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Death To Spam
Arik Hesseldahl, 02.14.05, 6:00 AM ET
The Fastest-Growing Tech Companies
***so, whatcha think?... trusted networks/clients vulnerability to spam gonna be a problem? i'm thinkin' the 4,200 companies, for whom "Postini is now the secret anti-spam weapon of choice" will be "upgrading" their networks/clients PRONTO!!!!!!!!! HOW MANY OF THE 4,200 companies HAVE IT REPS AT THE RSA CONFERENCE?!
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/02/14/cx_ah_0214fastpostini.html?partner=yahoo&referrer=
Last May Shinya Akamine received an unusual compliment.
After testifying at a U.S. Senate hearing on the effects of a new federal law regulating unwanted e-mail, he was approached by a fellow witness who wanted his business card. It was Ronald Scelson, aka the "Cajun Spammer," who was known for bragging in newspaper interviews that he could send 30 million messages per day from a rented underground nuclear fallout shelter in Louisiana.
"At first I was wondering if I should be scared to give him my business card," Akamine says. "Then he said, 'I have to hand it to you guys, I can beat all the spam filters out there, but I can't beat yours.' "
For Akamine, chairman of , a private e-mail services company based in Redwood City, Calif., it was just one of many confirmations that the business he and Scott Petry co-founded in 1999 was having the impact they had wanted.
In a most recent survey, the Radicati Group, a Palo Alto, Calif., research outfit, found that 49% of all the e-mail sent globally in 2004 constituted unwanted spam. It doesn't look as if 2005 will be any better: Radicati analyst Teney Takahashi reckons that 73% of the mail consumers receive will be spam, as will be 48% of that received by businesses.
On average, each of the world's 683 million e-mail users will receive about 70 unwanted messages every day, or 25,300 for all of 2005. One estimate by Ferris Research, another research organization, pegged the spam-related cost in information technology resources to U.S. businesses at $10 billion in 2003.
This is where Postini comes into the picture. It operates ten data centers around the U.S. that act like burly security guards at an exclusive nightspot. Postini lets only those messages from servers on its "A list" get through their system. Mail from addresses and domains with a history of bad behavior are met with restrictions or get barred entirely.
With a few tweaks to its e-mail servers, a client company's e-mail flows directly to Postini, where it's scrubbed of the irritating and the offensive, and then directed to the corporate mail server, where it gets delivered as usual. Clients have no ongoing maintenance or upgrades to worry about as long as they keep up their subscription payments.
Postini's approach toward spam was a radical idea five years ago, when most companies seeking to protect e-mail in-boxes were focused on building expensive software or hardware products that get installed directly on customers' systems. Many spam-fighting services still operate this way.
"Back then we had to grope around for a way to explain what we wanted to do," Akamine says. "They didn't get the idea that you could sell spam protection as a service." Still, Postini managed to land funding from big names like Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ), August Capital, Mobius Venture Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners.
"There was a brutal period where we would literally sit in the conference room and manage cash," says Akamine, 41, who was until late last year Postini's chief executive officer. "I had vice presidents who said they had run out of copier paper." It got so dicey that Postini put up a temporary wall in its headquarters so it could rent out half its building.
That changed in December 1999 when Postini landed its first big customer, USOnline, a network of small Internet service providers based in Wenatchee, Wash. USOnline wanted Postini to protect 100,000 mailboxes. At the time, many companies were giving away their services for free in hopes of building up a base of users they could charge later.
"I'm not proud of what we charged them. It was something like 50 cents a mailbox, and we weren't going to charge them at all until the last minute, but it later turned out to be a critical decision," Akamine says. "We've never done a free deal since then."
Radical too were the deals that Postini didn't do. Right before landing the contract with USOnline, negotiations collapsed with a large, publicly held financial services company, whose name Akamine does not want to disclose. The company wanted Postini to pay it for the right to name it as a customer in marketing messages. "We lost a venture capital investor over that one. I'm still friends with that VC, and today he says he made a mistake," Akamine says.
Mistake indeed. Postini is now the secret anti-spam weapon of choice of more than 4,200 companies, of which nearly half came on board last year. It now services 6 million end users, including workers at Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ), Circuit City (nyse: CC - news - people ), Rayovac (nyse: ROV - news - people ) and--get this--Hormel Foods (nyse: HRL - news - people ), the company that makes Spam, the canned meat product.
Today Postini processes 2.5 billion e-mail messages per week, which is more than most large Internet service providers. Petry, Postini's senior vice president, says that in five years of operation, 97% of its customers renew their contracts after the first year. "Companies come to us and never leave," he says.
Akamine won't disclose financials, but in the past has said Postini's revenue was comparable to that of Brightmail, a rival that had planned to go public before security software giant Symantec (nasdaq: SYMC - news - people ) gobbled it up last year for $300 million. In its S1 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Brightmail had reported sales of $26 million for the year ended Jan. 31, 2004. Akamine says Positini's sales were in the same vicinity at the time. Still, Postini has said that in 2004 its sales tripled over the previous year, putting sales in the range of $60 million to $70 million.
The chances of Postini going public? Akamine, who holds three degrees--including a Ph.D.--in electrical engineering from Stanford University--says it's not a priority.
"We're profitable, and we're growing," he says. "We didn't get that way by following the crowd."
hey tangent, pricewise, it needs to break into double-digits.
PRs essentially irrelevant: WHEN enterprises, government and individuals ARE READY to engage in high value digital transactions, they must invoke the TPM framework, which has become the accepted standard "trusted client" network hardware -- IT'S NOW ONLY A MATTER OF TIME, ONCE TRUSTED NETWORK/CLIENTS ARE SET UP, BEFORE WE KNOW HOW WAVE'S IP IS VALUED IN THE TCG RAND FRAMEWORK.
ahem. ASISEEIT, puff PRs (and sloppy behaviour) got wave in trouble, lawsuits w/merit or not, and it's about time they put up or shut up.
eamonnshute, lest we forget the pending class action law suits?!... finally, Wave's counsel has reined in the SKS "cool" stuff jabber. FINALLY. maybe, they will put those damn lawsuits to bed soon, and get on with behaving like a co. with a pivotal role in the emerging world of digi-security.
thanks Armp - all i'm saying is, in 1992, scott mcnealy @ sun was talking about what's finally materializing today -- 'net-based digital distribution. my only point is.... why did msft only in the last year acknowledge that a hardware solution was req'd?
to think wintel (or any other monopolistic entity) doesn't feircely seek to maintain the status quo, is to be naive -- sure, when the momentum is such that they can not turn a blind eye w/o looking like monopolists, they'll put on a happy cheerleader face and champion the cause (albeit begrudgingly), BUT NOT BEFORE.
Wave is a relative gnat, and i'd be ecstatic if it could garner $10 bil .... however, realistically, Wave's survival in tact, as a stand alone co., is HURDLE #1.
barge--"GET!" this: V1.2 release is governed by Wintel (i.e., MSFT longhorn/INTC legrande), and Wintel will delay until the last moment possible so as to share as little revenue as possible with it minscule TCG "parner" Wave Ssytems -- when Wave's patent #1 expires in 2010 (i.e., the peter-meter, which, incidentally, is the 'net web-services digi-servives holy grail, unless i'm mistaken -- specifically detailed corrections fully and wholly welcome), Wintel is surely positioned to flood the market w/its heft to capatilize on the juggernaut Wave spent 100s of millions of dollars to develop... the very simplistic (KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID) characterization is, let SKS has his 15 miuntes in the "limelight"... Wintel will rake in the 100s of billions after patent #1 expires in 2010... and Wave will p/u up the leftover scraps based on it's numerous remaining patents, yet less pivotal IP.
PLEASE, barge or any other DD "sage", explain in detail what the scenario i describe is flawed.
"The end game is V1.2 doing remote device authentication and managing THOSE keys. Everything before is prelude."
thanks ASISEEIT -- best i can tell, any tech aimed at securing networks that relies on a "trusted client" framework and, particularly, those involving TPM-like solutions, bodes well for Wave, right?
Wildman, "put off by 3 years"?! "Wave would also spin that as good news by saying it would give them more time to get ahead of the competition."?!
all the while watching Wave's IP patent-protection move closer and closer to expiration.... AN UTTERLY HORRENDOUS OUTCOME.
go-kitesurf, aren't RSA & Wave complimentary? both are TCG members, and regardless of who deploys/employs the solutions, revenue flows to those whose IP is invoked, right?... to the extent RSA's announcing its "authentication server... in appliance form for the first time.", won't the rising tide raise all ships?
will not the RSA servers yet further validate the crirical and pivotal roll of Wave's IP?
Wave NOT listed on DELL under Software & Peripherals
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lest we forget, HP's a staunch Wave ally, whereas Dell is merely a commodity shop, albeit the global Walmart of all things PCs.
Vader, every day's a big day... green-wavx is merely iceing on the cake!
amen wavxmaster! the vice ain't backin' off yet! hope it does soon .... NOT ANOTHER MOMENT TOO SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Security software... must-have in corporate world!
For Tech, The End Of A Long, Cold Winter
Companies are starting to open their wallets for cheaper, more powerful gear
FEBRUARY 14, 2005
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
http://www.businessweek.com/@@GvTrcoUQxwSnXBkA/magazine/content/05_07/b3920053_mz011.htm
Not long ago, technology companies could barely get chief information officers to return their calls. CIOs were too busy cutting bloated budgets to think about buying new hardware and software. Besides, there wasn't much out in techland to whet their appetites.
Now tech suppliers are expressing cautious optimism that corporate wallets are opening up again. A yearend surge in demand by businesses propelled U.S. spending on information technology up 12.3% last year, to $484.3 billion, the Commerce Dept. reported Jan. 28. That tops even the peak reached in 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom, and marks the first year of double-digit growth since those heady days. Across techdom, companies have been logging stronger-than-expected results, from bellwethers Microsoft (MSFT ) and IBM (IBM ) on down. "The technology sector is back in growth mode," says Caris & Co. analyst Mark Stahlman.
LACKLUSTER SECTORS
Will the recovery last? Most analysts agree that global tech spending will continue to grow in '05, although estimates range from 4% to 8% amid worries that intense competition and increasingly demanding customers could pressure revenues. Some areas will be lackluster: Revenues in the mature PC sector are expected to grow just 3.7%. Chipmakers could also face a tough year as their customers continue to work down inventories, blunting sales.
Still, after three years in which companies mostly bought gear to lower their costs, businesses are investing in innovations they believe will help them grow. "IT expense is not going to be coming down," says Robert P. DeRodes, CIO at Home Depot Inc. (HD ). This year he'll boost tech spending 9%, to $600 million, on gear that should increase sales volume by streamlining distribution and procurement. "We've got wind in our sails," he adds.
It helps that tech suppliers have revamped their products to satisfy customers demanding more bang for the buck. Inexpensive storage devices are letting companies load up on much-needed capacity without breaking the bank. With the savings, they're adding sophisticated software to manage those piles of data efficiently. Sales of No. 1 EMC Corp.'s (EMC ) three cheapest products leapt 46% in the fourth quarter, while storage-software leader Veritas logged 14% revenue growth. Meantime, pricey Unix servers acquired in the late 1990s are being replaced with nimbler, less-expensive machines running Microsoft Windows or open-source Linux. In 2005 sales of servers priced between $5,000 and $10,000 should grow 17%, the fastest server category, according to research firm Gartner Inc. (IT ).
A few killer apps have even emerged. Security software and handheld e-mail devices are becoming must-haves in the corporate world. And phone companies are scrambling to replace aging networks with Internet setups so they can offer video and data services. Scott Kriens, CEO of router maker Juniper Networks Inc. (JNPR ), which raised its earnings guidance for the first half of '05 from $860 million to about $890 million, says: "There's real money being spent -- and real money being made." That may be the best news of all.
By Andrew Park, with Brian Grow in Atlanta and Steve Hamm in New York
right on 24601 - Westpoint will win the title this time, making it 3 out 5 (competition exercise started in '01 and Westpoint won '01 & '02).
albeit, when they lost before, it was because they tripped over themselves, not because they others had a superior solution.
let's hope they execute, using wave's tach, flawlessly!
FINREAD D-10 compliant products Official Website
2004/09/23rd
**** no wave systems products?!
Guidelines have been set by the Trusted FINREAD initiative on compliance verification tests for readers, the writing of applets and the setting up of a certification process. This constitutes Trusted FINREAD project's deliverable N° D10, known as 'FINREAD demonstrator test plan' (to be downloaded here).
'FINREAD compliance' therefore always means compliance to this D10 reference document (and only to it).
Compliant products are listed here below.
This page is the only reference valid towards any third party.
Manufacturers and vendors wishing to get this official recognition must successfully pass this range of tests for their candidate products. To do so, they have to contact the FINREAD Co-ordination team:
Mr. William VANOBBERGHEN
Groupement des Cartes Bancaires "CB"
Washington Plaza - F-75408 PARIS Cedex 08
Phone: + 33 1.53.89.34.35 - contact(symbol)finread-dot-com *
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It targets any secure devices such as PINpads, set-top boxes, PC readers, keyboards, handheld and Internet devices. Extensions are available for fingerprint, contact-less and magnetic stripe interfaces. Full press release availaible here.
Contacts:
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Mr. Jean-Claude Pellicer, Trusted Logic: jean-claude.pellicer(at)trusted-logic-dot-fr *
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FINREAD Middleware: D10 compliant, it implements the latest version 2.0
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Full press release availaible here.
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buffet, what's new about collaboration?! what else has Wave done thus far?
snack, i applaud the "relationship[s] SKS has brought with Intel, Dell, STMicro" etc.
albeit, considering your view that SKS has snubbed %-age participation in WAVX with gorillas in favor of maintaining better sprague-control, allegedly to "protect" shareholders, don't you think SKS's fervant turf-protection has cost shareholders a delay in more widespread recognition?
"Dell to adopt Wave"?! excuse me but, Dell's "offering" the Otanium Suite and Wave's ETS, which are apparently the only TPM-related solutions on the market presently (as far as i know).
When I see Dell's ads -- several of which i saw in this past weekend's papers -- highlighting the Otanium Suite and/or Wave's ETS (read: devoting valuable ad-copy space), THEN i'd view it as an "adoption"/endorsement of Wave .... NOT BEFORE
dent, may you elaborate: what did gilder state?
yeah 'shute, i met him, and to "explain the techbology" is but [less than] half the battle ... he can evangelize and rattle off "cool" stuff all he wants, BUT WHERE ARE THE CONTRACTUAL COMMITMENTS FROM THOSE HE HAS "WOWED" WITH HIS CHARISMATIC, INSPIRATIONAL WAYS?!
awk, you ever met SKS? inspiring? compelling? visionary? or, carrying his dad's torch?... frankly, it doesn't matter. SKS has managed to resurect and propel his dad's patent(s) successfully -- no simple task, admittedly -- however, the IP is what is compelling, not SKS's ability to promote it. granted SKS has "proved" himself in some ways but, unfortunately, it's not been his own independent thinking that has allowed him his current vaunted position.
1 simple question: nice a guy as steven is, has he the desire, training and savvy to create the necessary momentum? or, is he merely serving as an extension of his aging dad?
i'm merely suggesting the latter, and this does not provide the makings of an inspirational co. leader.
right on larry. SKS's personal merit notwithstanding -- i met him at the wave, d.c. conference hold on the infamous 9/11/01 -- there are people better suited to take wave to the next level(s).
truly "growing" a company into it's full potential takes the likes of andy grove or bill gates ... hopefully, ego will not prevent wave, and wavx, grow into it'd full potential!
sorry Doma. my laziness.
eamonnshute, links provided don't work
Did someone say that Wave ETS wasn't that easy to find on the Dell Web site?
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/solutions/en/latitude_highlight?c=us&cs=RC968....
Click on "Learn more about TPM1.1 and get to
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/learnmore/learnmore.aspx?c=us&cs=RC968571&l=en&s=hea&....
and the tab beside it (to the right) is for ETS.
Now, I know I've missed dozens and dozens of posts in the past week, but seeing this:
thanks much for the clarity Ramsey.
amen, Omegacat. Microsoft WILL eat Wave's lunch if at all possible.... why wouldn't they?! and, PJS stated a long time ago that Wave is NOT IMMUNE to a hostile takeover .... so, point being, when the time is right, WAVX will be gobbled up a la InterTrust, guaranteed.
i suspect it'll be AFTER wavx achieves credibility, assuming SKS doesn't get caught with his pants down again ....
speaking of which, i'm dying to hear something about the pending class-action suits against wave: if resolved favorably (this potentially includes a settlement payment made by Wave, which DOES NOT cripple Wave as an ongoing concern), i bet wavx would race past $2 in the blink of an eye.
VERY INTERESTING, HOWEVER, IS THE STRATEGY(IES) POTENTIALLY EMPLOYED BY THE LAWYERS: WHY SETTLE WHEN WAVE'S ON THE EDGE, AND GET VERY LITTLE? ISN'T IT BETTER TO SUE THOSE WITH DEEPER POCKETS? SO, MY POINT IS, I'M PRETTY SURE THE LAWYERS SUING WAVE ARE DELAYING RESOLUTION IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE, SO AS TO TRY TO GARNER WHAT STANDS TO BE A CONSIDERABLE FUTURE REVENUE STREAM.
buffetguy, i believe that IF wave's IP is the critical "glue" that holds together all things TCPA/TCG (as SKS suggested), THEN wavx should, by all rights be huge in time.
that said, based on the current wavx price, investors aren't yet convinced that wave's IP is the "glue", nor are they convinced SKS will make his assertions become reality.
jury's still out, but here's to hoping we see wavesys and huge in the same sentences soon!!
OtaniumSuite v. ETS Enterprise: competition or complimentary?
not sure how much ETS Enterprise costs, but it sure looks like the heat's on, to the extent that ETS Enterprise functionality may be accomplished using an OtaniumSuite solution.
any comments, please?
DELL - OtaniumSuite Pro Software and 2 SmartCards - $44.00
Envoy - OtaniumSuite Pro Software with 2 SmartCards - $56.43
Envoy - OtaniumSuite Pro Software with USB Token - $67.49
DELL - OtaniumSuite PKI Upgrade Kit - $31.20
Envoy - OtaniumSuite PKI Software with USB Token - $71.10
Envoy - OtaniumSuite PKI Software with Two Smart Cards - $61.35
Dell - OtaniumSuite PKI Software and Two Smart Car - $60.00
OtaniumSuite Pro ($56.43) Flexible Smart Card Access Management
The full-featured OtaniumSuite Pro offers advanced features, such as File Encryption / Decryption, and Emergency Access Support, along with encrypted file recovery, personal multimedia juke-box with user-selected links to files and web sites, and auto-caching to enable storage of web site favorites and contacts.
Auto XP & Network Logon
Password Hacking Retry Protection
File Encryption / Decryption (3DES 112 bit)
Emergency Access / File Recovery
Secure Screen Saver and Windows Power Modes
Auto Caching
Auto Web Form Fill
Personal Credential Storage
Auto Enables Multimedia Files/MP3 Play list
Primary User Smart Card: Schlumberger Cyberflex Access 32K v4
Emergency Smart Card: Schlumberger Primeflex Smart 8K
OtaniumSuite PKI Secure, portable, digital certificate Smart Card Management
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OtaniumSuite PKI includes all of the features of OtaniumSuite Pro plus the following features: Secure, Portable Digital Certificate Store for secure network transactions
Windows Domain Logon using Digital Certificate
Digitally Sign Emails using Outlook, Messenger, Eudora, and Notes
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IE/Outlook, Netscape Navigator/Messenger compatible Digital Certificates
Authenticate with Digital Certificate at Internet Web-sites / E-Commerce
Primary User Smart Card: Schlumberger Cyberflex Access 32K v4
Emergency Smart Card: Schlumberger Primeflex Smart 8K
DELL - OtaniumSuite PKI Upgrade Kit - $31.20
Envoy - OtaniumSuite PKI Software with USB Token - $71.10
Envoy - OtaniumSuite PKI Software with Two Smart Cards - $61.35
Dell - OtaniumSuite PKI Software and Two Smart Car - $60.00
Wave ETS Enterprise TPM Security Software, Dell Edition v1.0
Dell SKU: A0436206
Features
Wave ETS Enterprise TPM Security Software, Dell Edition v1.0 for TPM-enabled systems is a robust suite of applications offering the following features:Password management for application, web, and TPM-based passwords
Strong file and folder encryption with multiple protected virtual drives and sharing capabilities that is integrated with Windows® Explorer and File menu operations
Wizards to add hardware-security to email, wireless authentication, and Microsoft's Encrypting File System (EFS)
TPM management utility to ease setup and configuration of the TPM
Multi-factor authentication to Windows and TPM-secured applications enabling users to select from their Windows password and/or a fingerprint biometric
Automated TPM key backup and restore, with optional Active Directory server
Digital signing capability designed to be compliant with ESIGN laws & other regulations
Localized for 8 languages
Benefits
While the benefits of the Wave's TPM solutions are many, three major benefits are:Enhanced PC security - Where strong security is required by organizational policy or regulatory guidelines, whether on a notebook or desktop, PC users can experience enhanced security for passwords, applications, Windows login, personal information, email, wireless authentication, sensitive documents, and more.
Easy-to-use - Automated features, wizards and seamless Microsoft® integration assist the user with security features that are familiar and easy-to-use. Signing on to Windows and TPM-secured applications is simplified and strengthened through multifactor authentication. The solution also includes digital certificates allowing users to start using hardware security out of the box.
Seamless and adaptable to enterprises - Server capabilities help businesses manage their secure systems with functions such as distributing user and machine security policies and enabling recovery of trusted systems. Encrypted document sharing and securing of wireless network authentication are a few of the other enterprise-focused features that make Wave's TPM solutions the choice for the business environment.
West Point won cyberdefense trophy '01 & '02
outdoing: Naval Academy; Air Force Academy; and, Coast Guard Academy
Air Force Academy wins '2003
http://www.nsa.gov/releases/relea00050.cfm
PR on 28 April 2003
Merchant Marine Academy wins '04
http://www.nsa.gov/releases/relea00079.cfm
PR on 07 May 2004
*** LET'S HOPE THE ETS LOCKS UP '05 FOR WESTPOINT!!!!... (we'll apparently not know for sure until late april/early may)
West Point beats back NSA cyberattack
May 10, 2002
http://www.th-record.com/archive/2002/05/10/whwinner.htm
By Wayne A. Hall
Times Herald-Record
waynehall@th-record.com
West Point – It would be slim pickings for terrorists trying to break into cyberspace at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Proof: the country's top security eavesdropper, the National Security Agency, tried to do just that last week in a probe of West Point's cyberdefenses. The NSA didn't get far.
Although the contest involved a mock computer system, it pitted 24 enthusiastic cadets against NSA professionals whose job it is to listen across the world for enemies and to prevent them from listening to our secrets.
The cadets effectively ambushed the pros, winning a cyberdefense trophy (for the second time) to be awarded by a top NSA official later this month. Competing with the cadets for the best show of smarts were the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
The whole exercise is about cybersecrecy, although the NSA, to even up the odds, promised not to use any unclassified dirty tricks.
Which still left a tough virtual battlefield to win.
"We actually surprised them with the comprehensive defense put in place," said Lt. Col. Daniel Ragsdale, director of West Point's Information Technology and Operations. "We were so much better than last year that they underestimated our capability."
"We put in place the honey pot," said Ragsdale, "which is much like it sounds, drawing attention so somebody sees it as a vulnerable target." In short, NSA was fooled into thinking it had accessed a soft computer target, "when it was totally a ruse," said Ragsdale, "fooling them into believing they had."
Then, West Point "captured" the NSA's attempts at access – 110 of them.
NSA paid West Point the ultimate geek compliment. "They said you guys really knew what you were doing," Ragsdale said.
Whitewash, "coming alot sooner than people realize"?! OEMs et al. HAVE FINALLY COALESCED AROUND THE IDEA IN A COLLABORATIVE MANNER, PURELY OUT OF NECESSITY -- multiple proprietary infrastructure designs wasn't possible and the OEMs know that -- it's taken them many years to take the collaborative approach, in it's only now "working".
MY POINT? it's here now; standards are established; infrastructure's being built accordingly; and, Wave's IP is front-center.
the first patent issued in 1988, subsequently updated in 1993, w/expiration in 2010 .... unfortunately, despite PJS's forward thinking and visionary ideas, it's taken industry ~10+ years to "catch up" and, thus, Wave will have a limited window of opportunity within which to capitalize on PJS's IP.
that said, 4-5 years may provide ample opportunity for immense profit .... with which, if adamant, Wave may pursue compensation retroactively from those players who've grossly enfringed on IP for profit.
glad to have you back CL, rock on!
is Wave anywhere on Dell.com?
snack, "Our fate is..." UNKNOWN. all we know for sure is, Wave's tech/IP is salable. how and when WAVX will move remains murky at best.
agreeably, when the per-seat value of Wave's tech/IP can be quantified, AND Dell/HP/Sony/Samsung etc. etc. projections for TPM-widget sales enable revenue projections, THEN, we'll have a range of likely outcomes and a general sense of fate.... BUT, UNTIL HARD FACTS AND NUMBERS ARE RELEASED, OUR FATE IS UNKNOWN AND CLEARLY NOT "SEALED".
so dig, what's that list? what's it mean?
TXtree, "lots of things cued up in Feb/Mar" uh huh. right. and, i do hope you are right. albeit, lots of things have been cued up for a long, long time.
what's the "naked short list" ... didn't the short position in wavx increase this or last month?
Doma, ever hearing of "asking price"?! w/o units sold data, who cares what the asking price is?!!
thanks buffet. in fact, i've a WAVX position in the 10s of thousands of shares, and i'll say only this: the banter on this board regarding bundling fees etc. is truly laughable!... DID YOU EVER WONDER WHY THERE WAS NO REVENUE COMPONANT TO THE PR REGARDING WAVE'S RECENTLY ANNOUNCED GOV'T CONTRACT WITH THE MILITARY ACADEMIC BODY?!.... BECAUSE WAVE IS FORCED TO CONTINUE TO GIVE IT'S PRODUCTS FOR FREE UNTIL IT'S PROVEN THAT THEY'RE WORTH THE ASKING PRICE.
i'm waiting for nothing but a glowing endorsement from the gov't AND/OR a purchase order from a few fortune-50 corporations.
Doma, fees quoted from SKS-talk? advertised product offerings?... you haven't given us anything except potential reference points, and until there's factual results detailing "units sold", the fees you "give" are effectively worthless reference points. i've a widgets sale on ebay for $5 per.... so what.
50mil............Who pays the fee?
Intel pays the fee for bundling KTM & ETS
ST Micro pays the fee for bundling ESC
NSM pays the fee for bundling Wave IP
I have already given you the fees for each
item.........
Doma.