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More power in a Palm Pilot than on the Apollo 10:

The accelerating rate of change forecast more change in the next century than in the last 10,000 years.

The increases in the rate of change between paradigms began at about 5000 years as ideas spread slowly - domestic animals, agriculture, metallurgy, then cities, bureaucracy and empires - then 500 years - printing, navigation, mathematics, deep mining up to the 18th century.

Then 100 years with potatoes, steam and steel, electric and chemical, communications and computers. Now in 25 years ideas are activated that used to take a century, then 12.5 years will have a century of 20th century progress, then 6.25 years what used to take a century and so forth.

The acceleration of the rate of change has been going on for a long time - it just gets faster and faster.

Therefore if Nano computer would have taken 50 years in the past it can be done in 12.5 years.

The speed of application of stem cells to build body parts, cloned cells used as normal therapies, use of immunization in treatments of ongoing virus infections and cancers, genetic engineered plants and animals as a normal accepted process, all being implemented at great speed. Even in a slow bulky industries such as cars - the fuel cell will move along more quickly than such technologies would have in the past. This really effects markets, marketing, and business planning in very fundamental ways.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/business/index.shtml go to weekly then global business at the bottom of page

The Age of Spiritual Machines : When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil (Paperback - January 2000)

The Age of Spiritual Machines : When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil (Hardcover - January 1999)

Darwin Among the Machines :

The Evolution of Global Intelligence (Helix Books) by George B. Dyson (Paperback - October 1998)

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Finance Physics:

Of course, market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions. BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder reality.

In the

current context the following will happen - the only question is when:

1.)

The misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:

2.) Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar securities have to pay;

3.)

The higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction" of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.

We're moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.

The theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections between utility network computers.

Like the human brain, the

internet's packets system can reconfigure itself to work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic would have to be broken into short message blocks now called

"packets,"

each containing its own routing information,

like a DNA molecule, and able to replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the Internet, click here for the emerging history

of the 21st century.
Key word "infrastructure"

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All Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world

What does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global society ? What is the image they pursue ?

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CONVERGENCE: Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell on the spot all kinds of good and services.

What is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only to attract an audience so they can be sold something.

The job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.

The role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct sales.

Their dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.

In the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the broadband connections really works then personal computers become network devices or

http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.

AOL Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections they will control the content.

The contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales provide the profits.

It's not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions, even pick appliances and cars.

They will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and a thousand other products and services.

Also some new technology may come along to change all the rules

If physicist Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value. I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads, automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political system.

The new world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of our times -

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disintermediation means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning. I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.

AOL can do what Sears did.

The Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.

Something missing:

An astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.

Most people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a fifty mile range.

Their perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.

The irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics and commercials.

NOW as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little understood as the physical.

The new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]

The technology itself is revolutionary.

The global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.

The leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional, mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos - morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive of the existing order.

Keeping Track:

It’s difficult keeping track of individual stocks when the market make large moves.

There are several markets ( variables ) that intervene in the action of stocks. First, global markets, influenced by interest rates, currencies, and relative price safety factors; Second, the buying and selling of index options and futures that make movements bigger than they would be otherwise, and only third; the acctual value and future of companies and the industry they represent.

Looking back I have compared prices on Nov 5th with today, Nov. 18th. Most of the portfolio held rather well.

There was a difference between selling stocks that drop 3% on stop loss orders and buy and hold. Buy and hold left the value of the portfolio up 14 % ( down from 20% ), sell and buy when the S&P hit 860 gave a total return of 18 % ( down from 20 ) doesn’t sound like much, but 3/16 = 19 % better and we were protected from a bigger drop.

The use of options more than covered the down side with a net cash gain ( 500% on at risk capital ) which we are now looking to invest. ( should have done more )

Almost all the net gain are in the satellite companies we bought in August ( up over 50 % ) the rest has been up and down and average 10 %. Real gains comes from "industry of the future", the IBM, Microsoft, growth companies.

The global communications industry is such a growth sector and the owners of satellites and broadband / Wideband will be the industrial leaders in a few years. How the others, cable companies, telephone, Web-TV, equipment and network companies come out is less than clear. That leaves DGII (DIGI International), DIGI ( DSC Communications), GSTRE (Globalstar), IRIDE ( Iridium), MOT, LOR, SPOT, OMPT, SAT, TGO, TRW, Hughes, WCOM, DT, ERICY, ALA, Philips, CQ, ORBI, ONSI, SAT and some companies that will benefit for global services on a vast scale - Netscape ( NSCP ), Oracle, Excite (XCIT), Intel ( INTC), the noise group Sun Microsystems, IBM.

The core of communications is the base of the

next revolution. Satellites connected to

earth stations with super broadband wireless and cable connecting to "smart universal modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s" for network computers and universal communications utilities including TV.

There are a new products call Web-TV, the network computer, advanced note books with cell phone built in, and important advances in satellite communications, Wideband / Broadband, cable modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s and copper wire telephone services.

Imagine you have a black box which provides universal communications services: video telephone, Internet, fax, e-mail, cable TV, regular digital TV, CD music and games, had digital storage in Zig-a-bites, and wireless modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) in 10 Meg-bits per second or better.

The question is who is the Service Provider ?

Imagine companies, schools, homes where instead of millions of PC the same black box provides all the applications, data banks, on-site and computer home workers at their work stations.

The applications programs are downloaded with the data. A 10 Mb program takes 1 seconds to down load the functions being used at that moment.

The program "runs" on the CPU of the black box, not time share terminal, but is fully integrated with the wide area network and the Internet. Who provides the software, systems management, data storage, and where is the server ?

The next step is from LAN ( local networks ) to the internet. He talks PC but programs NC for all the reasons as a low cost "utility" device promoted by Larry Ellison of of Oracle for several year.

These connections make possible the Network

Computer the next generation of "smart" terminals that act as telephones, e-mail, PCs, business shops and services.

Technology is going to make the world around us smart

as we move away from proprietary architectures to a standards-based ecology of information.

We still need a name for the UCD: UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE or "information - communications - appliance - utility- network computer, cable or wireless black box modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ), play station, boom box, CD, DVD, telephone, wireless, cordless, portable, TV, radio, pager, laptop, notebook, library, GPS, map, yellow pages, combat walk and talk and call in air strikes more".

The market for the bandwidth and the appliances is global - with billions of clients world wide.

The money is in software now moving from "programs" to content.

The content will be interactive media that includes program functions. ISP such as AOL, will provide multimedia E-mail as a word processor that can handle graphics, photographs, soon video and data files.

The browser becomes a universal systems package do all the most common functions as plug-ins.

The USB universal serial bus ties to printers, sound and video systems, play stations, phones, keyboards and voice commands, other appliances and services. Microsoft-NBC-General Electric, merge into a convergence of media and communications services. Time-Warner, the News Corp., Disney-ABC, are positioning themselves for the transformation of many business into one.

The current crop of Internet stocks are unlikely to be very important.

Other business includes finance, matching buyers and sellers, and a thousand other ideas and items.

The ISP becomes a bank and travel agent, department store, and service center. Wal-mart, Sears and other may need their own iSP. Clients will pay the ISP for telephone service, cable, lease of hardware, Internet, credit, and may buy their insurance, tickets, or dishes from a company they trust, so it all adds up.

A limited set of functions and libraries in or around a CPU, with the capacities of a play station, will run a package of on demand utilities called from the network. Once there is a break in the bandwidth, your browser can quickly call down any packages it may need - high speed smart updates means you don’t have to have everything stored. Office systems can do this now but are afraid to be pioneers with arrows in their backs. Once Sun, Oracle, IBM or others really have high performance objective networks there will be no need for the bloated windows operation systems.

The market often is as slow as the political process in facing the inevitable forces of technology and social history. Cartels and semi-monopolies are the natural outcome of free competition because organizations can join together to control markets.

The robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century, such as Morgan, Carnegie, Mellon, Rockefeller, Stanford, Dupont controlled steel and oil, railroads and chemicals. General Motors president Alfred P. Sloan worked with the du Pont's to control the auto market. A U.S. Court of Appeals finds that Aluminum Co. of America (Alcoa) held a 90 percent monopoly in U.S. aluminum ingot production before the war, a monopoly enjoyed by the Mellons for more than half a century. See RCA (NBC - Victor ) below..

Sun's McNealy portrays perils of running the Wintel 'gauntlet' ) ( Windows/intel )

http://www.excite.com/computers_and_internet/tech_news/zdnet/?article=zdnews2.inp

Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc., one could easily draw the conclusion that most of the ills in the computer industry stem from one company and one company only.

The charismatic McNealy used large portions of his keynote address here Thursday at Sun's JavaOne developers conference, as well as a subsequent press conference, to paint Microsoft Corp. as a ruthless monopoly destroying companies and promoting a flawed business model.

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The market economy works until somebody gets so much market power that they are beyond market principles," he said.

McNealy said Microsoft's monopoly on the desktop through the Windows operating system enables it to sell "bloat" like Office 2000 that people have to buy.

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The other opportunity it has is to go out and buy little companies that wouldn't normally be successful, bundle them into their Windows or Office hairball and use their lock-in and monopoly leverage to make them successful and drive everyone else out of business," McNealy said. "That makes everybody want to sell their company for a price lower than they want to because if you're not the one bought, you're done."

One of the best examples of how new technologies can be dominated by powerful forces that control standards was the companion development of hardware ( Radios, phonographs, and then television ) as well as soft ware, the programming, records and content necessary to sell the product. People won’t buy radios or TV if there are no stations, there can’t be stations until people have radios or TVs. RCA supported the networks in order to sell radios.

Then they made more from the broadcasting then they did from hardware.

Sarnoff, David, 1891–1971, American radio and television pioneer; b. Russia. He worked for the Marconi Wireless Co., winning recognition as the narrator of the Titanic disaster (1912). After the Radio Corp. of America absorbed (1921) Marconi, Sarnoff became general manager. As president (after 1930) and chairman of the board (from 1947) of RCA, he played a major role in the development of television.

A superheterodyne circuit developed by U.S. Army Signal Corps major Edwin Howard Armstrong, 26, became the basic design for all amplitude modulation (AM) radios. It greatly increases the selectivity and sensitivity of radio receivers over a wide band of frequencies (see 1906; FM, 1933). Radio Corp. of America (RCA) was founded by Owen D. Young (see 1919) who loans Ernst Alexanderson to RCA which will employ him as chief engineer for 5 years (see 1906). RCA acquired the Victor Co. and become a radio-phonograph colossus but anti-trust court actions will separate RCA from GE (see VICTROLA, 1906; NBC, 1926). David Sarnoff urges marketing of a simple "radio music box."

The American Marconi Co. says his plan will make the radio "a ‘household utility’ in the same sense as the piano or phonograph" (see 1912; 1920).

American radio and television pioneer who proposed the first commercial radio receiver and in 1926 formed the National Broadcasting Company.

The first vinylite phonograph record appears in October. RCA-Victor issues a new recording of the 1895 Richard Strauss work Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche, but vinylite will not displace shellac until the perfection of long-playing records (see 1948).

Alcatel Alsthom 1/8ALSF.CN 3/8's Skybridge and Motorola's Celestri to get bands to develop and compete against Microsoft's Teledesic, which is backed by Boeing (BA.N). In all, the three plan to launch several hundred satellites in 2001 and 2002.

The three projects, which would offer high-speed multi- media services via huge networks of satellites, require access to a large amount of radio frequency spectrum.

These connections make possible the Network

Computer the next generation of "smart" terminals that act as telephones, e-mail, PCs, business shops and services.

These become the first global telephone ( tele-communications ) company with direct services to companies, and local service providers. MCI-World Com -BT- ATT - DT -Sprint have to get into the Satellite Internet business FAST or be replaced.

They are behind using analog rather than digital systems they should have made universal 20 years ago.

I don’t see much future for WIRE including cable after 2000, and the growth markets are in China,

The USS -was, Eastern Europe, Latin America, which add up to double the number of users and four times the amount traffic every 18 months at half the cost per unit. "

For technology, analysts said the trend within Asia could move towards the personal computer as a cheaper, commonly available product.

"Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong will probably lead the way as far as futuristic technology into the next millennium, but I wouldn't count out very strong IT investments in China," said Brian Kornegay, a senior personal computer analyst at IDC. "

The GREAT industrial companies of the next century will be tele-communications with a vast variety of "services", financial, travel, marketing of goods, retail sales, educational, all global all around us. This is the issue

Nadar and the NOISE group are all about.

User wiredbrain password synergy

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dailystocks most excellent information

The report illustrates just how dominant the computer sector of the economy has become as technology has become increasingly advanced. .. For example, the study found that the average wages of those who provide high-tech services are, in Kazmierczak's words, "phenomenal," with high-tech employees earning 73 percent more, on average, than private-sector employees. Providers of software services in particular, he said, are finding current economic trends to be extremely favorable

STOCK Watch: up 25 % since Aug. 5th user "wiredbrain", password "synergy"

Notes and comments on the market

Futures:

GLOBEX PRICES

key 200 day support level.

GOING DOWN GOING UP look at this....

NEXT SUPPORT AT 860

http://www.stocksite.com/ MARKET MONITOR

Technical Analysis: Market was stuck in a trading range from 870 to 980: When it goes below 900 the next "support" level is at 880 etc. This is why it's important to have stop loss - but when they begin to hit it drags the market down more.

The OEX short positions will more than cover any loss on the stock long positions, at 876.98 - 60

The dead cat bounce on Tuesday and maybe more. TUESDAY:

CLOSE OUT SHORT POSITIONS AT OPEN AND BUY Stocks after 860 -

Hang Seng 9,059 - 13.7 % FTSE ( London ) - 5.83 % BUY Bonds and dollar are strong -

OEX down from 930: call down to 10 (+13 ): put up to 76: ( + 48 ) 1 point = $ 100

Sell Dec 930 call .oewlf at 33 3/8 or buy Dec 930 Put .oewxf at 28 1/4

PORTFOLIO FOR wiredbrain - wiredbrain "synergy" is really good -

The fine art of

chart reading:

The top ( people sell ) at S&P 500

980

, TOP 970, 960 and start buying at 940,

930, 880 maybe support

Today's Stock picks:

ERICY,

LBTYA,

ATI,

NXTL,

ORBI,

OMPT,

CIEN

ALA, ASND,

ATHM,

CQ new, DCI,

PRMS new,

TCOMA, TCOMB

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Asia and Europe

UP and down

Thurs. Oct. 23rd ( need to make money in DOWN markets )

World

Markets CNNfn:

European markets responded

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Sell Dec 930 call .oewlf at 33 3/8 or buy Dec 930 Put .oewxf at 28 1/4

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GREAT ! someone who responds !

Kelli V. Walker wrote: > > Peter; >

> Thanks for responding to my e-mail. Give me a few more details on what you want to do with your on-line club.

I have just opened an office www.wiredbrain.net and am working on getting the group interactive !

How many members will you have?

Not clear yet - the group that seems most likely is from http://talk.techstocks.com/~wsapi/investor/main-0 user wiredbrain password synergy the Silicon Investor

> Are you looking for short term investment or long term?

Most likely high turnover see http://www.wiredbrain.net/stock.htm

Would you like to find certain stocks that meet your special criteria that interest you and your club members?

YES telecommunications see http://www.wiredbrain.net/next.htm (this page )

Who would have primary access? Just yourself or for all members?

Guess so - could you be an agent for a club ? We could have some sort of election - votes and you act on the basis of popular feeling - rather than one person in charge ?

Depending on your answers, our service will provide tons of information for your group!

Follow the instructions on www.wiredbrain.net and see if you can post some pages to the site ! We also have a newletter I don't know how to work it yet -

The idea is very good; I just need to know a few more details and then I can offer a better opinion. Give me a call before the week is out and we'll talk it over.

I don't call - you can try 904-428 9609 = I like E-mail - there is a chicken and egg - we have to have a product then people will join -

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Communications, media, the nature of work and the wealth of nations.

Once More From the TOP:

It's about time !

The main line press has caught-on to the power of the internet ? What wiredbrain and others ( mainly Netscape, Oracle, ( considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinions. b. An authoritative or wise statement or prediction ) IBM, SunMicrosystems and the NOISE group ) have been talking about since Netscape 1.0 and WINS connections - the virtual office and the Network Computer has now arrived in the PC world.

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The new concept ( only to you ) goes by a variety of names: instant Web office; virtual office; instant intranet; Web tone; Internet dial tone; and so on.

The idea is to provide everything a user needs on a central server. Users can then access that server over the Internet with just a terminal and a phone line.

Then they "rent" Internet and intranet applications for as little as $10 to $20 per person per month. (That's a fraction of the per-user cost of an in-house intranet.)"

and a box that cost 10 % of a PC work station ( $500 vs. $5,000 ) and doesn't crash, doesn't need systems managers, and doesn't require constant upgrades but does need bandwidth.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1997

Instant Intranets Just Stage One in Emerging Market Struggle

Jesse Berst, Editorial Director ZDNet AnchorDesk

What is clear but not said is this is the end of the Age of the PC. First the main frame, then the PC now the NC -

There is now a immense industry we can call

IT “INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY”.

IT now represents the critical modern enterprise growing to be a quarter of all economic activity.

IT is a greater engine for growth than railroads in the 19th century, oil and chemical industries in the first half of this century. IT is equal to the auto industry, which reached 25 % in the 1950s. “IT” like the auto industry includes the hardware ( the computer or car), the infrastructure, (communications and networks or the roads) the energy ( software or oil ) the services, ( consultants and staff or Gas Stations ) and parts ( modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, drives, or car radios ). IT includes the computers ( the car ), the roads ( the telecom business ), services ( software ) and the social educational infrastructure.

IT provides the web of life for modern enterprise - design, production, distribution, sales, of goods and services. IT is the growth industry and in labor market.

There are millions of new jobs and additional people needed world wide.

Unlike the auto industry the IT business evolves quickly. New hardware computers and chips, new methods of communications, new applications evolve quickly. IT is quickly becoming one unified, highly complex living system on a global basis.

The whole is more than the sum of the parts - synergy that comes from elaborate interactions.

There are critical “flash point” - global telcom systems based on satellites connect to earth stations that can use telephone lines including new high bandwidth technologies, optic fiber, wireless broadband, and cable connections.

The high bandwidth connections use improved modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s to provide support for networks.

These new networks provide what have been called telephones, television, personal computers, and something new - beyond what now are common utilities.

The common base system is the “browser”, which will provide all of the application in a Java type objects - in a Video User Interface (VUI) using chips that can handle digital TV and Digital Hard Drives for storage all as parts of the new super modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s.

IT is why the DOJ Microsoft case is important. What was called the “operation system” OS now becomes VUI, an interface between a “terminal” ( telephone, TV, and PC = NC ) and a communications media.

The interface uses program “packets” as well as content “packets” the

operational software is contained within the data.

The difference between program and content no longer is significant. With bandwidth the “word processor” is attached to the files and comes as an instant updated package at the moment of use. This is Netscape’s, Oracle and others “vision” and the real challenge to Microsoft.

"Unequaled speed, reliability and advanced applications such as full, rich streaming audio and video are what this market has been clamoring for. This is the platform that brings the Web to life." MediaOne, the nation's leading broadband services company Tuesday launched Los Angeles' fastest Internet service for the home, called

MediaOne Express.

Intel Signs Three

Cable modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) Deals:

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel said that it has signed pacts with three companies, including the At Home Network, to accelerate the use of high-speed cable modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s and make them easier to install for consumers.

The

At Home network, (

ATHM) based in Redwood City, California, develops a high-speed service for residences and business for fast access to the Internet and other interactive services.

Intel also said the companies would work with networking giant

Cisco Systems (

CSCO

) to develop an easy-to-install external cable targeted to consumers.

In the third agreement, Intel and the

CableLabs research consortium agreed to work together to draft new specifications to enable cable modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s to connect to personal computers through external ports, for easier installation and use.

Dataquest(R) forecasts that over 70 percent of all PCs shipped in 1997, and virtually all in 1998, will be USB capable.

The parties intend to focus on the development and deployment of

consumer-installable, DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Specification) compliant external cable modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s using the

Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard. Cable modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s will provide consumers with high-bandwidth connections to PCs that are typically 100 times faster than today's fastest 56k telephone modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s.

The faster connection allows high-speed Internet access and will enable new classes of broadband services and applications for consumers.

The new USB approach to cable modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) design will allow easy consumer installation and configuration using the "plug-and-play" features of USB.

Wiredbrain's actions for today and tomorrow ( hour by hour )

Market opened with

DJIA down and up and NASDAQ up a bit ? Hmmmm ???? I guess it's

UP ? Because it's so fast we get different reports from

excite business, shows it down 24 when its up 17,

CNNfn,

PCFN, is fast

DBC, is OK

You can check the wiredbrain stock picks up 21 % by going to portfolio "wiredbrain" password "synergy" stock in order of interest ( $ amount invested ) doesn't show options, cash or short positions.

The best is

http://www.stocksite.com/ market monitor

Symbol Company Last Volume Change

Top 10 Active Stocks as of 10/20/97 10:10 ET

Symbol Company Last Volume Change

INTC INTEL CORP 84 3/16 4437000 +1 3/16

AMAT APPLIED MATERIALS INC 39 1/4 4294500 -2 5/16

SUNW SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC 39 3/8 3297000 +1

CPQ COMPAQ COMPUTER CORP 70 5/8 2276500 +1 1/8

T AT&T CORP COM 46 13/16 2246700 +1 5/8

MSFT MICROSOFT CORP 133 3/4 1929600 +1 1/2

COMS 3COM CORP 50 3/16 1911500 +7/16

ASND ASCEND COMMUNICATIONS INC COM 34 1/4 1772300 +11/16

NCTI NOISE CANCELLATION TECHNOLOGIES INC 1 1/8 1680200 +3/32

First I-Phone Software with Noise and Echo Cancellation

Noise Cancellation Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:NCTI.O) today introduced ClearSpeech(TM) Corporate Intranet-phone software. This is the first of three planned software releases that incorporate NCT's advanced, proprietary technologies to solve the voice quality issues of current I-phones.

BUY 5000 at 1 1/4

Tues Oct 21st up 40 % at 1 27/32

DELL DELL COMPUTER CORP 95 7/8 1580800 +1 1/4

News Headlines

security symbol last change volume

INTEL CORP INTC 86 1/16 + 15/16 2,098.5

CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD CREAF 25 5/8 +4 7/8 2,083.7

3COM CORP (DE) COMS 49 9/16 +1 3/16 1,214.6

COMCAST CORP CL A SPL CMCSK 29 5/16 +1 1/2 1,091.9

SUN MICROSYSTEMS SUNW 39 - 1/8 989.7

DSC COMMUNICATIONS CORP DIGI 29 1/16 + 3/8 956.9

CISCO SYS INC CSCO 84 3/4 + 1/2 947.4 MICROSOFT CORP

MSFT 137 15/16 - 9/16 940.8

NETSCAPE COMMUNICATIONS CORP NSCP 38 5/8 +1 3/16 114.7

A sharply weaker close for Wall Street shares, 91.85 points down at 7,847.03, and falling Asian markets added to market nerves.

The Hang Seng was three percent lower and the Nikkei 225 one percent.

U.S. stock index futures mixed in early trade

Oct 20 - U.S. stock index futures were mixed in volatile trade early. Dec S&Ps gained overnight and early on shortcovering, on firmness in bonds and favorable corporate earnings, traders said. U.S.-Japan shipping pact helped. Fair value premium of December S&Ps at about 6.00 to 6.50 points over cash with buy programs at about 6.80 or wider and sells at 5.20 or under.

S&P 100

NOON:

Look out - this morning bounce may come down quickly !

S & P 100 INDEX DEC 910 PUT - 4 (.oewxb) sold at 29 1/2 ( $ 2950 )

bought back at 27 1/2 ( $ 2750 ) ( at 3:30 market too unstable to hold overnight ) 2 points = $200.00

We can't know what will happen next. We can only put ourselves in the best position to come out ahead given the likely events. What I have done is to put stops on all stocks about 10 % below the market. If the market falls you need to limits the loss ( if the stops work ) and then you can buy back stocks you really want. Since many people will do the same, if the market drops 3 % ( 200 points on the DJ or 25 pts on the S&P ) it will go down more as stop loss orders kick in.

I will also buy to cover

short positions. I won't wait to see what happens and even if there is a bounce on the open ( people taking profits on shorts just as I am ) Tricky... it's really a mob action with everyone looking to see what everyone else is doing.

In Europe and Asia ( mixed ) markets are down !

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