Sasha Cekerevac, editor with Penny Stock Detectives, points out that cloud-based software systems are a hot area in technology stocks, as they offer flexibility to their clients. In a recent Penny Stock Detectives article, Cekerevac shares a technology stock that he finds interesting: SoundBite Communications. The company provides software that enhances communications with customers, increasing client profitability through a cloud-based system.

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Sasha Cekerevac, editor with Penny Stock Detectives, points out that cloud-based software systems are a hot area in technology stocks, as they offer flexibility to their clients. In a recent Penny Stock Detectives article, Cekerevac shares a technology stock that he finds interesting: SoundBite Communications. The company provides software that enhances communications with customers, increasing client profitability through a cloud-based system.

“SoundBite Communications’ software handles almost two billion customer interactions per year through use in over 200 companies around the world,” notes Cekerevac. Founded in 2000, the firm is based in the US and has since expanded through a subsidiary in the UK to meet European demand. According to Cekerevac, the company estimates the total value of the target market at $1.3 billion, with its estimate of industry growth at 12% per year.

As reported in Cekerevac’s Penny Stock Detectives article, the stock was recently trading at just over one times book value, with a small market cap of below $50.0 million. Penny stocks with such low valuations can be risky; however, Cekerevac does like that the firm has over $28.0 million in cash, $1.74 per share, and no outstanding debts.

In the first quarter of 2012, SoundBite Communication reported revenue of $11.1 million, which is a 21% increase compared to the first quarter and 2011, according to Penny Stock Detectives. The net loss incurred for the first quarter was $247,000, compared to a net loss of $1.5 million in last year’s quarter, says Cekerevac. Gross margin, an area the analyst says he likes to see growing in technology stocks, was 60.4% for the firm, as compared to 58.9% in the same quarter of 2011. Operating expenses also declined to 71% of revenue in the 2012 first quarter, compared to 75% in the same period last year, according to the article.

When looking at penny stocks from a technical viewpoint, Cekerevac says he likes to see buyers continue to step in and accumulate shares, whether they be for technology stocks or any other industry. The stock is currently holding support, as buyers are accumulating on the recent pullback. This is a positive sign, according to Cekerevac, but we need to see more information before being completely bullish. This is one stock with which patience is needed; however, the analyst believes the potential is there.

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Sasha Cekerevac, BA, and Danny Esposito, B. Comm., lead editorial stock analysts at Penny Stock Detectives, in conjunction with stock market guru George Leong, B. Comm., have just updated their breakthrough video, If You Missed Apple, Shame on Us; If You Miss This… which highlights a company these stock analysts believe looks very similar to Apple Inc. in its early days. To see the video, visit: http://www.pennystockdetectives.com/video/pt/index.php?sb=PRESS.

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Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT) has been offering a full-time fouryear degree course in electronics and communication engineering (ECE) since 1983.

According to Sujata Sengar, assistant professor and associate head, ECE department, NSIT, the course has been one of the most sought-after courses among students since its inception and is likely to continue to be popular because of its market demands. Communication is a growing area as new inventions in electronics keep taking place.

About the course, Sengar says, The ECE branch provides the ground and flexibility for those students who wish to opt for other streams. The curriculum for the first year of the course is the same for all the branches. The diversity of the curriculum becomes clear after the first year. The course comprises sufficient papers on all major fields of engineering – electrical engineering, computer science and control engineering. The final two years, however, are devoted almost entirely to advanced topics in electronics and communication engineering such as digital signal processing , microwave engineering and bipolar and MOS Analog IC design.

The current intake of students in this course is 120. However, applications received by the college for this course is more than 12,000. Students are considered for admission into ECE with an AIEEE rank of up to 6,000. Sengar adds that ever since its inception, the ECE division has followed a curriculum that provides students with several advantages. The course material is diverse and provides the engineer-to-be with a truly holistic view of life in general and technology in particular. Also, the ECE curriculum provides a wide perspective in the field of electronics and allows students to decide their future.

As far as career prospects are concerned, many students from the ECE branch often decide to pursue postgraduate studies to continue research in diverse areas. A number of students also continue with postgraduation at the Masters and PhD levels in well-known US universities . For more details about the course, fee etc, log on to www.nsit.ac.in

In the 1950s, psychologist Karl Menninger coined the term talking furniture. He referred to the plethora of radios, televisions and record players that had slowly but surely replaced other people as the beings with whom we conversed and interacted.

Menninger would be spinning in his grave today if he knew how far beyond furniture weve gone. Now we interact with devices, some smaller than the palm of your hand, that have taken us one step further removed from interpersonal relationships.

An acquaintance recently said, The iPad is the first device I interact with in the morning and the last one I tinker with before I head to bed. At the risk of sounding like a Luddite, it strikes me as sad to think that people organize their whole day around electronic equipment.

Of course, its true that behind the iPad and the cellphone and the DVR and Facebook and Twitter there are human beings who have supplied the information that these gadgets and services communicate. It could be argued, therefore, that were more in touch with others in this age of technology than we ever were before.

But another popular guru from mid-20th century, Marshall McLuhan, popularized the notion that the medium is the message. No matter what is said on our ubiquitous devices these days, its the devices that communicate. We are inevitably led to envision other people as little more than the data entrants who help keep the airwaves popping.

When I retired from college teaching six years ago, the first big wave of online courses was sweeping across higher education. I never taught such a course, but their proponents used to argue, among other things, that online chats encouraged shy students, too timid to speak up in a traditional classroom, to open up through the relative anonymity of the computer.

Maybe so, but isnt that enabling a problem instead of helping solve it? Shy students should strive to become less shy, it seems to me, and hiding behind a keyboard may not be the best way to do so. Plus, online chats generally have a hard time with voice tone, facial expressions and other forms of non-verbal communication.

Dont misunderstand: I have a cellphone and two computers, which I use to Skype and email and even write this column. Such devices have made life easier and safer. But like every temptation, they also entice us into going too far.

A Rip van Winkle whod been asleep for 20 years would be aghast today at the sight of people walking about with phones in their ears, apparently talking to themselves. Hed be distressed at drivers using cellphones instead of turn signals, and annoyed at supermarket customers bumping into him in the aisles because theyre busy communicating with someone 50 miles away.

Star Trek envisioned people talking to their computers and having those computers talk back. But it envisioned this in the 23rd century, not the 21st. Here we are, 200 years too soon, needing the GPS woman to tell us where to turn and an iPad voice to remind us that its somebodys birthday.

It might be worthwhile to ponder a bit what weve lost in the process.

Email John Gottcent at jandjgott @gmail.com.

MUMBAI: The communication system used by the Mumbai Fire Brigade hasnt changed since 1960, despite several proposals and promises over the years, reflecting Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporations dedication towards the men in blue.

At least two proposals of upgrading the communication system in the past have fallen flat. Civic budgets have also promised hi-tech communication systems worth crores, but till date the firefighters use the primitive simplex mode walkie-talkies on the Very High Frequency (VHF) communication system.

Misunderstandings brought on by a lack of communications created a contentious situation at Monday night’s St. Augustine City Commission meeting between the commission, staff and the Rev. Ron Rawls, pastor of St. Paul AME church. At issue was whether or not St. Paul Church was living up to its “agreement” to restore and renovate Echo House in Lincolnville as a school of excellence.

City officials contacted Rawls the previous week after they learned in a Record news story that the church was looking elsewhere for a school location, and that the church had sold the clay tiles off the historic building without the city’s knowledge. The city concluded that no construction had taken place on the site in the past two years other than stabilization of the building and removal of the tiles. It appeared the site had been abandoned. The city sent Rawls a letter demanding the tiles be returned to the site. Rawls was angry that city officials challenged him over the removal and sale of the tiles. Last Monday night, he said the city had “disrespected” the church and him.

Rawls said they decided on a shingle roof and needed to sell the tiles because of the expense of the renovation. There is nothing in writing from city to prohibit the sale of the tiles.

The heated discussion at the commission meeting grew out of a 2010 transfer of ownership between the board of Echo House and the family of the property owner at the time, and St. Paul AME Church.

The city had to approve the transfer because a use clause in the transfer required it be used for a nonprofit, philanthropic or charitable cause. Otherwise the city can initiate efforts to take ownership of the property.

The contentious discussion at Monday’s meeting made it clear to us that there was no direction given by the city to the church on their responsibility to the property other than the use clause. There is no requirement that the building be used for educational purposes although City Attorney Ron Brown said it could construed that education is a nonprofit use. The church had previously announced that the property would be used as a school of excellence for elementary school-aged children.

When Rawls announced that plan last year, city officials, community organizations and The Record supported the proposal which also included restoration of Echo House.

It is apparent to us that while both sides professed they were talking to each other, they were not communicating about the building’s renovation or the church’s concern over funding for it. And without a formal agreement, there seemed to be no need for additional communication. Rawls and City Manager John Regan are to meet, at the direction of the City Commission, on the future use of Echo House. The city also is attempting to get the tiles back.

The city of St. Augustine and St. Paul AME Church are learning a hard lesson about public-private partnerships. A “handshake” isn’t enough.

After the discussion Monday night, Mayor Joe Boles said to Regan, “If this commission ever enters into a public-private partnership without a written agreement, throw something at me.”

Absolutely.