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180.22
On its way higher,
someday :)
My Jan 2009 LEAPS are now in the money.
iPods featured on walmart.com home page
www.walmart.com
08:22 AAPL Apple: Demand apparently outstripping supply of iPod Touch - Morgan Keegan (172.54 )
Morgan Keegan says that evidence from online retailer websites suggests that iPods were a hot item on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The 8 GB and 16 GB versions of the iPod Touch are now on backorder at Amazon.com and Target.com, while the 80 GB iPod Classic is on backorder only at Amazon. Prior to Black Friday, the iPod Touch family and 80 GB iPod Classic trailed only the iPod Nano product family as the top selling iPods at both online retailers. Firm says that combined with a continued drop in NAND Flash pricing, the demand for iPod Touch is yet another data point that suggests upside to their current ests appear more likely than downside for the Dec qtr.
Apple will be featured in Sunday's WMT tab with the front cover featuring large pictures of the shuffles in their various colors. Of course they are not discounted but will be offered with a free $15 iTunes card. That represents a huge discount on that item.
Each store is getting a shipment of shuffles to support the event as well as a shipper of Belkin accessories.
I have used Verizon's network extensively in the Pacific Northwest
And I have now used AT&T's since the iPhone was released.
Not noticeable differences in network quality for this user.
Retailers cheer initial holiday sales
Research group and Penney both say weekend results have started off strong.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The nation's retailers had a robust start to the holiday shopping season, according to results announced Saturday by a national research group that tracks sales at retail outlets across the country.
According to ShopperTrak RCT Corp., which tracks sales at more than 50,000 retail outlets, total sales rose 8.3 percent to about $10.3 billion on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, compared with $9.5 billion on the same day a year ago. ShopperTrak had expected an increase of no more than 4 percent to 5 percent.
"This is a really strong number. ... You can't have a good season unless it starts well," said Bill Martin, co-founder of ShopperTrak, citing strength across all regions. "It's very encouraging. When you look at September and October, shoppers weren't in the stores."
In a separate statement released Saturday, J.C. Penney Co. (Charts, Fortune 500) reported "strong performance across all merchandise categories," including fine jewelry, outerwear, and young men's and children's assortments.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/24/news/economy/bc.holidayshopping.ap/index.htm?postversion=2007112417
The following article is excerpted from Network World. To read the full article, go to networkworld.com.
Steve Jobs has made my job harder. If he hadn’t stood on the stage at Macworld Expo in January and unleashed the iPhone on the world, I’d probably be more excited about this year’s crop of Cool Yule Tools, Network World’s annual roundup of the hottest technology toys and gift ideas.
As I opened up the hundreds of packages arriving in the office over the past few months, however, I began to realize that the iPhone has skewed the curve in terms of what’s really exciting, innovative and fun in technology. Like the Patriots compared with the rest of the NFL, there’s the iPhone—and then there’s everything else.
No knowledge, but best wishes to you and your family !!EOM
It is so nice to have a morning when one does not have to go to the office and the markets are open. Does not happen often.
Anyone wanna open a chat room and do a retro AAPLTALK open and early morning?
Vista Worries Cause Businesses to Consider Macs and Linux
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
November 20, 2007
A recent survey shows that 44 percent of businesses are considering Mac OS and Linux rather than switching to Vista.
KACE, a systems management appliance company, announced on Nov. 19 that its new survey revealed that 90 percent of the Windows users are concerned about migrating to Vista, and that 44 percent would consider deploying Macs or Linux-based systems to avoid Vista migration.
While Microsoft claims that Vista deployments are increasing, analysts, such as Forrester, observe that business Vista adoption has been going extremely slowly and that Linux is becoming a serious contender for the enterprise desktop.
KACE, which focuses on system management rather than having its own dog in the desktop operating system wars, sells system administration appliances that run on FreeBSD. Its appliances can be used to mange both desktops and servers running Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac OS.
In response to concerns about unwanted complexity to their heterogeneous IT environments, 44 percent of respondents reported they would consider deployment of alternative operating systems, such as Macintosh and Linux, to avoid migrating to Vista. A mere 13 percent see their company moving all its desktops to Vista. Of those who consider using alternative operating systems, 89 percent said it would be beneficial to use a single systems management interface to manage all types of operating systems in their environments.
In a follow-up story, in eWEEK Careers, Howard Graylin, a senior technical analyst in Ridgeland, Miss., echoed the concerns of many IT staffers when he said: "Personally, I'm dreading the amount of time it'll take to upgrade each machine from a hardware standpoint—adding memory or whatever—and from an operating system upgrade. It's just time consuming."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2219589,00.asp
Apple Settles With Burst
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Burst.com Inc. said Wednesday it has settled a lawsuit filed against Apple Inc. for infringing patents related to technology used to store and transfer video and audio files, and will receive a one-time cash licensing payment of $10 million.
Burst (BRST: 0.55, +0.03, +5.8%) said in a statement that it in turn has agreed not to sue Apple (AAPL: 168.46, -0.39, -0.2%) in the future for infringing patents related to the technology. Burst sued Apple in 2006 for infringing the patents, which it said covered technology used in Apple's popular iPod devices. "Burst plans to continue identifying and evaluating companies who represent licensing opportunities," the company said in the statement. End of Story
I picked up two lots of Jan 2009 180's near the lows - 33.95 and 34.50 during the fall from grace over the past couple of weeks :). Not sure what the absolute low on those was, but my cost basis on the whole position is around $37 now.
Hope that works out all right.
I found terminal telnetting in with Firefox. The fix did not work for me.
I have restored happily to 10.4.11
I'll mess with Leopard later.
tried the renaming
didn't work
taking it back to 10.4.11
Will mess with Leopard later.
I do not know. Kathy's account and the guest account showed up after I did a hard restart. My account was missing in action.
I was able to restart to 10.4.11 from an external drive.
I am considering copying it to the internal drive via Super-Duper and starting over. I am not the happiest of campers right now, but not to upset. Stuff happens.
But, without being able to cruise the application folder, I do not know how the heck I would be able to start the terminal app in order to give it the chflags nohidden ~/ command
Installed Leopard
Mixed experience so far.
Where the hell did my desktop go?:)
Where are my drive icons?
Where the hell are the files that were on my desktop?
I have questions *grin*
Reckon I'll install Leopard over the Thanksgiving weekend.
Looking forward to it :).
Have the complete external bootable back-up done via super duper. Gonna hunt for useless stuff on the internal drive next.
Too much fun.
Judge Dismisses Shareholder Backdating Case Against Apple
by Jeff Gamet, 9:25 AM EST, November 15th, 2007
U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel dismissed a shareholder suit against Apple on Wednesday over improperly backdated stock option grants. The case was filed by the New York City Employees' Retirement System and alleged that the improperly backdated grants diluted the company's stock by more than 200 million shares, according to Bloomberg.
The suit was filed after Apple revealed that several stock option grants between 1997 and 2002 had been improperly backdated. The Cupertino based company hired a company to perform an independent investigation into the incidents, and ultimately cleared CEO Steve Jobs of any wrong doing.
Without naming any names, the investigation also loosely pointed the finger at two Apple employees that most assume were former General Counsel Nancy Heinen, and former CFO Fred Anderson. Ms. Heinen is being sued by the SEC over her alleged involvement, and Mr. Anderson settled with the U.S. government agency out of court without admitting any wrong doing.
The New York City Employees' Retirement System suit claimed that had Apple properly disclosed and accounted for the shares, the company's stock would not have been diluted. Judge Fogel, however, didn't agree.
His opinion stated "While the subsequent disclosure that the options were backdated might require a restatement, without a discernible drop in the stock price there is no basis upon which to establish an injury to shareholders."
Judge Fogel also stated that the plaintiffs could re-file the claims as part of a derivative suit. Should the New York City Employees' Retirement System decide to re-file, their case would likely be added to an existing claim like the SEC's suit Ms. Heinen.
from macobserver
A poster over on
The investorvillage Apple board is going a nice job of chopping the 2007 10-K into nice sized chunks and highlighting some of it.
I bought some CROX Jan 09 $45 LEAPS after the shares were crushed.
Not a recommendation, just a report.
Hedged long positions with December 160 puts this morning - paid 7.50.
Went longer with Jan 2009 180's this afternoon, at 34.50.
I just installed Tiger.11.
Have Leopard sitting over on the table. Will install it sometime over the holidays.
Not a last OS lover, just waiting till I have some time to spend with it :)
Has Safari 3.04. I'll give it a whirl - FireFox has been my primary browser for quite some time
At this point AAPL is up over 5 bucks
in the pre-market session - was up strongly and joined in the jump on the PPI numbers.
Gold up 15 bucks
CROX up a buck thirty
I picked up a couple of CROX Jan 2009 LEAP's - strike price $45. The stock got overly pummeled, IMO, after the last earnings report. I had been watching it for quite some time and waiting for an opportunity.
Quesy
up-chucked several times :), but also added to shares last week (in the low-mid 170's) and rolled some Jan 08 180's to Jan 09 - keeping some of it as cash.
Things improved a great deal while I was flying home today, but our self-managed IRA's are significantly lower than they were a couple of weeks ago - but still up nicely YTD.
Stomach settled down a bit now.
Baldy
I still really like my iPhone. The two trips I have taken with it this month have greatly improved my typing and this message was composed on my unit somewhere in Kansas. Heading to the airport in 30 minutes to head home.
Will be good to get there. Took some photos of the Keeper of the Plains monument with the phone. A better cere would be nice.
Off a cliff
I am in Kansas, visiting my father. I sold all my Jan 180 calls this morning near the open and have been out since then.
Now I am glad I did. Will roll some of that out to Jan 09 LEAPS at some point.
Holy Cow Batman.
I added to long shares and LEAPS on thursday. No worried about shares or January 09 180's. Readily admit some anxiety over Jan 08 180's.
In Kansas now and will head home on Tuesday.
Good luck
Ron
Ended up buying some more calls - Jan 08 180's at 13.65
Those ended up green :).
I am well set up for a run into January, writes Ron laughing :).
I have some more cash in case spit gets his number.
roni's dumb
butt has been buying calls and LEAPS this morning. Have put much of this year's gains out there on CALL land.
Jan 08 and Jan 09 - strike price $180 on both dates.
knife -catching fool probably more appropriate than leading indicator at this point :)
Looks like Apple and a lot of other things are going to be on sale tomorrow and perhaps for some time thereafter. Hope ya'll have lots of cash.
I sold all my miner and AAPL options by mid-day today, that helped some. May do some more selling tomorrow, but not sure. Down to Apple core shares, but have a bit more than core in the miners. At about 30% cash now.
Not a explosive device
All of my colleges laptops are equipped with software that will, if the computer is reported as stolen, render the hard drive unreadable the first time it is connected to the network and "phones home"
In addition, I have a boot password on mine and an additional network password. Smart people could, without a doubt, work around those, but it would slow down the average delinquint.
¿¿Game, set, match for the US dollar??
snippets here, entire article link at bottom
Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar fell the most since September against the currencies of its six biggest trading partners after Chinese officials signaled plans to diversify the nation's $1.43 trillion of foreign exchange reserves.
The New York Board of Trade's dollar index dropped to 75.21 today, the lowest since the gauge started in March 1973. The U.S. currency declined more than 1 percent against the euro, yen, Canadian dollar and Swiss franc, and almost as much against the British pound and the Swedish krona, the basket's components.
......
he U.S. currency slumped to $1.4704 per euro, the lowest since the 13-nation currency debuted in January 1999, before trading at $1.4666 as of 6:13 a.m. in New York, from $1.4557 late yesterday. The dollar dropped the most in two months against the yen, trading as low as 113.32 yen. The euro fell against the yen to 166.21 yen, from 166.99 yesterday.
The dollar extended its decline against the euro after dropping through a key level where traders had placed orders to sell.
``We will favor stronger currencies over weaker ones, and will readjust accordingly,' Cheng Siwei, vice chairman of China's National People's Congress, told a conference in Beijing. The dollar is ``losing its status as the world currency,' Xu Jian, a central bank vice director, said at the same meeting.
Worst Peformer
The dollar fell against all 16 of the most-active currencies, declining to the weakest versus the Canadian dollar since the end of a fixed exchange rate in 1950, a 26-year low against the pound and a 23-year low versus the Australian dollar.
....
Chinese investors have reduced their holdings of U.S. Treasuries by 5 percent to $400 billion in the five months to August. China Investment Corp., which manages the nation's $200 billion sovereign wealth fund, said last month it may get more of the nation's reserves to invest to improve returns.
Treasuries Rise
U.S. 10-year Treasury notes rose today on speculation a two- day increase in yields will attract investors at a $13 billion sale of the securities today.
``The world's currency structure has changed; the dollar is losing its status as the world currency,' Xu from the People's Bank of China said at the conference. Cheng, speaking to reporters after his speech, said his comments don't mean China will buy more euros. The National People's Congress, China's legislature, isn't involved in setting currency policy.
``Cheng has a history of speaking out on a range of financial market and economic developments, and his comments are not always accurate,' said Glenn Maguire, chief Asia economist at Societe Generale SA in Hong Kong.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aMPLuto8wxK4&refer=home
<thought it was lower when you mentioned it, like in the teens.>
Might have been - don't recall for sure and didn't wanna make any false claims :).
How about those PM's. I am 43% miner shares and calls. Just 22% AAPL shares and calls. Good year so far <says Ron, straining his capacity to be understated> *grin*
One other thing, Sexton
Haven't we been having a discussion off and on about AAPL since it was at around $40 a share?
Blake, short answer: No, they have not.
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Alibaba.com jumped 122% in their debut in Hong Kong trading Tuesday, marking a successful start for the world's largest initial public offering by an e-commerce company since Google Inc.
Shares of Alibaba.com were quoted at HK$30 ($3.86) in early morning trade, up from its initial offering price of HK$13.50. The share traded as high at HK$32.
"I think Alibaba's share price is way ahead of its fundamentals; I think the best advice is to get out as soon as possible," said Francis Lun, general manager of Fulbright Securities in Hong Kong. "The company is not worth HK$150 billion (at the current market price)."
At 11:00 this morning the Washington Square Apple store in Portland, was very busy. When I got in line to pay for my stuff, I was about 8th in line, and there were soon people behind me.
iPods, and iPhone and small stuff were leaving the store. One employee came back into the store with a 2-wheeler- he apparently had been helping a customer get a larger item to their car.
One other person in line had a print out of a iPhone store credit with him
That is the way it was this morning.
Just bought Leopard.
At brewpub with Ms. Roni for lunch.
Not sure when I will install
Story on Brit iPhone negotiation and stuff
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/03/ccprof203.xml