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JL
Regina,
I seldom post, but read just about every one that's posted to the board.
I have read almost everything you've written, and, along with, in my opinion, many others, will miss your thoughts, insights, and contributions to this conversation.
You are, in my view, different then 90% of the board writers. You possess, and offer, warmth, compassion, insight, and a very unique personality,
I want you to know that I'll miss your contributions, and hope that you'll find a way to continue your offerings.
Sincerely,
Nice!!!!
InterDigital's Board of Directors Declares Regular Quarterly Cash Dividend
WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 5, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InterDigital, Inc. (Nasdaq:IDCC), a mobile technology research and development company, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $.20 per share on its common stock, payable on January 28, 2015 to shareholders of record at the close of business on January 14, 2015.
JL
Flip,
Splendid, my man!!!!!
JL
Rk. Magic!
You have a fantastic, compelling, and overpowering story.
Thank you for sharing it with us.
JL
Flipper - Nice job. I just finished watching Linda's presentation, and in my view, it was excellent. Your post and descriptions catches most of the points she made.
No disrespect, but my positive reaction to Linda's 40 minutes suggests that we should each forward her show, and gain a multiplier effect, from all of the folks we send our NWBO info to.
Keep up the great work guy.
JL
Pyrr.,
Thanks a bunch.
You truly are a "Godsend" to this Board.
JL
Folks,
Correction......A 5 figure position.
Sorry.
JL
Folks, I need your help!
Here's my dilemma.
I'm a long term holder of a moderately significant 6 figure position in NWB. And, I read every post on this Board.
With the exception of LTT, I, along with the collective consensus of this Board, believe strongly that we're onto a potential, High Flying, winner. And, I thank you Bd. contributors, like Pyrr, Flipper, Evaluate, et al for your knowledge and wisdom.
Here's my plea.
The language, abbreviations], and initials used by many in your Bd. posts, in my view, are at the College Graduate level, (i.e. Masters and Ph.D.)
My understanding level of these initials however, is more like the 7th or 8th Grade of Public School.
It would help me, (and the 8 to 10 folks I recruited into stockholders,) if we had a permanent "sticky" displaying all the "initialed terms" with their definitions, used in any and all posts. Actually, it would be a Godsend for all of us in the "Non Graduate level grades."
My absolute Thanks for your willingness to adopt this idea. And, Best of Luck to all of us on our quest.
JL
SHANE, Shane come back!!!!!!
Seriously, Pyrr, we'll miss you and your wisdom.
Take a respite from your work....But pls,
don't stay away long.
JL
Interesting! In the June 16th issue of Fortune, an article entitled, "Big Pharma's Small Wonder," featuring Bristol-Myers Squib (pg178), winds up talking about Immunotherapy.
Dr. Jim Allison of MDAnderson, is featured on pg 182. His position of Immunology Chair at MD Anderson Cancer, is noted and then proceeds with a discussion of his work with mice, and groundbreaking discovery of T Cells, published in 1996 (with little fanfare.)
The article walks us through the history and current position of immuno-oncology and Bristol's current role in it.
Though NWBO's not mentioned by name, we're awfully close.
JL
Sentiment - Well done!
Your post is a great summary and validation of where we are.
JL
Angelo, Well said!
Some more of the same would do wonders
for the Home Team crowd.
JL
Found this very informative - Safety and Efficacy Study of DCVax-Direct in Solid Tumors - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.gov
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01882946?term=dcvax&rank=4&show_locs=Y#locn
JL
Frank was a joy to everyone.
His passing leaves a hole in our lives.
My condolences to you and your family.
JL
DD, Try Schwab.
Great streamer.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Congratulations! The last 20 posts are perhaps the "Best" demonstration I've witnessed of, how a Posting Board should operate and function.
The attitudes, motivation, and willingness, of Moderators and other posters, to do the right thing for the benefit of the Board, and ultimately, the Company, was wonderful to read, and an example for all of us. Nicely done.
Loop, Well said indeed. One more time, you knocked it out of the park.
And..... as a bit of reinforcement for your points, I'd encourage our Board members to reflect on what I re-read this morning.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?hl=en&shva=1#trash/13faa36dd14f86ec
JL
Double Ditto
Global telecoms giant ZTE sees gold in Chinese roots
ReutersReuters – 27 minutes ago
By Lee Chyen Yee
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's ZTE Corp, which helped bring the telephone to millions of homes during the Deng Xiaoping era, is counting on a new generation of tech-savvy smartphone users to drive at least $7.5 billion of 4G network projects and elevate its sagging fortunes.
Shenzhen-listed ZTE, founded in the mid-1980s, clinched its first major overseas contract in Bangladesh in the mid-1990s. Since then, it has been aggressively expanding overseas and challenging telecoms equipment manufacturers such as Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent in emerging markets from Asia to Africa.
But years of rapid overseas investment and chasing global market share at the expense of profitability are finally taking their toll on the world's No.5 producer of telecoms gear. ZTE is now returning to its Chinese roots, eyeing 4G network contracts from domestic mobile operators China Mobile Ltd, China Unicom Ltd and China Telecom Corp Ltd.
"The China market is like a gold mine as telecom operators are cash-rich," David Dai Shu, a spokesman for ZTE, told Reuters. "It is a top priority for us by country."
China's three mobile operators plan to spend a combined 345 billion yuan ($56 billion) this year on network expansion. That includes investment in 4G, which promises rapid data downloads for millions of mobile users holding Apple Inc's iPhones or Samsung Electronics' Galaxy phones.
Hong Kong-listed China Mobile, the world's top carrier with 715 million subscribers, is forking out 41.7 billion yuan from its total spending of 190.2 billion yuan for this year to build 200,000 4G base stations covering more than 100 cities.
The Chinese government is expected to issue 4G licenses later this year.
Smaller rival China Unicom said on March 21 it planned to spend 5 billion to 10 billion yuan annually on 4G once it gets a license. China Telecom has yet to announce its 4G investment.
ZTE, which has flagged three profit warnings in the past year and is poised to post its first-ever annual loss for 2012, is likely to grab the bulk of contracts along with its cross-town rival Huawei Technologies Co Ltd due to its state-backed status, analysts said.
Policy lender China Development Bank has extended a $20 billion loan to ZTE, though that was mainly for contracts in emerging markets under government-to-government aid programs, the analysts said.
"They (ZTE) will get contracts everywhere, but it's in China where I would expect that they are going to get the uplift to their margins and therefore their underlying profitability," said Neil Juggins, a telecom analyst from JI Asia.
ZTE is expected to rake in a net profit of 2.37 billion yuan this year, according to a Reuters poll of 10 analysts.
For 2012, the company is forecast to post a net loss of 2.67 billion yuan, the poll shows. That would be the first annual loss for ZTE since it went public in Shenzhen in 1997 and in Hong Kong in 2004.
The firm, which has lost around half its market value since January 2012, will announce its 2012 results on Wednesday.
MISSTEPS
ZTE has spent the past decade pitting itself against Ericsson, Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens in its fight for a bigger share of the global telecoms equipment market.
In some cases, ZTE's prices are so low that other competitors, such as Ericsson and Huawei, would rather walk away than match its bids, industry sources said.
"These guys (ZTE) were bidding at dirt-cheap prices. ZTE was making losses on all those bids for their new businesses," said Gaurav Jain, a telecom analyst at IDC in New Delhi, referring to the Indian market.
Officials at Ericsson and Huawei were not immediately available for comment.
"Over the past few years, we have not been the lowest bidders for some projects in countries such as India," said ZTE's spokesman Dai, declining to elaborate.
"The telecom equipment sector is experiencing a price downtrend due to telecom carriers trying to keep costs down because of the current global economic climate," Dai said.
Low pricing, as well as government probes from the Philippines to the United States and telecom regulation changes in markets such as India, have added to ZTE's woes and weighed on its bottom line.
ZTE said its expected 2012 net loss was mainly due to a delay in some overseas projects and low-margin contracts in markets such as Africa and South America.
Mixed messages from management have also dulled investor appetite for its stock.
After issuing a profit warning for the first nine months of 2012, executives told analysts in October that ZTE would turn profitable for 2012. But a few months later, the firm warned of a net loss for the year.
"We have a small number of ZTE shares, but I'm not buying any more as we've been misled by the company before," said a China-based fund manager, declining to be identified as he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Some industry executives are also wondering whether all that huge capital spending announced by the telecom carriers would materialize this year as continued global economic worries curtail telecom spending.
"I'm a little conservative for the first half of the year because we still need to see capex announcements from China's telcos for this year and whether that spending will follow through for this year," said Chris Ye, a telecom analyst with Mirae Asset Management, which owns ZTE shares.
(Editing by Ryan Woo)
olddog, Yeah! I almost said all of that. But thanks for all your help...LOL
The jury could not reach a unanimous vote in the Cisco trial.
Jim, That's "Priceless!"
Just sent it on to my "Old Fa*t" Buddies.
Today's WSJ, pg B1 features Huawei....Here's a snapshot
Huawei boosts R&D spending
Huawei, House of Representatives
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Source: Huawei
Huawei Technologies has boosted its research and development spending, and its 2012 total is just below the industry's leader.
Lisa Ward
Web contributor- Silicon Valley Business Journal
Huawei Technologies Co. has boosted its research and development spending, and its 2012 total is just below the industry's leader.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Huawei spent $4.7 billion on research and development in 2012, increasing it by a quarter. That number puts it just behind the top "telecom-equipment vendor by revenue" Ericcson, which spent $4.8 billion, according to the report.
Huawei has R&D operations in Santa Clara.
According to the report, Huawei "says its research spending is part of a long-term strategy to make its technology stand out."
Related links:
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Industries:
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News - January 31, 2013 1:53 PM EST)
InterDigital (Nasdaq: IDCC) shares are active in Thursday afternoon trading amid news that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) would be looking into a complaint by the company alleging patent infringement.
The ITC officially opened a probe into the likes of Samsung, Nokia (NYSE: NOK), ZTE and Huawei. The probe stems from InterDigital's complaints that the companies infringed on patents related to 3G and 4G technologies.
InterDigital filed the complaint on January 2nd.
The official ITC document can be viewed here. Shares of InterDigital are up 0.2 percent on the session, well off of intraday highs.
News Provided by Acquire Media Corporat
Jim, Beautiful! But watch with a box of Kleenex.
Forget The Smartphone, Forget The Tablet – The 'Phablet' Is THE Gadget Of 2013
SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Call it phablet, phonelet, tweener or super smartphone, but the clunky mobile phone - closer in size to a tablet than the smartphone of a couple of years back - is here to stay.
A surprise hit of 2012, it is drawing in more users, more handset makers and is shaping the way we consume content.
"We expect 2013 to be the Year of the Phablet," said Neil Mawston, UK-based executive director of Strategy Analytics' global wireless practice.
While Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has blazed a trail with its once-mocked Galaxy Note devices, now other manufacturers are scurrying to catch up.
At this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Chinese telecommunications giants ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd will launch their own.
ZTE, which collaborated with Italy's designer Stefano Giovannoni for the Nubia phablet, is scheduled to launch its 5-inch Grand S, while Huawei brings out the Ascend Mate, sporting a whopping 6.1-inch screen, making it only slightly smaller than Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet.
"Users have realized that a nearly 5-inch screen smartphone isn't such a cumbersome device," said Joshua Flood, senior analyst at ABI Research in Britain.
Driving the phablet's shift to the mainstream is a confluence of trends. Users prefer larger screens because they are consuming more visual content on mobile devices than before, and using them less for voice calls - the phablet's weak spot.
And as WiFi-only tablets become more popular, so has interest among commuters in devices that combine the best of both, while on the move.
According to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report, the monthly data traffic for every smartphone will rise fourfold between now and 2018 to 1,900 megabytes.
The upshot is a market for phablets that will quadruple in value to $135 billion in three years, according to Barclays. Shipments of gadgets that are 5 inches or bigger in screen size will surge by nearly nine-fold to 228 million during the same period, though estimates vary because no one can agree on where smartphones stop and phablets start.
But that's the point, some say.
"I think phone size was a preconceived notion based on voice usage," said John Berns, a Singapore-based executive who works in the information technology industry. He recently upgraded his Note for the newer Note 2 and bought another for his girlfriend for Christmas. "Smaller was better until phones got smart, became visual."
The Asia-Pacific is, and will remain, the world's biggest market for phablets, says ABI's Flood. Last year, the region absorbed 42 percent of global shipments, a proportion that will expand steadily over the next few years to account for over 50 percent of shipments by 2017, according to ABI figures.
"Countries like Japan and South Korea will be major markets for phablets," Flood said, adding that China, India and Malaysia would see increasing demand for larger screen devices as they roll out 4G networks extensively.
Samsung has been both the engine and beneficiary. While other players shipped devices with larger screens earlier - Dell Inc launched its Streak in 2010 - it was only when the Korean behemoth launched the Galaxy Note in late 2011, with its 5.3-inch screen, that users took an interest.
"The Streak was launched at a time when 3-inch smartphones were standard and the leap to a 5-inch Streak was a jump too far for consumers," says Strategy Analytics' Mawston.
"The Galaxy Note was launched when 4-inch smartphones had become commonplace, and the leap to 5-inch was no longer such a chasm."
THE BIGGER, THE BETTER
Since then Samsung has bet big on bigger: its updated Note has a 5.5-inch screen and its flagship Galaxy S3 - the best-selling smartphone in the third quarter of 2012 - has a screen that puts it in the phablet category for some analysts.
Samsung accounted for around three quarters of all phablets shipped last year, according to Barclays' Taipei-based analyst Dale Gai.
Samsung's marketing heft has paved the way for others. LG Electronics Inc accounted for 14 percent of shipments in the third quarter of last year, according to Strategy Analytics.
HTC Corp's 5-inch Butterfly - called the Droid DNA in the United States - has been selling well in places where Samsung is less dominant, according to Taipei-based Yuanta Securities analyst Dennis Chan. The first batch sold out soon after its December launch in Taiwan.
"I don't think we can say that Samsung invented phablets," said Lv Qianhao, head of handset strategy at ZTE. "But it did do a lot to promote this product category, which helped create tremendous demand."
Phablets are also proving popular in emerging markets.
A poll of nearly 5,000 readers of Yahoo's Indonesian website chose Samsung's Galaxy Note 2 as their favorite mobile phone of 2012, ahead of the iPhone 5.
Kristian Tjahjono, a technology journalist who posted the poll, said phablets were a natural fit for Indonesians who liked tablets but also liked making phone calls.
But while those in such markets who can afford them are going for the high-end devices, the door is opening for cheaper models. Tjahjono pointed to Lenovo's 5-inch S880, which has a lower resolution screen and sells for about $250, which is around a third of the price of Galaxy Note 2.
SWEET SPOT
Falling component prices will add to demand. The total cost of an upper-end phablet, its bill of materials, will likely fall to 2,000 yuan ($323) this year, says Gai from Barclays, and will halve within two years.
"One thousand yuan is a very sweet spot for China," he said.
India is also a fan.
Vivek Deshpande, who manages global strategy for Shenzhen-based mobile phone maker Zopo, says that while the Indian and Chinese markets are different, they both share a common appetite for aspirational devices: phones big enough for their owners to show off. This is changing the direction of lower end players.
"Zopo's primary focus is now on phablets," said Deshpande.
Even Samsung is pushing its own creation downmarket: In Las Vegas it will unveil the Galaxy Grand, a 5-inch device that lacks some of the resolution and muscle of its bigger brethren but will be aimed at markets like India. There is a version offering a dual SIM slot, a popular feature for those wanting to arbitrage cheaper call and data plans.
As phablets slide into the mainstream, handset makers are trying to find ways of differentiating.
As well as hiring Italian designer Giovannoni better known for his minimalist, sleek bathrooms, ZTE also came up with an onscreen keypad that inclines to one side of the screen, depending on whether the user is left- or right-handed.
Samsung, however, not only has first mover advantage, it can also build on its expertise in display.
Barclay's Gai says Samsung is expected to introduce a thinner, unbreakable AMOLED screen which will leave room for bigger batteries.
"That will put Samsung in good stead to still dominate the market," he said. Despite pressure in China, Gai estimates Samsung's share of smartphones with 5-inch or larger screens to fall only from 73 percent in 2012 to 58 percent in 2016, which is still the lion's share.
By then consumers will see the phablet for what it is, says Horace Dediu, a Finnish analyst who runs a technology blog asymco.com. Its rise is part of a wider march of computing power into wherever we reside - the living room, the train, bed or work.
"It makes sense that we're moving towards a time where we are served not by a computer or a netbook or a phone, but rather that we have these screens scattered around and available for us to play with," he said. "In a way the phablet is not a bulky phone but a very delicate computer."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/forget-the-smartphone-forget-the-tablet--the-phablet-is-the-gadget-of-2013-2013-1#ixzz2HIvRs2i9
Seeking Alpha
3:06 PM (7 minutes ago)
4:06 PM InterDigital (IDCC +0.6%) has launched an R&D JV with Sony (SNE -0.3%) focused on machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile connectivity. The JV, called Convida Wireless, is being announced less than 3 months after InterDigital announced a restructuring in which the company would both pare back its R&D spending and focus more of what it does spend on "market-ready technologies" such as M2M. The JV agreement also features a Sony license for InterDigital's 3G and 4G IP. (Read the comments on this)
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"Intel Is Screwed If Its New CEO Can't Figure Out Mobile"
"Intel CEO Paul Otellini is stepping down in May, and it's pretty easy to see why he's out."
http://www.businessinsider.com/intel-new-ceo-needs-to-figure-out-mobile-2012-11#ixzz2CmTNSMIN
http://www.businessinsider.com/intel-new-ceo-needs-to-figure-out-mobile-2012-11
Jim - FYI re: Special Dividends Surge - Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-19/special-dividends-surge-fourfold-as-tax-increase-looms-in-u-s-.html
New iPhone to Support LTE - WSJ
Faster Wireless Network Gives Carriers Chance to Sell New Data Plans
By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO, SAM SCHECHNER and SPENCER E. ANTE
Updated September 7, 2012, 7:32 p.m. ET
Apple Inc.'s AAPL +0.62% next iPhone will work on the fastest wireless networks around the world—including in the U.S., Europe and Asia—though it is unlikely to be available on every carrier, people familiar with the matter said.
Apple launches have become global events. Above, people in Shanghai wait to buy the iPhone 4S in January.
The technical compatibility with so-called LTE networks removes a competitive danger for Apple and gives carriers a chance to sell their fastest data services to Apple's base of iPhone customers.
Smartphone makers, including market leader Samsung Electronics Co., 005930.SE +4.52% have begun offering LTE phones globally. That has given them a selling point that so far Apple has lacked.
Wireless carriers are eager to drive more customers to those networks, which are more efficient and could spur faster growth in data revenue by making it easier for consumers to use services like streaming video.
Apple is expected to unveil its latest iPhone, which will also have a slightly larger screen, at a press event in San Francisco on Sept. 12. Analysts have widely expected the new phone to support LTE.
It isn't likely to work with all carriers' LTE networks in all countries, the people said, though it wasn't clear which would be left out.
Follow developments leading up to and through Apple's Sept. 12 iPhone announcement. Plus, visit the Gadget Wars stream for the latest on the cutthroat action between Apple, Amazon, Google, Nokia and others.
LTE technology is much more fragmented than the previous third-generation wireless technology, making it more difficult to make LTE phones that work seamlessly around the world.
International Data Corp. analyst John Byrne estimates there are 36 LTE bands around the world, compared with 22 bands for the most popular version of 3G technology.
While building a phone that supports multiple bands of LTE is possible, it presents a significant technical challenge to design chips needed to support all of the different bands.
"It's like patchwork quilt in terms of spectrum," said Bill Davidson, senior vice president of Qualcomm Inc., QCOM -1.10% which designs LTE computer chips. "It will be impractical to have all of the bands."
The new iPad, introduced in March, was the first Apple device to support LTE technology. But it only worked with networks operated by Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. T -0.37% in the U.S., and Bell Canada, Rogers Communications Inc. RCI.B.T -0.27% and Telus Corp. T.T -1.47% in Canada.
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IDC data shows that only three countries in the world have significant numbers of LTE customers: the U.S., South Korea and Japan. Verizon currently has the largest LTE network in the world and the highest number of LTE subscribers, says IDC.
At the end of the first quarter, Verizon Wireless had about nine million LTE subscribers, while South Korea's SK Telecom Co. Ltd. 017670.SE 0.00% came in second with 2.75 million and Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc. 9437.TO +0.46% came in third with 2.23 million, said IDC.
In Europe, the availability of LTE wireless service lags behind some other parts of the world. For the time being, there is LTE service in Scandinavia, as well as some in Germany and elsewhere. But in many places, it is still in its infancy.
In France, for instance, the rollout is just beginning in a handful of major cities—and not yet Paris.
IDC says Android phones supporting LTE are currently being sold in 11 countries including the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Australia and Germany.
Seeking Alpha article -
Microsoft's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
June 22, 2012
I followed Microsoft's (MSFT) week fairly closely for TheStreet. And I've been hopeful about their strategy.
But it was, as they say, a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week. How was it? Let's count, shall we?
The big Monday reveal, the Microsoft Surface tablet, turned out to be an over-priced, over-engineered, under supplied knock-off the company isn't really serious about.
Once this was understood, it was also understood that Microsoft's Asian OEMs have yet to imagine anything Microsoft likes built with Windows 8. Those relationships are dicey.
So Microsoft decided to compete with the OEMs. Some understood, knowing Microsoft is not going to be able to sell a WiFi-only tablet with a foam keyboard for $100 more than Apple gets for the latest iPad.
The big Wednesday reveal, Windows Phone 8, turns out to be impossible to get unless you buy a new phone. Did you buy Microsoft's hype about the Lumia 900. Ha-ha.
Nokia is the company that's really on the hook for this. I don't think OEMs like having one of their number stabbed in the back, do you? Nokia's (NOK) headed for the garbage bin, and I wonder who's going to get all their patents?
About the only company that could smile at the end of Microsoft's busy week was in Cupertino (AAPL). Microsoft might get a hunk of the market's low-end from Android, but it's not a serious threat in its key niches.
The irony is this could have been so much more. Microsoft has won the game console wars. It has launched a technology that interfaces those consoles with home entertainment and computing, called SmartGlass.
Microsoft could have sold the combination of big desk share and big gaming share to gain bigger home share, but instead of pushing a vision it pushed a few products on a stage, much like Apple has been doing for a decade.
It's sad. I still have my Microsoft shares, but I wonder for how long I can hold on before I bag this turkey.
Disclosure: I am long AAPL, MSFT.
From Merritt's recent interview...
"So far, nearly all our development has been done in-house. We have more than 200 engineers, and R&D facilities in Philadelphia, New York, Montreal and San Diego. We're not against patent acquisitions. But, mainly they align with technologies in which we've built significant in-house portfolios, or where we intend to begin R&D efforts."
I wonder why he didn't mention the recent spin off of 75 employees (Lawyers, Admin. Professionals, etc.) to Delaware. All the Engineers/Patent architects, are to be left in KoP.
Why the split and him not mentioning almost 1/3 of IDCC moving to Del.?
Thoughts?
ODog, For years, you have been a Beacon of objectivity, clarity, and excellent research for this board. Please don't fall victim to the emotional rants, and diatribe, that are increasing in volume with our declining SP.
We truly need you in the role that you're the Commander of on this board.
Stay the course!
Rev,
Thanks for your answer. I hope you're correct in your assumptions.
IMO, the lack of specific information on numbers, results, and other specifics, is fomenting the highest level of frustration I've seen, across all the posting boards, in the 20+ years I've been in this stock. It's sad.
Rev, No disrespect intended here....But when, in the top of your posts, you identify a company as being an IDCC Partner, can you, or maybe Old Dog, identify any revenue/income we're receiving from these partners?
TIA
U.K. orders Apple not to promote "4G" service in country
Britain's Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that Apple may not advertise its iPad as "4G" because the country's limited Long-Term Evolution network is not compatible with the tablet's technology. The BBC reports that Apple still advertises the 4G service on its website but has added a footnote explaining that 4G is available only in the U.S. and Canada. GigaOm (5/1), BBC (4/30) ?LinkedIn?Facebook?Twitter?Email this Story
We missed on Top and Bottom lines.