"Exactly when was the perception that PTSC was working on something BIG?"

It was my preception/guess that they were working on something big at different times and yes I was wrong.

"I think you are wrong in declaring that opportunities existed in the past but nothing happened."

There are always opportunities and possibilities - they "could have" been working on something (i.e. a business venture) with SONY or Intel. They could have been working on a merger or aquisition (they actually were looking into merging with another company at one point so I wasn't being too ridiculous.) But - as I stated in my previous post, I was dead wrong in my hunch. However, I don't think I was so off base to have these hunches as these types of things happen all the time.