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"There are many more 'decisions' like this confronting the investor. I'm not even suggesting that the first two above are likely, but investors must be assuming some probability that the merger may not go ahead or go ahead on slighly less favorable terms to SCMI to account for its lower SP since the "suggested" terms of the merger were announced."
I would suspect a couple of the reasons scmi is trading lower than mmxt is simply mmxt is an ob stock and mediamax is the name being retained for the new company....
It's simply in the "light" more so to speak. People have to dig deeper to find the link to scmi, and I would suspect, for someone who hasn't followed these companies long term would instinctively lean towards the mmxt shares.
JMHO...FWIW
TBB
Question re: 90mm additional shares.
This thought may be totally off the wall but here goes.
Just a question BUT if once mmxt/scmi merge and we wanted to move to the amex, is it possible that the 90mm additional scmi shares are being issued in the event that a reverse split is necessary to move to the AMEX? For instance, GTEL was just granted AMEX approval if a 15:1 reverse split is completed.
thanks,
TBB
Waxie and Grandma should have great fun today at my expense! LOL
DAVE M. just started on Today show...singing NOW!!!
OUTSTANDING!!!
Today, Tue, May 10, 2005
• MMXT.OB SCMI.PK SunnComm Generates Record Revenue by Including MediaMax on More Than 2 Million CDs for April
Business Wire (Tue 9:01am)
Can't get the article to pull up though...says it's expired.
TBB
stingray...my statement was actually a response to i believe it was sunnydays (could be mistaken though) comment about OBTV naked shorting...day's trade range .0022-.0057.
SORRY for the confusion.
TBB
I feel very comfortable with my .07 scmi purchase!
TBB
that's CRAP!
sunnyday..."Up [obvt] up 160 % , wait untill the "naked shorters" destroy this stock right under the noses of the Securities and exchange commission."
Do you mean it will continue to go up or would that cause a crash back down to pre last Friday's run up?
much thanks.
TBB
Clarification definately necessary...FWIW
re: OBTV...stock play "trade"...not an investment....
It's been nice to "meet" everyone. Thanks for humoring me. I just thought it'd be nice to get to know everyone a little bit more being as how we're probably going to be chatting with each other often over the coming months.
Rah Rah...Go Sunncomm...LOL
Later!
eagle-
You're the third minister I've met online who trades stocks.
The friend who turned me onto sunncomm, he too is a musician.
What research I have been able to uncover does give me great hope over that over the next 12-18 months...we WILL make it big.
take care,
tbb
sahd3g...WOW..EAG those were the days. I bought EAG right before Christmas two years ago I believe. Had the initial CC talking about GD. Made decent money having sold when they started to have people calling to get investors to vote "yes" for increased incentives to executives. That's when I got out. Figured if the executives didn't feel they could do their job any longer on their already higher salaries and stock options then they must not be in the organizations for the right reasons.
I agree 100% with your trading strategy.
Enjoy your weekend!
tbb
Micro...micro...micro summer play.
Word on the street is it's OBTV. Heard coming out of Ch. 11 and has deals with Papa John's, Malibu and Walmart.
Still doing research and will share what I find with the board.
take care and enjoy the weekend!
tbb
Antipiracy Article
Just trying to stay on top of any news that may apply to our situtation.
Could a decision such as this in other areas of antipiracy affect the goals within sunncomm's success?
My thought is "no" but I did want to see if it was a discussable piece of news to debate through amongst ourselves.
Appellate Court Strikes
FCC's Anti-Piracy Rules
By PEG BRICKLEY
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
A federal appellate court Friday invalidated federal regulations that require makers of TV sets to equip them with technology that prevents digital broadcast signals from being redistributed.
Ruling in a case brought by the American Library Association, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said the Federal Communications Commission had overstepped its authority in trying to regulate how consumers can use their TV sets after they receive broadcasts.
The case involves something called the "broadcast flag," a slight digital modification to a broadcast digital TV signal, one that wouldn't affect picture quality but would prevent a recording of the show from being uploaded to the Internet.
The FCC ordered it into place two years ago and said that by July 1 all video-recording equipment sold in the U.S. -- for instance DVD players and digital video recorders, including those on PCs -- must support the flag.
The American Library Association said the flag rule went beyond the FCC's power to regulate broadcasts and threatened to keep research and teaching libraries from distributing digital material in Internet classrooms.
Consumer groups had complained that the FCC requirement would drive up prices of digital television devices and prevent consumers from recording programs in ways permitted under copyright laws. Entertainment companies, however, said the technology was needed to block viewers from recording shows and films and distributing them free online.
The appeals court said no law allows the FCC to require consumers to have digital receivers that limit the use of digital broadcasts after they are received.
"The insurmountable hurdle facing the FCC in this case is that the agency's general jurisdictional grant does not encompass the regulation of consumer electronics products that can be used for receipt of wire or radio communication when those devices are not engaged in the process of radio or wire transmission," the court wrote.
Friday's ruling was no real surprise. During courtroom arguments, U.S. Circuit Judge Harry T. Edwards told the FCC it had "crossed the line'' by requiring the new anti-piracy technology for next-generation television devices and rhetorically asked the FCC whether it also intended to regulate household appliances. "You've gone too far," Judge Edwards told the FCC's lawyer. "Are washing machines next?''
--The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Write to Peg Brickley at peg.brickley@dowjones.com
sahd3g...Congratulations on the decision to stay at home with the girls and best of luck with your thyroid recovery.
I too have given back "all" and then some of fairly substantial profits over the past 18 months...I hate to say it but investing in a recession was much easier for me than investing today. If I ever regain my capital...preservation will be KEY!!
Good luck to all of us!
TBB
LJ....So you have a very good "first hand" knowledge of what scmi/mmxt is in pursuit of accomplishing.
I agree with you 100%...the minute I sell a stock, it goes up significantly, the minute I buy a stock, pps drops!!!
Never given up though!!
WOW...5 forster boys, how exciting. Challenging too I imagine. I'm sure your life is full of fun though.
The board has lots of "long time longs"...that's nice to see that you haven't lost the faith. Good sign.
Congratulations Berg!! Patience, patience and more patience especially if your wife "nurses"...
You'll LOVE parenthood...it's truly fabulous.
I'm curious...if people don't mind...what are all of our backgrounds and how did we come to follow sunncomm?
I'm a stay-at-home mother of 3...two boys and one girl, ages 6yrs., 4yrs. and 2yr. little girl.
I'm not very good but I have always loved stock trading. Been doing it for about 10 years. now.
Came to sunncomm by sonus54. I've decided to stick around as I don't feel like my monies invested will be served any better anywhere else, and I kick myself daily for having snubbed my nose at siri back in the quarter days!! LOL
Just wanted to get to know everyone.
take care all.
TBB
Pretty interesting piece...good news find.
For more than a year, the mobile industry has been converging on a standard set of antipiracy technologies, which could help avoid the fragmentation that separates Microsoft and Apple Computer products in the PC world. But now patent holders including Sony and others have put a price tag on that technology, and some of the biggest phone companies say it's too expensive.
tbb
thanks to everyone...dd, dd, dd....gotta do it and gotta understand it!
thanks again!
three
thanks.
What other enhancements aside from free legal copies do they get? I should know this but I don't....sorry
thanks.
tbb
"Branding" I get...would that then insinuate that DRM is, for the most part, going to become "standard" within the music and DVD industries?
much appreciate your patience with my questioning.
thanks,
tbb
Forgive me if this question seems dumb but here goes. I've pondered this for a while now. Stern and SIRI, I get...Stern and scmi/mmxt I don't get. Most music buyers are not interested in DRM. From what I've read this seems to be why it's taking so long for DRM this to catch on in the US. It's the record labels that want it...of course w/o taking away from the "buying" base.
What am I missing here?
thanks
"dumb dumb" a.k.a. threebabiesbusy
MMXT Article. If this article has already been posted I must have missed seeing it. Thought I'd share....
Copy-Controlled and Enhanced CDs by MediaMax Technology Pass Certification Testing with Ford, Lincoln and Mercury Car Stereo Manufacturers
Distribution Source : PrimeZone Media
Date : Tuesday - April 12, 2005
PHOENIX, April 12, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- MediaMax Technology Corporation (OTCBB:MMXT), the seller of MediaMax(tm), the most universally accepted and best selling enhancement and management technology for CDs in the U.S., is pleased to announce that it has undertaken a comprehensive worldwide certification process intended to demonstrate and publicize the outstanding playability and compatibility of the MediaMax copy management and enhancement suite of products.
MediaMax Technology Corp. has received the initial test results and certification from Orient Power Car Stereos Limited, the manufacturer of automotive stereos found in most Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury cars (http://www.orientpower.com). "We are pleased to be working with MediaMax Technology to certify playability on our Ford Motor Company branded radios. Their team has been very responsive and the results have all been positive," stated Ricky Yuan from Orient Power.
MediaMax Technology Corporation has an exclusive marketing agreement with SunnComm International, (Pink Sheets:SCMI) to sell MediaMax -- America's best selling audio CD copy management and enhancement technology. Both companies earn royalties for every disc manufactured containing its proprietary copy management and enhancement software.
Eric Vandewater, SunnComm's Chief Technology Officer added, "We are also providing various production and test CDs to Alpine Electronics GmbH in Germany, manufacturer of automotive stereos, navigation and mobile media equipment. In addition to their own Alpine-branded car stereos, they supply OEM CD changers to BMW and Daimler-Chrysler worldwide. Our certification process provides access to major manufacturers of end-user CD playback equipment and is designed to insure that MediaMax CDs continue to maintain exceptional compatibility and playability across the board in virtually every machine that plays an audio CD."
According to William Whitmore, MediaMax Technology's President, "The successful completion of this first phase of certification testing with Orient Power takes us one step closer toward becoming the recognized world standard in CD copy control and enhancement technology."
thanks alj. The reason I ask is I found the site where a 3rd party investor in scmi...Affiliate Associates out of NY acquired the services of a "stock awareness" company ShazamStocks. The guy's name is Ken Weiner. Just wondered if he was one in the same as kenco.
thanks again.
tbb
Question re: poster on RB site...
Is there any chance that kenco is Ken Weiner from shazamstocks?
thanks.
TBB
pt. 2
Hackers build backdoor into iTunes
Published: March 18, 2005, 4:06 PM PST
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hasn't talked to a lawyer. Because PyMusique doesn't actually break through Apple's copy protection, the programmers have predicted in previous blog postings that the software is legal.
Apple's iTunes terms of service do seem to disallow any unauthorized access, however.
"You will not access the service by any means other than through software that is provided by Apple for accessing the service," the iTunes terms of service says.
Annette Hurst, a San Francisco copyright attorney, said the software appeared to cross legal lines. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, bars software that "avoids" or "bypasses" antipiracy mechanisms, she said.
"Those are pretty broad words," she said. "I would be very concerned about this if I were their lawyer.
A test of the PyMusique software showed that it did allow the purchase of songs from iTunes, and that the songs were saved in the unprotected AAC digital music format rather than in Apple's protected Fairplay format. Songs could not be downloaded without establishing an iTunes account and paying the ordinary price for the music.
Apple's rights-management software already allows iTunes customers to burn the songs they buy to CDs, which can themselves be ripped into unprotected MP3 files.
Johansen said the work is specific to Apple's store, and would not be easily applied to other download stores such as those operated by Napster and Microsoft.
"I can't say whether it's possible without looking into it first," Johansen said in an e-mail. "The iTunes Music Store sells files in a open format--AAC--which is what makes it attractive."
Johansen said that two other programmers, Travis Watkins and Brocious, had done much of the work on the Linux software, while he had developed the Windows version.
The Norwegian programmer has been a constant thorn in the side of the entertainment industry for more than half a decade, as the most public face among programmers testing the power of rights-management protections.
As a teenager in 1999, he worked with other still-anonymous programmers to create and release software called DeCSS, which allowed Linux-based computers to play DVDs, but that could also be used to copy the movies. That action led to years of legal battles in which Hollywood studios and their allies sued Web sites and software makers trying to keep the DeCSS code offline and off store shelves.
That legal strategy was successful; judges in the United States ruled that the code was illegal to distribute or sell. Nevertheless, DVD-ripping programs remain widely available online.
Johansen himself was prosecuted in Norway as a result of his work on DeCSS, but was ultimately acquitted.
The programmer has since turned his attention to Apple's iTunes store, studying the interior workings of the software and coming up with tools that can help strip the copy protection off purchased songs. The PyMusique release is related, but not directly dependent on his earlier work, Johansen said.
Recent Article worth reading pt. 1
Hackers build backdoor into iTunes
Published: March 18, 2005, 4:06 PM PST
By John Borland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
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update A trio of independent programmers has released new software that allows people to tap into Apple Computer's iTunes music store and purchase songs free of any anticopying protections.
Joined by Jon Johansen, the Norwegian programmer responsible for distributing DVD-cracking code in late 1999, the programmers say their "PyMusique" software is a "fair" interface for iTunes, primarily aimed at allowing people who use the Linux operating system to purchase music from Apple's store.
Jon Johansen But with a Windows version of the software also available, it's likely to trigger a legal response from Apple, which has closely guarded access to its online music store and has depended on its copy-protection software to gain rights to sell music online.
In an interview late Friday, one of the program's creators, 17-year-old Pennsylvania high school student Cody Brocious, said the ability to save songs without copy protection was essentially an accident derived from the way Apple's system downloads songs. He said the software wasn't intended to harm Apple.
"The intent of the project was to be able to purchase files from the iTunes Music Store," Brocious said. "I believe very firmly that the project is ethical and does nothing but good for the community at large."
Apple representatives had no immediate comment on the software.
The PyMusique release is the latest and most ambitious skirmish in a long-running battle between Apple and hackers intent on removing digital-rights management from the company's songs. As the most popular online music store, Apple has helped prove that consumers will purchase copy-protected songs but also has been a test case for whether that copy-protection can sustain attacks.
The release draws from the work of a handful of scattered programmers over the past year who have successively identified how different pieces of the iTunes software works.
Brocious said he started his project after hearing of another programmer's work creating a Web-based interface to the iTunes store.
He and other programmers found that the iTunes store downloads songs wrapped in encryption, but that music purchasers are given the key to unlock that encryption when they buy a song. Ordinarily, the iTunes software would then rewrap the song in Apple's FairPlay digital rights management software, he says--but with their Linux version, that separate step didn't turn out to be necessary.
The result was a song that had been paid for and downloaded, but lacked the copy protections Apple's store ordinarily provides.
Brocious, who has left his most recent development on the software to another programmer, said he hasn't been contacted by Apple and
spenny...hi there! Therefore if you were to believe in the technology and wanted to buy one of the stocks which one would it be....mmxt or scmi?
thanks.
tbb
Thanks for all your efforts...it's all much appreciated.
TBB
i'm not sure what you mean by that kenco...ric and i are friends. We have known each other for years...and we do not "naked short"....
k-i-t meant keep in touch.
take care,
tbb
ric,
You're a good man....
K-I-T
tbb
e2
always appreciate your insights and feedback...
much thanks.
tbb
nb...good luck to you too...
I have to agree with your assessment that those selling certainly couldn't be profiting much, if at all...therefore it must be frustrated traders that don't see much upside in the near term or other more legitimate investors that feel that there monies would be better off in another investment for the time being....
Regardless...i'm holding.
fly...thanks.
Personally, I am a stay at home mom that loves to dabble in the stock market. Right now i'm getting killed and can only hope this stock (scmi) comes back around and the enthusiasm and belief in sunncomm re-emerges.
sonus54 is a good friend of mine and with him having pulled out yesterday...well, it doesn't really bode well for my gutt feeling.
thanks and the best to you.
tbb
Frustrated...
OK guys, we're too close to the 4 cent range now. Are we just having an off day or iyho's are we headed lower?
Also, are posters...longs specifically...holders of both scmi and mmxt?
thanks.
e2...
Thanks for the great feedback. How long have you been invested in scmi and what brought you to the company? I, myself, only for a few months, but have tracked a bit longer. Originally turned on to the stock by sonus54...who recently sold his 2mm share position just yesterday.
I'm with you in that i'll take a bit more "gruff" from the pinks but do expect a much better roi than just 10-15%...more like 10x.
I'm glad you felt comfortable with Mr. Robins. I realize he can't push pinks on his clients, but I wonder if he could "share" with them once it is announced at months end that scmi is in a definitive merge agreement with mmxt and will be fully merged and reporting sometime in Q3.
Did he provide you with any insight as to the 90mm additional scmi shares and how that only dilutes sh value.
I also struggle with "why" if we are so much further ahead than macrovision, why are the two stocks trading at such different pps? I would think those vested in mac would also throw a few grand down on scmi, if nothing else, based on more bang for the buck.
Over the past week our trading pattern has turned extremely negative..imo...and i really hope we do not see the .04's.
take care!
TBB
e2...i'm anxious to hear what you are able to learn from Mr. Robins...his expectations of revenue, company growth and future forecasts and EVEN your opinion of his credibility.
thanks.
TBB