see you back on the board after the New Year, SAFE and SOUND.
"Where does QCOM stand in all this?"
QCOM holds almost every CDMA patent, they also have 90% of the CDMA chip market, at some point in time, i expect they will loose some percentage of the chip market, but they will still get royalties.
They also have the Brew Platform, where alps mfg have a fast track to the CDMA carriers.
Keep track of QCOM news,VZ,FON & KDDI news they are the leaders of CDMA, it will be hard for AWE (they are in trouble now) Cingular etc, to compete until they launch WCDMA and the Feds haven't even alloted the spectrum space for WCDMA yet. They will have to move some millitary, air traffic controls etc. to make room for the WCDMA spectrum and they will incorporate those moving expenses into the WCDMA spectrum bids = EXPENSIVE mega bucks for WCDMA spectrum. and even then CDMA carriers can still make a profit below WCDMA carriers costs.
QCOM is not a super growth stock anymore, i put them in the same class as MSFT,INTC,TXN just bellweathers that will make you $$$$ year over year, I just consider those 4 as bank accounts that pay a high interest rate.
PS, with Bushs new Medicare Perscription Bill, from my understanding, the Pharmaceutical Industries lobbying just paid off big time. The Vets and Feds, can negotiate prices from the Pharms. But under this new bill, Medicare will not be able to negotiate prices, leaving the Pharms to charge whatever price they want to.
Do you have any ideas on which Pharms, would benefit the most from this bill, should be a bumper crop of profit for some????? Which Ones????
Hey dej....
If you like The Eagles, just come to my GALAXY RADIO board and type the word Eagles in the Board Search Box.
Here is a list of the Eagles posts currently available....
Message Results search on: "eagles" in board: GALAXY RADIO
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(OT) In the words of Eagles:
My personal reflections after a year when the Nasdaq has shown itself from the more friendly side...
Flame rises, but it soon descents
Empty pages in a frozen pen
You're not quite lovers and you're not quite friends
After the thrill is gone
- Guess the thing with blue eyes is that you can only loose them once...
Maybe I need "a 14 year vacation" to let Hell freeze over, too...
KD
Same dances in the same old shoes
You get to careful with the steps you choose
You don't care about winning but you don't wanna loose
After the thrill is gone, boy
-After the thrill is gone
(Can't ever get tired of Eagles songs)
I'm glad the market was down today!
American Economics should not reflect political global events to that strong of a degree, IMHO!
Happy Holidays!!!!!!!!
So much for Saddam...
I guess Bush' old arch enemies (Dow Jones and Nasdaq) expressed what they thought of it all (both down).
I guess Saddam's influence on the world ceased long ago, anyway.
Now, bin Laden... THAT would be a the fish to catch (you know - "then one that got away"... at least, so far).
As for markets: It's a bit premature to say, but both Nasdaq and DJIA seems to be peaking and may make a technical retreat to test the 200EMA.
That said - there's considerably more optimism to be found in company forecasts, these days. Big Q is: How much have they been factored in, already?
Oh - and this:
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/breaking/breakingnewsarticle.asp?feed=OBR&Date=20031215&ID=....
Now THAT...!!
Sympathy for Halliburton runs deep, eh?
The prodigal son still gets his share from daddio...
KD
"Golden Future" says Vodaphone
http://www.jp.dk/erhverv/artikel:aid=2159918/
The 3G platform will revolutionize our use of mobile communication over the next 5-10 years, states Arun Sarin - the new boss of British Vodaphone.
London:
Arun Sarin, the new boss of the british mobile giant Vodaphone, sees a golden future ahead of him, in which all of us - powered by superfast broad connections - will use our mobile phones much more than today.
While the telecom industry as a whole, elbows its way out of 3 years dramatic crises, its the gain of more and more connected minutes from cable phones that occupies the Vodaphone boss more than anything else.
While some in the sector hesitates, Arun Sarin is fully confident that the expensively bought 3G technology as a platform will revolutionize the use of mobile communication over the next 5-10 years.
With a broad spectrum of multimedia services - delivered on a new generation of mobile phones with a speed we know from our broadband connections - we will soon be convinced to spend more money at companies like Vodaphone, Sarin predicted last week at a meeting with the foreign press union.
He still considers the market for mobile communication as underdeveloped. There's 1.3 billion mobile customers in the world - about the same number as of cable phones - but mobile phones take only on fifth of the total speaking minutes and that's not enough, according to Arun Sarin.
That said, he states, we should not forget that the mobile business has come a long way in relatively few years.
3G in waiting position
The whole telecommunications sector has grown explosively - global revenue is estimated at $ 1.4 trillion, this year - and the mobile share of that market increases year after year.
But challenges for the mobile companies in the coming year will be to convince customers to use their mobile phones for more than verbal communication, as it is in data traffic the potential for revenue is the largest.
Vodaphones ambition is that 20% of the companies service revenue is to come from data transmission such as mail messages and pictures. Today, this share is 15.5%.
The last couple of years crises in the telecom market is a collusion of several factors. From the dotcom bubble collapse and the generally falling stockmarkets to the astronomical investments that the tele-companies have made in fixed and mobile networks, based on expectations for demand that were unsupported.
The result has been a long line of bancrupcies, drastically worsened results and rapid decline in stock prices on a broad scale.
Tele-companies are estimated to have used $150 billion just to buy the needed licences to be allowed to run the new 3G networks. But the new platform has not developed as fast and as comprehensively as previously expected.
Arun Sarin estimates that it will be a gradual shift from 2G to 3G, rather than a "Big Bang", but he says Vodaphone still commits itself 100% to the new platform.
The company itself has postponed its grand marketing of 3G until next autumn. According to Arun Sarin, Vodaphone will unveil a giant marketing campaign for its 3G services in September/October 2004.
"We will not advertise our 3G services until we are sure the technology is in place and the new phones are ready. It is all about giving our customers all the right reasons to shift to 3G, rather than dragging them into it" says Sarin.
125 mio. customers
Vodaphone has, so far, invested $8 billion in 3G technology, apart from the billions spent on the necessary licences. It is now Sarins job to convert that into a success.
At the same time, he must ensure the continued rationalization of Vodaphone and make sure Vodaphone is placed most favorably towards the high growth end of the market.
The company, however, has already come far under Sarin's predecessor, Sir Christopher Gent, who through fusions and takeovers in the late 1990ies made Vodaphone the worlds largest mobile phone company - one of the worlds largest companies in general - with 125 million customers and a yearly revenue of $40 billion and ownerships distributing to 26 countries.
21 year old Vodaphone fused in 1999 with American Airtouch and combined their activities in the USA in 2000 with Bell Atlantic in the new company Verizon, which today is is America's largest mobile operator. Same year, Vodaphone was almost doubled in size through the takeover of German Mannesman.
Consolidation is not necessarily over for Vodaphone. Sarin does not hide his wish to take full control over Verizon in the US and SFR, the French mobile company, owned together with Vivendi. In both cases, Vodaphones minority position is of 44%
Sarin was applauded when he, a couple of weeks ago, presented his first full results as boss, announced an increase in net gain and issued a plan to initiate share buy-back for more than $4 billion.
In Sarin's first result - the half-year ending at the end of September, revenue had increased by 13% and net gain before tax by 26% to 5.4 billion pound. In the meantime, the company gained 5.7 million new customers.
Those, invested in Vodaphone will now be hoping that Sarin has set a precedence for the results he, at the helm, will present in the future.
I say it's about time this happened in the DISNEY EMPIRE. I still think it is Eisner who botched up any success that could have really been for the old GO/DIG shareholders. Eisner does need to "GO"!
Sidenote to Roy Disney and Gold: Feel free to use that slogan above! LOL!
Re: DickMN
I saw the news on Disney's own ABC channel, tonight, and it was gruesome...
Man, when a company starts fighting like that in the management... Think of the bad PR...
Roy Disney - son of co-founder Roy Disney Sr. - in reality kicked out on a technicality for being critical of the CEO he helped in 20 yeaqrs ago...
Roy Disney, who was the advocate for traditional values of America's No 1 "traditional values" company, kicked out (de facto) by an Eisner who just fired the company's last animated film makers (including the active poster, Anim8ted on yon Infoseek/Go board...) leaving animated film production entirely in the hands of affiliated Pixar (which Disney does not even have control over) and their computers...
I don't know what to say...
Mickey just turned 75... Walt resently turned 100 and they have the thing in common that they're both cryopreserved... Neither are animated, anymore...
KD
Disney Imploding
This morning Roy Disney resigned from the Disney Board of Directors. Tonight Stanley Gold resigned from the Board. Now I see this on Drudge:
"SOURCES: In an interview set for publication in Tuesday's LOS ANGELES TIMES, Gold and Disney vow to mount a campaign to lobby investors and employees to make the case that Eisner should go..."
Regardless of what you think of Matt Drudge, he does have contacts and he gets information.
DickMN
Agreed, DB.
I think Nokia, Ericsson and others, have shot themselves in the foot on this.
A lot of hot air for 3 years or more about Bluetooth and 3G, all in the holy name of compatibility.... and then, they've tried to shut the door on the worlds most widespread operating system...
That's an unstable situation and once the foot is in the door, that door isn't going to be forced wide open - they'll rip the door right off and make cigar boxes of it...
MSFT shares still have a lot of future potential, as far as I'm conserned.
During the techmarket nuclear winter, MSFT has made strategic acquisitions in B2B software and will come out dominating this market segment totally (In particular with the takeover of Navision. Loosers= Oracle and SAP)
On the wireless phone/computer interphazing (Larry Ellisons brainchild, if he ever had any), MSFT is about to take that market like an octopus preys a crab. (Loosers= Oracle, Nokia and Ericsson).
This is going to be interesting to follow, over the next couple of years...
Where does QCOM stand in all this?... I'd guess you might have a take on that...
KD
MOT & VZ has given Microsoft the foothold it needed, and now even AT&T says it will offer MOT's smartphone.
http://english.eastday.com/epublish/gb/paper1/1076/class000100001/hwz167233.htm
Orange launches yet another Microsoft phone
http://www.jp.dk/itogc/ncom:aid=2108076/
(translated)
The phone company Orange has launched the third in a row of Microsoft based SPV mobile phones. But contrary to the two previous ones, which were mobile phones with pda capabilities, the new SPV 2020 is a pda with build-in mobile phone.
By its looks, the new phone appears as a handheld computer. It is equipped with a 65,000 color resolution touch-screen and operated with a pen. The system, running it, is Microsoft Pocket PC 2003 Phone Edition - a modified version that also runs other hand-helds like HP's Ipaq. Phone Edition contains, as the name implies, software to make phone calls etc.
It also supports all the known pda functions, like Explorer, Outlook, Word, Excel and Messenger. SPV has, furthermore, a built-in VGA camera and can communicate with other wireless devices, like a headset, via Bluetooth.
The phone is - like other SPV-phones - produced by the Taiwan company HTC (High Tech Computer Corporation), the producer, also of HP's Ipaq.
KD
Cheap Supercomputer, based on standard components
http://www.jp.dk/itogc/ncom:aid=2106150/
(translated)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the USA has bought 1.100 ordinary Mac-computers and connected them in a supercomputer-cluster, named "Big Mac". It is expected as the worlds third fastest supercomputer at Supercomputing Conference in Phoenix, Nov. 18th.
With its 2.200 PowerPC970 processors and a price of 5 million dollars, Big Mac is way ahead of the momentary third placed - a supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore research center.
Supercomputers in the top class, normally costs between 100 og 200 million dollars, but the Virginia-university has managed to scrink costs by using cheap components, for sale in any computer shop.
Big Mac was built in a month and already has a capacity of 9.6 TeraFlops, but is still way from its teoretical max of 17.6 TeraFlops.
For comparison, the worlds fastest supercomputer, the Japanese Earth Simulator comes at a price of 200 million dollars, a capacity of 35.8 TeraFlops, while the American Asci Q holds second place with 13.88 Tera Flops.
KD
I think that rocks!...
...I have no other excuse for bringing this story...
Fired for revealing Mac's at Microsoft!
http://www.jp.dk/itogc/artikel:aid=2096092/
(Translated)
Microsoft are Grand users of Apple computers. But it is reason for firing to inform the world about computers with other operating system than MSFTs own.
-As Michael Hanscom learned the hard way when he put pictures on his homepage of three small piles of computers from Apple, unloaded in front of the American Microsoft printing office where Hansson now no longer works.
The pictures of the new PowerMac G5 computers were put on the internet, where they were seen by a Microsoft employee. He was subsequently dismissed.
Anyone who wants to look closer at the case can click their way in on Hanscom's homepage at: http://www.michaelhanscom.com.
Thanks dejgaard!!!!!!
Aloha Re: NMPS
For microcaps that mostly fly under the radar, it is easy to dwindle, pricewise - and NMPS has done that.
Today, it got favorable mention in Wall Street Journal, as a company that may get a serum based prostate cancer marker to trial/market, next year (in competition with Correlogic, who also work on serum cancer markers - but not the same as NMPS').
Favorable mention, of course, brings it back on the radar, for a while. Whether it can succeed in staying on radars, until a serum based prostate- (or colon- or breast cancer-) marker maa be ready, remains to be seen.
If NMPS can't, then today was a flash in a pan. If NMPS can, one analyst put a target price on this stock, a year ago, at $20...
If you want to play it, know that microcaps are somewhat more reliable than pennystocks, but they're still risky.
Be further adviced that patience is needed for microcaps. There can be half years between news of any significant content...
For a biotech microcap, the one thing that speaks in NMPS' favor, is that it already has some modest revenue from one cancer screen on the market. And whereas that's not enough to keep them in financial balance, it does contribute to it and the product keeps doing better each quarter.
If NMPS could hit success with one of it's three blood based cancer screens under development (they're working, as I mentioned, on breast, colon and prostate cancer tests from simple blood samples), then you can be fairly sure of a 10 fold return at the current price (and also more than that, IMO).
If they fail, they'll slowly waste away and you could loose all, if you hold on...
Disclosure: I do not currently hold shares in it, but I keep a close watch on it and may buy, one day...
KD
Dej NMPS
What's up with that stock you mentioned a couple months ago? I've been watching it and it is skyrocketing today!!!
Aloha
Bluetooth has wind at its back
(Translated)
Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) reprots record sale of Bluetooth products in Q3. For the first time, the sale of Bluetooth products has passed 1 mio units per week
The technology can now be found in anything from mobile phones and headsets to pda's, mp3 players, pc's and cars.
"Bluetooth has passed an important milestone in its development. A stabile specification and millions of installed units, proves that the technology is a success" Michale Wall, a market analyst from Frost & Sullivan, coments.
Compared to wireless technologies like WLAN, the bandwith and reach is limited, but the producers have focussed on doing whatever possible to make it easy to install Bluetooth networks.
Bluetooth SIG informs that car producers Accura, Audi, DaimlerChrysler, Ford and Lexus all ahev announced plans to build in Bluetooth technology in their cars. GM and BMW already have Bluetooth equipped cars on the market.
Partners in Bluetooth SIG are Agere, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and Toshiba.
http://www.jp.dk/itogc/ncom:aid=2093656/
KD
Re: MIMI, HELP
I'd chastise you for that typo, but I see you already have yourself. ;)
I don't use GO mail much anymore except for talking to message board people, which isn't often. It used to be easier and cleaner to say email me at my nic@go.com. The funny thing is I've changed my nic a couple of times and have not opened an email account for the current one because I already have THREE! Freakin' GO banned one nic from posting because I knew how to get around their filters and used the word "shit" on their GMA board. <VBG> I stick to the local affliates now. The moderators on the national boards are over the top. They delete entire threads if just one person steps over the line. But, I digress.
GO mail was always soooo slow, I grew tired of it, but I never had any big problem with spam.
If you've used up your blocks (I've never even tried those on GO, but I'm assuming it's similar to Hotmail which I do use), I think you only have two options. The first would be to consider that your junk mailbox now. Use it everytime you buy something or are requred to give out an email address on the net. Then open a new account and email all your friends your new addy.
Otherwise, you could see if any of the "offers" have an unsubscribe feature.
Wish I could be more helpful, but I think you inadvertently screwed yourself. ;)
Financialville, yep that was it. what a shame, i posted some on those boards, got some of the best financial tips from those guys that i ever had.
do you remember when I tried to get Brad to buy IcySpicy?, he ask what would they do with it?
http://datacodeinc.com/
could have been purchased at that time for somewhere between 750K-1.25M, and i was interested in a partnership type deal of some kind, for a buyout, it was bought out later, and now has licensed the site to individuals, brokers, institutions ect....Individuals $9.95 month......with an approx. 28M individual users......brokers?.....institutions?
Man I don't even like to think about it! Zeeeeeeeeeesh
It was called Financialville.com
It's a dead website now. Brad Goldstein, the creator, opted to disconnect it altogether and move into his other venture called SwiftSolution.com.
He had actually allowed me to be the webmaster of Financialville.com for a couple months before he made the decision. But it seems that Brad's brother didn't like what I was doing to try to enhance the viewership of the site. A sad thought, since what I was trying to achieve is VERY MUCH like what IHUB has become today.
And so it goes.
You can see my last commentary from about 1 1/2 years ago here.....
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=326070
dpb5, do you know what happened to that little Financial Site, Investorville?, Financialville? Whatever the name was.....Just Curious.
Thanks Aloha!
Why doesn't that surprise me?
LOL!
Darn can't spell either, cococo-orordinated, mabe i am drunk.....LOLLLLLLLLL
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