TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADE
January 13, 2012
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We will be upgrading our technology infrastructure this weekend. As a result you may not be able to access our sites from 1/13/12 4:00 pm to 1/17/12 morning.
On the morning of January 11, 2012, there was a repeat of twin lessons for long investors in gold and silver miners. First it pays to understand the condition of mines. And second that the money is often made on the short side. Established in 1891, Hecla Mining /quotes/zigman/229110/quotes/nls/hl HL +2.82% is the largest silver producer in the U.S. Hecla produces silver from Lucky Friday mine in Idaho and Greens Creek mine in Alaska. The news was that the Mine Safety and Health Administration (“MSHA”) ordered the silver shaft at the Lucky Friday mine closed for removal of built-up material
It is no secret that Google (GOOG) missed the boat on social networking when the time was ripe. Now Google is chasing Facebook with Google+. Google+ is well designed. Some experts consider Google+ to be a better design than Facebook. Google+ has met with some initial success. It is too early to tell if the initial success will last or whether it is simply the result of Google+ being a novelty. There is no denying that content on Google+ is sparse compared to Facebook. Now Google has a new secret weapon to battle Facebook. The new
For years, media have reported on a number of military options to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities. Iran has learned from the 1981 bombing of Iraq’s nuclear facility. Nuclear facilities in Iran are widely distributed and most of them are built deep underground. Some of these facilities are believed to be beyond the reach of the best U.S. bunker buster bombs, and it is not clear whether Israel possesses bombs that can penetrate reinforced subterranean targets. Has Israel instead found a low-cost and effective way to contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions? Iranian news agency FARS is quoting Safar Ali Baratlou,
Some stock market gurus seem to have a fatal attraction to technology patents. While technology patents can certainly add to the performance of a stock, that attraction often fails to account for a number of factors affecting the value of the patents. Technology patents are very complex and understanding them requires expertise. Patent law is even more complex. A further layer of complexity is added by the idiosyncrasies of a patchwork of legal systems across the globe that even intellectual property attorneys find hard to master. For investors, the complexity does not end there. How large are the legal fees
Best Buy has done an excellent job at becoming a showroom for Amazon.com. Now Best Buy is working hard at charging more than the competition, making poor service poorer and not stocking what customers want. As a shopper, I gave up on Best Buy a long time ago in favor of Fry’s Electronics. Recently a Best Buy advertisement for a TV caught my eye. I happened to be right by a Best Buy store, so I decided to step in for the first time in several years. I did not see the TV on display. It took about 10
Symantec, maker of Norton Antivirus, has admitted to a major security breach by a group called the Lords of Dharmaraja, which in English means ‘˜Kings of Religion’. For background, please see my article from January 6th, ‘œLords Of Kings Hack Norton Antivirus, Are You Safe?‘ In the last piece, I stated the key question, ‘œAre your computers and emails still safe if protected by Norton?’ Symantec has provided the answer in an email to The Arora Report as follows: We investigated their claims to Norton Antivirus and found them not to be true and that Norton Antivirus is safe and
Google (GOOG) just bought 100 patents from IBM (IBM). Most gurus have been writing that this buy is to battle Apple (AAPL). It is rare that so many gurus are plain wrong. Perhaps, technology patents are too complex for most stock market gurus to get it right. We are including a list of every single patent that Google has bought. Not a single patent seems to be a threat to Apple. A careful examination of the patents shows that Google is buying these patents to battle Oracle (ORCL), Facebook and Twitter. From an investment perspective, in spite of this and