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Nokia Enters the Already Crowded Netbook Market: Pros and Cons

Nokia is well known for expensive products with little to offer over its rivals, in my opinion. I often have problem identifying the selling points of their products. Most times, one key desirable feature is missing from the model you intend to own. In order for them to succeed, Nokia has only one choice. That is, lower its equipment price to win market share. Even the industrious Japanese is not gaining a foothold in net-books and smart-phones.

Apple's Walmart Deal Will Effectively Kill Google's Android

I am a smart-phone owner. I did not even bother to look at the i.Phone features when I learned it is using a locked SIM card (very anti-competition behavior) and the ridiculous pricing both hardware, carrier charges, contract period and extended warranty costs.
My choice is the Palm Vodafone version with Windows Mobile 6 Standard Edition, with 3G capability but with no WiFi.
It is highly cost effective compared with the pricey i.Phone, and I have spare cash to buy another standby phone including 2 spare new batteries for the Palm and standby phone.
I am happy with my choice, and believe my next purchase is going to be another Palm with Windows Mobile or Google Android or Linux or Palm OS (with at least 3.5G and WiFi).

A lot have to do with personal preference and usage patterns. There is no point in having several hundreds of applications when the ordinary man in the street just require a suite of frequently ran applications. More programs for me assure more problems and data corruption including viruses, malware, system hang, trojan horses, compatibility issues etc. My philosophy is :: Simplify your life, smell the roses.

Apple's Walmart Deal Will Effectively Kill Google's Android

I am a smart-phone owner. I did not even bother to look at the i.Phone features when I learned it is using a locked SIM card (very anti-competition behavior) and the ridiculous pricing both hardware, carrier charges, contract period and extended warranty costs.
My choice is the Palm Vodafone version with Windows Mobile 6 Standard Edition, with 3G capability but with no WiFi.
It is highly cost effective compared with the pricey i.Phone, and I have spare cash to buy another standby phone including 2 spare new batteries for the Palm and standby phone.
I am happy with my choice, and believe my next purchase is going to be another Palm with Windows Mobile or Google Android or Linux or Palm OS (with at least 3.5G and WiFi).

A lot have to do with personal preference and usage patterns. There is no point in having several hundreds of applications when the ordinary man in the street just require a suite of frequently ran applications. More programs for me assure more problems and data corruption including viruses, malware, system hang, trojan horses, compatibility issues etc. My philosophy is :: Simplify your life, smell the roses.

What Pushed the SEC to Tighten the Rules - Now?

Someone mentioned in another post that the Shanghai stock market is an excellent example as shorts are not allowed in this market, thus causing it to crash by more than 50 percent.

Manipulators will push up the stock and then let it crash when you least expect. Many small investors have been massacred in this manner by the big boys.

What Pushed the SEC to Tighten the Rules - Now?

Short selling is a must for an efficient market. Those who ask for shorts to be banned are asking for another stock market bubble.

They should instead buy in at the lows, and kill the shorts. A good money making opportunity from short squeezes.

Apple Hype Priced In - Stop Trading! (6/9/08)

Cramer may be right. Apple is over-priced and over-hyped. 3G and GPS is not new. 4G and dual SIM-card is the next frontier. By the way, as a consumer, I hate Apple's practice of restricting the customer's choice by locking the phone's software and barring other service providers from selling the phone. This seems so unethical and against free market practice. Motorola and Nokia, please deliver us from unfair practice and mediocre products.