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Did Apple "endorse" NeoReader ....
.... or did it's functionality simply pass the required hurdles so it could join the thousands of other apps in the app store? I did find some Apple statements on the subject and one of them is shown at the end of this post. Are there other statements by Apple supporting your 'endorse' comment?
"aligned"?
Has MC2 or GSMA or OMA or CTIA ever said one word about NeoMedia on any subject? Does anyone know if they have? If they have I missed it or forgot it (the latter being as likely as the former LOL) and I sure would like to see it.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me with that second question.
jonesie
ref: "17. No Responsibility for Third-Party Materials or Web sites. Certain content, Products, and services available via the Service may include materials from third parties. In addition, Apple may provide links to certain third party Web sites. You acknowledge and agree that Apple is not responsible for examining or evaluating the content or accuracy of any such third-party material or Web sites. Apple does not warrant or endorse and does not assume and will not have any liability or responsibility for any third-party materials or Web sites, or for any other materials, products, or services of third parties. Links to other Web sites are provided solely as a convenience to you. You agree that you will not use any third-party materials in a manner that would infringe or violate the rights of any other party, and that Apple is not in any way responsible for any such use by you."
http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/service.html
I wish we knew whether it was ....
.... flippers selling and booking their 20-30%+ , or
Yorkville selling on any pop , which if it was them that would mean they have no hope for the future , or
MM's keeping a lid on it , either for stealth accumulation purposes or because they've 'seen it all' and have no hope , or
just what the heck it is lol.
You'd think when any kind of at least 'decent' news comes out these guys (flipper , YA , MM's , whatever) would back off the Ask just a little bit and see how far it would float up then start selling from a higher point and bring it back down.
But it seems to take a buyout rumor that doesn't even have NEOM's name associated with it to get past .004 ... or to stay above .002 for that matter!
It's early yet. Here's hoping. Wake up you Left Coasters and buy some stock!
jonesie
Yorkville / Cornell Tracking Board #board-9964
"I can think of no more valuable commodity than information"
Ahhh , thanks clawmann. Yikes lol
Well, just a few minutes and we'll see if the market is excited.
jonesie
iflykites, thanks for posting.
I haven't had a chance to read through it yet but I definitely plan to.
regards,
jonesie
Wow , thanks for the info.
It would be nice.
GO NEOM!
jonesie
You know , I hadn't thought about it that way ...
... but you're right.
GVPS really did get smaller.
How long ago was that Admiral Calder CaCO3 property bought? What gold? Are those potentially productive properties/endeavors , or annual vacation destinations.
2 weeks to quarterly report.
jonesie
Now here's something cool ...
... I went ahead and installed QuickTime and can now access the iTunes store. Found the NeoReader app , very nice.
The cool thing I saw was , once in the iTunes store I 'searched' for 'barcode' and we're up top with Stefan's reader: (more screen shots after this one)
Search for '2d barcode' , it's just us and 2d Sense:
Search for 'datamatrix': (oops)
Search for QR code and it's us, Stefan's and 2D sense.
Search for Aztec and it's just us.
We're in!
jonesie
JohnJackson:
I just received an email from Stefan Hafeneger
http://stefan.hafeneger.name/ (Be sure and click on the 'comments' at the end of the version 3.0 post, his last post at the moment; scroll up and see his screenshots.)
and he says this is the link to his barcode app. (He also has a revised version under review by Apple.)
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=285683111&mt=8
I just don't get it. Here is an individual who has had an app in the store before NeoMedia got the NeoReader in it. Okay, no biggie, nobody is making money from this yet anyway. But this young guy beats NeoMedia, he doesn't have 25 people working for him, and he didn't pay DSMediaLabs to do the work for him.
I'm trying to figure out what it means that NeoMedia took so long? Is it good? Bad? Neutral?
jonesie
Illegal Short Sellers May Face RICO Indictments
by: R.J. Chopin posted on: July 29, 2008
RICO, Racketeering Influenced Corruption Organizations Act, the law Rudy Guiliani used to bring down Michael Milken, and other Wall Street crooks, could be revisited in the SEC's struggle to clean up Wall Street's growing threat to the financial markets.
The SEC's crackdown against illegal naked short selling and rumor-mongering resulted in more than 50 hedge funds being slapped with subpoenas last week, according to the Wall Street Journal. Conspiracy theorist and CEO of Overstock.com (OSTK), Patrick Byrne, has embarked on a crusade to expose the nefarious hedge funds that practice illegal short selling. Byrne's web site, Deep Capture.com, has compiled a plethora of facts documenting, names, dates, times and videos of the players and their schemes.
Mark Mitchell, of DeepCapture.com, believes there exist a "hedge fund-orchestrated campaign to cover-up the crime of naked short selling." Depending on how deep the SEC probes, and what insidious facts they discover, we could see hedge fund managers, traders, and other employees facing scandalous, unprecedented charges under the infamous racketeering law, RICO. There is growing pressure for whistle-blowers to sound off or risk becoming the next scapegoat.
Clusterstock.com, reported, "the SEC is demanding both trading records and email correspondences" from subpoenaed firms. The inclusion of cell phone and text messaging records will undoubtedly be scrutinized. Concurrently, the NYSE Regulation Inc. is also investigating how some of its largest firms comply with false and misleading rumors that could undermine a stock's price. This is going to intensify.
Motley Fool, published an article on March 24, 2008, titled "The Naked Truth on Illegal Shorting," in which 100% of a company's shares were purchased by one individual, and were not available for shorting. Nevertheless, 60 million phantom shares were traded, according to owner. Subsequently, he filed a SEC 13-D compliant form.
Dick Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers (LEH), told market regulators that he has information that short-selling hedge funds colluded to bring down Bear Sterns (BSC). If Fulds's "information" is of evidentiary value, these hedge fund managers, and their cast of cohorts, could find themselves behind bars.
If the SEC diligently investigates the facts, we could see RICO indictments against illegal short sellers as early as Labor Day. Anyone charged under the RICO statue, even if they are found "not guilty," will become permanently damaged.
After observing the demise of Fannie Mae (FNM), and Freddie Mac (FRE) last week, it is expedient that the SEC move quickly to abolish the practice of naked short selling for all stocks. Short selling should only be allowed after the short seller has successfully borrowed the shares. The practice of selling shares that cannot be borrowed is a crime!
Do we think Chip Hoffman reads this board?
Still?
I can't wait to see where all of the 'fingerprints' are.
So far ... just on the NeoMedia 'safe' which has been looted by overpaid execs for years now.
I have a hard time thanking anybody when we haven't seen the first dollar of revenue yet the payscale keeps going up and the share price keeps going down.
But when/if we see a lot of money coming in ... I'll be a'thankin' 'em!
jonesie
That's cool.
I wish we had a link you could give her. I searched http://www.apple.com/webapps/ for 'neoreader' and didn't get anything.
I think to get into the iTunes store I need QuickTime and I don't do Quicktime lol. Maybe it's in the iTunes apps store?
jonesie
Hey , I'd gladly give the MM's their winnings ....
.... if that scenario completes with the requisite big spike tomorrow and then continuation upwards next week.
Start spreading the news! We're in the Big "Apple"!
;)
jonesie
Help Wanted
Proofreader needed
From the PR:
"We are very exited the NeoReader for iPhone has been approved by Apple"
exited?
As someone else pointed out , that part about "so iPhone users won't need multiple barcode readers" could be really good.
jonesie
Since it's a free download ....
... I think revenues will still have to come from a company signing up with NeoMedia to do a campaign where anyone clicking on the barcode(s) used in the campaign will be taken across NeoMedia servers and on to the ultimate web destination.
And that company would pay NeoMedia, either per click or per campaign.
Or .... if any relevant NeoMedia patents hold up and anyone mounts a campaign utilizing a process covered by the patents ... they might have to pay NeoMedia for a license or otherwise compensate NeoMedia.
I guess we're waiting on someone to do that.
Nice news on NeoReader being in the App store. Is there a link to that yet?
jonesie
Tri-Valley Promotes Three Subsidiary Officers
Thursday July 31, 5:51 pm ET
BAKERSFIELD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tri-Valley Corporation (AMEX:TIV - News) has promoted three of its Tri-Valley Oil & Gas Co. subsidiary officers to support its expanding petroleum and mineral exploration and production projects.
Joseph R. Kandle, former president and chief operating officer of Tri-Valley Oil & Gas Co., has been promoted to senior vice president of corporate development of the publicly traded parent, Tri-Valley Corporation. He will oversee expansion of the largest oil and gas projects and evaluate and negotiate new opportunities for the Corporation and its subsidiaries. Kandle laid the foundation for the current asset development programs. He continues as president of Great Valley Drilling Co. LLC based in Fallon, Nevada which drills both petroleum and geothermal wells.
Robert A. Bell will succeed Kandle as president and chief operating officer of Tri-Valley Oil & Gas Co. As the former vice president of operations, he leads the team that is ramping up production, so far several months ahead of plan this year, and will continue that toward achieving the new goal of at least 3,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day by December 31, 2008. Mr. Bell also becomes president of Great Valley Production Services LLC which just sold its production rigs and equipment to Excalibur Well Services, Inc in a well service alliance preferred client arrangement. However, GVPS retained its fleet of 17 portable steam generators for enhanced heavy oil recovery.
James G. Bush, former vice president of exploration for Tri-Valley Oil & Gas Co., becomes the president of Select Resources Corporation with the mandate to accelerate the exploitation of the subsidiary’s two large gold exploration projects and activate the super high quality Calder calcium carbonate mine. All three properties are in Alaska.
Petroleum exploration will be handled by the existing petroleum geological team of Paul Hacker and Myron Tiede.
“These promotions enable greater management focus on our asset inventory, operations and opportunities to build Company production, revenue, reportable reserves, share value and reward for our project partners as well as cross train our staff for greater utility as we grow,” said F. Lynn Blystone, president and chief executive officer of the parent, Tri-Valley Corporation.
Blystone noted Tri-Valley’s ongoing expansion of producing properties, increasing production and goals being reached ahead of plan during a period of record prices in petroleum and stable high prices for gold and industrial minerals call for continued strengthening in the management platform to maintain an accelerated pace to grow value.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080731/20080731006578.html?.v=1
Thanks gumshoe , so it's been a few weeks now
I don't know where the amount is shown either. Does paying to subscribe to buyins give one access to such numbers? I think it might, but I can't remember for sure.
I also forget how they say they get those numbers.
And I wonder how long it takes for buyins to update.
jonesie
"Wasn't that what G.O.'s job?"
It had to be. CH told me in person that was what GO was doing in 2007, and since that mission was completed , there weren't many requirements to utilize GO's time/efforts going forward. I believe the comment was something like "we're not using him for much now".
That had to be GO's prime mission. He got paid $211,000 minimum in 2007 for givi.. er, selling those companies.
'Free companies! Get your free companies right here! Step right up!'
jonesie
geo , re: 'curbs'
Purely in my opinion , no , I don't think it will impact TIV's share price as I never have thought there was all that much naked shorting going on with TIV ... but who knows lol.
As we've mentioned before , to get on the SHO list would only require an increase of a few thousand shares in a 'naked short' position. TIV could sit on the 'bubble' for periods of time , with a little over 100K shares 'FTD' shares but not over TIV's SHO threshold (1/2 of 1% of outstanding as I recall). Then that slight increase would push it over the threshold.
So , unless something has changed and unless we now have a HUGE naked short position ... potential market-wide 'curbs' probably won't require enough forced covering to do much to the PPS.
But hey ... we've got over 4MM documented shares short and some large anticipated production. My guess is there's plenty of rocket fuel , again , if TIV can just light it with something.
JMO
jonesie
I haven't seen any barcode apps in the apps store either
There sure are a lot of apps which perform services similar to this:
"A shopping comparison tool that allows to shop and compare through thousands of products"
I seem to remember that at one time that was going to be one of the big features of PaperClick, er Qode, er NeoReader.
Maybe NeoReader can do it better and can eventually find its way into the apps store.
On July 23rd this guy said he had a barcode reader in Apple's apps store:
http://stefan.hafeneger.name/
"Barcode iPhone App available in App Store
July 23rd, 2008 by Stefan Hafeneger
After several attempts my iPhone Barcode App is finally available in the App Store."
But when I looked back then , I never found it.
Now he says:
"iPhone Barcode App v0.3
July 30th, 2008 by Stefan Hafeneger
I uploaded the new version of the iPhone Barcode App yesterday. It’s currently in review."
And
"Barcode App now featuring QR Code
July 28th, 2008 by Stefan Hafeneger
As I announced last week, the iPhone barcode app now decodes QR Codes as well. I also added some more features that most of you requested. Mario is currently doing the graphics for the new user interface which should be ready tomorrow. I will then do a private beta with some friends and if there are no serious bugs, I will upload the new version to the App Store tomorrow evening."
So, it's hard to say.
This link gets you to 'comments' and scrolling up gets you to a lot of screen shots of the iPhone using his app.
http://stefan.hafeneger.name/2008/07/30/iphone-barcode-app-v03/#comments
Cool , thanks Sean.
Wow, is that link really to a 9 MB jpeg?
Here's a smaller version.
Thanks again.
The Gavitec scanners news is also here:
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=629712
but only available to subscribers.
And it's here
http://www.intro.de/news/23046693
but not in English.
Not on NEOM's website either.
I guess NEOM figures Dennis Priddy being named SVP of OPs is more newsworthy than Gavitec scanner rental/sales news.
If so , I agree with them.
JMO
jonesie
Did they sell the scanners ...
... to the venue , or to the principals in the PR which smoke20 posted?
Or might it have been a rental deal. Goes Gavitec ever rent scanners?
Perhaps the 'event promoters' bought some scanners with plans to use them at various events.
"provide event promoters with an easy way to collect data and build a personalized customer database"
Trade show companies like Semco Productions out of Atlanta buy all sorts of hardware, badge imprinters and now electronic badge scanners and rent them to exhibitors.
Anyway , multiple possibilities for income to Gavitec.
jonesie
Good question smoke20 ....
.... I suppose there's a method to the (b)adness.
Or there just aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done.
Or there aren't enough people to get everything done.
We'll know sooner or later!
jonesie
smoke , I think it is , nice catch
Gavitec keeps getting these 'scanner-rental' gigs, pretty neat.
"SEC Extends Short Selling Curb Through August 12"
SEC Update
July 29:
Excerpts:
"U.S. securities regulators have extended through August 12 an emergency rule aimed at curbing abusive short selling in the stocks of 19 major financial firms, including mortgage giants Freddie Mac (FRE.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Fannie Mae (FNM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz)."
"The emergency measure, that first took effect July 21 and will not be further extended, requires investors to borrow a stock before selling it short and to deliver the stock on the settlement date."
""The order is designed to protect legitimate short selling in these securities, but helps prevent illegitimate naked short selling and potential 'distort and short' manipulation," SEC Chairman Christopher Cox said in a statement."
"Cox told a congressional hearing last week that the agency would soon propose a rule extending the emergency short sale requirements to the entire market."
http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSN2938592520080730?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews
Take a min and let Chairman Cox know what you think.
Questions and Feedback
https://tts.sec.gov/acts-ics/do/question
Yorkville / Cornell Tracking Board #board-9964
"I can think of no more valuable commodity than information"
Nearly all questions asked on this board ...
... especially the ones about 'why no NeoReader here' or 'why no NeoReader there' and 'why no IB taking Yorkville out' and 'why no PWC heavyweights investing' and 'why is the PPS struggling to not to be measured in hundredths of one penny' can be answered herein:
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1022701/000114420406007024/v036123_8-k.txt
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1022701/000114420408029387/v114084_10q.htm
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1022701/000114420408018090/v107957_10k.htm
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=30541718
jonesie
Good questions for a conference call.
If we have one in August , and if we get to ask questions.
Wouldn't a little shareholders meeting in Atlanta be nice.
jonesie
"CH was unable to close the i-Phone deal"
In spite of the fact that Marc Lefar did everything he could.
And in spite of the fact that AT&T's HQ in Atlanta was only 3 1/2 minutes from the NEOM HQ in Atlanta ... a fact which was the centerpiece of CH's comments about what he was doing.
My guess is the Technical Advisory Comm. is now defunct.
jonesie
"why we never made it on the i-Phone"
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1022701/000114420408029387/v114084_10q.htm
That works out just fine ...
... as I wasn't asking any questions.
The Yorkville Advisors scenario is perfectly clear and as I described it , and for the reasons stated.
Literally hundreds of proofs-positive support that.
jonesie
"I want" (sorry Iain) Yorkville/IM/GO to come out ....
.... and tell us all about how YA is a conduit for investment by others in NEOM. Even the visionary CF and JJ the Leaky never had the nerve to try and spin Yorkville financing that way lol.
I would think someone might invest in whatever 'paper' there could be which represents the potential profits Yorkville can extract from NEOM shareholders by dumping untold millions of discounted or free shares on the open market , plus the fees ... because investors in Yorkville , if there are any , sure aren't planning on making money off the success of any of Yorkville's clients .... not with only 7% of Yorkville's clients having share prices increasing by any amount at all after Yorkville gets involved. I think Vegas gives better odds than that , don't they?
I find it a stretch to envision Yorkville investors investing in NEOM. If there are any Yorkville investors , if Yorkville in fact doesn't make these loans out of their own deep treasury ... these 'investors' are NOT 'investing in' NEOM through 'Yorkville the broker' any more than they were 'investing in' the hundreds of other Yorkville clients whose shareholder value dropped by 70% and 80% and 90% and 100%.
It makes much more sense that investors would invest in Yorkville's ability to make profits in their business ... which is the business of financing struggling companies who have few if any other choices , and charging them high interest rates and fees , and being a purveyor of death-spiral convertible financial instruments.
Maybe I'm looking at this wrong , so it's JMO
jonesie
Where's a good tape painter ...
... when "we need" him!?
How about some good news when "we need" it!
Where's that Hutchison Whampoa HK deal Bena said an indecipherable Chinese website made a 'reference' to, the deal the bloggers say means Neomedia "teamed up with leading wireless carrier Hutchison Whampoa and New Media Group, to bring mobile codes to Hong Kong"?
I thought Hong Kong already had mobile codes? Chinese insurance companies sure have them, we 'teamed up' with them years ago!
Where's Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever? I mean , if "Colgate Palmolive and Unilever can deploy NeoMedia's NeoSphere Code Management Platform" ... why aren't they doing it?
"I want" to see IM bring in a consortium of 23 or so large PWC players and Bill Gates and T. Boone Pickens for a stake in NeoMedia! "I want" to see IM win the Powerball lottery and buy-out Yorkville with the money!
I want, I need, I want!
Oops , now I'm sounding like an IM/Bena interview LOL
"We need...
We need...
we need...
We need...
We want...
We want...
We want...
We want..."
I kid you not. Direct quotes from that interview.
:)
jonesie
It could be worse I suppose ....
.... several of us discuss various dilutive financings by different financiers.
While we're used to seeing Yorkville's 20% discounts on 10-day VWAP .... we can thank our lucky stars N/I/R never got us.
Try this on for size:
"Notes bear interest at 8%, mature three years from the date of issuance, and are convertible into the Company’s common stock at any time, at the Purchasers' option, at 35% of the average of the three lowest intraday trading prices for the Common Stock for the (last) 20 trading days
That's a 65% discount to the lowest intraday
So hey .. we've got it great lol
jonesie
Yorkville / Cornell Tracking Board #board-9964
"I can think of no more valuable commodity than information"
NOTICES TO DRILL, RE-WORK, ABANDON
0 notices for Tri-Valley for week ending 7/19/08
ftp://ftp.consrv.ca.gov/pub/oil/weekly_summary/2008/07-19-2008.pdf
Did it show up anywhere ....
.... other than NEOM's website?
Looking back I see there has been a 1 to 9 day lag time between 'PRs' showing up on NEOM's website and then being more widely disseminated.
jonesie
Oops , overstated a few numbers , by 'double'
I forgot .. if 100,000 shares trade one day and the low is .01 and the high is .02 ... and assuming one day-trader managed to buy 50,000 shares at the low and sell them at the high ... then the total profit that day would be 50,000 shares * .01 ... not 100K shares * the 1-cent 'swing' which is how I calculated it in my previous post.
Soooooooo.....
Average Daily Swing times Average Daily Shares Traded (divided by 2): $1880
So .... capture the Average Daily Swing for all 64 days , (which would have required shorting on some days) and profit $120,320. That would be impossible but , just for fun , gotta use something as a baseline.
If 'perfect day-traders' captured half of that 'perfect trading' , they split up ~$20,000/month.
Yep. Selling free shares is definitely the way to go.
jonesie
Just for fun ....
343,903,528 shares traded over the last 3 months
Avg 5,373,492 shares per day over 64 trading days
Average each day's high and low PPS and multiply by that day's volume to get estimated daily dollar volume , then total the 64 days' estimated daily dollar volume to get 3 months total estimated dollar volume:
Estimated $1,176,331 traded over the last 3 months
Average Daily Dollars Traded: $18,380
Lowest estimated daily dollars traded: $469 on 5/9/08
Highest estimated daily dollars traded: $142,900 on 6/20/08
Highest intraday price during the 64 days: $0.0053
Lowest intraday price during the 64 days: $0.0020
Highest daily swing between HOD and LOD: $0.0018
Lowest daily swing between HOD and LOD: $0.0000 (on the $469 day)
Average Daily Swing between HOD and LOD: $0.0007
Average Daily Swing times Average Daily Shares Traded: $3761
So .... capture the Average Daily Swing for all 64 days , (which would have required shorting on some days) and profit $240,704. That would be impossible but , just for fun , gotta use something as a baseline.
If 'perfect day-traders' captured half of that , they split up ~$40,000/month
Maybe Yorkville captured the other half.
Nobody seems to be making much money off NEOM lately , although from Yorkville's standpoint , $40,000 / month times 100-200 clients + the occasional due diligence + maintenance + up front discount + other miscellaneous fees = quite a few million bucks per month.
The simple answer probably is .... nobody is making much money trading NEOM shares ..... the best way to make money in NEOM is to have a virtually unlimited number of shares , possibly free .... and sell as many as possible each and every day.
Just for fun! :)
jonesie
It's true we've been in that range.
And a lot of shares have traded back and forth.
There's just not much in the chart that speaks to accumulation "for the long term" , but that could be going on I suppose.
3 year chart. Acc/Dis line. Distribution for a long long time. Some accumulation for a while , probably by people thinking NEOM just couldn't break below a penny. Then distribution for the last few months , actually a fairly steep line at that point.
Hopefully it will change.
jonesie
Well elliot , the chart doesn't really indicate ....
.... accumulation.
CMF(20) (Chaikin Money Flow) has been very bearish the last few months and the PPS seems to agree.
ACC/DIS has been mostly on a downtrend the last few months as well.
Other than that, we've seen occasional rumor-fed trader opps?
NEOM couldn't even hold that little one-month-plus uptrend without getting slammed down to recent lows.
jonesie
A pretty heavy 'selling' day.
'course , somebody bought 'em. Traders most likely. Get out the rumors for another flip opportunity!