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To: Sig who wrote (5192)	12/27/2001 8:19:40 AM
From: Venkie	Respond to of 13815

I hope you and Jan had-having a great holiday season. I hv been working 85 hr wks trying to get the new Bldg finished and moved in. We were suppose to move yesterday but I postponed it until Jan 10 th. I hv been really sick and need a couple of wks off to recoup. No time for the mkt and that drives me crazzzy. I can't wait to move into my new office.CYA

To: Sig who wrote (5192)	12/27/2001 10:36:59 AM
From: im a survivor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13815

Atmel surges in pre-open on upgrade (ATML) By Tomi Kilgore Shares of Atmel (ATML) are charging 76 cents, or 11 percent higher, to $7.38 in pre-open trading. Analyst Christopher Chaney at A.G. Edwards upgraded the chipmaker's stock to "strong buy" from "buy," given that it is trading at a "steep discount" to its peer group. He believes concerns over flash memory pricing have hurt the stock more than it should have. "While Atmel does produce flash memory, we believe the sell-off in the shares suggests that 100 percent of Atmel's sales is in flash, which is not the case," Chaney said in a note to clients. He said that in fact, flash memory represented approximately 18 percent of Atmel's sales. "We believe the worst is now behind Atmel in terms of revenue decline," Chaney added. "In our opinion, the current share price now assumes the worst, and the downside risk from current levels is limited."

To: Sig who wrote (5192)	12/27/2001 12:09:34 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 13815

Wireless Report A Family Affair for Mobile Phones By David Orenstein business2.com It's Christmas morning at the Jones house, and four wrapped presents -- all exactly the same size and shape -- rest neatly under the tree. Just a bit after 7 a.m., two coffee-sipping parents and two bleary-eyed teens converge to open what turns out to be a set of new cell phones, complete with a "family plan" of 600 shared minutes per month. You can bet this scene was played out in thousands of homes this week. Family wireless calling plans -- in which family members get one bill, share one pool or "bucket" of minutes, and get to call each other's cell phones for free -- are becoming more popular: Carriers like Verizon and AT&T Wireless are offering free phones with their plans, and 5.9 million subscribers have already signed up. Strategis Group, a research firm, projects that the number of family-plan subscribers in the U.S. will increase fivefold, to 29 million, by 2004. By contrast, individual subscribers will increase only 26 percent during the next three years, from 123.8 million to 156.2 million. Family plans offer convenience (what family of four wants four bills?) and a way for parents to easily monitor cell-phone usage. Teens might smart at the loss of independence, but it's hard to argue with having Mom and Dad foot the bill. Besides, prepaid minutes -- the other popular option for teens -- can run out. Getting cut off from calls is a far worse fate than sharing minutes with your sister. The benefits for families may be convincing, but they're murkier for the carriers. With wireless growth slowing, carriers face pressure to boost revenue per subscriber. If members of a family really stick to the plan -- staying within their minutes and mostly just calling each other -- carriers could see lower average revenue per user, says Strategis analyst Adam Guy. But by promoting family plans, carriers are thinking longer-term. By capturing entire families as customers, they can later ply those households with add-on services like ring tones, text messaging, and one day, perhaps, downloadable MP3s. "There could be a lot of revenues down the road," Guy says. For carriers, the family plan could be the gift that keeps on giving.

To: Sig who wrote (5192)	12/29/2001 8:19:13 PM
From: freeus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13815

MC and HNY Sig and All, Visiting in Utah. Snow snow and more snow. Snow in Park City (just left) snow in Parowan (visiting now and for the New Year's Eve hello). Cold too, varying from 34 to under -10. Brrr. It's ok I have to get used to it and I have lots of good warm outdoor clothes. Looks like geacf is on its way again. Should have loaded up on under 4 U.S. last week. Not quite at that level yet (buying when something dips) but I did take profits in ally and dfxi this week and will buy back on weakness. What are your favorite stocks these days (recognizing that you wave with the wind...ha ha)? I don't have much of anything...a little mntg and mxt and a lot of cash but unsure where to put the cash. I want qlgc back at 18, wonder if we will have another market cave in before the usual summer one? Freeus I need to make about $220,000 fast as we decided to buy a house instead of renting, while we build. Then we can rent out the first one. Of course $50,000 for the downpayment would be ok too. :o)