Traderhood » Zee

Anyone have any TA hunches re Earnings? Selling into it or after.

Zee — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:33:25 +0000

Just wondering this time around.

Just a funny hunch here… if you were ever looking for a perverse stock…

Zee — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:31:22 +0000

Everybody wake up. I sort of just had a flash. Don’t know if anyone else has noticed this, or if there’s any regularity to it? Maybe some of the stat oriented guys might confirm if there’s an unusual directional pattern phenomenon regarding Rim’s daily trading. Does Rimm predictably go up often enough, as a curiosity, on what are generally down days for the indexes? This is just something that I noticed off the cuff like an odds thing. Thought it might be worth mentioning as an effort to recognize an easy behavioral pattern without necessarily needing to know why, but rather how often by comparison. It seems kind of weird. cheers

Charles H. Ferguson PhD : His work… and his movies. And now an Oscar Nomination. Maybe a future Apple board member?

Zee — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:11:09 +0000

Perhaps you know Charles H Ferguson from the 90′s when he was the founder of Vermeer Technologies and creator of the internet’s first website development tool, FrontPage, which was sold to Microsoft for $133 M and integrated into Microsoft Office. Apart from also being a postdoctoral White House consultant for trade and defense he has been a strategic consultant to Apple, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Xerox … and director of the French-American Foundation. Well, he’s also a filmmaker. His film : Inside Job, has been nominated for an Academy Award. The film is about the 2007-10 economic meltdown. The nomination is for best Feature Documentary. The ceremony is February 27th. His other film is, No End in Sight : The American Occupation of Iraq.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/charles_h_ferguson

Special hello to nolavabo and conschmilo. W/O you guys the debates on Google Finance just aren’t the same. cheers

SOURCE:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/insidejob/

Has anyone considered that iPhone 5 will be Verizon’s LTE 2011 model?

Zee — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:50:00 +0000

Seems logical to take care of the future sooner.

APPLE CITY!? Great news and history in the making.

Zee — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:07:00 +0000

Hot stuff mates. News will follow today… SJ has been secretly working with Britain’s most prolific Architect Norman Foster and Partners. Foster b. 1935 aka Baron Foster of Thames Bank was the designer of Masdar in Abu Dhabi, the first city w/o cars and zero carbon emissions, capacity 50,000.

Apple’s city, for use of a better name, will be on the 148 acres that were recently acquired from HP in Cupertino for the concept of Apple’s future home that’ll house Apple’s engineers and R+D. Apparently much will be underground with grass surfaces. Zero carbon emissions. Check out Norman Foster on Google Images/wiki. I imaging ex Northrup Grumman ceo, the newly appointed Apple board member Dr. Robert Sweet will play a strong role as an over seer of Apple’s finances…

Any worries now about what Apple will do with its $50 B? And any doubts that Apple’s employees will eventually double? Cheers.

TODAY’S Rumor/AAPL-SONy?

Zee — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:29:35 +0000

Rueters repeated a rumor today that’s not new but resurfaced on Barron’s Oct/18th and 0ct/23rd re. Apple acquisitions : SONY… among others.

SJ has commented on Sony / and…, Apple as a consumer electronics co. etc. Sony as everyone knows is very big in Broadcast, Creative Software, Music, and Consumer Electronics. By virtue of Sony’s location, it’s nicely positioned to Asia’s markets. Plus in the sense of Sony’s relationship to Ericson there’s that side of Mobile IP. Ericson claims their IP is second to none.

Perhaps it’s merely a rumor. But no joy lost. However the synergy between Apple/UNISYS/Sony is indeed extremely dynamic. And as an industry presence this synergy is poised to blossom and be the de facto, go to, for ALL Content Creation and Mobile needs. Such a move would sensibly cause enough healthy stress and wonderment to push the stock up as Apple charges towards EXXON, and $4-500+etc a share.

Such a move would also make Android look very fragmented and the mess of messes…

AAPL partners with UNISYS

Zee — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:56:39 +0000

It was announced today that UNIYS will partner with Apple for enterprise/government services. UNISYS will continue dev apps, along with sell and service Apple’s hardware for the non consumer mkt. UNISYS s/p closed today at $33.20 up 1.36%, mkt cap $1.33 bin. 25,6000 employees. Competitors, IBM, Oracle, MSFT, Redhat, Dell, HP.

UNISYS is the resultant merger of Sperry and Burroughs. At one time UNISYS was on the S&P, its share price peaked at $480, peak level of employees, 120,000.

HQ Blue Bell PA
Sperry founded in 1910
Burroughs 1886

The Burroughs corp was also the source of Beat Poet William Burroughs wealth. Author of Naked Lunch.

OSX on non Apple tablets?

Zee — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 04:07:18 +0000

We may find everybody desperately wants to be a Mac. lol. I picked up, surprisingly, a discussion tonight about competing tablets running on OSX. No mention of QNX doing that. But the netbook makers like Asus, which are made in the same factory as Apple’s stuff might be the likely devices… and a quick look at eBay shows that the Dell hackintosh is still hanging on… I don’t know what the solution is other than perish the thought. This would be like Psystar part 2.

!!$ Nikon Abandons MSFT’s AVI for .MOV/H.246/MPEG4

Zee — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:28:09 +0000

I was checking out the specs for Nikon’s new D7000 dslr camera, announced around the 14th of September.

Historically Nikon and its software partner Fujitsu were associated with MSFT and used the AVI file format for delivering dslr mjpeg video.

I think this means Nikon is paying a licensing fee for using Apple’s Quick Time .MOV.

Normally, Nikon’s competitor Canon an old partner of Apple’s used .MOV in its DSLR’s, like for the Canon 5D MKII.

And a year and a half ago JVC also switched to Quick Time for its GY HM100u.

Possible conclusion : Apple’s online store will be selling the Nikon D7000 when it comes out, which means more manufacturers and users are moving to the .MOV codec and MSFT is seriously losing the battle. Jeez, Nikon sells a lot of cameras.

The is very significant too, because FCP/Nikon users normally required a third party transcoder called Squared 5 MPEG Streamclip for converting AVI to .MOV/QT. But not anymore