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OT JimCharts, thanks, haven't checked the stock price in over a month. I picked that stock because I saw you posted on the board. I figured if you were buying a penny stock there must be something to it.
I have a modest 10,000 shares. What is your long term price prediction on that stock. Thanks again, a healthy New Year to you and your family.
This stock will be over 100 by this time next year, blue horseshoe loves Interdigital
I wonder when IDCC will announce the big signing of Microsoft or Apple, should be coming soon
Lastchoice will IDCC be above 100 by this time next year
I still think Microsoft and IDCC are going to get together sometime soon, so what is the consensus on this new deal, are we now headed to 100, finally
Jimlur what is your take on this, is this earth shaking news or another positive brick toward the 100 dollar building
OT Nobody has a sense of humor over here
Jim, what is your overall assessment of this company and its long term prospects, thanks
Following this stock is like watching CourtTv, I hope for the day when this stock gets coverage for what it provides the industry and the legal stuff is kept to a minimum. No doubt the legal garbage has kept this stock from flying.
I don't know how the regulars here deal with it day after day and keep posting. You would think that some would take a vacation. I actually commend JimCharts for staying away for awhile. I mean how much more is there to say about this stock. What are the people here possibly saying day after day after day.
Yet the posts keep coming.
December 1, 2006 at 3 pm
P.S. This was the first entry on this time slot, just in case someone picks the same time as me.
Bulldozer glad to see you have common sense. Too many partisans on both the right and the left that have ruined politics for many. I'm glad the American people sent this administration a message. If the Democrats had screwed up the war in Iraq and had been just as incompetent, I would have voted Republican this year.
This is not about right or left, it is about competent government, something that has been lacking for years. Also I'm glad the scare tactics finally did not work.
Take care
Bulldozer what the hell is going on this morning, guess we have some angry Republicans here, everybody relax, relax, haha
anyway can you give us a summary of what was said
Damn Dmiller great call, I'm sure you are not looking to help me out any, but next time you get a hunch like that, can you send a message my way
I vowed the next time there was bad news to sell some options so I could either get more or a better strike price. I just didn't put it together the day before earnings, now it is too late to sell
That was a great call and unlike the faux gurus on this site it was called before the fact, good job.
Why Didn't We See This Selling Opportunity
I'm happy the stock has held its own today, very good sign. This is just another bump in the road for IDCC investors, doesn't change our potential for 2007.
Only wish we did a better job of reading the tea leaves for the short term and options players. That news release the day before earnings was a perfect selling opportunity created by IDCC. Long term investors of this stock should have been able to pick up on that one. I blame myself for not spotting a perfect selling opportunity.
Jim or anyone can you give me a quick summary as to why we are down 5 bucks. I just skimmed the earnings and don't see anything there, might have missed something. Is this just a reaction to yesterday's news combined with no new deals? Thanks
OT Jimlur and all, quick question, I remember some people saying that the picture at the bottom of my posts could slow up this website or something to that effect, a friend of mine has a website where somebody in a message board is posting pics and the site seems to be slowing, is that possible, can anyone enlighten me on that topic, thanks
Picked up 10,000 shares, for 100 dollars how can you go wrong. It is worth the risk. Does anybody think this stock can ever get over 1 dollar??
Thinking about buying some shares today, can some of the veterans here just give me a quick summary of the pros and cons and potential of this stock, thanks
Jim Charts not surprised you haven't posted today, looks like your drop prediction lasted a day, keep up the good work
Jim Charts is on record once again, looking forward to stock rising now, beginning tomorrow, Jim Charts is almost guaranteed to be wrong these days
Bulldozer, only problem is I think this board is well versed in these "Thanks guys, we hung in there, we did it" posts. I think we have seen at least 6 news events where the board congratulated each other on sticking it out, and yet each time we couldn't get above 40.
I think tomorrow we should all say thanks to each other and then let that be the last time it happens.
It is like the government, how many times are we going to catch al qaeda's number 3 man.
I TOLD YOU THERE WOULD BE NEWS THIS WEEK, ONCE AGAIN SPREE CALLS IT RIGHT
spree99
In reply to: Dave Davis who wrote msg# 166228 Date:9/3/2006 6:08:24 PM
Post #of 166475
Well, I think news is imminent, possibly this week and I strongly suggest people look into this firm. I think there is a good possibility of a connection between the firm and IDCC
Post your Stock Tips and Rumors about IDCC here
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=6241
Dmiller stop being a jerk, yeah I pulled this name out of a hat just for the fun of it, come on, no wonder why nobody trusts you
Ask the owner of this website, I bet in the last few days he had a spike of visits from the computers that are in the offices of this firm.
Jim Charts we are still analyzing your prediction of a bad negative year for the markets including a horrible summer
Also still waiting for one stock prediction before the fact
Well, I think news is imminent, possibly this week and I strongly suggest people look into this firm. I think there is a good possibility of a connection between the firm and IDCC
ALERT POSSIBLE NEWS RELATED TO IDCC, LEGAL EXPERTS NEEDED
Does anyone know anything about this firm and how they might be related to IDCC
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
I have heard they have interest in IDCC, don't know anything else yet, I'm trying to read some tea leaves and see who they represent or what facets of business law they are into
This might be the key to figuring out the next deal with IDCC
How could ANYONE make MONEY with JIMCHARTS, he rarely if ever posts his trades before the fact, nor does he tell anyone to buy or sell before the fact, on the few occassions he did, he was dead WRONG, after the original ERICY settlement he was completely RIGHT, I think that was the last time he was RIGHT
Please JimCharts or his loyal followers show us the posts before the fact, not hard to do, show us the money
Tech stocks turn around performance
Years after the bubble burst, they've become a bargain
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 08/20/06
BY DANIELLE KOST
BLOOMBERG NEWS SERVICE
Bill Nasgovitz turned around the $1.78 billion Heartland Value Fund's performance this year by buying more shares in wireless and computer-software companies.
The fund returned 7.6 percent through Aug. 9, the fifth highest among 138 funds that focus on smaller companies and search for stocks considered inexpensive based on earnings and other measures, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Heartland Value trailed most of its peers the past two years.
Nasgovitz raised the fund's holdings of technology companies to 19.9 percent of assets as of June from 12.8 percent in December. The increase is in keeping with his reliance on the value-investing strategy developed by the late Benjamin Graham.
"Technology is under pressure and out of favor," Nasgovitz, 61, said in an interview from the offices of Heartland Advisors Inc. in Milwaukee. "It's a mirror image of what we had six or seven years ago, when the Internet, media and technology were the frenzy."
Raising his bets
The manager has lifted returns by increasing bets on companies including InterDigital Communications Corp., a maker of mobile-phone software, whose shares have climbed 52 percent this year. An 8.8 percent stake in First Consulting Group Inc., an adviser to health-care and pharmaceutical clients, also has helped.
The median market value of companies in which Heartland Value invests is $192 million. The fund had 225 holdings as of June, and industrial and information-technology companies made up almost 42 percent of assets.
Two years ago, Nasgovitz was the second-worst performer among small-cap value managers. The fund returned 9.1 percent, 13 percentage points less than the Russell 2000 Value Index. Nasgovitz, who co-manages the fund with Brad Evans and Hugh Denison, blamed the weak performance on technology and health-care holdings.
The fund produced a 2 percent return in 2005, ranking 109th of 130 competing funds and lagging behind its benchmark by 2.8 percentage points.
Heartland Value returned an average of 16 percent in the past three years, trailing almost two-thirds of its peers. The fund returned 14 percent in the past five years, outperforming 80 percent of its category, according to Morningstar Inc.
The top-performing fund this year among Heartland Value's peers is the Wasatch Micro Cap Value Fund, managed by Brian Bythrow and John Malooly. The $93.5 million fund, which is closed to new investment, is up 11 percent.
Heartland Value's investments in technology put Nasgovitz at odds with Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman Warren Buffett, another follower of Graham. Buffett avoids computer-related companies and cites a lack of understanding of the industry.
Nasgovitz made his first stock purchase at 13 with money earned from delivering newspapers. He bought 40 shares of Vitro Corp. of America, a defense contractor now owned by BAE Systems Plc, for more than $30 each. He later sold the shares at a loss.
"It was a disaster," said Nasgovitz, who received a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "But I got the bug nonetheless."
His own money
In 1983, he founded Heartland Advisors, which now oversees $2.9 billion, and started the fund the following year. He has put $9.6 million of his own money in Heartland's funds.
Nasgovitz buys the "smallest of the small," typically companies with market values of less than $1 billion. He targets those with little or no debt whose shares trade at no more than 14 times his estimate for next year's earnings and less than seven times their cash flow.
Heartland Value may be getting too large to stay with smaller companies, said Marta Norton, an analyst at Morningstar. The fund closed to new investors in November 2003, with $1.7 billion in assets, and reopened a year later.
"The size makes it a little more difficult to get in and out of positions," she said. Closing the fund again "should be on their radar screen."
Regulatory concerns
Norton said she also is concerned about regulatory issues at Heartland Advisors. In 2003, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused the firm of fraud for mispricing two high-yield municipal bond funds. The case is currently in federal court in Milwaukee.
"We deny the claims," Nasgovitz said. As for closing Heartland Value, the firm would consider curbing new deposits again if the fund became too unwieldy, he said.
Morningstar gives the fund three stars out of a possible five. The fund has a Sharpe ratio of 0.88, lower than the 1.07 for the average competing fund. A higher Sharpe ratio means better risk-adjusted performance.
Like other small-cap funds, Heartland Value benefited as small-company stocks outperformed shares of large firms for the past five years. Fund managers such as Harris Associates LP's Bill Nygren and Legg Mason Inc.'s Bill Miller have said that may change. Nasgovitz is sticking with his view.
"In the face of all these predictions of all these market seers, they're outperforming again," he said of small stocks.
Nasgovitz lifted the fund's stake in its largest holding, InterDigital, to 5.7 percent of assets at the end of June from 3.6 percent in December. It was the only stock that accounted for more then 2 percent of the fund.
On what story eom
But the real question is will Sonny get so deep undercover that he forgets who he is. As his partner you owe it to him to make sure he understands what his job is and where his loyalties are.
Thanks Matt, ran ZoneAlarm virus scan, isolated the virus and deleted it, sure got me scared, when I got the report on what it was, this is what I got
I am assuming Matt that once it has been removed by my virus scan, everything is OK, just got scared because the virus can allow someone to remotely take over your computer, but I don't think that is the issue here, any info is appreciated
Worfo
Pervasiveness: 1 of 5
Destructiveness: 4 of 5
Wildness: 2 of 5
Tipo: Other
Alias: [Win32/]Worfo; [Exploit.]Win32.IMG-WMF (Kaspersky); [Bloodhound.]Exploit.56 (Norton); [TROJ_]NASCENE.GEN (Trend); [Exp/]WMF-A (Sophos); [Win32/]Worfo.Variant!Trojan; [Win32/]Worfo!Trojan; [Win32.]Worfo; [Exploit-]WMF (McAfee);
Date Modified: 10-Jan-2006
Date Published: 28-Dec-2005
Description:
Win32/Worfo is a generic detection of malformed Windows Meta File (.WMF) files which attempt to exploit the "Microsoft Windows Meta File processing vulnerability".
This exploit can be used in a malicious web page to execute code of the attacker's choice on the user's machine. Any program that renders WMF images on affected systems could be vulnerable to this attack.
For more information, please visit our Vulnerability encyclopedia:
Microsoft Windows Meta File processing vulnerability
Microsoft have also issued an advisory here (Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-001.mspx
Note: this detection may be triggered by merely visiting a web page that contains malicious code. It does not necessarily mean your machine has been compromised, nor that your machine is vulnerable to this particular exploit.
CA has received reports from the wild that this vulne rability has been exploited to install the following malware on affected systems:
Win32.Aliseru.A
Win32.Harnig.BQ
Win32.SillyDl.WK
Win32.Errsowl.A
Win32.Harnig.BR
Win32.Norsd.L
Win32/Kelvir.BP
Win32/Beovens
Win32/Winshow
Analysis by Scott Molenkamp
Matt Is there a VIRUS on your site. I was on the homepage, all of a sudden I get the download box, just downloads something without my approval, then goes to the Window Picture Viewer and there is no image to display, so I deleted it to my recycle bin
The properties says it is a WMF image, that's it. Any idea from your technical staff of what is going on, do you have a bad link somewhere, or some sort of bad advertisting, I read that Microsoft had a problem with a virus using the WMF image to gain control of your computer by a hacker but they patched it in January, is this just a glitch, thanks
Someone explain to me why a post asking AMS if he ever posted his trades before the fact is a post that should be deleted.
I am looking for any explanation
Oh Jimmie Boy, how simple you sound. First the stock is a joke and won't reach 30 in ten years, we go to 35, at 30 you say not to buy, not going any higher.
Then you come back here and claim you sold at highs or something that wasn't posted before the fact while all of your posts say the opposite.
Then you claim you loaded up at the lows, still can't figure out was that at 27, 26, or 25, if it goes to 24 tomorrow I'm sure we will see another post at how you loaded up.
Anyway you talk of how this is a good entry point for a modest gain, kind of strange considering you have been touting since last December that this was going to be a bad market year and a horrible summer in the market.
Ok, normal contradictions, ha, too funny. But the kicker comes when a poster writes that IDCC has a good chance of reaching 100 over the next year, you respond with "now that's a good post".
Wow Jim what a turn around, for years you have made fun of the Houston 100 as being something that will never occur, but once you loaded up at whatever the low reaches, that will be decided after the fact, after that big stock purchase at the LOW, now you become the 100 dollar a share man, simply AMAZING
Atomic Clowns are criticizing this board bigtime. I don't understand, I disagree with the negativity to a degree, but I'm sure glad that we don't have mindless hype artists on this board.
Atomic Bobs can criticize all they want, the fact remains that board is a joke. They delete anybody who challenges the board opinion, either that or you get cursed or threatened.
How much influence this board has on stock price, I really don't know. Again, I disagree with the negativity but I'm glad we have real people and not phony hype artists that seem to exist on the Boobs board.
ALL YOU COMPLAINERS, PIPE DOWN, when IDCC signs Samsung for a 3g deal and the stock goes up to 50 we will then see everyone thanking each other for sticking it out all of these years, we will see quotes that we finally made it, we knew it all along
You guys remind me of Yankees fans, boo Alex Rodriguez one day, cheer him the next
OT Dodd, yes well aware of how posters sound alike, Gejim, Ferrari and you come to mind, anyway keep the jokes coming
Coming from the King of Out of Phase Investors, haha, what a laugh
Dndodd nice try, those are the only 2 aliases I have ever used, easy to make accusations without any proof
WE have an alternative board, called Spree's world of stock tips