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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 32.909.672 von AlaskaBear am 01.01.08 15:26:40
http://www.spaceadventures.com/index.cfm
December 12, 2007
Astronaut's son pays $30M to go to space
BY EUN KYUNG KIM
FLORIDA TODAY ADVERTISEMENT
WASHINGTON - Richard Garriott grew up with an astronaut father and neighbors who were either astronauts or NASA engineers, so his trip to the International Space Station next year shouldn't come as a surprise. Except for the fact he is paying $30 million to do so as the next commercial space traveler.
"It seemed very matter-of-fact that everyone was going to grow up and go to space," the computer gaming developer said Tuesday.
But Garriott realized that he would never qualify to fly as a government astronaut, even under the best circumstances.
That's when he started pursuing private opportunities.
Garriott, 46, will become the sixth paying civilian launched into orbit by the Russian Space Agency. Space Adventures, a suburban Washington company that Garriott helped finance, will have organized all of the trips.
Space Adventures founder Eric Anderson said the public is increasingly accepting the idea of private space travel, despite its ever-growing price tag.
The first commercial flight in 2001 cost $20 million.
Anderson said he believes technological improvements eventually will help lower costs, but doesn't expect that to happen soon because those advances will be incremental.
"We're not going to be launching off the planet with warp drives any time in the next few decades," he said Tuesday. "It's going to be chemical rockets and the same types of technology, maybe just made a little bit better."
Garriott said he will focus on commercial and scientific efforts for the October 2008 trip.
He plans to conduct experiments involving protein crystallization for a biotech company that he and his father established.
Garriott also hopes to take photographs that capture the same images taken a generation earlier by his father, Owen Garriott.
Owen Garriott spent weeks aboard the Skylab space laboratory in 1973 and flew on the space shuttle a decade later.
He has signed on to be the chief scientist on his son's mission.
"For us, it's actually a great father-son bonding time. We haven't had the chance previously to work closely like this," said the younger Garriott, who begins training full-time next month.
Garriott said he has little fear or anxiety about the trip, mainly because he grew up aware of all of space travel's related dangers.
He said that during the Skylab mission, his father installed a squawk box in their home that allowed his family to listen in on a direct link between NASA and the astronauts.
"I've learned to kind of take these things in stride," he said.
"These are the complexities of operating in space. You've got a bunch of really smart people working on the solutions and strangely, it seems to work out most of the time."
Contact Kim at ekkim@gannett.com.
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071…
http://www.spaceadventures.com/index.cfm
December 12, 2007
Astronaut's son pays $30M to go to space
BY EUN KYUNG KIM
FLORIDA TODAY ADVERTISEMENT
WASHINGTON - Richard Garriott grew up with an astronaut father and neighbors who were either astronauts or NASA engineers, so his trip to the International Space Station next year shouldn't come as a surprise. Except for the fact he is paying $30 million to do so as the next commercial space traveler.
"It seemed very matter-of-fact that everyone was going to grow up and go to space," the computer gaming developer said Tuesday.
But Garriott realized that he would never qualify to fly as a government astronaut, even under the best circumstances.
That's when he started pursuing private opportunities.
Garriott, 46, will become the sixth paying civilian launched into orbit by the Russian Space Agency. Space Adventures, a suburban Washington company that Garriott helped finance, will have organized all of the trips.
Space Adventures founder Eric Anderson said the public is increasingly accepting the idea of private space travel, despite its ever-growing price tag.
The first commercial flight in 2001 cost $20 million.
Anderson said he believes technological improvements eventually will help lower costs, but doesn't expect that to happen soon because those advances will be incremental.
"We're not going to be launching off the planet with warp drives any time in the next few decades," he said Tuesday. "It's going to be chemical rockets and the same types of technology, maybe just made a little bit better."
Garriott said he will focus on commercial and scientific efforts for the October 2008 trip.
He plans to conduct experiments involving protein crystallization for a biotech company that he and his father established.
Garriott also hopes to take photographs that capture the same images taken a generation earlier by his father, Owen Garriott.
Owen Garriott spent weeks aboard the Skylab space laboratory in 1973 and flew on the space shuttle a decade later.
He has signed on to be the chief scientist on his son's mission.
"For us, it's actually a great father-son bonding time. We haven't had the chance previously to work closely like this," said the younger Garriott, who begins training full-time next month.
Garriott said he has little fear or anxiety about the trip, mainly because he grew up aware of all of space travel's related dangers.
He said that during the Skylab mission, his father installed a squawk box in their home that allowed his family to listen in on a direct link between NASA and the astronauts.
"I've learned to kind of take these things in stride," he said.
"These are the complexities of operating in space. You've got a bunch of really smart people working on the solutions and strangely, it seems to work out most of the time."
Contact Kim at ekkim@gannett.com.
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071…
Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 32.909.691 von AlaskaBear am 01.01.08 15:32:42
http://spacefellowship.com/News/?m=200712
December 29th, 2007
[u]Projekt Enterprise [/u]
Project Enterprise is an all European consortium developing a sub-orbital space vehicle. The vehicle will be a single-stage suborbital spaceplane. Called Project Enterprise, the Swiss, German, and Austrian industrial group says it is developing a two- to five-passenger vehicle powered by three liquid oxygen/kerosene rocket engines.
The flight will take one hour, rumours suggest it will launch horizontally accelerating to mach 3 to an altitude of 80km, at this point the engines will be cut off and the vehicle would coast to 130km. Passengers would experience 5min of weightlessness before the vehicle then re-entered the atmosphere and glided back to land at its take-off runway.
“Scheduling to complete the project [has] a maximum timeframe of…four years,” says Project Enterprise. Husum, Germany-based Talis Institute is one of the five companies, with the other four to be announced next month. No specific spaceport has been announced, but the group intends to have a European location. Tourists will be able to see the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Alps, the UK, central Europe and the northern Mediterranean. See Virgin Galactic’s European plans Here.
Project Enterprise will be launching a site update on January 25th 2008 so be sure to visit back then!
Visit Project Enterprise site Here
Posted in Space Race News |
und auch interessant:
December 29th, 2007
Virgin Galactic
Following our recent story covering Virgin Galactic’s January announcement found Here . They have managed to capture the imagination of millions of people yet again. There had been rumours surrounding this proposal however now it seems the rumours could soon be a reality. Virgin Galactic have announced they wish to fly humans through and above the Northern Lights.
The company hopes to begin commercial space flights from a purpose-built spaceport in New Mexico in 2010, but flights from Kiruna should follow soon afterwards. Once they are up and running, Virgin Galactic expects to be flying about 5,000 passengers a year.
The cost of a flight will be about £100,000 ($200,000) a ticket for the two-hour flight. Customers will be able to fly into the aurora borealis (the northern lights), something that no human has done before.
Will Whitehorn, Sir Richard’s right-hand man and president of Virgin Galactic recently came up with the novel idea. “When I asked the question 18 months ago, ‘what about flying into [the northern lights]?’ everybody said, ‘possible, but we don’t know what the view would look like’,” he said.
Scientists at Esrange (Swedish Space Corporation) have been flying rockets into the aurora since the 1960s, but no one has put a camera on board before, let alone a person, because it was of no scientific interest. (Visit them at http://www.ssc.se/)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://www.ssc.se/)
Dr Olle Norberg, Esrange’s director, is convinced that it will be safe to fly into their midst.
“Is there a build-up of charge on the spacecraft? What is the radiation dose that you would receive? Those studies came out saying it is safe to do this,” he said. Esrange scientists plan to launch a rocket in November with three cameras on board to find out what being inside the aurora actually looks like.
To learn more about Virgin Galactic please visit http://virgingalactic.com/
Also see the Swedish Space Corporation’s site at http://www.ssc.se/
lg
http://spacefellowship.com/News/?m=200712
December 29th, 2007
[u]Projekt Enterprise [/u]
Project Enterprise is an all European consortium developing a sub-orbital space vehicle. The vehicle will be a single-stage suborbital spaceplane. Called Project Enterprise, the Swiss, German, and Austrian industrial group says it is developing a two- to five-passenger vehicle powered by three liquid oxygen/kerosene rocket engines.
The flight will take one hour, rumours suggest it will launch horizontally accelerating to mach 3 to an altitude of 80km, at this point the engines will be cut off and the vehicle would coast to 130km. Passengers would experience 5min of weightlessness before the vehicle then re-entered the atmosphere and glided back to land at its take-off runway.
“Scheduling to complete the project [has] a maximum timeframe of…four years,” says Project Enterprise. Husum, Germany-based Talis Institute is one of the five companies, with the other four to be announced next month. No specific spaceport has been announced, but the group intends to have a European location. Tourists will be able to see the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Alps, the UK, central Europe and the northern Mediterranean. See Virgin Galactic’s European plans Here.
Project Enterprise will be launching a site update on January 25th 2008 so be sure to visit back then!
Visit Project Enterprise site Here
Posted in Space Race News |
und auch interessant:
December 29th, 2007
Virgin Galactic
Following our recent story covering Virgin Galactic’s January announcement found Here . They have managed to capture the imagination of millions of people yet again. There had been rumours surrounding this proposal however now it seems the rumours could soon be a reality. Virgin Galactic have announced they wish to fly humans through and above the Northern Lights.
The company hopes to begin commercial space flights from a purpose-built spaceport in New Mexico in 2010, but flights from Kiruna should follow soon afterwards. Once they are up and running, Virgin Galactic expects to be flying about 5,000 passengers a year.
The cost of a flight will be about £100,000 ($200,000) a ticket for the two-hour flight. Customers will be able to fly into the aurora borealis (the northern lights), something that no human has done before.
Will Whitehorn, Sir Richard’s right-hand man and president of Virgin Galactic recently came up with the novel idea. “When I asked the question 18 months ago, ‘what about flying into [the northern lights]?’ everybody said, ‘possible, but we don’t know what the view would look like’,” he said.
Scientists at Esrange (Swedish Space Corporation) have been flying rockets into the aurora since the 1960s, but no one has put a camera on board before, let alone a person, because it was of no scientific interest. (Visit them at http://www.ssc.se/)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://www.ssc.se/)
Dr Olle Norberg, Esrange’s director, is convinced that it will be safe to fly into their midst.
“Is there a build-up of charge on the spacecraft? What is the radiation dose that you would receive? Those studies came out saying it is safe to do this,” he said. Esrange scientists plan to launch a rocket in November with three cameras on board to find out what being inside the aurora actually looks like.
To learn more about Virgin Galactic please visit http://virgingalactic.com/
Also see the Swedish Space Corporation’s site at http://www.ssc.se/
lg
Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 32.910.158 von AlaskaBear am 01.01.08 18:23:09
China Revels in View From Its First Lunar Orbiter
By Maureen Fan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, November 27, 2007; Page A11
BEIJING, Nov. 26 -- China on Monday proudly unveiled images of the moon taken by its first lunar satellite, launched last month, calling the achievement proof of the country's technological prowess and ability to eventually land an astronaut on the moon.
"The full success of our country's first lunar exploration mission is helping to turn the Chinese nation's 1,000-year-old dream of reaching the moon a reality," Premier Wen Jiabao said at a ceremony in which he displayed a framed, black-and-white composite photograph of the moon, the official New China News Agency reported.
Premier Wen Jiabao, citing China's technological advancement, unveils the composite photograph made from data sent by a lunar satellite launched Oct. 24. (By Huang Jingwen -- New China News Agency Via Associated Press)
The photograph showed craters large and small, scattered across rugged terrain on the moon's surface. According to the Chinese government, the image merged 19 smaller ones shot from space and covered an area of about 285 by 170 miles.
The ceremony, held at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center, also featured music, including the Chinese communist anthem "The East is Red," that officials said was being broadcast by the lunar orbiter. The song was also played by China's first Earth satellite as it circled the globe in 1970.
Sun Laiyan, head of the China National Space Administration, denied reports that China had set a 2020 deadline for a manned lunar mission. But he also told reporters: "I'm confident that someday we'll put an astronaut on the moon. I, too, want to see this day."
Sun avoided answering questions about how images from China's lunar project compared with images from Japan's first lunar satellite, launched in September. India plans to send up a lunar probe in April, leading experts to speculate about a space race in Asia.
China's lunar exploration project, which cost the equivalent of almost $190 million, according to state media, is the result of innovation and breakthroughs in satellite orbit design and long-range tracking and data transmission, as well as improvements in the reliability of launch vehicles, Sun said.
The lunar satellite, named Chang'e I, went aloft Oct. 24 atop a Long March 3A rocket in a seamless launch that boosted national pride and signaled China's first step into deep-space exploration. It is part of an ambitious plan to send more human beings into space, including the moon, and to build a space station.
"One important purpose of the moon satellite is to find out the physiognomy and land form of the moon because it will be useful for landing a space shuttle," said Han Chao, of the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. "This time, Chang'e I will take three-dimensional photographs of the moon as a preparation. If the satellite is too near the moon, the angle of the view will be small, which is not convenient."
Chinese rocket experts have been quoted by state media as saying that China is on track to launch its own space station by 2020; as with the claims of a manned lunar mission by 2020, the China National Space Administration has said it has no such timetable.
In 2003, China became only the third country in the world after the former Soviet Union and the United States to send men into space. Russia inherited the Soviet space program and has launched more manned missions.
The New Express newspaper in Guangzhou city reported this month that China will launch a third manned spacecraft, Shenzhou VII, next October.
Although Sun stressed that China is "steadfast about the peaceful use of outer space," its fast-paced and well-funded space program has raised fears that the Chinese could also have military applications in mind.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11…
lg
China Revels in View From Its First Lunar Orbiter
By Maureen Fan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, November 27, 2007; Page A11
BEIJING, Nov. 26 -- China on Monday proudly unveiled images of the moon taken by its first lunar satellite, launched last month, calling the achievement proof of the country's technological prowess and ability to eventually land an astronaut on the moon.
"The full success of our country's first lunar exploration mission is helping to turn the Chinese nation's 1,000-year-old dream of reaching the moon a reality," Premier Wen Jiabao said at a ceremony in which he displayed a framed, black-and-white composite photograph of the moon, the official New China News Agency reported.
Premier Wen Jiabao, citing China's technological advancement, unveils the composite photograph made from data sent by a lunar satellite launched Oct. 24. (By Huang Jingwen -- New China News Agency Via Associated Press)
The photograph showed craters large and small, scattered across rugged terrain on the moon's surface. According to the Chinese government, the image merged 19 smaller ones shot from space and covered an area of about 285 by 170 miles.
The ceremony, held at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center, also featured music, including the Chinese communist anthem "The East is Red," that officials said was being broadcast by the lunar orbiter. The song was also played by China's first Earth satellite as it circled the globe in 1970.
Sun Laiyan, head of the China National Space Administration, denied reports that China had set a 2020 deadline for a manned lunar mission. But he also told reporters: "I'm confident that someday we'll put an astronaut on the moon. I, too, want to see this day."
Sun avoided answering questions about how images from China's lunar project compared with images from Japan's first lunar satellite, launched in September. India plans to send up a lunar probe in April, leading experts to speculate about a space race in Asia.
China's lunar exploration project, which cost the equivalent of almost $190 million, according to state media, is the result of innovation and breakthroughs in satellite orbit design and long-range tracking and data transmission, as well as improvements in the reliability of launch vehicles, Sun said.
The lunar satellite, named Chang'e I, went aloft Oct. 24 atop a Long March 3A rocket in a seamless launch that boosted national pride and signaled China's first step into deep-space exploration. It is part of an ambitious plan to send more human beings into space, including the moon, and to build a space station.
"One important purpose of the moon satellite is to find out the physiognomy and land form of the moon because it will be useful for landing a space shuttle," said Han Chao, of the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. "This time, Chang'e I will take three-dimensional photographs of the moon as a preparation. If the satellite is too near the moon, the angle of the view will be small, which is not convenient."
Chinese rocket experts have been quoted by state media as saying that China is on track to launch its own space station by 2020; as with the claims of a manned lunar mission by 2020, the China National Space Administration has said it has no such timetable.
In 2003, China became only the third country in the world after the former Soviet Union and the United States to send men into space. Russia inherited the Soviet space program and has launched more manned missions.
The New Express newspaper in Guangzhou city reported this month that China will launch a third manned spacecraft, Shenzhou VII, next October.
Although Sun stressed that China is "steadfast about the peaceful use of outer space," its fast-paced and well-funded space program has raised fears that the Chinese could also have military applications in mind.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11…
lg
Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 32.910.158 von AlaskaBear am 01.01.08 18:23:09und der letzte eintrag bzw. interessante link zum thema,bevor es zu sehr von amazon abschweift:
PRIVAT SPACE TRAVEL IN 2008!
From Booklist
Touring the rapidly changing non-NASA community, Belfiore reports on the technology and business plans behind dreams of privately financed access to space. He profiles several companies active in this arena, including one that will be familiar to the news-following public, Scaled Composites. It launched an astronaut into space for a few minutes in 2004, inspiring enthusiasts and attracting paying customers. Just what customers will pay for seems speculative—a brief experience of weightlessness, a vacation in an orbital hotel, a voyage to the moon––so these companies are accordingly varied in their ambitions. Goals seem directly related to those of the company founders, and Belfiore’s strong biographical sketches explain the founders’ fascination with spaceflight, their rocketry skills (which range from accomplished to, in the case of mogul Richard Branson, nonexistent), and the hands-on work of their employees. Imparting the technical specs of engines and vehicles, Belfiore betters description with his evocation of the visionary euphoria that animates these entrepreneurial daredevils, sealing the deal for fans of space futurism. Taylor, Gilbert
Book Description
In the more than forty years since the first human left the atmosphere of Earth, no one had ever done so without the help of a government agency. That changed on June 21, 2004, when SpaceShipOne, built by aircraft designer Burt Rutan, entered space and ushered in the commercial space age.
Investment capital began to pour into the new commercial spaceflight industry. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic will begin ferrying space tourists out of the atmosphere in 2009. Las Vegas hotelier Robert Bigelow is spending $500 million of his personal fortune to develop the world’s first commercial space station (i.e., space hotel). Former PayPal CEO Elon Musk is developing orbital spacecraft to service Bigelow’s space station. Others want to tap the vast natural resources of space, including unlimited solar power. These space entrepreneurs, including Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, now see space as the Next Big Thing.
In Rocketeers, Michael Belfiore goes behind the scenes of this nascent industry, capturing its Wild West, anything-goes flavor, enhanced by the fact that most of the players live and work in California, New Mexico, Texas, and other western states, with plenty of open space for rocket launching. Likening his research to “hanging out in the Wright brothers’ barn,” Belfiore offers an inspiring and entertaining look at people who are not afraid to make their bold dreams a reality.
List Price: $26.95
Price: $17.79
You Save: $9.16 (34%)
Purchase your copy of Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space (Hardcover) (US)
Also find Ky Michaelson’s new book Rocketman: My Rocket-Propelled Life and High-Octane Creations.
Have you read this book or have an opinion? discuss it further in the forum…
Posted in Space Race News |
http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=4103
lg
and nice 2008!
AlaskaBear
PRIVAT SPACE TRAVEL IN 2008!
From Booklist
Touring the rapidly changing non-NASA community, Belfiore reports on the technology and business plans behind dreams of privately financed access to space. He profiles several companies active in this arena, including one that will be familiar to the news-following public, Scaled Composites. It launched an astronaut into space for a few minutes in 2004, inspiring enthusiasts and attracting paying customers. Just what customers will pay for seems speculative—a brief experience of weightlessness, a vacation in an orbital hotel, a voyage to the moon––so these companies are accordingly varied in their ambitions. Goals seem directly related to those of the company founders, and Belfiore’s strong biographical sketches explain the founders’ fascination with spaceflight, their rocketry skills (which range from accomplished to, in the case of mogul Richard Branson, nonexistent), and the hands-on work of their employees. Imparting the technical specs of engines and vehicles, Belfiore betters description with his evocation of the visionary euphoria that animates these entrepreneurial daredevils, sealing the deal for fans of space futurism. Taylor, Gilbert
Book Description
In the more than forty years since the first human left the atmosphere of Earth, no one had ever done so without the help of a government agency. That changed on June 21, 2004, when SpaceShipOne, built by aircraft designer Burt Rutan, entered space and ushered in the commercial space age.
Investment capital began to pour into the new commercial spaceflight industry. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic will begin ferrying space tourists out of the atmosphere in 2009. Las Vegas hotelier Robert Bigelow is spending $500 million of his personal fortune to develop the world’s first commercial space station (i.e., space hotel). Former PayPal CEO Elon Musk is developing orbital spacecraft to service Bigelow’s space station. Others want to tap the vast natural resources of space, including unlimited solar power. These space entrepreneurs, including Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, now see space as the Next Big Thing.
In Rocketeers, Michael Belfiore goes behind the scenes of this nascent industry, capturing its Wild West, anything-goes flavor, enhanced by the fact that most of the players live and work in California, New Mexico, Texas, and other western states, with plenty of open space for rocket launching. Likening his research to “hanging out in the Wright brothers’ barn,” Belfiore offers an inspiring and entertaining look at people who are not afraid to make their bold dreams a reality.
List Price: $26.95
Price: $17.79
You Save: $9.16 (34%)
Purchase your copy of Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space (Hardcover) (US)
Also find Ky Michaelson’s new book Rocketman: My Rocket-Propelled Life and High-Octane Creations.
Have you read this book or have an opinion? discuss it further in the forum…
Posted in Space Race News |
http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=4103
lg
and nice 2008!
AlaskaBear
Why I'm 'Fading' Research in Motion, Amazon
posted on: January 02, 2008 | about stocks: AMZN / RIMM
We have the market in a confirmed uptrend and we have several leading names consolidating: Research in Motion (RIMM), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), Google (GOOG) and Baidu (BIDU) among a smattering of others.
I have decided to put RIMM and AMZN to work. In the new year there is a decent chance that these two names will trade to new highs.
If they do print new highs, they will undoubtedly be joined by some of the others. At that point I will expand my positions in each of RIMM and AMZN and enter new positions in the leaders above. I will let the market dictate which equities are best if we rally higher. Of course I am putting stop losses on each position.
Here's my case for each:
I have become more bullish on Research in Motion over the past week. RIMM blew past Wall Street estimates with its earning report detailing 100% EPS growth (see conference call transcript). This from a company with essentially no debt and a return on equity of 36%. It is the tight low volume handle on an O'Neil double bottom formation that has made me more aggressive. This is a recipe for a successful fade. If RIMM breaks to new highs I will continue buying until I have a full position.
Amazon.com is one of the internet's most powerful brands. They have solid triple digit EPS growth and a return on equity of 76%! A debt to equity ratio of 1.673 is high, but allowable with such solid ROE. Technically, the shares have traded in a solid O'Neil cup with handle formation, now finishing off the end of a handle on light volume. A second high probability fade which I will add to on a break to new highs.
Disclosure: Author is long ISRG
http://seekingalpha.com/article/58769-why-i-m-fading-researc…
lg
posted on: January 02, 2008 | about stocks: AMZN / RIMM
We have the market in a confirmed uptrend and we have several leading names consolidating: Research in Motion (RIMM), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), Google (GOOG) and Baidu (BIDU) among a smattering of others.
I have decided to put RIMM and AMZN to work. In the new year there is a decent chance that these two names will trade to new highs.
If they do print new highs, they will undoubtedly be joined by some of the others. At that point I will expand my positions in each of RIMM and AMZN and enter new positions in the leaders above. I will let the market dictate which equities are best if we rally higher. Of course I am putting stop losses on each position.
Here's my case for each:
I have become more bullish on Research in Motion over the past week. RIMM blew past Wall Street estimates with its earning report detailing 100% EPS growth (see conference call transcript). This from a company with essentially no debt and a return on equity of 36%. It is the tight low volume handle on an O'Neil double bottom formation that has made me more aggressive. This is a recipe for a successful fade. If RIMM breaks to new highs I will continue buying until I have a full position.
Amazon.com is one of the internet's most powerful brands. They have solid triple digit EPS growth and a return on equity of 76%! A debt to equity ratio of 1.673 is high, but allowable with such solid ROE. Technically, the shares have traded in a solid O'Neil cup with handle formation, now finishing off the end of a handle on light volume. A second high probability fade which I will add to on a break to new highs.
Disclosure: Author is long ISRG
http://seekingalpha.com/article/58769-why-i-m-fading-researc…
lg
Trading Spotlight
Digital Music Wars
Amazon Challenges Apple's Music Empire
Brian Caulfield 12.27.07, 6:25 PM ET
Burlingame, Calif. - Amazon.com on Thursday added Warner Music Group to the growing number of labels that sell music free of copy protections in its digital music store.
The news is a challenge to Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ), which has built a digital distribution empire for copyrighted music around its iPod digital music player and iTunes music store.
Record labels are using Amazon as a counterweight to Apple's digital music might. Warner joins EMI, Universal Music Group and a pack of independent labels that sell so-called digital rights management-free music in Amazon MP3, the company's music store. Only EMI sells DRM-free music on Apple's iTunes store. And Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos is, in turn, using DRM-free music as a way to edge its way in with consumers.
Digital rights management schemes, such as Apple's FairPlay technology, limits how many times users can copy their music and what devices they can play them on. It can be a hassle for consumers, and it's a tricky business for Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs, who has to balance the competing interests of record labels with consumers.
Amazon is betting that by building a digital music store around DRM-free music it can throw Apple off kilter enough to grab a bigger slice of the digital music business, even as Apple's iTunes and rampant piracy disrupt Amazon's CD business. Because Amazon is selling music free from copy protections, customers can play the music on any digital music player.
The move helps Amazon get around an obstacle that has plagued Apple rivals such as Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) whose digital music players couldn't play tracks purchased from Apple. The companies' digital music stores also couldn't sell music that was compatible with Apple's ubiquitous iPod.
The catch, of course, is music labels are hoping that users won't take the high-quality digital music Amazon is selling and pass it around the Web, at least not too much. But with compact disc sales already falling fast--thanks to music copied illegally from CDs and other sources--that's a risk music labels can't afford not to take.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/12/27/amazon-digital-m…
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Amazon Challenges Apple's Music Empire
Brian Caulfield 12.27.07, 6:25 PM ET
Burlingame, Calif. - Amazon.com on Thursday added Warner Music Group to the growing number of labels that sell music free of copy protections in its digital music store.
The news is a challenge to Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ), which has built a digital distribution empire for copyrighted music around its iPod digital music player and iTunes music store.
Record labels are using Amazon as a counterweight to Apple's digital music might. Warner joins EMI, Universal Music Group and a pack of independent labels that sell so-called digital rights management-free music in Amazon MP3, the company's music store. Only EMI sells DRM-free music on Apple's iTunes store. And Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos is, in turn, using DRM-free music as a way to edge its way in with consumers.
Digital rights management schemes, such as Apple's FairPlay technology, limits how many times users can copy their music and what devices they can play them on. It can be a hassle for consumers, and it's a tricky business for Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs, who has to balance the competing interests of record labels with consumers.
Amazon is betting that by building a digital music store around DRM-free music it can throw Apple off kilter enough to grab a bigger slice of the digital music business, even as Apple's iTunes and rampant piracy disrupt Amazon's CD business. Because Amazon is selling music free from copy protections, customers can play the music on any digital music player.
The move helps Amazon get around an obstacle that has plagued Apple rivals such as Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) whose digital music players couldn't play tracks purchased from Apple. The companies' digital music stores also couldn't sell music that was compatible with Apple's ubiquitous iPod.
The catch, of course, is music labels are hoping that users won't take the high-quality digital music Amazon is selling and pass it around the Web, at least not too much. But with compact disc sales already falling fast--thanks to music copied illegally from CDs and other sources--that's a risk music labels can't afford not to take.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/12/27/amazon-digital-m…
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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 32.912.671 von wallyonline am 02.01.08 09:48:46ebenfalls ein gutes,neues jahr!
Amazon.com "buy"
02.01.2008
Citigroup
New York (aktiencheck.de AG) - Mark S. Mahaney, Analyst der Citigroup, stuft die Aktie von Amazon.com (ISIN US0231351067 / WKN 906866) von "hold" auf "buy" hoch und erhöht das Kursziel von 95 auf 119 USD.
Zum einen habe der Aktienkurs konsolidiert, was Anlegern eine Einstiegsgelegenheit in ein Kerninvestment im Internetsektor eröffne. Zum anderen seien die Erwartungen des Marktes bzgl. der langfristigen Entwicklung der operativen Margen auf ein realistisches Maß zurückgekommen.
Nach Ansicht der Analysten könnte die Margenausweitung in 2008 alleine ein zweistelliges EPS-Wachstum auslösen. Amazon dürfte aber auch weiterhin Marktanteile gewinnen. Die digitalen Medienangebote des Unternehmens würden anscheinend vom Markt zunehmend angenommen. Die internationalen Aktivitäten würden zum einen das Umsatzwachstum beflügeln und zum anderen auch einen Schutz vor einer US-Konsumschwäche bieten.
Die Analysten würden es für wahrscheinlich halten, dass die Konsenserwartungen nach oben revidiert würden. Auf Grund des günstigen EPS-Ausblicks werde die Aktie mit einer Premiumbewertung gehandelt (2008er KGV von 52), was aber gerechtfertigt erscheine.
Vor diesem Hintergrund empfehlen die Analysten der Citigroup die Aktie von Amazon.com nunmehr zu kaufen. (Analyse vom 02.01.08) (02.01.2008/ac/a/a)
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02.01.2008
Citigroup
New York (aktiencheck.de AG) - Mark S. Mahaney, Analyst der Citigroup, stuft die Aktie von Amazon.com (ISIN US0231351067 / WKN 906866) von "hold" auf "buy" hoch und erhöht das Kursziel von 95 auf 119 USD.
Zum einen habe der Aktienkurs konsolidiert, was Anlegern eine Einstiegsgelegenheit in ein Kerninvestment im Internetsektor eröffne. Zum anderen seien die Erwartungen des Marktes bzgl. der langfristigen Entwicklung der operativen Margen auf ein realistisches Maß zurückgekommen.
Nach Ansicht der Analysten könnte die Margenausweitung in 2008 alleine ein zweistelliges EPS-Wachstum auslösen. Amazon dürfte aber auch weiterhin Marktanteile gewinnen. Die digitalen Medienangebote des Unternehmens würden anscheinend vom Markt zunehmend angenommen. Die internationalen Aktivitäten würden zum einen das Umsatzwachstum beflügeln und zum anderen auch einen Schutz vor einer US-Konsumschwäche bieten.
Die Analysten würden es für wahrscheinlich halten, dass die Konsenserwartungen nach oben revidiert würden. Auf Grund des günstigen EPS-Ausblicks werde die Aktie mit einer Premiumbewertung gehandelt (2008er KGV von 52), was aber gerechtfertigt erscheine.
Vor diesem Hintergrund empfehlen die Analysten der Citigroup die Aktie von Amazon.com nunmehr zu kaufen. (Analyse vom 02.01.08) (02.01.2008/ac/a/a)
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Der Kindle von Amazon ist wieder auf Platz 2 bei Amazon.com. Es würde mich wirklich interessieren in welcher Größenordnung die pro Tag verkauft werden.
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