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I just went back to Google and looked up paperclick under images. I don't recall it before but now I see Intermec listed. This is a major co. involved in the development of RFID. Does anyone know exactly what the images represent?
Found an interesting website. Link technologies based in London discussed Paperclick. Maybe this has been posted before?
http://www.picsearch.com/info.cgi?q=paperclick&cid=63829310381
Paperclick also on "Mamma" search engine. It can be accessed in the same way with Google. By entering paperclick under "images".
Are we really offering legal help etc. Amazing breadth of offerings.
I agree but that is not where it takes you from the press release.
Jay, what was the date on that?
If you copy and paste the listed address from the today's article it does not take you to the real website? How can this be. Does this happed to anyone else?
The report mentions a website for softnet tech. Is that really the website?
I agree. If you enter "books" you are taken to a site that is managed by Simon & Schuster. Not sure why this would be unless they were somehow involved.
On Feb 10, many of the big dogs in this company acquired options (millions of them) as seen on Knobias. Can someone explain why they did it at that time and how these derivatives work. Thanks.
Simply enter the word "books". It looks like Simon and Schuster? Maybe they have signed on.
Oh boy! Go to the "Go Window" and enter "books". It gets better. I think I am on to something.
I think that it is because I literally picked up a book sitting next to me at the computer about photography and entered the numbers beneath the barcode and up came the book and some info about it.
I am using the "sample" go window on their website. I have picked up random books and entered the barcode numbers and it works well. This being above and beyond the 6 or so samples on the website. So I thought I would try entering random names. Nokia for some reason takes you back to the Neomedia (paperclick) website consistently. Not sure what it means if anything, but other random words when entered registers "invalid". Paperclick goes to paperclick. So there are some things entered that are not obviuos at this time. I think it is fun to try and discover just what is behind the "go window".
I have been messing around with the "go window" entering various words. If you enter the words that they have listed it takes you to the site, no problem. If the word is not registered then it says "invalid". But if you enter Nokia, it redirects you back to Neomedia. I wonder what to make of this. Does this happen to others. It is very interesting to enter words into the go window to see what is available. I would think certain "go words" would be up and running for the CTIA conference.
..8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.............
What do you think of this?
this just in...regarding SEC Investigation
News for 'STTC' - (Softnet Technology Denies $15K Promotion Fits SEC Profile For Trading Halt)
(financialwire.net via COMTEX) -- March 1, 2005 (FinancialWire) James
Farinella, CEO of Softnet Technology (OTCBB: STTC), contacted FinancialWire
Monday to strongly deny that a junk fax promotion hyping its stock makes the
company a potential candidate for a Securities and Exchange Commission
regulatory trading halt, and to threaten a "class action" lawsuit
involving from 50 to 100 other companies.
FinancialWire was subsequently able to independently determine that the junk fax
was part of a $15,000 campaign "package" furnished to an unnamed
"third party" on behalf of Softnet by FinancialNewsUSA (OTC: FNWU),
which appears also to provide either news or promotional services for Global
Environmental Energy (OTCBB: GEECF), which itself recently was the subject of a
massive email spam campaign, and U.S. BioDefense (OTCBB: UBDE).
FinancialNewsUSA spokesperson Eddie Cruz told FinancialWire that an unnamed
"third party" paid his company $15,000 for 250,000 faxes, 150,000 emails
and industry news coverage.
Farinella called FinancialWire twice. The first was to ask if "you a - - h -
- - s know that your article is tanking my stock?" and to threaten a
"class action" lawsuit. "You have p - - - - d me off, and you'll
find out what that means. I'll be calling 50 to 100 companies and we'll all
bring a class action lawsuit against you."
He stated he had received over 20 calls, and that "investors in Germany"
were particularly confused about whether there is an SEC investigation into
Softnet Technology. The SEC does not reveal whether it is conducting an
investigation.
Farinella's second call came after FinancialWire emailed him and left a message
asking about the promotion, who are the third parties, and if those third
parties are or planned to sell stock into the hype.
The junk fax stated that "this publication and its affiliates may have up to
a 4.9% equity position in the companies mentioned herein." The fax did not
disclose that its publishers had received a $15,000 fee, which appears to be a
violation by FinancialNewsUSA of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Regulation 17(b).
When questioned about the program, Farinella acknowledged that he knew the
promotion was occurring, confirming that it was for cash and not for stock, and
asked "what's wrong with companies doing awareness?"
He was asked if "doing awareness" included violations of SEC Regulation
17(b), and Farinella said he was not aware that any violations had occurred.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation 17(b) states:
"It shall be unlawful for any person, by the use of any means or instruments
of transportation or communication in interstate commerce or by the use of the
mails, to publish, give publicity to, or circulate any notice, circular,
advertisement, newspaper, article, letter, investment service, or communication
which, though not purporting to offer a security for sale, describes such
security for a consideration received or to be received, directly or indirectly,
from an issuer, underwriter, or dealer, without fully disclosing the receipt,
whether past or prospective, of such consideration and the amount thereof."
"The SEC has told FinancialWire that Regulation 17(b) means full and
complete compensation for research and any other services provided, including
amounts and sources, must be disclosed in 'every press release' as well as other
published documents. The SEC states that third party compensations must include
the relationship of the payer to the issuer.
"In an email to FinancialWire, John J. Nester, a spokesperson for the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission, confirmed that regulators interpret 17(b) to
mean that specific compensation information must be contained in press releases,
and that a link to a disclosure somewhere else, for example, is a violation of
the regulation. He further stated that the compensation disclosure required by
the SEC includes 'amounts and sources in any press release mentioning the
company under research coverage'."
Press releases issued by FinancialNewsUSA on behalf of client companies do not
disclose that the company has received funds for its promotional programs, or
the amounts, for such companies.
It recently said that it was issuing press releases through Yahoo (NASDAQ:
YHOO), but Yahoo told FinancialWire that no such announcement was authorized.
Farinella told FinancialWire that its article was "an invitation for the SEC
to investigate. I recently went through an SEC investigation." He did not
elaborate.
FinancialWire told Farinella that the SEC trading halts ' or "cooling off
periods" to alert naive investors to the existence of a promotion ' do not
necessarily mean the companies are involved, as stated in the article he was
complaining about. Farinella, however, was conversant with the promotion.
Whether that means he or his company was "involved" is open to
interpretation.
When told that FinancialWire had statements from FinancialNewsUSA regarding his
promotional program, he stated, "do you have it in writing? You better have
it in writing. I have nothing further to say to you. You will hear from our
lawyers."
According to the Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) Wall Street Journal, "the SEC's move
is part of the agency's broader attempt to get ahead of possible fraud before it
becomes widespread."
It further stated: "The agency is expected to suspend trading in several
other companies within the coming weeks and months, according to people familiar
with the matter.
"At issue is the potential for so-called pump-and-dump schemes, whereby
speculative investors, company insiders or others try to inflate demand for a
stock by trumpeting positive-sounding information about a company -- typically
via e-mail -- and then cash in their shares at the higher price. Often the
information is false and the stock quickly declines again," explained the
Journal.
The SEC said that each week, the SEC's internet enforcement division, headed by
John Reed Stark, gets thousands of complaints from investors "about spam
email plugging stocks and other investments."
"We want to head off possible damage to shareholders before it occurs," John
Reed Stark, chief of the SEC's office of Internet enforcement, was quoted as
saying.
Investigators want to determine whether the ultimate goal in many of these
instances is to "artificially stimulate demand for the stock and then dump
shares once the price increased." The SEC hastened to add that it is not
asserting that many of the companies themselves are involved in the schemes.
Often they are just bystanders, but sometimes it results from stock issued to
offshore and even "promotional" sites and email and fax originators to
create "visibility," and the promoters often violate their promises to
the companies to sit on the shares.
"Under certain circumstances, an improper stock distribution in violation of
SEC regulations can be a prelude to a manipulation," Peter Bresnan, an associate
director in the SEC's enforcement division, was quoted as saying.
Softnet Technology had been reported to FinancialWire by users of JunkFax
(http://www.junkfax.org), who then faxed the junk fax to FinancialWire.
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Onestroke, you should at least check his grammar and spelling etc before submitting his posts if he will not do it himself. Not too inspiring to see a CEO who has trouble with this. Not to say he can't run a business, but this is one of the only ways we have to evaluate him at this point and therefore it is important. It looks and sounds like the janitor intercepted the email and responded.
Interesting:
Xynergy Corp. Reports Recent Developments
Friday December 31,(2004) 10:00 am ET
On Monday, December 27, the Company filed an 8KA reporting its cancellation of the acquisition of Indigo Technologies, Inc. As stated in the report, certain contingencies set for October 31, 2004 were not met.
I wonder what happened here?
Where are the earnings?
For what you guys pay for the microcap service I would think you would be served coffee each morning with your latest NEOM update!
WBU website needs to be updated. Still shows the limited few items as it has for some time. Hopefully it would come out with some good numbers.
Here is a software translation of the newsletter. It is fairly poor but you can get the gist of the letter:
Act. Course: 0.86 USD course goals: 2.50 USD stock exchanges places: Nasdaq OTC BB / Frankfurt Rating: Strong
Buy
Better we would have the recommendation moment for the share of SoftNet Technology corp. (OTC BB: STTC) do hardly encounter can. The business development with respect to the expansion to Europe and/or worldwide überschlug formally and caused us in addition, our Top-packed of the last months end January 2005 once again to take up itself. The timing protected at the same time nearly ideally because the share easily consolidated exactly at this time within the intact upwards trend and at the same time a triangle formation developed. With the outbreak out of this formation, the title a pattern valid Einstiegssignal, that we took in combination with the shining business ems to the occasion, generate to recommend the STTC-share once again. That this timing proved to be gold correct, and hardly better would have selected will can, showed shot the following days, than the course accompanied by a continuously positive News Flow, up to 0.32 USD towards the top. A satisfied plus of 41% in only few days. We see the following correction of the last days in view of the latest course explosion solely as a short Verschnaufpause to long-termed clearly higher courses.
JP, very helpful. Thanks for your time.
I just bought a Treo 650 and I am blown away at what it can do. I did not realize how sophisticated these phones had become. It further supports in my mind what NEOM has and how it could easily be downloaded to the phone and used. It is one thing to read about this stuff on the message board and another to have it in your hand and see it function. I wish it was on the phone now. I did not realize until just recently that the "Go Window" on the NEOM website was functional for any and all barcode numbers. I originally thought it was only for those items that they had "preloaded on the site. The actual window is tiny and easily overlooked. My question is this, are all of these items somehow registered with NEOM to make them accessible this way or are they already accessible by virtue of their barcode? In other words, have all these companies registered with NEOM/SAIC?
Which message boards are you reading that describe STTC as a scam?
Did the stock go up to .30 in AH or did it close during regular hours. I can't find a graph that shows it closing at 30 but it appears to have?
So what was said?
Here is a software translation of part of the German investment letter for Jan 2005....
SoftNet Wholesalebyus reckons based on the expansion of the subsidiary on the European market with enormous growth rates for this year! * Subsidiary stands directly before the termination of an agreement with one of the largest expresses package services! * The sales trend exploded already to the end of the past year and yet further will increase itself after business statement! * Charttechnisch a hochinteressante formation formed itself, that offers an exzellenten Einstiegspunkt! * More and more investor lets become the positive News Flow as well as an extensive TV-campaign on the value attentive! * Strong Buy with new course goal of 0.40 USD!
Act. Course: 0,155 USD course goals: 0.40 USD stock exchanges places: OTC BB / Frankfurt / Berlin Rating:
Strong Buy
SoftNet reckons Wholesalebyus based on the expansion of the subsidiary on the European market with clearly increasing growth rates for this year. After our opinion, this expansion means a milestone in the business development whereby also the share price should profit in considerable mass. The momentary flags formation, that formed itself during that last week in the train of a consolidation in a strong trend and out of which the course already extension manner is broken out towards the top and therewith toward the prevailing trend, is there interesting out of charttechnischer visibility. Incidentally also the idealized falling trade revenues are herewith during the development of this flag. The positive News, that mean a powerful growth potential for SoftNet, together with the latest charttechnischen development cause to express us for STTC a purchase recommendation.
Very honored readers and reader
That each recommendation does not hit immediately, but rather often also patience is asked, proves that at the 2 September of the past year of the Neoprobe corp recommended globally investor. (OTC BB: NEOP). After a mehrmonatigen sideways movement, with which our stop-lot was not reached, middle succeeded the share December the outbreak already earlier expected by us towards the top. Within less days, the title of 0.40 USD gained and therewith tightly under our recommendation level up to 0.60 USD and won therewith satisfied 50%. We regard the easy correction during the sooner quiet christmas time as Verschnaufpause to be expected and see the share on year visibility now as ever in the area of 1.50 USD.
Also if we did not encounter in NEOP the Einstiegszeitpunkt optimally, the success of a recommendation is, also if the business appears yet so outlook rich, naturally decisively therefrom dependent that the Einstiegstiming agrees. We expect and exactly that in the share of SoftNet Technology corp. (OTC BB: STTC), that we already for months on our recommendation list very above stand have and gave the profit already strong our readers. With the current GI-report, we present you therefore no unknown, but rather a value that we pursue for some time and in which we lay with the Einstiegstiming already once gold correct.
Ask nevertheless many take up itself certainly, why we the share just now once again? - Very simply, for that we see good reasons:
The fundamental situation last week drastically improved itself just in that. Look at only once the latest development:
End November 2004 gave confessed the business that the daily revenue numbers so far improved themselves in the subsidiary Wholesalebyus, LLC, that the sales expectation for the December around would say and would write 100% by 150,000 on 300,000 USD towards the top corrected became. Already in November we had the scenario that the revenue number were corrected repeatedly towards the top. Just as happen in the numbers for the fourth quarter, in which the sales projections were raised by 250,000 on 500,000 USD and therewith also around 100%. For 2005, SoftNet of even revenues in the area of 3,000,000 USD expects.
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I inquired about information and heard back within a couple of days.
nice find. I think that Yahoo has a foreign language tranlation software somewhere. I will look for it later.
Onestroke is that you pushing the pps up. Still waiting for the website to uprade.
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Press Release Source: SoftNet Technology
SoftNet Technology Changes Name of German Subsidiary to SoftNet International GmbH and Begins Aggressive Expansion
Tuesday January 25, 4:00 pm ET
BERNARDSVILLE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2005--SoftNet Technology (OTCBB Symbol: STTC - News; German WKN#: A0B7RZ) today announces that the German Subsidiary Holtermann & Team GmbH has officially changed its name to SoftNet International GmbH and begins large-scale setup of sales for suppliers of products from Europe. Additionally, SoftNet International changes its fiscal year-end from March 31 to December 31 to be consistent with the whole company.
WBU is in the process of finalizing arrangements with several major European manufacturers and suppliers for distribution of products from Europe to Europe. More than 150,000 products will be sold through SoftNet International from just the few suppliers that the German subsidiary is finalizing sales agreements with. These sales will be run through the Frankfurt based Subsidiary from a fulfillment center based in Frankfurt, Germany.
This expansion will greatly enhance sales well beyond the products that are currently being sold to Europe from the USA. Eventually, these European based products will be added into the WBU System here in the United States to provide a larger and better variety of products for sale World Wide through WBU. A start date for actual sales to be realized for the European based suppliers is expected in the next few weeks.
A new website is being developed for SoftNet International GmbH. The new website will be translated into several different languages and posted in several different countries. SoftNet is working diligently in preparing the year-end financials. It is now expected that the 10K filing will be completed sometime in February due to the acquisition of WBU and the German subsidiary this past year and this being the first audits ever performed on these two new subsidiaries.
Please visit our website at www.softnettechnology.com for more information or call the company directly at 866-898-4842 (local - 908-204-9911).
With what I have been reading,I have a feeling that earnings are going to be very good.
I can't get an order filled at the ask.
I am still curious why others within the company would not be buying stock. Even if in small amounts. I already own the stock so it will not change my mind, I just find it interesting.
Onestroke, looks like its just you and I here. By the way are you Farinella?
Beeh, the statement seems to be the same.
Does anyone know what the German Company is?
TS out with his usual NEOM statement again today.