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WHAT TO BUY NEXT ? TECH ?
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What to buy next ? Well according to one of the richest men and perhaps the most generous in the world, Mr Bill Gates, that would be technology stocks. The main man behind Microsoft annouced to the world or at least those who listened that speech recognition and speech synthesis programs that allow computers to understand speech and for cumputers to speak to you are the next tech growth stocks. His words exactly were that computers would no longer need key boards. I took that to mean that people are going to need those progams. My next thought was perhaps even head sets and microphones would be a big seller in the hardware department. It is amazing how much faster and accurate speech is compared to typing. Could you imagine how many new head sets will be needed for the computers all ready sold, let alone those yet to be sold. How about business PCs. Cubicle after cubicle of computers, all needing head sets.Military, Health Care. What about FED, State and Local Goverment offices. That would mean that every business from the programs to the plug to the wire to the head set all getting millions of orders. Don't forget Dolby. How about wireless head sets ? If we go another step forward, all those office cubicles will need enclosed or something to keep the noise levels down. Most by glass and aluminum. This one change could spark a constuction boom. So far we have copper wire, aluminum, glass, plastics, male & female plugs, head sets, micriphones, programs, speakers, Bluetooth all getting a nuge. My first transition from this information to stock picks would be MSFT. This could be the very news I was waiting on. I believe this is bigger than Yahoo. NUANCE (NUAN) Nasdaq makes and markets Dragon Naturally Speaking the best speech recognition programs available. If you look back to Feb.11, over 10 million shares were bought. The 10 day avg. vol. is 3.8 million and back on Dec 19, 2007 another 10 million shares bought. Coincidence ? The last time this stock sold over 10 million shares a day was 1999, once. Only 10 times has it ever sold over 5 million shares in a day in its history. The stock was down to $ 17.07 on Friday. I would need to know if MFST has its own speech reconition program or not. If they don't I would buy NUAN. Still the public alone will buy enough of Dragon Natural Speaking to raise the stocks price. When I bought this program 8 years ago I paid about $20 for it. Now its $60 to $180 on Amazon.com Allright, now lets look into head sets. I would think wireless head sets would be the most popular, so that means Bluetooth will get a resurgence. That means from the Bluetooth website that Ericson, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, and Toshiba have the most experience at bluetooth. The first thing I see on this list is a double. MSFT. Thats another stroke to buy MSFT. I am suprised not to see Sony on the list. To me when you say quality computers and electronics you say Sony. So although Sony was not on the web sites list, I think Sony is my head set pick, wireless & wired, Although Ericson, Lenovo, and Toshiba will have the lower priced market. At this point I am going to stop and continue the head set battle on another blog. On review, so far we have MSFT, and NUAN as for sure buys to cover the keyboard free world. Please comment your thoughts . May your profits allways be going up. Timeismoney aka Ric Bottorf | ||
Comments (2)
Being a programming working with Microsoft Windows for many long years and being in many beta and special developer programs, I can say yes, MS has a very good speech recognition library for use in development. Look at the "Sync" being advertised in Fords today. Thats made by MS. It kills me that I can't get that in my car. They do also buy other companies for new ideas and talent in any field they choose to pursue.
Will this payoff in the next 6 months? Only on speculation. But MS is persistant and they will, I believe, be very big in making this happen. They have so many dollars to thow at it and have proven with networking vs Novell, databases vs. Oracle, operating systems vs. IBM and Macs and now internet social and search vs Google that they take a long term approach and continue to eat away at their competitors. They rarely give up when they see a market they can own, even when they start from behind.
Posted by Uncle John | February 24, 2008 7:44 AM
Thanks Uncle John for that great insight. It is amazing that most any question can be answered in depth and professionally on this web site by the bloggers. I thank you for your comments. Ric
Posted by Ric Bottorf | February 24, 2008 1:12 PM