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Buying? eom
Absolutely needs a....
... recurring business model.
I think TPM and EUFI are getting closer...
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/PowerEdgeR510_Technical_Guidebook%5B1%5D.pdf
http://www.uefi.org/home/
Gotta luv the Phase 2 progress! eom
And if I were to plug-in my car to recharge it, would it also be...
... connected to a home network? Could I run diagnostic and status info back to the auto company?
I'd probably want that data flow to be secure.
ronle, interesting. eom
Really OT until...
...protecting network monitoring of energy production becomes a money-generating event - that is to say, when you are producing energy for the grid and getting paid to put that energy on the grid, you will want a protected meter to ensure you are getting paid for your energy generation (oh, and this is my newest endeavor and your vote would be greatly appreciated!):
http://cincinnatiinnovates.com/contest/entry/Electricity_from_a_Bacterial_Reactor
I'm still here... eom
Gotta love it!
What was his take? eom
Interesting - no sideways movement - just static. eom
Can't figure out their game. Well, I gave up some time ago after reaching out for more technology information for potential partnership. I walked away after that...
About time! eom
*DJ Wave Systems In License Pact With Acer Inc
(MORE TO FOLLOW) Dow Jones Newswires (201-938-5400)
September 24, 2008 11:07 ET (15:07 GMT)
Copyright (c) 2008 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.- - 11 07 AM EDT 09-24-08
Very good news today! eom
I do expect large pharmas to start acquiring promising cancer therapy genomics-based companies over the next 36 months.
I should have added at the end of the day in that DOW downdraft.
Wow! What happened at the end of the day? The dow got hammered and GERN followed.
Weby, I wonder what chips might power this new Mac touch?
http://blogs.computerworld.com/rumor_macbook_updates_to_include_glass_trackpad_other_goodies
http://media.freescale.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=196520&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1163784
Backing up the truck. eom
BlackBerry’s Quest: Fend Off the iPhone
By BRAD STONE
STEVE JOBS, Apple’s chief executive and field general, has Napoleonic dreams of global conquest for his 10-month-old wonder gadget, the iPhone. So it may be fitting that he’s encountering his most serious resistance in a city called Waterloo.
That is where, 70 miles west of Toronto in Ontario, 19 nondescript, low-rise office buildings comprise the headquarters of Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry.
R.I.M. is the North American leader in building smartphones, those versatile handsets that operate more like computers than phones. But R.I.M. may have trouble dominating the market’s next phase. Once the exclusive domain of e-mail-obsessed professionals, smartphones are now prized by consumers who want easy access to the Web, digital music and video even more than an omnipresent connection to their in-boxes.
Since the iPhone went on sale last summer, amid long lines of shoppers and media adulation, the contours of the smartphone market have begun to shift rapidly toward consumers. An industry once characterized by brain-numbing acronyms and droning discussions about enterprise security is now defined by buzz around handset design, video games and mobile social networks.
That means R.I.M., which has historically viewed big corporations and wireless carriers as its bedrock customers, needs to alter its DNA in a hurry. While business is booming in Waterloo, analysts are raising an important question about R.I.M.’s future: Can a company that defined mobile e-mail for a generation of thumb-jockeys with bad posture also dominate the new consumer market for smartphones?
“The vultures are circling,” says Roger L. Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates, a research firm in Wayland, Mass. “There is this sense that the R.I.M. franchise is under assault.”
In the short term, Apple’s noisy entrance into the smartphone market has elevated the visibility of smartphones and enhanced the prospects of most of its rivals. Worldwide, smartphone shipments jumped 60 percent in the last three months of 2007 over the same period the previous year, according to IDC, the tracking firm. Of the two billion cellphones sold last year, nearly 125 million were smartphones — a share that analysts expect to inexorably grow.
R.I.M. added 6.5 million subscribers in its last fiscal year, twice the previous year’s amount, and its stock hit the stratosphere, more than doubling in value as investors anticipated the coming Age of the Smartphone. And R.I.M. has already introduced catchy mainstream gadgetry. The BlackBerry Pearl and Curve, two phones aimed explicitly at the consumer market, have sold well, particularly during the holiday season, and now account for a majority of R.I.M.’s device sales.
But there are also signs that R.I.M. faces steeper challenges. At the end of last year, BlackBerry had a 40 percent share of the United States smartphone market, down from 45 percent at the end of 2006, thanks largely to the 17.4 percent share the iPhone grabbed in its first six months.
In March, Mr. Jobs announced that Apple would take the rare step of licensing Microsoft’s corporate e-mail technology, to allow iPhones to connect directly to business computers — a dagger aimed at the heart of R.I.M.’s strength in the corporate market. In Apple’s quarterly conference call last week, Apple executives said that one-third of Fortune 500 companies were interested in giving iPhones to their employees.
Apple, meanwhile, in an effort to further increase its appeal to consumers, is also expected to introduce a new 3G version of the iPhone in June, which will work on speedier wireless networks and may further attract a new segment of customers to the iPhone in the United States and abroad.
In describing the threat that Apple poses to R.I.M., Charlie Wolf, an analyst at Needham & Company, describes his wife’s entirely common use of the iPhone, which she takes to bed with her each night to browse the Web.
“Some consumers who might have considered the BlackBerry, who don’t have the e-mail urgency of a mobile professional, are going to start selecting the iPhone,” Mr. Wolf says. “This isn’t going to stop R.I.M., but it is going to slow them down.”
Up in Waterloo, where the towering winter snowpacks finally melted this month, R.I.M. executives appear nonplused. Though they would not reveal details, R.I.M. itself is expected to unveil a new 3G phone sometime in May and deliver it to wireless carriers throughout the year.
R.I.M. employees and outside developers who are writing programs for the new phone, which has the internal code name “Meteor,” say that it will have faster processors, a larger screen and a better browser that more closely resembles the Web experience on a computer.
Photographs of the device, leaked to gadget news sites, also indicate that the new BlackBerry will have elegant curves suggestive of the iPhone. It will also have a physical keyboard like previous R.I.M. devices, as opposed to the glass touch screen found on the iPhone.
THERE’S a reason that R.I.M. is averse to the iPhone’s glass pad. “I couldn’t type on it and I still can’t type on it, and a lot of my friends can’t type on it,” says Mike Lazaridis, R.I.M.’s co-chief executive and technological visionary. “It’s hard to type on a piece of glass.”
Mr. Lazaridis thinks that e-mail-dependent BlackBerry owners demand the reliability and tactile feedback of a keyboard. But, despite his critique of the iPhone, he does not dismiss the possibility that R.I.M. may itself one day sell a touch-screen phone, aimed specifically at consumers without the e-mail demands of BlackBerry’s core users.
Indeed, two independent developers writing software for coming R.I.M. devices say that a touch-screen BlackBerry is in the works, and that R.I.M. engineers privately refer to it as the A.K. — for “Apple Killer.”
R.I.M. would not comment on future devices or media reports last week that at least one carrier, AT&T, was delaying its introduction of the newest R.I.M. phone because of problems with call quality. Those reports sent R.I.M.’s stock down nearly 3 percent in trading on Friday.
Mr. Lazaridis says only that “I wouldn’t underestimate the amount of research we’ve done on user interfaces and technologies. We are not afraid to reinvent ourselves.”
Keypads and touch screens aside, R.I.M. is facing a lot of competitors in addition to Apple in the booming smartphone market.
For years, Microsoft has tried to have manufacturers use its operating system for smartphones, Windows Mobile, which analysts generally think is overly complex and too difficult for consumers. The companies that license it, including Motorola, Palm and HTC, a Taiwanese manufacturer, have carved out only small fractions of the overall smartphone market.
Then there is Google. Later this year, phone manufacturers have promised to start selling smartphones running Android, Google software based on the open-source operating system Linux and backed by a coalition of 34 wireless-industry companies. Google’s idea is that Android can be a more open and a less expensive alternative to the proprietary mobile technologies of Apple, Microsoft, R.I.M. and Nokia in Europe.
Executives in Waterloo acknowledge these assaults but argue that R.I.M. is the only company that isn’t trying to leverage strengths in ancillary markets, and can therefore focus exclusively on mobile-phone innovation. They also seem to relish the prospect of savvy high-technology companies jockeying for position on their home turf.
“There’s no question the level of focus and intensity on wireless platforms has gone up an order of magnitude,” says Jim Balsillie, R.I.M.’s wiry, jargon-slinging co-chief executive and strategic brain. “The stakes are so very high, not only in the size of the market and market share, but in who has the important position in the ecosystem.”
Mr. Balsillie thinks that R.I.M. is in the best tactical position for the coming fight. He points to its close relationships with 350 carriers around the world — like Verizon and AT&T — that sell, often at steep discounts, BlackBerry phones and the accompanying monthly e-mail service.
Apple and Google, on the other hand, are vocally trying to dislodge the carriers from the nexus of the North American wireless market. Unlike other phone makers in the United States, Apple sells iPhones from its own stores and has negotiated relatively stingy contracts with the carriers, in exchange for limited periods of exclusivity. Google, for its part, unsuccessfully bid for wireless spectrum this year in an effort to force carriers to be more open to allowing various handsets and Internet services on their networks.
R.I.M. makes its alliances clear. “We are sort of polite and amiable and we gently interrelate with the carriers and try to find compatibility,” Mr. Balsillie said. “It may be a better strategy to fight the carrier. We may be wrong. The carrier may get disintermediated, in which case we fade with them.”
R.I.M. is also betting on security, which hinges on the fact that its handsets and e-mail systems are relatively impervious to hackers. Mr. Lazaridis predicts that corporations will not give iPhones to their workers because they have already proved vulnerable to hackers eager to pry iPhones off AT&T’s system and make them work on other wireless networks.
“It’s not that simple for an I.T. manager to give up security,” he said.
INDEED, R.I.M.’s allure to carriers and corporations may be irresistible and impossible for Apple to weaken, even if Apple improves iPhone security. But some analysts still wonder what will happen to the BlackBerry’s dominance when everyday consumers start driving growth in the smartphone market.
R.I.M. has always moved deliberately in embracing new handset technologies, in order to reassure corporations anxious about possible security breaches. For example, it added digital cameras and slots for removable memory cards to its phones only at the end of 2006, years after they became popular in other devices. Companies feared that these features would leave confidential corporate data vulnerable, but consumers demanded them and R.I.M. ended up providing them.
Consumers also want to choose from a growing pool of entertaining software programs to buy and load onto their devices. On this front, R.I.M. may be falling behind. Apple released a set of programming tools for outside developers in March, and recently said that 200,000 programmers had downloaded the tools.
The BlackBerry has been open to developers since R.I.M. started using the Java programming language in 2001. But for now, those programs are simpler and more primitive than what’s coming on the iPhone. For example, some of the new software available for the iPhone will take advantage of its support for 3-D graphics and innovative features like its motion sensor, which allows users to rotate their screens. The BlackBerry does not support 3-D graphics; it also doesn’t have a motion sensor. If motion-sensitive gaming — like that found on Nintendo’s popular Wii console — finds a home on smartphones, R.I.M. may be at a disadvantage.
Analysts say that R.I.M.’s greatest challenge in a consumer-driven smartphone industry may simply be creating devices that people admire and covet as much as the iPhone. Despite the faithfulness of its flock, R.I.M. is not there yet.
In a survey this year of 3,600 professionals by ChangeWave, a research company, 54 percent of BlackBerry users said they were very satisfied with their devices.
Even so, the BlackBerry was a distant second in the survey: the comparable figure for the iPhone was 79 percent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/technology/27rim.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
The Mac in business: it's easier than you think
More users are demanding Macs in the enterprise. Thanks to key computing shifts, supporting their appetite for Apple is now a straightforward option for IT
[excerpt]
According to NPD Research, Apple's share of the retail market has climbed to 14 percent as of February 2008. Gartner and IDC report that the Mac's share in the U.S. as of March 31 was 6.6 percent. Alongside that home-based shift from PC to Mac is a significant uptake for Apple among businesses, as Forrester estimates organizational Mac adoption tripled last year to 4.2 percent, mainly on the backs of enthusiasts seeking approval for Apple's silver boxes in small workgroups.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/21/17FE-macs-in-business-tease_1.html
Hi sam, I'm not sure upon what I'm commenting?
Imagine that, and after a major security breach too. eom
Interesting perspective. eom
He'd better get that...
... debacle called .Mac sync fixed first.
I'm trying to buy 3K shares under .30. eom
my thoughts...
... well, I won't lie, I'm disappointed too.
I hope they acquire a business with recurring revenues and let the licensing become a profit center.
Curis Inc. (CRIS) said collaborator Genentech Inc. (DNA) provided an update on its
Phase II clinical trial plans for GDC-0449, a product being developed to treat
cancer.
Curis said Genentech has seen partial responses in advanced basal cell carcinoma
tumors in the ongoing Phase I trial of GDC-0449.
Curis also said Genentech plans to initiate three Phase II trials of GDC-0449 in
2008, including a trial in metastatic colorectal cancer during the first quarter.
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Patriot Scientific Corporation (OTCBB: PTSC) up 6.3% on 618,000 shares traded.
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From WSJ: AT&T's net income jumped 62% in the fourth quarter, helped by record wireless gains and the acquisition of BellSouth.
The nation's largest telecommunications company posted net income of $3.14 billion, or 51 cents a share, from $1.94 billion, or 50 cents a share, a year earlier. AT&T, the exclusive provider of the Apple iPhone in the U.S., said its wireless unit added 2.68 million subscribers in the quarter, which the company called the largest-ever quarterly increase by any U.S. wireless company. About 2.3 million people bought an iPhone in the final three months of the year, Apple said Tuesday.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120116233777213087.html?mod=djemalertTECH
Nice little plug this morning on the Today show for the MacBook Air. eom
trying to get another 100 at .39 too... eom
Got 100 at $1.50 - feeling good! eom
Me! I got 150 and 350 at .39! eom
Buying on weakness when the underlying fundamentals and cash position are strong, is really a good bet. Nothing is a slam-dunk, but I feel good that what I've added will appreciate in the coming couple of months.
SAM - good for you!!! I bot 500 yesterday at .41. eom
Gotta get it north of $1. eom