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Technology Stocks : Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ALTERN8 who wrote (714)	11/28/2003 6:35:12 PM
From: country bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8420

Altern; SIRI is doing pretty well right now, but I'm still a little shy about it. On the negative side, SIRI is ripe for another downgrade right now unless there is news in the near future to shine a brighter light on earnings for this Q. (50,000 subs a Q just ain't gonna get it done!) On the upside, I don't think we will see any further dilution this Q unless the pps climbs above 2.50 and sustains it (and at your entry point you would be safe anyway). Personally, I will wait to see if SIRI hits a more attractive low before I re-enter.Please understand that I'm not saying that there's no money to be made here....I just don't like the looks of the risk vs. reward. If I'm wrong and get shut out it's on me....and it won't be the first time. Like him or not David raises some good points and it's important for an investor (especially a newbie) to see both sides of the coin before he or she invests. If he still feels the same way after SIRI turns the corner then we'll BOTH stand him against the wall and throw rocks at him! LOL. Good Luck to ya! cb

To: ALTERN8 who wrote (714)	7/14/2004 6:43:23 PM
From: Sam Citron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8420

Soon, the Car Will Know Traffic Is Snarled Ahead By IVAN BERGER [NY Times] STARTING this fall, you will no longer need to turn on the radio to find out there's a 10-mile backup on the L.I.E. or a pileup "under the apartments" near the George Washington Bridge. Navigation systems in the 2005 Acura RL and Cadillac CTS will pinpoint the location of traffic jams and let drivers request a detour around them. The information, refreshed every four minutes or so, remains visible on the navigation screen between updates, and only roads relevant to the programmed destination are shown. That is a first for cars sold in the United States, though similar integrated systems have been available in vehicles for a while in Europe and Japan, and traffic-monitoring navigation systems are available here for hand-held computers and some devices that combine the functions of a telephone and a hand-held computer. For the first three months, Acura will not charge RL buyers for the traffic service. After that period, subscribers to AcuraLink, as the company calls its service, will pay a fee that the company expects to be less than $10 a month. Cadillac has not yet announced a price for its traffic service. The Acura and Cadillac systems will receive their data from XM Satellite Radio, using channels reserved for spoken and coded traffic reports in about 20 metro areas. (Sirius, XM's competitor, also has such channels and has demonstrated similar navigation systems, as has HD Radio, broadcasting digitally from existing AM and FM stations.) Outside the United States, the traffic information used by comparable systems is provided through cellphone links, inaudible signals in FM radio broadcasts or short-range transmitters along highways. Some of these foreign systems will even reroute drivers automatically when traffic problems arise. Acura will someday do that, too, said Mike Spencer, a company spokesman, "but only when we can get bulletproof information." The problem in this country, he said, is that traffic-reporting systems are not standardized or comprehensive. As a result, many roads lack coverage except when tie-ups due to accidents or construction become serious enough to be reported on the radio networks used by the police. Typically, it is only interstate highways, toll roads, main freeways and choke points like bridges and tunnels that are sufficiently well covered to make alternate detour mapping feasible. "The Los Angeles area, though, has really good traffic reporting, almost to the point where we could have automatic rerouting there," Mr. Spencer said. Howard Hayes, a vice president of Navteq, which compiles most of the digital maps used in North American navigation systems, said, "Luckily, the most heavily trafficked roads are the ones with the best traffic information." Navteq provides the traffic information to XM, assembling its reports from data gathered by many government and private sources that monitor traffic flow using a variety of sensing systems. Navteq puts it all into one consistent format and references it to the navigation system's maps before streaming it to XM. Unfortunately, providing drivers with timely traffic information can cause other problems. "Announcements feed back into traffic," said Paul Moskowitz, a research scientist for I.B.M. "If you tell people the Throgs Neck Bridge is jammed, they all go to the Whitestone Bridge." Here and abroad, researchers are working on navigation systems that will not only reroute cars around stopped traffic but will direct different cars to different roads, spreading the load among various routes. nytimes.com