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putnum..roflmao..who would eally listen to anything that part timer says?...
His batting avg is so falking bad...I think he does not even know where home plate is, let alone how to hit a ball...
homeruns,,another pump from those two idiots...
after five+ years , you figure something is not right..(which scam-nasdaq,treo,oddy,f10,beo,hp,intel,aps)..???...psst-open your eyes to the obvious otcBB SCAM......
Please don't pass the
pass the koolaid this way..I think it's sour....
philo...do they run on batteries?
typical daboss......u should know by now......
but when...this id tag update is a little old...how many more months/years.....zzzzz...what do they really do in poway on a daily basis......
Matt, cool,How did you get the cult out?
shock & awe 3/24/03.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
moxa, no it is not about JUST music, the real product is
.. stock...imho..I expect those expectations to be a big as past expectations(actually allot less)
DATAPLAY
MTV
TREO
O1k...
etc
etc
...wireless..lol
Mary, yes impressive for a new product launching against many competitors..of course apple has the money, management and methods to pull off a real business plan......
Do you know what was edigital's (ncii)total sales $ for the last ten years...excluding the stock printer?
lol.....hardly you say....what is edigital's total sales for the last ten years combined..or should I say all of Norris Inc..ie:/edig/ptsc/atco for TEN years...
excluding the stock printer...
last year the treo..now the odd1...all 1000 or so..+/-...zzzzzz....how boring...and no way profitable..imvho...
timf, some trend..but what is soon, is that stock printer to keep the fire burning and the many cults who pump every dot to no end.....
I really wonder what is worse..
mismanagement(very obvious-MBA?)
bs pr's(soon & confident type)
cults a pumpin(every dotless penny)
secret boards for cult(who still need to be public pumpers)
that falking stock printer(nice business plan)
that a company can legally get away with this(very terrorizing)
How many O1k's sold out?..
This first shippment sounds like more falktalk?
Numbers please....100,500, or was it that 1000...
If so why have two already popped up for sale on ebay, new sealed units?...
LONDON (Reuters) - British music giant EMI said on Wednesday it was slashing 1,800 jobs and axing faded stars from its roster in a drive to cut costs and revive its fortunes in the down-and-out music industry.
After making a splash earlier this year by ditching costly pop star Mariah Carey, EMI said it would also halve its dividend as it outlined a sweeping makeover aimed at reaching almost $142 million of annualized savings.
Desperate to reverse its decline, EMI brought industry guru Alain Levy on board last year to turn around the group. Levy has spent the last six months trawling the business for savings and said he would slash nearly 20 percent of EMI's staff of 9,388.
But his restructuring comes at a cost.
EMI, home to Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams and Mick Jagger, said the revamp would involve an exceptional charge of 110 million pounds while other write-offs and charges would take its total exceptional charge to a whopping 240 million pounds.
The world's top music groups have been under severe pressure to drive down costs and restructure after one of the industry's worst years on record as the economic downturn compounded the effects of waning CD sales and rampant piracy.
"Many executives have forgotten this industry is all about artists and music," Levy told an analysts' presentation.
"We have streamlined the artist roster which I found fairly bloated. For example, we had 49 artists in Finland and I don't think there are 49 Finns that can sing," he joked.
EMI shares climbed 2.3 percent to 354 pence by 1140 GMT on higher-than-expected savings from the revamp. The pan-European DJ Stoxx media index was 0.4 percent down.
CALMING DEBT FEARS
EMI has been hit more than most in the music industry after seeing major mergers with rivals Warner Music and BMG fall through, while some of its multi-million dollar stars fail to score hits.
EMI, the worlds third biggest music company, soothed concerns over the group's mounting debt, saying it had agreed a refinancing package with banks, made up of an 800 million pound three-year facility and a 500 million pound bridge facility.
EMI's new Chief Financial Officer, Roger Faxon, said he expected the group to end the year with net debt of 1.1-1.2 billion pounds.
However, bankers said the loan had become more expensive since it was first discussed earlier this year as the group's troubles intensified, forcing EMI to issue two profit warnings in the space of six months.
EMI stuck to its 2001 pre-tax profit forecast of 150 million pounds on Wednesday. Levy said the majority of the job cuts would be made by the end of this month while the dividend for 2001 would fall to eight pence from 16 pence last year.
"Cost savings are coming through 33.5 million pounds ahead of the original target, but at a significant (initial) cost," said Simon Baker, media analyst at SG Securities. "The bigger concern is that this will just be a short-term benefit."
ASSET SALES
Levy is on a big bonus to resuscitate EMI, but analysts said that cost cutting would only bring short-term relief and EMI still faces fundamental long-term industry problems.
One of those problems is unearthing a new format to replace the CD and stem widespread piracy which is eating into profits. A merger with another major player could have kept EMI going in the meantime but regulators have made clear they will not accept further consolidation among the top five music groups.
In the meantime, EMI said it was still working toward selling off non-core assets such as manufacturing and distribution. However, Levy said he wanted to spruce up those particular divisions first to improve their efficiency.
Faxon also said the group would consider offers for its stake in retailer HMV Media.
In his presentation to analysts, Levy said he was working on the assumption that sales growth would be between zero and three percent in the financial year 2002/03, and between three and five percent in the following two years.
Levy also set an operating margin goal for EMI's recorded music division of 11 percent to 13 percent within three years.
email...lol...zzz..nothing said everything expected as usual..but hey call me we'll talk some more...
does anyone really expect him to say anything like we only expect x number of oems....
besides has RP ever come close....?..no..why I'll never call and listen to his BS again..2000, 2001 was enough ..he did expect things soon...what an overpaid BS'r...
ot~Gary
I have had that happen after I was booted or my phone modem disconnected..it should be ok after an hour or two...latter..
PS-Autocad Inventor-try it! kicks but vs Mech. Desktop and Solid Works..not sure about ProE Jr.
newElong
I read your post..
wow 6 people are going to evolve into 20MM in business overnite...I'm sure Sony is worried...sounds Hy-tec to me
So with no Dataplay until (expected)April/May..what is next?....and don't say auto...
ot~handheld price drops...
http://zdnetshopper.cnet.com/shopping/0-205442-1450-0.html?tag=pdrop
Will eDigital's management follow PTSC foot steps?...
IMO a nice bullish move to boost investor confidence, after all we buy shares...why not management?
Moxa..thanks...//
No bang from B&O yet ?.....where is the Beo....not that this will be a volume number, every bit we need at this point...
food 4 thought..http://www.mcwhortle.com/
Late May now..is April a pre-production soft launch?....
Fish everything with Falk is latter this year, or usually next quarter....the statements the man has said in the past put him up there with Enron execs in my opinion..I have no use for him or Robert the BS ...
If it was not for Jim C turning a few things around there I'd have sold the whole lot last year...I just talked to my brother and he is dumping the rest of his soon...(soon..lol)
yes an otc for ever in my opinion...Nasdaq was a clever way for insiders to falk us and dump at 11-12...regardless of what any one says here....will we ever see 2,3 or 5 this year...probably not without level3...
MrG..hey long time..how is the circus known as RB..yes my sun is slightly clouded(can u blame me)...but You knew that..have a Happy New Year...
yepp..iChat down..RB down..Edig down.....oh well..hypsters work it please...lol...TIA..
24601..some site..linked to edig.com/yahoo...
How hard is it to correct the image?....oh about 2 seconds..
This whole Hytek show has been amateur hour from day one...I hope the new year finally brings some NEW oems...even a known one or two..who could have a website over the competence of a sixth grader....
gogirl..gogirl...you sound like techgrunter waiting for a soon and confident nasdaq listing also....lol
Pam,
I hope they arrive, and wish you and your family a Merry Christmas.
Venting is good...fwiw...
Sincerly,
George
Wishing all longs here a safe and happy holiday season.
D.inkie..hey I agree..don't shoot me..I did not do the review/s....
This small MP3 player includes some nifty extras, like voice recording, but it's difficult to use.
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,75663,00.asp
the good, bad and ugly truths...3 out of 5 stars..imagine if it did not have voice nav...ugh...
I know you'll all say old Ann McDonald is also a basher according to the universal church of edig longs...guided by who now?
Tinroad........??
wow..up to 50 bucks off..how much does edig net on these puppies?...
Dell never gave me a discount for being a shareholder??..........
oh well etail sucs imho..retail is the answer and a household name sure would help to get this moving past the few units which seem to be selling...
reviewers where are you?...not here I guess...
pumaman...Do you know how long it takes to load a cd direct, not using a PC ? If it takes the same time to load a CD as it takes to listen to the CD, I'm sure very few would ever do this, since freeware is all over to rip cd's into a pc/mp3 format at warp speeds....
....and then simply load the mp3 files to ANY music player made..(currently 1.4 million in the US alone)...edig is maybe what? 1/10th of 1/10th of a percent of the market.....(makes one wonder how creative these folks from poway are??)
I agree we need Advertising (and not a 2 week late pr's like yesterdays feed the troops)and an OEM that someone knows...(then maybe edig could be 1 or 2 percent of a growing confused, depressed market..now too late for Christmas 2001...
I know...there's always next year...next CES...next nasdaq..next yawn...next management?...here's wishing!!
more obvious every day....
TAKE ANY MP3 FILE FORMAT ..BURN IT..FINALIZE IT....[using std software that Compaq supplied with the cd burner (CeQuadrat)] !..IT WILL PLAY IN ANY STD CD WALKMAN...
try it...
How else do you think I compared sound quality of the same tracks......using CD media...(std 650mb Maxell blanks)
___I still wondered whether these new gadgets can store, retrieve and play both formats (mp3/wav) one after another...
___and yes interested in a portable storage device for word, excel and cad files...
Your question- Can you play burnt mp3's on a cd in a std cd player...yes....
I did some tests using a master cd, a copied cd and files from the master converted(compressed)to mp3 format & burnt on a 25 cent blank cd...
The sound thru the Klipsch La Scala's(all class A audio)...left some friends wondering was it live, a master or mp3 copy????...
over a year latter and mp3's...hmmm
My question was can these players store multiple file formats and play them?
24601...so how long does it take the XP to convert and load a *.wav file (cd file) into a MP3 file?
Also can a *.wav file be loaded directly to unit?
I thought the mp3 format was not good..roflmao..(see my napster tests done in 2000)
I'm not really sure what your point was other than maybe division...you could also put 10-20 of them there cds on ONE cd burned in mp3 format...but you knew that....
the important questions are can std cds be loaded direct...and std napster files...both file types..and or other file types for transporting work...
*.xls
*.dwg
*.doc
etc,,,,,,,,
So with a oem in a retail...where is the pr Fred.???..even if no households know it...