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Why not? Both MNTA generic copaxone and t-enox have been approved yet!
What is the possibility of TEVA buying out MNTA? Wouldn't this good for TEVA:
1. Copaxone would be saved from MNTA generic copaxone
2. TEVA could gain MNTA important patents and technology to create other biosimilar products
3. TEVA could get whatever MNTA would get from m-enox now. M-enox would still be sold by Sandoz, but TEVA would get the profit sharing as MNTA would get it when there is no other generic enox in the market
Pollyvonwog is the one who posted the response of MNTA IR:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59162901
I was then just curious why did MNTA IR responded that way. That was why I asked the board about it in my first post of today. Meanwhile I did some googling and found out about the elimination of the term "non-approvable letter" by the FDA.
So my understanding is, if FDA's response to TEVA were before 2008, the term used would be "a non-approvable letter" instead of "a minor deficiency letter".
I found the answer to my question and the reason behind the response of MNTA IR saying "both are correct":
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From MNTA IR:
The Goldman report states that we received the request in the form of a “non-approvable letter” and responded in the form of a “minor amendment”, both of which are correct.
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FDA has eliminated the terms "approvable letter" and "non-approvable letter" sometime in 2008:
http://www.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2008/07/07/daily41.html
As MNTA received the letter before this time, it was still called a "non-approvable letter" and as MNTA responded after the elimination of the terms, it responded in the form of a "minor amendment" to suit the new term of the letter, i.e., a "minor deficiency letter".
The question now:
Do both a "minor deficiency letter" (as the one received by TEVA) and a "major deficiency letter" fall into the category of a "non-approvable letter"?
Someone (Weby? Awk?) should just write on the comment section explaining what the National Internet ID is, i.e., it is not about Single Sign On for all Internet users.
Use different browser or clear the cache of your browser would do the trick.
This one is no threat to WAVX, right!?
DISCOVER THE INTEGRATION OF QUALYSGUARD WITH CYBER-ARK'S PRIVILEGED IDENTITY MANAGEMENT (PIM) SUITE
Tuesday 25th January 2011 at 11:00AM (CET) / 10:00AM (GMT)
http://events.qualys.com/content/cyberark_webinar_en_250111?leadsource=1231260
Security and compliance in the cloud: DEFINE, DEFEND AND REGULATE
https://presentations.inxpo.com/Shows/TechTarget/12-8-10-SCC/media/Custom_Reg_Landing_Page.html
When can SKS sell his shares then? When the stocks is going up or is going down?
I believe the drop is caused by a possibility (or even a leak) that there will be some type of public placement soon.
Anybody read the comment section? LMAO
If there is news tomorrow or any day in the near future, it won't be about bundling with HP. SKS said it is still in early phase although the target is in 2010.
Did SKS ever mention about US automaker? As far as I remember, he only mentioned GLOBAL automaker.
I know but it would be nice to see GD as one of the partners.
Why no mention of General Dynamics?
Tomorrow is Tuesday. I hope there is pre-market news from WAVX.
Thanks RWK. So most warrants should have been exercised sometime ago.
Anybody has the info at what prices are the warrants start to kick in?
Winners of the Day
Wave Systems, USEC: Midday Volume Plays
http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/story/10692078/1/wave-systems-usec-midday-volume-plays.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA
4.75......
Intel says hackers attacked around time Google hit
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61M4PX20100224?type=technologyNews
Quote:
"On the software side, Wave Systems' Embassy Security Center handles all of the TPM functions, including password management and other authentication."
http://ruggedpcreview.com/3_notebooks_itronix_xr1.html
I think shorts are covering. Their pants are already wet because they are afraid what might be happening in the next 2-3 weeks.
Any possibility that WAVX might do PP in the near future? When?
Does it count?
http://www.wave.com/news/press_archive/05/051222_nciinc.asp
Wave Systems On Winning Team for U.S. Army Contract
Lee, MA – December 22, 2005 – Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:WAVX) announced today that the company has teamed with NCI Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of NCI, Inc. (NASDAQ:NCIT – www.nciinc.com ), in connection with a Total Engineering and Integration Services (TEIS) contract awarded to NCI Information Systems, Inc. by the United States Army Information Systems Engineering Command (USAISEC).
Under the TEIS contract, NCI Information Systems, Inc. is to provide information systems engineering and information technology support to the USAISEC, and other federal agencies worldwide. This indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) program has a five-year period of performance, containing a base year and four, one-year option periods, with a total ceiling value of $804 million. The teaming agreement envisions that Wave will supply its computing solutions products, subject to the completion of a subcontract (and related task orders) to be entered into between Wave and NCI Information Systems, Inc.
How much money WAVX will get from that 50 billions?
Microsoft???????
Just kidding of course........*smile*
Impact on WaveExpress? Hasn't it been discused before?
Alcatel sues Microsoft for patent infringement
11/22/2006 11:16:35 AM, by Nate Anderson
Alcatel, the French manufacturer of telecommunications gear, has filed two separate complaints against Microsoft in a Texas court, claiming that Microsoft has infringed on seven Alcatel patents. The court documents do not give examples of Microsoft's alleged bad behavior, but we can get some idea of what's at stake by looking at the cited patents.
Several of the patents in question have to do with video decoding and processing. Patent 5,659,539, for instance, was granted back in 1997 and covers a "Method and Apparatus for Frame Accurate Access of Digital Audio-Video Information." It describes a system for playing back video at a "second presentation rate" even when the stream was encoded for viewing at a "first presentation rate." Several other patents cover similar concepts.
The target may well be Microsoft's own IPTV middleware programs, which rely on accurately navigating within compressed digital files in order to keep streams synchronized and to offer services like video on demand. The Microsoft IPTV stack has become one of the most popular for worldwide IPTV deployments, and Alcatel may want a piece of the licensing money. But the target could just as easily be the Xbox 360.
That's because Alcatel is in the process of merging with Lucent, which is currently fighting its own legal battle with Microsoft over the video decoding capabilities found in the 360. In a court filing back in March, Lucent claimed that Microsoft was infringing Lucent patents by including "'out of the box' MPEG-2 decoding capability" in the console.
Alcatel's own patent infringement claims mesh well with the Lucent case. Several of the patents deal with video processing and decoding, and MPEG processing is explicitly mentioned in several cases. But other patents are more opaque. Two deal with a "Deterministic User Authentication Service for Communication Network" designed to allow personal network connectivity to users of large institutional networks. Is this a shot at Xbox Live? IPTV? Vista? This second court case is less clear, and Alcatel isn't giving more details than necessary.
The company said in a statement that it has been in licensing talks with Microsoft, but that the talks had recently broken off. Alcatel is asking the judge for triple damages based on a claim of "willful infringement" by Microsoft. Microsoft has yet to file a response.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061122-8272.html
Seagate CEO: Google, Web service giants upgrade storage almost yearly
Google (GOOG) buys a lot of hard drives. Consider that every time you do a search, Google stores information about things such as what you searched for, at what time, and how long it took you to find it. Increasingly in the Web 2.0 age, service providers also store our e-mail, documents, spreadsheets, Web pages, books, music, video and more.
Google's not alone in this storage-buying bonanza; MySpace (NWS), Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) also digitally warehouse dizzying amounts of information every second, and have plans to store even more. In a way, the story of the mobile revolution is the story of both communication and storage – storage "in the hand," through devices like Apple Computer's (AAPL) iPod, and storage "in the cloud" on remote servers, through the likes of Yahoo Mail, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, and YouTube.
* TiVo for conference calls: a business use for iPods?
So when I talked to Seagate (STX) CEO Bill Watkins (pictured above) recently, I had a lot of questions about storage in the cloud. Mainly I wanted to get some sense of how excited the world's largest hard drive maker is about the market opportunity in Web services, how frequently huge customers like Google buy more storage, and what kinds of advances Web services providers are demanding from the hard drive industry. Here's a flavor of what Watkins told me:
Fortt: How big is Google for Seagate's business?
Watkins: I'm not allowed to talk about it, but they're big. They buy storage unbelievably. The more MySpace, the more stuff, the more content that gets on the Web, the more that's got to be stored. … It's not just how much content, it's how much of the same content. And that's what people are misunderstanding. We can calculate all the books and movies in the world, and we come up with this much. What they don't realize is all those books and movies are being stored in a half a dozen different places.
Fortt: What is Google telling Seagate it wants in future storage products?
Watkins: Cost per gigabyte. I need as much capacity as I can get for as cheap as I can get it. And give me power savings. They're buying hundreds of thousands of drives. Massive amounts of storage. So they're really concerned about the cost of that storage, and obviously reliability – obviously you've got to meet the reliability and quality issues. But it's really about cost.
Fortt: How often do the big Web services providers replace their storage drives?
Watkins: Right now we know that when you do a 50 percent increase in capacity per drive, every time you increase the capacity for a 3.5- or 2.5-inch drive, the power savings almost compensate for replacing the unit. A lot of people just say fine, I don't want to spend that much cash.
Fortt: But if you're as big as a Google or a Microsoft, it's pretty much a simple calculation?
Watkins: Exactly. Just cost. They figure it out, and they say OK, I'll do this.
Fortt: You told me that right now Seagate is increasing capacity about 40 percent a year. So roughly every 15 months, you can make the case to the big players to upgrade their storage. What does the future hold?
Watkins: We'll be out with a terabyte next year. Probably in the springtime, something like that, we'll be out with the terabyte drives. They'll start hitting the market, and it'll be interesting to see how the people who are just using 400- and 500-gigabyte drives are going to go. We just morphed into 750GB, and we're going to morph into terabytes.
http://blogs.business2.com/utilitybelt/2006/11/google_other_we.html
December 4th, 2006
07:13 AM
Crooks hijack online brokerage accounts
Spyware used to steal account details then liquidate, manipulate stocks, SEC says.
October 13 2006: 3:14 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- High-tech crooks are hijacking online brokerage accounts using spyware and operating from remote locations, sometimes in Eastern Europe, U.S. market regulators said on Friday.
The computer "incursions" are a growing problem, said Walter Ricciardi, deputy enforcement director at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
"It's something we're very concerned about," he said in remarks at a legal conference in Washington.
About 25 percent of U.S. retail stock trades are made by online investors through roughly 10 million online accounts, according to brokerages regulator NASD.
Companies such as Ameritrade (down $0.04 to $16.96, Charts), Charles Schwab Corp. (down $0.14 to $17.59, Charts), and E*TRADE Financial Corp (down $0.20 to $22.86, Charts). offer the accounts.
Crooks will load a victim's computer or a public PC with a spy program to monitor a user's activities and capture vital information, such as account numbers and passwords.
The program then e-mails the stolen information back to the thief, who can use it to open victim accounts.
Once inside, the thief may sell off an account's portfolio and take the proceeds. Or electronically hijacked accounts may be used for "pump-and-dump" schemes to manipulate stock prices for profit, Ricciardi said.
Public computers in such places as Internet cafes and hotel rooms are especially vulnerable to incursions. But home computers may also be hit as spyware can be imported simply by opening an e-mail attachment, said John Stark, chief of the SEC's Office of Internet Enforcement.
Incursion scams under SEC investigation are far-flung. "We're seeing these frauds in offshore entities and persons, including those located in Eastern Europe," Stark said.
The SEC is working to track down the hackers and to educate online investors, he said.
Steps to fight incursions include securing an online account by changing passwords frequently and never using an unfamiliar computer to enter an account number or password.
To fight a similar problem, U.S. banks are exploring new online banking security technologies since a study showed identity theft via online banking is a fast-growing crime.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/13/news/online_banking.reut/index.htm?postversion=2006101315
HANDELSBLATT, Donnerstag, 21. September 2006, 07:44 Uhr
Milliarden-Volumen
Dell erhält Großauftrag von US-Army
dpa-afx ROUND ROCK. Der weltgrößte Computerhersteller Dell hat von der US-Army einen Großauftrag im Volumen von bis zu fünf Mrd. Dollar erhalten. Wie das Unternehmen am Mittwoch mitteilte, läuft der Vertrag für Computer, Bildschirme und Drucker sowie andere Hardware zunächst über drei Jahre.
Er sei eine Ausweitung einer bereits existierenden Vereinbarung aus dem Jahr 2001. Zudem gebe es eine Option auf eine Laufzeitverlängerung von bis zu zehn Jahren, hieß es weiter.
http://www.handelsblatt.com/news/Unternehmen/IT-Medien/_pv/_p/201197/_t/ft/_b/1138363/default.aspx/d...
The Net comes up short in building confidence
Security-software execs say it will take years to curb consumer fears
By John Shinal, MarketWatch
Last Update: 6:50 PM ET Jun 1, 2006
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B4FAD1331%2D072F%2D40D1%2D9607%2DEA891FE1E11...
I don't see any problem with reverse-split. RBAK did that. Look at the price after the reverse-split.
Intel unveils new brand
VPro to identify Intel inside network-based computers.
April 24, 2006: 4:56 PM EDT
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp. Monday announced a new brand for business products it hopes will help it hang on to market share by making it easier for companies to maintain fleets of personal computers.
Intel (Research), which last week posted a sharp drop in quarterly earnings, hopes the new brand, called vPro, will help it regain ground lost to rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Research), whose chips are increasingly popular with businesses and consumers.
Intel is counting on the effort to become a success similar to Centrino, the name it gave three years ago to a set of components that provide wireless capability for laptops.
"What they're trying to do is establish that a desktop PC going into an enterprise ... will be better if it has Intel components in it than if it has AMD components in it," said Nathan Brookwood, head of semiconductor consultancy Insight64.
Scheduled to launch in the third quarter, vPro follows the introduction earlier this year of the Viiv consumer brand aimed at turning the PC into a hub of living room entertainment.
VPro PCs will have their processors and related hardware configured to make it easier to fix, update remotely and guard against viruses and other security threats. That could lower corporate technical costs by eliminating the need for expensive visits from technical staff.
Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini said nearly 90 percent of corporate technical budgets was spent on maintenance, and 13 percent of computer problems accounted for nearly half of all maintenance expenses.
"It's all about driving costs down and productivity up," Otellini said of vPro.
The heart of vPro is Intel's new Core processors, which are more powerful and use less energy than their predecessors, the Pentium 4. The Core lineup answers a key challenge posed by AMD's chips, which have become popular in business computers because they have typically used less energy than their Intel counterparts.
The chips in vPro machines will also have a technology called "virtualization" that will allow security software to scan for viruses and other threats before they even reach the operating system or user applications.
Intel's chipsets - the cluster of interfaces and secondary chips around the main processor - will also help monitor security as well as enable the remote management features.
"We are taking a very holistic approach to this," Otellini said told Reuters in an interview. "This allows us to take a very broad view of what's needed and engineer it in a comprehensive fashion."
Still, Brookwood said Intel will have a tough time matching the success of Centrino, which is credited with helping give laptops wireless access - a feature they previously lacked.
"With Viiv and vPro, Intel isn't saying that you can do new things but that you can do the same things you've been doing, but do them better or cheaper," Brookwood said.
"Centrino was a home run, but these guys, Viiv and vPro, will be lucky to get on base."
SanDisk unveils anti-piracy card
Movies, music would be protected by memory card; company hopes to get entertainment firms on board.
September 27, 2005: 11:04 AM EDT
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - SanDisk, the company that pioneered flash memory storage cards, unveiled a new range of memory chip cards on Tuesday, incorporating an anti-piracy software chip to lure the entertainment market to a new storage medium.
The new TrustedFlash cards will function as normal mass storage cards -- SD cards with capacity of up to several gigabytes of data -- but the movies, music or games on the card would be protected with digital rights management (DRM) software.
SanDisk (down $0.35 to $44.86, Research), based in Sunnyvale, California, hopes to convince entertainment companies to sell their content preloaded on the cards, or make it available for secure Internet downloads straight onto the cards.
The cards can also contain media and game playing software, which make it possible to play content on devices that were not originally designed for those services, though devices must be compatible with the TrustedFlash cards.
The new type of storage media is designed to support electronic commerce and enable mobile phones to perform secure financial transactions. SanDisk's new cards come at a time when the entertainment industry is moving online, and is increasingly protecting its content with special software that prevents copying to plain flash memory cards or other unsecure storage mediums.
SanDisk's own DRM system on the TrustedFlash cards will have to compete with that of Apple (down $0.14 to $53.70, Research), Microsoft (up $0.06 to $25.33, Research), Sony and the Open Mobile Alliance.
SanDisk said it is unique in that it offers the advantage of portability, so consumers will be able to take their legally purchased music, movies and games with them and play them on any compatible device.
South Korean electronics giant Samsung and the music arm of Internet services firm Yahoo! (up $0.27 to $32.45, Research) said they would support TrustedFlash.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/27/technology/sandisk.reut/index.htm