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Maybe this is a result of this restructuration :
InterDigital Communications Corporation (Nasdaq:IDCC) recently announced that it has undertaken an internal structural reorganization to better position the company to successfully execute on its growth initiatives. Under the reorganization, effective July 2, 2007, InterDigital, Inc., a newly-formed entity, becomes the publicly-traded parent company for all of the InterDigital companies, including InterDigital Communications Corporation, InterDigital Technology Corporation, and its additional subsidiaries.
Do someone know when they will give a guidance for 4Q profits ?
Sorry if already posted.
Do someone know when they will give a guidance for 4Q profits ?
Sorry if already posted.
glennymo, thanks for your answer.eom.
Who can tell me the impact on IDCC's business of this new Internet phone calling ?
Wireless
Wireless Net calling targets masses
Paul Davidson, 01.04.05, 11:09 AM ET
USA TODAY
Internet phone calling, which is already rocking the traditional phone business, is poised to take on the cellphone industry later this year.
Vonage, the No. 1 Internet phone company, will unveil plans today to offer subscribers a wireless Wi-Fi phone that can make calls over the Internet at homes or at public Wi-Fi hot spots. For Vonage subscribers, the phone could amount to a kind of limited-use cellphone that would cost nothing extra.
Several smaller companies have introduced Wi-Fi phones in the USA at prices ranging from $130 to $750. But Vonage's move would mark the first mass-market rollout of the device at a lower price, probably around $100.
'Our customers are asking for it,' says Vonage CEO Jeffrey Citron.
The service poses at least some threat to wireless carriers because Wi-Fi calls are effectively free, says TeleChoice analyst Daniel Briere. Cellphone calls, by contrast, eat up a monthly bucket of minutes.
The company plans to roll out the phone, made by UTStarcom, between April and June.
Vonage will offer the phones to its 400,000 subscribers, who typically pay $24.99 a month for unlimited local and long-distance calls. Those customers plug a regular phone into an adapter linked to a broadband Internet line. Vonage turns the calls into data that zip across the Internet before being converted back to voice at the other end.
Now, Vonage wants to take the service a step further with Wi-Fi networks that let people surf the Internet wirelessly. With a Wi-Fi phone, they could make Internet calls from home without the need to run wires to the broadband line. Customers could use the phone number of their existing Vonage service or a new one for no extra fee.
Subscribers also could use the phones at public Wi-Fi hot spots that offer wireless Web access. Fee-based hot spots are sprouting in coffee shops, hotels and airports. Huge swaths of some cities, and entire college campuses, are becoming free hot spots.
Vonage-subscribing families could give their son or daughter a Wi-Fi phone to make free calls at college.
Vonage hopes the Wi-Fi phone will attract new customers. 'It's a great differentiator,' Briere says.
Yet some downplay any serious threat to the wireless industry, noting that only cellphones work practically everywhere. 'The vast majority of college students have cellphones, and they're not going to carry two devices,' says IDC analyst Alex Slawsby.
Motorola and Nokia have introduced dual-mode Wi-Fi/cellphones that can roam between the two networks. But they will not be widely offered by U.S. carriers until 2006, Slawsby says.
Vonage today is also slated to announce plans for a cordless Internet phone for the home that won't require an adapter and a low-cost Internet-based video phone.
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? Copyright 2004 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.
Someone wanted 25'000 shares at 26.99$ : an error occured ? Happens sometimes.
After hours no significant :
16.17 $ 27.06 282
16.10 $ 27.06 2796
16.10 $ 27.05 668
16.02 $ 27.06 300
16.02 $ 27.06 400
OT: You simply have to login. eom
rmarchma, I'm afraid the "big ones" won't license before the resolution of NOK/SAM. And without a big one, the share price won't move much higher. We must stick at the hope of a positive arbitration for IDCC. And if we get it : BOOM !
OT : Brokentrade, thank you for explaining. You're right, I confused with broken80. Sorry.
Bulld., what about january 01 ? LOL eom.
OT: Broken, it's a long time since I talked to you. Are you still trading with options ? And by the way, what means your last message ? I'm not competent enough to understand.
That would mean about 0.06 EPS for 2004. Not much enough to mean an upgrade from the analysts. What do you think ?
Learning2vest, many thanks for your clear and quite complete answer. Do you have any idea of the usual validity of IDCC's patents ? Does a standard exist or do each patent own its proper validity ?
To anybody , question : What are the IDCC patents expiring in 2006 ? All for 2G and 2.5G ? Clear answer welcome. Thanks.
Well hrbart, playing with options means you accept some risk. Thats the first thing. Then, think about the potential of IDCC in the future. If you think the shares are likely to go up, sell puts. In the contrary, sell calls. Never sell calls if they aren't covered. Too risky.
I prefer to sell puts that to buy calls. The premium is in my favor.
I suggest you sell jan04 puts, strike 20$, but wait until a dip in the share price. A good sell would be at 1.80$ or higher. You can sell the half now (1.50$) and, if the share price goes down, sell another half later.
Of course, selling puts doesn't offer you the same upside potential as buying calls, but the premium is in your favor. If we are at 18.50$ at the expiration day in january, you will be able to buy back your puts at about the same price you sold them. In the contrary, you can keep the premium.
I think the share price wont move very much before we settle with nokia and samsung. Meanwhile, keep your shares and make money with the options selling puts.
Another possibility is to sell puts and at the same time, with the money, buy calls. Personally, I sold jan05 puts (strike 22.50$) and bought jan05 calls (strike 15$). The shares will cost me 15.70$ in jan05 (15$+7.20$ = 22.20$ less 6.50$ = 15.70$). And I'm convinced that in jan05, the share price will be higher than 16$. (in fact, I think it'll be much higher).
There are an infinity of possibilities, but I allways made money selling puts. And if you choose a smaller premium (for example jan04 puts strike 17.50$ at 0.50$), you will almost allways be able to keep the premium.
Don't be in a hurry, take your time, be patient, wait for a good opportunity.
And remember, playing with options is risky.
A good link for options :
http://www.optionsxpress.com/quote_option_chain.asp?SESSIONID=&IsSubmited=true
Last upgrade from RBC : 15/10/03. See post 45969 from mschere.
mschere, the last update from RBC is from the 15th of oct.
See your post 45969.
Very good opportunity for IDCC (and for me) to buy back shares. Maybe that is why yhe price is holding well.
The actual "Outperform" from PJ is the same as the old "Buy" they used. See page 6 of PJ report : Legend, bottom of the page.
OT: Thanksformusic, thank you for your help.
Danny, a little bit late, but to confirm that just below "Strong buy" (Piper Jaffray) figure "Outperform", see bottom of page 6 of the report , "Legend" :
Prior to 12/12/01 OP stocks were rated "Buy".
I don't know if that was allready posted, but can anyone comment or explain the Q103 EPS of 0.11 in the Piper Jaffray report ? I thought IDCC reported 0.45. Is that correct ?
OT: To any chartist : what do say the charts for the short term ?
Associated Press
Cell Phone Sales Rise in First Quarter
Monday June 2, 11:08 am ET
Cell Phone Makers Sell 112.7 Phones in First Quarter, Boosting Sales by 18 Percent
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/030602/cell_phone_sales_1.html
Pochemunyet, I've been many times in the US and I know very well american people. I was refering to what said lochnroll about my feminine name. But maybe you didn't catch this one !
Sometime, level II is worth in the humor too.
lochnroll, take it easy. I'm not offended but I felt something like injustice to be juged a short. I know there are some here, but I'm not one of them. That's all.
JMR.
Revlis, I know all the potential of IDCC and I've kept my shares in the good and bad moments. I'm trading and investing since 1985 (IDCC since 1999) and I have no stress when the price is going down as I know what IDCC worth is. I do post very few but my posts are always objective and some of them were pointing out the positive of this stock too. English is not my language and that may affect them. That will be my last post about that subject. I don't care what you or anybody thinks because the important thing for me is that people here answer to me when I need it. And I must thank all the members here who help us to remain confident by all the information they share.
Regards. JMR.
Revlis, I'm not. What kind of paranoïa are you suffering ?People here think that if somebody doesn't post the same way as everybody, he's a short. I'm long 15'000 shares since a long long time.
BTW, what is the "short" way to post ?
lochnroll, I'm not short at all and very positive on the stock. I don't want any fight, I was just trying to know the sentiment of people following the stock here.
I'm very astonished by what you wrote about my name. Usually people on this board are more polite and wise. You seem to have slept very bad last night. Take a hot bath and relax !
Nasdaq up this week, IDCC flat. Could someone comment ?
Jimlur and mschere, thanks with delay for your answers. I've just read them in my mailbox which I don't use very much cause I'm not member and can't use all features.
OT: grither, sorry for the delay, but I had to travel to Switzerland where my mother is in the hospital. I don't know when I'll be back home and for the moment can't use e-mail. Moreover, I very rarely have a look at my mailbox here because I'm not member and can't use "private reply".
I noted your e-mail adress and will mail you mine as soon as possible.
Regards. JMR.
Dany, it looks like a "dazibao" but I agree 100% with your post. I do post very few because I don't feel like getting no answer or an ironic one, but I lurk every day. And what you say resume very well what I feel of this board. Even if it has always helped me to understand IDCC. Maybe one thing more to add : people here are very close to the market and therefore are not able, sometimes, to see it like it is. A tree can hide the wood. A week or day chart doesn't mean much when you are long and confident.
Thanks to Desert dweller who said in the middle of the hurricane :
"Is IDCC any different today than it was last Tuesday when we hit $27.50? Has the company issued any negative press since then? On the contrary, they presented a very good discussion to Piper Jaffray on Wednesday and here we are complaining because the stock price is down. It never fails, price goes up everyone is fat and happy, price goes down and we we start to complain.?" Post 27276
To anyone, where can I find the history of the nasdaq quotes ? Thanks to give me a link.
Jimlur, thank you for the script.
OT: Broken80, you must make the difference between calls and puts. I think that when the option strike is below the actual share price, the calls are in-the-money and the puts out-of-the-money. When the strike is above the share price, the calls are out-of-the-money and the puts in-the-money. And this whatever you do, sell or buy.
You're right about the calls, but as I've made about $40'000 in expired put premiums, that let me take more risk. But I'll buy, if I do, very few. Did you allready try strategies like straddle or things like that ?
BTW, do you still live in NY ?
OT: Broken80, how about jumping to next step ? I've just sold 50 June $27.50 puts. It is the first time I sell "in the money" (usually more conservative and prudent like I told you), but with now a good cash in my account, I can take a little more risk. What about you, I read that you had bought calls. Which ones ? I'm looking to buy some too, but hesitate between the June $27.50 and the June $30.00. I still own May $20.00, June $12.50, $15.00 and $17.50, Sept $17.50 and $20.00 and Jan05 $25.00. Well, when I say I own them, in fact I sold them.
Yes, forgetting the various splits. But pleasant indeed.
Thanks for your help Once. I don't think they took me for a basher because my questions were very innocent. I'm long this stock since 1999, before it went to $80 and I intend to enjoy the present IDCC actuality. I've been waiting for that a looooooong time.
I imagine that everybody was very busy with the CC call and that's why nobody has answered yet. Moreover, my posts are far from beeing those of a specialist !!! But this board has helped me a lot as did the old one on RB.
BTW, I asked you some days ago if you were owner of IDCC shares. You didn't answer. Why ? It is not a bad question as you seem very doubtful about the value of this stock but still posting on this board. Anyway, everybody can say whatever he feels.