RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 31, 2001 (PRIMEZONE) -- Technology comes to the forefront at this Saturday's Electronics and Technology Stocks Forum sponsored by Informed Investors. This virtual Forum, free to investors, is accessible over the Internet via www.informedinvestors.com from 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. EST.
Senior executives will discuss current prospects and business strategies as they do for institutional investors. The segments are approximately 30 minutes each and include PowerPoint presentations. Investors are invited to e-mail questions to executives. The forum will also be archived on www.vcall.com and www.investorconference.com.
Duraswitch Industries (Nasdaq:DSWT) and Riverstone Networks (Nasdaq:RSTN) are representative of the scores of sophisticated companies that power productivity increases in technologies of many kinds. Adding to the depth of the Forum will be keynote speaker Don Luskin, founder of The Luskin Report.
Phoenix-based Duraswitch engineers, markets and licenses its patented next-generation electronic switch technology for use in a wide variety of industrial, commercial and consumer applications. Duraswitch receives per-switch-based royalty revenue from licensees. Duraswitch currently holds multiple U.S. patents, Australian, Chinese, and Taiwanese patents, as well as EPD patents and PCT publications.
Riverstone Networks of Santa Clara, Calif. builds routers that convert raw bandwidth into profitable services for Metropolitan Area Networks. Riverstone's products enable the creation of profitable services and the delivery of these services over next-generation and legacy networks, including SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet, T1/E1, T3/E3, ATM and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM).
Riverstone's products are deployed in some of the world's largest networks, including British Telecom, Korea Telecom, Qwest Communications, MAE West Ames, EarthLink, NTT and Telefonica.
Luskin is CEO of The Luskin Report, a Website featuring iconoclastic and actionable real-time commentary on markets, economics and politics. Luskin's 25-year career as an entrepreneur, executive, investment manager and commentator has been built around his passion for the innovative application of technology to the challenge of investing. Prior to founding The Luskin Report, Don was CEO and co-founder of MetaMarkets.com, and manager of the path breaking OpenFund -- the world's first mutual fund to disclose all its holdings and trading activity in real time on the Internet.
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