On Monday, Samsung made a 5G announcement promising download of 3D movies in seconds. Samsung did the most masterful job of spinning a test for the maximum public relations impact that I have seen in a long time. Samsung served up such a sumptuous treat to the media who seem
A report from South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency about Samsung offering 5G service by 2020 caught my eye. Speculation about 5G abounds, so the title was not a surprise. What was intriguing to me was a claim of transmitting data in the millimeter wave band to a distance of two kilometers. My
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers.) YEN BREAKS 100, GOLD FALLS BY $33 May 10, 2013 In yesterday’s mornings capsule, we told you about Weekly New Unemployment Claims coming in better
TechCrunch reports that Microsoft MSFT may spend $1 billion to buy Nook outright from Barnes & Noble NE. In the pre-market Barnes & Noble stock moved up as much as 30% and was still higher by nearly 20% on the day in the afternoon. Microsoft has an existing investment in Nook of about one-sixth of the
This post was just published on ZYX Short Change Alert. Consider adding a 10% tranche in the zone of $76 to $77 or initiating a 20% tranche in TUR in the same zone. This ETF represents Turkey. Turkey is a neighbor of Syria and the situation in Syria is getting ugly.
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. JOE is in the buy zone. JOE is a real estate development company that owns 577,000 acres of land primarily in northwest Florida as well as 405,000 acres on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The position is long with
With Windows 8, Microsoft MSFT ignored the basic tenets of change management and paid the price. Now Microsoft is finally trying to correct the mistakes it made with Windows 8. In my analysis, the big drop in PC sales has been in part due to mistakes made by Microsoft in Windows 8. I
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. Consider taking profits on a 10% tranche on TBT in the zone of $61.90 to $62.40. TBT is trading at $62.02 as of this writing. Consider putting protective stops to protect stops on the remaining position in the zone of $61.23
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. Consider taking profits on CLWR and exiting the position in the zone of $3.30 – $3.50. The trigger for this call is that the probability that the offer from DISH will materialize has fallen. The probability of the offer from Sprint
Gun control legislation in Washington is moving at a snail’s pace, if at all, but technological developments are moving at a much faster one. The world’s first gun made mostly with a 3D printer has been test fired and now you can buy 3D printers at Staples SPLS. Soon blueprints to print a 3D