Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)

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    Tom B
    Feb 22 09:13 AM
    Under The Radar News - Friday [view article]
    "A new Apple (AAPL) patent describes a large touch-based system designed to be used with both hands simultaneously. Perhaps a competitor to Microsoft's delayed Surface?"

    If so, it probably won't require 5 cameras and won't have the form factor of a coffee table....     Reply
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    Tom B
    Feb 22 08:55 AM
    Now's Not the Ideal Time to Buy RIMM [view article]
    RIMM is benefiting from the increasingly size of the smartphone market, but it seems unlikely they'll be able to hold out against the iPhone very long. They have exactly two strategic advantages: 1) not locked to 1 carrier-- a tenuous advantage, since a surprising number of people are unlocking iPhones 2) Physical keypad for people with a physical keypad fetish. That could be a more durable advantage. Fear of progress has been MSFT's business model for decades, and it seems to be still working for them. People who have tried the iPhone key pad (including me) seem to like it. Reply
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    lefty
    Feb 22 06:51 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    To All of the commentors! All that I really know is that when I retired, 1999, I could save $1000 per month. Today I run $500 per mo. negative. And I'm one of the fortunate ones. Reply
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    Tom B
    Feb 21 06:47 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    "Doesn't this mean that the decline in profits when these drugs hit patent expiration will be even sharper?"

    What it means is that I have already reduced my holdings in Big Pharma.     Reply
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    Long-Short
    Guy
    Feb 21 04:17 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    "Drugmakers boosted prices for their 50 top-sellers by 7.82% in 2007, on the heels of 6.73% and 6.22% jumps in 2006 and 2005, in an effort to boost profits in the face of patent expirations and waning pipelines. The ploy could backfire by pushing government to beef-up its regulation of drug pricing."

    Doesn't this mean that the decline in profits when these drugs hit patent expiration will be even sharper?     Reply
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    BartLee
    Feb 21 04:01 PM
    Apple's AT&T Deal Is Costly [view article]
    An excellent response to this flawed post can be found here:

    blogs.cnet.com/8301-13...
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    BC Wayne
    Feb 21 03:14 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Oh please!!! There is more oil coming out of the Middle East than ever. And what do you think would have happened if Saddam was allowed to continue on his path? Typical though. America sucks and it especially sucks if a Republican is in the White House. Reply
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    Tom B
    Feb 21 01:44 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    "And can you imagine the price of oil if we had not stabilized the middle east."

    Stabilized? Did you mean to say that. You know,LESS oil is coming out of Iraq than before the war.     Reply
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    BC Wayne
    Feb 21 01:16 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Mr. Barta wants to place blame, yet another time, on President Bush. Let's see now; we have the war, global warming, Katrina relief (3 years later we still are spending tax dollars out the ying yang), torture, Gitmo and baseball steroid use on Bush. How about if the earth is naturally warming, the war has kept the radical muslim morons too busy to plan effect assaults on our soil, water boarding is effective and doesn't harm anyone, and HGH is harmless. Boy, what would you have to talk about for the next month. The real pity is that Mr. Barta cannot bring himself to admit or accept that there are events that cannot and should not be controlled by more Federal Regulations. Regulations got us into the mortgage mess in the first place. Free market supply would have never permitted the financial institutions from lending beyond acceptable tolerances. Our banks were induced by the Fed to create all those vehicles by which they attracted huge numbers of unqualified buyers. Now the banks get to write down the loses, foreclose homes and have insurers (also regulated by the Fed) pay the short falls. You also forgot to mention that basic economics are prevailing in a bifurcated trough and that NAFTA has had a lot to do with it. Not to mention that we are still being taxed to death at the middle to high income levels which is curtailing spending. And can you imagine the price of oil if we had not stabilized the middle east. I hope you are not a financial advisor. You are so lopsided that you could not offer objective advice. Reply
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    Proud
    Canadian
    Feb 21 11:36 AM
    RIM CEO Firmly Optimistic About Future Growth [view article]
    J Lazerow,
    Nice article Mister, exactly what I think.:)     Reply
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    Proud
    Canadian
    Feb 21 10:47 AM
    Apple's AT&T Deal Is Costly [view article]
    I repeat: I prefer RIMM's Balsillie to AAPL's Jobs to react at the right time...:) Reply
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    Tom B
    Feb 21 09:47 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    "Stagflation, a lethal brew of simultaneous inflation and recession, may be hitting the U.S. for the first time since the 1970s."

    Blame the Bush Failed Presidency. Fiscal irresponsibility; military adventures (ineptly executed, at that); undirected tax cuts; lack of regulatory oversight of financial institutions.     Reply
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    VSD
    Feb 20 11:46 PM
    Apple's AT&T Deal Is Costly [view article]
    iPhone is a mobile platform. It comes with an SDK which you can use to develop an application and sell on that platform. RIMM is a email device and the rest are just phones. The industry has not matured enough to figure out the difference between the three, but apple knows what it owns and is protecting its turf. Reply
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    moofer
    Feb 20 02:06 AM
    Apple's AT&T Deal Is Costly [view article]
    What a load of bull. Apple makes revenue hand-over-fist on every phone sold, regardless of the service associated with it. They didn't lose any money. They gained money, albeit less than they would have if an AT&T retained the customer. Reply
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    peter02l
    Feb 19 11:13 PM
    Apple's AT&T Deal Is Costly [view article]
    jbelkin,

    I share your sentiments.

    It's difficult for me to understand comments like these here by Mr. Sullivan.
    AT&T had to make some concessions speed up their Edge network and implement certain features such as visual voicemail. The agreement has helped both companies.

    As jbelkin says, the purchase of phones by people who unlock them and use them in countries where Apple has signed no deals or with unsanctioned carriers speaks volumes about the desirability of the iPhone.

    Reports are about 25% of sales are outside the supported networks! That is a million potential customers lost to competing phone manufacturers. And Apple still makes money on every single one of them. And again as jbelkin mentions, for these "customers" Apple is not required to spend a penny on warranty and technical support! Instead Apple enjoys the visibility and awareness for the iPhone provided by these unauthorized users in as yet untapped markets. In addition it cuts into market share of its competitors there.

    Consider again what people in China are giving up when they purchase an iPhone: future upgrades, missing feature, no support, etc. Hundreds of thousands of people are willing to buy the Apple iPhone over competing products. Isn't this good news for Apple and bad news for Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and others as well as Symbian and Microsoft?

    Just imagine what will happen to Symbian and Microsoft with Google jumps in. And how carriers will be scrambling to provide and/or control features available on their networks.




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