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It's because of the Bid and Ask prices...the Sell and the Buy prices. The difference is what the marketmaker makes by being a part of the investment transaction. The wider the spread between the Bid and Ask prices the less frequent the trading. As the stock trades more often and with more volume the spread narrows.
I bought 20K shares this morning. Anyone know why it showed up as a "SELL"
No. What indicates an advancement of the SP?
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Please explain for those of us who don't read charts...
thanks for posting the whole hearing minutes. SMME didn't win on all definitiions...but did on many. Now, it seems, for the court, jury or parties to decide on a monetary amount of compensation... I hope for a very huge amount!!!
What action is the judge pondering?
Perhaps not... But from those who do, it would be hellpful for those who don't if they shared what information from Pacer is available. Thanks in advance.
The stock is still trading...now under QUTR. Shares will be forthcoming.
You can contact the Transfer Agent of Quture/Techs Loanstar and ask them why it is taking so long. The Broker should have that information.
If the Appellate Court ruled favorably for SMME's patent, What is the May/June court date for if not for monetary compensation?
No, not yet.
Nothing more to explain other than TCLN will be winner. Similar companies with like software do not compare to what TCLN will offer. That is second hand from someone in the industry.
Making money in any stock is predicated on buying low and selling higher. I defend Constellation and the companies they promote. I, for example, was first given notice about SMME when it was at 5 cents. It rose to around 80 cents in under 3 months. (With the lawsuit now settled in would be worth your time looking into this one as well as viewing the product they are about to launch.)
I am also aware that Redwood (Constellation) lost money on the SSTP/ZEONS deal because they wanted to pull out once they realized John was less than honest. They nolonger wanted to promote a company with low character management.
With the PR coming forth from this company and the names attached to it this one, because of the product promoted, will be a winner. I see now as a time to accummulate the stock.
There are some honest people out there in the market place, really, and these people are one. IMO :)
Still time and opportunity for those of us in the "know" to accummulate stock in this growing company. I like it!!
me too
When does the quarterly news come out...any idea?
What affect do you think the finalization of the Visa, Mastercard, et al, lawsuit just settled ($6.5 billion) will have upon the SMME lawsuit? Might they feel a bit nervous? Could they now be focussing their time and thought more to a SMME settlement? Might they wait until next year when their insurance will cover costs of another lawsuit settlement...if such insurance they have? What are your thoughts?
Sounds like another Great quarter is ahead! The last year has been nothing but sequential improvement.
wish I had your optimism
I'm in San Diego, CA. The pps, based on the Earnings per share, is based on the Total Outstanding, not the float. That is why this stock, I believe will do a reverse split. When the stock price reaches $5/ share or more many more entities--mutual funds, stockbrokers, etc-- will then be able to buy the stock. That is when the price will really move.
thank you.
conference between who?
bought 100k this morning. never thought it would be this low after recent announcements....a Godly blessing for the poor.
Just responding to a possible reason for the small trades on a penny stock...
sometimes a sell order for a large amount is made, but only a small part of that one sell order may be used to fill a buy order. I've learned the expensive way that when I buy or sell penny stocks to do it as an "all or none" transaction. Once had 3 different orders to fill my buy over 3 days...and the commission did raise the cost to me....
thanks for the research and info. I am still reading articles which state that SMME "Lost" in their patent infringment lawsuit. Perhaps that is what is also keeping the price down. We may know for certain in the months ahead....
thanks one and all for the "t form" info. Guess it is all a mystery to we small people....
What is a "form t" sale or purchase??
Now we know why there was a long delay in news regarding the production of the cards....
I respect Constellation very much...but $2.50/share @ 2Billiion shares is alot of hospitals. A $5 Billion valuation/market cap is far into the future....
for sure...and within the year.
All true, but it will take more than a quarter or 3 to establish a growth rate justifying 30 or 40 times any earnings...
This stock will be a winner...but at 25 cents/share that means a market value of $500 million. At a 12 PE you're talking about $45 million in net earnings... Maybe in 2-3 years, but one year???
2) A U.S. appeals court has blessed it — In March of 2010, SmartMetric Inc. filed a patent infringement suit against Visa and MasterCard (and, eventually, American Express) claiming that the companies' use of contactless payments infringed on a process it owned. In brief, the patent covered insertion of a chip-enabled card into a reader, thereby automatically initiating contact with a network.
A U.S. Federal Appeals Court decision on April 11, 2012, confirmed a lower court ruling that the patent did not apply to contactless payments because they do not meet the patent language specifying card insertion.
SmartMetric has a second case pending against the card companies over contact card use. And the contactless decision could strengthen SmartMetric's claim. But it could take a couple of years for the case to make its way through the courts, leaving the future of contact somewhat up in the air.
Read this at the atmmarketplace.com site 5/25. Title of article was 5 reasons to watch contactless cards.
Recently read about the Google and Oracle patent infringment suit. After the verdict was "no infringment", the judge cancalled the penalty phase trial. Does anyone know if any such action took place with SMME et al?
I came across a copy of the "464" patent, dated 12/14/2004. It is located at otcshowcase.com, search: Smartmetric patent. Scroll down a bit to Disclosure of invention. It refers to the issue of "prior art". It seems that was the sole/major reason for the invention/issuance of the patent.
Thank you...
Would be interested in reading the article. Where can it be located? Also, seems the patent office is amiss if they give out a patent when it is unwarrented--"prior art."
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1 Comment Share on www.atmmarketplace.comShare on tweet4photo courtesy of FujitsuAmericans as a group have for years rejected biometric ID for one reason or another: too slow, too unreliable, too complicated, too Big Brother.
But it's just possible that the latest advances in biometric technology will get the U.S. thinking of biometric ID not as the stuff of sinister sci-fi conspiracy, but as a day-to-day convenience — not as intrusion, but as protection.
Other countries have found this to be true. At ATMs in Japan, fingerprint and palm vein biometrics are widely accepted as a standard for strong authentication. Last month, Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank, a regional FI, said that in late September it will begin to install biometric palm-scanning ATMs using technology from Fujitsu. A report from AFP said the move responded to an increase in demand after last year's earthquake and tsunami for technology that did not require a passbook or ATM card for access to cash.
In Brazil, Banco Bradesco, a banking giant with $411 billion in assets and access to a nationwide network of around 50,000 owned and associated ATMs, uses palm-vein biometrics for user identification.
In the case of a giant entity like Bradesco, a system such as palm vein authentication begins to make sense from a purely practical viewpoint, said Bob Tramontano, vice president of marketing at NCR. "Some of these countries have larger infrastructures, so put it in context that one of the largest banks in the U.S. has just under 20,000 ATMs out there. When you look at Brazil, their top four banks have between 30,000 and 40,000 ATMs. So it's very large populations and the infrastructure is more challenged so people are adding more security, whether it be in the safe or whether it be in authentication methods."
In Bradesco's case, the biometric data are stored on the bank's server. "They are using server matching," said Christer Bergman, VP of biometric solutions at Fujitsu Frontech North America. "That means they transport part of the template or the biometric information back to the server and that's where they do the matching."
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A closed-loop system such as this has obvious limitations, said Bergman. Storing the data locally means that it can be used for authentication purposes only at that institution. Any other institution or merchant that wanted to use palm vein ID to secure transactions or purchases would have to create its own database. And as the number of servers with stored customer information increased, so too would the probability of a successful data hack.
An additional inconvenience to the customer is that data matching tends to be slower when biometric information is stored on a central server. "If that information is traveling all the way back to the server, it takes a longer time because it's more data than just a four-digit pin," said Bergman. In an industry that measures time in fractions of seconds, and prides itself on transaction times under half a minute, such delay is not well tolerated.
A solution that Fujitsu and other companies are working on, Bergman said, was to do the matching closer to the card user, i.e., on the card itself.
"And that's how the smart card and the chip card is coming up big in the parts of the world where it comes to a stronger authentication at the terminal," Bergman said. "[T]he matching is done locally on that card, so from the biometrics point of view ... your biometric template is sitting on that card."
This means that the biometric data no longer needs to travel to a central secured server for matching. The user simply inserts the chip card into the ATM, enters a pin, and places his or her palm over the reader, which matches the palm being scanned to the data on the chip. It's a much quicker process.
It's also a much more flexible process. When the data resides on the card, it can be used anywhere a pin reader or palm scanner is installed. There is no need to create a separate database for each application.
Biometric match on card also meets a major requirement of EMV implementation by the major card brands, which insist on a chip system that can be used on any payment network.
Bergman said that palm scanning has additional benefits as well. For starters, the user's palm never touches the scanner, so it's more hygienic than a fingerprint scanner.
Then there's reliability. "In the early days they may have been in the range of a five to ten percent reject rate, but nowdays some people will clock in the one-in-one-million type of failures," said Tramontano. "It's really about how specific you want to be depending on the platform."
There's also the consumer comfort factor. Tramontano points out that for many, the drawback with fingerprint technology is, well, the fingerprint. "In the U.S., the only time you tend to give your fingerprints is when a bad situation is going to happen," he said. There's no such stigma attached to the palm print.
Finally, there's cost. Palm scanners are more expensive than fingerprint readers, but not prohibitively so. "In the whole scheme [of the ATM transaction], it's not significant," Bergman said.
According to Bergman, countries in Europe, including Germany and the U.K., are now considering the addition of palm biometrics as an authenticator. He expects that the U.S. will eventually follow suit. Not overnight, definitely, but in the gradual way that all ATM technology seems to reach critical mass in America.
I think biometrics is going to be down the road … but I don't think the U.S. is in a rush to get there," Tramontano said.
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