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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Drew Williams who wrote (1350)	1/4/2000 5:59:00 PM
From: John Dough	Respond to of 12239

I guess I never really thought about how buyouts worked. But, thanks to you and Maurice, I'm beginning to understand. If a company had offered to buy the Q for $80 per share, back when it was trading at $50 per share, for example, the shareholders would have had a chance to vote on it, even if management didn't want to sell at that, or any price. And, considering the relatively lackluster stock price action up until that point, a majority of the shareholders would have jumped at it, including myself. Only now do I realize just how lucky we all are, that no other company saw the true value of the Q. Mark

To: Drew Williams who wrote (1350)	1/5/2000 2:35:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12239

<"This agreement marks a major paradigm shift in the telecommunications industry, enabling ordinary phones to be used as a tool to route IP calls," David Greenblatt, chief operating officer of Net2Phone, said in a statement. "Incorporating our services into Panasonic's new dual-mode phone presents an excellent opportunity for Net2Phone." > yahoo.cnet.com I suspect this slipped past most people as it was tucked in behind the item yahoo.cnet.com <Gates will demonstrate the long-awaited update to Windows CE in his speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Code-named Rapier, sources close to the company said the newest version of the scaled-down operating system will be launched under a new name: Pocket PC. >their latest acknowledgement of their new motto MAJOR PARADIGM SHIFT HAPPENS. Notice that Net2Phone has pinched Microsoft's new motto! As you can see above, Major Paradigm Shift Happens yet again. Now we have Net2Phone coming up with, in concert with Panasonic, an IP-based phone which will enable Web calls on cordless phones. You can be sure that Net2Phone WWeb calls on CDMA will NOT be far away. When that happens, the cost of a call worldwide will go to near zero [maybe zero as a few advertisements in WWeb mode would pay for the calls]. Qualcomm has already formed a deal with Net2Phone via Eudora for marketing the Net2Phone service. People will buy billions of CDMA HDR phones and enjoy near-free calling over the Web. Okay, they'll still have to pay service providers, but with competition, that cost will become small. Much less than 5c per minute to anywhere in the world, with WWeb access as well [at 1c per megabyte or something]. This will be GOOD for Qualcomm. Mqurice PS: Yes, Cooters - swapping info in real time at that. Editing so that this gets into the Web before your following post in a cyberspace inversion of the normal direction of time. So people will read this before they read a post which came later. Time travel has arrived! Amazing to think it was only 1995 that Netscape had their IPO.