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Guess who lives here? He may need some InCellEntertainment. Or perhaps just a bar of soap.
Sheesh.........I was just asking.
Can't afford one, actually can't afford much of anything.
But someday when the gates of Poway break, then you watch out. Yes siree!!!
Has it hit a million shares yet? I'm 20 minutes late.........in everything I do.
Price prease.........volume too, if you got it.
Price prease....eom tia yada yada yada
So, what could you use something like that for? Paperweight? Door Stop.........or can you get the drive and memory?
Kinda like sending the Ipod back to get a new battery and when you think you get your's back it has 5000 Larry Welk tunes on it..............and a one and a two
If it was for you, you would get someone's Slim Whitman collection along with Zamphir's
and Box Car Willie
I like this, don't you?
let's see how high this mountain is!
Dow Jones Business News
No Growth In Global Music Sales Before 2005 - Report
Tuesday November 18, 9:11 am ET
Edited Press Release
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The value of global music sales will continue to fall in the years to 2005, according to a new report by Informa Media Group.
The report, The Global Music Industry (3rd Edition), estimates that the global value will drop below $28 billion in 2004 before returning to growth in 2005, driven primarily by the restriction of online file exchange coupled with greater control of CD copying. By the end of 2008 the value of global sales is estimated to have risen to $32 billion.
For 2003 the value of the world's music sales is forecast to fall for the fourth year in succession.
Informa Media estimates the decrease in the retail value will be 8.9%, reducing the overall value of sales to $28.2 billion.
CD sales, which fell for the first time in 2001, are forecast to decrease for a third year - by 8% to 2.1 billion units.
Author of the report Simon Dyson said: "The music industry is in a bad way at the moment but the continued fall in the value of music sales is certainly not irreversible.
"The success of the new download services proves there is a viable market for legitimate digital sales, but the music companies must act decisively to stop the growth of the illegal services and the widespread copying of CDs."
Although Informa has forecast a return to growth in 2005, this is not based on an assumption of inevitable growth after lengthy decline but on the music industry finally scoring some success in the battle against file sharing and CD copying.
While the sale of music via the internet is to prove itself as a growth sector, Informa believes its significance has been exaggerated and will not prove to be the industry's savior in the short- to medium-term.
For the years up to and including 2008 the level of online music sales in all formats is forecast to rise but will only account for an estimated 12.1% share of the global total.
Digital music sales will increase in the years to 2008 but will remain a niche sector. By 2008, digital sales will account for an estimated 5.7% of the global total.
That could be, but I want to fit into my office chair. It is gonna put alot of potato and grain farmers out of business and I feel sorry for their loss.
In the words of Fat Bastard "I ain't seen my _ _ _ _ _ for years"
You're up pretty early. Make me some eggs and bacon.... no toast, Atkins diet.
Wow, the sweepers are out tonight. Where do they come from. The language, it's all so sad. Probably be a big jail round-up tonight. Spanning the Globe to bring you to the Ihub Jail
Chowder is this you?
I guess we're not the only ones who have questions. Interesting read......
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=1754637
Kind of an all around blood bath on both the Naz and the Dow. This little guy is the only exception in my portfolio "at the moment".
Yes, I wonder why that is. Perhaps the overall honesty and sincerity of the caller, could be picked up over the phone lines, versus the alternative... Of course this is only my opinion.
Cassy, why don't you check it out and get back with the information. I'm sure everyone is on pins and needles waiting for your "conformation".
Boy, if you ask me, they look pretty similar. Are they?
;-}
so, are you buying in two share lots? Or did you break open the piggy bank and splurge for a block of 50?
What did we clothe at?
Technology
Comdex Struggles To Stay Relevant
Dean Takahashi, 11.14.03, 12:36 PM ET
The Comdex high-tech trade show that opens in Las Vegas on Sunday may be defined more by what isn't there than what is.
Like people. This year the crowds will be thinner, with show organizers saying they'll be happy to lure a quarter of the 200,000-plus attendees that came during the go-go years of the Internet bubble. The show floor in the cavernous Las Vegas Convention Center will be filled with about 150,000 square feet of space from 500 exhibitors. That's positively cozy compared with the 1 million square feet occupied by 2,500 exhibitors during the boom times of a few years ago.
Gone are the consumer technologies that now find a much better forum at January's Consumer Electronics Show. Gone are the dot-coms, the massage-chair makers, the lavish parties and the perpetual hype machines. Gone are the locals -- once 23% of the show -- who got in free. In their place will be sober panel discussions, utilitarian booths rarely bigger than studio apartments and a more focused, elite audience who are paying to attend.
Eric Faurot, general manager of Comdex and a vice president at MediaLive International in San Francisco, said the downsizing reflects a deliberate strategy to return the show to its roots. Now it's just going to be a gathering of buyers and sellers of corporate-focused information technology.
"Our goal remains to be a relevant event, not a large event," adds Robert Priest-Heck, chief executive of MediaLive. "Size does not matter."
Comdex's identity crisis mirrors the struggles of the information technology industry itself as it looks for a road map to the future after an unprecedented three-year downturn. The industry is just starting to emerge from its long winter, with revenue growth estimated to be 5% for next year according to research firm IDC (nyse: IDC - news - people ).
Comdex began as a show for distributors more than two decades ago, then rode the wave of the personal computer in the 1980s and the Internet in the 1990s. In 2001, the show drew 10,000 people, or about 10% of attendees, from the Bay Area. But Comdex became too big and unwieldy. "People couldn't do business anymore," Faurot said.
By comparison, Comdex's fall has coincided with the rise of CES, which is expected to draw about 100,000 people and feature 1 million square feet of exhibit space. That show is thriving in part because consumers are still spending on a flood of new gadgets as technology moves from analog to digital. Priest-Heck contends that CES and Comdex appeal to entirely different vendors and crowds.
But some people aren't buying the idea that Comdex still matters.
"The truth is that the travel budgets to go to these shows just don't exist anymore," said Aaron Goldberg, an analyst at Ziff Davis Market Experts in Boston. "This show is becoming a non-entity."
Comdex executives insist that face-to-face meetings are still important and that there is still a need for people to go to one place and soak in all of the current technology available. Big exhibitors at Comdex include Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and Computer Associates (nyse: CA - news - people ). Some companies like Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) haven't been at the show for years, but the chip maker will have a few booths within Microsoft's space.
The fact that Comdex survived so far is a miracle in itself. Comdex's previous owner, Key3Media, went bankrupt in February and San Francisco investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners invested in the surviving entity and brought it back to life as MediaLive International.
Leaving the show for dead, competitors saw a potential vacuum. So Comdex will find it must to share its smaller audience with rival show Computer Digital Expo, put on by Jupitermedia. CDXpo will stage a conference at the same time at the new Mandalay Bay convention center a short distance away from Comdex. Alan Meckler, chairman of Jupitermedia (nasdaq: JUPM - news - people ) and creator of Internet World, said that he hopes to cannibalize Comdex's audience. Since he's starting out small, Meckler said he will be perfectly happy to get 10 percent of Comdex's attendees. So far, CDXpo has signed up 65 exhibitors occupying about 6,500 square feet of space.
"We only need 3,000 to 4,000 people to have a blow-out show," Meckler said.
While Comdex has held on to heavyweight speakers such as Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) CEO Scott McNealy, CDXpo has recruited a lower tier of executives, including HP (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) Executive Vice President Peter Blackmore, SCO Group (nasdaq: SCOX - news - people ) CEO Darl McBride (whose company is suing IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) for allegedly contributing SCO's licensed Unix code to Linux) and IBM Vice President Gail Whipple. Meckler notes that while IBM has avoided Comdex for years, it chose to put a booth on the floor of CDXpo for its digital media services division.
"Our show is more for people who are in the trenches," said Meckler.
The themes of the shows cover the gamut of topics in information technology, from utility computing to security. A large number of companies will once again be parasites and hold meetings in much cheaper hotel rooms. A $50 hotel suite still beats $50 a square foot on the convention floor. But Comdex executives are trying to make their show more relevant by creating areas of interest like wireless enclaves and sponsoring mixers at hotels and restaurants on specific topics.
Meanwhile, gatekeepers like Faurot are keeping out the vendors that turned Comdex into a madhouse in past years. At a time when the number of exhibitors and attendees is dwindling, turning away people who want to come is a scary thing to do, acknowledged Faurot.
"But we want a show that's relevant this year," he said. "We have to have the right buyers and sellers together."
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Iguess that would leave a few people out in the cold
A tad off topic, but it's about Comdex on Monday;
Press Release Source: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy Keynotes at Comdex; Announces Major News Around Sun's Low-Cost Computing Initiative
Friday November 14, 8:00 am ET
Join Scott McNealy, Chairman, President and CEO of Sun Microsystems, for his Comdex keynote on Monday, November 17, to hear more about the new ways Sun is helping customers "Scale-Out" their network computing infrastructures.
Scott McNealy plans to make major announcements during his keynote, which will be followed by a press conference. During the press conference, McNealy will be joined by Neil Knox, Sun's Executive Vice President for Volume Systems, and other industry leaders.
WHAT:
Scott McNealy Comdex keynote followed by a press conference and Q&A
WHEN:
Monday, November 17, 2003
9:00-10:00 a.m. PT - Keynote (Room C5/Level 1)
10:15-11:00 a.m. PT - Press Conference (Room N101/Level 1)
WHERE:
Comdex 2003 - Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV
WEBCAST:
Please visit the following URL for the McNealy Keynote Webcast on Monday,
November 17: http://www.sun.com/webcasts/powerplay
AUDIOCAST:
To hear the audiocast of the press conference, please dial:
Domestic: 800-955-9331
International: 904-779-4741
CONTACT:
To RSVP or for further information please contact:
Tara Sims at Alexander Ogilvy at 415.677.2803 or
tsims@alexanderogilvy.com.
byte your tongue
Hey Fred, where have you been?
Revenues decreased from the prior quarter and losses increased slightly. Hopefully this will be anomolous and the trend will reverse. We are a long way from break even. The margins on product arent bad, they just need to move a whole lot more in order for a "neutral" quarter. If the burn is 600k a quarter and they are averaging say 12% that will require roughly 5.5 million in product sales for break even. I am interested in how they are going to grow revenues from here on out. The branding is a start (depending on $/unit). I look forward to guidance on the present quarter.
I won't bore you with the names of APS, Gateway, Eclipse, Disney.
This post was almost as funny as some of the others that were posted today. Good work Cap't.
So, if I get this straight..............'nice, the latest gateway email pumping the player along with their media center pcs and Napster'
They're pumping the player and we know the player is a scam. Someone had better call Gateway and let them know. Sheesh!!
I think they are doing a good job of cutting expenses. OFCOURSE THIS IS ONLY MY OPINION
Total operating expenses (consisting of research and related expenditures and selling and administrative expenses) for the six months ended September 30, 2003 were $1,441,332, as compared to $2,847,756 for the six months ended September 30, 2002. Selling and administrative costs aggregated $764,527 for the first six months of fiscal 2004 compared to $2,044,261 in the prior period. The $1,279,734 decrease in selling and administrative costs resulted primarily from the following: decrease in personnel and benefit costs of $670,204, a decrease of $318,659 in professional fees, a decrease in customer service costs of $81,000, a $71,094 decrease in shareholder relations expense, a $24,930 decrease in deprecation and amortization expense and a decrease in advertising and promotional items of $76,914. We anticipate quarterly selling and administrative expenses to be constant as we are focused more on OEM opportunities and de-emphasize selling and marketing our branded products.
I guess you should start to look towards the future. It seems the Past is just what it is.........the Past. I feel IN MY OPINION, that things are changing for the better.
I can understand your frustration, that things aren't going the way you invisioned. But sometimes that's just the way the cards are dealt. And it appears that the little company that could, was dealt a better hand than you.
For the first six months of fiscal 2004, the Company reported a loss of $1,335,125 ($0.01 per share) versus $4,615,860 ($0.03 per share) for the same six-month period last year.
That is a very good step in the right direction. Dropping two cents off the loss per share. Do that in the next three months its a profit of a penny. Which is very reachable and maybe quite low for that matter.
Well, the price was down, but I kinda expected it. However, we are still up 13+% for the last two days. Maybe tomorrow will bring gnus and "good" surprises.
Yes, but that was only because the logistics of cleaning out the back room was longer than expected. Along with finding enough lawn chairs for the audience.
Those are good questions, unfortunately, you can't ask them here. Why? Well this is a stock forum where you can talk about the stock, pro and con, but not about the poster's motives. Yes, it is strange, but those are the rules and we have to live by them in perfect harmony.
If I may suggest, go back a ways and read all of the posts. You will find some repetitive posts that will take you some time to wade through. But by doing that, you should get some inkling into the mindset of some that you question.
Good luck.
So what's the morning volume? I'm 20 min. late and I show 450k+ and 6 cents down.
Update please
Nobody said "profit" was a dirty word. Without any news you had to assume that this would happen.
Someone get the rumor mill cranked up......
If we pretend like its 1999, I'll have to find all of my old clothes and there is a slight problem with them fitting. If you know what I mean.
eh?I didn't know you were Canadian.......that answers a lot of questions........ya der
I beg to differ.....here's just one of your advice columns.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=1742988
Market News
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EDIG EDIGITAL CORPORATION
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52W HIGH: New 52-Wk High for EDIG @ $0.560 up16.67%
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2003 10:16 AM
This is the 1st 52 WEEK HIGH alert for EDIG in the past 7 calendar days.
The share price for eDigital Corporation (OTCBB: EDIG) reached a new 52-week high today, trading at $0.560, up $0.080 (16.67%) from its previous close of $0.480.
The Company's previous 52-week high of $0.550 was set 64 days ago on September 09, 2003.
One year ago, the Company's shares closed at $0.180. The price has climbed more than 211 percent since then.
At the time of this alert, the stock had traded 792,000 shares via 118 trades, 129.54% above it's 20day average of 345,035 shares.
This new 52-week high currently puts the stock:
36.42% above its 20day Moving Average of $0.410
27.53% above its 50day Moving Average of $0.439
51.18% above its 100day Moving Average of $0.370
The Company last released news on October 20, 2003:
"e.Digital and DivXNetworks Partner to Supply the Technology Inside APS' digEplayer"
EDIGITAL CORPORATION
e.Digital Corporation is a holding company that operates through a wholly-owned California subsidiary of the same name. The Company develops, brands, markets, and sells consumer electronics products, focusing on digital music players, digital voice recorders, related items and accessories such as removable digital storage media, carrying cases, and rechargeable batteries. The Company offers engineering partnerships to electronics companies to create portable digital devices that can link to personal computers and the Internet. The Companys also provides support services for its consumer electronics products including technical support, warranty support and some repairs.
So, then these were the people that sold in November-02 and buying back in?
I believe you have covered this already. It appears you are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
The last 4+ million share day was:
E Digital Corp (EDIG.OB) At 3:59PM ET: 0.60 0.12 (25.00%) Reuters
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29-Jan-03 0.17 0.19 0.17 0.19 279,200 0.19
28-Jan-03 0.19 0.19 0.18 0.18 302,800 0.18
27-Jan-03 0.19 0.19 0.19 0.19 204,800 0.19
23-Jan-03 0.19 0.20 0.19 0.20 208,600 0.20
22-Jan-03 0.19 0.20 0.19 0.20 217,100 0.20
21-Jan-03 0.19 0.19 0.18 0.19 173,500 0.19
17-Jan-03 0.18 0.19 0.18 0.18 267,600 0.18
16-Jan-03 0.19 0.21 0.19 0.19 446,300 0.19
15-Jan-03 0.19 0.20 0.19 0.19 349,000 0.19
14-Jan-03 0.17 0.19 0.17 0.19 359,400 0.19
13-Jan-03 0.19 0.19 0.17 0.18 748,800 0.18
10-Jan-03 0.20 0.20 0.19 0.19 664,800 0.19
9-Jan-03 0.22 0.23 0.19 0.21 1,385,600 0.21
8-Jan-03 0.22 0.25 0.22 0.23 641,600 0.23
7-Jan-03 0.23 0.24 0.22 0.23 373,800 0.23
6-Jan-03 0.22 0.23 0.22 0.23 479,000 0.23
3-Jan-03 0.22 0.23 0.21 0.22 805,900 0.22
2-Jan-03 0.20 0.23 0.19 0.22 603,400 0.22
31-Dec-02 0.19 0.21 0.19 0.19 901,900 0.19
30-Dec-02 0.21 0.22 0.19 0.19 960,800 0.19
27-Dec-02 0.22 0.22 0.21 0.22 553,800 0.22
26-Dec-02 0.24 0.25 0.22 0.22 637,200 0.22
24-Dec-02 0.25 0.25 0.24 0.25 418,700 0.25
23-Dec-02 0.22 0.25 0.22 0.25 657,900 0.25
20-Dec-02 0.22 0.23 0.22 0.23 663,400 0.23
19-Dec-02 0.22 0.22 0.22 0.22 295,200 0.22
18-Dec-02 0.22 0.22 0.22 0.22 716,600 0.22
17-Dec-02 0.20 0.22 0.20 0.22 1,191,000 0.22
16-Dec-02 0.19 0.20 0.19 0.20 449,500 0.20
12-Dec-02 0.19 0.20 0.19 0.19 226,500 0.19
11-Dec-02 0.20 0.21 0.19 0.20 1,072,700 0.20
10-Dec-02 0.20 0.21 0.20 0.20 270,000 0.20
9-Dec-02 0.19 0.22 0.19 0.20 592,500 0.20
6-Dec-02 0.20 0.21 0.19 0.19 356,600 0.19
5-Dec-02 0.22 0.22 0.20 0.21 437,200 0.21
4-Dec-02 0.22 0.23 0.22 0.22 398,300 0.22
3-Dec-02 0.22 0.23 0.22 0.23 402,700 0.23
2-Dec-02 0.25 0.25 0.22 0.22 273,400 0.22
29-Nov-02 0.24 0.25 0.24 0.25 267,500 0.25
27-Nov-02 0.25 0.25 0.22 0.25 436,500 0.25
26-Nov-02 0.31 0.31 0.23 0.25 819,800 0.25
25-Nov-02 0.32 0.37 0.28 0.30 2,380,700 0.30
22-Nov-02 0.19 0.28 0.19 0.27 2,322,800 0.27
21-Nov-02 0.19 0.20 0.19 0.20 418,700 0.20
20-Nov-02 0.19 0.19 0.18 0.19 189,100 0.19
19-Nov-02 0.18 0.19 0.18 0.19 256,700 0.19
18-Nov-02 0.19 0.20 0.18 0.19 500,400 0.19
15-Nov-02 0.20 0.20 0.18 0.20 1,058,300 0.20
14-Nov-02 0.19 0.22 0.19 0.20 1,169,400 0.20
13-Nov-02 0.19 0.19 0.18 0.19 663,100 0.19
12-Nov-02 0.18 0.19 0.17 0.18 509,300 0.18
11-Nov-02 0.19 0.19 0.17 0.19 1,183,700 0.19
8-Nov-02 0.22 0.23 0.20 0.20 826,800 0.20
7-Nov-02 0.22 0.24 0.21 0.22 1,135,300 0.22
6-Nov-02 0.26 0.27 0.18 0.20 4,861,400 0.20
5-Nov-02 0.32 0.35 0.32 0.35 349,800 0.35
4-Nov-02 0.33 0.34 0.31 0.34 404,700 0.34
1-Nov-02 0.32 0.33 0.31 0.32 258,000 0.32
31-Oct-02 0.35 0.35 0.31 0.32 262,900 0.32
30-Oct-02 0.34 0.35 0.33 0.34 221,900 0.34
29-Oct-02 0.37 0.38 0.34 0.35 305,900 0.35
28-Oct-02 0.34 0.38 0.34 0.37 580,700 0.37
25-Oct-02 0.32 0.34 0.31 0.34 434,100 0.34
24-Oct-02 0.32 0.34 0.31 0.31 433,600 0.31
23-Oct-02 0.27 0.34 0.27 0.31 950,000 0.31
22-Oct-02 0.28 0.29 0.28 0.28 310,600 0.28
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