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Zacks.com announces that Gregory Spear highlights the following stocks: Bitstream and Datalink.


CHICAGO -- Gregory Spear highlights a couple of micro-cap gems. Discover Bitstream (Nasdaq:BITS) and Datalink (Nasdaq:DTLK). Gregory Spear is the editor of The Spear Report newsletter. Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id=84.

Highlights from the September 22 Featured Expert column by Gregory Spear include:

Bitstream (Nasdaq:BITS):The mobile phone is quickly becoming a multimedia platform for voice, data, video and web browsing. The mobile phone business is highly competitive, however, with manufacturers and service providers vying vy·ing  
v.
Present participle of vie.

vying vie
 for an edge. Manufacturers are looking for Looking for

In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with.
 ways to distinguish their products by adding ever more complex feature sets. Network providers seek to generate revenue from new add-on services while keeping headline rates low.

Bitstream, which has long been known for its enormous online font font
 or typeface or type family

Assortment or set of type (alphanumeric characters used for printing), all of one coherent style. Before the advent of computers, fonts were expressed in cast metal that was used as a template for printing.
 library (myfonts.com), makes software for sophisticated, customized Internet advertising Delivering ads to Internet users via Web sites, e-mail, ad-supported software and Internet-enabled cellphones. Also called an "ad network," Internet advertising organizations act as a middleman between the advertiser and the Web sites and software publishers that display the ads. , as well as embedded language A programming language that is included in an application. Examples of embedded languages are VBA for Microsoft applications and various versions of LISP in programs such as Emacs and AutoCAD. An embedded language is not to be confused with programming languages used in "embedded systems.  software for consumer electronics and mobile devices in virtually any language. Perhaps its most exciting product, however, is its brand new mobile browser A mobile browser (earlier referred to as a microbrowser or minibrowser) is a web browser designed for use on a mobile device such as a mobile phone or PDA. Mobile browsers are optimised so as to display Web content most effectively for small screens on portable  called ThunderHawk. It offers mobile operators, device manufacturers and enterprise organizations a near "desktop quality" browsing and email experience on virtually any mobile phone, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM).  or Windows Mobile The Windows platform from Microsoft for handheld devices, including PDAs, cellphones and Portable Media Centers. See Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone and Portable Media Center.  device.

In the most recent reported quarter, revenue increased 31% to $4.9 million, a record, while net income rose $1.2 million from near zero a year ago. About half the net income figure was a one-time jury award, however. The company has $8 million in cash, no debt and a tiny float of 7.4 million shares with just 11% owned by institutions. Beta is 3.8, which means this stock is nearly four times as volatile as the market. Keep that in mind.

Datalink (Nasdaq:DTLK) is an information storage architect that analyzes, designs, implements, and supports secure, continuous access information storage infrastructure. Datalink works with all types of enterprise storage networks, including IP-based storage. This is an area of fastchanging technology that in-house IT staff often can't keep up with. As an acknowledged expert in the field with 15 years of experience, the company makes unbiased technology and hardware recommendations to clients and then follows through with design and implementation services. This enables customers to obtain best-of-breed equipment and not concern themselves with hidden incompatibility The inability of a Husband and Wife to cohabit in a marital relationship.


incompatibility n. the state of a marriage in which the spouses no longer have the mutual desire to live together and/or stay married, and is thus a ground for divorce
 issues during integrationC*every IT manager's worst nightmare.

In the most recent reported quarter, revenue surged 39% to $39 million, while net income rose 250% to $2 million, or $0.18 per share. The company has $18 million in cash, no debt and a tiny float of just 7 million shares with 38% owned by institutions.

Read Gregory Spear's commentary and receive more information on the companies above as well as other stocks by clicking: http://at.zacks.com/?id=85.

About Zacks Featured Experts

Successful investing requires professional advice from knowledgeable experts who can help investors achieve their financial goals in good markets and improve their portfolios, especially in bad ones. That is why Zacks Investment Research Zacks Investment Research

A firm that compiles earnings estimates and brokerage firm investment recommendations for thousands of publicly traded firms.
 has assembled the best investment experts in the business to offer their powerful advisory newsletters on all the major investment topics: Stocks, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Options, Futures etc.

Additional recommendations from Zacks.com Featured Experts are highlighted in the free investment newsletter, Profit from the Pros. Each issue highlights several Featured Experts in this free e-mail See Internet e-mail service.  newsletter. Register for a free subscription to "Profit from the Pros" at: http://at.zacks.com/?id=86.

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