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Dethroning Google: Competition for the King

The KING will reign for longer than the MSFT king, so I'll let you do the homework on that..........let's see, I got my PC in 1982 - and MS is still worth hundreds of billions.........

There is a difference between a company driven by engineering and one driven by greed...........or there surely might be.

Don't be surprised if Google stays on top for many decades.

California: Leveraged to Gasoline Prices and Nearing the Breaking Point

Written, I'm sure, on a California invented computer - and sent through a California developed internet......but also through California developed routers which contain California developed silicon chips...which were made by California developed fab processes, etc. etc.

You folks make me chuckle!
Now go eat some of that California produced food while chugging the fine California wines and watching that fine Hollywood Entertainment.......


On Oct 16 11:34 AM The Geoffster wrote:

> To paraphrase Maggie Thatcher, I guess they've finally run out of
> other people's money in California. Then again, maybe the virus has
> killed the host.

Starwood IPO Benefits Underwriters While Investors Take Losses

Uh, mr. Foreclosure......I think this REIT is going to buy distressed and heavily discounted property and stuff like that, including from the Government........

That would seem similar to.......buying foreclosures!

I'm going long on it for the long term - and will ladder into it. I think it has a very good chance of paying off on a 3-6 year plus window.

How PHEVs and EVs Will Sabotage America's Drive for Energy Independence

The telegraph also cost a lot to implement - they should have stayed with the very low cost and effective Pony Express.

How Much Are Apple's 45 Million Users Worth?

Hogwash!

I am a relatively wealthy iphone user and there is icebergs chance in hell that I would spend $60 a month in addition to the regular phone fees on content!

Oh, I am a long time Apple shareholder too - but I certainly don't fool myself - the real story is good enough!

If you are going to go way out on a limb.....you might say that the AVERAGE user will pay $15 a month eventually for such content and that Apple would see $5. of it.

However, the selfish side of me hopes that folks like you keep pumping like this, because you will drive the stock price up and then I can sell....and maybe buy again when it crashes to reality.

Google's Search Share Drops 0.5%, So What?

Internet stats like that mean nothing!
Especially something within 1 percent.
Google is unstoppable at this point. That could change, of course, but there is currently nothing else on the horizon...that is of note.

Apple: Like Starbucks and Whole Foods, A Trend That's Past Its Prime

Well, Folks, I was right again - on MSFT. They are 100% doomed in the long run. No, they will not close shop or go out of business (yet), but the trend is clearly down, down, down with no end in sight.....

And guess who will benefit? Apple, my good friends! Of course, open source will benefit also, but Apple will be...by far...the biggest gainer from the Microsoft losers.

I love being right. Although I love making money even more. Apple will be $200 a share within 2 years, and although that may seem like a long time to wait.......WOW, look at those numbers..... TENS OF MILLIONS of high profit units (ipods), many of which are "touches" which will download apps from the app store.

I'm getting dizzy. When the market sentiment turns around, this one will be a winner.

Apple: Like Starbucks and Whole Foods, A Trend That's Past Its Prime

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50% of the cool things you find in excel/word/ppt were first conceived by Apple
>>>

Sorry, have to chuckle at that one....having been an Apple user since 1984 and a PC user before that......

I don't do "office".....

Real Men don't do office.
And there is nothing cool about word,ppt or excel. Although there are a lot of boring things about them.

The future, including Apple, Google, etc...is about the mobility of programs and data, not the old "get your newest office upgrade". If you owned MSFT stock for the last decade, you probably already know that.

But in case you didn't, I'm here to inform and educate.

I am a full time computer consultant, web developer and writer - and also an inventor and other things...and have absolutely no need for any of those "cool" office apps. In fact, most people have no need for them...probably 90+ % of the people who own them! Maybe more!

Anyway, don't invest in MSFT, and cool...well, that is the app that turns your iPhone into a level. Or the one that shows your car actually driving along exactly where you really are.....from space, etc. etc. etc.

Apple: Like Starbucks and Whole Foods, A Trend That's Past Its Prime

The iPhone is vastly better for the "unwashed masses" than those other smartphones - I know because my wife...who cannot do ANYTHING with tech...even a regular cell phone, got one and is all of a sudden working with dozens of apps! That, my friend, is nearly impossible on every other machine.

And, Apple does not need a 50% or 70% market penetration. Although the iPhone and Ipod (touch) are the current real stories, these devices bring along customer...albeit slowly.....to the apple desktops and notebook. Look at the chart of mac sales, my friends......it is up, up, up - almost 10% as far as web use. What happens when they eventually get to 15% or 20%, and when there are 100 million plus iphone users?

I'm still a long term bull, despite how the wind is blowing right now.

I do think, however, that it was a bad move to give up the $10 a month from AT&T....but they probably know more than I do.

Is a mac worth more? Well, being as I still have and use my $899 iBook from 2001, and my brother uses my $1900 G4 Desktop from 1999, and my wife will not give up her "lampshade" iMac, and we have not needed ANY security software nor any tech support from outside....I'll get you work out the savings........while you drink your Folgers Coffee.

Google's Downfall: Search Engine Optimization

Oh, to add to the above, anyone who searches google on a term like "stock market" deserves what they get!
What? You don't know where the stock market is?

Better queries will get you better results.

Google's Downfall: Search Engine Optimization

The writer of this piece knows nothing.
SEO is snake oil, plain and simple. The entire industry is made up of (mostly) blood suckers who have about 1/10,000th of the intelligence of a team a google employees. To think that joe SEO money grubber can fool the math formulas time and time again is folly.

As to man and machine, please look at chess. And the SEO guys are certainly not Grand Masters, but rather trying to liberate people who don't know better from their money.

Google may not be perfect, but the fake industry of SEO is in a lot more trouble than goog.

REITs: Is Now the Time to Buy?

You must mean that company that the CEO just left, that was downgraded by S&P, and that the dividend was just cut.......
pump and dump, my friends.


On Nov 10 09:56 PM W1estmeyer wrote:

> but only a few. Look at ProLogis today. Yield > 15%. And well covered.
>
> Wow!

The Dow's Lost Decade

Uh....
whatever happened to earning money the old fashioned way - working!

Yahoo vs. Microsoft: This Isn't Even Funny Any More

Hah Hah.....

How can anyone be so brainwashed as to think MSFT is anything but a dying monopoly? I can only imagine that the author keeps Word open on his notebook and thinks that is the cats meow. Meantime, the rest of the world has moved on.

MSFT is dead, just does not know it yet. Yahoo is not a winner either, but they certainly have more in hand right now than failed Microsoft. Not talking financials here, just reality. Anyone with stock in MSFT should get out while they can or just watch it be (slowly) reduced in value over the years.

The Cheap Oil Syndrome: 3 Stocks to Benefit

Uh......hate to inform the Rednecks here - but.....

Bleeding heart liberals and hippies were burning wood stoves, moving out of the city onto organic farms, installing solar panels and in general TRYING to tell the rest of the population that cheap oil is not forever.....

Meantime, the soccer moms and SUV dads were CAUSING the crisis by not allowing our country to head in the proper direction. Sure, a generalization, but look at where the BIG houses are (redneck south) while the more reasonable new englanders and northwest population try to save energy.

Remember, this is bizzarro world - up is down and down is up. G W Bush is a good president....we are spreading "freedom" by killing 100's of thousands....and on and on.