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Vonage will use WebRTC to Power Mobile VoIP App
PVSPers, take note that Googles WebRTC get another major VoIP player that will use the web browser based platform and will put Android even further ahead in the Mobile VoIP race, VoX is already committed to WebRTC and it is going to get very interesting with the explosion of Audio & Video across Billions of devices, interoperability is finally here and it means HUGE NETWORK traffic.
Vonage Looks to Open Source WebRTC to Power Mobile VoIP Application
By Josh Robert Nay on July 16, 2013 | Android iPad iPhone News Vonage Mobile | 1
WebRTC is generally known for being a web browser-based platform with integration in Chrome and Firefox to allow for features such as high-definition video calling across both browsers, but it’s apparently also being used in Vonage Mobile, which currently has users numbering in the millions spanning 200 countries.
While it wasn’t originally going to use WebRTC, Vonage VP of Technology Research Baruch Sterman told Enterprise Networking Planet that the decision was made to embrace WebRTC after looking at a different proprietary alternative.
Instead of using the WebRTC layer found in the aforementioned browsers, Vonage is instead using the WebRTC Native stack, which enables easier implementation of the Web API proposal. Vonage uses WebRTC to encode and decode media streams, but uses RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol) for the “real-time flow of data” once a call is made and depends on SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) for actually making the calls.
“The native stack is the low-level source code for WebRTC, and that’s where Vonage has been making its mark,” Sterman said. “We have even contributed back to the open source WebRTC community some of the interesting innovations that we’ve built around the integration of some hardware capabilities.”
WebRTC allows Vonage to solve problems more easily, but also tasked the company with making it more compact and efficient, and native device capabilities are often utilized in order to make this possible. This results in a high-quality calling experience based on a standard open source technology, which no doubt also makes things run more smoothly during the development cycle.
Read more at http://www.trutower.com/2013/07/16/vonage-voip-app-webrtc-tech/#HC5kDdvzbpxkiFM4.99
Android is Now #1 with 1 Million Apps!!!
Business Insider
Canaccord Genuity, which tracks the profit share of the smartphone market, says Apple had 53% of the smartphone market's profits last quarter. Samsung had 50%. The rest of the smartphone industry is losing money.
A year ago, Apple had 71% of the industry's profits and Samsung only had 37%. The trend suggests Samsung will soon have more profit share than Apple.
When that happens, it will just be another smartphone industry metric tipped towards Android, away from the iPhone.
For the longest time, Apple had the most apps in its App Store. That's no longer true. Android has more apps, 1 million to Apple's 900,000.
Google Play, which is Android's app store is beating Apple's App Store in download volume.
Samsung has profits now equal to Apple!!
Android is kicking Apples butt and it looks like it will only get worse for Apple going forward. Maybe Mark was right, Android is the future and as he said "All roads lead to Android".
Business Insider
Canaccord Genuity, which tracks the profit share of the smartphone market, says Apple had 53% of the smartphone market's profits last quarter. Samsung had 50%. The rest of the smartphone industry is losing money.
A year ago, Apple had 71% of the industry's profits and Samsung only had 37%. The trend suggests Samsung will soon have more profit share than Apple.
Alarm Bells Should Be Ringing At Apple: It's Getting Absolutely Creamed By Android
This is why Mark was so critical of Apple and it's iron handed control of innovation and why VoX developed the Android Mobile App first. The fact that Apple take 30% off the top is really reason enough.
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Alarm Bells Should Be Ringing At Apple: It's Getting Absolutely Creamed By Android, Which Now Controls ~80% Of The Smartphone Market
JAY YAROW AUG. 7, 2013, 1:59 PM 20,468 82
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Apple CEO Tim Cook with Apple SVP Eddy Cue
Apple CEO Tim Cook seems like a pretty calm guy.
Therefore, we doubt he's in total freak-out, mega-meltdown mode over the latest news from IDC that Android now has 79.3% of the smartphone market, up from 69.1% a year ago. Apple, meanwhile, has just 13.3% of the smartphone market, down from 16.6% a year ago.
Cook can remain calm on the outside about these stats, but inside he should be quietly freaking out, because this is not good for Apple, or its core business of selling iPhones.
He can talk all he wants about trying to build the best smartphone, not sell the most smartphones, but the truth is that these aren't mutually exclusive goals. Apple could easily sell more iPhones if it adjusted its business model.
So far, Apple has been reluctant to change. The result is Android running away with the market. It's on a crash course to some day have over 90% of the entire mobile phone market.
For years, Android took market share, and Apple was just fine. Its profits grew, its revenues grew.
That era is over for Apple.
Business Insider
Its profits are shrinking. Its revenue was up a paltry 1% last quarter. Its midpoint guidance for revenue suggests revenue will be down on a year-over-year basis. (If it hits the high-side of its guidance, then it will be up 2.8%.)
Previously, Apple fanboys would snark at smartphone market share numbers. They don't matter, they would say, Apple has all the profits.
Apple certainly does have impressive profits, even if they are shrinking, but it doesn't have all the profits. In fact, it's not hard to envision Apple without the majority of the industry's profits in the near future.
Business Insider
Canaccord Genuity, which tracks the profit share of the smartphone market, says Apple had 53% of the smartphone market's profits last quarter. Samsung had 50%. The rest of the smartphone industry is losing money.
A year ago, Apple had 71% of the industry's profits and Samsung only had 37%. The trend suggests Samsung will soon have more profit share than Apple.
When that happens, it will just be another smartphone industry metric tipped towards Android, away from the iPhone.
For the longest time, Apple had the most apps in its App Store. That's no longer true. Android has more apps, 1 million to Apple's 900,000.
Google Play, which is Android's app store is beating Apple's App Store in download volume.
Apple, arguably, has higher-quality apps because developers still focus on iOS first. The reason they focus on the App Store is that it generates more revenue than Google's Android store, and users are more engaged.
However, there's no reason to believe this will continue.
As we've noted, every favorable metric for Apple in the smartphone market has gotten weaker in the last year. There's reason to believe Android apps will generate more revenue by next year.
It's impossible to look at the landscape today and believe that developers will still be iPhone-focused in five years unless Apple does something drastic to change its competitive position.
Apple's iPhone business, as originally constructed, no longer works. The high-end is saturated. Apple needs to introduce a low-cost iPhone, and get distribution on more carriers.
Apple is reportedly going to introduce the iPhone 5C, a lower-cost iPhone this fall. Depending on how it prices the 5C, it could be the first step in reversing the marketshare trend.
In the U.S., where Apple is on equal footing for pricing and carrier distribution, it appears to beat Android ever so slightly, according to carrier data. If Apple could do the same globally, it would have a better chance at reigniting iPhone sales, and taking smartphone market share.
There are risks with getting on more carriers and lowering the price of the iPhone. Apple's profits will take a hit. And its revenue could fall.
These are risks it will have to take unless it just doesn't care about being the smartphone industry's leader. If it's okay with Android running away with the market, then it can just continue doing what it's doing.
However, we don't think Apple is cool with Android running away with the market, thus relegating Apple to a niche player in the mobile phone market.
In 1985, when Steve Jobs was introducing the Mac, he said, "If, for some reason, we make some giant mistakes and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter sort of a computer Dark Ages for about 20 years. Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening."
Google is not the sort of company that stops innovation. So, that's less of a concern. But, you can bet that a lot of people at Apple would see an Android dominated mobile market as a dark age.
Android, for all its popularity, remains a messy, fragmented, less-than-ideal experience for a normal consumer. And, Jobs believed that Android was a stolen product that needed to be destroyed. However, Apple has failed to destroy Android. Instead, it's gotten stronger while Apple has gotten weaker.
If the idea of a new dark age where Android crushes the iPhone doesn't have Tim Cook freaking out, then we don't know what does.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-needs-to-reinvent-the-iphone-business-2013-8#ixzz2byLcPAET
I think it is a MM
The fact that they are using 10k Whacks, that is the min amount that MM can offer to buy or sell, makes me think it is a MM for sure.
Any person that wanted to whack the BIDS could do it for as little as 100 shares and get the same result, but the commission of what $9 bucks at best is still a waste of money.
MM don't have any commission cost so they can trade as many times as they want, all in the noble cause of making a market, what a joke.
9 Charged in $140 Million Penny Stock Fraud
The Defendants Allegedly Generated Over $140 Million.
By AARON KATERSKY
Aug. 13, 2013 —
Nine people have been charged in one of the largest international penny stock frauds ever, federal authorities said Tuesday in New York, one of five states where arrests were made.
"As alleged in the indictment, the defendants used our securities markets as a platform from which to run elaborate fraudulent schemes to victimize unsuspecting investors across the globe," said US Attorney Loretta Lynch.
According to court records, the defendants victimized investors in nearly three dozen countries and generated more than $140 million by fraudulently inflating the price of penny stocks and then dumping them on unsuspecting investors.
"The victims believed they would turn a profit on their nearly worthless penny stocks but never saw so much as a nickel," said FBI Special Agent in Charge April Brooks.
In a separate but related scheme the defendants are accused of operating boiler rooms to sell the worthless stocks and collect fees.
"The criminals behind this scheme were shameless in heartlessly defrauding hundreds of victims out of their savings and retirement accounts for their own enrichment," said James C. Spero, of Homeland Security Investigations in Buffalo.
The schemes were allegedly orchestrated by Sandy Winick, a Canadian living in Thailand. According to federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, the schemes involved 11 "thinly traded companies with minimal assets and non-existent business operations, which in many cases were mere shell companies."
At one point prosecutors said Winick boasted about his ability to conceal the alleged scam compared to another more obvious scam, stating: "That deal is obviously a pump and dump. We know enough to be subtle."
Winick is not in custody. Neither is co-defendant Gregory Curry who is accused of deceiving victims.
The other seven defendants are in custody, including Joseph Manfredonia of New Jersey whose role, according to the indictment, was to generate "false press releases to promote" the penny stocks. Cort Poyner of Florida, who was also arrested Tuesday, is accused of bribing brokers to purchase the penny stocks on behalf of their clients.
Authorities caught defendant Kolt Curry on a wiretap describing the scheme this way: "I would say that 100 percent of these stocks are like uh pink uh… just dumps . . . . so … ya know they're totally, they're like, so a lot of these guys are dying . . . . to get rid of this crap. . . . The money is good, it's easy. It's easy money. Definitely easy money, and it's good money."
Copyright © 2013 ABC News Internet Ventures
#30 NOW on Breakout Boards
Moving FAST and we are right behind Apple which is at #8 and selling for $508 a share.
Think we can catch them on the price? Now that would be Moving Fast.
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WOW - Android hits 79% Global Market Share!!
Smart Phone growth is on a major tear, with nearly 46% growth last year. PVSP timing is EXCELLENT and we stand to grab a big chunk of these new devices, now at 1 BILLION, and growing 225 Million a quarter, WOW!!
Smartphone Sales Beat Feature Phones
Smartphones outsold feature phones for the first time in Q2; Android gained momentum worldwide.
By Eric Zeman, InformationWeek
August 14, 2013
URL: http://www.informationweek.com/mobility/smart-phones/smartphone-sales-beat-feature-phones/240159950
People around the world are increasingly ditching their feature phones for smartphones. According to research firm Gartner, worldwide smartphone sales reached 225 million units during the second quarter, up 46.5% from the year-ago period. During the same time, feature phone sales fell to 210 million units during the second quarter, down 21% compared to the year-ago period. Smartphones are now outselling feature phones.
Smartphone sales saw the biggest surges across Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, though growth was recorded all around the globe. Sales of Android devices are dominating, with global market share pegged at about 79%. Android is seeing the quickest adoption rates in emerging markets, where low-cost smartphones are driving volume. The difference in price between today's feature phones and entry-level smartphones is often negligible.
Android's 79% share of the global market grew significantly from last year, when it held 64.2% of the market. iOS is the second-ranked smartphone platform, but Apple saw its share drop from 18.8% last year to 14.2% this year. Microsoft's Windows Phone platform ranks third, growing from 2.6% of the market in 2012 to 3.3% of the market during the second quarter of 2013. It edged out BlackBerry OS, which dropped from 5.2% a year ago to 2.7% this year. Bada and Symbian each account for less than one-half of 1% of the smartphone market.
Together, Android and iOS account for 93.2% of all smartphones. Samsung and Apple remain the top two dogs in the smartphone space.
[ The smartphone market is more competitive than ever. Can Apple keep its lead? Read Apple iPhone 5S Faces Tough Rivals. ]
Samsung's shipments of 71.4 million smartphones give it 31.7% of the smartphone market. Apple's shipments of 31.9 million give it 14.2%; LG's shipments of 11.5 million give it 5.1%; Lenovo's shipments of 10.7 million give it 4.7%; and ZTE's shipments of 9.7 million give it 4.3%. Most of Lenovo and ZTE's sales come from China, their home market.
If there's one company that should be worried about the drop in smartphone sales, it's Nokia. The bulk of Nokia's phone shipments have always come from feature phones. It managed to push 61 million feature phones out the door during the second quarter, but that's down significantly from the 83 million it shipped the year prior. Sales of its Windows Phone smartphones are growing, but slowly.
"Smartphones accounted for 51.8% of mobile phone sales in the second quarter of 2013, resulting in smartphone sales surpassing feature phone sales for the first time," said Anshul Gupta, principal research analyst at Gartner. Gupta also noted that the industry is on track to ship a total of 1.82 billion units (smartphones and feature phones combined) by the end of the year. There's no slowdown in sales. "Flagship devices brought to market in time for the holidays, and the continued price reduction of smartphones will drive consumer adoption in the second half of the year."
Google Play Reviews, 1,033 and growing!
The fact is the business is growing everyday, 24/7, 365 days a year with no days off for holidays.
Just spend some time reading some of the reviews and you will see the high number of international users of the VoX International Plans.
The Apple ISO app will dramatically increase the number of subscribers internationally as well as domestically as many people I speak with want to purchase that second and third line for their iphone and iPad.
Many people have spots of really bad reception using the cellular network, like at work, or in house, as well as on the road at hotels etc. The VoX mobile app uses the DATA side of networks new allowing crystal clear calling over WiFi, or 3G, or4G, or the super fast LTE networks.
Will not be long now for the Apple approval and the price will never see these levels again, buy them while you can.
No way they will reverse that trade
The trade for 908,662 was executed at 09:30:12 when one only MM was listed and the BID was .0001, which is what it was since about 7:00 this am and had not changed. It is like this many morning prior to most MM entering their BID and ASK at the 9:30 open.
It is August, BIG VACATION time across Wall Street and many trading desk are short staffed as the markets are traditionally slow anyway at this time.
Doubt they could have hit the sell button that quick, someone may have listed the sale prior to the opening and with out a limit, they got screwed good on that trade. The amount of shares sold was very specific and odd amount at 908,662 so most likely someone sell all their shares.
Sure glad this board is irrelevant
Just think if this boards sentiment had any impact on the future success of PVSP we would be in big trouble, LOL
This place is for nothing but entertainment value, a few good laughs and observing foolish people flipping out and complaining about everything under the sun.
My prediction is that as we get closer to being cash flow positive by end of year, we can reverse split the stock with a 1 for 10, and get these day traders out for good. That would give the company 70 m outstanding which would be fine and current price of 2.5 cents based on this crazy .0025. Being cash flow positive with only 70m shares and we would be back over $1 real fast and on our way to the Nasdaq once again.
The other option that the larger share holders here, 10 million shares plus, could be allowed to participate in taking the company private and get the speculator out and close down this silly board. The company could operate without the daily trading crap that has pushed to share price to nothing, but it has allow the company to eliminate the $14m in debt which is great news.
The company could be sold as a private, profitable company for a lot more cash than as a highly manipulated public pink sheet company.
How my day trading pals doing?
Bet they are cleaning up with all this volume, LOL
Buyers strike in effect and will remain so until we get confirmation that the CD boys are on the wagon or we get some Apple news.
Investor have not had to pay up for months and months as the price has always come in to met us at a lower level. That pattern will be changing if the CD conversions in really on hold and if we can get some positive news out on the Apple approval of our mobile app we could really take off from here.
If you don't have your truck load of shares yet, you may have already missed the sale.
MM Short during day, and Cover AH
The point to all this is the MM are controlling the trading by sitting on the ASK using Short position, and most likely the CD holder is still providing shares for the MM to cover After Hours.
Those After Hour settlement trades are Short Covering and are nearly always below the daily closing price, which give the MM a profit for Shorting shares on the CD holders behalf during the trading day.
If they would step aside on the ASK the stock could trade much higher but they apparently will not do that yet.
Sure looks like the CD traffic is done
If they are done and only time will tell, then we can start pounding the ASK and get this monster out of sub penny town in a flash.
Now that is important, thanks so much
Really appreciate all the DD you did to determine than prediction, it must have taken you what 3 seconds to make such an informed guess.
Board is a waste of time.
The Disruption, and subsequent innovation from WebRTC, part 1
Over the course of my career, I have worked with many disruptive technologies. Perhaps the most disruptive so far have been Voice Over IP (VoIP) which has literally changed the telecom industry, and WiFi since it was the first to untether us from our desks.
But there is a new technology on the horizon which has the potential to be just as impactful- Web Real Time Communications (WebRTC). Perhaps you’ve heard of it and thought it was just a new API? Or maybe this is the first time you’re reading about it? If you are an end-user, you won’t even notice it (after providing permissions for the browser to use your microphone and camera) since it’s behind the scenes of how you are communicating, but if you are a vendor or a creator of telecom applications, WebRTC is a big change.
So what is WebRTC (Web Real Time Communications)? Essentially WebRTC is a framework consisting of several APIs such as HTML5, Java, etc., but it’s about what it changes that makes it so important. The WebRTC API enables voice and/or video calls to be made as part of a web browser. Yes, you could make voice and video calls through the web before WebRTC (or, shall I say, today), but those calls are made through more elaborate means, such as tying adjuncts (that enable click to call for instance) into the solution, or through proprietary means. Basically, one needs to know SIP / VoIP to enable web calls today.
So what is the big deal? With WebRTC, the capability is simply a standard and an open standards part of the browser. Anyone who knows how to program websites / Java can enable these calls. The API handles the hard signaling and media stuff. The programmers just need to program these calls to the API. People who have never even heard of VoIP can now create communication applications! This could enable millions and millions of new communications developers to get into the act- if you assume any Java developer could program these calls. And THAT, my friends, is GIGANTIC!
And what is the impact of a browser-to-browser call? I’m sure there are many. But the one I can think of right away is that if you are consuming content from a specific browser, then whatever device you use to enable the browser is what you watch or listen to. So if you subscribe to a service, then you can watch it on your Internet TV, your tablet, your smartphone, or your smart microwave –anything you have with a browser. You just log on. And THAT, my friends, is also GIGANTIC! This non-device specificity changes the nature of the way one thinks about a communication application. You wouldn’t call your cell phone or your home phone. You wouldn’t watch TV at home. You would just log on!
So what is WebRTC?
Imagine you had a real time communications engine built into every web browser that allowed any web site visitor to participate in real time audio and video communications without having to install some proprietary application that required flash, java or similar software installed in each client machine. That's the promise of WebRTC.
In the same way that the web and the browser transformed the way we do business WebRTC promises to do the same for telecom.
Who needs WebRTC?
WebRTC for Enterprise
In business we all know the advantages and benefits of communication and collaboration with our employees and our customers. WebRTC will allow the enterprise to embed real time communications much more easily into all of their interfaces, both customer-facing and employee-facing.
WebRTC for Service Providers
For Service Providers, both OTT and traditional carriers, WebRTC represents a new way to reach more of their subscribers to offers them enhanced service that will drive ARPU and increase customer satisfaction. If you are providing proprietary web-based communication services today you certainly need to be planning on how to leverage WebRTC to your benefit and how to defend against an abundance of potential new market entrants.
WebRTC for Websites
With WebRTC, any website can easily provide real time communication options for its visitors. WebRTC will allow social/community sites, services sites, consumer sites, your blog and your personal sites to add rich, real time communication options that are available for use by any visitor; Imagination is the only boundary.
WebRTC for Communications Vendors
With a real time communication engine in every browser WebRTC will fuel the development of a new generation of audio, video and messaging solutions that will extend unified communications to every browser. Existing and new communication vendors and software companies will need to build expertise in WebRTC to remain competitive and to offer new solutions.
So what's the Reality of WebRTC today?
WebRTC is in active development by many companies today, both building the infrastructure into browsers and creating communications applications that leverage the new browser capabilities. WebRTC is still in draft mode, and though it is currently supported by Google Chrome, Mozilla and Opera browsers, it is not fully compatible nor fully implemented, and it is still undergoing continual change.
Safari and Internet Explorer are not yet supporting the WebRTC standards, although plug-ins are available for both browsers. Microsoft is promoting its own variations of CU-RTC-WEB.
Vonage Embraces Open Source WebRTC
PVSP'ers better start learning about WebRTC and stop wasting time discussing the silly stock price, is it going up .001 or down .001, who cares. The entire communications game is about to change and most here can't even spell WebRTC let alone understand what it means.
If you are not pay attention to WebRTC, then shame on you, you cannot be a successful investor in the telecommunications sector and not care about this next revolution in communications.
Open source voice and video communications stack isn't just for web browsers anymore.
By Sean Michael Kerner | Jul 12, 2013
WebRTC is an emerging open source platform that delivers a Real-Time Communications (RTC) stack.
To date, much of the WebRTC discussion has revolved around its implementation in web browsers, including Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, but that's not the whole story. WebRTC also has relevance beyond the browser. It's now a key technology in VoIP vendor Vonage's mobile aspirations.
Baruch Sterman, VP of Technology Research at Vonage, told Enterprise Networking Planet that his company is now relying on WebRTC to power its mobile Vonage application.
Vonage didn't originally intend to use WebRTC. But, as Sterman noted, while Vonage was going through the process of figuring out licensing for a proprietary alternative, they began to explore WebRTC as an option. Today Vonage has millions of users running their WebRTC-powered app on both Apple iOS and Google Android devices.
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While WebRTC is known as a browser stack, Sterman explained that there is another flavor, known as the WebRTC Native Stack.
"The native stack is the low-level source code for WebRTC, and that's where Vonage has been making its mark," Sterman said. "We have even contributed back to the open source WebRTC community some of the interesting innovations that we've built around the integration of some hardware capabilities."
Those hardware capabilities include some specific features that are available on IOS and Android powered phones. WebRTC as a native stack allows for voice and video communications on any platform onto which it's ported.
Deployment
From a Vonage deployment perspective, the way WebRTC works meant no big changes were required to its network infrastructure.
Sterman explained that Vonage uses WebRTC to encode and decode media streams, but the actual protocol that is used is RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol).
"Once you have all the signaling in place and establish the media path, as long as everyone is working with identical media codecs on both sides, you can have WebRTC on one side and then you can have any other media stack on the other side," Sterman said.
As such, Vonage mobile apps powered by WebRTC can communicate with Vonage boxes in the back-end.
Vonage still also relies on the SIP standard for establishing the call. SIP is the signalling protocol. It helps to find the other side of the connection and determines the codecs that will be used.
"Once the session is established, there is a real-time flow of data, and that is done over RTP," Sterman explained.
Open Source
One of the key challenges that Vonage had to tackle with WebRTC for mobile devices was making it smaller and more efficient. Part of that also involves leveraging whatever native capabilities are already present on the device.
Sterman stressed, however, that the open source nature of WebRTC was a key enabler for Vonage to overcome multiple challenges.
"We're very happy that everything is open source, so whenever we come up against an obstacle that is a problem, we can just go into the lowest level of code to find the problem," Sterman said. "That's a huge advantage when you have that capability, and it means you can solve problems."
In contrast, Sterman doesn't see the same kind of problem-solving opportunity with a proprietary media stack.
"If you take a proprietary closed stack, you will always be dependent on somebody else at one point or another, and that can be frustrating when you don't have your own destiny in your hands," Sterman said.
Tabby your opinion, now that's funny
You have guessed every negative and positive situation you can think of and have never, ever been right about anything, and yet you continue to embarrass yourself with silly predictions like you know something.
Apple Developer Center lives again; company offers extra month of membership
"intruder" to the site's servers brought down some services for three weeks.
by Nathan Mattise - Aug 10 2013, 5:00pm EDT
"Apple Developer
All Developer Program Services are Now Back Oline
"We are pleased to let you know that all our developer program services are now online. Your patience during this time was sincerely appreciated."
"We understand that the downtime was significant and apologize for any issues it may have caused in you app development. To help offset this disruption, we are extending the membership of all developer teams by one month. If you need any further assistance, please contact us."
After dealing with various outages for more than three weeks, Apple finally announced any developer services still down at its Developer Center are running again. And for users' trouble, Apple is extending every membership by one month.
The downtime came after an "intruder" accessed the development site's servers on July 18. Apple acknowledged the issue on July 21 and at the time could not "rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or e-mail addresses may have been accessed." That notice led to an anecdotal spike in password reset requests for Apple IDs, though the company told MacWorld that the system in question was not used to store "customer information," application code, or data stored by applications.
Apple slowly began restoring many of the offline services, and last week developers could access iOS and OS X betas, view prerelease documentation, download certificates, and watch videos from Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) sessions without worry. Apple sent out a status update on the remaining services on August 5, hoping "to reinstate most of the remaining services this week: Xcode automatic configuration as well as access to license agreements, TSIs, program enrollments, and renewals in Member Center."
Apple brings developer centre back online following July hack
Back to business for devs after a week offline
By Chris Smith 3 hrs ago
Back to work, devs!
Apple developers now can get back to work on awesome apps for iOS 7 and Mac OS X after the company restored access to the online portal, three weeks after it was taken down following a security breach.
As of Saturday morning, the developer.apple.com website was up and running once again with the company assuring its army of developers that all services were performing as normal.
Apple has been slowly re-upping services over the last couple of weeks, following a short-lived attempt to bring the site back on line at the end of July. This time the restoration appears to be permanent.
Apple has apologised for the inconvenience and extended all memberships by a month to compensate for the inability to access the portal.
WebRTC – What’s the Big Deal?
This is why Mark is so excited about VoX and why they have been hard at work including the Google codec to be WebRTC ready!!!
Jul 15 2013| By David Lover|in: Cloud Communications, Unified Communications
A lot of people have been asking me about WebRTC. They say that they keep hearing about it but don’t really know what it’s all about. It’s been a very popular buzzword lately. And while there are definitely pro’s and con’s to this technology, and you’ll run into people with all kinds of opinions on it, it has the potential to be one of the most game changing things to hit our industry in a long time. Like all of these kinds of disruptive technologies, it is important that you are able join in the conversation. With all of that in mind, I thought might be a good time to talk it through.
As we all know, web-based, user interfaces have been replacing the installed, thick application for some time now. There are a lot of benefits to this. Easier app development, client interoperability, etc. It also brings back some of the benefits of the mainframe computer days. All the main processing of an application is done on a centralized web server. The web browser’s job is simply to render the content that it receives. There’s nothing to install on the user’s computer since the computer or mobile device usually already has a web browser installed. And even if the user doesn’t like the one pre-installed, most people don’t find it to too bothersome to download and install someone else’s. For the most part, HTML is HTML. The beauty is that this single installed application (the web browser) can be used as the client for TON’s of different applications.
The problem is that HTML (the language of the web) is not that robust in the ways of multimedia. In our world, this is why we still tend to have thick, installed applications for voice/video apps like Avaya One-X Communicator, Flare Experience, Radvision SCOPIA, and even Gotomeeting, Skype, Lync, and all the rest. But for the bigger picture of needing a more rich, multimedia experience with browser based web apps, this is why companies like Adobe introduced add-ons like Flash. These are plug-ins that are added to browsers to enhance their capabilities. When the browser is asked to render Flash content, it asks the plug-in to help. Technologies like Flash have gained huge popularity simply because of the richness that add to browser experience. It changed the experience and opened the door to more possibilities. As an example, since Flash is all about rich Multimedia, it also happens to be able to do voice and video. Avaya went so far as to create a Flash to SIP gateway called One-Touch Video, that allows the vast majority of browsers do voice and video calls into Aura. Consumer to Enterprise voice/video seamlessness? Heck yeah. Very cool product.
Sadly, Flash is a licensed, proprietary add-on that is not natively part of the browser. And it isn’t 100% adopted. I carefully said “almost everyone” has it installed. In fact, some browser manufactures, like Apple, have refused to provide support in some of their browsers (like iphones and ipads). What we need is a new web standard that both web developers, servers, and browsers will adopt. That part has arrived. It’s called HTML 5. While that alone doesn’t cut it, it does provide the foundation to build on. This is where WebRTC comes in. WebRTC is an open project with people working feverously to define a standard that will be embedded in the browser itself. WebRTC is, as you can probably figure out based on its name, Web based, Real Time Communications. WebRTC is not meant to be everything that Flash is. It’s about voice, video, and data communications.
WebRTC focuses on three major tasks. The first is acquiring audio and video. This can be thought of as simply gaining access to your PC’s video camera and microphone. Not as easy of a task as you might think. You need seamless access to the OS’s device drivers, you need to handle security and permissions, etc. The second task is to communicate that audio and video in a very synchronized way. Again, not as easy as you think. HTML is usually just about content “gets”. Supporting standard voice/video communication codecs was never part of a browser’s responsibility. And as we know from our enterprise world, Firewalls, NAT traversal through firewalls, and network security in general just don’t make that easy. The third major task is to communicate arbitrary data. While this could be used just to support the Voice/Video communications itself, it also offers some great peer to peer data sharing capabilities. These three things could make it possible for software vendors to start offering web-based softphones that are much more interoperable. It also makes it possible to truly have end-to-end VoIP communications between consumers and enterprise a reality. Without this, you will always need a PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) to communicate between the two. With WebRTC (or something like it), TRUE Cloud based communications could actually work.
Sounds too good to be true? Well, because it kind of is. So far, WebRTC is little more than a science project. But it’s a very cool science project with some huge backers, such as Google, behind it. But there are definitely some missing players. Right now, only three browsers support webRTC (ie Chrome, Firefox, and recently Opera). Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Apple’s Safari are missing from this group. We were hoping that Microsoft would surprise us with an announcement of WebRTC support at their World Wide Partner Conference. Didn’t happen. They both seem to be saying that they’ll look closer at it once it gets closer to being a standard. But WebRTC may just be big enough that Microsoft and Apple may just have to fall in line. In fact, there are a lot of IT professionals that don’t think Microsoft/Apple are needed for this to take off. We may just see these browsers end up with some third party developing a plug-in for support, although this would somewhat be missing the point of why WebRTC is cool. The other issue is that the existing browser vendors can’t agree on all of the codecs that should be included in the standard. Currently, there isn’t universal support for G.729 (for voice) or (H.264 for video). Those are both huge if WebRTC is hoping to gain universal interoperability with the enterprise.
So, in a nutshell, WebRTC looks to be one of those game changing technologies for the communications space. It lets Real Time Communications join in the open, true “cloud” philosophy space that more traditional not-so-real-time apps have been able to play in. So far, for Enterprise Communications, Cloud is really more of a consumption model than anything else. Cloud is meant to be more than that. WebRTC helps move this in that direction. It still has a way to go, but this is certainly something to pay attention to. Arrow S3 certainly is. Our application developers are already in deep. Patient Connect is being expanded to be more of a service that lets patients find doctors, and lets them talk to the clinic via voice/video, all using WebRTC. That’s going to be called ServiceConnect. This isn’t just medical. It could be used for anyone wanting to connect customers to offered services. We’re also looking to use it to create plug-ins and integration connectors to between our major partners Avaya, Genband, and Microsoft. There’s some great information on WebRTC out on the google tubes if you want more. Just Google “WebRTC” or “WebRTC what’s the big deal”. You’ll find some great articles and opinions.
Skype to become irrelevant with Web-RTC
The entire communications landscape is about to change forever and this board doesn't have a clue about what is happening, really rather tragic to watch the them chase the stock price every 10 seconds of everyday, up 30% euphoric, down 30% depression.
How WebRTC Will Fundamentally Disrupt Telecom (And Change The Internet)
If we step back to before 1993, publishing and finding content on the Internet was a somewhat obscure, geeky thing that a very few people cared about and very few knew how to do. It involved gopher servers, ftp sites, archie, veronica, WAIS, USENET newsgroups, etc., and this "World-Wide Web" service primarily demonstrated via the server at info.cern.ch. It was an amazing period of time for those of us who were there, but the number of users was quite small.
Then NCSA released Mosaic in 1993 ... and suddenly everything changed.
Anyone could create a web page that "regular" people could see on their computers. Anyone could download Mosaic and use it. Anyone could share their sites with the installation of server software.
The Web was truly born into public consciousness... the creation of Web-based content was democratized so that anyone could do it... the creativity of developers was unleashed... a zillion new business models were thought of... and the Internet fundamentally changed.
Fast-forward to today...
... and the "Web" is still predominantly a document-based system. You make HTTP queries to retrieve pages and send HTML and XML documents back and forth between web browsers and web servers.
Separately, we have a world of telecommunication apps that have moved to IP. These are not just voice, but they are also video, instant messaging, data-sharing. They have moved so far beyond what we traditionally think of as "telecommunications". The apps use wideband audio, HD video, white boarding, sharing and so many capabilities that cannot have even been remotely imagined by the creators of the PSTN and all the legacy telcos and carriers. They are "rich communications" applications that have severely disrupted the traditional telco world.
The problem is that creating those rich, real-time communications apps is somewhat of a black art.
It is the realm of "telephony developers" or "VoIP developers" who can understand the traditional world of telcos and can interpret the seven zillion RFCs of SIP (as all the traditional telcos have glommed all sorts of legacy PSTN baggage onto what started out as a simple idea).
Deploying those rich communication apps also involves the step of getting the application into the hands of users. They have to download an application binary - or install a Flash app or Java plugin into their browser. Or on a mobile device install an app onto their mobile smartphone.
The world of rich communication experiences is held back by development problems and deployment problems.
Enter WebRTC/RTCWEB
Suddenly, any web developer can code something as easy as this into their web page:
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$.phono({
onReady: function() {
this.phone.dial("sip:9991443046@sip.example.net")
} } );
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Boom... they have a button on their web page that someone can click and initiate a communications session ... in ANY web browser. [1 - this is not pure "WebRTC" code... see my footnote below.]
Using JavaScript, that pretty much every web developer knows... and using the web browsers that everyone is using.
And without any kind of Flash or Java plugins.
Boom... no more development problems. Boom... no more deployment problems. [2]
WebRTC is about baking rich, real-time communications into the fabric of the Web and the Internet so that millions of new business models can emerge and millions of new applications can be born.
It is about unleashing the creativity and talent of the zillions of web developers out there and turning the "Web" into more than just a document-based model but instead into a rich communications vehicle. It's about moving these apps from an obscure art into a commonplace occurrence.
We really have absolutely no idea what will happen...
... when we make it as simple for ANY developer to create a rich, real-time communications experience as it is to create a web page.
But we're about to find out... and done right it will fundamentally change the Internet again.
If we think the legacy telco crowd are upset now about how "VoIP" has screwed them over (from their point of view), they haven't seen anything yet. WebRTC/RTCWEB doesn't need any of their legacy models. It bypasses all of that in ways that only the Internet enables. It is NOT shackled to any legacy infrastructure - it can use new peer-to-peer models as well as more traditional models. And it goes so far beyond what we think of as "communication" today. [3] The potential is there for so much more than just voice and/or video... it's about establishing a real-time, synchronous "communications" session between two (or more) endpoints - what media are used by that session is up to the apps: voice, video, chat, data-sharing, gaming... we really don't know what all people will do with it!
I see it as the next stage of the evolution of the Internet, disrupting to an even greater degree the business models of today and changing yet again how we all communicate. The Internet will become even more critical to our lives in ways we can't even really imagine.
I just have to laugh
Never have so many understood so little as our little price chasers here.
Yahoo Buys Social-browser maker Rockmelt for $70 Million August 2, 2013
Yahoo Buys Tumblr for $1.1 Billion May 20, 2013
Now try to figure it out, why are they doing this?
53% Short, Late 459,544 Cover Trade
If you want to understand what is going on here, follow the shares & trades. Yesterday 53% Short, 619,544 Short, of total traded 1,170,877.
All those 10k trades to BID and immediately to ASK are MM forcing trades among themselves.
MM, usually VFIN is sitting on the ASK with shares that are offered that are SHORTED to make the trade.
They square up either last trade of day or immediately After Hours covering most of the balance of their Short by getting shares from CD holder to cover. That Cover trade is ALWAYS lower than the daily trading, which is profit for the MM covering.
Bottom line, focus on the fundamentals the trading BS is just that and will end when the CD stops providing shares.
Time Price Volume Market
08/08 0.0022 459544 OTO
08/08 0.0023 30000 OTO
08/08 0.0023 30000 OTO
08/08 0.0022 10000 OTO
08/08 0.0022 1000 OTO
08/08 0.0023 330000 OTO
08/08 0.0023 100000 OTO
08/08 0.0023 129544 OTO
08/08 0.0022 10000 OTO
08/08 0.0023 789 OTO
08/08 0.0022 10000 OTO
08/08 0.0023 10000 OTO
08/08 0.0022 10000 OTO
08/08 0.0023 10000 OTO
08/08 0.0022 10000 OTO
08/08 0.0023 10000 OTO
08/08 0.0022 10000
What's a day trader to do, LOL
All the traders and weak so called longs more like undecided traders that don't know the difference are freaking out from the low volume, wonder why?
What difference does it make?
Maybe it will help some of them jump off the ship and let the sharks have a snack, I personally would love to see them walk the plank.
$2.20 cent Dump to BID, LOL
Hard to believe, a trade for 1000 shares dumped to the BID of .002, for grand total of $2.20 plus commission.
Someone need money for a bottle of pop or a burger.
It sure looks like they are done
Amazing when you remove the CD dumping you see that there never were any sellers, just the conversion.
The stock is worth 10X this price TODAY and a whole lot more tomorrow.
Tomorrow could be a blow out day to the upside, but more likely next week we see the iPhone App and blast off.
Without the CD holder providing shares, we will blow right past .01 before you know what happened.
It has been a long time since the stock traded on fundamentals and not off the over supply of CD converted stock.
Todd use your browser search
Tons of information is available on the internet using any search engine you like. VFIN is the symbol for a market maker, one of many just look up market maker VFIN and you will get a million answers.
100 to BID for .23 Cents, Really
How about that Dump to the BID, total cost of 23 cents plus commission.
Amazing games here
Picked up 5 more Reviews Overnight
Google Play VoX Mobile App has 1,027 reviews now, picked up 5 more overnight which is super. Usually only 1% of downloads gets a review so we may be seeing a large amount of downloads here, which investors will be very happy about and the others, well not so happy if your on the wrong side of the trade.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.voxcorp
Understand the CD Holder has to convert
IMO the CD Holder really doesn't have the option of just holding shares until they go higher before selling. For one thing the agreements sets strict limits on amount that can be held and by the very nature of the animal, these financial instrument often require that the shares be quickly rolled over to cash in order to continue to finance the agreement.
It is not like most of these funding entities have tons of cash that they hand out to struggling micro caps and see what happens. There business model depends on limiting their exposure and recycling those dollars over and over again, by converting stock to cash as they go along, providing more available funding etc.
Of course everyone of these things are capitalized differently so you can't really generalize why they act as they do, it is their ball game so let them play it out.
Market can't value stock with CD active
Get the 100's of millions of shares off our backs and you will see this puppy RUN!!!
Until that time, ACCUMULATION TIME!!
Impressive NO SELLERS without CD
Man hard to believe how tight investors are holding shares at these crazy levels.
Going to get harder and harder to build any large positions with this kind of trading action.
Stock is ready to run with some nice Apple news.
None of this means anything
The only things that count are REVENUE and PROFITS, the rest is just static, background noise.
The company will either grow it's revenue and profits over time and shareholder will be rewarded handsomely or it won't and shareholders will suffer the consequences which is as it should be.
The question really should be why are some people here bashing the company everyday with no financial interest in the outcome? If you believe that one you shouldn't be here either, they have their reasons why they are here, believe me, and it is not their concern for your financial success.
Amazing 740m Share Outstanding NO SELLERS
Really impressive that we have almost no selling other than the CD converters.
Shareholders must realize that they have something special here, a real company with real revenues that will growing rapidly in very short order.
It was Covered AH the 8m
The point I was trying to make is yesterday there were none of the usual Double counts during normal hours, they saved them up and did the one large AH Cover trade for the entire 8m.
When we have the large AH trade we usually have a very low short number for the day, because they covered it immediately at the end of the day.
Also the AH Cover is always LOWER than the last large trades, giving the MM a profit for the days work.
Note the AH at .0019 when low was .0020
Not that it matters, but the AH consolidation is the MM covering their daily short with the CD holder.
If you check the daily short for yesterday, it is at a very unusual 0, yes Zero on 16,006,400 volume.
They basically covered the entire daily volume of 8 million which were shorted, with the After Hours 8 million provided by the CD holder at the discounted .0019.
When we get the large AH block trade, the daily short position is very low or at zero.
If they MM actually had the shares first then they could just sell them and no AH trade needed, but they don't do it like that, they just short the share first and get the cash then cover AH with the CD holder in the settlement trade.
http://otcshortreport.com/index.php?index=pvsp#.UgD9ZhbV0QQ
The AH 8m was the same block
Add up the daily trades to the BID and you get exactly the same 8,023,120 that went by AH in settlement trade.
Trading Volume 8,023,120 Exactly
Add up the trading Sell volume for the day and you get 8,023,120 exactly the amount recorded After Hours, which ends up on the tape as 16 million plus, DOUBLE COUNTS.
IMO these are prearranged trades with the BIDS as high as just over 8 million at one time at .002, and that may have been the number that the CD converted was looking to sell today.
MM will work the stock during normal hours and Short to the Bid, and AH they make the settlement trade to close out the short position.
FF could be the willing buyer that is taking the shares at .002
Bottom line don't worry about something you don't understand and can't control, leave it to the professional to get the CD converted, they are almost done and the price is holding up nicely.
Time Price Volume Market
16:03:04 0.0019 8023120 OTO
15:47:34 0.0027 6214 OTO
11:51:58 0.0021 14000 OTO
11:23:34 0.002 900000 OTO
11:23:31 0.002 500000 OTO
11:23:10 0.002 500000 OTO
11:23:08 0.002 5294800 OTO
11:23:05 0.0022 15000 OTO
10:16:45 0.0022 337220 OTO
10:14:50 0.0024 211100 OTO
10:14:44 0.0024 265000
It was 8m not 16m
Those are Double Counts, it was 8 million if anyone cares.