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Here's a quick run-down of what's new in TVTonic 3.3
http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2008/07/31/tvtonic-3-3-released.aspx
Ian Dixon's Blog
Ian's digital lifestyle and Windows Media Center Blog
TVTonic 3.3 Released
TVTonic is a great addon for Windows Media Center, it provides a platform for downloads internet video straight in to the Media Center UI. As well as providing content channels you can use it to subscribe to any video RSS feeds (like the one for my video shows), I have been using TVTonic since it was first released for Media Center and yesterday it got upgraded to 3.3 so here is a list of what is new in 3.3 and I will have a play with update let you know how I get on with it
Here's a quick run-down of what's new in TVTonic 3.3.
1. Redesigned interface
* navigation menu — quickly jump to the My Channels menu, details on the currently playing clip, the Channel Guide or full screen-mode.
* revamped Channel Guide — makes it easier to find, preview and subscribe new channels.
* expanded Channel Settings — easily delete videos, disable downloads on a per channel basis, refresh channels manually & more!
* centralized Cache Settings menu — you no longer need to open each channel to set it's cache size. Do it all in one place.
2. New Features
* mark all items in a channel as viewed at once
* support for HD QuickTime channels, such as Revision3's HD feeds
* channel icons under My Channels
3. TVTonic Control Panel — new streamlined, tabbed design.
* more detailed download monitor
* schedule download times
* restrict bandwidth usage and more
4. Under-the-hood improvements
* much better stability and performance
* smarter bandwidth management
* more robust and efficient download engine
* better cache management
* improved channel subscription
* mRSS support
Fullmoon, thanks
Click on the "Watch the introduction video" link (at http://www.tvtonic.com/olympics/install/). This intro works on XP as long as you have silverlight installed. I've watched it several times -- it's nice to hear "TVTonic" being mentioned!
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Study: TV loses viewers to Online Video
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
http://www.thebusinessofvideo.com/2008/07/study-tv-loses-viewers-to-online-video.html
Online video replaces TV watching
New data from recent months show online television viewers are using the web not just as fill-in or catch-up, but as TV replacement. The chart to the left shows the viewing behavior of IMMI panelists who are online television viewers. IMMI software can track online and subsequent or previous television viewing for each panel member .The results of this tracking:
50% of online viewing is panel members watching episodes they missed on television. They are either filling in an episode online when they had already seen the other episodes around it on TV (18.7%), or they are catching up on an episode online after seeing the subsequent episodes on TV (31.3%)
Big Media Gets Serious About LiveStreaming: Gannett Invests $10 Million In Mogulus
LiveStreaming video service Mogulus will announce a new round of financing later today. The size of the investment won’t be disclosed, although we’ve heard from a source that it is in the $10 million range. But far more important than the amount of capital raised is the investor. Gannett, a $4 billion company which owns USA Today and other news and media properties, funded the round.Mogulus, like competitors Ustream and Justin.tv, allow anyone with a camera, computer and Internet connection to live stream to the Internet, reducing huge overhead costs for remote coverage (you don’t need things like satellite uplinks). Sports Video to double on the Web
Screen Digest expects sports sites in the US to more than double the number of video streams and downloads they serve online, reaching 10.9 billion in 2012, up from 5.3 billion in 2007. While this increase is large, it actually represents a declining share of total online TV streams and downloads. That decline is more a measure of the expected growth of online video as a whole than an indication of any weakness in the sports sector.
... (see above link for the rest)
NBCOlympics.com [BETA]videos is up and running at the MSNBS site.
http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/
After selecting a video clip it asked me to install silverlight. When the video starts click on the lower right "enhanced player" tab. Looks good on my windows XP system. A lot of nice features. E.g., check out the PIP (picture in picture) option.
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Street Gears Up for Short Changes
By Randall Smith, Jenny Strasburg and Kara Scannell
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121625146811560197.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news
The federal crackdown on short selling is causing a scramble on Wall Street, with brokerage firms racing to implement new controls before the rules take effect on Monday.
The unprecedented get-tough action by the Securities and Exchange Commission means that securities firms will have to fine-tune their back-office operations to comply with the requirements.
The biggest potential headache: Existing rules allow brokers to sell stock short as long as they reasonably believe they can locate the needed shares and deliver them on time. Under the new curbs, short sellers will need to make formal arrangements to borrow the shares before ...
H-P held on to the No. 1 slot with an 18.1% share, up slightly from the year earlier, according to Gartner, while IDC put H-P's share at 18.9%. Meanwhile, Gartner said a hard-charging No. 2 Dell gained ground on H-P with its new retail strategy. The Round Rock, Tex.-based computer maker added nearly a full percentage point of market share, ending the quarter with 16.4% of overall shipments, according to IDC....
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080716-apple-dell-big-winners-as-pc-market-shows-healthy-growth.html
NBC's Ambitious Olympics Coverage
By Chris Preimesberger
2008-07-15
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Storage/NBCs-Ambitious-Olympics-Coverage/
NBC's Ambitious Olympics Coverage
Storage vendors Omneon and Isilon will handle a record 3,000 hours of hi-res and low-res video at the event.
NBC is busy putting the finishing touches on its near-round-the-clock coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games that debut Aug. 8, and IT storage will play a significant role in the success or failure of the effort.
Since the international event was first televised live by ABC in 1960 from Rome, no network has ever attempted to produce this much footage of an Olympiad.
When the Games host the closing ceremonies Aug. 24, the network will have broadcast just shy of 3,000 hours of swimming, track and field, gymnastics, volleyball, baseball, basketball, fencing, water polo, horseback riding, and numerous other competitions. About 25 percent of it will go "in the can" for archiving.
NBC's Beijing TV schedule, released July 8, includes about 2,900 hours of live TV coverage. That live coverage, broadcast over NBC and MSNBC, will exceed the total number of U.S. television hours—which now stands at 2,562, to be exact—for all previous summer Olympic Games combined.
About half of this expected footage will be shot in high-definition video. Consider that 96 hours of HD (4MB per second) footage comprises about 1 raw terabyte of storage capacity; that means about 11TB of storage will be necessary for HD alone.
The remainder of the footage will be shot in standard format (2MB per sec) to be distributed for Webcasts and handheld devices. That footage will take up somewhere around 6TB of storage.
Most of what will be filmed won't be thrown away during the event. Basically, NBC and its partners will be doing in Beijing what the big movie makers do every day in producing computer-generated films: file-based supercomputing, only with no special effects outside of many "intros" and "outros." The "special effects" will mostly be provided live, courtesy of the several thousand world-class athletes gathered in mainland China.
The network will be storing all that raw and edited digital footage in impressive storage data centers that include Isilon Systems and Omneon Video Networks hardware and software packages.
How does a network shoot, edit and air all that video in a manner that will tell all the various stories and keep viewers interested? Simple: It distributes everything.
Matt Adams, vice president of broadcast solutions at Omneon, worked for NBC for 10 years. He was brought to Omneon two years ago to come up with new applications of its technology and to find new markets.
"This, of course, is a huge amount of finished content to be delivered, so we had to come up with a pretty radical workflow in order to make that much content," Adams told me. "We also didn't want to haul everybody and their uncle over to Beijing, because [NBC] couldn't afford it, basically."
Omneon worked with NBC for more than a year to come up with a workflow plan "that would allow people to work at home in the United States and repurpose the content that NBC captures over there and deliver it to the different distribution outlets," Adams said.
Adams, Omneon and NBC came up with a concept called "proxy-based workflow."
"This requires making low-res copies of thousands of hours of competitions that are captured in our storage system in Beijing, and using a product called ProCast—a video acceleration management product that proxies the images over to another media-grid storage server in New York," Adams said.
"Then all 40 [at-home] editors—we call them shot-pickers—make their shot selections using the proxies. Once they decide which shots they want to make a deliverable piece with, then the system sends the proxies back to Beijing [to NBC's data center headquarters], where the high-res clips are called up from the main arrays to match the [low-res MPG4] proxies that have been selected."
An XML file of metadata is made for each low-res video package that accompanies the video via virtual private network to Beijing. NBC production editors in Beijing—or, as a backup, in New York—then use the metadata to locate and link the individual high-res pieces together at their own editing workstations to construct a finished piece. Those editors responsible for the finished content can pick and choose what they want from the shot-pickers' selections.
Only after the piece has been plotted out shot by shot is the accompanying high-res video brought up from the storage arrays to make a broadcast-worthy file.
This saves a great deal of time, effort, power and I/O in threading through all the hours of video to be shot. "We'd clog up the data pipes between the at-home editors, New York and Beijing if we didn't use proxies," Adams said.
Viewers of NBC Olympic Webcasts will be able to request specific events on demand, if they missed them the first time on the live broadcast—or if they simply want to watch everything on their desktop or laptop computer screens. Everything will be accessible at NBC.com and MSNBC.com.
Main event highlights will be available for mobile video devices, including BlackBerrys, mobile phones and iPhones, Adams said.
It's not been a challenge to shoot the raw content, Adams said. The challenge has always been what to do with it.
"We have about 180TB of storage available to us in Beijing. We'll have about 4,000 total hours saved on the system, with about 3,000 or so being broadcast," Adams said.
This is a good example of where things are going in the traditional broadcast business, he said.
"Network broadcasters have always been myopic in how they distribute content; the network structure in this country and pretty much around the world is that way," he said. "The secondary markets are starting to mature, are stuck for content and have now gotten the ear of the old-guard networks that they need to be serviced."
Now all that remains is for the Games to begin and for people to start watching. Hopefully it will all pay off for NBC, which has invested several billion dollars into this 16-day event and hopes to raise its overall ratings as a result.
NBC's Ambitious Olympics Coverage
By Chris Preimesberger
2008-07-15
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Storage/NBCs-Ambitious-Olympics-Coverage/
NBC's Ambitious Olympics Coverage
Storage vendors Omneon and Isilon will handle a record 3,000 hours of hi-res and low-res video at the event.
NBC is busy putting the finishing touches on its near-round-the-clock coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games that debut Aug. 8, and IT storage will play a significant role in the success or failure of the effort.
Since the international event was first televised live by ABC in 1960 from Rome, no network has ever attempted to produce this much footage of an Olympiad.
When the Games host the closing ceremonies Aug. 24, the network will have broadcast just shy of 3,000 hours of swimming, track and field, gymnastics, volleyball, baseball, basketball, fencing, water polo, horseback riding, and numerous other competitions. About 25 percent of it will go "in the can" for archiving.
NBC's Beijing TV schedule, released July 8, includes about 2,900 hours of live TV coverage. That live coverage, broadcast over NBC and MSNBC, will exceed the total number of U.S. television hours—which now stands at 2,562, to be exact—for all previous summer Olympic Games combined.
About half of this expected footage will be shot in high-definition video. Consider that 96 hours of HD (4MB per second) footage comprises about 1 raw terabyte of storage capacity; that means about 11TB of storage will be necessary for HD alone.
The remainder of the footage will be shot in standard format (2MB per sec) to be distributed for Webcasts and handheld devices. That footage will take up somewhere around 6TB of storage.
Most of what will be filmed won't be thrown away during the event. Basically, NBC and its partners will be doing in Beijing what the big movie makers do every day in producing computer-generated films: file-based supercomputing, only with no special effects outside of many "intros" and "outros." The "special effects" will mostly be provided live, courtesy of the several thousand world-class athletes gathered in mainland China.
The network will be storing all that raw and edited digital footage in impressive storage data centers that include Isilon Systems and Omneon Video Networks hardware and software packages.
How does a network shoot, edit and air all that video in a manner that will tell all the various stories and keep viewers interested? Simple: It distributes everything.
Matt Adams, vice president of broadcast solutions at Omneon, worked for NBC for 10 years. He was brought to Omneon two years ago to come up with new applications of its technology and to find new markets.
"This, of course, is a huge amount of finished content to be delivered, so we had to come up with a pretty radical workflow in order to make that much content," Adams told me. "We also didn't want to haul everybody and their uncle over to Beijing, because [NBC] couldn't afford it, basically."
Omneon worked with NBC for more than a year to come up with a workflow plan "that would allow people to work at home in the United States and repurpose the content that NBC captures over there and deliver it to the different distribution outlets," Adams said.
Adams, Omneon and NBC came up with a concept called "proxy-based workflow."
"This requires making low-res copies of thousands of hours of competitions that are captured in our storage system in Beijing, and using a product called ProCast—a video acceleration management product that proxies the images over to another media-grid storage server in New York," Adams said.
"Then all 40 [at-home] editors—we call them shot-pickers—make their shot selections using the proxies. Once they decide which shots they want to make a deliverable piece with, then the system sends the proxies back to Beijing [to NBC's data center headquarters], where the high-res clips are called up from the main arrays to match the [low-res MPG4] proxies that have been selected."
An XML file of metadata is made for each low-res video package that accompanies the video via virtual private network to Beijing. NBC production editors in Beijing—or, as a backup, in New York—then use the metadata to locate and link the individual high-res pieces together at their own editing workstations to construct a finished piece. Those editors responsible for the finished content can pick and choose what they want from the shot-pickers' selections.
Only after the piece has been plotted out shot by shot is the accompanying high-res video brought up from the storage arrays to make a broadcast-worthy file.
This saves a great deal of time, effort, power and I/O in threading through all the hours of video to be shot. "We'd clog up the data pipes between the at-home editors, New York and Beijing if we didn't use proxies," Adams said.
Viewers of NBC Olympic Webcasts will be able to request specific events on demand, if they missed them the first time on the live broadcast—or if they simply want to watch everything on their desktop or laptop computer screens. Everything will be accessible at NBC.com and MSNBC.com.
Main event highlights will be available for mobile video devices, including BlackBerrys, mobile phones and iPhones, Adams said.
It's not been a challenge to shoot the raw content, Adams said. The challenge has always been what to do with it.
"We have about 180TB of storage available to us in Beijing. We'll have about 4,000 total hours saved on the system, with about 3,000 or so being broadcast," Adams said.
This is a good example of where things are going in the traditional broadcast business, he said.
"Network broadcasters have always been myopic in how they distribute content; the network structure in this country and pretty much around the world is that way," he said. "The secondary markets are starting to mature, are stuck for content and have now gotten the ear of the old-guard networks that they need to be serviced."
Now all that remains is for the Games to begin and for people to start watching. Hopefully it will all pay off for NBC, which has invested several billion dollars into this 16-day event and hopes to raise its overall ratings as a result.
and also found here
http://www.securecomputing.net.au/Feature/115566,crypto-chip-how-the-tpm-bolsters-enterprise-security.aspx
Crypto chip: How the TPM bolsters enterprise sec
By Brian Berger, Wave Systems Corp
Jun 30, 2008 3:04 PM
Two steps forward, one step back: NBC's online Olympic coverage
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-9979961-26.html
June 29, 2008 8:22 AM PDT
Posted by Harrison Hoffman
Ever since NBC announced their very ambitious plans for online coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, I have been very excited to see how well they execute it. Promising 3,500 hours of online video, with 2,200 hours of live streams, full event replays, and highlights, for free, how could they go wrong? It has recently come to light that the online coverage may not be as complete as we were hoping.
NBC will not be offering live online feeds of any events that will be broadcast on TV. The ones broadcast on TV will, of course, include the most popular events and the ones that people are most likely to tune into. The video of the events will be on NBC's site only after the events have been completed. With this in mind, it is clear that NBC views its online offering as a supplement to their TV broadcast and not as any sort of a replacement.
Many have been really quick to heavily criticize this move by NBC, but I'm not jumping on that bandwagon just yet. I am usually not one to defend old media (see my post on Why Broadcast TV Sucks), but I have some sympathy for NBC here. I applaud NBC for taking this major leap into the online distribution of this major event in the first place. It's an unfamiliar road and a departure from a model that has worked for NBC for a very long time.
Of course, we would love to see every live stream available to us, with videos and highlights that we could embed on other sites, but this may be too radical of a first step for NBC. Think of this year's Olympic webcast as testing the waters. If NBC's web offerings prove to be profitable this year, then maybe they will expand their offerings in years to come. The Olympics only happen every two years (the more popular Summer version every four) and I can understand NBC not wanting to gamble too much on this very costly venture.
An online feed of an event like the Olympics (or any sporting event for that matter) can offer all sorts of rich functionality, including realtime statistics, scores, and leaderboards. There is no doubt in my mind that rich functionality will eventually win out, whether it is viewed on your computer or through a new interface on your TV. If it doesn't look like they get it now, NBC and the other networks will eventually see the light, but these big companies may just need a little more time to make the switch at their own pace.
To view NBC's online Olympic offering, you must install Microsoft's Silverlight plug-in.
Amidst all of this, let's not forget who the potential big winner is with this year's Olympics. No, it's not all of the athletes competing for Olympic glory, it's Microsoft's Silverlight. Microsoft scored the exclusive deal with NBC for Silverlight to power all of their Olympic web offerings. Not having caught on that well yet, this will prove to be a good way to expose a lot of new people to Silverlight and get their plug-in installed on a lot more computers. While it may not be the gamebreaker, it will certainly give them a shot in the arm in their fight against Flash.
Don't believe the haters, NBC's online offering of the Olympics is a step in the right direction, just not two steps as a lot had hoped.
His nose is linked to his face most likely. Just a wild guess.
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This story is spreading like wild fire:
1) Street insider
http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/Wavexpress+to+Provide+Internet+Video+Download+Service+for+NBCs+Coverage+of+the+Beijing+Olympic+Games/3762764.html
2) Trading Markets
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1705070/
3) Yahoo finance
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080623/20080623005268.html?.v=1
4) Business wire (a Berkshire Hathaway Company)
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080623005268&newsLang=en
My apologies to shorts. This is not intended to scare you (cough, cough).
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Xerox, Wells Fargo and now NBC in less than two weeks. Not too shabby!
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2008 Beijing Olympic Games and TVTonic in the same line.
My favorite part is “NBC Olympics on the Go” service will take advantage of Wavexpress’ TVTonic.
<rhetorically speaking> I wonder if this was the kind of "event" Steven was talking about </rhetorically speaking>.
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See also http://www.wave.com/news/
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Wavexpress to Provide Internet Video Download Service for NBC’s Coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games
June 23, 2008 06:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080623005268&newsLang=en
Free Service to Allow Media Center Users the Ability to Download Content During NBC’s Coverage of the Beijing Olympics, August 8-24, 2008
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wavexpress, a provider of broadband media technology and services, majority-owned by Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ: WAVX), has been selected by NBC Universal, Inc., to develop, host, and support a service for viewing NBC’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Microsoft’s Windows Vista Media Center. The announcement was made today by Perkins Miller, Senior Vice President, Digital Media, NBC Sports and Olympics, and Michael Sprague, President of Wavexpress.
The “NBC Olympics on the Go” service will take advantage of Wavexpress’ TVTonic Internet video service to allow Media Center users to watch channels of NBC’s coverage of Olympic events in up-to-HD quality on the go on their laptop. The free service will enable viewers to watch NBC’s extensive coverage of the Beijing Games on a sport-by-sport basis, with channels designated to match the hundreds of events included in the Games. Users can simply sign up for the channels they are interested in, and the service will automatically synchronize NBC’s video clips as they become available, so viewers will have a fresh slate of Olympic content to watch on their morning commute.
“This service will provide a fantastic viewing experience for Olympic fans with Windows Vista Media Center,” said Sprague. “They can choose their favorite sports, from diving to water polo to gymnastics, and extended coverage is automatically synchronized to their PC in the middle of the night. With a laptop, they will get a high-quality video experience to view on the train, the plane, or in the college quad.”
“As we prepare to broadcast the Beijing Olympic Games, we are committed to reaching as many viewers as possible,” said Miller. “Our partnership with Wavexpress will enable us to reach viewers seeking high-quality in-depth coverage of the wide range of sports that make up the Olympics. The service will especially appeal to fast-paced fans who want to catch up on their favorite sports offline.”
Certain terms of the business arrangement between NBC and Wavexpress are subject to final documentation.
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Someone just bought 2000 shares at $1.30 in after hours.
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Great clip! Had my wife rolling.
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Did you price in the cost of donuts and a coffee? If not I might sell my shares right away :)
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oknpv,
13.914% institutional ownership on May 28 to 13.921% current. This reminds me of the quote from the Emperor in Mulan "A single grain of rice can tip the scale."
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Institutional ownership nudged up from 13.79 to 13.91%. A new
player called "CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM"
purchase 64,800 shares.
http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/holdings.asp?mode=&kind=&timeframe=&intraday=&charttype=&splits=&earnings=&movingaverage=&lowerstudy=&comparison=&index=&symbol=wavx&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&FormType=Institutional&mkttype=&pathname=&page=holdings&selected=WAVX
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This has been visited before but I am not sure if anyone has gotten to the bottom of it. At the Dell site:
http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&cat=prod&k=wave+systems&rpp=12&p=1&rf=all&nk=f&ira=False&~srd=False&ipsys=False&advsrch=False&~ck=tab
The "Temporarily Out Of Stock. Please call sales number at the top of this page for assistance" message up for the following products:
1) ERAS Gold Maintenance - 50 to 500 Users
2) ERAS Gold Maintenance - 501 to 1000 Users
3) ERAS Gold Maintenance - 1001 to 2500 Users
4) ERAS Gold Maintenance - 2501 to 5000 Users
5) ERAS Pilot with 1 Day Installation – 20 Users
6) Embassy Remote Administration Pilot Gold Maintenance - 20 Users
This means demand is high?! Wave is unable to keep up? Or one needs to talk to a rep in order to "schedule" the maintenance?
Interpretations anyone?
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JKIRK57,
dittos. I will ride this ship to the bottom IF that's how it goes. I am comfortable in my position. All the bad mouthing, chicanery and sorts is not going pry a single share from my account. The low for the weeks was 0.65. It's hard to believe it would go lower. I plan on placing some lowball bids over the next several weeks (or months) to see what I can scrape up. I will ride this to the bottom so go for shorts!
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With Wavx at .82 cents, I would expect short interst to go down, only .82 cents left on the table there is very little to be made for the shorts, at this point I would think it's personal, some want to ride it to zero.
A decrease in short interest.
Short Interest (Shares Short) 1,848,200
Short Percent of Float 3.50 %
Short Interest - Prior 1,917,300
Short % Increase / Decrease -3.60 %
http://www.shortsqueeze.com/index.php?symbol=wavx
posted on April 5th (post# 162223)
Look at the 3-day chart. At the opening the stock spikes anywhere from 5 to 8 cents. Some shorts getting a little concerned? Or possible head fake? Interesting to say the least.
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IBM Preps Disk Encryption Dive
Plans to extend its encryption horizons with disk and server offerings
http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=150426
By James Rogers, April 8, 2008, 9:30 AM
ORLANDO, Fla. -- IBM will soon extend the encryption features found in its tape libraries into disk arrays and servers, according to Clodoaldo Barrera, chief technical strategist in the vendor’s systems and technology group.
”Our intention is to take that same data-at-rest [encryption] capability that we have today for tape and apply it to disk arrays and drives embedded within servers,” Barrera told Byte and Switch. “You will see some announcements from us this year.”
This will effectively take the encryption found in the vendor’s TS1120 tape library and extend it to IBM’s DS range of disk storage systems.
Last October IBM conducted a demonstration of full disk encryption with Seagate and LSI, so it seems likely that this partnership will form the basis of IBM’s future encryption efforts.
”We have designs that we’re working on for the disk arrays that exploit encryption on the drive itself,” said Barrera. “We think that’s a good way to do it because it can be done at low cost.”
The exec also feels that drive-level encryption will go a long way to allaying users’ fears of a high-profile data breach.
”One of the big benefits of doing encryption at the storage layer is that it is a place where all data access funnels down to,” he explained. “It covers a lot of exposures all at once.”
IBM’s plans would offer an encryption alternative to standalone appliances from the likes of Decru and the now-defunct NeoScale, as well as database encryption from the likes of Oracle.
”Very few applications actually do this [application encryption] today,” said Barrera, who hinted that IBM would offer faster encryption than its rival Decru.
The exec also believes that drive level encryption will boost the rollout of software as a service (SaaS) and help allay users fears about losing critical data at the hands of a SaaS provider.
”I have to make sure that a storage operations guy in my service provider’s data center can’t view that information,” said Barrera. “In a lot of ways a SaaS provider has a stronger requirement for security than a traditional data center does.”
IBM today also unveiled details of its "Phantom" virtualization technology, a piece of code that sits inside a hypervisor. Phantom monitors and disrupts malicious code passing between virtual machines by using both network and host intrusion protection technology, although IBM has not revealed when this will materialize in actual products.
Other security offerings unveiled by the vendor today include Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager, which is initially targeted at IBM tape and disk technology, and the vendor’s Unstructured Data Security Solution, which classifies unstructured data.
IBM also announced Tivoli Security and Event Manager and Tivoli Access Manager for E-Business, which manages user control to Web-based applications.
The Unstructured Data Security Solution and Tivoli Security Information and Event Manager are available now, with the Tivoli Access Manager for E-Business due to be released later this month. Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager will be available in the third quarter of this year.
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Gates: Windows 7 may come 'in the next year'
http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9911470-56.html
April 4, 2008 7:50 AM PDT
MIAMI--Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Friday indicated that Windows 7, the next major version of Windows, could come within the next year, far ahead of the development schedule previously indicated by the software maker.
In response to a question about Windows Vista, Gates, speaking before the Inter-American Development Bank here, said: "Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version." Referring to Windows 7, the code name for the next full release of Windows client software, Gates said: "I'm super-enthused about what it will do in lots of ways."
...
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We are back up to a rating of six at the MSN site.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/StockRating/srsmain.asp?symbol=wavx
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"We are ahead of quarter four" with respect to Q1 of 2008. SKS was very strong on this.
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Ramsey2, please don't get me wrong on this. I really like SKS. He has a nice transparent personality. What you see is what you get. However, his comment about sending him emails regarding prospective clients as one of his closing comments of the cc, to me, came across as poor timing. It certainly isn't a strong way to finish the call. I know he did not mean it that way but to me it came across as weak. Hopefully I'm the only one who felt this way.
Respectfully,
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Inky, that sounds more like it. Thank you for the clarification.
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I could of misheard. I'll have to see the transcripts.
Regarding what is less than none?
a 200% loss! (someone here came up with this whacky math!)
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4 million is too strong for quarter one.
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The closing comment about sending him any emails regarding possible leads sounded desperate.
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Due to recent competitors wavx plans on giving less guidance to protect their interest. I thought that is what he said?
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I get the impression that these companies are purchasing several hundred at a time. They try them out and then purchase several hundred more at a time. Slightly better than a drizzle.
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120,000 employee company with 25K laptops that is purchasing
45,000 employee company with 15K laptops that is purchasing
85,000 employee company with 25K laptops that is purchasing
110,000 employees with a possible 40,000 units?
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A customer that has 500 seats reordering; another that has 200 seats reordering
so they like the software.
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Institutional Ownership update from nasdaq site
Total Number of Holders 38
% of Shares Outstanding 13.76%
Total Shares Held 7,281,653
Total Value of Holdings $8,009,818
Net Activity (4,536,563)