Piper Jaffray initiates Apple coverage

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Piper Jaffray: iTMS key to future Apple
growth

Piper Jaffray: iTMS key to future Apple
growth 08/27/2004 02:15 PM
Piper Jaffray said earlier today that it thinks the iTunes Music Store could emerge as a driver for Apple's shares in fiscal 2005 and 2006...

Piper Jaffray raises Apple target price
on iPod sales

Piper Jaffray raises Apple target price
on iPod sales 06/01/2004 03:53 PM
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has raised his estimates for Apple based on continued growth of "other" products such as iPods and software...

CSFB initiates Apple coverage

CSFB initiates Apple coverage 08/18/2004 10:39 AM
CSFB today initated coverage on Apple with a "neutral" rating...

First Albany initiates Apple coverage

First Albany initiates Apple coverage 12/12/2003 12:47 PM
First Albany has initiated coverage of Apple with a "neutral" rating...

J.P. Morgan initiates Apple coverage

J.P. Morgan initiates Apple coverage 12/02/2003 12:17 PM
J.P. Morgan has initiated coverage of Apple with a "neutral" rating...

Banc of America Securities initiates
Apple coverage

Banc of America Securities initiates
Apple coverage 11/19/2003 10:36 AM
Banc of America Securities has initiated coverage of Apple at "neutral," saying it is concerned that Power Mac G5 refresh sales will slow, iTunes won't contribute to the bottom line, and iPod is not "the only game in town anymore."...

Piper Jaffray: Mac market share to grow
over next two years

Piper Jaffray: Mac market share to grow
over next two years 09/27/2004 10:49 AM
Piper Jaffray said that over the next two years Apple will grow its market share ahead of expectations thanks to greater-than-expected adoption of iPods, which will translate into increased Mac sales...

Piper Jaffray: Macs to gain market share
in 2-3 years

Piper Jaffray: Macs to gain market share
in 2-3 years 03/17/2005 03:05 AM
Piper Jaffray expects Apple to gain share in the PC market over the next two to three years...

Innovo Group to Participate at the Piper
Jaffray Consumer Conference

Innovo Group to Participate at the Piper
Jaffray Consumer Conference 06/05/2005 11:54 PM
Market Wire May 26 2005 10:03AM GMT

Inhibitex to Present at the 17th Annual
Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference

Inhibitex to Present at the 17th Annual
Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference 02/01/2005 09:05 PM
Market Wire Jan 20 2005 9:13PM GMT

Blue Sky Small Caps Initiates Coverage
of Con-Space Communications

Blue Sky Small Caps Initiates Coverage
of Con-Space Communications 07/09/2004 05:10 PM
BC Technology Jul 9 2004 9:17PM GMT

Small Cap review Initiates Coverage of
Biopha Technologies (BIPH)

Small Cap review Initiates Coverage of
Biopha Technologies (BIPH) 05/31/2004 01:47 PM
SmallCapReview.com ( http://www.SmallCapReview.com ), a leading small-cap stock information site, is proud to announce it isinitiating coverage on Biophan Technologies (BIPH). For the full profile please visit http://www.smallcapreview.com/biph.htm. [PRWEB May 18, 2004]

Apple WWDC 2004 Keynote coverage

Apple WWDC 2004 Keynote coverage 06/28/2004 01:11 PM
While there is no webcast, MacMerc will be updating this space as often as possible to bring you all the latest from Steve Job's keynote speech at WWDC 2004. If you have any news tips, please instant message them to jonknee41. Join other MacMerc readers in AIM chat room macmerc1.

• Tiger
  • Dev watch: Core Image, Core Video crunch numbers with the GPU instead of the CPU.
  • Safari will have new features, including RSS, Jobs must not know about NetNewsWire.
  • MPEG h264 (not a shocker)
  • System Prefs now use Spotlight instead of top menu bar.
  • One of the best: better searching. Spotlight is iTunes like searching for the whole computer. Full indexes, even for PDFs. System wide, search from anywhere.
  • Over 150 new features
  • Fully 64-bit
• Tiger will ship in first half of 2005
• New 20" display in same design, $1,299.
• New 30" display, biggest ever. 2560 x 1600. Same design as the other new displays today. FireWire and USB, 4 megapixels. Needs PowerMac, 2 DVI connections to run (card costs $600). $3,299.
• New 23" display, all aluminum, like the ThinkSecret mock ups. ADC is gone from the displays.
• The online Apple Store just went down--we have new stuff coming.
• 3,500 developers at WWDC, 17% more than last year

Apple Expo: Live Keynote Coverage

Apple Expo: Live Keynote Coverage 08/31/2004 03:59 AM
MacCentral is bringing readers live coverage of Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller's keynote presentation to attendees of Apple Expo 2004 in Paris.

Teen Reporter Pays Price For Apple
Coverage

Teen Reporter Pays Price For Apple
Coverage 03/14/2005 05:50 PM

Nicholas Ciarelli is an excellent journalist. Too bad. By Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe

After saturation coverage of Olympics,
why no Paralympics TV coverage in US?

After saturation coverage of Olympics,
why no Paralympics TV coverage in US? 09/07/2004 11:47 PM
Xeni Jardin: BBC Journalist and blogger Stuart Hughes says:

The Olympics were a huge success for NBC.200 million viewers. A "halo effect" that boosted other channels and programmes. An estimated $60-70 million profit (Source: Hollywood Reporter) Before the Games started, NBC boast ed of the depth and breadth of its coverage.1210 hours of events.103 commentators. 28 Olympians on the commentary team. A week from now, I'll be heading back to Athens for Greece's second remarkable major sporting event of the year. The Paraly mpics will boast:4000 athletes. 140 countries represented.525 gold medals at stake. 19 sports. There will be no American TV coverage of the Paralympics. Let me repeat that. There will be NO AMERICAN TV COVERAGE OF THE PARALYMPICS. Not one hour of live coverage. Not one commentator. Not one Olympian on the commentary team. Nothing. This at the same time that a record number of journalists are preparing to cover the Paralympics.

Link to complete post on Stuart's weblog. See also these related previous BoingBoing posts: Stuart Hughes covers Olympics on his blog; BBC journalist survives landmine; Xeni on NPR: Tech helps triple amputee to run again (thanks, Karim)

AMD Initiates Shipments of 90nm
Microprocessors?

AMD Initiates Shipments of 90nm
Microprocessors? 07/06/2004 11:52 AM

RCMP initiates Nortel investigation

RCMP initiates Nortel investigation 08/21/2004 09:35 AM

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Aura Interactive initiates operations in
Colombia

Aura Interactive initiates operations in
Colombia 07/05/2004 02:30 AM
As a part of its global expansion, Aura Interactive initiates operations in Colombia in association with its new business partner KMSolutions: –Knowledge Management Solutions-a specialized training consulting firm that promotes knowledge management solutions in the organizations. [PRWEB Jul 5, 2004]

Adobe initiates Activation for Creative
Suite 2.

Adobe initiates Activation for Creative
Suite 2. 04/04/2005 11:58 PM
MacCentral: Ad obe initiates Activation for Creative Suite 2. Of course, the software hasn't been out long enough for people to get bitten by it. (Set a reminder for around May 10th.) But at least Adobe isn't using activation as a way to sneak in more restrictive licensing.

Waite Julie Piper

Waite Julie Piper 01/26/2004 10:19 AM
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iPod Hasn't Paid The Piper Yet

iPod Hasn't Paid The Piper Yet 06/02/2004 07:59 PM
Apple at least appears to have learned some lessons from its earlier failures to leverage strong technology and the leading early market share in PCs. By Stephen Ellis, The Australian (via MyAppleMenu)

Apple NAB Media Event Coverage [Event
Over]

Apple NAB Media Event Coverage [Event
Over] 04/17/2005 03:28 PM
An 11am PST Media event from Apple is expected to bring software announcements today at the National Association of Broadcasters. Coverage for the ...

e-Gov't programme initiates Security
Assessment Project

e-Gov't programme initiates Security
Assessment Project 06/19/2004 06:14 PM
Jordan Times Jun 19 2004 9:49PM GMT

Billie Piper is Doctor Who helper

Billie Piper is Doctor Who helper 05/24/2004 12:16 PM
Billie Piper will play Doctor Who's assistant when the cult BBC show returns with Christopher Eccleston.

News: Adobe initiates Activation for all
Creative Suite 2 products

News: Adobe initiates Activation for all
Creative Suite 2 products 04/03/2005 11:48 PM
With the release of Creative Suite 2 (CS2) on Monday, Adobe Systems Inc. will also introduce activation for its entire CS2 product line. Activation is a process the customer must complete sometime during the first 30 days of use in order to verify that the product is using a valid serial number. Adobe says they are not changing the way they do business, rather enforcing the terms of the license agreement, which says the product can be installed on only two machines.

Ventria Bioscience Initiates Seventh
Straight Year of Production

Ventria Bioscience Initiates Seventh
Straight Year of Production 12/24/2004 12:31 PM
Plant-made pharmaceutical company developing health solutions for the global community. [PRWEB Dec 23, 2004]

Doctor Who fans back Billie Piper

Doctor Who fans back Billie Piper 05/28/2004 03:28 AM
The choice of Billie Piper to play Doctor Who's new assistant delights many fans of the science fiction series.

Paying The Piper, Round 2: The Reportory
Grows

Paying The Piper, Round 2: The Reportory
Grows 10/30/2003 12:35 AM
The best music store-jukebox is Apple's iTunes, for a list of reasons as long as a Wagner opera. By David Pogue (New York Times via MyAppleMenu)

The Pied Piper of Las Vegas Seems to
Have Perfect Pitch

The Pied Piper of Las Vegas Seems to
Have Perfect Pitch 06/03/2004 11:42 PM
In Las Vegas, the job of mythmaker falls to Billy Vassiliadis, adman, huckster, deal maker and fixer extraordinaire.

USB Piper Upgrades Cisco Systems to
'Outperform'

USB Piper Upgrades Cisco Systems to
'Outperform' 11/06/2003 12:19 PM
Business Week Nov 6 2003 10:53AM ET

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio
| Billie Piper is Doctor Who helper

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio
| Billie Piper is Doctor Who helper 05/26/2004 04:36 AM
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James Dean died in a Porsche and boosted
sales; what about JFK, Jr. and Piper?

James Dean died in a Porsche and boosted
sales; what about JFK, Jr. and Piper? 03/17/2005 03:24 AM

At the Ralph Lauren car exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which opens to non-members on March 6, a plaque next to a 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder contains the following:

"In September 1955 legendary actor James Dean ... crashed his new 550 Spyder and was killed.  This tragic event immortalized the Porsche name and transformed a relatively small company into a very big business."

So... if it worked for Porsche with James Dean, how come it didn't work for Piper when JFK, Jr. crashed his Saratoga?  If anything you'd expect the truck-like family man's 6-seater Saratoga to have fared better than the rear-engined Porsche, which was notorious for hard-to-handle oversteer.

[Don't rush down to the MFA to see this exhibit.  There are much more interesting car collections at a lot of the U.S.'s car museums, including the one 30 miles west in Stow, Massachusetts at the Collings Foundation.]

Piper Malibu Mirage Transition Training
in Vero Beach, Florida

Piper Malibu Mirage Transition Training
in Vero Beach, Florida 02/07/2005 01:15 AM

I'm just finishing up transition training for the Piper Malibu Mirage airplane down in Vero Beach, Florida.  Vero Beach is the home of New Piper Aircraft, manufacturer of the Malibu, and is located on the SE Atlantic coast of Florida, halfway between Cape Canaveral and Miami/Ft. Lauderdale.

The Malibu is interesting because it is a personal airplane that actually can do most of the things that non-pilots believe any personal airplane ought to be able to do.  Imagine telling Joe Random that you own a small airplane.  He will imagine that this machine could get you from any place in the U.S. to any other place within a day or two.  Joe's imagination would conjure up an airplane that could fly through clouds, fly above the clouds, keep the occupants comfortable inside, and not inflict too much noise on the passengers.  An actual small airplane, e.g., a brand new $250,000 Cessna 172 or $400,000 Piper Saratoga (JFK, Jr's plane), can't do any of these things.  A basic airplane will have a basic piston engine that loses power the higher one climbs into the thin air of high altitudes, which contains fewer molecules of oxygen for combustion per unit volume.  Thus the little Cessna, for example, goes slower and slower as it climbs higher until finally it is using almost all of its feeble power to climb rather than to move forward.  A 172 isn't practical to operate above about 14,000'.  Clouds typically extend up to around 20,000' and therefore the Cessna is condemned to fly through the clouds rather than above them.

What's wrong with flying through the clouds?  In the summer the clouds contain embedded thunderstorms that can make an airplane impossible to control and it is difficult for a cloud-bound pilot to avoid those thunderstorms because one can't see out of a cloud.  In the winter the clouds contain ice that alters the airfoil and weighs down the airframe to the point that the airplane doesn't have enough power to hold altitude.  At all times of year clouds are typically bumpier than the air above the clouds.  A small plane can still get you places but you may have to wait many days for hazardous weather to clear.  Even with the best weather the average small plane is incredibly noisy, is unpressurized so passengers are exposed to the discomforts of breathing thin air or having an oxygen system stuck up their noses, and has no air conditioning.

The Piper Malibu has two turbochargers attached to its engine, making a total of 350 horsepower nearly up to its service ceiling of 25,000'.  This is high enough to get above most clouds most of the time.  Bleed air from the turbos is fed into the cabin for pressurization.  Two heaters cope with the -40 C temps at altitude while an air conditioner keeps folks cool closer to the ground.  At 25,000' it is so cold that the air isn't capable of holding much water and therefore the risk of accumulating ice is minimal.  However, one might have to climb up or descend down through an icing layer and therefore the Malibu comes with a heated propeller, some heated sensors for the instruments, and rubber boots on the leading edges of the wings and tail.  These rubber boots can be inflated by the pilot to crack ice off.

Basically the Malibu does everything that a jet-powered airplane does without the fuel consumption of a jet or the high initial cost of a jet (the same airframe is available with a jet engine driving a propeller; it is called a Piper Meridian and is about $700,000 more than the Malibu).  Introduced in 1984 only about 1000 have been built, including jet-powered versions.  It is difficult to get insurance for the Malibu because so many have been crashed.  These crashes fall into two categories:  (a) pushing weather, and (b) mechanical failure.  Because the airplane is so capable guys attempt getting through ice and around thunderstorms in a way that would never occur to them in a simpler airplane.  Because the airplane is so complex it is prone to failures that are simply not possible in a basic airplane.  If either turbocharger fails, for example, the engine oil can leak out and the engine will stop.  My old Diamond Star didn't have turbochargers, by comparison.  The Malibu does what an airliner does but without the redundancy.  So you have to be prepared to land the airplane in a field or on a road.  Because of these accidents the insurance companies require professional training before writing a policy.

Half of the training involves ground school in which one learns as much as possible about all of the airplane's systems, e.g., the hydraulic pump and lines that drive the landing gear up and down.  This is important in case you're flying around and the landing gear won't come down or the magic three green lights that indicate "down and locked" won't come on.  This actually happened to me a few times in the last two weeks.  Twice I put the gear lever down and nothing happened.  It turned out that the hydraulic pump circuit breaker had popped.  One, after a 6.5-hour flight at high altitude, I put the gear down and only two of the three lights went on.  A little in-the-air debugging and the last light lit up but the gear might have been down all the time and the switch frozen.

Most of the flight training involves the student wearing special googles or a hood that obscures everything except the instruments on the panel.  This simulates instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), which is where things tend to get challenging.  My instructor was Ron Cox, former head of training for Piper Aircraft and then Simcom and previously a helicopter pilot in Vietnam.  Ron covered up all the instruments with a chart and had me do some turns climbs and descents purely by feel.  "Now you're JFK, Jr.," he noted (kind of odd that JFK, Jr. is the canonical example of a confused pilot even among long-time aviation nerds), and whisked the chart away.  I was supposed to be straight and level.  My body was uncertain as to its orientation relative to gravity.  The instruments showed the airplane in a steep climbing turn, an "unusual attitude" that needed to be corrected with a combination of throttle and yoke.  Many hours were spent doing instrument approaches to various airports on Florida's Atlantic coast.  An instrument approach involves flying to a specified point in space and then flying a specified path in three dimensions down to a point where the pilot either sees the runway or executes a "missed approach" procedure by climbing up and proceeding to a published holding position and driving the airplane around in ovals.

Because so many Malibu engines have quit in flight, a great emphasis is placed on practicing engine failures in the clouds.  You wear the hood and the instructor pulls back the throttle and you have to figure out if there are any airports within gliding distance then set up the airplane for best gliding performance (90 knots) and make it down to a runway without pulling the hood off until the last 1000' or so.  One great thing about the Malibu is that it glides better than 10:1, i.e., if you're up at 25,000' (5 miles) you can glide more than 50 miles horizontally.

I came away from the training with some improved flying skills and an appreciation for all the things that can wrong in a Malibu.  My personal summary:  the airplane can do just about everything that an airliner can do but there isn't much redundancy so it isn't wise to do the things that the airlines do, e.g., overfly truly horrible weather or fly into low instrument conditions.  An airliner will have multiple engines, hydraulic pumps, etc. and will be piloted by two full-time professionals in front.

[Incidentally, last year's hurricanes hit Vero Beach very hard.  It appears that all pedestrian streets were destroyed, along with most sidewalks.  All the bookstores are gone as well as every classical music radio station.  Every person under age 55 not employed in the service industry was apparently killed.  The only things that are left here are gated communities full of rather old rather rich people, strip malls, real estate brokers, urology offices and MRI scanning centers.]

Australian Simulation to present the
complete Piper Warrior package for
Microsoft™ Flight Simulator

Australian Simulation to present the
complete Piper Warrior package for
Microsoft™ Flight Simulator 07/28/2004 06:27 PM
Mantracourt Jul 28 2004 11:06PM GMT

Pod-Coverage-0.14

Pod-Coverage-0.14 05/09/2004 12:17 AM

CES Coverage

CES Coverage 01/08/2004 08:22 PM
I have been digging around for a good source of information for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Gizmodo has a...

DIY coverage

DIY coverage 08/29/2004 01:33 AM

It's great to see technology letting people cover big events themselves. Check these out:

all Flickr photos tagged with rnc, rncwatch.typepad.com, Technorati search for New York City ("rnc" was too short to search), Buzznet's No RNC photostream, rnc convention bloggers, WeSeeRNC moblog, Indymedia's RNC coverage, and Google News search for rnc.

It's like rolling your own newspaper.

Pod-Coverage-0.13

Pod-Coverage-0.13 12/29/2003 06:48 PM

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