Go.com

[DoubleBuy]

Sorry MeMe, Not MiMi, and No i wasn't durnk, just didn't get my brain and fingers cordorinated........LOL

[DoubleBuy]

MIMI, HELP, DoubleBuy needs a favor, my GoMail Box has got un-manageable from all the spams, made a mistake and requested some cupons, and now i have approx. 50-60 e-mails per day, anything from mortage rates, health, vitamins, "grow a big one" WOW, viagra ect.

the Go filter does not cover enough to eliminate all these, """""is there anything i can do other than just change the ID, and say to heck with DB on the Go-Mail??????"""""

TIA

[aloha2213]

Hey dpb5

The colors are slightly more soothing and some rough edges filed down. The changes are far from dramatic.

aloha

[The Original dpb5!]

This is almost TOO sad to post.

I just visited the ole GO.COM ...for the hell of it.

The webpage I was shown was that GO.COM has decided to upgrade it's page for a more user friendly experience.

Sadly, there is no download that I can do to get this VAST WONDERFUL NEW GO.COM experience, since I am still a WEBTV/MSNTV user.

Do any of you see anything on GO.COM that is so newly excitable????

[DoubleBuy]

dejgaard, meant to mention these to you before, you might want to check them out some have had 4-5-6-7 and 800+% runs.

ALTI
ARIA
ASTM
AVNX
PPHM
SPPI
VXGN (hot now)

as always do your own dd, and good luck.

[DoubleBuy]

"Double Post" Woah, wait a minute, tried to post that 3 times, who said 3 strikes and you are out, 1st 3 times go said page unavailable, 4th time said i have X# of minutes to change post. So i added LEMON DROP, so see it wasn't a double post.....HAHA

Hi Gang, hope everyone is making some money.

[dejgaard]

Logitech with Bluetooth mouse

http://www.jp.dk/itogc:aid=2050412/

A very brief translated summary:

The Bluetooth radio transmitter that serves as connection and charger to the new mouse, can communicate not just with the mouse, but with all Bluetooth units within reach, converting the PC to a de facto Bluetooth Hub.

Recognizing that connecting everything can be difficult, Logitech has opened a web page to help Bluetooth users achieve this:

www.logitech.com/bluetooth/howto

KD

[dejgaard]

IBM: 'Grid' not hot air



http://www.jp.dk/itogc/ncom:aid=2038452/

Shortened version, translated.

Contrary to statements by Carly Fiorina and the consulting company Gartner, IBM dismisses any notion of Grid not being ready for the world market.

IBM insist that they already have 100 customers for the Grid technology and have resently gotten 10 more - including T-Systems, a division of Deutche Telecom as well as IN2P3 of France, NLI Research Institute and Ngee Ann Polytechnic.

IBM is to deliver Grid-technology to Morgan Stanley and Hewitt Associates.

The promis behind the technology is an increased use of existing IT systems by increasing use of existing IT systems, by making it possible to spread 'heavy' computing over hundreds of servers at the same time.

Oracle has announced that it will have a Grid based version of its database software on the market by the end of the year.
Oracle is also heckling IBM for their system, which demands heavy consulting from IBM Global Service.

IBM has answered by claiming that Oracles Grid products are little more than the company's Cluster-technology in a new wrapping...

KD

[Meme]

Re: Hi DB! - Hi MeMe, here's you a Sissy Drink, but a 1/5 just might upclog those pipes..;)....LOL

Or should I call you Double Post? Um, whose pipes are looking clogged now? <G>

The last couple of months in the market have been nice in that my portfolio (or what's left of it) ceased flatlining. Nonetheless, I still feel there's more of the current retreat in the works.

I believe there are more surprises ahead in the unemployment figures which will undoubtedly put the kibosh on consumer sentiment and consumer spending. Honestly, haven't we all noticed that there is no end to new layoffs?

The only gamble I'm willing to consider right now is buying in on the inevitable October/November dip and selling within the first week of January. That strategy has never failed me for a short term return which I do believe is the only way to play the market right now.

I don't believe this is a sustainable bull run. Lord knows, I could be wrong and miss buying near the bottom, but the risk simply isn't worth it to me.

Meme

[DoubleBuy]

Hi MeMe, here's you a Sissy Drink, but a 1/5 just might upclog those pipes..;)....LOL

LEMON DROP

2 cups frozen vodka
1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 cup superfine sugar
1 lemon, thinly sliced
Ice


Combine the vodka, lemon juice, and sugar and pour into a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour into martini glasses and garnish with lemon slices.

A special Hello to the old INFO gang, hope everyone is well and making money in the market.

[DoubleBuy]

Hi MeMe, here's you a Sissy Drink, but a 1/5 just might upclog those pipes..;)....LOL

2 cups frozen vodka
1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 cup superfine sugar
1 lemon, thinly sliced
Ice


Combine the vodka, lemon juice, and sugar and pour into a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour into martini glasses and garnish with lemon slices.

A special Hello to the old INFO gang, hope everyone is well and making money in the market.

[dejgaard]

Saw it, Dick. Apparently a popular move...

I still buy into Larry Ellisons idea of wireless computer access through relatively small devices. ("Have a powerful computer and have access to your data when actually sitting at it. Have a workstation (i.e. computationally much larger, faster and what have you...) and access/control it, wireless, and you have access to your data and can work with them, anywhere, anytime, 24/7")

Teaming up MOT and MSFT could be their first step in that direction...

Larry may get competition from a side he did not expect, when he said what he said, above (which was in a context of ridiculing MSFT for not being 'up to date' on that trendy idea og his...)

In the meantime, I've seen (again on the Danish on-line newspaper) that the next generation Intel chips to come out will be 802.11 (Wi-Fi/WLAN) compatible - that is, with all the Wi-Fi standards, including the g-standard...

http://www.jp.dk/itogc/ncom:aid=2026080/
(Sorry - not in the mood to translate...)

Interesting times...

Over

KD

[DickMN]

dej....

Motorola may not have benefitted from this, short term.

MOT may not have been energized by the Microsoft news, but it was certainly energized by this news: The Motorola Board of Directors finally gave Chris Galvin the boot Friday. The news broke after the close, and MOT stock instantly rose 24¢, or 2% in afterhours on Instinet. This will be one to watch. Here's Forbe's take on it:

http://www.forbes.com/home/2003/09/19/cz_mt_0919galvin.html

DickMN

[dejgaard]

DickMN

I haven't followed up on it, myself. Motorola may not have benefitted from this, short term. But if I had Nokia shares, I'd probably watch this, closely.

I would not want to do battle with Microsoft for anything in this world,,,

KD

[DickMN]

Re: "Microsoft and Motorola attacks Nokia's position"

<<Motorola also does nothing to hide that it is Nokia that is in their cross hairs.>>

Surprisingly (or maybe not surprisingly), Motorola stock didn't benefit at all from the news. Down today 1.29%

DickMN

[dejgaard]

"Microsoft and Motorola attacks Nokia's position"

(From the Danish newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten in my translation)


"Microsoft and Motorola will now enter an alliance to break Nokia's dominance on the market for mobile phones

The two IT giants will go public, Monday, to announce a strategic alliance that could mean a loss of market share to Nokia, on the attractive market of mobile phones

The collaboration is based on Motorola producing a series of phones and pocket computers based on Microsofts mobile phone system. The first of such phones will be available for sale in Denmark by fourth quarter, Motorola promises.

The so-called Smartphones can be used to read e-mails, enter the internet and check the calender. For that, Microsoft and Motorola expect that a great share of the buisness customers will relatively quickly adapt the new phones.

Quest to weaken Nokia

"Our analyses show that the persons who have a smartphone, use the phone far more than the more traditional mobile phone owners. They do that because they have greater versatility" Bjørn Conquist, the Nordic marketing boss of Microsoft, says.

Increased use leads to higher revenue for the hard pressed mobile operators, who have vested interests in promoting new advanced phones to their customers.

"We believe it will be an asset that a phone with Microsoft software can immediately communicate with several of a buisness' IT systems" Bjørn Conquist explains.

Microsoft has built in mobile phone access as standard in all future versions of the mail system "Exchange" which is the most used amongst companies anywhere in the world.

At the same time, some of the largest mobile operators have said they want to weaken Nokia's strong position.

"Vodaphone and Orange have both announced that they want to reduce Nokia's dominance on the terminal part. They'll do that by favoring other phone products on Nokia's expence" explains John Strand, the mobile phone analyst and director of Strand Consult.

When the new phone will go on sale by the start of October, it will happen first in tight collaboration with Orange in the UK and AT&T in the USA.

Threat against Nokia

Motorola also does nothing to hide that it is Nokia that is in their cross hairs.

"For Motorola, it is Nokia that is the strongest competitor. Collaborating with Microsoft will be a powerful weapon in the competition with Nokia" says Jakob Cederquist, regional Information officer at Motorola

According to John Strand of Strand Consult, the new collaboration is a very serious threat to Nokia.

"On sight, Nokia could end up as the mobile markets answer to Apple or Wordperfect. Nokia's market share will stagnate and possibly fall in the coming couple of years" John Strand says.

On the world market, Nokia has a market share of 36%, while Motorola has a share of approximately 15%.

It was not possible to get a comment from Nokia.

http://www.jp.dk/itogc:aid=2013084/

(link will outdate within 24 hours)

[dejgaard]

With gas prices of these times, that's gonna cost you BIGTIME... (a somewhat sneaky LOL)

KD

[The Original dpb5!]

SIDENOTE:

I'm outta gas!

Have a great Labor Day Celebration everyone!

[The Original dpb5!]

Internet Epilogue...

It's all so ugly!!!!

Here is a link to one of Amazon.com's best selling book so far this year!

You guessed it....It's DISNEYWORLD 2004!

Gone are the days of Internet "Glamour" whereby one could say on the Internet that they owned a "piece" of "this".

Cheers to "print media" and "public advertising" for surviving the enslaught of the Internet Phenomena of 1999-2000!

But wait! What may 2004 bring?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764526316/alexashopping-5-20/103-0048676-2444650?dev-t=D2QN3...

[The Original dpb5!]

Even 3 years later!....

Alexa.com lists GO.COM as the 16th most visited website WORLDWIDE!

Personally, I find that hard to believe at all.

Probably because DISNEY.COM is included in that stat, likely!

OR MORE LIKELY....ESPN.COM!

Alexa still leaves a lot to be desired in tracking who's who and what's what on the internet, IMHO!

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=www.go.com

[The Original dpb5!]

GO.COM "powered by Google!" ???

This cracks me up! So soon after the announcement that Yahoo is buying OVERTURE.com (formerly in "old days known as GOTO.COM).....

GO.COM is suddenly POWERED BY GOOGLE!

Amazing!

Out with the old and in with the new! And then we see Brit of Google saying "NO IPO SOON"!

Stay tuned!!!!!

http://www.go.com/

[The Original dpb5!]

Additional thought...

I remember a guy by the strange name of Bernt Wahl who was attempting to buy Infoseek from Disney a while back. I wonder what ever happened with that?

This is the Bernt Wahl to which I am referring...

http://www.wahl.org/resume/

[The Original dpb5!]

Very interesting DickMN,

But I am still leary! It sounds quite reminiscent and freaky how Brin from Google is talking here about all this right now.

Frankly, it reminds me of those old days when Steve Kirsch and Harry Motro of INFOSEEK used to talk about things!!!!!

Google is still currently my search engine of choice, but if they were to announce an IPO, I'd be hesitant to quickly jump on the stock holding bandwagon.

Like Infoseek USED to be, google.com is a GREAT Search engine, but we all know that SEARCH is not the end all for users. Remember how we used to talk about CONTENT?

To me, content is still KING!

And quite frankly, not a one of the major websites today has fully learned that lesson! Not Yahoo! Not GO.COM (Disney). Not Amazon! And certainly NOT EBAY!

My idea of CONTENT may be far far removed from all of those giants, but I do have an idea that would far exceed their strongest attempts. But I ain't sharing that thought .... YET!

Now, if only the execs at Google would like to counsel with me on this! Who knows what could happen?????????????

[DickMN]

Re: A new chapter in the old GO.COM legacy!

dpb5- Thanks for the update. Here's a Bambi article where the founder of Google sizes up the Yahoo-Overture merger plus a bunch of other stuff including Google IPO rumors:

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&gui...

DickMN

[dejgaard]

Back at you on 'Private', Dick (eom)

[dejgaard]

Motorola 'marrying' Microsoft!!...

(Translated from the Danish online newspaper "Morgenavisen Jyllandsposten"s IT section, 30/8)

"According to the Norwegian webnews "Nettavisen", Motorola is on their way out of the Symbian-collaboration.

Instead, the mobil giant - the worlds second largest, after Nokia - base its future phones on Microsofts 'SmartPhone' system.

Motorola should, according to sources, be talking with Nokia and Psion about selling out of the Symbian collaboration. If the sale is carried out, the Finnish mobile phone producer and British Psion will be left holding 30%, each, in Symbian.

The Symbian collaboration was initiated by Motorola, Nokia, Psion and SonyEriccson and was supposed to counter Microsoft. The companies feared that Microsoft could end up controlling mobile telephony in much the same way as it controls the pc field.

Because of the Symbian collaboration, Microsoft has had a hard time finding mobile producers for it own system. So far, Microsoft has managed to release a (one) mobile phone - the SPV phone - through Orange. If rumors are true, Motorola's change of heart is, therefore, a very significant victory for Microsoft.

Motorola announced already long ago that the company would develop a mobile phone based on Microsoft's SmartPhone system. But back then, the Symbian collaboration was never drawn into question."

KD

[coolridi]

dave....go get grandpadude for me.

hope you all had a wonderful summer. Mine was splendid. Recently went up north to duluth and two harbors- so beautiful taking a look at lake superior and the split rock lighthouse, dickminn, have you been there?

State Fair is nice..fun walking around with my wife, daughter and granddaughter last night. Introduced my granddaughter to farm animals.

Take care...

[The Original dpb5!]

A new chapter in the old GO.COM legacy!

Remember way back when GO.COM was sued by GOTO.COM over the use of the Traffic Signal Logo?

Well, GO.COM lost that battle and had to quit using the Traffic Light Logo. Remember?

And later, after GO.COM was bought outright by Disney, GOTO.COM changed it's name to OVERTURE.COM. Remember?

Well, I just tripped across some interesting news about OVERTURE.COM. Back at the beginning of July, YAHOO.COM BOUGHT OVERTURE.COM

Just wanted to share is all.

http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=OVER&script=410&layout=0&item_id=...

[The Original dpb5!]

Hi DoubleBuy!

Same back at ya!

[aloha2213]

Hey DoubleBuy

"I told you that Rum & Diet Coke would clog up your pipes, see it's beginning to happen....;)....LOLLLLLLLLL"

The key to preventing that from happening is a twist of lime.

[DoubleBuy]

""""""I guess I wasn't quick enough on the draw. I'm losing my touch.""""""

I told you that Rum & Diet Coke would clog up your pipes, see it's beginning to happen....;)....LOLLLLLLLLL

and a Hello to all the old gang, hoping everyone had a safe and fun summer.

[dejgaard]

Insiders bailing out in July

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/breaking/breakingnewsarticle.asp?feed=OBR&Date=20030816&ID=...

Does not bode well for the market, overall.

Thoughts, Meme? Dick?

KD

[dejgaard]

Aloha

It's from a proverb ("Wetting your pants won't warm you for long")

Many proverbs are universal and have American versions, too. I don't suggest this one has, but I doubt it is exclusively Danish.

KD

BTW the nudist link still works.

...Actually...

...well...

Never mind...

KD

[aloha2213]

"To me, that's like urinating in your pants to get warm on a freezy day... (It helps, briefly, but then it gets much worse...)"

KD, what a graphic description. What is this board coming too?

BTW the nudist link still works.

[dejgaard]

Yeah, right Meme...

ROTFLOL!

And then, the link doesn't even work...

... Errrh...
...
...I mean....
...
...Not that I've checked...
...
...
...I mean...
...
...EVER!
...
...
...
...
...
...
...Say, isn't it nice that summer is...
...
...ohnevermindforcryingoutloud...

KD

[Meme]

Re: Yeah, right!

Dave - Don't sell Meme short, she might just be giving the nudist life style some serious thought. Notice that she hasn't deleted the post.

LOL - The truth is they've instituted some sort of new policy here. You can't delete a post after 48 hours. I guess I wasn't quick enough on the draw. I'm losing my touch.

Hey, at least, it's pretty inoffensive. <G>

Meme

[DickMN]

Re: Ooops, DICK...

KD - Thanks for the links. She's not a bad looking bimbo, but obviously attracted only by the money. Good grief, in that one photo either she's giant, or that Ecclestone character is a runt. Oh, the things that money can buy.

DickMN

[dejgaard]

Ooops, DICK...

She's actually Croatian...

Here's a couple of links to pictures of her (and it appears that she's not a natural blonde...)

http://www.gloria.com.hr/ecclestonne347.html

http://www.hrt.hr/vijesti/arhiv/99/11/20/KRV.html

KD

[dejgaard]

Thanks, Dick

I will try if I can Google the Czech bimbo - just for you!...

KD

[DickMN]

Re: OT - No F1 race in Montreal in 2004

Kurt - Not according to this:
http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=B0F09574-6395-45B3-A584-3AE8D4A80DC2

Also, can you paste a link to a photo of that Czech blondie-model?

DickMN

[dejgaard]

OT - No F1 race in Montreal in 2004

Reason, cigarette adds will be banned in Canada (as it is in many countries and F1 circuits around Europe).

In short:
The reasoning SUCKS!!
The decition STINKS!!

Bernie Ecclestone: Go hang yourself in a tree (if you can find one small enough!)!!
You affraid that your Czech blondie-model will leave you, if you don't make more than $1 billion a year?? (Chances are she actually would, you old fart!!)

Now, if we could get some ChampCar racing to our circuit in Montreal, instead...

KD

[dejgaard]

On our way to a re-test of the 200EMA support?

http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/SC.web?c=$COMPQ,uu[h,a]daolyyay[dd][pb50!c200][vc60][iUb14!La12,2...

If we are, I'll be buying into the final leg of that dip...

KD

[DickMN]

Re: Yeah, right!

Dave - Don't sell Meme short, she might just be giving the nudist life style some serious thought. Notice that she hasn't deleted the post.

DickMN

[The Original dpb5!]

Yeah, right!

And you will be so carefree in nature, just until the time that Meme reads your post and deletes your sorry ass!

[hubin]

Nudism,what is this?Have you ever know it's real meaning?It has no relation to porn and eroticism.It is a natural and comfortable lifestyle ,it makes me so free.There are around 1m people enjoy this!

want to look what they say or make friends with them?

http://www.nudistfriendfinder.com/i/1

have a look!

[dejgaard]

Re: Meme


You mention home building and it's certainly a factor. What really caught me off guard, a couple of months ago, was Louis Rukeyser mentioning that thanks to increasing expences in medicare and drugs, the US didn't slip into a secdond recession...

With an already overly expensive health care system (that doesn't give you nearly enough bang for your buck, if you ask me), how can rapidly increasing expences on that front be good? (Saving a recession or not...)

To me, that's like urinating in your pants to get warm on a freezy day... (It helps, briefly, but then it gets much worse...)

KD

[Meme]

Re: 29/7 Consumer confidence slips unexpectedly

Hard to believe that the Bull-index, which is at an alltime high, can be maintained under those circumstances

Yeppers, dej.

July Consumer Confidence Falls Sharply
Consumer Confidence Posts an Unexpected Sharp Drop in July, Rattled by Jump in Unemployment

The Associated Press

NEW YORK July 29 —
Consumer confidence took an unexpected tumble in July, rattled by a jump in unemployment to a 9-year high. That could mean a longer road to economic recovery if consumers allow their shaken feelings to curtail their spending a key driver of economic growth.

The Consumer Confidence Index fell to 76.6 in July, nearly a seven-point drop from 83.5 in June, the New York-based business industry group said Tuesday. Analysts had expected a 1.5 percentage point increase.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030729_1929.html

Then let's consider the other shoe that's about to drop...the reconciliation of State budgets, most of which have been caught up in heavy debate, but once settled will no doubt raise taxes and decrease aid.

Oh, but there's more. The rising mortgage rates may be a symptom of money growing scarcer due to our rising debt, which is only going to get worse as current estimates have us spending $1 billion per week for the war in Iraq. It's amazing to think that our debt has continued to increase an average of $1.68 billion per day since September 30, 2002!

And, of course, rising mortgage rates might soften the one major driving force still left in the economy...home sales.

And what fuel does Greenspan have left?

What a fucking mess Bush has made of things. Who could ever have guessed four years ago that peace and prosperity would so quickly turn into war, unemployment, rising debt and a Big Brother government.

I'm so disgusted.

Meme

[dejgaard]

29/7 Consumer confidence slips unexpectedly


Hard to believe that the Bull-index, which is at an alltime high, can be maintained under those circumstances

http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/SC.web?c=$bpcompq,uu[h,a]daclyyay[df][pb20!f]

I think we're in for a correction in the coming month to two...

KD

[dejgaard]

Growth forecasts for Wi-Fi

http://www.itworldcanada.com/index.cfm/ci_id/46122.htm

[dejgaard]

Re DICKMN

The picking shouldn't be too difficult, any company (even the dot-coms) that have survived the past 3 years most likely are for real.

I dunno about that...

I believe a lot of the crashed and Chapter 11 and Chapter 7s we've seen were of companies that were bogus to begin with.
That doesn't mean that everything of what's left will survive or that we've seen our last bankrupcy case.
There's been a lot of reverse splits in companies that still struggle to survive.

The whole B2B sector looks shaky to me and I'd not invest in that field at all, beyond the players that are also, but not exclusively in B2B (like ORCL and MSFT)

KD