The committee formally decides the rating, although it usually follows the lead analyst's recommendation.
Alan Wolk, global lead analyst for Kit digital, a firm that builds these solutions, is one of them.
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Corbett eventually became the firm's lead analyst and expects to run the firm when Perritt, now 68, retires in 2014.
"The home security and automation market is about to expand significantly, " said Roger Entner, Founder and Lead Analyst of Recon Analytics.
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"They have not yet tapped out the discontented base of Windows users, " says Greg DeMichillie, lead analyst at market tracker Directions on Microsoft.
Sure, it's hardly perfect: "I have yet to have a really good speech recognition experience, " says Greg DeMichillie, lead analyst, Directions on Microsoft.
And both firms get to make a case to customers that their wares will play well with others, said Michael Cherry, lead analyst, Windows and mobile, at Directions on Microsoft.
"They have not yet tapped out the discontented base of Windows users, " says Greg DeMichillie, lead analyst at market tracker Directions on Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).
"The 'more you share, the more you save' concept is one that will resonate well with customers because of the value provided through the Mobile Share data plans themselves and in smartphone connection fees, " said Roger Entner, Founder and Lead Analyst of Recon Analytics.
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Executives were "selling consistently throughout the year because stocks were doing well and they were taking profits, " says Richard Uhl, lead business analyst for the Thomson Reuters unit that tracks insider trading.
It could also spark a browser war, however, irritating corporate information-technology administrators who don't like the prospect of having to test and maintain competing browsers, says Tim Hickernell, associate lead research analyst with Info-Tech Research Group.
"With a little motivation and not much skill, it's fairly trivial to sniff HTTP traffic, " said Alan Ross, the lead security analyst for Intel IT, noting there are free and easily attainable programs that can do just that.
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"If you want Vista, you need a new machine, " says Michael Cherry, lead operating system analyst, Directions on Microsoft.
"We think that Intel is consolidating its performance lead in desktops, " Wachovia analyst David Wong wrote in a note to investors Monday.
"The number one statistical change we noticed is the level of state-sponsored espionage, " said security analyst Wade Baker, lead author on the report.
One analyst said the move could lead to an upgrade of Microsoft's Kinect motion sensor.
"He might get a sympathetic ear in Congress that could lead to some political strength, " the analyst speculates.
As the stock price and recent analyst price-target drops would lead us to believe: Is Apple losing its luster?
Paul Sammons, Senior SAP Business Analyst and Wireless Goods Movements Project Lead for Baylor refers to SAP communities first before opening a support ticket.
Paul Sammons, Senior SAP Business Analyst and Wireless Goods Movements Project Lead for Baylor tells me this middleware application comes from Fringe Mobility and is a Microsoft .
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However, at a Medtronic analyst meeting at the conference, lead trial investigator Gust Bardy from the Seattle Institute for Clinical Research insisted that such an approach would not be medically valid.
With Meeker as a research analyst, Morgan Stanley served as the lead manager on the 2004 Google IPO.
Senior news analyst Daniel Shorr says that should not lead Democrats to assume that the White House will soon be theirs.
The job titles Capital One is looking to fill vary widely, but they include principal project manager, statistical analysis manager, senior business systems analyst, IT senior manager, and lead application developer.
"When I first looked at the company, I didn't like it, " admits analyst Jack Tsui of China Everbright Capital, the lead underwriter of the company.
"The commentary supports our view that Comverse is actively looking at unlocking value for shareholders, which could ultimately lead to a breakup of the company, " wrote Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst Daniel Ives in a note to clients.
One analyst said that it was unlikely Qihoo would threaten Baidu's lead in the short term, but the dispute was already frustrating web users.
What the company needs, says analyst Phil Weiss at Argus Research, is a captain who will lead Chesapeake away from its perennial focus on asset accumulation into a disciplined program of asset harvest.
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Mary Meeker, the respected industry analyst who recently moved over to Kleiner Perkins and reportedly had a lead role in the Spotify deal, has also been talking up the importance of the mobile Internet recently.
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