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Cassandra -- So nice to see your informative message regarding your health and letting all know you are in fine health.
Why did that ever happen? It doesn't make sense to me, but a lot about the company doesn't.
Thanks, Neverending, for your explanation. Their wording sometimes tricks us.
HotrodHans -- What a surprise to see I haven't posted here since '04. Time does fly...
Robert and Atul now know how concerned many shareholders are, and I am guessing it will be part of the minutes of the meeting. Of course, as you noted, sometimes the tone of voice, etc. doesn't come through in writing what was said.
Good luck!
friendlyfred -- Hopefully, there will be some positive action with Wencor. Only time will tell regarding that association.
HotrodHans -- Keeping my fingers crossed for a better future.
Many are frustrated and disappointed, so you are not alone there. And, don't worry, you didn't offend me.
Hey, seeing an increase in revenues of 971% looks good.
Tin -- Nice to know where you are. Thanks.
friendlyfred -- While I haven't recently made purches of EDIG, in the past all but a few of my buys were at the bid.
PC magazine -- choose a music players
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1570160,00.asp
chwdrhed -- What you say is probably pretty true and workable on other boards, but for some reason the EDIG boards seem to take exception. It's probably because so many have been here so long, and we have know about each other's families, etc.
Thanks for being tolerant.
resqjuc -- Are you serious about your saying,"Beware of Agoracom board !! It has been proven that 50% of the Posters are under one Alias."? This is the first time I have heard that. Do you know some of the Alias' that constitute "one"?
moxa1 -- It muuuuust be EDIG. But, who knows?
fireboat -- A new, knowledgeable president for APS sounds like a smart move. Now Boyer can spend his time doing what he does best. Hopefully, this will also help EDIG.
What about his from the Q&A:
Q: Couldn't a bigger, better financed competitor just duplicate your product and steal your customers?
A: This is a very carefully patented technology. The board made sure we were well protected.
lickily -- If you are on your way to Hawaii, a $10.00 rental fee for the digEplayer may be just part of the vacation!
drhunt -- Every time you talk about your smoked tuna, my mouth waters. Hope you catch the kind that rank on the low end of the mercury scale. I've read that the smaller ones have less mercury, since their bodies have had less time to accumulate. What did I have for lunch today? Right. A tuna sandwich.
Wal-Mart opens online music store .88/song
A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE NEWS ROUNDUP
March 23, 2004 10:24 a.m.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. formally opened its online music store Tuesday, offering songs at 88 cents each, a price that undercuts the 99-cent offers from rivals Apple Computer Inc., Roxio Inc. and RealNetworks Inc.
Wal-Mart's Music Downloads service was launched for testing in December, and since then the company says it has expanded its catalog of available songs by more than 50%, including exclusive tracks by Hilary Duff, Shania Twain and Shakira.
The company has also struck a deal with the Curb Records music label to make its songs available online only at Wal-Mart's Web site for the next two months. The label carries many top country singers, including Tim McGraw, Jodee Messina and LeAnn Rimes.
Wal-Mart's online music store is run by the Liquid Digital Media unit of Anderson Merchandisers, a closely held company that is the chain's music distributor and the country's largest magazine wholesaler.
The Music Downloads software, like Apple's iTunes, allows customers to manage their songs and playlists and browse through the music of other performers they might like. The music files are playable on personal computers using Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software, as well as on burnable CDs and MP3 players.
Last week, Apple said iTunes had sold 50 million songs since its debut in April 2003, but the company expected to fall short of its 12-month forecast of selling 100 million songs by the end of April. That shortfall may not have a big impact on Apple's profits because the company makes most of its money in the music market from selling the popular iPod portable music players.
Wal-Mart is running its online music business as a subsidiary of its highly successful national retail franchise.
Tin -- That sounds great!/
MIR -- Good morning. Nice to see your posts.
murrayhill -- If they already have a built in IFE system, and have to remove it, don't you think the digEplayer would be a good substitute?
FGATOR -- What an opportunity for the DigEplayer to fill the potential void. Just maybe.........
iPod attracts muggers
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/9292569
23 February 2004
Apple's iPod music player is not only popular with shoppers - it is also becoming increasingly popular with criminals.
A series of muggings of people for their iPods has been reported, and experts warn the distinctive white headphones could be the secret of its appeal to criminals.
Gary Parkinson, deputy editor of gadget magazine Stuff, claimed the key for owners was to change the headphones. ''Having white headphones might be stylish but they act as an indicator to thieves. You really are an obvious target if you use them.
''The other problem is that the iPod is so shiny and lovely that you always want to get it out and show people. However, this attracts criminals like magpies. We'd recommend people use the remote control and keep the iPod itself in a pocket.''
The Met warned owners to treat iPods in the same way they would a mobile phone, keeping it hidden whenever possible and also noting the serial number.
Saqib Sabir was recently mugged for his iPod on his way home from work. He said: ''I was walking down the road near to my home when two men jumped me. They pulled a knife and told me to hand over my phone.
''Then one of them spotted my iPod. They obviously knew what it was, because they immediately threw my phone away to take it. I was gutted, I use my iPod all the time, and I'd only had it a few weeks.''
But he said he had bought it on a credit card, meaning it was insured, and was able to buy a replacement relatively quickly.
Ory -- The flower beds were my destination, yesterday in regard to working in the yard. There was part of yesterday I am pretty sure your sister did not<b/> work in her yard. Off and on, we had our share of rain.
Stock info at top of this board.
The graphic depiction of EDIG's stock movement throughout the day and the other information that normally you get at a financial site is very nice.
ff: here is the route I followed:
Edig.com
Company
News
See all headlines
Presentation of Slides
Click here
ff -- click on #7
friendlyfred -- here is an url:
http://edigital.com/ppt/
Ory -- Well, its time to come back to OR.
Employees' reading the boards is probably done at coffee break, lunch break, and after they have put in their work time for the day.
hai -- WOW! I just read about your being State Technology Using Teacher of the Year. Tremendous!!!!! Good for you.
hai -- How nice to see your posts. You know, every now and then somebody mentions your past input on the boards and how we all wished you were still posting.
Actually, it sounds as if you have been pretty busy!
H-P Will Resell Apple's iPod Player
H-P Will Resell Apple's iPod Player
Promotional Agreement
Might Cause Waves
In Entertainment Industry
By DON CLARK
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
LAS VEGAS -- Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to resell Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod music player and promote Apple's online music store, under a surprise partnership that capped a flurry of announcements by companies pushing into consumer electronics.
H-P also said it will develop its first "digital hub" -- a device that would act as a central server for entertainment devices -- and made a broad commitment to adopt technology to prevent music piracy.
"This isn't about putting a PC in the living room," said Carly Fiorina, H-P's chief executive, in an interview in advance of a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show here. "This is about transforming the whole digital-entertainment process in the home."
The partnership with Apple is a radical first step, and could cause new waves in an entertainment market that is grappling with a series of technology puzzles. For Apple, the deal suggests the Cupertino, Calif., concern may be taking a different approach from the one it has followed in the PC industry. Where rival Microsoft Corp. helped turn its Windows operating system into a de facto standard by broadly licensing it to hardware firms, Apple generally has kept technology it has developed to itself.
LISTENING UP
See some of the current and coming competitors in the market for legal sales of music online.
Though Apple briefly flirted with letting other companies use the software for its Macintosh PC, it has never sold hardware for use under another brand. "We've never done anything like this before, and I don't think H-P has either," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs in an interview.
H-P had been widely expected to develop its own music player and possibly its own service for selling digital music. But Ms. Fiorina said H-P concluded, after studying available options, that the design of Apple's iPod was the best around, so it made no sense to bring a competing device to market at the moment. Under the relationship, Apple will manufacture a version of the device for H-P that will be blue, rather than the original white design for iPod, and will carry H-P's logo, Mr. Jobs said.
H-P also agreed to install Apple iTunes music software in future consumer PCs and notebook computers, and include an icon on the opening screen of those machines that will direct users to Apple's online store.
Although Apple hasn't yet licensed rights to the iPod hardware design to other manufacturers, the deal could help further popularize the gadget and related software technologies. While Apple leads the music-player category, it faces an array of competition. Sony Corp., for example, unveiled a new product and music service Wednesday night. Other new rivals include Dell Inc., which is using a music-download service offered by Musicmatch Inc.
Yet none of the competing services or portable devices have matched Apple's success. Since launching the iPod more than two years ago, it has sold more than two million of the devices, 730,000 of them in the recent holiday quarter alone, and has sold 30 million songs for 99 cents each through its iTunes Music Store. Earlier this week, Apple introduced a cheaper and smaller gadget, the $249 iPod Mini (see article), to capture a bigger share of the market.
But music software remains a fierce fight. Microsoft, RealNetworks Inc. and others recently have announced plans to use incompatible file formats for music software and are lobbying the music industry to adopt them.
"The whole thing has become totally balkanized," Mr. Jobs said. He argued that H-P's market muscle could help persuade more music companies to support Apple's format.
For Ms. Fiorina, meanwhile, the Apple deal is part of a big entertainment push that included an impassioned pledge to use technology to help the music industry fight piracy. Her commitment drew an all-star group of artists, led by Jimmy Iovine, chairman of Vivendi Universal SA's Interscope Geffen A&M label group, who praised Ms. Fiorina for trying to stop the epidemic of illegal file-sharing. Others who took the stage included rap pioneer Dr. Dre, the U2 guitarist known as The Edge, and Cheryl Crow; singer and pianist Alicia Keyes also performed.
"We are going to support H-P to the point that they are going to beg us to stop," Mr. Iovine said.
In consumer products, Ms. Fiorina vowed to develop comprehensive systems to bring simplicity to the home. In displays, for example, H-P in June plans to begin selling thin 30- and 42-inch models that are designed to show both computerized content, such as Web pages, as well as unusually sharp high-definition television images, Ms. Fiorina said. The Palo Alto, Calif., company's new digital hub goes on sale in the fall.
H-P, as well as chip maker Intel Corp., imitated the TV show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" in videos to bring home the message about connecting home devices more simply. Intel announced a standard design for a new breed of PCs, priced at less than $800 and available in midyear, that are designed to be installed in the living room and connect to TV screens rather than computer monitors. In addition to these Entertainment PCs, as Intel calls them, the company confirmed plans to make chips that it predicted would drive the cost for high-definition projection TV sets down to $1,800 in 2005.
murgirl -- Are you here?
What about this From: cal_law on Agora
PostID 304309 On Tuesday, January 06, 2004 (EST) at 12:48:58 PM
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Gateway partnered with e.Digital, refining the little-known company's existing player to make a slightly improved model. The DMP-X20 hard drive is the same capacity as that in the Odyssey 1000, but requires less room, shrinking the player from 4.4 by 2.9 by 1.0 inches (HWD) and 8.2 ounces to 4.0 by 2.6 by 0.8 inches and 7.7 ounces....
The DMP-X20 is one of the best WMA players we've seen, and an excellent choice for people with libraries of WMA files (which won't play on iPods). The iPod is sleeker and easier to use, but since the DMP-X20 is $100 cheaper, offers the same amount of storage, and includes an FM tuner, it should prove to be one of the iPod's strongest challengers yet....
Full text:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/ZDM/dmpx20_review_pcmag_040106.html
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It also says:
''The DMP-X20 is one of the best WMA players we've seen, and an excellent choice for people with libraries of WMA files (which won't play on iPods). The iPod is sleeker and easier to use, but since the DMP-X20 is $100 cheaper, offers the same amount of storage, and includes an FM tuner, it should prove to be one of the iPod's strongest challengers yet.''
philozarton -- Our geography is mixed up!! It has been some years since we have had so much snow, here in Portland, OR and all that goes with it.
Weather reporters say get ready for the next storm, coming either Sunday, but probably Monday. Both days are predicted to be hazardous. The trip to the store included a side stop to pick up some Kahlua for that very special fireside drink!!! Now we are prepared.
Cassandra -- Yes, others have mentioned problems when using the pop-up blocker.
Cassandra -- OK, I get it now.
Cassandra -- You said, "Additionally, they have disabled the main link from the website to the SEC filings. It used to link to the above, but now links to its own Corporate Profile page instead. You can still link to the filings from the bottom of the profile page, but it's less obvious. Seems they really want to keep these filings under the radar."
It was still accessible for me. Put the pointer over the "investors" selection and then, on the far left, the SEC choice shows up.
austonia -- Whew!!! What a nice review. Since I don't have one, your input would be important if a purchase was being contemplated.
OK, there's a gift wrapped package, black and white cow hide appearance, on the site. I'm being told that you see it a lot in their stores. The package reminds me of all the cow paraphanalia for sale at the Tillamook Cheese factory.