Welche Megahype kommt nach Biotech ? Zukunftsmusik erwünscht - 500 Beiträge pro Seite

[fry]

Hi Traders and Anlegers !

Yo, da eröffne ich doch mal einen Thread ! Nur damit wir uns nicht falsch verstehen: Ich glaube nicht, daß der Biotech Hype schon gelaufen ist. Ganz im Gegenteil. Der größte Schub steht ja noch bevor. Aber irgendwann ( im Frühjahr 01 vielleicht ?) muß man sich ja mal was neues suchen. Und der Dollar wird bald gegen uns Euro Zonies spielen. Da lohnt es sich ja dann evtl., den Boom nicht ganz bis zum Ende auszukosten. Aber es stellt sich halt diese entscheidende Frage.

Nennt bitte nicht nur eine Branche, wie z. B. Internet, sondern kleinere Abteilungen. Z.B. Content, ISP, Voice over IP, und all so etwas. Sonst kommen wir ja nicht weiter.

Facts and arguments welcome.

Multo grazie, fry.

[designiert]

Alternative Energie
z. B. Brennstoffzellen

[kju]

nanotechologie. klingt genauso gut, verbreitet phantasie und keiner hat ahnung davon - die grundlage extremer kurssteigerungen. leider sind momentan noch sehr wenige firmen börsennotiert.

kju

[DralleSau]

Zigaretten- und Alkohol-Branche!!!
Um Lungenkrebs, Schlaganfall und Gehirnschlag brauche ich mir in Zukunft dank der Biotechnologie und
Pharma-Branche keine Gedanken mehr zu machen.
Dank Internet kann ich mir die Arbeitszeit frei einteilen und von zu Hause aus schaffen. Da kann ich mir
dann doch täglich die Hucke zusaufen.

[ankii]

hey,

tippe auf Nanotechnologie ( Nanopierce, Nanogen, Nanophase )

Ankii

[titian]

Stimmenportale: stimmenmäßig surfen über`s handy, uU mit vorregistrierung. zB weiß
der betreiber von welchem ort du regelmäßig wetterberichte haben möchtest, verein
aktualisierungen von ergebnissen brauchst, gegend in der du namen von restaurant
brauchst. du sprichst in`s telephone und eine computerstimme surft das web für dich
und gibt dir ergebnisse. eine handvoll von stimmenportalen sind schon in US im markt,
bauen ihren content und datenbank auf. innerhalb von 6 mon soll es mainstream sein.

daneben ist alles relevant, was sich mit der decodierung des menschlichen genetischen
codes zusammenhängt.


Report on E-business

Speak to surf Web with
new voice portals
Calling up sites on a regular phone, users
ask questions and get spoken answers

KEVIN MARRON
Special to The Globe and Mail
Tuesday, September 26, 2000

Stuart Berkowitz is giving voice to the World
Wide Web.

With what he sees as a revolutionary idea --
but others may view as going back to the
future -- Mr. Berkowitz`s Toronto-based
company is building technology that lets
people call up Internet sites on a regular
telephone. Using the phone, they can ask
simple questions and get spoken answers.

"I believe it will allow the Internet market to
become a mass market. Because of the
incredible ease of use of these systems,
people will use them more," says Mr.
Berkowitz, president and chief executive
officer of VoiceGenie Technologies Inc.,
which develops technology for voice portals
-- gateways providing voice access to
information on Internet sites.

"The potential [of this technology] to mimic
the Web and provide everything on an
ordinary phone is just amazing," he adds.

Equipped with speech-recognition engines
that let people communicate with machines,
voice portals provide callers with a menu of
options -- things they can ask for such as
sports scores, traffic updates or restaurant
locations.

Depending on the technology, the voice a
caller hears may have the robotic tones of
machine-generated speech or it may sound
like a normal human voice because it is made
up of snippets of recorded speech.

A further series of questions and answers is
used to define the caller`s request. The portal
technology then will find the information
requested on-line and read it back to the
caller, providing, for example, the location of
a restaurant.

Industry analysts agree with Mr. Berkowitz`s
assessment of the portals` potential.

"By creating additional marketing and
distribution channels, voice portals have the
potential to alter the way companies conduct
business via the Internet. They enable
extended reach into more mass-market
segments," Yankee Group analyst Seamus
McAteer says.

The Kelsey Group, a Princeton, N.J.-based
market-research firm, predicts that, by 2005,
there will be 45 million users of wireless
phones in North America regularly calling in
to voice portals.

They will be used for entertainment as well as
to access information, but about half of those
users probably will be on for shopping --
treating their wireless phone as the electronic
equivalent of the Yellow Pages, a product
finder and a wallet combined, according to a
report by Mike Plakias, vice-president of
Kelsey`s voice and wireless commerce
continuous advisory service.

Mr. Plakias forecasts that this new medium
will generate $12-billion (U.S.) by 2005,
with more than $5-billion coming from
advertising, subscriptions and e-commerce
fees and $7-billion coming from expenditures
by service providers on infrastructure.

Today, there are only a handful of Internet
voice portals, most of them in the very early
stages of developing their services and
focused largely on the U.S. market.

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Quack.com Inc.,
one of the earliest and most widely known,
had been starting to develop services for
Canada when it was taken over by Dulles,
Va.-based America Online Inc., which has
yet to announce what will happen to the now
voiceless service.

Another prominent voice portal, Mountain
View, Calif.-based Tellme Networks Inc.,
provides Canadians with access to its
services via a toll-free line
(1-800-555-TELL), but many of the
services offered are designed for U.S.
callers.

For example, you can get information about
traffic, restaurants and local weather for cities
throughout the United States but not in
Canada. Weather for Toronto, an
international destination, is available, as are
updates on the Toronto Blue Jays because
they are an American League baseball team.
But there are no weather forecasts for
Hamilton nor updates on Tiger-Cat football
games.

Mike McCue, chief executive officer of
Tellme Networks, says his company will
probably develop content for the Canadian
market within the next six months. He says
his staff is busy developing its database and
e-commerce services for businesses in the
U.S. market.

Besides providing information and
entertainment to consumers over the phone
and getting advertising or sponsorship
revenue from these services, Tellme is
offering businesses a Web-based service that
eventually will let callers make on-line
purchases using a phone.

At this stage, Mr. McCue says callers are
connected to a live person once they reach
the point where they have found the
restaurant or store they want and are ready
to book a table or place an order.
Eventually, people will be able to buy
products through the Tellme portal without
talking to a human being.

Other newly opened portal sites include
HeyAnita Inc. of Los Angeles and
BeVocal Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif. Neither
yet provides services in Canada, but a
HeyAnita spokesman says it`s hoping to get
into the Canadian market and form alliances
with a Canadian telecom company and
content providers.

Do consumers want to talk to Web-site
robots over their cellphones? The answer is a
resounding yes, according to the results of a
survey conducted last month by Quack.com,
shortly before the AOL takeover.

The survey of 200 people who had used
Quack.com found more than 80 per cent felt
the voice portal was more convenient than
traditional Internet access; two-thirds said it
was quicker than Internet access; and four of
five said they expect to use voice-portal
services several times a week in future.

Mr. Berkowitz says surfing the Web by
voice would be a tedious process without
clearly focused services that have been
customized for each consumer`s personal
use.

"Your ears don`t want to hear a lot of selling
messages because it just takes too long. And
your ears can`t do any selecting and
searching, so you can get very frustrated and
bored very easily if you have to listen to too
much," he says.

"This eliminates a large part of what the Web
does," he adds, explaining that voice-portal
services work best when consumers have
preregistered on a portal`s Web site to
specify, say, what city they want the weather
forecast for, and have provided details such
as shipping information and credit-card
numbers, where they are comfortable doing
so.

"I believe that e-commerce voice
applications will be mostly reordering
transactions, where you have built up your
loyalty to a Web site or supplier; then you
will do your regular transactions by voice,"
he says.

Mr. Berkowitz predicts that voice portals will
become even more popular as consumers get
frustrated by new technologies for surfing the
Internet using the keypads and viewing text
on the display panels of digital wireless
phones.

The new wireless data technology has
created high expectations among customers,
he says, "but it is so inconvenient to use that
these expectations are somewhat dashed."

Therefore, "I believe we have the unique
solution," he adds.

[02788]

Photonics!!
--> Lambda, Linos, etc

[dosto]

die auflösung der börse

jeder bekommt noch ein paar restliche aktien-branche
spielt absolut kein rolle.

und denkt mal über klopapier nach.