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To: bluto1961 who wrote (3810)	3/31/2000 2:31:00 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6847

A little spoofing going on? Did you catch the Sell at 15 order for 10,000 shares that showed up and was quickly withdrawn. Probably a sign from a short trying to scare some shares. They talk about it on the Pretend Traders Thread, check it out. They say they don't do it and it's unethical. Guess what, from the time that spoof occurred, it's been going straight up.........

To: bluto1961 who wrote (3810)	3/31/2000 3:33:00 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6847

Aren't these guys a riot? Running out of ammunition? Buy a company with real sales and earnings, that in the company's opinion, will help present a total B2B package and what do they find? He used to be on the board and he sold some stock. Geeez -- no wonder they're getting desperate on ZIXI. Check out the personal attacks there. Hope nobody on the BOD has any sexual proclivities for underaged morons. (Might be easy for these shorts to allege this one for obvious reasons.) We'll hear about it. And it will be a reason for selling. Of course, especially after it is posted a few hundred times.

To: bluto1961 who wrote (3810)	3/31/2000 4:05:00 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6847

Uh taht would be XYBR. You want a real portable PC?: "Handspring, Visor Computer Maker, Files $300 Mln IPO (Update1) (Adds details from filing, analyst quote in paragraph 5) Washington, March 31 (Bloomberg) -- Handspring Inc., the handheld computer maker started by the people behind the popular PalmPilot, filed to raise as much as $300 million through an initial stock sale. Handspring, which last September unveiled its Visor handheld organizer to compete with Palm, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell common shares. The number of shares the Mountain View, California, company intends to sell and their price will be disclosed later. Handspring was founded in 1998 by Chief Product Officer Jeffrey Hawkins, who invented Palm Inc.'s Palm computer, and Chief Executive Donna Dubinsky, known as a marketing whiz who helped make the PalmPilot into the most successful handheld computer, with more than 6 million devices sold to date. In challenging Palm, Handspring is taking on a company that said it controlled 68 percent of the handheld computer market in 1998. Handspring's Visor has qualities that make it competitive, an analyst said. It's ``an appealing device,' said Jill House, an analyst International Data Corp., a market researcher. The Visor operates much like a Palm handheld device, though it includes a slot that lets users insert cartridges aimed at letting the Visor perform like a pager, music player, or other device. Demand For several months after the Visor was unveiled in September, Handspring buckled under demand that was greater than it had anticipated. The company tripled its workforce and boosted production to overcome the difficulties, which included shipping delays and a sometimes-faulty Web site. The result: $15.8 million in revenue by Jan. 1. Net losses for the three months ending on that date totaled $11.4 million, reflecting in part the cost of hiring people to develop new products. Handspring this week said it fixed the problems earlier this year. Three big U.S. retailers have just begun to sell the Visor: Best Buy Co., CompUSA Inc. and Staples Inc. Handspring said it believes the market for handheld computers is in its early stages, and that consumer demand will be stoked by the emergence of more powerful devices that can do more things. More than 35.5 million handheld devices will be shipped worldwide in 2003, up from 6.8 million shipped in 1998, according to forecasts from International Data Corp. cited in the SEC filing. Founders Hawkins, 42, and Dubinsky, 44, spent years developing and marketing the PalmPilot at the company which today is known as Palm Inc. Palm previously has been a subsidiary of two larger companies: U.S. Robotics Corp., which bought Palm in 1995, and 3Com Corp., which bought U.S. Robotics in 1997. Palm went public earlier this month with its own IPO. Palm initially sold shares at 38, and saw them soar to as much as 165 in their first day of trading. Palm shares fell 1 7/16 to 45 1/16 in early afternoon trading. If Handspring shares duplicate the performance of Palm's stock, Hawkins and Dubinsky would be the latest Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to reap paper fortunes. Hawkins holds a 36.4 percent Handspring stake before the IPO, while Dubinsky holds a 19.6 percent stake.