Time Warner Cable Inc (TWC) will launch the 4G WiMAX mobile broadband services in three North Carolina markets from Dec 1. The WiMAX connection will offer wireless data transmission at speeds five times faster than the 3G connections currently provided by the company. Under the brand name of “Road Runner Mobile", this super-fast mobile broadband network will support Internet speed of 6 Mbps with a monthly between $40 and $80 for customers with at least one other Time Warner Cable service.  The “Road Runner Mobile" service will provide its subscribers the convenience of mobility so that the customers can enjoy the WiMAX services on their devices anywhere they go within their service circle. The company also said that it plans to add new mobile services in the future, such as the ability to program a DVR from a mobile device and for customers to take their video ...

Sprint Nextel (S) has further expanded its fourth-generation (4G) wireless broadband network coverage to ten more U.S. markets. The third largest US carrier has officially launched commercial services in Salem (Oregon), Milledgeville (Georgia) and Texas cities of Amarillo , Killeen-Temple, Corpus Christi , Lubbock , Waco , Wichita Falls , Abilene and Midland-Odessa. This follows Sprint’s 4G service launches in Atlanta, Portland and Las Vegas in August 2009.   Sprint offers its 4G service under the "Sprint 4G" brand and leverages the WiMax (a mobile broadband technology) network operated by Clearwire Corp. (CLWR) in which it holds 51% stake. The 4G WiMax network offers up to 10 times faster network speeds than the existing 3G deployments. The download speeds enabled by the 4G WiMax network averages 3-6 megabits per second (Mbps) with peak speed exceeding 10 Mbps.    Subscribers across the newly launched markets can now ...

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Thursday August 6, 2009

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Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) today announced new service from its Guam hub and Honolulu to Nadi, Fiji beginning Dec. 18, 2009. The flights will also offer convenient connections from the U.S. mainland, Japan and Continental’s Micronesian network to Nadi.

Shalov Stone Bonner & Rocco LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of purchasers of International Game Technology (NYSE: IGT) common stock during the period from November 1, 2007 to October 30, 2008, inclusive (the “Class Period”). The lawsuit is pending in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada against IGT and certain of its officers and directors.

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Chicago, IL – July 24, 2009 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. (LLL), Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT), Raytheon Company (RTN), FLIR Systems (FLIR) and Sprint Nextel (S).

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Here are highlights from Thursday’s Analyst Blog:

L-3 Communications Displays Resilience

Before the opening bell, L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. (LLL) opened its second quarter reporting sales growth of 5.6% year-over-year to $3.93 billion barely beating our estimate of $3.88 billion and consensus estimate of $3.84 billion.

Showing resilience the company

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Honolulu, Hawaii July 13th, 2009AD Here is a little global economy roundup: Many still think the economy is on the verge of recovery. While the rest of the developing world continues to steam ahead plowing through obstacles, the western world continues to spiral downward. This still does not take into consideration ALT-A and ARM loan resets through 2011. July [...]div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/YourFinancialFuture?a=Rfi3i1BgIRQ:WOyqIMH_HWY:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/YourFinancialFuture?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/YourFinancialFuture?a=Rfi3i1BgIRQ:WOyqIMH_HWY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/YourFinancialFuture?i=Rfi3i1BgIRQ:WOyqIMH_HWY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/YourFinancialFuture?a=Rfi3i1BgIRQ:WOyqIMH_HWY:7Q72WNTAKBA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/YourFinancialFuture?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/YourFinancialFuture?a=Rfi3i1BgIRQ:WOyqIMH_HWY:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/YourFinancialFuture?i=Rfi3i1BgIRQ:WOyqIMH_HWY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/YourFinancialFuture?a=Rfi3i1BgIRQ:WOyqIMH_HWY:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/YourFinancialFuture?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/YourFinancialFuture?a=Rfi3i1BgIRQ:WOyqIMH_HWY:l6gmwiTKsz0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/YourFinancialFuture?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/YourFinancialFuture?a=Rfi3i1BgIRQ:WOyqIMH_HWY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/YourFinancialFuture?i=Rfi3i1BgIRQ:WOyqIMH_HWY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a /div

Gold had tacked on about $8 by late Thursday afternoon in Hong Kong…which was shortly after the Thursday morning open in London. But four hours later [8:00 a.m. in New York], even this gain was gone. But from that point, however, both gold and silver began spirited rallies. These rallies lasted throughout the entire Comex floor session, but both traded sideways after that…which they’re still doing eight hours after the Globex close in New York. Here’s the current Kitco silver chart. The red line shows yesterday’s trading. You can see that all of the gains were during Comex hours in New York.

The gold chart is similar.

click to enlarge

Both metals gained back large chunks of what they lost on Wednesday. So did the XAU and HUI. Gold was up 1.85% in New York trading yesterday. Silver was up

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Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. (HE) reported $20.4 million, or $0.22 per diluted share ($0.23 basic), consolidated net income in the 1st quarter of 2009, compared to $34 million, or $0.41 per share (basic and diluted) in the year-ago quarter. Similarly, consolidated revenue of $543.8 million in the reported 1st quarter of 2009 was lower compared with revenue of $729.6 million in the 1st quarter of 2008.Electric utility net income for the 1st quarter of 2009 was $14.1 million compared with $24.6 million in 2008. Lower net income was primarily due to lower electric sales and higher operations and maintenance expenses. Kilowatt-hour sales were down 7.4% in the reported compared with the year-ago quarter, impacting utility net income by an estimated $9 million. Sales were down mainly due to cooler, less humid weather and one less day of sales due to the leap year day in 2008....

pJan 5, 2009 (WALL STREET JOURNAL) -- As the U.S. seeks to stockpile oil, China has been doing the same, observers say, and is expected to quicken the pace -- a development that already may be helping to boost oil prices./ppOn Friday, the U.S. Department of Energy said that amid low oil prices, it aims to fill the country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to capacity this year./ppThat news followed a rare public statement last week from China's top energy official, Zhang Guobao, head of the National Energy Administration, in the People's Daily newspaper that China should take advantage of the falling global energy demand to increase its oil reserves. Mr Zhang said China will quot;encourage companies to utilize idle storage capacity to increase inventories.quot;/ppOil prices have been rising lately. On Friday, oil closed up 3.9% to $46.34 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange./ppThough China doesn't disclose its oil inventories ...

I often mention not worrying about things beyond our control. We are in Honolulu facing a serious delay, 90 minute late departure at best.br /br /There is some maintenance issue that will be fixed when it is fixed. I could be all pissed off but would not make it better would it?br /br /Apply this line of thought to your portfolio. br /br /Aloha.