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Who will be the lucky WINNERS of the Super Bowl contest?
Looks like the BBs are doing the (tighten up)
Miami Florida, happy weekend to all.
Im getting a safe deposit box for my PPM certificate on Monday cant sleep at night knowing its in my desk. ZZZZZZZZ.
OT frankie what do you think of Phantom.net ?
Whats up with GOAM?
BTOO, TALL, GZFX.
Florida gaming (FGMG) slot machines votes beeing counted. Vote recounte to close. Amendment No. 4, the one measure that seemed likely to fail, would have allowed Miami-Dade and Broward county voters to approve slot machines at existing parimutuel facilities.
MBAH looking good.
OVERVIEW
Gamez'n'Flix has decided to take on NetFlix in two areas Price and Variety of offering. At $18.50 a month, Gamez'n'Flix is keeping its price for unlimited movie rentals (with 3 movies or games out at time) below what has been an industry celling of $19.95. Netflix has recently broken through that cieling and raised their prices to $21.95 per-month for the same unlimited rentals with 3 movies out at a time.
On the Variety front, Netflix and Gamez'n'Flix are evenly matched (with Gamez'n'Flix having 28,000 movies in its library to Netflix's 25,000), but as the names says Gamez'n'Flix offers almost every game available on all of the consoles (X-Box, PS2, GameCube).
OPINION
As more evidence of the ever increasing competition for customers in the Online DVD Rental Club market, Gamez'n'Flix announced that it would be launching an aggressive marketing campaign over the next several months that included free trials, DVD Player giveaways and the chance to star in their first TV commercial that will be aired during the Super Bowl. In all Gamez'n'Flix is joining WAL-MART and DVD Barn in trying to knock off industry leader Netflix as the premier Online DVD Club Rental service.
Check out the MovieRentalReviews.com http://www.movierentalreviews.com/ We have consolidated all of the information on the best plans to help you make your decision and save!
Our Top Recommendations:
Best Overall: Gameznflix.com
madtony STARGATE SG1-SEASON 1 DISC 3 ( mailed 10/26/04 from Campton C.A. Im a 14 month sub six at a time, with over 100 dvds in my Queue just got these today. FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR (DVD) 10/26/04
FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (DVD/WS/196 10/26/04
GOOD BAD & UGLY (DVD/1966/WS&D Some old Clint for this weekend.
Interesting I just received in the mail today a movie mailed from Campton CA. post mark Oct 26 AND IM IN MIAMI FLORIDA.
MBAH breaks .09 today?
SYTR ?
went to read your answer and there is a Gamaznflix Super Bowl add right under it NICE!
Akamai Unveils Web Applications on Demand; Search, Registration and User Prioritization among Initial Web Applications Businesses Can Deploy, Requiring No Fixed Infrastructure
10/18/2004 6:30:00 AM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct 18, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM), a global leader of distributed computing solutions and services, is changing the way Web applications can be deployed and managed. Akamai introduced today a series of Web applications that businesses can rapidly deploy, without the need to purchase any hardware or other "fixed assets," and receive computing capacity when and where it is needed.
The initial Web applications that Akamai is making available via its EdgeComputing(R) service address common and often computing-intensive functionality found at many online businesses, including search, user prioritization, registration, and contests. Leveraging Akamai's global EdgePlatform, businesses receive on demand capacity based on adoption of the application and pay only for when the application is in use. Since there are no fixed assets necessary to deploy the application, a business can accelerate time to market at no financial risk, while reducing strain on its existing origin infrastructure.
"Akamai is further extending its global platform by offering a variety of core functional services often incorporated in Internet-based systems," said Sandra Rogers, Program Director of Web Services and Integration Software at IDC. "Akamai is focused on bringing to market Web services with flexible access models for enterprises to quickly build out service-oriented systems, leveraging its foundation for core provisioning and management."
Offering 'ready-to-deploy' applications provide a series of benefits including enabling businesses to focus on their core offerings -- not whether they have the infrastructure in place to test, manage, and distribute their business processing. Akamai is changing not only how enterprises look at Web application deployment, but also how independent software vendors (ISVs) can deliver "software on demand."
"Akamai is our preferred deployment model for taking applications developed on our rich client platform and making them available at high scale, on demand," said David Temkin, chief technology officer at Laszlo Systems, an open-source provider of a rich Internet application platform. "Our focus is on providing customers with rich and dynamic applications. Partnering with Akamai enables customers to bring these rich applications to market quickly, supported by world-class infrastructure that can be used when and where it is needed."
Akamai is offering a number of J2EE-based applications, powered by the Akamai EdgeComputing service. The following are available immediately:
-- Site Search - uses the Lucene open source search application,
enabling the processing of all searches to take place on
Akamai's EdgePlatform, freeing up origin servers from the
onslaught of computing cycles.
-- User Prioritization - enables customers, when under conditions
of extreme load, to ensure access to backend applications for
high-value users or shoppers who have already begun a
transaction process.
-- Online Registration - enables companies to ensure registration
data will be collected under conditions of extreme load,
maximizing the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and the
ROI on marketing expenses.
-- Contest - enables users to run online promotional contests
deployed entirely on Akamai's EdgePlatform, leveraging its
on-demand scale and global reach to support spikes in traffic.
Using Akamai, marketers need only to generate the HTML page
designs, insert them into the contest page flow framework, and
launch the contest into production - a process that can be
achieved within weeks.
'Applications on Demand' Delivers ROI For Customers
Customers that are currently utilizing applications powered by Akamai EdgeComputing are from a variety of industries, with significant traction within the retail and media & entertainment verticals.
When planning for a major television advertising campaign that was to launch at the end of May, GameZnFlix, Inc., an online movie and game rental company on the Web, realized its current infrastructure would not be able to support the volumes of end-user search requests that the commercial was to generate. Additionally, GameZnFlix did not have a robust search application in place to process those requests. GameZnFlix implemented Lucene powered by EdgeComputing to enable all of the search application's Java processing to be executed across Akamai's EdgePlatform, reducing the load on its origin servers.
"With only a limited number of weeks to prepare, we were able to quickly implement Lucene powered by EdgeComputing to put in place the infrastructure, computing resources, and management capabilities we needed to launch the ad campaign. With this solution we had complete confidence in our infrastructure and significantly reduced our expenses," said John Fleming, chief executive officer, GameZnFlix, Inc. "Rather than paying for new software licenses and hardware, EdgeComputing's innovative pay-as-you-go model efficiently served our needs."
Patron Solutions offers a comprehensive web-based ticketing service, www.neweratickets.com. End-users can access this on-line, real-time interface to purchase event tickets from theater companies, museums, professional sports teams, and concert promoters. Patron Solutions selected Akamai's User Prioritization powered by EdgeComputing service to help manage load to its enterprise transaction systems. If a customer decides to purchase an item via the neweratickets.com site but the origin server becomes overloaded, the user prioritization application manages user requests, allowing only the amount of purchasers the ticketing site can handle to be directed to the origin site. The remaining visitors are sent to an overflow site on the Akamai EdgePlatform to wait until the transaction processing systems can handle the requests. This approach enables Patron Solutions to provide a consistently available web presence without having to purchase and manage additional infrastructure.
"Rather than turning users away, Akamai seamlessly directs them to a 'waiting room' site containing ads that engage customers until the origin site is able to handle the requests," said Syd Weinstein, chief information officer, Patron Solutions. "The waiting room solution works flawlessly, keeping users occupied while they wait to check out. Its ability to handle every end-user request enables Patron Solutions to preserve sales that might otherwise be lost."
"Akamai's on-demand infrastructure model offers a global platform for the deployment of Web-based applications," said Bill Weihl, chief technology officer, Akamai. "With Akamai, Web applications can be brought to market without the costly step of deploying new hardware and software. Several enterprises are now embracing the Akamai EdgeComputing service to bring Web applications to market more quickly and at lower cost than possible with ordinary centralized infrastructure."
About Akamai
Akamai(R) is a global leader of distributed computing solutions and services, making the Internet predictable, scalable, and secure for conducting profitable e-business. The Akamai on- demand platform enables customers to easily extend their Web operations - with full control - anywhere, anytime, without the cost of building out infrastructure. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai serves hundreds of today's most successful enterprises and government agencies around the globe. Akamai is The Business Internet. For more information, visit www.akamai.com.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the effects of any attempts to intentionally disrupt our services or network by hackers or others, failure to have available sufficient transmission capacity, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, undetected defects or errors in our software used to operate our services and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
SOURCE: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Caryn Brownell, 617-444-2524
Media Relations
cbrownel@akamai.com
or
Sandy Smith, 617-444-2804
Investor Relations
ssmith@akamai.com
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WAGI and WLDI made the list, Posted by: omnitrader
In reply to: None Date:10/16/2004 10:44:43 AM
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BOTTOMBUSTERS(WK)
WLDI 0.00
WAGI 0.01
MSEV 0.01
WAGI ?
GZFX news on affiliate program. The early numbers are quite encouraging," stated Michael Reader, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "In the last 14 days, over 1000 affiliates have joined the program, the number is growing, and I am encouraged that our top affiliate has already generated over $1,500.00 in commissions in this short period."
Wldi ut
TALLE,IVP TECHNOLOGY CORP files Form 10QSB, Quarterly Report of Financial Condition
Sep 29 2004 5:36PM ET
Thanks BB SYTR.
No trades today SYTR ?
DTGoody TEN STIX INC files Form 10QSB, Quarterly Report of Financial Condition.
Was Thursdays show http://www.tradersnation.com/radio.shtml
GZFX was talked about on Traders Nation Radio show. interesting conversation.
ILCC shell came out of BK and looks like wants to go back to OTC BB . all SEC files up to date.
S3i Holdings Inc · PRE 14C · For 9/8/4
Has anyone been able to buy a movie or a game?
I just got my initial and riding the rest only 400k.
Same here IRISHBULL :)
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OT.Job growth shock
Only 32,000 new jobs in July, far fewer than Wall Street forecast; unemployment rate slips to 5.5%.
August 6, 2004: 8:38 AM EDT
Well now we know were CEO went for a week on business, DUBAI UAE