Today’s Trade Alerts include: Dell Inc. (NYSE: DELL), Palm Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM), Canon Inc. (NYSE: CAJ), International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG).
Dell Inc. (DELL) Trade Alert – DELL Introduces PowerEdge 4220 and PowerEdge 2420
Dell Inc. (DELL) shares rose 4.98% to $8.85 mid-day today. Dell and its subsidiaries engage in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, sale and support of computer systems and services worldwide.
The company recently introduced next-generation data center infrastructure products designed to help customers simplify and manage their data center environment while improving energy efficiency. The Dell PowerEdge 4220 and PowerEdge 2420 rack enclosures support Dell’s broad portfolio of servers and storage systems and can be used in virtually any environment, including data centers, remote offices, wiring closets or even factory floors.
Rack design plays a key role in building an efficient and manageable data center. Data center racks now incorporate technologies designed to efficiently store, power, cool, manage and secure hardware. These features enable each rack to function as its own small data center.
Dell’s new rack enclosures are designed to help customers enhance hardware utilization, create effective power and cooling, and reduce the server footprint in their data center. The PowerEdge 4220 and PowerEdge 2420 rack enclosures incorporate several new innovative features including:
Dell offers desktop PCs and workstations; servers and networking products; laptop computers; and storage solutions, including storage area networks, network-attached storage, direct-attached storage, disk and tape backup systems, and removable disk backup.
The company also provides third party software, which include operating systems, business and office applications, anti-virus and related security software, and entertainment software, as well as peripherals, including software titles, printers, flat panel monitors and projectors, televisions, laptop accessories, networking and wireless products, digital cameras, power adapters and scanners.
In addition, it offers infrastructure consulting services, deployment services, asset recovery and recycling services, training services, support services and managed services.
Further, the company provides various financing alternatives, asset management services, and other customer financial services. Its customers include large corporate, government, healthcare and education accounts, as well as small-to-medium businesses and individual consumers.
The company sells its products and services directly to customers through sales representatives, telephone-based sales, and online at www.dell.com, as well as through various indirect sales channels.
In today’s daily chart, DELL’s MACD reflects a weak bullish signal, with the indicator above the 9-day moving average signal line but still below the 0 level, indicating bearish moving averages. Trading within its Bollinger Bands, the stock reflects neither an overbought nor oversold condition relative to its recent price action. With share prices currently below the stock’s 13-day moving average, the bearish signal is more pronounced with decreasing moving averages.
Palm Inc. (PALM) Trade Alert – PALM Makes Available its Treo Pro Smartphone on Bell Mobility’s EV-DO Rev. A
Palm Inc. (PALM) shares rose 4.78% to $7.67 mid-day today. Palm provides mobile products for individual users and business customers worldwide. The company recently announced its Treo Pro smartphone is now available on Bell Mobility’s high-speed mobile network (EV-DO Rev. A), marking its debut in Canada.
With its streamlined design and Palm innovations layered on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, Treo Pro allows businesses to simplify their IT infrastructures while lowering costs and keeping their users productive and happy. Palm said its 3G-capable Treo Pro smartphone is now available to Bell Mobility clients for a limited-time price of $99.95 on a three-year contract.
Treo Pro offers Bell Mobility clients simplicity and productivity – including email, Wi-Fi, GPS, Web and CDMA EV-DO Rev. A network capabilities – to meet the needs of businesses and end users alike. Treo Pro’s thin design blends a flush, high-resolution colour touch screen, one-touch buttons and a full QWERTY keyboard. The removable battery packs up to four hours of talk time and enough strength for the business user’s needs, offering a powerful yet effortless mobile experience.
John Traynor, vice president, business products, Palm, said “Treo Pro is a perfect fit for the busy business professional or casual user who needs on-the-go access to business tools or their personal email. Treo Pro’s capabilities, including Wi-Fi and GPS, ensure users can be highly responsive, available and productive with a powerful yet effortless mobile experience.”
Palm offers integrated technologies that enable people to stay connected with their family, friends and colleagues; access and share the information; and manage their daily lives on the go.
Its mobile products include smartphones and handheld computers, which provide various business productivity tools, and personal and entertainment applications.
The company offers Centro and Treo 755p smartphones on the Palm operating system platform and the Treo 700wx, 750, 500 and 800w smartphones powered by Windows Mobile operating system.
It provides Palm and Tungsten handheld computers, including Palm Z22, Tungsten E2, and Palm TX that incorporate data synchronization technology, enabling the devices to synchronize with desktop applications, such as Outlook, and an infrared port for exchanging information between devices.
The company also offers various add-ons and accessories, including portable keyboards, memory expansion cards for storage and content, modems, headsets, and carrying cases. Palm, Inc. sells its products to wireless carriers, distributors, retailers and resellers through its sales force, as well as to end users through its Web site at palm.com.
In today’s daily chart, PALM’s Bollinger Bands indicate a relatively stable condition as reflected by tighter than normal band width. Trading within its Bollinger Bands, the stock reflects neither an overbought nor oversold condition relative to its recent price action. MACD reflects a weak bearish signal, with the indicator above the critical 0 level but crossing below its 9-day moving average signal line, indicating bullish moving averages, but slowing positive momentum. With share prices currently below the stock’s 13-day moving average, the bearish signal is more pronounced with decreasing moving averages.
Canon Inc. (CAJ) Trade Alert – CAJ Subsidiary Receives Certification by Center of Excellence by BenchmarkPortal, Introduces its imageCLASS D1100 Series
Canon Inc. (CAJ) shares slipped 3.43% to $23.06 mid-day today. Canon, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells digital multifunction devices (MFD), plain paper copying machines, laser beam printers, jet printers, cameras, and steppers and aligners. Canon sells its products under the Canon brand name primarily in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Canon U.S.A. Inc., a leader in document imaging and office solutions and a subsidiary of Canon, recently announced it has been certified a Center of Excellence by BenchmarkPortal in collaboration with the Center for Customer-Driven Quality at Purdue University.
James Sharp, senior vice president and general manager, Systems and Technical Support Division, Imaging System Group, Canon U.S.A., said “The Center of Excellence recognition is one of the most prestigious awards in the Service and Support industry. Our dedication to quality customer service is a direct result of our leadership’s commitment to service excellence and efficiency across all of our product lines and offerings.”
Canon U.S.A. also announced its imageCLASS D1100 Series, introducing four new black-and-white laser multifunction copiers. The new imageCLASS D1120, D1150, D1170 and D1180 allow smaller offices to have true copy, print, fax and scan functionality and flexibility all in one machine, helping replace the cost and complexities of managing multiple office devices.
The new Canon imageCLASS models boast duplex print and copy speeds of up to 30 pages-per-minute (ppm)i and deliver first print and copy pages in approximately 8 seconds. For optimal speed when printing and scanning, the new imageCLASS models provide a USB 2.0 ii Hi-Speed interface.
Canon operates in three segments: Business Machines, Cameras, and Optical and Other Products. The Business Machines segment manufactures, markets and services office imaging products, including monochrome network digital MFDs, color network digital MFDs, office copying machines and personal-use copying machines, as well as provides computer peripherals, such as laser beam printers, inkjet printers and scanners.
The Cameras segment manufactures and markets digital cameras and film cameras, digital video camcorders, lenses, and various camera accessories.
The Optical and Other Products segment offers semiconductor production equipment, such as steppers and mask aligners; mirror projection mask aligners for LCD panels; broadcasting equipment, including television broadcasting lenses; medical equipments consisting of X-ray image sensors, retinal cameras, autorefractmeters, and image-processing equipments for computerized diagnostic systems; large format printers; and electronic components comprising magnetic heads for audio and video tape recorders and micro-motors for printers, and other components for equipment manufacturers.
In today’s daily chart, CAJ’s MACD reflects a strong bearish signal, with the indicator below the 9-day moving average signal line, and also below the critical 0 level, indicating that moving averages are trending lower. Trading within its Bollinger Bands, the stock reflects neither an overbought nor oversold condition relative to its recent price action. With share prices currently below the stock’s 13-day moving average, the bearish signal is more pronounced with decreasing moving averages.
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) Trade Alert – IBM and Sap Preview Technology for Live Migration of SAP Applications, IBM Researchers Discover in Landmark Study in Nanoelectronics
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) shares rose 1.49% to $87.66 at noon today. IBM develops and manufactures information technology products and services worldwide.
In a joint demonstration at CeBIT, IBM and SAP previewed a technology that enables the live migration of SAP applications across remote IBM POWER6 systems via cloud computing. Developed as a part of the European Union-funded RESERVOIR cloud computing project, the technology is designed to provide companies with a range of cloud computing solutions to meet their specific business needs.
Cloud computing is an emerging approach to shared infrastructure in which large pools of systems are linked together to provide IT services. In this technology demonstration, IBM and SAP show how users can run enterprise applications in the cloud, in particular demonstrating the migration of workloads across physical servers and across data centers.
IBM Research scientists also announced a landmark study in the field of nanoelectronics; the development and demonstration of novel techniques to measure the distribution of energy and heat in powered carbon nanotube devices. By employing these techniques, IBM researchers have determined how the energy of electrical currents running through nanotubes is converted into heat and dissipated into collective vibrations of the nanotube’s atoms, as well as surface vibrations of the substrate beneath it.
For years, scientists have known that carbon nanotube devices get “hot” during operation. However, it was not known how to measure the effects and understand the transfer of energy within the device structures and how that heat was dissipated.
IBM’s Global Technology Services segment offers IT infrastructure and business process services, such as strategic outsourcing, integrated technology, business transformation outsourcing, and maintenance.
The company’s Global Business Services segment provides professional services and application outsourcing services, including consulting and systems integration, and application management.
Its Systems and Technology segment offers computing and storage solutions, including servers, disk and tape storage systems and software, semiconductor technology and products, packaging solutions, engineering and technology services, and retail store solutions.
IBM’s Software segment primarily offers middleware and operating systems software comprising WebSphere software for Web-enabled applications; information management software for database, content management, information integration and business intelligence; Tivoli software for infrastructure management, including security and storage management; Lotus software for collaboration, messaging, and social networking; and rational software, a process automation tool.
The company’s Global Financing segment provides commercial financing to dealers and remarketers of IT products; lease and loan financing to external and internal clients; and sale and lease of used equipment. IBM serves banking, insurance, education, government, healthcare, life sciences, aerospace and defense, automotive, chemical and petroleum, electronics, distribution, telecommunications, media and entertainment, and energy and utilities, as well as small and medium sized business.
In today’s daily chart, IBM’s MACD reflects a strong bearish signal, with the indicator below the 9-day moving average signal line, and also below the critical 0 level, indicating that moving averages are trending lower. Trading within its Bollinger Bands, the stock reflects neither an overbought nor oversold condition relative to its recent price action. With share prices currently below the stock’s 13-day moving average, a bearish trend is generally indicated.
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Trade Alert – MSFT Tests New Version of On-line Search Kumo.com, Creates up to 3,000 Jobs on Raising R&D Investment
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) shares rose .44% to $15.86 in mid-day trading. Microsoft provides software products for computing devices worldwide. Its Client segment offers Windows product family that comprises Windows Vista; Windows XP Professional and Home; Media Center Edition; Tablet PC Edition; and other Windows operating systems.
The company recently said it is testing a new version of its on-line search service internally under the name of Kumo.com. It said the service is not yet available outside the company, but may eventually form part of Microsoft’s attempt to catch up with Internet search leaders Google Inc and Yahoo Inc. The new service was unveiled in an internal memo sent by the head of research at the company’s online services division.
Microsoft also said it may create up to 3,000 jobs as it raises investment in research and development by $1 billion this year. It said that while Microsoft was eliminating jobs in some areas, new opportunities would arise at the same time. Under pressure to trim costs amid a global recession, the company reiterated it would stick to its research budget this year.
Microsoft’s Server and Tools segment provides integrated server infrastructure and middleware software that support software applications and tools built on the Windows Server operating system. This segment offers Windows Server operating system; Microsoft SQL Server; Microsoft Enterprise Services; product support services; Visual Studio; System Center products; Forefront Security products; Biz Talk Server; and MSDN.
Its Online Services Business provides an on-line advertising platform for publishers and advertisers; personal communications services, such as email and instant messaging; and online information.
The company’s Microsoft Business Division provides Microsoft office product set comprising enterprise content management, collaboration, unified communications, and business intelligence products; and Microsoft Dynamics products for financial management, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and analytics applications.
Its Entertainment and Devices Division offers the Xbox video game system, including consoles and accessories, third-party games, games published under the Microsoft brand, and Xbox Live operations. This division also provides Zune digital music and entertainment device; PC software games; online games; Mediaroom, an Internet protocol television software; mobile and embedded device platforms; and Surface computing platform.
In today’s daily chart, MSFT’s Bollinger Bands indicate greater than normal volatility as reflected by an increase in distance between the upper and lower bands. Trading within its Bollinger Bands, the stock reflects neither an overbought nor oversold condition relative to its recent price action. MACD reflects a strong bearish signal, with the indicator below the 9-day moving average signal line, and also below the critical 0 level, indicating that moving averages are trending lower. With share prices currently below the stock’s 13-day moving average, the bearish signal is more pronounced with decreasing moving averages.
Google Inc. (GOOG) Trade Alert – GOOG Participates at Morgan Stanley Technology Conference Today, Extends AdWords to Google News
Google Inc. (GOOG) shares slipped 1.05% to $324.13 mid-day today. Google, technology company, maintains index of Websites and other online content for users, advertisers, Google network members, and other content providers. Its automated search technology helps users to obtain instant access to relevant information from its online index.
The company recently announced that Eric Schmidt, CEO, will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco. The session is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time / 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time today, March 3, 2009.
Vic Gundotra, vice president of Mobile and Developer Platforms, will also participate on a Mobile Internet Discussion Panel at the same conference. The panel discussion is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time / Noon Pacific Time today.
Google has recently extended AdWords to Google News, an application that displays advertisements keyed to topics searched. The ads could extend the reach of local and regional papers by driving readers to their Websites, and Google would get what it needs – content. The company said there might be an equitable revenue split in there somewhere.
In 2006, the World Association of Newspapers said Google must stop indexing its member Websites, because the company profited from the use of copyrighted material.
Google provides targeted advertising and Internet search solutions, as well as intranet solutions via an enterprise search appliance. Its products and services for users include Google.com for search and personalization, which provides Google Web Search, Google Image Search, Google Book Search, Google Scholar, Google Finance, Google News, Google Video, Google Blog Search, iGoogle and Personalized Search, Google Product Search, Google Custom Search, Google Base, and Google Webmaster Tools.
The company’s products for users also comprise Google Docs, Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Groups, Google Reader, orkut, Blogger, Google Sites, and YouTube. In addition, it offers Google Toolbar, Google Chrome, Google Pack, Picasa, and Google Desktop for users; and Google GEO product line comprising Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Sketchup and Sketchup Pro, as well as provides Google Checkout, an online shopping service.
Further, the company provides Google Mobile product line for users to search and view the mobile Web, the Google index, and maps and satellite imagery; and Google Labs, a testbed for engineers and Google users. Additionally, it offers Google AdWords, an auction-based advertising program; Google AdSense program for content owners; and Display advertising program that delivers branded display advertising services.
The company also offers Google Enterprise product line comprising Google Apps that provides hosted communication and collaboration tools for businesses, schools, and nonprofit organizations; and Google Mini and Google Search Appliance products for small and medium sized businesses.
In today’s daily chart, GOOG’s Bollinger Bands indicate a relatively stable condition as reflected by tighter than normal band width. Trading within its Bollinger Bands, the stock reflects neither an overbought nor oversold condition relative to its recent price action. MACD reflects a weak bearish signal, with the indicator above the critical 0 level but crossing below its 9-day moving average signal line, indicating bullish moving averages, but slowing positive momentum. With share prices currently below the stock’s 13-day moving average, the bearish signal is more pronounced with decreasing moving averages.
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