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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (45865)	1/5/2002 10:52:50 PM
From: Dealer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

JW! I think I have one but need a little time.............What's next in tech..........the war does not hurt......for future tech. Timedomain has the technology that is out front..............many patents..... Waiting and watching for it to hit the market.....have people watching and will be one of the first to know.....locale company here. Check out this site.... timedomain.com FCC Set to OK New Wireless System Telecom: The consumer electronics industry may be revolutionized with ultra-wideband's high-speed technology. Times Headlines By JUBE SHIVER Jr., TIMES STAFF WRITER WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators are on the verge of approving a breakthrough wireless technology backed by Intel Corp., Sony Corp. and other big names that could revolutionize the consumer electronics industry. The technology, known as ultra-wideband, could provide very high-speed wireless Internet access and facilitate other wireless capabilities such as allowing consumers to track intruders with home radar, helping rescuers find earthquake victims and greatly improving collision-avoidance systems. More than a decade in the making, the versatile technology has been bitterly opposed by airlines and cell phone companies, which say it can cause interference with their communications systems. The Federal Communications Commission still is negotiating with opponents, but Bruce A. Franca, acting chief of the FCC's office of engineering, said he is hopeful that an accord can be reached and that the FCC will approve the technology next month. Last year, the FCC granted temporary permission to use ultra-wideband devices to locate victims of the World Trade Center collapse. The agency is considering permanent approval under the same FCC rules that govern such unlicensed wireless devices as cordless phones and baby monitors. New consumer products using ultra-wideband could be on the market as early as this year. Ultra-wideband companies are ready to go," said Jeff Ross, a vice president at TimeDomain, a Huntsville, Ala., company that has been developing the technology. He said his company is already selling ultra-wideband tracking devices to the military and some police departments. But the company and other ultra-wideband developers will mostly leave the consumer device manufacturing to others and concentrate on making the key ultra-wideband receiving transmission microchips. Ross said such chips should be ready for use in consumer equipment "in the next couple of months." Ultra-wideband's sprint to market has been aided by its flexible technology, comparatively low cost and fortuitous timing, experts say. Unlike most other wireless systems, which transmit signals on specific airwaves, ultra-wideband devices communicate through short pulses of low power radio energy. And they use a swath of frequencies spanning cell phones to satellite signals. FCC officials, dismissing critics' claims that the pulses cause interference, say the technology uses small amounts of power--only fractions of a watt--and that it doesn't require the same lengthy licensing scrutiny given to broadcasters, cell phone companies and other wireless devices. However, the agency is considering initially limiting ultra-wideband to small areas before allowing more broadly disbursed networks covering, say, airports or shopping malls. Ultra-wideband is a digitally enhanced radar technology that enables users to transmit encrypted voice and radar signals simultaneously, using short bursts of radio waves. Its signals are difficult to intercept and can be digitally encrypted for additional security. This combination could eliminate much of the eavesdropping hackers can now do on many wireless networks because an ultra-band network can be configured to communicate only with users at a specific location. Similarly, military commanders and firefighters could use ultra-wideband to track their personnel in the field while also talking to them securely. By contrast, radios emit such a strong signal that they can be identified by an enemy or eavesdropper. These traits have helped win ultra-wideband greater government acceptance amid the nation's increasing focus on security after the Sept. 11 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, industry executives say. Executives at TimeDomain said that in recent years they could barely get a foot in the door in Washington to peddle their technology. But after the terrorist attacks, everyone from the Office of Naval Research to Congress began seeking them out to use ultra-wideband in military and search-and-rescue operations. Besides TimeDomain, half a dozen other start-ups are developing ultra-wideband technology, including Aether Wire & Location Inc. of Nicasio, Calif., Pulse-Link Inc. of San Diego, Multispectral Solutions Inc. of Germantown, Md., and Xtreme Spectrum of Vienna, Va. The technology also is being backed by chip maker Intel, which held a big industry forum on the subject in October. Meanwhile, consumer electronics giant Sony is hoping to utilize the technology for high-speed wireless video transmission and home-video networks linked to TV set-top boxes. Despite its promise, ultra-wideband faces some hurdles. Other unregulated wireless services, such as the short-range radio technology Bluetooth and the wireless ethernet standard 802.11b, have a year or more head start and already are in many laptops, cell phones and hand-held devices. However, these technologies are slower and more costly than ultra-wideband and are unsuited for transmitting video and other bandwidth-hogging applications. 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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (45865)	1/5/2002 11:28:56 PM
From: BirdDog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

1992-93...to 1999...100-fold...AND YOU CLOWNS HAVE NOT MENTIONED THE NAME OF A SINGLE ONE...NTAP... Oh Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy.... You're dreaming again. I know that NTAP will split at least twice in the next six years. That's all it will take for it to go up 100 fold from it's low in Sept. of $6 a share. Oh Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy.... Duked by another clown in South Dakota again... :) BirdDog@OhHomeOnTheRange.com

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (45865)	1/6/2002 10:12:28 AM
From: pinhi	Respond to of 65232

Hi Jimbo, sounds like a worthy project. Let's find it. I still think the wireless area could provide some candidates. OPWV? But, Softy could dominates the wireless software area. We need to find the next 100 bagger this week so I can go ahead and spend the money this next weekend. Your Bro, Pinhi

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (45865)	1/7/2002 5:17:33 PM
From: Clappy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 65232

Mr. Jim Willie Tea Bagger, Why is it that you don't see the Biotech sector fitting in with your 100 Bagger search? Seems to me that they have all the juicy stories that dreams or bubbles can be built upon. Discover a gene that erases my itchy roid and I'd buy 100 shares. Grow some high tech hops for my beer that will give me a buzz without bloating my belly. 100 shares. Stop the shifting of hair follicles that have been migrating from the top of my head and rooting in my ears and nose. 100 shares plus a few expensive haircuts. Give me a stickball bat like Ron Jeremy instead of this truffle in my pants. I'll buy 200 shares and my wife will buy 500 shares. Give the baby boomers the illusion that biotech will enable them to live forever and that alone would be the fuel for the buying frenzy. The air for the bubble. The hope for the hype. Then sell my shares... -ClappyTheBag

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (45865)	1/7/2002 6:03:21 PM
From: Clappy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Have you read much about ALOG? I don't know anything about them except that I read that they were featured in the Huber Mills (Gilder) Powercosm report not too long ago. The snippit below is from: Subject 52214 The December issue of the Huber-Mills Digital Power Report (www.powercosm.com) devoted the entire issue to Analogic's explosive detection systems. Very impressive. From the Powercosm Report: "How do you 'see' molecules? The molecules in plastic explosives> Or nerve gas? Or cocaine? Or Anthrax DNA? <snip> ...for mass screening, in real time, you have to go to power--highly ordered photon power. <snip> You shine the right kind of light, and watch what happens when it hits the target." "After September 11, investors rushed to put their money in a handful of companies that make baggage-screening systems for airports. We like one of them too, American Science & Engineering (ASE), but so does everybody else, apparently. ASE's stock price leapt four-fold following 9/11. And, we like Analogic (ALOG),--which was largely ignored in the post-9/11 rush to defense and security technology stocks. "Analogic is the OEM for the airport automatic explosive detection systems (EDS) built by L3 Communications (LLL). More importantly, its business is squarely centered in digital power technologies. Analogic understands the power-centered engineering of sight. It builds the hardware and software that projects power, detects it, and makes sense of the torrents of data so generated." They continue at the end of the report, "That 80 percent of Analogic's business is still anchored in medical technologies may explain Wall Street's relative lack of interest. Hospitals aren't airports. "but X-rays are X-rays.<snip> Of the three companies now developing next-generation EDS machines for the FAA, two use Analogoc as a major OEM (L3 and PerkinElmer). "There's nothing very pretty happening on the generation side of X-Rays. Aiming systems that depend on spinning steel doughnuts don't interest us much either. The real action is on the other side of the gun (and the doughnut) in the detectors, the digital imaging computers, and the software. X-ray sight is going to move far beyond the hermetic worlds of hospitals and airports. Analogic is building the stuff that's really changing, and that's advancing fast. That puts it squarely at the center of this important photon-power space."

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (45865)	1/7/2002 9:42:49 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

<<TIME TO IDENTIFY THE NEXT 100-BAGGERS, new era unfolding>>... jw: That's a worthy cause...I commend you for leading the hunt and later this year I'll have more cash to invest in some of these amazing 'undiscovered enterprises'...Right now I'm doing some research, doing some consulting, brainstorming with some colleagues about starting a new company someday (we are exploring the bio-informatics area), and I'm enjoying the new year. BTW, I don't necessarily need a hundred bagger...a few '30-50 baggers' would provide quite a ride (as long as I had the discipline to stay on board). Check out the current issue of Forbes --> there is a great cover story on Tom Siebel and his company....his firm has gone from zero to over a billion in sales faster than ANY other software firm in history. They have financed the firm without traditional venture capital, been profitable every year, and have delivered shareholders a 50-fold increase in value since the IPO. Let me know when you find 'the next Siebel'...I'll do my homework and board the train...=) Best Regards, Scott