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grant does St Jude hostpital have a cyber knife?
Also talked with a former st. marys hostpital employee and he said that the cyber knife there was donated and paid by a nero doctor.
wow thats a nice guy!
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youtube passes google as far as traffic goes as # 2 web site for traffic (yahoo #1) google 3 here below is another article that does not mention blinkx tho I found it very intresting.
from the motley fool
YouTube Shocks a Hulu (a GE and NEWS company)
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz March 12, 2008
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Leave it to Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) YouTube to steal Hulu's thunder.
Just as Hulu -- the Joost-like video-sharing site bankrolled by News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) FOX and General Electric's (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal -- is exiting beta to roll out to the public, Google is announcing YouTube Everywhere, an initiative to open up the site even further to third-party developers.
One of the first companies to make the most of YouTube's wider API flexibility is TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO). The digital video recorder pioneer announced this morning that its latest generation of broadband-connected TiVo boxes will allow users to view YouTube clips directly on their television sets later this year.
Sure, even the Wii's Web browser allows you to do that, but it's just one more way to bring viral videos and couch potatoes together. And before you start complaining about the grainy quality of YouTube clips as they get blown up on your flatscreen, know that YouTube has been working on a high-def solution for months now.
The wave of YouTube news may trip up Hulu's grand opening festivities -- and that's a pity, because Hulu is a pretty amazing product.
As a beta tester back in October, I found it too buggy even by "private beta" standards. Hulu didn't work on all of the computers I tested it on, and there were content hiccups. I kicked the tires again last night, and I was blown away by the improvement. I was able to seamlessly play full, high-quality episodes of shows like Family Guy, The Office, and The Simpsons on the same PC that was spitting out Hulu a few months earlier.
Hulu's arrival doesn't mean that YouTube's days at the top are numbered. The availability of full-length studio content for free through other sites hasn't held it back. Joost is a stunning platform. Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) has been offering Web streaming to subscribers at no additional cost for months. Disney's (NYSE: DIS) ABC is offering its own shows through ABC.com.
What has become of YouTube in that time? Well, Alexa.com is showing that YouTube has now overtaken parent company Google in terms of overall Web traffic. Globally, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) is the only site drawing a bigger audience than YouTube, according to Alexa.
Sites like Hulu and Joost are more likely to cannibalize physical television viewing than online surfing. So it's great to see YouTube open its arms wider this morning. It will make it that much easier to bring Hulu into the growing family of online eye candy.
Here are some of the other recent eye-opening developments at YouTube:
washington post mentions blinkx today along with hulu and youtube..
12 March 2008
By Kim Hart and Mike Musgrove
Watching video online has typically entailed viewing short snippets of celebrity news, music videos and homemade clips. But as streaming video becomes more popular, Hollywood is trying to figure out how to make its old business translate better online.
Hulu, a joint venture of NBC Universal and Fox, debuts on the Web today with a large library of advertising-supported television shows, movies and other video.
Hulu requires viewers to sit through two minutes of advertisements for a typical half-hour episode, or roughly 75 percent less commercial time than the typical prime-time TV show. Users of digital video recorders can skip commercials, but there's no fast-forwarding through Hulu.
Hulu, like other online video companies, is testing viewers' tolerance for ads. Having gained a following among about 5 million users during its test phase, Hulu plans its broader launch today. It is also planning to announce deals with Warner Bros. Television Group and Lionsgate to make popular shows like "Dawson's Creek" and movies like "Terminator 2" available on the site.
Hulu's library doesn't cover everything. ABC and CBS, for example, are not part of its roster of about 50 studios and networks. But Hulu chief executive Jason Kilar said the company has quadrupled the number of titles in its catalog since starting private testing in October.
The early popularity of Hulu and the growing audiences for other premium video content suggests that online viewers are interested in watching more than just the amateur videos that catapulted YouTube to success, said David Hallerman, senior analyst at eMarketer, a market-research firm.
Advertisers may be more willing to associate their brands with professional content, rather than user-generated videos that might be considered off-color or inappropriate, he said.
"A trusted environment would draw more of this money," Hallerman said. He noted that YouTube has struggled to translate its popularity in advertising revenue.
Jayant Kadambi, chief executive of YuMe, a Redwood, Calif.-based advertising network that lets publishers pair ads with videos, said tolerance for advertising is low for the amateur snippets.
"With user-generated content, people don't want to see the ads," he said. "But if you're desperate to watch something specific you'll put up with more ads to see it."
Nissan is working with Hulu, sponsoring such shows as NBC's "Heroes."
Robert D'Asaro, U.S. director of digital strategic alliances at ad agency OMD, said his company's studies have shown that Hulu users tend to be more engaged with what's on the screen than the average television viewer, in part because they usually sit closer to the screen and have fewer distractions. As a result, he said, users tend to come away from watching Hulu with more of an impression of the commercials than do television viewers.
"It's the two-foot experience as opposed to the 10-foot experience," he said.
Melissa Adams, senior manager of Nissan North America's media and brand integration, said the company's marketing is simply following the viewers.
"There's been so much fragmentation in media consumption," she said. "We have to go where consumers are going."
Kilar, who worked at Amazon.com for nine years, took over Hulu a year ago with the goal of hosting all the premium content on the Web.
Hulu's advertising strategy is to be both targeted and minimal. Each show has a single sponsor. It is experimenting with allowing users to choose which ads to view, and with showing movie trailers upfront in exchange for shows without commercial breaks. But unlike other sites -- such as NBC and Fox's independent sites -- it doesn't try to keep users captive; if users search for television shows or movies that aren't available on Hulu, they are directed to other sites. Users can also embed snippets of content from Hulu in their blogs or online profiles.
Allowing users to chose ads is innovative, some analysts said.
"It's one of the more aggressive moves we've seen," said Bobby Tulsiani, an analyst with Jupiter Research. "It's much more targeted than what you see on TV, where its hard to say if an ad actually got watched."
While Hulu keeps track of what users watch, it does not yet target ads based on their TV-viewing preferences. But the company said it is investing in more sophisticated technology to target ads based on viewers' habits.
Hulu has plenty of company among start-ups eager to make video advertising more lucrative and targeted.
YouTube has partnerships with about 1,000 premium content producers, including National Geographic, CBS and Sundance, but videos are no longer than 10 minutes. In August, YouTube started superimposing transparent ads at the bottom of videos that appear for only 10 seconds, which the site said turns fewer viewers away than 30-second ads before videos start.
Video-search company Blinkx embeds ads that are relevant to a video's content. Using voice-recognition software, Blinkx shows ads related to keywords mentioned in videos. Most of Blinkx's users also prefer professional content over amateur video, according to chief executive Suranga Chandratillake.
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Also called st. mary's hostpital today and (they have a cyber knife) I told them I was an investor and wanted to know how it was going she replied well we have had several patients so far and no complaints at all.
She could not tell me if she could help my friend or not tho.
I plan to call him on Friday if he does not call me first..
Tiny book value is 5.69 according to yahoo stats .
TINY has lost investors in this mkt because the market is unstable and don't look like IPO's are any time soon(FROM THE PORTFOLIO) and just look around small caps are getting killed on exchanges tiny is no diffrent .
I think TINY will make very happy investors someday perhaps 5-10 years down the road for those who can wait the investors in at this level will possible look like they robbed a bank in the FUTURE.
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blinkx Partners With Ginx TV to Bring Users the Best in Video Game Entertainment
Wednesday March 12, 8:00 am ET
Get Your Game on at www.blinkx.com
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, today announced a partnership with Ginx TV (www.ginx.tv), the first international TV channel for mainstream video gaming. High-quality video game programming is now easily accessible at blinkx.com. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising against the footage.
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Established in 2006, Ginx TV provides gamers of every skill and interest level the best in video game programming. Available on satellite, cable, broadband and online, fans can watch what they want, when they want, wherever they want. From racing and sports games to fantasy and shoot-‘em-ups, Ginx turns games into mainstream entertainment.
“The video game industry continues to grow both in popularity and in its influence on pop culture,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. “We’re excited to partner with Ginx TV to bring the best gameplay footage to video game enthusiasts and casual players around the world.”
“We treat gamer culture and video games as mainstream entertainment. As our channels roll out internationally, blinkx offers our audiences an additional window with which to sample some of the great shows currently on air on Ginx,” said Cosmo Spens, joint managing director, Ginx TV.
As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 220 partners and 18 million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech-recognition technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches
grant went to a high school basketball game and spoke to a buddy of mine who has terminal cancer in the liver I told him about cyber knife could cyber knife help his liver tumors?please let me know he said he was going to check on it but I was wondering in advance.
grant and tina after doing further DD and watching the cyberknife video on youtube and looking at ARAY's historical price for the stock I could simply not think of a better way to invest some money than into a robot that helps kill cancer without surgery.Also looks to be near the lowest its ever been I am long term here but I liike the price I got it at thanks for all your help.
yesturday I got the bid and ask it was .34 bid .35 ask blnkf.pk
great link on cyberknife info
http://www.stmaryscyberknife.org
What do other patients say about their CyberKnife experience?
“When I climbed off that table after the third CyberKnife treatment, I was in charge of the cancer, the cancer wasn’t in charge of me. And that’s how it’s been for two years. And it’s a good feeling. That freedom is priceless.”
-Danny Davis, CyberKnife patient
“That’s just a miracle in itself – the fact that they are saying, go ahead, start a family, and try to lead as normal of a life as you can. So, it’s a great positive outlook.”
-Wendy Dunham, CyberKnife patient
grant and tina there is a billboard by where i live that is advertising CYBERKNIFE for a hostpital in huntington wv and it reads cancer treatments 40 or 4 treatments then says cyber knife at the bottom.The only one in my area tthat has it.
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I would like to do that for a stock of mine can you give me directions to do that?
thanks in advance
nice jump on idcc today one might say finally !
Go IDCC
Blinkx Launches Twitter-Style Moblog Service NowThen
By Robert Andrews - Tue 04 Mar 2008 04:38 AM PST
Blinkx is today going public with an adjunct that bears little apparent connection to its core speech recognition-based web video search service. NowThen, a mobile photo blogging service, was supposedly initially developed by in-house marketers Erin Laye and Kat Malinowska as a tool to ease communications between Blinkx‘s San Francisco and London offices, Media Week said, but a small beta test appears to have convinced them to lift the curtain fully, with a new design, today.
NowThen enters the space enjoyed by the likes of moblogUK. Not unlike what Twitter does in the text space, NowThen mobile photos appear on the sender’s profile page and in friends’ mobile inboxes. Again like Twitter, the mobile costs are free. Unlike Twitter, users can create friend groups and assign privacy levels to them. Laye: “We have 2,000 registered users at the moment and are doing a push here in the UK because Britons send three times more text messages than Americans.” There’s little apparent strategy behind it yet, with some talk of potential premium features and advertising - all of which depends on whether the service can a) become popular and b) absorb the high costs of transmitting MMS messages.
http://www.nowthen.com
blinkx down 26% today to .25 cents thats 4 for a dollar folks I will call monday to get a bid and ask and post it on here..
what ITKG needs to get an independent firm to test their product and make the results known to the public and its shareholders and possible future customers ...
still long on ITKG but I am concerned ..
Blinkx video demo of its broadband tv feature in feb 2008 comming soon!
http://www.blinkx.com/burl?blinkxreferrer=resultTitle&v=cLLA8__yYnQ6E7rbveReUw
blinkx turns to the BBC »
6 March 2008
Video search engine blinkx (BLNX:AIM) has entered into a partnership with BBC iPlayer, the BBC's online on-demand service, providing Blinkx viewers with direct access to the latest BBC TV footage.
Thanks to the deal, users of blinkx.com will be able to search and access BBC iPlayer programmes and will be offerred a preview before viewing the programme in full on the BBC's iPlayer download or live streaming service. Users of the service will be able to access a variety of BBC programmes including comedy, factual, drama, and some sport from all BBC TV channels.
blinkx will index all BBC iPlayer content so that users will be able to search for content more easily. "Through this partnership, we're able to further our commitment to our users by offering them the most comprehensive archive of professional TV programming available on the web today," says chief executive, Suranga Chandratillake. The San Francisco based company also announced content deals with US television channel, CBS, as well as The Weather Channel. The shares ticked up to 18.1p.
Continuing to expand its portfolio, but the shares have yet to take off.
tina whats your take on todays news?
grant is this the test results you wanted and waited for?
Independent Survey Names CyberKnife(R) System Most Widely Used Extracranial Radiosurgery Technology
All-Purpose Units Rarely Utilized for Radiosurgical Treatments
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 6, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Accuray Incorporated (ARAY), a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today results of an independent survey, which concluded that the CyberKnife(R) Robotic Radiosurgery System is the only extracranial radiosurgery technology in widespread, routine clinical use.
The survey also showed that hospitals with all-purpose units -- which combine radiotherapy and radiosurgery systems -- rarely use the devices for extracranial radiosurgery treatments. In fact, on average, each all-purpose unit was used to treat only five patients per year with extracranial tumors, compared to approximately 91 extracranial patients treated with each CyberKnife System.
In its second year, this survey charts the rapid growth of radiosurgery for treatment of extracranial tumors and reinforces findings from 2006, which also indicated the CyberKnife System was the most widely used device for extracranial radiosurgery. Last year approximately 50 percent of the CyberKnife Systems were used half of the time or more for extracranial treatments. This year, survey data show that 74 percent of CyberKnife Systems are now used half of the time or more to treat extracranial tumors. In contrast, less than 1 percent of all-purpose units currently are used at this level. This low usage suggests that these devices have virtually no measurable impact on the rapidly expanding extracranial radiosurgery market. In contrast, 100 percent of CyberKnife Systems are being utilized for some type of extracranial procedure, with prostate, lung and spine treatments increasing most dramatically over the past year.
"Many hospitals are discovering that they can address a wider variety of patients -- particularly those who want an alternative to surgery or have been diagnosed with inoperable tumors -- by offering radiosurgery treatments," said Eric P. Lindquist, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Accuray. "As a result, the market for extracranial radiosurgery is growing universally. This year's survey once again offers clear evidence that, unlike BrainLAB's Novalis, Elekta's Synergy, TomoTherapy's HiArt and Varian's Trilogy, the CyberKnife System, as a dedicated radiosurgery system, is the only device that is truly making a significant contribution to that growth."
Survey Methodology
Dominic & Irvine Research, an independent market research firm, surveyed 1,460 radiation oncology sites in the United States by telephone between June and December of 2007 to determine the nature of their radiation oncology program, the systems that were utilized at the site (linear accelerator, intensity-modulated radiation therapy, image-guided radiation therapy, stereotactic radiosurgery, etc.), and the pattern of equipment usage for both intracranial and extracranial treatments. All-purpose units, as referenced above, include Varian Medical Systems' Trilogy(TM), Elekta's Synergy(R), BrainLAB's Novalis(R) and TomoTherapy's Hi-Art(R). Interviews were conducted with the head or director of radiation oncology as well as radiation oncologists and physicists at some sites.
About the CyberKnife(R) Robotic Radiosurgery System
The CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System is the world's only robotic radiosurgery system designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body non-invasively. Using continual image guidance technology and computer controlled robotic mobility, the CyberKnife System automatically tracks, detects and corrects for tumor and patient movement in real-time throughout the treatment. This enables the CyberKnife System to deliver high-dose radiation with pinpoint precision, which minimizes damage to surrounding healthy tissue and eliminates the need for invasive head or body stabilization frames.
About Accuray
Accuray Incorporated (ARAY), based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is a global leader in the field of radiosurgery dedicated to providing an improved quality of life and a non-surgical treatment option for those diagnosed with cancer. Accuray develops and markets the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System, which extends the benefits of radiosurgery to include extracranial tumors, including those in the spine, lung, prostate, liver and pancreas. To date, the CyberKnife System has been used to treat more than 40,000 patients worldwide and currently more than 125 systems have been installed in leading hospitals in the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit .
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blinkx Expands Partnership with Global Music Brand Ministry of Sound
Wednesday March 5, 8:00 am ET
Hundreds of Music Videos and Interview Footage Fully Searchable at www.blinkx.com
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Ministry of Sound TV (MoSTV), the first digital content provider for dance music entertainment. Viewers will soon have direct access to hundreds of videos from MoSTV, ranging from music videos to interviews to events. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will leverage its AdHoc platform to place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, and share resulting advertising revenue with Ministry of Sound.
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Founded in 1991, the Ministry of Sound has evolved as a music and lifestyle brand that single-handedly created the clubbing movement as we know it today. Ministry of Sound, London – the company’s club – remains the catalyst for its many brand ventures and extensions, and as dance music has evolved, club output has consistently been at the forefront of the scene.
“We are thrilled to expand the terms of our partnership with Ministry of Sound TV,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. “The company is at the forefront of dance music entertainment, and fans from around the world will soon be able to access and watch its amazing library of footage directly at blinkx.com.”
“Ministry of Sound TV has a fantastic year ahead. We are expanding our content repertoire towards fully interactive programming and continue to aggressively push our multi-platform syndication strategy,” said Raoul Chatterjee, director of Digital & Sales, Ministry of Sound. “Our original partnership with blinkx has proven to us that their unique technology makes it possible for viewers to search and find the most accurate results on the Web, thus spreading the vision of the Ministry of Sound brand to an even larger audience.”
As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 220 partners and 18 million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech recognition technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches.
About blinkx
blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive video search engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 18 million hours of audio, video, viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable and available on demand. blinkx's founders set out to solve a significant challenge – as TV and user-generated content on the Web explode, keyword-based search technologies only scratch the surface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen to – and even see – the Web, helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search results not available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for many of the world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.
About Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound, established 1991, is a multimedia branded entertainment business encompassing the world’s largest independent record company, a major live events business, a digital and mobile business encompassing websites and download stores, a product licensing and merchandising business, an IPTV channel, a radio station, international venues and of course the most famous nightclub in the world. www.ministryofsound.com
tina I bought more today at 9.90 today how much did u get yours yesturday for?
thanks tina I plan to buy more tommorow also what do you think of blinkx.com BLNKF.pk # 1 video search engine ?
please look at that and tell me what you think
Is this the first hosptial to have more than one cyberknife?
just went to blinkx.com today and it has partnered up with the weather channel and you can click to right corner to see your local weather without having to type anything as it knows what city your computer is in how cool is that!
Last october for the 6 mths Blinkx (video search engine: BLNKF.pk)
Beat the street with better than expected in 2007 .
6 mth period would end at the end of March so could hear from them late April or early may (me guessing).
They launched their new advertising tool called adhoc in October of 2007 so earnings should tell how well it is doing.
Citi who follows the stock says it will be a breakeven in 2010 .
It has 44 million in cash and the ceo says he agrees with the 2010 prediciton.
Blinkx has syndication deals with lycos ask.com powers their video search and realnetworks powers search bar for videos on real player #11.
this is a hidden gem and only .37 cents more content for videos than yahoo and google.
Check them out and let me know what you all think on BLNKF board on this site.
Also trades on london exchange under yahoo symbol BLNX.L and gets more volume on that exchange (same stock tho)
Last october for the 6 mths Blinkx (video search engine: BLNKF.pk)
Beat the street with better than expected in 2007 .
6 mth period would end at the end of March so could hear from them late April or early may (me guessing).
They launched their new advertising tool called adhoc in October of 2007 so earnings should tell how well it is doing.
Citi who follows the stock says it will be a breakeven in 2010 .
It has 44 million in cash and the ceo says he agrees with the 2010 prediciton.
Blinkx has syndication deals with lycos ask.com powers their video search and realnetworks powers search bar for videos on real player #11.
this is a hidden gem and only .37 cents more content for videos than yahoo and google.
Check them out and let me know what you all think on BLNKF board on this site.
Also trades on london exchange under yahoo symbol BLNX.L and gets more volume on that exchange (same stock tho)
this is old news but good from USATODAY in 2006 before blinkx was public...
I currently do not know the statis of this deal.. but find it very interesting..
Web video search site Blinkx signs Microsoft pact
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — YouTube is a load of laughs. Finding something specific you want to watch is another matter.
For searching video on the Web, Blinkx.tv is emerging as the way consumers on a range of websites and media properties find what is available.
On Monday, Blinkx will announce potentially one of its biggest deals to date, with Microsoft, which has agreed to use Blinkx technology to power the video search on some parts of its MSN Internet sites and Live.com.
"We will be the single biggest video search engine on the Web," Suranga Chandratillake, Blinkx co-founder and chief technology officer, said in an interview.
Blinkx already powers video search on sites ranging from AOL to ITN, Lycos and Times Online. It also indexes video from the likes of BCC, Fox, MTV, Sky News, Reuters and YouTube and makes and makes videos on those sites searchable on Blinkx or partner sites.
To date, the company has indexed more than six million hours of audio, video, and TV programming to make it searchable.
Instead of a cut of advertising revenue, Microsoft has agreed to pay Blinkx an outright licensing fee based on how much use visitors to Microsoft websites make of the Blinkx search system, Chandratillake said.
"It could mean from zero to millions of dollars," Chandratillake said of the potential value of the Microsoft deal to Blinkx. Last month, Blinkx also signed a deal to power the video search of broadband entertainment site Lycos.
Beyond text and title
As consumer interest in watching video on the Web has exploded with the wider availability of broadband connections, Blinkx has focused on going beyond simple text-search methods to develop audio- and image-search tools.
The San Francisco-based company uses voice recognition, image and contextual analysis, which helps computers calculate whether an image may be a human face, a nature setting or some other scene.
"When a computer looks at a piece of video, for the most part, it has no idea what is going on," Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff said.
Using Blinkx, a consumer can search for videos based on keywords or phrases. The results reflect not just a search of titles or text information attached to the video but also uses speech recognition to find matching words in audio tracks.
Founded in early 2004, the 27-employee company is self-funded with the help of several angel investors, Chandratillake said. It has taken $12 million to $13 million and spent three-quarters of that amount. Its costs are low and revenues are now beginning to flow.
"Becoming cash flow positive is not our biggest single goal," Chandratillake said, adding: "I get plenty of VC (venture-capital) offers."
Unlike YouTube or Google, Blinkx stores search information on videos, but not the videos themselves, meaning that computer costs are kept low. "It makes for cheaper legal bills," he quips, referring to copyright issues raised by storing video.
pink sheets like this one I have to call and get a bid and ask from ameritrade as they have to call a broker and get it for me .
It usually has a huge gap like for example about .06 cents .
I used Scottrade to buy my first shares of blinkx it was very costly trade around 30 bux depends on how many shares (pink sheets) trust me open an ameritrade account and save alot in commissions you can call them 1-800-669-3900 for more info.
scottrade is good but costly to trade pink sheets under a $1.
ameritrade has no hidden fees and you can trade BLNKF online just call them fisrt to get the bid and ask.
Blinkx Also trades in london exchange under yahoo symbol BLNX.L
under that symbol you will find blinkx news and its the same as buying BLNKF.pk it is just diffrent currency and yahoo does not update BLNKF.pk shares until around 8:10 pm
questions I would like answered :
What is the statis with the microsoft deal (in 2006)?
How is the new advertising concept adhoc going for blinkx?
2008 has been a rough year for alot of stocks especially tech ones like this but I like what blinkx is doing so far this year in 2008 so far they have signed at least 1 partner every week in 2008 and the price IMO doesn't reflect it.
Teamlasvegas I use Ameritrade.com to buy my pink sheet stock BLNKF the cost is 9.99 per trade no matter how many shares you trade and no hidden fees at ameritrade .
by the way BLNKF went up .07 cents today to .37 cents and 23% gain for the day.
from citi analyist about blinkx rated buy
Contents
Blinkx: A Mix Of Autonomy & Google Or Pie In The Sky?
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What Is Blinkx?
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Risks – A Hill Of Beans
15
Internet Video – Where Is Consumption Trending?
20
Advertising & Video Search – What Is The Potential?
28
Technology And Patents
34
Broadband TV – Birth Of New Aggregators
46
Transaction Hijacking – E-Commerce Opportunity
48
Deal Structure And Parent Company Relationship
51
Financial Model
54
Valuation – Early Stage Business
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Appendix 1 – Search Trial Results
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Appendix 2: Patents
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Appendix A-1
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Blinkx Plc (BLNX.L)
11 July 2007
Citigroup Global Markets | Equity Research
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Blinkx: A Mix of Autonomy & Google or Pie in The Sky?
We pose two questions. Does Blinkx business model have differentiation in
technology, functionality and consumer appeal for the group to attain a large
piece of the video search market? Are video search revenues likely to scale or
not? Autonomy’s technology and Blinkx consumer application should give
Blinkx the chance to compete with the likes of Google. As to the end market,
video search’s growing share of media consumption and the advertiser appeal of
emotive television content and contextual search should produce scale.
Ultimately, Blinkx is either worth very little or way more than $236m to a large
internet group. If our model is right, Blinkx trades at 7.9x P/E in March 2011E.
The summary in summary
Routemap to this section
Blinkx business model – video search & consumer website
Technology drawn from Autonomy
Scalable end markets: video search could replicate textual search
Emotive TV and contextualized search; could yield rich valuation
White label: strong momentum since the IPO
Issues: competition, content, consumer behaviour and monetization
Deal structure, relationship with Autonomy and management
Earnings model, sensitivities and implications for valuation
Blinkx business model – video search & consumer website
The basis of the Blinkx offering is 12 million hours (and growing rapidly) of
indexed online video content. Blinkx has two main businesses: provision of
video search technology to third parties, and a direct-to-consumer website that
offers streaming video search and acts as a video portal organized into subject
categories: world news, sport, business, health, entertainment, user generated.
At present, Blinkx generates around 4m video searches per day. Further
applications such as Broadband TV and e-commerce transaction hijacking (see
below) will follow in the next year.
One such application is ‘white label’ agreements, which allow third parties,
predominantly portals like MSN, to licence their video search technology. In
March 2007, these represented around 65% of the group’s video searches.
We would expect ‘white label’ to remain the main revenue source for the
group for some time. The distribution partners benefit from being able to offer
advanced video search on their websites, while Blinkx benefits from
increased usage of the search engine and therefore increased potential
advertising revenues. More recent deals have seen Blinkx also receiving a fee
per search as well as its share of advertising revenues. Since the IPO, Blinkx
has concluded / extended a number of important ‘white label’ deals. The
most important have been with Ask and RealPlayer, as we discuss below.
Blinkx Plc (BLNX.L)
11 July 2007
Citigroup Global Markets | Equity Research
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Blinkx.tv or Blinkx.com is a consumer facing website, which allows
consumers to search for internet video content. Blinkx has more than 130
content partners, including traditional media such as ABC, HBO, ITN, BBC
and Reuters, and new media such as YouTube. As consumers type in a
search, such as Wimbledon, a wall of 25 mini screens of streaming content
populate results of each search. The consumer can then click into one of the
boxes (which then occupies half the screen). A Blinkx search is based on its
entire indexed content, irrespective of whether said content emanates from a
content partner, and the search result is biased purely to efficacy of results,
not to agreements. The site also acts as a portal allowing consumers to keep
up with events in areas like business, sport and world news.
Later this year, the group will roll out two new services: Broadband TV and
Transaction Hijacking. Broadband TV is an offering of primarily basic
channels (infinite in number and high definition) streamed using second-
generation p2p technology. The service will initially be ad-funded, and the
flexibility to move from streamed TV into advertiser product websites at the
click of a mouse should prove attractive. Subscription offerings will follow,
and we think technology solutions allowing PC to TV convergence will prove
the driver for this in 2008/9E and beyond. Blinkx is a European play on
internet search advertising, an attractive growth market and difficult to invest
in outside the US.
The group will also offer ‘transaction hijacking’, which uses implicit query
technology to inform consumers of cheaper transactions at the point of
purchase. The model intends that Blinkx will be paid a fee by the site which
captures the business.
We expect further mobile, desktop and local search applications to follow in
the future.
Technology comes from Autonomy, its parent
Autonomy’s matching algorithms have for over a decade allowed it to categorize,
hyperlink and route data that has not previously been tagged / analysed. The
algorithms can also profile users’ areas of interest based on how they engage
with data. The technology is proprietary and unique. Other technologies which
usually search for simple key words are not nearly as effective, particularly in
dealing with multi-media content. Autonomy’s end markets are predominantly
software applications within enterprise and government. Blinkx focuses on
consumer markets and has a perpetual licence for this technology globally,
except in the Chinese language, and this is exclusive for five years. Autonomy is
a 10% shareholder in Blinkx and its CEO and founder, Mike Lynch, also owns
10% of Blinkx.
From 1999-2002, Autonomy traded at anything between 30x and 90x
prospective revenues. Currently, the group trades at 29.7x P/E and 6.3 EV/Sales
2008E, and in the interim phase its market cap has moved from c.$1.5bn to
$2.5bn (with massive volatility along the way). Our price target for Blinkx is 80p,
which corresponds to an EV/revenue multiple of 93.3x March 2008E, falling to
3.6x March 2011E, or 12.2x 2011E EBITDA.
Blinkx Plc (BLNX.L)
11 July 2007
Citigroup Global Markets | Equity Research
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Scalable end markets: video search could replicate textual search
The online video market has seen significant growth fuelled by demand from
consumers, advertisers and website publishers. The key issue is to what extent
this market can be monetized and be a catalyst for shifting advertising budgets
onto the web. According to eMarketer, online video advertising grew over 80% in
2006. There have been several drivers:
In 2002 broadband users in the US numbered 60m. Currently, there are
130m, and by the end of the decade this number is expected to grow to
180m. Roughly 80% of US broadband users stream video content online, and
this percentage is growing. The top five video sites saw average time spent
grow by 5% in the five months between June and November, so individual
usage is also growing.
One of the major drivers of this growth has been better user-generated
content, and recently a spate of ‘professional’ content companies including
NBC, Newscorp, Disney and CBS have all begun to embrace the internet.
Further technology improvements, such as improved compression (to
facilitate better-quality video) and home networking (to allow PC content on
TVs) should be a further driver of growth in this market for the next five years.
Blinkx is well placed for these developments, especially as PC-TV
convergence becomes widespread.
This kind of growth is reminiscent of textual search and Google. Textual search
revenues in the US in 2000 were $81m, and by 2006 were $6.7bn. eMarketer
predicts online video advertising growing from $85m in 2003 to $2.9bn in
2010E. There is an enormous range of forecasts in the market – eMarketer
raised its 2010E forecast by c.25% between November 2005 and November
2006, while IDC’s March 2006 forecast has the market at $1bn in 2010E. By
2010E, using eMarketer’s estimates online video will only account for 3% of
total US TV advertising and 12% of US internet advertising.
Google’s revenues have grown from $440m in 2002, to $10.6bn in 2006, and a
limited part of this growth is acquisitions. Google’s multiples have borne some
resemblance to Autonomy’s. In 2002, average EV/revenues was 69x prospective;
in 2003, it was 35x; and, currently, Google’s P/E is around 33x (an EV revenue
multiple of just under 7x).
Blinkx could attract an extremely high multiple for two main reasons:
Video search brings together the emotive appeal of brand advertising
reminiscent of TV, with the contextual, measurable quality of textual search.
Blinkx’s technology affords multiple applications for monetization, such as
‘white labeling’, a direct consumer website proposition, Broadband TV,
ecommerce transaction hijacking and mobile applications. News-flow around
white label deals since the IPO has been very encouraging.
Blinkx Plc (BLNX.L)
11 July 2007
Citigroup Global Markets | Equity Research
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Strong momentum in white label deals
Since the IPO there have been a number of important white label deals.
On 5
th
June, Blinkx announced that it has been chosen by Ask.com to power
the video search component of its ‘universal search’. When consumers search
on Ask, which is the fourth largest global search group (with a c. 5% share in
US), behind Google, Yahoo and MSN, the results come back as text, image and
video searches. This ‘universal search’ affords Blinkx a great deal of video
search traffic, but less ‘monetization’, as consumers will frequently search on
text or images rather than video. We see Ask’s decision to use Blinkx to power
its video search as a huge endorsement, given the importance of video search to
Ask’s new offering. At present, we assume that it has a material affect on
search traffic, but not on revenues for the reason we give above, that click
through rates are likely to start very low. Over time we would expect these to
pick up. Ask recently spent $100m on a marketing campaign in London, San
Francisco and New York promoting its new search service.
On 25 June, just as important as regards traffic, Real Networks announced that
it will have video search integral to it, and this will be powered by Blinkx. 1.5m
Real Players get downloaded every day, and the tag 'powered by Blinkx' will be
front and centre on the video search function, which will also be front and
centre. This should be a major traffic driver and driver of brand.
Both deals work in the same way as traditional white label – the traffic is Blinkx,
and ads pre rolls are shared between Blinkx and the content owner. In the case
of Real Player (and Infospace – see below) Blinkx also gets a share of adverts on
the sites split 50:50 with white label even if no advert is contained in the video
search. In the case of the Ask deal, Blinkx gets a fee per search as well.
On the same day, Blinkx also announced that its European deal with Infospace
has been extended so that Infospace has opened its US traffic to Blinkx engine.
We would not expect this to drive massive extra traffic, but again, we see it as
vindication of the product. We note that Infospace only allows Blinkx on its own
traffic, not the networks it powers, but overtime, this could change.
The Independent newspaper also reported on 25 June, that Blinkx is
conducting 4m searches per day, up from 1.4m at the time of IPO. We had
initially modelled a doubling for the full year, so this is very significant, as the
Real and Infospace deals should drive traffic still further. To the point we made
above, however, we do not feel comfortable yet adjusting our forecasts, because
much of the extra traffic will have come from Ask, where click through rates will
be lower.
As regards monetization of traffic, Blinkx also issued a release about an ad
service it provides, called Ad Hoc, which adds relevancy to ads. This will start
having some impact in Q4 of this year.
Blinkx CEO: we don't need Google
Blinkx has made a bullish debut, and its chief executive is adamant it doesn't need a deal with Google to be successful in video search
Jonathan Richards
Suranga Chandratillake is explaining why it is difficult for a computer to tell the difference between a border collie and a cow.
A machine can easily tell that an object in an image is a four-legged, black and white animal, he says; possibly also that it is standing in a field under the sky. (It 'sees' the green and blue.)
Beyond these basic recognitions of form, however, a computer's ability to interpret - and therefore 'read' - an image becomes more hazy. This is because humans' ability to interpret what they see relies on a process of contextualisation, or what Chandratillake calls 'reading visual clues' - something computers have so far been poor at imitating.
Blinkx, the company he runs, attempts to overcome these difficulties by teaching a computer to 'read' more signs in video - for instance by listening to what someone in a clip is saying, and observing any writing on the screen.
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In relation to the cow example, then, "if the video is running on a site about milk production, it's more likely to be a cow."
This, he and many analysts believe, will be an increasingly important service because, despite an ever increasing amount of video content being posted online, search engines rifling through it for relevant clips have typically returned poor results.
"The internet has stopped being a place primarily orientated around text, and is now one where you find a lot of rich media - video in particular," Chandratillake, 29, says.
"The problem with it is that it's very messy and fragmented - anyone can put content up, and it's distributed across an extremely broad range of sites."
Blinkx 'spiders' - or 'watches' - all the web's video content, ascertains as best it can the meaning of each clip, and then stores this in an index which is trawled when somebody conducts a search on a Blinkx-powered engine.
The majority of these indexes will be scoured by internal search engines on video-rich sites - such as those of the television networks, though some general search engines, such as Ask's, now also use it for their video search service.
Blinkx's earnings come from sharing any advertising revenue generated by a site when it displays a clip found by Blinkx's engine.
The company raised £25 million when it listed on AIM after being spun off from Autonomy, the Cambridge-based software group, and so far has struck deals with more than 20 high-profile sites, including Real Player, Lycos and InfoSpace.
Surely the jewel in the crown, however, would be a partnership with Google?
"A Google deal would be great - you'd assume there'd be a lot of traffic - but it's not essential. Google is the biggest single source of search traffic, but there are many more searches done on non-search engine sites," he says, referring to internet searches on non-search-specific sites, which are known as "white label" products.
It's a gamble pegging everything to video search, especially seeing as the technology has a way to develop yet, but so far the analysts agree.
Citi has the company breaking even in 3 years, with predicted earnings of $60 million in 2010 - its third year of operation, up from the $4.4 million Chandratillake expects it will earn this year.
The focus in the short term is on growing the company's sales team. By the end of the year, the head count will nearly have doubled since the IPO - up from 27 to 50, the majority in sales, with a fresh injection of research and development talent expected in 2008.
How is he finding it being cast as one of the rising stars in Silicon Valley, a role with which many West Coast-based 20-somethings are now familiar?
"I know it sounds a bit cheesy but I feel I'm on a mission - born out of an obsession with technology - to change things and make them better, " he says.
And does he ever take time out?
"My big achievement this year was getting married," he jokes, "but it's true my interests have taken a back seat. My great love is the balalaika, a Russian folk instrument similar to a lute, or mandolin. One day, when this is over, I may take it up again."
motley fool article links for past blinkx reports
Slaying Google's AdSense
… It blinked because of blinkx. In the blinkx of an eye Even though it's not a household name yet, blinkx has established itself as the leader in video search. …
http://www.fool.com/.../general/2007/10/10/slaying-googles-adsense.aspx - October 10, 2007
Ask.com and Ye Shall Receive
… In another deal announced yesterday, Ask is teaming up with blinkx in a revenue-sharing deal that will find blinkx providing video-search functionality …
htpp//:www.fool.com/.../2007/06/06/askcom-and-ye-shall-receive.aspx - June 6, 2007
Your Days Are Numbered by Disruptors
… Blinkx "Over 14 million hours of video," reads the Blinkx tagline. "Search it all.". Sure enough, Blinkx has mastered the art of …
http://www.fool.com/.../08/27/your-days-are-numbered-by-disruptors.aspx - August 27, 2007
YouTube Will Make You Rich
… s YPN programs. Even Blinkx (OTC BB: BLNKF.PK) has rolled out a way to generate ad revenue from third-party clips. A mindshare is …
http://www.fool.com/.../2007/12/11/youtube-will-make-you-rich.aspx - December 11, 2007
Media Giants Tune In to Net TV
… shows. Companies like Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), and Blinkx are developing search engines to locate video. And …
http://www.fool.com/.../2005/11/23/media-giants-tune-in-to-net-tv.aspx - November 23, 2005
Google Is Watching You
… t original. Video-search specialist Blinkx (OTC BB: BLNKF.PK) has been offering something similar since last year. Initial partners …
http://www.fool.com/.../value/2008/02/21/google-is-watching-you.aspx - February 21, 2008
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28 Feb 2008, 12:14 PM EST
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At the stockholders meeting it was said that the Recom system could be used for surveillance. So here are two news stories on the subject from CNN and the Washington Post; the WP story is todays take and much more negative on Boeing's efforts.
(Friday, February 22, 2008)
'Virtual fence' OK'd for U.S.-Mexico
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A 28-mile "virtual fence" that will use radars and surveillance cameras to try to catch people entering the country illegally has gotten final government approval.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced approval of the fence on Friday. The fence, built by the Boeing Co., uses technology the government plans to extend to other areas of the Arizona border, as well as to sections of Texas.
The projects could get under way as early as this summer, said department spokeswoman Laura Keehner.
The virtual fence is part of a national plan to secure the southwest border with physical barriers and high-tech detection capabilities intended to stop illegal immigrants on foot and drug smugglers in vehicles. As of Thursday, 302 miles of fencing had been constructed.
Chertoff said the virtual fence already is working.
On February 13, an officer in a Tucson command center -- 70 miles from the border -- noticed a group of about 100 people gathered at the border. The officer notified agents on the ground and in the air. Border Patrol caught 38 of the 100 people who tried to cross illegally, and the others went back into Mexico, said a Homeland Security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he isn't authorized to speak publicly.
The virtual fence system includes 98-foot unmanned surveillance towers that are equipped with an array of sophisticated technology including radar, sensors and cameras capable of distinguishing people from cattle at a distance of about 10 miles. The cameras are powerful enough to tell group sizes and whether people are carrying backpacks that may contain weapons or drugs.
"I have personally witnessed the value of this system, and I have spoken directly to the border patrol agents who are involved in operating that system over the last few months and who have seen it produce actual results in terms of identifying and allowing the apprehension of people who are illegally smuggling across the border," Chertoff said.
Last year the government withheld some of Boeing's payments for the system because technology the company used in the test project did not work properly. Boeing also was late in delivering the final product, known as Project 28.
Because of this, the department received a $2 million credit from the company to go toward maintenance and logistical support of the system, the Homeland Security officials said.
The government paid Boeing $15 million of its initial $20 million contract before determining that there were glitches in the test project. The department gave a conditional acceptance in December.
Lawmakers have been skeptical of the product Boeing delivered. Watch Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama give their views on border fence »
"This is not the end of the Project 28 story," Rep. Christopher Carney, D-Pennsylvania, said in a statement Thursday. "We need to understand what went wrong with Project 28 to ensure that the mistakes of the past are not repeated and taxpayer dollars are not squandered." Carney chairs the House Homeland Security management subcommittee.
Also Friday, Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Chertoff announced a 25 percent increase in the fines the government will levy against employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants. It is the first boost in fines in nearly a decade.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency responsible for investigating illegal hirings, has stepped up its enforcement of the employer sanctions law in the past year, leading to a dozen major busts.
Currently, fines range from $2,000 to $10,000 depending on the offense.
The agency says some penalties could include at least six months in jail.
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'Virtual fence' along border to be delayed
U.S. retooling high-tech barrier after 28-mile project fails
The Washington Post
By Spencer S. Hsu
updated 12:34 a.m. PT, Thurs., Feb. 28, 2008
The Bush administration has scaled back plans to quickly build a "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border, delaying completion of the first phase of the project by at least three years and shifting away from a network of tower-mounted sensors and surveillance gear, federal officials said yesterday.
Technical problems discovered in a 28-mile pilot project south of Tucson prompted the change in plans, Department of Homeland Security officials and congressional auditors told a House subcommittee.
Though the department took over that initial stretch Friday from Boeing, authorities confirmed that Project 28, the initial deployment of the Secure Border Initiative network, did not work as planned or meet the needs of the U.S. Border Patrol.
The announcement marked a major setback for what President Bush in May 2006 called "the most technologically advanced border security initiative in American history." The virtual fence was to be a key component of his proposed overhaul of U.S. immigration policies, which died last year in the Senate.
New troubles
Investigators for the Government Accountability Office had earlier warned that the effort was beset by both expected and unplanned difficulties. But yesterday, they disclosed new troubles that will require a redesign and said the first phase will not be completed until near the end of the next president's first term.
Those problems included Boeing's use of inappropriate commercial software, designed for use by police dispatchers, to integrate data related to illicit border-crossings. Boeing has already been paid $20.6 million for the pilot project, and in December, the DHS gave the firm another $65 million to replace the software with military-style, battle management software.
In an interview, Gregory L. Giddens, the department's executive director for the border effort, confirmed that "we . . . have delayed our deployment as we work through the issues on Project 28. While there is clear urgency of the mission, we also want to make sure we do this right."
Boeing has said that the initial effort, while flawed, still has helped Homeland Security apprehend 2,000 illegal immigrants since September. It estimated in 2006 that it would spend $7.6 billion through 2011 to secure the entire 2,000-mile southern border, an ambition that was meant to win support from conservatives for legislation creating a guest-worker program and a path to legalization for 12 million illegal immigrants.
But officials said yesterday that they now expect to complete the first phase of the virtual fence's deployment -- roughly 100 miles near Tucson and Yuma, Ariz., and El Paso, Tex. -- by the end of 2011, instead of by the end of 2008. That target falls outside Boeing's initial contract, which will end in September 2009 but can be extended.
Physical fence also delayed?
The virtual fence was to complement a physical fence that the administration now says will include 370 miles of pedestrian fencing and 300 miles of vehicle barriers to be completed by the end of this year. The GAO said this portion of the project may also be delayed and that its total cost cannot be determined. The president's 2009 budget does not propose funds to add fencing beyond the 700 or so miles meant to be completed this year.
"The total cost is not yet known," testified Richard M. Stana, the GAO's director of homeland security issues, because DHS officials "do not yet know the type of terrain where the fencing is to be constructed, the materials to be used, or the cost to acquire the land."
The pilot virtual fence included nine mobile towers, radar, cameras, and vehicles retrofitted with laptops and satellite phones or handheld devices. They were to be linked to a near-real-time, maplike projection of the frontier that agents could use to track targets and direct law enforcement resources.
GAO investigators said that Boeing's software could not process large amounts of sensor data. The resulting delays made it hard for operators in a Tucson command center 65 miles to the north to lock cameras on targets. Radar systems were also triggered inadvertently by rain and other environmental factors. Cameras had trouble resolving images at five kilometers when they were expected to work at twice that distance, Stana said.
He added that the system was developed with "minimal input" from Border Patrol agents, resulting in an unworkable "demonstration project" instead of a operating pilot system. He blamed the DHS for acting too hastily in trying to deliver a working pilot by last June.
The effort produced "a product that did not fully meet user needs, and the project's design will not be used as the basis for future . . . development," Stana testified, adding that the DHS plans to replace most of the components. The Wall Street Journal said Saturday that Boeing's pilot project will not be replicated.
Bush administration rush to blame?
A nongovernment source familiar with the project said that the Bush administration's push to speed the project during last year's immigration debate led Boeing to deploy equipment without enough testing or consultation.
With more time, the source said, equipment and software will be tested more carefully and integrated with input from Border Patrol agents in three remote locations. "Doing it this way mitigates all kinds of risk," said the source, who was not authorized to speak publicly. Those running the project "basically took equipment, put it on towers and put it out there without any testing as such" because of the tight deadline.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday that the department will "take elements" of the pilot project and apply them elsewhere, but that it plans to expand the number of mobile ground surveillance units from a handful to 40, and to double its fleet of three unmanned aerial vehicles. Boeing has offered DHS a $2 million credit from the funds it has already received.
Technology at the border is "not necessarily going to be in the configuration of P28," Chertoff said, adding that unmanned aerial systems in particular "will play a major role" in most border areas.
Boeing spokeswoman Deborah Bosick said the company is referring all questions to the DHS
thanks grant Does ARAY make a % of hospital useage as well ?
grant
thanks for the reply on blinkx and also does ARAY cyber knife cost how much per machine?
So far in 2008 blinkx has signed up at least 1 partner every week of 2008.
I asked a savy investor to check out blinkx and let me know what he thinks of it and here is his reply..
I did a brief check on blinkx plc(BLNKF)and it looks like an interesting play... probably sure to get bought up by someone along the way. If they can do everything that comes up on search engines about blinkx, it has some interesting features sure to appeal to the younger video generation... whether it can best youtube might be a problem.
From the pure fast look at the numbers available on Scottrade, it looks like it has been public about two years and falling in price slowly most of that time... recently bottoming at about .30/share. The stock looks to be erratic in trading volume & might be illiquid IF YOU HAD a "must sell" situation. Sometimes volume is 100K+, other times only about 20K, and some days no volume at all. As a PINKIE that kind of volume leaves you at the mercy of the market makers unless there is a run by momo players that happens that you can sell into.
If you had cash you wanted to "park" in some shares without any time table expecting it to perform, it might be a good "long term hold" for PPS gain on a buyout play... and I did not search thoroughly for recent news so there might be something happening that would indicate more interest/movement in the short term if there is something big happening now. However, a google search of "news" for blinkx seems to have NO 2008 entries and some 2007 entries from mid-year.
That is my quick take on it from what I have been able to discover so far... hope it helps.
regards,
grant
jimlur
here is the corrected link sorry for the mis link
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9878005-7.html