Pick of the Junior Technology Stocks: Choose Tucows over RDM Corp.

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TUCOWS $0.48 (Toronto symbol TC; SI Rating: Speculative) (1-800-371-6992; www.tucowsinc.com; Shares outstanding: 73.1 million; Market cap: $35.1 million) sells Internet domain names, email and other web-based services to more than 9,000 web hosts and Internet service providers in 100 countries. At www.tucows.com, Tucows maintains a library of over 40,000 pieces of software, most of which is free to the user (donations accepted). Tucows sells advertising on this site, and charges software companies a fee to feature their programs. Tucows makes 74% of its revenue from the over 8,000 domain names it manages. It also sells billing and customer-service software, hosted email, anti-spam services and software for blogs to Internet service providers. Aside from corporate clients, Tucows sells services directly to individual computer users. These include domains, email, blogging software and web-site hosting and creation. In the three months ended December 31, 2008, Tucows’ revenues rose 5.2%, to $19.2 million from $18.2 million (all figures except share price and market cap in U.S. dollars)…