With headquarters in San Jose, California, Symmetricom, Inc. supplies timing and synchronization hardware, software, and services to industry, government, utilities, research centers, and aerospace markets worldwide. Trading on the NASDAQ Global Market, the Company operates in two divisions: Telecom Solutions and Timing, Test, and Measurement.

Symmetricom products provide the precise time, frequency, and synchronization signals required by a network of GPS satellites. Worldwide, the international timescale is set to sub atomic precision using Symmetricom frequency reference. The Company’s timing solutions are critical to radio navigation in coastal waters, deployment of missiles, and the seamless delivery of voice, data, and video across telecom and cable networks, and uninterrupted availability of power to millions.

Symmetricom designs, manufactures, and delivers atomic clocks, network synchronization, and timing solutions. These find use in wireline and wireless telecom networks, cable networks, space, defense and avionics systems, and enterprise IT networks. The Company’s customers include network and cable service

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With the United States market still in slump, businesses project difficulties in profit increase in the next 7 years. Job cuts continue in the US and the rate of job creation of 25 per year is not sufficient to offset job losses in the next 5 years. On the other side of the world, Indian outsourcing firms show an opposite trend. Global IT service providers such as Infosys which provides technical consulting, design and development of business solutions have been aggressively increasing their workforce. Last week, the company reported that in the second quarter it has hired 6,069 people offsetting the 4,521 employees it laid off in the same quarter. Tata Consultancy Service is also bullishly hiring with plans of hiring 25,000 people worldwide for this year 2009 and 90%

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Electrical equipment maker Eaton Corp. (ETN) reported third quarter earnings of $1.21 per share, beating its own guidance of 80-90 cents per share and the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 91 cents per share. Better-than-expected earnings in the quarter were primarily a result of substantial reduction in costs.   However, quarterly earnings were down 38% from the year-ago profit of $1.95 per share. The company’s cost-cutting efforts were more than offset by lower sales and a stronger dollar.   Eaton’s revenues fell 26.4% year over year to $3 billion. The revenue decline was a result of 23% decline in core sales and a 3% negative impact of foreign exchange translation.   The company witnessed double digit sales decline across its segments. The truck and the Hydraulic segments posted sales decline of 35% and 34%, respectively. These segments witnessed more than 40% decline in the U.S. markets. Hydraulic markets outside ...

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Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX), the world’s largest online movie rental service, today announced an agreement with Disney-ABC Television Group that will make several of ABC’s most popular TV series available to be streamed instantly from Netflix.

SST Communications, a developer of RF front-end components and modules for a wide range of wireless applications and a subsidiary of SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.) (Nasdaq: SSTI), a leader in flash memory technology, today announced that it has doubled the output power of its 2.4 GHz WLAN power amplifier (PA) offering with the new SST12CP11. Housed in a compact 3 x 3mm QFN package, the three-stage device achieves 34

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Today’s markets maintain a level of anxiety that another leg-down is coming, namely the notion that we may revisit our former lows of March. As the more bullish investors continue to invest in financial and IT names, it would seem that the vast majority of market movers are taking profits off of the table in the industrial sector of the economy. But while the money seems to be rotating out of the early-cycle names that seem to have gotten ahead of themselves, many of which are up considerably from the bottom, I reiterate that there remains significant opportunity in cyclical-aerospace.

Why Industrials Lost Their “Mojo”

Over the length of the past stock market rally, industrial names enjoyed tremendous gains from the March lows. As one of the sectors to bounce back the strongest, many names like 3M (up over 40% from its lows)

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Highlights include Microsemi Corp. (MSCC), The Boeing Co. (BA), Raytheon Co. (RTN), Rockwell Automation (ROK), Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT), Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC), L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. (LLL)and Boston Scientific Corp. (BSX).Microsemi Segments Have Limited ExposureMicrosemi Corp. (MSCC) is well positioned in strong growth markets. Its High Reliability products for the defense, aerospace, commercial air and medical markets are extremely well positioned. Since these products have limited exposure to the uncertain conditions in the market, growth is expected to continue.High-reliability products have higher ASPs and higher margins. Management's current R&D effort is focused on this area, since it is expected that a higher percentage of sales from this line would improve the profitability of the company. This would, in turn, enable it to generate the targeted model of 50-55% gross margin and 30% operating margin....

Applied Nanotech Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: APNT) operates as a holding company for Applied Nanotech Inc. (ANI), one of its two wholly-owned subsidiaries. ANI is a leading research and commercialization organization for printed electronics for solar, display, electronic packaging and flexible electronics applications. Optomec Inc. provides additive manufacturing systems for high-performance applications in the electronics, photovoltaics, life sciences and aerospace markets. The company has more than 50 M3D customers in 10 countries, and has experienced doubling of its sales of M3D products each year. Applied Nanotech today announced ANI will team up with Optomec to execute a development program in which ANI will install a dedicated Optomec M3D Aerosol Jet printer at its facilities to adapt its revolutionary copper ink to Optomec’s patented ultra-high resolution printing technology. “We are very pleased that ANI has committed to optimize its copper for use with our M3D Aerosol Jet printing technology. Our customers have a rapidly growing ...