Nah, this is not some cheap prank at getting you to buy stock in NonexistentsXCo.com .

It is a post though about www.zignals.com who were trying to crack the problem of stock market data overload for retail investors. Similar to professional investors, retail investors are trying to maximize the effectiveness of their investment decisions. The folk at Zignals worked with Microsoft and developed a Solver series software solution [try saying that three times fast with a mouthful of peanuts].

The first-stage launch of Zignals at www.zignals.com, will focus on easy-to-use stock and market alerts that can be personalized to an investor’s portfolio and delivered directly to users’ e-mail, PDA or mobile device.

Microsoft Solver Foundation technologies is a framework of solvers and modeling services enabling planning, risk modeling, and scheduling for .NET developers.

The Microsoft Intellectual Property (IP) Licensing Group is helping companies like Zignals to create their next big thing. Check us out www.microsoft.com/iplicensing