Hi Craic,
Yes a car one will work on the boat but the `street finder' function doesn't work so well out at sea. Keep the boat on the trailer round town, it'll be fine.
Cheers
Placebo
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Hi Craic,
Yes a car one will work on the boat but the `street finder' function doesn't work so well out at sea. Keep the boat on the trailer round town, it'll be fine.
Cheers
Placebo
RAKONS RESPONSE TO THE NOKIA / NAVTEQ AQUISITION (NOTE THE BIT THAT SAYS THEY ARE USED IN THE BLACKBERRY AND 'USED' TO BE WITH NOKIA)
Nokia deal hastens GPS for cellphones - Rakon
By TOM PULLAR-STRECKER, AP - The Dominion Post | Monday, 8 October 2007
Rakon says Nokia's US$8.1 billion acquisition of US-based electronic mapping firm Navteq may mean GPS transceivers find their way into more cellphones faster, creating a larger market for its precision crystal components.
Marketing manager Justin Maloney says the takeover shows that Nokia expects to incorporate mapping applications into its cellphones as part of its core business.
"That is very good news for the entire location-based services industry. It is going to encourage a lot of other hardware vendors to start taking it seriously.
"It reaffirms what we and a lot of other people have been saying – that location-based services is just a matter of 'when' – and I think the 'when' just got a lot closer. We are feeling pretty buoyed by it."
A trailblazer of the digital map business, Navteq produces the maps and software found in car navigation systems, portable navigation devices made by Garmin and other companies and Internet map sites. Founded in 1985 and profitable since 2002, it has 3000 employees in 30 countries.
Analysts say the Navteq acquisition is likely to bring forward the day when GPS-capable cellphones are widely used by consumers.
"This cements Nokia's push into navigation," says Mark McKechnie, an American Technology Research analyst.
"As the leader in the cellphone business, they want to see more and more functionality get into the handset – taking the turn-by-turn directions, for example, and moving them from high-priced car applications to applications that fit in your pocket."
Research firm Ovum says Nokia's vision is "very ambitious".
Rakon is reported to be supplying components to Research In Motion for use in its GPS-enabled Blackberry 8800 phones.
Mr Maloney says Nokia has been a customer of Rakon in the past. Nokia has so far included GPS in a few expensive handsets, such as its high-end N95 smartphone, but Mr Maloney would not say whether these used Rakon's products.
"What I can say is they are a company we are in discussions with. We visit them and we consider them a valuable partner. But in the mobile handset space in general, the volumes haven't really been there."
Rakon will begin volume production of crystal oscillators measuring just 2.5 millimetres by 2.0 millimetres later this year, targeting the cellphone market.
Mr Maloney says the cost and power consumption of GPS transceivers are a barrier to their use in cellphones, but Rakon is well positioned with its technology to supply the market.
Dick Smith needs to upgrade staff. Finished up getting a Lowrance Global Map GPS 4800 by email (and post) from an outfit in New York for less than half of the price asked locally. DS had a hand-held that I would have bought had the salesperson known what i was talking about. Why is NZ at the top and at the bottom electronically with nothing in between.
Chart for RAK looking good with a confirmed close and open above resistance at about 4.92. I am in with a CFD long. Entry 5.00, SL @ 4.68, target 5.60.
Any constructive thoughts good or bad on this trade?
Seems to be a fair bit of volume - I would do the same if Marketmaker did not totally confuse me.
RAK has been firing Buy signals since 9/10/07. These are marked by green arrows, with the big green arrow marking the trading range breakout mentioned by Hoags.
The bar graph along the bottom of the chart shows volume. Up days are green, Down days are red. You can see that while volume is slightly above average, it is still lower than other peaks over the trading range.
The signals from the 5 separate systems shown here correlate very well, with both their Buy and their Sell signals agreeing closely.
http://h1.ripway.com/Phaedrus/RAK1018.gif
Yahoo!
Although my delight is tempered by seeing FBU down a further 2% today. Thus keeping my portfolio in perfect balance...
Why is there always a ying for every yang?? :(
Great. Thanks for the chart Phaedrus, I tried to post one (albeit with a few less indicators) but I cant seem to reduce a pic to under the 30kb limit without it becoming unreadable. Anyway RAK doing nicely today. Cheers.
Had a look at depth and all the pressure seems upwards.
Hoags, If you use .gif images instead of .jpg your file size would be a lot smaller and your chart clearer. The RAK chart here was less than 20kb, for example.