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I'm not really sure about CYTP... a part of me wish's I held my shares and profited off the last run (instead of a loss)... but I am a bit nervous to play CYTP.. I'm not up to date w/the DD which is why I got shook out so easily.. I'd be interested in buying in after the next pop when a bit more is revealed (assuming there is a "next pop")
OT - P.S. NEOM should run pretty soon great buy @ .1
~smartbiz
Informationweek Link to Bar Code Supermarket ...
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18900714
Albertson's Technology Brings Handhelds To Customers April 8, 2004
The retailer's Shop 'n Scan technology is designed to give customers more control of their experience.
By Beth Bacheldor
Albertsons Inc. is pushing further toward the supermarket of the future. Shoppers at all the retailer's stores in the Dallas and Fort Worth metro area now can scan their items with handhelds to record purchases, tally costs, receive special offers, and check out and pay.
The $36 billion food and drug retailer has been aggressive in using technology to improve customer service. Albertsons recently issued a mandate requiring its top 100 suppliers to tag all cases and pallets they ship to the retailer with radio-frequency identification tags by April 2005. Wal-Mart, Target, and several European retailers are pursuing similar RFID strategies to improve their supply chains and in-stock rates by making it easier to locate products as they move from suppliers to distribution centers and ultimately to individual stores.
The new scanning technology, called Shop 'n Scan, doesn't employ RFID tags. Instead, it scans bar codes on individual items and is designed to give customers more control of their shopping experience, the company says. The Shop 'n Scan technology, unveiled Thursday, was developed by Albertsons through a partnership with Symbol Technologies Inc. and NCR Corp. The handheld devices run off in-store wireless networks developed in conjunction with Cisco Systems.
To obtain a scanner, a customer goes to a kiosk at the store entrance and swipes his or her Preferred Savings card, which unlocks the handheld device. During checkout, the customer can use a traditional lane, a self-checkout lane, or an "Express Pay Station." At the latter, the customer scans an "end-of-trip" bar code at the station and then automatically downloads the contents on the scanner into the register.
By: W3Research
09 Apr 2004, 10:13 AM EDT
Msg. 47381 of 47382
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=NEOM&read=47381
System Can Detect Fraudulent Passports
55 minutes ago Add Technology - AP to My Yahoo!
By DAVID TIRRELL-WYSOCKI, Associated Press Writer
CONCORD, N.H. - Australia, one of the United States' strongest allies, has added a new weapon to its arsenal — a toaster-sized document reader that tells in seconds whether a passport is a fraud and identifies travelers who might be included on terrorist watch lists.
AP Photo
"What we're trying to do is strengthen border security by making sure that the people who are coming into this country are who they say they are," said Tim Chapman, a manager with Australia's Customs Service.
In a multimillion-dollar contract, Australia has installed 400 iA-thenticate units from Imaging Automation Inc. of Bedford, N.H., at its international airports in hopes of authenticating the documents of every person entering.
The system ranges from $5,000 to $15,000 per unit. It uses multiple light sources to examine hundreds of security features on travel documents. Many of the features, including the composition of ink, are invisible to the naked eye.
Australia joins Canada, Hungary, Sweden, Finland, Nigeria among the countries using or testing the iA-thenticate system. The Dallas-Fort Worth and Boston airports and a company that contracts with nuclear plants use the system to check credentials of prospective employees.
Chapman said the system was deployed in Australia in mid-February and already has detected false documents. Without giving details, he said the people might not have been detected beforehand.
Imaging Automation is trying to sell its system to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which is facing delays in its plans to incorporate passport-validating fingerprint and facial biometrics at border crossings.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&ncid=738&e=1&u=/ap/20040409/ap_o...
"..u see how big neom ip is?.."
Readerware Line Of Products Updated With OS X Improvements
by Staff
Readerware Corporation has released updates for the entire line of Readerware products, bringing them to versions 2.871. The applications in the Readerware line are utilities designed for book and video cataloging. The updates features several enhancements including improved OS X support and new database searches. According to Readerware Corporation:
Readerware Corporation has released version 2.871 of all products for Mac OS X.
Readerware is the easiest, fastest way to catalog your books, music and videos. Nothing else comes close. Have a large collection? The unique Readerware auto-catalog feature lets you scan barcodes, enter ISBNs, LCCNs or UPCs. Readerware does the rest, searching the Web and cataloging your books, music and videos.
Readerware can merge information from multiple Web sites to build the most complete database possible, with cover art. Automatically and effortlessly.
This release includes a number of new features that add to the power and convenience of Readerware products:
New database searches
The product help has been improved, each product now includes product specific help
New sites and updates
Some annoying bugs have been fixed, scrolling keyboard shortcuts now work correctly in the table view, long list values no longer add a horizontal scroll bar to the detail view, sound effects are back, the sites drop down list in the auto-catalog wizard now closes when you click on the Next button
A bug importing accented characters on Mac OS X has been fixed
Improved Mac OS X integration
You can find more information about the updated Readerware line at the Readerware Corporation Web site.
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2004/04/06.9.shtml
MM's shook me out... I KNEW ABOUT THIS VERIZON DEAL!! MM's were playing hard ball!! At least I bought in FGWC at a low to make up for my loss's.... I'm prob. going to want to buy in when she settles.... The only thing I'm worried about w/CYTP is a reverse split.. I need to do some DD on CYTP (Been real busy lately)... I haven't done DD on CYTP for a few months... A LOT HAS CHANGED! Whats up w/Core Energy?
Thanks in Advance
~smartbiz
IRS to launch PDF 2-D barcode pilot project with Adobe
Will leverage scanning and OCR technologies, expertise
8 March 2004
By Kurt Foss, Planet PDF Editor
SEE ALSO: Adobe introduces PDF Forms with 2-D barcodes solution
The continually expanding success the past few years of its ambitious e-File program and promotions notwithstanding, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) still receives a goodly amount of tax returns in good old-fashioned paper. The thoroughly PDF-aware agency makes considerable use of document scanners and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to convert user-entered form data on the submitted paper forms into electronic information, says Paul Showalter, senior publishing analyst in IRS Media and Publications.
Accordingly, it's no surprise that the IRS is participating in the first pilot test of the 2-D barcode technology introduced by Adobe Systems at this week's AIIM 2004 event. (A 2-D barcode, however, uses both the vertical and horizontal dimensions to encode information, allowing storage of much larger amounts of data in a single barcode symbol than a traditional 1D barcode.) The agency can leverage its current scanning and OCR technologies and expertise, Showalter says, while improving the efficiency and data accuracy of forms printed to paper and submitted by mail. "The 2-D barcode on the tax form will allow the IRS to capture the data entered on the form quickly and easily," Showalter says, "and it's 100 percent accurate. That's pretty key for us."
The upcoming pilot will test the barcode solution on three of the IRS' most paper-processing intensive forms:
Substitute Form 1041 Schedule K-1 - Beneficiary's Share of Income, Deductions, Credits, etc.
Substitute Form 1065 Schedule K-1 - Partner's Shares of Income, Credits, Deductions, Etc.
Substitute Form 1120-S Schedule K-1 - Shareholder's Share of Income, Credits, Deduction, etc.
According to Showalter, they represent about 18-19 million tax forms and about 20 percent of the tax agency's paper processing. Next year the IRS will do the same pilot with do same pilot with its 940 series, representing about 26 percent of its paper processing efforts.
The past few years the IRS has purchased and distributed to customers via CD-ROM copies of Adobe's low-cost -- but since discontinued -- Acrobat Approval software, which allowed users to save data entered into form fields along with the form itself, something not possible with the free Reader. However, Approval was not upgraded when Adobe launched the Acrobat 6 product family last year, and thus is not included on the latest versions of the annually updated IRS' CDs.
Showalter says the IRS is instead this year "leveraging the investment we were making in Approval in two CDs" -- the 2003 Tax Products CD-ROM (IRS Pub-1796), produced for the IRS by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), and the Small Business Resource Guide CD-ROM 2004. He says the IRS is still planning to eventually purchase the Adobe Document Server for Reader Extensions technology that will allow it to rights-enable publicly available tax forms, granting users additional functionality -- ability to save locally, digitally sign, add comments, and submit electronically -- using only the free Adobe Reader. At present, Showalter says, the IRS is able to distribute rights-enabled tax forms on some of its CD-ROM products through a limited-use license purchased by the NTIS.
Sample: Rights-enabled Tax Form [PDF: 74kb]
The first examples of the three Schedule K-1 forms with 2-D barcode functionality will be on the soon-to-ship final release of the Tax Products CD, he says. Also on the CD will be an installer for an enhanced version of Adobe Reader 6.x, one that includes a special Adobe plug-in that must be used with the barcode-ready forms. (If you use an Adobe Reader version 5.1 or later, you will still be able to complete the Schedule K-1 forms and use their save features, but the 2-D barcode functionality will not operate.) When the special K-1 forms are printed using the enhanced Reader, a barcode will print -- using any standard inkjet or laser printer to print the Schedule K-1 forms and their 2-D barcodes -- on the page. Instead of manually keying information from Schedule K-1 forms that have been submitted on paper, the IRS will use 2-D barcode scanner equipment and software to capture the same information with increased accuracy in a fraction of the time and cost.
http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=3426
Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act
About
The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act (Check 21) was signed into law on October 28, 2003, and will become effective on October 28, 2004. Check 21 is designed to foster innovation in the payments system and to enhance its efficiency by reducing some of the legal impediments to check truncation. The law facilitates check truncation by creating a new negotiable instrument called a substitute check, which would permit banks to truncate original checks, to process check information electronically, and to deliver substitute checks to banks that want to continue receiving paper checks. A substitute check would be the legal equivalent of the original check and would include all the information contained on the original check. The law does not require banks to accept checks in electronic form nor does it require banks to use the new authority granted by the act to create substitute checks.
The Federal Reserve Board has requested comment on the implementing regulation, including model disclosure language for depository institutions to use in notifying consumers of their rights under the law. Comments are due by March 12, 2004.
Proposed Rule to Implement the Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act
The following links provide additional information regarding Check 21:
Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act (Check 21); PL 108-100, enacted October 28, 2003 (71KB PDF)
Conference Report (92KB PDF)
Report of the Senate Banking Committee (48KB PDF)
Report of the House Committee on Financial Services (90KB PDF)
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http://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/truncation/default.htm
Reading and printing devices for MICR, OCR, or barcodes
http://www.outputlinks.com/index.cfm?page=topic&category=hardware&id=micr_barcode
First Data Corp.'s Encorus Signed as Transaction Processor for New Mobile
Payments Service
LONDON, and DUBLIN, Ireland, April 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Encorus, a
leading mobile payments services company majority owned by First Data Corp.
(NYSE: FDC), has today been announced as Simpay's transaction processor in a
multi-year deal covering both Europe and the United States. Simpay, the
consumer m-payment brand formed by Orange, Telefonica Moviles, T-Mobile and
Vodafone in 2003, along with Encorus' processing capabilities will make
large-scale m-commerce a reality. The Founding members of Simpay represent
over 280 million wireless subscribers worldwide. Simpay's commercial launch
is scheduled for the first quarter of 2005. Encorus' m-commerce knowledge and expertise coupled with First Data's
scale and processing experience met Simpay's requirements for
interoperability, revenue sharing and scalability. Encorus is the only company
providing total m-payment solutions worldwide -- m-payments software, mobile
merchant acquisition services and transaction processing.
"The history of the mobile phone industry demonstrates that major business
volume comes when customers have the freedom to reach across and interact with
any network," comments Tim Jones, CEO, Simpay. "Our mission is to deliver that
freedom in the field of mobile payments, and our agreement with Encorus is
fundamental to achieving this mission. After a thorough selection process, we
are satisfied that Encorus will deliver Simpay's Central Processing Platform
and supporting business processes to our specifications and timelines."
"This is great news for Encorus and mobile payments in general," said
Garen Staglin, Encorus Chairman. "Encorus' knowledge and expertise will
support Simpay's mission, helping to make m-payments a reality for millions of
consumers around the world. We are delighted to play such a significant role
in the future of m-payments. This new partnership emphasizes our leadership
in the m-payments sector."
Simpay brings together consumers, mobile operators and merchants to
deliver convenient and accessible m-payments across national borders. The
initiative has captured the imagination of the mobile industry and 3, debitel,
Elisa (previously Radiolinja), KPN Mobile Group, Mobilkom, O2, Optimus, SFR,
TeliaSonera and TMN have already expressed interest in joining.
Notes for Editors
About Encorus
Encorus is a services company working in the mobile payments space.
Encorus products and services will connect mobile operators and merchants with
an interoperable payment infrastructure that's secure and easy to use, while
providing consumers with a more convenient, cashless payment alternative.
Current Encorus customers include Vodafone Group and T-Mobile International.
Encorus was founded in November 2001 by eONE Global (http://www.eoneglobal.com), a
leader in emerging payment technologies and systems spanning the government,
mobile and enterprise marketplaces. eONE Global is majority owned by the
world's largest payments processor First Data Corp. (NYSE: FDC). To learn
more about Encorus, please visit http://www.encorus.com.
About Simpay
Simpay was founded in 2003 by Orange, Telefonica Moviles , T-Mobile and
Vodafone. It was created to drive m-commerce through the creation of a
payment scheme that allows customers to make purchases through mobile
operator-managed accounts. The name, Simpay, distinguishes the company as a
separate entity from its founding members and establishes the brand as a
mobile payments company. The Simpay brand signifies the simplicity with which
mobile commerce transactions will be made in the future and defines a new
function for mobile phones around the world. For more information please
visit: http://www.simpay.com
Vodafone. is a trademark of the Vodafone Group. Other product and company
names mentioned herein may be the trade marks of their respective owners.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-05-2004/0002140760&....
Digital Rum mobile enables Amazon.co.uk, Interflora and The Perfume Shop On Vodafone Live! Shopping
19 February 2004, London
Digital Rum, the leading provider of mobile commerce solutions and mobile picture services, has enabled leading brands Amazon.co.uk, Interflora and The Perfume Shop to allow mobile gifting on Vodafone live! Shopping.
The service, designed, built and managed by Digital Rum, launched in July 2003 with a number of leading retailers including Argos, HMV, Oddbins, Thorntons, Gadgetshop and Firebox.
With the addition of these new merchants it is even easier for Vodafone users to send gifts, including flowers for all occasions from Interflora, fragrances for her and for him from The Perfume Shop and a wide range of books, CDs, DVDs, electronic items and more from Amazon.co.uk. Users can now send gifts anytime, anywhere using these brand names that they know and trust.
Vodafone users can access this service via ‘Shopping' on the Vodafone live! homepage where each merchant features a number of themed categories and products, complete with full specifications and colour images. To complete the purchase users simply enter their payment and delivery information directly into their mobile phone.
Neil Andrews, Business Development Manager for Digital Rum said: "The addition of Interflora, Amazon.co.uk and The Perfume Shop adds to the impressive array of leading retail partners on Vodafone live! Shopping. This is a true value-add service that now allows users to send gifts to their friends and family using the convenience of a mobile phone."
http://www.digitalrum.com/press_article.asp?id=76
Vodafone, Warner Bros sign wireless distribution deal
39 minutes ago Add Business - AFP to My Yahoo!
LONDON (AFP) - British mobile telephone giant Vodafone announced it has struck a distribution deal with US film giant Warner Brothers.
Under the agreement, which covers 16 countries, Warner Bros Online will provide games, screensavers, alerts and other mobile applications for Vodafone live! customers, based on brands such as the Matrix and Harry Potter (news - web sites).
Vodafone and Warner Bros, a unit of Time Warner Inc, will collaborate on the development of "made for mobile" content, created exclusively for wireless platforms, which will include video content.
No financial details were mentioned.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1519&ncid=738&e=8&u=/afp/20040405/bs...
RE: maxpower73
By: newb8
02 Apr 2004, 03:44 PM EST
Msg. 39954 of 39973
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Sell you s_tupid fools...
Next weel it will bounce back.
Give the MM your shares. they want them bad.
I have mine since 01/05/04.
I could sell and buy but remember
The record date for shareholders is January 26, 2004 .
Those shares might qualify for something. who knows!
I'm not selling mine for .0013 you guys might be out of your mind to sell at this low.
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There might be some truth to this mans post... I believe Colonel has something in store for long term shareholders... (One being The Giving Card spin-off) But I sell when TA tells me to run... and in January TA screamed SELL... I waited to buy in after January 26th so I don't meet the record date.... thats one of the reason's why I sold today.
hope I am right and Colonel will reward CYTP longs... would be a very clever move by him! (Longs would win... traders would lose)
Would be a bit unfair to long term shareholders w/TA rules like me.
~smartbiz
Re: maxpower - I normally don't advertise when I sell but I feel some what obligated since I indicated earlier that I would hold during this down trend. I'm not liking the graph at all .... When in doubt pull out!
I'm still am curious why she ran so hard in sept. but will be watching from the sidelines... I may buy back once she forms an obvious bottom definately if she R/S's....
All the best!!
~smartbiz
Re: maxpower - I'm wondering that myself... I'll wait until its obvious then buy more...
Geuss I started buying a bit to early.... I'll just sit back w/my shares and wait for the "dust to settle". I'll start buying again once she consolidates. I'm still wondering where that run in sept. came from.... thats my reason for playing CYTP... anyone got any geuss's?
~smartbiz
RE: To get an idea how forward-thinking Fritz is....
Posted by: Personalizit
In reply to: None Date:2/22/2004 10:36:59 PM
Post #of 1624
To get an idea how forward-thinking Fritz is, read thsi 3 year old article (Wall Sr Journal interview)
http://www.twst.com/notes/articles/lah610.html
TWST: Could we begin with a history and profile of the company?
Mr. Fritz: We are innovators in a very emerging market. The market is linking physical objects, whether it be a Coke can, a newspaper, magazine, or even a label on a table that you're sitting at, directly to related content on the Internet. We started developing this technology back in 1995. We patented this whole idea and concept, and we then incorporated it into an ASP service called PaperClick™ that was launched about 10 months ago. NEOMEDIA (Nasdaq:NEOM) believes that the theory behind this technology is to get out of the box -- today's Internet is in the box (PC). When we are able to get to the Internet without a PC, that will be a very powerful and important thing. People point and click at their PCs today. They're "in the box." Over the next three years, well over 50% of all transactions on the Internet will not be conducted at a PC. They will happen out in the physical world, when people are walking around, looking at things, shopping; maybe having dinner at a RESTAURANT. If you should like the wine that was just served, you will be able to point and click at the label and store it in a tiny scanning device like a key fob, for later use. Or you could point and click at the label, using an Internet enabled cell phone with a scanner and immediately order it for delivery to your home the next day. That's the concept. NEOMEDIA is listed on the NASDAQ, and we're part of some very, very big trends. One of the trends, besides untying the Internet from PCs, or "getting out of the box" is that scanners are actually becoming more consumer oriented.
TWST: Could you comment on how you feel about your own staff, what expansion, what strengthening there is going to have to be, how much larger it's going to have to be, what the competition for good staff is today, considering the situation favoring employees?
Mr. Fritz: I think that we have a very good staff here; we can always bolster the staff. I think it's important to continually find management, especially as we go into certain market niches. Again, this is a market that has not been recognized until recently. We have very strong technical people. I would like to continue to enhance our technical staff. But the number one thing we're doing right now is adding marketing people. We as an organization have not been strong in marketing. That's one of our weaknesses, and we've added four or five key people in the last three months there. I think marketing is going to be more important than sales at this point because it's more important to know what markets are going to evolve, how to get into those markets, and how to do it with the leverage of partnerships.
TWST: If you were standing on a plateau three years from now and looking back, what would you have liked to have achieved at that point?
Mr. Fritz: I think one of the main things is to see that our switch was the adopted private label switch in this new market. The second thing is, I would love to see that the trends that all of these research groups are predicting actually come true, that mobile commerce -- pointing and clicking in the physical world -- actually has become over half of the Internet transactions. We will be a very profitable company over the next three years if those things come true.
NeoMedia's Fritz to Address 'Quality Assurance and Control in the Mobile Generation' at National Restaurant Association's Quality Assurance Executive Study Group Meeting
FT. MYERS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 2004--NeoMedia Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:NEOM), said today its chairman, Charles W. Fritz, has been invited to address the issue of "Quality Assurance and Control in the Mobile Generation" at the National Restaurant Association's Quality Assurance Executive Study Group meeting in Arizona next month - the only non-restaurant industry speaker at the event.
Presenting on behalf of NeoMedia, which develops and markets software and patented technologies linking bar-coded objects to targeted online data, Fritz will speak on the final day of the event in Chandler, April 13-16 (see http://www.restaurant.org/studygroups/qa/agenda.cfm). The QA Study Group, comprised of executives from member restaurant companies, meets twice a year, providing informal, open and flexible forums on food safety, quality assurance, nutrition, and other technical issues.
"Addressing executives of major chains, franchises and top restaurant organizations - especially as the lone outsider - is an exciting challenge and responsibility," said Fritz, who led the introduction of NeoMedia's PaperClick for Camera Phones(TM) in Europe and the U.S. last month.
"A confluence of events, from concerns following 9/11, including possible breaches in food security and safety, to faster response to food recalls and today's focus on improved nutritional information on menus, America's restaurants are in the spotlight as never before," Fritz said. "Our presentation will demonstrate how mobile communications can work for restaurants and consumers, delivering public safety alerts in conjunction with an IT industry partner, plus information on safety, nutrition and even valuable discount coupons via the phone's camera screen.
Fritz will show the gathered executives, through UPC product codes for demo purposes, how to use a camera phone with free PaperClick software to take a picture of the code on a menu, a poster, or a product, such as a package of french fries or a can or bottle of soda, to be linked to the targeted Web site for information on calories and other data.
PaperClick for Camera Phones was developed and patented by NeoMedia as an extension of its PaperClick platform. It employs a standard browser, client software, and a network of online service and applications servers transparent to users, who simply take a picture with the phone for an automatic link to tailored on-line Web information. PaperClick For Cell Phones installs via the phone's infra red (IrDA) port, the BlueTooth(TM) wireless network, or download.
Founded in 1919, the National Restaurant Association is the leading business association for the restaurant industry. Together with the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, the Association's mission is to represent, educate and promote a rapidly growing industry that is comprised of 878,000 restaurant and food service outlets employing 12 million people.
About NeoMedia Technologies, Inc.
NeoMedia Technologies, Inc. (www.neom.com) is a developer and international marketer of software and patented technologies which link products, print, and physical objects directly to targeted online data, with expertise in homeland security and e-authentication applications. NeoMedia markets PaperClick and PaperClick for Cell/Mobile Phones, which link physical information and objects to the Internet, and its Systems Integration Group specializes in providing expert-based IT consulting, hardware, and software solutions.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. With the exception of historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release involve risk and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statement.
PaperClick and PaperClick For Cell/Mobile Phones are trademarks of NeoMedia Technologies, Inc. Other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&epi-process=generic_....
ruden:You hit the nail on the head!eom
Future search efforts will make Google look like 8-tracks
1 hour, 32 minutes ago
What's next? The Google Diet? The Five Googles You Meet in Heaven?
But, you know, much as I couldn't live without it, Google stinks.
Ten years from now - maybe five or even less - we will recall Google circa 2004 and wonder how we could have tolerated it. You know, sort of the way we look back on eight-track tapes.
It's a disaster that I type "turtles" into Google and get 1.9 million results. On the first page, Google serves up ninjaturtles.com, seaworld.com and theturtles.com (devoted to the 1960s band that sang Happy Together). Yet what I want is information about the soccer team I play on, the Turtles - so named because of the speed at which we run.
Google today can't know that's what I'm searching for, but it should. In fact, someday it will, if Google doesn't get roasted by Microsoft or somebody else between now and then.
This is not lost on Google's executives. At a conference last week called PC Forum, Google CEO Eric Schmidt essentially told the audience what he wished Google could become.
"I keep asking for a product called Serendipity," he said, making up the name. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections.
"Then when I'm typing a paper, it would know what I'm writing about and say, 'Hey, you forgot this,' " Schmidt said.
That's where search has to go. Eventually, search will be like a direct connection between your brain and all the world's information. It will grasp so much about you and your immediate circumstance that it will often know exactly what you need, perhaps even before you do. It will be an electronic Radar O'Reilly.
No company is there yet. But out in tech's primordial soup, you can see individual pieces evolving.
The first and simplest piece is what you get from Google and other search engines. This is known as the visible Web. It's all the stuff posted on Web sites and open to browsing - billions of pages, some of it valuable, much of it not.
But vast as it is, searching the visible Web is just a beginning. It's like the invention of the wheel - a breakthrough, but a long way from a Porsche 911 Carrera.
Other pieces that are starting to form:
• The invisible Web. This is the stuff you can't readily see and search engines don't usually find. One example is content that's available only by subscription, like stories on Salon.com or video on ABC's paid site. Schmidt says Google is looking at ways to find that content and display a brief description of it. That way the user would know it exists but would still have to go to that site and pay to get it.
Blogs - essentially Web-based diaries - are a growing part of the invisible Web. Blog search engines, such as Technorati, are popping up. But Technorati doesn't search the rest of the Web, just as Google doesn't search blogs.
Books are increasingly a part of the invisible Web. Despite all the content on the Web, vastly more is locked in books. Amazon's "Search Inside the Book" feature gets at some of that. Google doesn't touch it.
• Localization. Google has no idea where you are unless you tell it. So if I search for Hooters - not that I ever do - it can't automatically know I'm in a hotel in Houston and want to find one nearby. Technology is emerging from companies such as Quova that can let a Web site know approximately where you are - but not a specific address, which would rightly make privacy advocates apoplectic. In fact, a lot of these new search functions will stir privacy worries.
• Your hard drive. Sometimes, what you want is somewhere on your hard drive, perhaps buried in notes you took at that 1999 Las Vegas convention you hardly remember. Or maybe it's in an e-mail. If you don't know, it can be hard to find.
You can download software, such as X1 from Idealab, that searches everything in your computer. But it's still not possible to type a search term into something like Google and have it search both the Web and the computer's insides. Microsoft's next operating system, code-named Longhorn, is supposed to do that. It might be the biggest single threat to Google.
• Your life. Google knows nothing about you. It's trying. Google has a new personalization feature. You can inform Google that if you type in "bass," you're looking for a musical instrument, not a fish. But the function is still very limited, which means it doesn't know nearly enough to truly help you, and it has no way to keep learning more.
One new site is taking an interesting approach to this problem. It's called Eurekster. It works, in part, by combining search with letting you set up a network of friends online - sort of a cross between Google and Friendster. By monitoring what you and your friends click on, it can increasingly understand more about your needs and can tailor searches to that.
As Eurekster gets more sophisticated, it could understand that you hang out with plumbers, not Grateful Dead fans - and give you more appropriate results when you search for the word "pipe."
Google recently created its own Friendster-type site, called Orkut. Probably not a coincidence.
Eventually, all these elements will meld together - the visible Web, the invisible Web, localization, your stored content and info about your life. The final piece will be software that can understand what you're typing or reading and constantly look for related content.
A search engine of 2010 will know who you are, where you are and what you're doing, and look across every form of information to automatically find what will help you.
That's when today's Google will seem as quaint as the special effects in an old Godzilla movie.
Kevin Maney has covered technology for USA TODAY since 1985. His column appears Wednesdays. Click here for an index of Technology columns. E-mail him at: kmaney@usatoday.com.http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=711&ncid=1212&e=1&u=/usatoday/200403....
The FreeMove alliance was formed in 2003 by four mobile operators who are well established in the five principal European markets: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.
http://www.freemovealliance.net/about-alliance.php
PaperClick and the surrounding technologies have the ability to "Link the Physical World to the Internet". Big Gig Strategies are currently in discussions with the mobile operators in the UK, brand owners and media houses. The UK will be the lead market closely followed by Italy, Germany, France and Spain.
http://www.biggigstrategies.com/4709/6559.html
OT: RE: Wando
Personalazits "original post"?
What post are you refering to? Give me the message#... The last deleted post that was Personalazits was posted over a month ago. I think you are refering to phill's post.
#1574 you are dumb philll50mo 3/28/2004 3:31:38 PM
Do you not read your private message? I've sent you numerous messages on this... This is my last public post regarding this matter.
P.S. Member's do have the right to have their posts deleted. Although this was not the case I don't see why it would have been a problem.
OT: Deleted Posts -
Despite what a few posters have claimed this board encourages discussion. The only posts that will be deleted are post that include insults or spam. You can also request a post be deleted. If you ever feel like I or another moderator deleting your post was a mistake please contact me off the board @ smartbiz85@yahoo.com... Every issue discussed off the board has been resolved. If your post got deleted you prob. need to rephrase you information. Heres the most recent posts that got deleted..
Posted by: wando61624
In reply to: Personalizit who wrote msg# 1575 Date:3/28/2004 7:55:23 PM
Post #1578 of 1583
Hey airhead you censored and deleted my last reply and then you dumb klutz you went and amended your question to me. My last post on this phoney censored board.
Posted by: wando61624
In reply to: Personalizit who wrote msg# 1575 Date:3/28/2004 6:22:14 PM
Post #1577 of 1583
For someone who like you professes to know everything YOU sure dont have a handle on very many things. Read the last 10Q.
Posted by: philll50mo
In reply to: wando61624 who wrote msg# 1573 Date:3/28/2004 3:31:38 PM
Post #1574 of 1583
you are dumb
if they had done that we would still be waiting for the patents to be cleared
RE: How much is Neo's price comparison shopper worth?
Yahoo to Buy Web Commerce Site Kelkoo 2 hours, 31 minutes ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. (NasdaqNM:YHOO - news) said on Friday it agreed to buy European price comparison Web site Kelkoo SA for about 475 million euros ($575 million) in cash to expand its range of Internet commerce portals.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040326/wr_nm/tech_kelkoo_yahoo_dc_7
Froogle Goes Wireless Wed Feb 25, 7:00 PM ET
The Froogle wireless service, a Google Labs experiment, lets users with phones that support Wireless Markup Language (WML) conduct searches on products by going to wml.froogle.com, according to a statement issued by Google on Tuesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/pcworld/20040226/tc_pcworld/114970
Microsoft Set to Launch Web Search Engine
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1212&e=7&u=/nm/20040326/wr_nm/tech_micr....
Qeustion: How much is Neo's price comparison shopper worth?
My Answer: A lot more then $575 million.
Now how much is NEOM as a whole worth? Anybody?
How much will NEOM be worth 2-5 years from now?
~smartbiz
How much is Neo's price comparison shopper worth?
Excellent buying opportunity rk888! IMO pps is low due to the Virgin lawsuit + confusion about "Official Luanch." Both issues will get handled.
~smartbiz
aries: Nice... still here accumulating eom
Search the web for products from your cell phone
http://labs.google.com/frooglewml.html
Search the web for products with Froogle wireless search and your wml-enabled cell phone
Directions:
Froogle is Google's product search service. To use Froogle on your cell phone, just point your phone's browser to http://wml.froogle.com/
Enter your search terms in the box and select the 'Search' button
Use your phone's keypad arrows to scroll through the results
Key Features:
If your cell phone supports the WML wireless protocol, you can use Froogle to search for products anywhere your phone can access the web
At an electronics store and shopping for a digital camera? Whip out your cell phone and search for lower prices online using Froogle. Never wonder if you paid too much again.
Read what others have to say and post your own comments in the Froogle Wireless Forum.
~smartbiz
Search on Google by voice with a simple telephone call
http://labs1.google.com/gvs.html
To try out this demo, please follow these simple steps:
1. Pick up the phone and call the automated voice search system at (XXX) XXX - XXXX
2. After the prompt Say your Search Keywords, say your query to the system.
3. Click this link and a new window will open with your voice search results.
4. Say another query, and the new window with the search results will be updated with the new results.
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Check it out for yourself!
~smartbiz
Google set to woo non-Internet users with voice search
Munir Kotadia
ZDNet UK
March 24, 2004, 14:10 GMT
Google is not the obvious company to telephone when you are looking for directions to a restaurant or hotel, but the popular search engine's development team is hoping that its emerging voice search facility may over time completely change the concept of a search engine.
Craig Silverstein, director of technology at Google and the company's first official employee, was in London on Tuesday and spoke to ZDNet UK. He was at university with Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and helped transform the idea from a research project at Stanford into one of the hottest Internet properties. Now he's focused on the future of search and is excited about some innovations which are accessible in pre-beta form in the Labs section of the Google site. He said that although the utilities are not ready for prime time, they gave an indication of where the company is heading: "Sometimes we risk our reputation if these projects are out there and have some problems, but we think the user's benefit is more important than some nasty coverage," he said.
Searching in the supermarket
Silverstein said he believes that within a few years Google could have a voice interface for everything from driving directions to help you finding the aisle for a particular food in your local supermarket.
"That's something you would never think to ask a search engine. You're not likely to be using your laptop in a supermarket, but in the future I think search will be far more accessible -- you won't be tied to your desktop, you will be able to do it from your mobile phone or PDA -- and you'll start to see search used in fundamentally different ways. The kinds of things people want information about when they are walking around or sitting in a bar is very different to what they want while they're at home," he said.
An embryonic version of the speech search is already available on the Google Labs Web site, where the company lets Web users play with its pre-beta projects before they are ready for "prime time". Silverstein said speech-based searching presented a real problem but not because of the recognition technology. Instead he said the problem lies in the way results are returned.
"The problem is, how do you get the answers back? Do you have someone reading them off to you like one of those voicemail mazes where it takes so long to speak to someone? A big list works visually, but doesn't work very well in audio," he said. For now, Google's Voice Search can receive keywords by phone, but it displays the results in a browser window.
Silverstein said the problems presented with audio searching will be solved as computers improve: "When computers can pick the information that is really useful, as opposed to displaying a big list and letting you decide what is useful and what isn't. Already we've seen a sea change because information is much easier to find than it was before the days of computers. I think we'll see another one after which information will be easy to find wherever you are," he said.
Bomb the Google
Silverstein said he was unconcerned about the phenomenon known as Google Bombing. Human nature dictates that Web searchers are more likely to click on the results at the top of the results page rather than scrolling down the list, so Web administrators and marketers have been keen to try different ways to improve their chances of being discovered in a search. One such method is called Google Bombing, where Web sites add a carefully worded hyperlink pointing to a specific Web site in an attempt to boost that Web sites ranking when the phrase is part of a search.
A recent example of Google Bombing was when anti-war protesters successfully made the first result for "miserable failure" point to George Bush's official biography. Pro-Bush sites retaliated by Google Bombing the same term, but pointing to one of Bush's high profile critics, Michael Moore. Within weeks, Moore's official Web site was ranked second on the list. And the battle continues.
Silverstein admits it is possible to affect Google's search results but he said he didn't consider it a serious problem, especially when there isn't an obvious search result in the first place: "The term 'miserable failure' doesn't have an obvious result and it is going to be fairly random to begin with. In cases like this, even if a fairly small percentage of the Internet community do it, the result will pop up. But for something where there is an obvious good result -- like the IBM home page -- it is not going to be possible," he said.
Searching beyond text
Silverstein said that Google is also interested in adding new kinds of content that were not previously available in any electronic form. "I think we probe much if not most of the static Web, which consists of pages that are not dynamically generated. From the dynamically generated stuff it is hard to say. We cover a lot of it, but probably not close to everything," he said.
One area where the company has added new content is in its Google Catalogues section, in which entire shopping catalogues have been scanned and published: "We took a bunch of mail order catalogues, many of which are not online because they are very small. We converted them to text and made them searchable. This information wasn't even available electronically but now you can search it and we are hoping to get more of that type of information available," he said.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39149846,00.htm
"ActivShopper is a free software download that automatically scans,locates and compares prices for an item that a consumer selects at an e-commerce site. Once the item is selected, ActivShopper finds the lowest price for that item. In other words, if it is less expensive elsewhere, ActivShopper will find it. The ActivShopper browser sits under the toolbar, letting the consumer search the Internet, without
interfering."
By: Personalizit
23 Mar 2004, 01:52 PM EST
Msg. 46431 of 46443
Jump to msg. #
rk888: SHRN doesn't violate any patents, IMO. Their software isn't physical world to internet. Read the highlighter area below from their PR:
"automatically scans, locates and compares prices for an item that a consumer selects at an e-commerce site."
All done in the internet, no physical world involved.
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Good catch. Missed that one myself. Prob. cuz of all the excitement!
~smartbiz
New Internet Browser Is Voice Operated
Tue Mar 23,11:14 AM ET Add Technology - AP to My Yahoo!
By DOUG MELLGREN, Associated Press Writer
OSLO, Norway - Web surfers may be able to talk to their computers one day using a browser announced Tuesday by Opera Software.
The new browser incorporates IBM's ViaVoice technology, enabling the computer to ask what the user wants and "listen" to the request.
"Hi. I am your browser. What can I do for you?" asked a laptop with the demonstration versions of the browser.
The message can be personalized, such as greeting users by name. The computer learns to recognize users' voices, accents and inflections by having them read a list of words into a microphone.
Opera declined to give a launch date.
"Voice is the most natural and effective way we communicate," said Christen Krogh, head of Opera's software development. "In the years to come, it will greatly facilitate how we interact with technology."
Opera is the third-largest browser on the Web. Although tiny compared to Internet Explorer and Netscape, it has been gaining ground as the browser of choice for handheld devices because it is fast and needs little memory.
The demonstration version, so far only in English, is still far from normal casual conversation.
After listening to the computer's question, users have to wait for a tiny beep before stating their request.
But the computer displayed an ability to pick out key words in one demonstration. Tell the computer "get pizza" and a window popped up with a pizza order form, as the machine asked to take the order.
"I would like a medium pizza with extra cheese, mushrooms and salami," a tester told the machine.
The machine checked off the appropriate boxes on the form, but interpreted "a pizza" as "eight pizzas." Then it asked for confirmation and corrected the number when told the order was for one.
It corresponds to simple commands. For example, say "Get AP" and the browser brings up the Web page for The Associated Press.
"The new offering will allow us to interact with the content on the Web in a more natural way, first on PCs and in the near future on devices such as cell phones and PDAs," or personal digital assistants, said IBM's director of embedded speech, Igor Jablokov.
Krogh said the voice technology could open up the Internet to users who had been physically unable to use a keyboard.
Opera plans to first launch an English version of the voice browser for computers running the Windows operating system. Versions for other systems, including handhelds, will follow.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1212&e=9&u=/ap/20040323/ap_on_hi_te/ope...
"By looking @ the chart+comparing it to DD I believe we will move to .15-17 near term then consolidate somewhere lower before the next leg up. Take this with a grain of salt. Things can change anytime to change my prediction, this is where I stand now. (only sharing becase of comments)"
One line my prediction. Looks like we may be fully consolidating right now!! Unless we see that .15-.17 bump soon next pop will be the next leg up. Just my humble opinion of course. This is the last time I am going to update my opinion on the board.
"Things can change anytime to change my prediction"
Things as in TA+DD...
~smartbiz
Zacked: There is a circle of trust between some of us longs on this board. Alot of information has been shared between us. This message board is just the tip of the iceburg :)
P.S. FYI: donbalon is in my circle of trust.
All the Best Buddy!!
~smartbiz
I don't get it!?
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The promotion is already over...
http://www.eagames.com/official/lordoftherings/returnoftheking/pringles/us/home.jsp#
Nice find le-bon ton-roule... Funny my Pringles can didn't work... maybe you won prize!! lol
Love Middle-earth? Then see if you're an Instant Winner. First, with finger, gently rub seal on the side panel on a Lord of the Rings™ Pringles can to reveal your unique code. Enter the code here to see if you've instantly won one of thousands of The Lord of the Rings™ movie and game prizes. Entering your code automatically registers you in the Grand Prize drawing, making you eligible for an appearance in the next EA GAMES™ Lord of the Rings video game, plus a TRIP TO HOLLYWOOD for an exclusive celebrity screening of the trilogy with eight friends.
http://www.eagames.com/official/lordoftherings/returnoftheking/pringles/us/home.jsp
RE: More Teachers Implement Virtual Dissection
"..Chas & Chuck are notorious for placing messages inside of messages..." Post#1420
http://www.neom.com/products/paperclick/videoNbc8.jsp
More Teachers Implement Virtual Dissection
Mon Mar 22,10:29 AM ET Add Science - AP to My Yahoo!
GRAY, Maine - The squeamish groans that have long accompanied biology class dissections are slowly being replaced by the quiet din of students concentrating as more teachers implement simulated classroom dissections.
Travis Burnham, a teacher at Gray-New Gloucester High School, plans this spring to offer students an alternative to the classroom procedure regarded by some as the high point — and others the low — of high school biology.
"I personally don't feel it's necessary in my class if there's another alternative," said Burnham, adding that too many pigs die to teach students a lesson that could have been learned on the computer.
What seems a break from traditional curriculum has become a trend to replace fetal pigs, +cats+, frogs and formaldehyde with a much cleaner virtual experience.
At least eight states have policies allowing students to opt out of dissection, according to the Humane Society of the United States. They include Florida, California, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Maine.
Maine's Department of Education (news - web sites) issued an advisory in 1990 suggesting school districts recognize students "who show a legitimate conscientious, ethical reason not to do a dissection." The state recommended schools devise policies allowing students who opt out of dissection educational alternatives.
While dissection of cats, animal hearts, eyes and brains is a considerable part of Mike Hannigan's human anatomy and physiology class at Houlton High School, students are given the option of observing only.
Hannigan said he believes a combination of actual dissection and alternatives might work best.
"I think there's a lot more important concepts that can be learned with the money and time taken up buying the specimens," he said.
But Portland High School students who use dissection in biology and anatomy classes said they were not sure they would learn as much through a computer model.
Senior Scott Cathcart recently dissected a +cat+ as part of his anatomy and physiology class. He wants to study science in college, and said the hands-on work helped him learn about muscle and the body.
"I think it's a lot easier," he said. "You see what things look like, what they are when you're dissecting it out."
Wayne Carley, the executive director of the Virginia-based National Association of Biology Teachers, said he believes there is no substitute for dissection.
"If the point is to learn how an organism works, how the parts are connected to each other, what the heart looks like, how the muscles move the legs, where the arteries go when they leave the heart, you need the real thing," he said.
Burnham agrees that students can benefit from working with a real animal.
Students who want the actual dissection experience can transfer to another biology class during the week the unit is taught, he said.
"I would never deny students the experience.," he said. "There's really no substitute, and if someone's thinking about a medical field early on, there's nothing like it."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&e=4&u=/ap/ditching_dissection
Another Bango?
Thats what Nextcode looks like to me... From what I understand they have their "Unique Code" patented.... while Neo has the bridge patented which all codes must cross!!
Nextcodes Website:
http://www.nextcodecorp.com
Nextcodes Patents:(Hewlett Packard)
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fse....
"The patented Nextcode technology was designed specifically for tor the capabilities of mobile phones....."
NeoMedia's Intellectual Property:
http://www.neom.com/products/ip/index.jsp
"Chas & Chuck are notorious for placing messages inside of messages."
So true!
~smartbiz
Retired: You were right. Here!!
MMMMMmmm good... Eat it up Retired.. You DESERVE IT.
Just kidding w/you. :)
~smartbiz