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To: TigerPaw who wrote (56740)	1/30/2006 7:08:11 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362428

Goal #1 for 2006: Get rid of Joe Lieberman. Ned Lamont is the challenger: nedlamont.com Ned is considering running because, like most Connecticut Democrats, he is tired of being represented by a senator who is not willing to stand up to the President on the war — and on the rest of his extreme right wing agenda which is so harmful to our country. Ned Lamont is a successful businessman who understands the importance of health care and education to our economy. He will fight for universal health care and to bring all of America's schools into the 21st Century. He believes the federal government should stay out of people's private lives and stop spying on its own citizens. He would push for energy conservation and bio fuels as better alternatives than the liquefied natural gas plant in Long Island Sound. And he would demand that corrupt public officials be held accountable for their actions.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (56740)	1/31/2006 3:55:15 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 362428

Bruce Upbin On Technology [Forbes] ______________________________________________ 12.31.05, 6:00 AM ET The Big Trend Cellevision. This will be the year of mobile broadband, always-on access to the ‘Net in your pocket. The emergence of three fast networks from Verizon Communications (nyse: VZ - news - people ), Cingular and Sprint Nextel (nyse: S - news - people ) (which shrewdly is bundling with the powerful cable guys Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ), Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people ) and Cox) will lead to badly needed discounting. Mushrooming municipal Wi-Fi will also push down prices. Your phone's start screen will become a search page, maybe Google's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), maybe Yahoo!'s (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ), maybe a start-up’s like Medio, ready to offer directory info, movie times, sports scores, video clips, new songs. The launch of innovation-focused virtual network operators like SK-Earthlink’s Helio will push the big carriers to deliver cool applications. You’ll wonder why you’re still carrying that one-trick-pony iPod. The Unconventional Wisdom Yahoo!’s got it worse against Google than most people think. The longer people use the Internet, the more likely they are to use Google instead of Yahoo! or AOL as their primary search engine. Both will grow share against MSN and AOL, but Google will do it faster. Look, too, for convergence of consumer technology with corporate aims. More companies will podcast how-to manuals and white papers. Video sharing sites like You Tube are being co-opted by consumer brands like Nike (nyse: NKE - news - people ). And any new corporate enterprise software like the kind sold by Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) and SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ) will only be successful if it is designed to be as easy to use as Intuit’s Quickbooks, Google or Apple Computer's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iTunes. The Misplaced Assumption That there’s life left in the cable set-top box business. Someone tell Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), which paid $7 billion for Scientific-Atlanta in November, and tell Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ), which bought General Instrument a while back. The PC will finally triumph in the living room with wireless home networks and Intel's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) new Viiv technology, which turns PCs into nifty media servers that boot up instantly. A host of sleek Viiv devices will start showing up at the Las Vegas consumer electronics show. And a new standard called D-CAS for downloadable conditional access, which Samsung was first to sign up with, will let any properly configured TV, PC or consumer electronics device link directly to local cable to grab services. The Watch List -- Fedex (nyse: FDX - news - people ). It’s refreshingly savvy about the latest tech trends: Ajax, open APIs, utility computing, IP networks. Chief Information Officer Rob Carter is positioning the company at the nexus between bits and atoms. Revenue in the last 12 months was up 16% and on a basically flat information technology budget. -- AMD (nyse: AMD - news - people ) versus Intel. A perennial chip war escalated with Opteron’s success, and a scathing civil suit charging all kinds of anticompetitive behavior we’ve all come to love from Intel. Systems makers like Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) have got to want an alternative to keep Intel honest--but who’ll be first to risk the retribution? -- Garmin (nasdaq: GRMN - news - people ). Having a blow-out year thanks to drivers, pilots and boaters putting in GPS devices. Stock is moving up, revenue is up 30% through the third quarter. But wait. Cell phone makers are putting GPS in phones. Pretty soon hundreds of millions of people will be able to stick their cell phones on the dash and never get lost or need a separate device. Garmin has some counterpunching to do. The Bold Prediction Web retailers will do a much better job protecting you from identity theft. You know how? They’ll stop asking for your mother's maiden name and start asking for your sixth grade math teacher's name. Mine was Mrs. Sparandara. Who was yours?