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    • ON: Wed Jul 9th 11:19 AM
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      Apple's iPhone to Capture Chinese Internet Market
      With Apple's price at circa $180, buying the stock ahead of a China Mobile deal is a headless no-brainer.
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    • ON: Mon Jun 23rd 09:35 AM
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      Six Attractive Stocks with Hidden Gems
      Most readers like to turn a page, even if it's one bent back beneath a crumpled paperback. Seniors crave this too. I know, I'm one of them. I also like going into a bookstore when I'm on holiday, browsing for a good read. Imagine, carrying a Kindle around. Imagine, sitting in a coffee shop reading your Kindle. On the beach, trying to see the screen in the bright sunshine. Okay in the nursing home though.
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    • ON: Fri Jun 20th 15:00 PM
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      Apple's iTunes: Rapid Sales Acceleration
      The future added ingredient here is Apple TV Games. I mean real people ones, sophisticated, insightful, challenging contests that are in our near future. Think of downloading one of those suckers for an evenings pleasure! And with box and software integrated into your widescreen TV. No lifting our that mess of boxes and cables to be strewn across the living room floor.
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    • ON: Fri Jun 20th 11:03 AM
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      Digital Music Titans Battle for Eardrums and Dollars
      The answer, having extensively used MySpace and iTunes for the last year or so, is the two company's offer a unique blend of music; the largely new and untried mixed with the mature artist attached to record company label. MySpace is wonderful for trolling the up and coming. For example, enter "Jazz" and scroll through thousands of tunes so written and produced, many as good as or better than professional studio. Then correspond with the artist!

      Over time there will be a blurring of such offerings - for example iTunes having a MySpace-like section and MySpace growing an iTunes-like one. Key for success: CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT - get it?
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    • ON: Thu Jun 19th 11:25 AM
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      3G iPhone: Growth and High Margins for Apple?
      Tom B: agree with you except for one absolute gleaming jewel in that crown; MS Word, a version of which is fortunately available for Mac. And don't spout off about Pages. Instead, go lay out a book with multi-section titling, page numbering and chaptering with intelligent double-sided printed output! After ten trashed reams you'll get the picture.
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    • ON: Sun Jun 1st 11:05 AM
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      Is the End of the Cable Box Near?
      One day the set-top box will go the way of the Dodo. And the sooner the better. The brain of such devices of course resides in the software. Stuff that chains the viewer to the whims of the cable company, tells the box and the subscriber what to do and what can and cannot be done.

      Apple TV could be attached to the TV set today (retaining clips, power outlet, HDMI panel on the back panel) so as to appear as if part of it. A more mature version of the device could be built right in. You couldn't do that so easily with the relatively humungous set-top box. Trouble is, there is stuff in the box - remote control, satellite set-up, channel authorization, selection, billing, display etc, that is must have stuff too.

      Don't look for Apple to be producing such a union themselves although such strategy must be the subject of keen debate within the company. Rather, they would strike up partnerships with set manufactures and cable-satellite companies - much as Sony is trying to do today. Compelling content will decide the winners.

      One thing is certain, Apple TV must have a screen. And to content hungry viewers, increasingly, their dumb TV needs an Apple.
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    • ON: Thu May 29th 11:51 AM
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      Apple Experiments with Sun-Powered Devices
      The ironic fact of life with regard to portable devices is, pun unintended, big-time smallness, whereas solar energy needs collection surface. The more unobscured area catching sunlight the more power available to more speedily charge waning batteries. Such surface as is available on a miniature device residing in ones pocket or handbag is quite useless for such purpose.
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    • ON: Thu May 29th 10:16 AM
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      Apple Experiments with Sun-Powered Devices
      The photocells could be sewn into the surface area of a hat, the shoulders of a shirt or jacket to which your device is connected, the aim being to extend battery life rather than a replace.
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    • ON: Tue May 27th 11:18 AM
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      Raw Data Report: Technology
      Gasp, so whatawe do now, jump thru a hoop?
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    • ON: Sun May 25th 12:20 PM
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      American Airlines Struggles With High Oil, Weak Dollar
      Oil price need not effect airline earnings. A highly visible ticket surcharge that mirrored oil costs' rise and fall. Implemented on a daily basis (if need be) via a prominently displayed notice behind each ticket counter and on travel web pages; WSJ, FT indexes etc., showing daily fuel surcharge to be added to scheduled ticket price thus eliminating much confusion and uncertainty.
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    • ON: Sun May 25th 12:20 PM
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      American Airlines Struggles With High Oil, Weak Dollar
      Oil price need not effect airline earnings. A highly visible ticket surcharge that mirrored oil costs' rise and fall. Implemented on a daily basis (if need be) via a prominently displayed notice behind each ticket counter and on travel web pages; WSJ, FT indexes etc., showing daily fuel surcharge to be added to scheduled ticket price thus eliminating much confusion and uncertainty.
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    • ON: Mon May 19th 12:10 PM
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      Blue Ridge Capital - Portfolio Holdings
      It's not rocket science to present a portfolio that contains Google and Apple when these two companies provide 85% of the growth making fund managers appear market-savvy. It doesn't require that your manager works out of a luxurious office in a Manhattan skyscraper either. That YOUR money pays for. The technique is plain vanilla deception no matter how you spin it.
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    • ON: Wed May 14th 22:29 PM
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      What's Next for Apple: 3D Gaming?
      This has to be a most exciting field and Apple will be at the forefront of it since it's right up their street so embedded are they with arty design folks a la Disney and so forth. Games, casual or otherwise embellished with 3D and many other sophistications - only Apple can perfect. Already the platform is there - Apple TV. This sleeper-of-a-product will awaken big time with 3D games.

      Quick, tomorrow, ride this superb horseman.
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    • ON: Tue May 13th 10:24 AM
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      What's Better: BlackBerry or iPhone?
      For email-heavy users it seems existing touchscreen text typing technology isn't ready for prime time, especially for long fingernail and/or thick fingered people - probably half the population. But then neither are some of those teeny keyboards. However, the better designed ones, like on the Blackberry, seemingly are adequate for the application.

      It is strongly rumored that the 3G iPhone touch screen will be more keyboard centric - touch becomes more like press. This had better be so if the iPhone is to become a serious player with heavy email business folks. It is to the degree that touch approaches press (both in feel and sound) that will determine the success of the technology for typing text over the long term.
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    • ON: Sun May 11th 11:20 AM
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      DirecTV: Surging Stock Price, Plenty of Potential
      Trouble with DTV as far as movies go - the main reason many use the service in the first place - is that shows are pushed. Annoyingly, there's no user selection of a movie a user would really like to see, even with Pay Per View. Ask yourself how often you want to see the movie DTV have decided you can watch?

      Not so in the download world. For example, using the $230 Apple TV, a device about the size of a hardback book, the user downloads a movie of choice from 1000's, no differently than if it were a music track. And that, after having had the benefit of viewing the trailer!

      Furthermore, using the same device and the same on-screen menu, one can browse and view YouTube clips in addition to one's iTunes Music Library, TV Show and PC/Mac photograph files!
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