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Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) and ITA Software, Inc., the leader in developing innovative solutions for the travel industry, today announced advanced capabilities that support Southwest’s website enhancements and allows the airline to further extend the capabilities of southwest.com moving forward. Southwest selected ITA’s QPX(TM) system to support its recent website updates, making it even easier for customers to take advantage of the airline’s industry-leading low fares.

Midcontinent Express Pipeline (MEP) has received authorization from the Pipelines Hazardous

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Chicago, IL – July 20, 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: Intel Corp (INTC), ARM Holdings (ARMH), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Qualcomm (QCOM) and Texas Instruments (TXN).

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Here are highlights from Friday’s Analyst Blog:

How Mobile is Intel?

Just as Intel Corp (INTC) has a dominant position in the microprocessor market for computers, ARM Holdings (ARMH) has the most widely used technology in cell phones and other mobile devices. Intel’s desire to go beyond its home ground may be

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Just as Intel Corp (INTC) has a dominant position in the microprocessor market for computers, ARM Holdings (ARMH) has the most widely used technology in cell phones and other mobile devices. Intel’s desire to go beyond its home ground may be traced to the maturing state of the enterprise type PC market and the much stronger growth rates in cell phones and mobile internet devices.

The higher demand has been driven by a sea change in technologies driving consumer electronics products that have virtually created demand for a completely new species. Consumers now want greater functionality, connectivity, portability, lower power consumption, smaller sizes and all this at a much lower cost.   What Intel wants to achieve requires a paradigm shift. In the PC market it enjoys a special position at system integrators that have for long kept Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) at bay. Being the financially stronger

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To compete with large vendors in the rising netbook PC market, Sony (SNE) plans to launch its new VAIO W series laptop, currently meant for the Japanese market. The new netbook is expected to hit stores in August with a selling price of around ¥60,000 ($629), according to some sources.

Sony has declined to comment on the product and has not provided any specific pricing details or expected sales for the new netbook model. It expects to increase VAIO PC sales from 5.8 million units in fiscal 2008 to 6.2 million units in fiscal 2010.

The new Sony netbook is built on Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows XP operating system and based on Intel’s (INTC) Atom processor. In comparison to 1,024-by-600-pixel displays that are used in other netbooks, the new VAIO series features an LCD display with a resolution of 1,366-by-768 pixels. It also consists of 1GB of

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Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) offers digital media processors and related software for a wide range of visual computing platforms.

Things are going well for the company and it recently launched some new products like 12 new high-definition mobile Internet devices (MIDs) powered by the NVIDIA Tegra processor and new servers powered by NVIDIA Tesla(TM) GPUs. These new product offerings will have a positive impact on its revenue stream going forward.

Nvidia has a strong position in the gaming segment of the market for high-end graphics. Its GeForce line of graphics cards is essential for playing some of today's most popular computer games, and in this segment Nvidia has become a very familiar name. Although gaming is key to Nvidia's market, computing is becoming increasingly more visual according to the company, and we believe this is correct.

Although Intel (INTC) is aggressively competing with

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Intel (INTC) and Nokia (NOK) have joined hands to tap the smart phone and MID market. Nokia will use the Atom processor in its smart phones and mobile Internet devices going forward, even as Intel licenses Nokia's 3G HSPA modem technology.

The two companies have used open source software from Linux to develop their respective mobile platforms. The strategic relationship is expected to enable Intel's Moblin (currently in beta stage) and Nokia's Maemo to incorporate several open source applications, such as oFono, ConnMan, Mozilla, X.Org, BlueZ, D-BUS, Tracker, GStreamer and PulseAudio through some co-coordinated effort. The association will also enhance device functionality for both in terms of Internet connectivity, wireless communication, superior graphics and comprehensive multimedia capabilities.

Nokia currently holds about 40% share of the mobile phone market and a 34% market share in smart phones. The partnership should, therefore, be of great strategic

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The NASDAQ has finished up 11 of the last 12 weeks, proving that TECH IS HOT in this market rally. It’s no hidden secret that semiconductors are cyclical and should rebound with the economy. However, timing the market to buy at the bottom is a difficult task for any investor. QUALCOMM, Inc. [QCOM: 45.40, +0.11 (+0.24%)] is a great semiconductor play on the secular growth of smartphones and wireless network upgrades from 2G to 3G, and eventually to 4G. QCOM manufactures code-division multiple access (CDMA) based integrated circuits and system software used in mobile phones, data cards and infrastructure equipment. They also license over 10,100 U.S. granted and pending patents for CDMA and related wireless technology to more than 150 third party wireless equipment and cell phone makers. QCOM continues to see royalties ranging from $4 to $8 for the sale of

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The metrics determining the 2009 outlook for the Semiconductor industry as a whole has been as volatile as ever. Pricing (ASP Erosion) and inventory buildup in the latter half of 2008 has plagued the industry and companies, particularly in the Specialized (SP) and Integrated Circuits (IC) areas, are still having a difficult time managing inventory to bring utilization rates to an optimal level for margin maintenance and growth.

The peak season for NAND flash in 2008 only lasted till the month of October, and prices for 16Gb and 32Gb chips fell again in November. Price adjustments during July and August of 2008 helped demand recover in October, but the poor showing of consumer electronics sales during the holiday season, aggravated by the global financial crisis, is expected to shrink demand for NAND flash again in 2009. Within the large-size shipments, IT applications dropped 7% sequentially in Q4:08 to 19.2 million units

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The metrics determining the 2009 outlook for the Semiconductor industry as a whole has been as volatile as ever. Pricing (ASP Erosion) and inventory buildup in the latter half of 2008 has plagued the industry and companies, particularly in the Specialized (SP) and Integrated Circuits (IC) areas, are still having a difficult time managing inventory to bring utilization rates to an optimal level for margin maintenance and growth.

The peak season for NAND flash in 2008 only lasted till the month of October, and prices for 16Gb and 32Gb chips fell again in November. Price adjustments during July and August of 2008 helped demand recover in October, but the poor showing of consumer electronics sales during the holiday season, aggravated by the global financial crisis, is expected to shrink demand for NAND flash again in 2009. Within the large-size shipments, IT applications dropped 7% sequentially in Q4:08 to 19.2 million units

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