Pricester.com’s (PRCC.OB) Genesis Electronics Moving Toward Producing the SunBlazer
Pricester.com (PRCC.OB) is a dynamic and innovative internet marketing and technology company. The company’s divisions are involved in several sectors which include website design and internet marketing services along with internet shopping portals.
One of Pricester’s newest divisions is Genesis Electronics which the company acquired in May 2008. Genesis Electronics specializes in practical, consumer-friendly applications of alternative energy sources. Genesis has patented a technology for high-efficiency solar charging and energy storage for portable device batteries to greatly extend mobility and usefulness. This technology virtually eliminates the need to plug-in for a traditional charge.
On July 22, 2008, Pricester announced that executives of its Genesis electronics subsidiary are actively negotiating with MediaTek Inc. to manufacture the first production run of the SunBlazer. MediaTek is a $1.7 billion Taiwanese electronics company with a solid worldwide reputation for manufacturing quality prodcuts. Pricester’s newest product, the SunBlazer, is a sleek, wearable holster for cell phones. The SunBlazer utilizes solar energy to vastly increase the battery life and utility of most widely-used cell phones. The SunBlazer maintains the phone’s battery at peak charge, eliminating the need to re-charge the battery with traditional plug-in methods.
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Small Cap Voice Featured Client: China Wind Systems, Inc. (CWSI.OB)
China Wind Systems, Inc. (CWSI.OB) supplies precision wind components within the wind energy industry. The company was founded in 1995 and operates in China. In addition to supplying wind components, the company manufactures and sells industrial equipment in the textile and coal power industries through their affiliates Huayang Dye Machine and Huayang Electrical Power Equipment. China Wind has been focused more on their wind energy business since the beginning of 2007.
China Wind Systems supplies rolled rings that are less than 5 meters in diameter. In addition to the wind power industry, the rolled rings are used in the railway, heavy manufacturing, petrochemical, metallurgical, sea port machinery, defense and radar industries. The company has plans to also manufacture their own forged rolled rings as well as other wind components rather than just being a supplier. China Wind Systems has a new manufacturing facility in Wuxi City in the Peoples Republic of China.
In the United States, the U.S. Department of Energy is calling for 20% of all electricity production to be generated by wind by 2030. In 2008, wind energy in the U.S. accounted for 6% of renewable electricity generation and almost 1% of the total electricity supply. The wind power industry in China is exceeding previous expectations by ranking 5th in the world behind Germany, the United States, Spain, and India.
Dutton Associates Featured Company: Peoples Educational Holdings, Inc. (PEDH)
People’s Educational Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEDH) is a publisher and marketer of print and electronic materials for the K-12 school market. The company publishes their own proprietary materials and distributes them for other publishers, college textbooks and supplements to the high school advanced placement market. The materials are predominately state-specific and standards-based, focused on state-required tests. Marketing channels include company and independent sales representatives, telemarketing, direct mail, and catalogs.
The company focuses their efforts in two market areas; (1) test preparation, assessment, and instruction product group; (2) college preparation product group. Peoples Educational develops and sells state customized test preparation and assessment materials that help teachers prepare students for success in school and state proficiency tests as well, which includes grades 2-12. Their material combines in-depth instruction and practice readings, including language arts and mathematics.
To help students prepare for college, Peoples Educational distributes and publishes instructional materials that meet the required academic standards for high schools honors, college preparation, and advanced placement courses. They have established themselves as the exclusive high school distributor for two major college publishers. The company’s proprietary products are predominately soft cover workbooks that contain high gross profit margin titles, which can be sold efficiently through the company’s direct sales force, or through their catalogs, direct mail, telemarketing, and independent commission sales representatives.
Silverado Gold Mines Ltd. (SLGLF.OB) Strikes Gold at Workman’s Bench
Silverado Gold Mines has just announced the completion of nearly five thousand feet of exploratory drilling, spread over 16 drill holes at its Workman’s Bench prospect target. The first half of 2008 saw the expansion of drilling over the entire extent of the targeted land’s gold vein systems.
Cores from two of the holes yielded visible gold and, in another section of the claim, large samples of stibnite (a metalloid also known as antimony) and gold-mineralized rock were collected. Testing on the samples revealed as much as a favorable 2.02 troy ounces of gold per ton.
These results confirm the high-grade nature of the claim’s gold mineralization, and have been verified by professional geologist and VP of exploration at Silverado, Dr. Karsten Eden. Duplicate samples have also been sent to both Alaska Assay Laboratories and ALS Chemex in Fairbanks in order to further legitimize the claim. With the continuation of exploration at the Workman’s Bench claim, the company seems bound to capitalize on the rich deposits that lay beneath.
Mechanical Technology Inc. (MKTY) Achieves Breakthrough in Micro Fuel Cell Testing
MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc. just announced a major milestone in the development of its Mobion® cell phone fuel system. The company has been working toward creating an alternative to lithium ion cell phone batteries, and according to recent tests, it has just moved one step closer to that goal.
Mobion® technology powers cell phones using direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs). MTI was pleased to announce that it has achieved the amazing feat of operating a Mobion® laboratory cell continuously, over a period of 2,700 hours. To put that number into perspective, a cell phone user consuming three thousand minutes per month over the course of a two-year contract would use only 1,200 hours, or less than half the efficiency achieved by the Mobion ® laboratory cell in trials.
Advancements were noted concerning the Mobion® system’s resistance to the common problem of power degradation in DMFCs as well. According to an industry report published in the Journal of Power Sources, many DMFCs begin to show astonishingly high rates of degradation (up to 35 percent) after as few as 360 hours of continuous operation. The Mobion® test revealed less than fifteen percent power degradation, effectively showing MTI’s product to be twice as efficient as existing systems.
Jim Prueitt, vice president of engineering at MTI, commented on the testing: “Our test results are a clear indication of the technical progress we have made on performance metrics including life, degradation, temperature, and humidity levels which are required to bring products to market in the consumer electronics industry. To our knowledge, there are no other published results that match ours.”
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