Much in the same way that computers began to sneak up on the consumer market in the 1970’s, other computer related products are sneaking up on the consumer today. One might be aware of their existence, but not totally aware of their potential. These new product classes are a sneaky sort of thing because consumers tend to be unaware of how a new product class is slowly training them to become dependent on that class. Finding a new product class is not an easy thing to do, but if an investor can see it happening, they can profit nicely.

Location Based Technologies Inc., a software applications development company, works to develop and market software applications surrounding personal location. The company currently has an arraignment with Deutsche Telecoms T-Mobile G1 smartphone and is awaiting approvals for Apple’s iPhone.

The world of new products can be a fairly grey one if a consumer

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Performance Health Technologies, Inc. is offering a new and sophisticated way for people to interact with their own bodies. Bringing together medical and computer experts, the company has combined advanced software and medical technologies to create MotionTrack™, a proprietary technology platform that can track and monitor detailed body movements and motion in real time, providing immediate visual feedback to the user. The company’s goal is not only to transform the way individuals exercise and train for sports, but also to revolutionize rehabilitation from injuries, providing more efficient and controlled therapy.

Performance Health’s innovative products are gaining wide acceptance, and endorsement, by medical, rehabilitation, and athletic communities, and were recently featured in Scientific American Online. The products are now being used by orthopedic surgeons, neurologists, occupational and physical therapists, and even speech pathologists.

The popularity is due in part to the success experienced by patients recovering

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This is a side to side comparison of two of the best online financial sites: Yahoo Finance and Google Finance.  Yahoo is still the largest and most popular finance site by far but Google is serious about finance.  Let’s see how the two financial portals stack up against each other.

Speed

Google Finance: Typical fast-loading Google pages.  Google’s site is broad and doesn’t go deep.  Pages for individual stocks are only 1 page deep (Google links out for things like option chains, major holder, etc.)

Yahoo Finance: Yahoo Finance is fast.  As opposed to Google, Yahoo content resides primarily on Yahoo pages and Yahoo is responsible for page load speed throughout the site.  This can fluctuate as any large website can throughout the day.

Charting

Google Finance: Google primarily uses a simple javascript-loaded chart without any bling.  It loads fast and allows easy to manipulate x-axis (time period).  When

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PhotoChannel Networks, Inc. has a simple idea – to provide technology and utilize telecommunications infrastructure to bridge consumer ordered content with retailers that have on demand manufacturing capabilities for the production of merchandise in real time. Technology brings them all together to create an incredible gateway for on-demand consumer transactions. A “One-Stop-Shop” approach to the planning, developing, executing and measuring their online transactions. Customers include marketing services, prepaid card programs and creative and design services.

PhotoChannel posted some highlights of the 4th qtr numbers, which will be fully filed on December 15, 2008. Total orders handled during the quarter increased 184 percent over fourth quarter 2007 and increased 59 percent over third quarter 2008. The addition of some new business partners has expanded PhotoChannel’s reach into the market. Those partners include Costco USA, SAM’s Club USA, Loblaw Companies, Kodak China, Hallmark U.K, Myer Pty Ltd. among others.

“We are very pleased with

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MedLink International Inc. (MLKNA.OB) provides doctors, hospitals, labs, medical imaging centers, and patients with software products and services for creating, managing and sharing critical medical information. The company’s innovative products provide centralized access to clinical, administrative, and financial data in real time.

American spent more than $2.3 trillion on healthcare in 2007, and spending is forecast to reach $4.3 trillion by 2025. Information technology has emerged as one of the few tools that may help curb rising healthcare costs. Healthcare IT spending was estimated at $6.9 billion in 2007, and is expected to increase to $10.8 billion by 2012. MedLink thinks that this market could grow to $28 billion by 2014 as a result of “pay for performance” initiatives by Medicare and Medicaid. Pay for performance programs require compliance with new evidence-based guidelines and are more readily accomplished with healthcare IT systems.

MedLink markets it products and services through partnerships with medical

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Source Today we outsource with some interesting links on oil markets and housing. Lots of useful observations on oil supply and demand from Yves Smith, including the fact that BP's Thunder Horse, which promises soon to be pumping a quarter million barrels per day of crude oil out of the Gulf of Mexico, has finally started production. Ironman gives us another neat tool to calculate whether it pays to move closer to your worplace. Phil Miller describes what it's like to find oil in your backyard in North Dakota. WSJ Real Time Economics surveys various takes (all negative) on today's jobs report. And the always useful Calculated Risk updates graphs of the price-to-rent ratio and directs us to modern ghost towns among the would-be Los Angeles exurbs. Source: Calculated Risk

Data Call Technologies, Inc. (DCLT.OB) is a leading digital signage company in the growing market of digital advertisement. The company specializes in information feeds through their Internet-driven software for live sports, financial news, live traffic, and Amber Alerts. Data Call’s products can be found in hotels, banks, airports, and sports arenas throughout the United States.

Data Call has evolved and moved as the demand for more digital signage has increased. The company has been able to keep their digital signage fresh and in motion, as well as add real time information. Along with their innovation, Data Call continues to improve their delivery, security, and variety.

Data Call has working relationships with other signage companies that in turn make available over thirty-five live-information feeds. The company’s line of products includes up-to-minute sports and weather that is serviced by Arena Media Networks. Arena Media Networks uses

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Recently I was browsing internet to find reliable free and not delayed source for insider trading activities. There are couple of sites providing real time information for monthly paid subscription. You can see this also at official SEC site after insiders post Sec Form 4. But this is not really friendly format.I found FinViz which gives you everything for free. You can see buy sell transaction with share price, value and position of insiders. What I am still missing is searching per ticker.Site provides also technical and fundamental screener. Moreover it has very nice maps grouped by industry. You can see performance of major companies or ETF in industry. Or basic fundamental data like P/E ratio, P/B, PEG, EPS or dividend yield.I'd underline this is not paid review as StockWeb ...

Yesterday I participated in a great day of trader education organized by Tom Busby and the folks at DTI and sponsored by optionsXpress.My presentation discussed the best way to develop a theme about the market and test whether and how much profits can be made using our backtesting tool, The OddsMaker. It was a great discussion and it gave me personal satisfaction that I am finally able to put into practice advice that Dr. Brett Steenbarger gave me many months ago. Tomorrow I will start a small series on how I'm using The OddsMaker in this way.

Below are some of the questions (and my answers) the group asked during the show:Q: [11:35] Zoo the new guy: If I already just opened an OXPS (optionsXpress) account may I use the discount?A: You are referring to our special pricing subsidized by OXPS for new

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Figuring out exactly what the market will do at the very next moment is tough to do. Understanding what mood the market is in, however, proves to be not only easier, but eventually leads to better accuracy about what comes next.The beauty of Trade-Ideas' tools is that you get to ask and answer your questions about the market's mood.Trade-Ideas allows you to develop any theme or behavior about the market like,"Are recent new lows enticing buyers?""Do bounces in this market have strength or are they dead cats?""Do any of these themes behave differently in the afternoon than in the morning?""What are the odds of a winning trade on any of these themes in the market right now?"

Aren't these better questions to be asking than "Is this stock going up or down?"

Subscribers who use The OddsMaker (our event-based backtesting tool) already know how to answer

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