“Mobile gaming continues to grow exponentially as broadband cellular networks roll out, consumer awareness increases, and handsets become more robust graphically. We are therefore particularly pleased to enter this segment led by world-class management and development teams, with proven success in development and porting, a string of top-selling, premium-branded titles already in the catalog, and a very strong pipeline of innovative product in development.”
Cindy Cook
“The search companies have found that developing robust services for mobile devices is not as easy as rolling out another different Web service. There are a lot more inherent limitations and other parties, including the carriers, to consider.”
Phil Redman
“Cramer weighs in on dozens of stocks every show. Increasing the show's effect is a robust after-hours trading market--viewers buy and sell stocks while watching the show.”
Damon Southward
“The services-oriented sector of the economy is still looking fairly robust, averaging a 3.9 percent increase year-on-year. This is above the trend rate of inflation so that is upward pressure for the retail price index.”
Claudio Piron
“Demand in Japan and abroad is well-balanced and personal spending was robust toward the year-end with increased bonus and strong consumption caused by a cold spell.”
Yasuo Yamamoto
“Fourth quarter 2005 base earnings were robust due primarily to increased volume in our Consumer Packaging and Packaging Services segments and company wide productivity improvements and cost containment. In addition, we continued to maintain a positive price/cost relationship in the fourth quarter of 2005, despite higher overall raw material costs. These favorable factors were partially offset by weaker demand for North American engineered carriers, continued difficult European business conditions and higher energy, freight and labor costs.”
Harris E. DeLoach
“The very sharp increase in net income does not simply reflect the positive effects of a robust economic environment but instead is due first and foremost to the improvement in the core profitability of all our business lines.”
Daniel Bouton