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no---if you check the other affiliations mentioned you will figure it out......hint--air2web
A gentleman who was once worked for NeoMedia is now associated with AnnounceMobile.
Thinking out loud----wouldn't Scanbuy put forth their strongest arguments when asking the judge to provide a summary judgment?
If that is true, it would seem that Scanbuy is in a world of hurt!
Settlement is coming!
NO--IT MEANS THAT THE JUDGE GRANTED SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN FAVOR OF NEOMEDIA! EXPECT SETTLEMENT WITH SCANBUY OR NEOMEDIA DOING A FULL COURT PRESS AND TAKING THEM TO THE WALL.
GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!! THE JUDGE RULED IN OUR FAVOR IN THE SCANBUY CASE!!!!!!!!!!! IT WAS NOT EVEN NECESSARY FOR US TO GIVE ALL OF OUR ARGUMENTS!!!!!!!! YOU CAN REQUEST THE COURT DOCUMENTS YOURSELF TO VERIFY THIS!
my understanding is that Chas is in NY and I think we can expect to see something positive from the oral argument hearing--Like summary judgment against Scanbuy!
Reminder, the Judge is hearing oral arguments for summary judgment today at 3pm. Anyone in New York that can attend--it is open to the public. Lets hope Scanbuy gets blown out of the water today.
This is positive news....they took over $3 million dollars in stock. Something they would not have done without believing in the company. And they know the company in a much more intimate way than we do.
Apple: $8 Billion in Revenue, 24M iPods in Q1?
by Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
January 6th 2007
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As analysts grow more bullish with the Apple price target predictions, Carl Howe over at BlackFriars Marketing thinks the numbers Apple could announce for its first fiscal quarter of 2007 (ended December 31, 2006) could be just huge.
Howe predicts 23 million (gasp) iPods sold, worth over $4 billion, 700,000 desktops and 1.2 million portables. Include the iTMS, and other 'beyond the box' stuff and you arrive at the $8 billion revenue figure. That would mean $0.87 per diluted share. Analysts' consensus is currently $0.78 on average estimated revenues of $6.4 billion.
Overblown? Beat analysts' estimates by around $1.5-1.6 billion? Well, it's possible, but not likely, unless iPod and portable sales went through the roof over Xmas, and here's a figure that sends the opposite message: US retail spending rose only modestly over the holiday period, as Bloomberg noted Thursday.
True, iPod sales will probably beat the 'Street, but I wouldn't be betting my own money on an $8 billion quarter. Or yours.
Motley Fool:
Yesterday, CEO Steve Jobs bid adieu to the name Apple Computer (Nasdaq: AAPL). No more shall the Mac Daddy be just, well, the Mac's daddy. Jobs says the firm he co-founded will now simply be Apple, Inc. And that can only mean one thing: A litter of consumer-electronics siblings for the Mac is on the way, beginning with the long-awaited iPhone, announced yesterday.
How did investors react to the news? Like a hyperactive 2-year-old on a sugar high; Apple's stock is up more than 12% since Monday's close, and it's rising as I write this.
Still cool after all these years
I can understand why. Chief among the many concerns harbored by stock-pickers is whether Apple will be able to continuously channel "cool" for every market that it enters. The prototype iPhone put that question to rest for a while. It's oozing with style, and functionally, it looks as strong as anything offered by Palm (Nasdaq: PALM), Nokia (NYSE: NOK), or Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM).
Consider how it handles voice mail. With my Treo 600, I have to dial a number and listen to voice mail in the order in which it was left. With the iPhone, I'd be able to look at all the voice mail I have, and select which messages I want to listen to and which I want to skip. Think of it as an email inbox for voice messages.
Apple says it will team with Cingular to offer the iPhone, which will be available in June in two models. A $499 version will carry 4 gigabytes of storage, while the $599 model includes 8 gigs of space for music, videos, and the like.
Apple reinvents the phone
During his keynote, Jobs told the Mac addicts in attendance that the iPhone changes everything when it comes to mobile phones. Really? Other phones have Wi-Fi. Other phones also play music and videos. Still others feature email and text messaging. What's so darn special about the iPhone?
It's a good question, but I think Jobs is right. There are two ways in which the iPhone firmly stands out. First, there's its interface and user-friendliness. Go back to voice mail. Or consider the device's Web browsing capability. Users can zoom or realign the screen horizontally, making it easier to read any Web page. That's a major improvement over what I can do today on my Treo.
Second, and more importantly, there's the built-in iPod. There's not much new here in terms of functionality, so why does it matter? It's another way to stiff-arm iTunes opponents such as Verizon's (NYSE: VZ) VCAST, which aim to convince users to download music from their cellular networks.
So far, that effort has done little to dampen enthusiasm for iTunes, which Jobs says has sold more than 2 billion songs, and which still owns more than 60% of the digital music market. By giving the iPhone iTunes and equal standing with Macs and PCs, Apple could make other music-playing phones and specialized networks even less attractive they've been to date.
The dawn of the iEmpire
But the iPhone is just one gadget. Others are surely in the works. One, the iTV, introduced at a September event, was dubbed Apple TV by Jobs yesterday. It will be available next month for $299.
For those who don't recall, the iTV is a device that connects to any television, allowing iTunes downloads to be wirelessly delivered for viewing. It's not a replacement for the pioneering digital video recorders made by TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO), because it can't pause or record live TV, but it's as close as I've yet seen.
And that leads me to ask: What's next? By recasting Apple Computer as Apple, Inc., Jobs has signaled his intent to do what Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) did when it made a similar change years ago. Surely that hasn't worked out as well as founder Michael Dell had hoped. Can Jobs really expect better results?
Why not? In the coming days, there's going to be a strong temptation to say that, because the days when the Mac always had center stage may be ending, Apple has given rise to a new iEmpire, where gadgets rule and computers serve.
The Cult of Mac is alive and well
Hogwash. The truth is that, with iTV and the iPhone, the Mac has never been more important than it is now. Jobs is merely making a strategic bet. By surrounding users with cool gadgets that offer a peek into what a Mac can really do, and by making the Mac a digital hub for entertainment, Apple hopes to sell more computers. A lot more computers.
And it might, especially if Jobs' goal for the iPhone is realized. He hopes to gain 1% of the global market for mobile phones by the end of 2008. At 1 billion phones annually, that's 10 million handsets. There are only 30 million to 40 million Macs estimated to be in use today.
Embrace and extend
It's most extraordinary for me how well Apple is following the old Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) tenet of "embrace and extend" in creating its own iEmpire. History shows that Mr. Softy torpedoed Netscape and others by embracing and extending any innovation that threatened Windows' hegemony. Apple's approach, though different, is still aimed at ensuring the success of the Mac at the expense of rivals. Otherwise, Apple would have left the mobile market to Verizon and its peers.
That's where the new Apple, Inc., sets itself apart. The Mac Daddy has become more than the Mac's daddy. It has been transformed into an iEmpire where the Mac is no longer the troubled teen -- it's the aspiring prince hoping to ascend to the throne of the digital entertainment realm. With the iPhone, I sense that Jobs has taken yet another step toward coronation.
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MC sold a 1,000,000 shares? Is that right?
Ford just announced that it will be adding a jax (connection) for Apple's ipod into its cars!
snooze you lose!
snooze you loose
rueters and bloomberg
I just comfirmed this through my Schwab broker!
JP Morgan challenges/denies Law.com claim!
Does anyone on this board following changewaves recommendations? Has Toby said anything about AAPL today?
Has anyone seen the JP Morgan news challenging/denying the claims of law.com?
Wasn't the new guy, Roger P associated with Liberty Media?
By Martin Peers
Of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--News Corp. (NWS) finalized a deal to buy out Liberty Media Corp.'s $11 billion stake in the media giant in exchange for News Corp.'s 38.6% stake in DirecTV Group Inc. (DTV), $550 million of cash and three regional sports networks.
The long-awaited deal will remove a threat to News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch's control of his company that emerged when Liberty Media accumulated a 19% voting stake. Murdoch's family controls News Corp. through a roughly 30% voting stake. The agreement also catapults Liberty Media Chairman John Malone back to a position of influence in the media sector, giving him effective control of DirecTV, seven years after Malone sold cable giant Tele-Communications Inc.
In a statement, News Corp. said the deal would "unlock tremendous value," allowing it to divest itself of its DirecTV stake "at an attractive valuation on a tax-free basis." The company plans to eliminate its poison pill takeover defense plan once the agreement is complete, it said. The poison pill was adopted two years ago, after Liberty accumulated its stake.
Malone said in a statement, "We are extremely pleased with the successful, tax-efficient conversion of our News holding. Our investment in DirecTV will create financial, operating and strategic flexibility."
-By Martin Peers, The Wall Street Journal; 212-416-2305
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Just spoke with someone "in the know" and they said the News paper and/or soccer coolaboration is a big deal. Tantamount to the NFL and NBA working with several major news papers signing a deal with NeoMedia. This will begins very soon and will be promoted to more than 8 million people and will spread virially (sp?) and rapidly after that.
No....a close at $.30 would be nice. I am not happy with $.085.
don't set your sights too low. :)
.055 bid! What is up?
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! "In everything give thanks..."--even low pps! :)
Does anyone know the website that gives you all the days' trades/time and sales for a particular stock?
Howard,
Thanks for your concern, I think???????
If you read my posts carefully and discerningly I am responding to posters that have interacted with my posts.
I am not repeating myself for the sake of repeating myself and your assumption that I am emotional in my decision making is off base!
No I am not happy with the share price but neither am I happy with everything NeoMedia has done or not done. For instance, although I am no doubt ignorant to all that needs to be done I am not happy that the company does not have Qode ready and out the door for the majority of handsets, etc.
"Shedding a few pounds" is a nice analogy but not satisfactory in my estimation. That is putting a good spin on a somewhat challenging situation. I am only trying to be realisic and look at this as objectively as posible.
With respect to collateral--we did not have to "put up the farm" for the first $22 Mil (not sure of the exact #). The only reason you do that is because you have to! Evidently no other financial institution was willing to lend NeoMedia the venture capital!
"berate the company" is beyond what I posted. That is not my intent nor point.
With all that said, "Lets go NEOM"!
I hope we get something from it other than advertising.
Althought that in itself is very valuable--lost of exposure to a very key set of "marketers"!
Why would Prentice Hall pay for qode when it could achieve something very similar for free!
Speaking of the not for profit company, Semapedia, it seems from their website mentioned in JP's post that they are very aggressive. Although NeoMedia management would likely dissagree I do not think we are nearly aggressive enough. Perhaps evidence of this is the Microsoft/Sprint location based search deal. The big guys are not going to roll over and let NeoMedia push them around or out do them if they in anyway can help it. Business is business is business.
The fact remains we have been waiting a long long time for qode and it is yet to positively impact the share price!
Bottom line, I sold half my share today! (purely a necessary business decision for me)May acquire again with more positive developments.
This is the only thing said in the 10Q about Prentice Hall:
qode® technology will be featured in an interactive textbook published by Prentice Hall, in which students can link to mobile online content through the qode® reader on their mobile phones.
This will definately help qode get launched but we do not know what will be gained monetarily by NeoMedia from Prentice Hall.
Unless our IP covers "static" codes such as semapedia and others (and I think/hope it does), then Prentice Hall and other textbooks "might" be better off using a free version of the tech and simply change the content on the web page when and if you desire. If our IP does in fact NOT include "static" embedded codes, then a large portion of the pie is not ours. And I think it is hard to sue a company that is not for profit. It can be done for sure, but .....
Furthermore, the deal announced today between Microsoft and Sprint is a major challenge to Qode in the location based service arena! In fact, it is my "beleif" that NeoMedia is not currently even working hard on this aspect of the technology!
If the above is the case, then these are two significant portions of this space that we will not eat all by ourselves.
All that said, I am a "little" less "in love" with the stock, but still optomistic about the potential of NeoMedia/Qode.
And I still would maintain that we will see a lower pps and perhaps "sell/divest" of another company before we head north.
I simply do not think we would divest of a company that has the potential to help in a major way launch qode if we did not absolutely have to. If they turned out to be a terrible company then maybe yes, but I do not think that is the case.
Similarily, I do not think putting our patents up for collateral for the 5 Mil and/or whole amount to Cornel is a great sign. Again, not saying that NeoMedia is headed for bankrupcy...I am only saying that money must be very scarce.
Further, I suspect Sponge knows more about NeoMedia and Qode than any of us and then were inclined not to offer NeoMedia a great resolution to the money owed them. In other words, if they beleivd in the future dominance of Qode like a lot of us do, then why would they not have bent over backwards to stay in the fold? Again, there are probably issues that I am not aware of that are consequential, but ....this is what I come up with knowing what I know.
Pedrhaps NeoMedia is using this as leverage with the other comnpanies. That is, to encourage them to be very willing to bend over backwards during this needy time or risk being excluded from the Qode pie?
Moreover, it seems like NeoMedia was forced to give away large salaries/bonuses/incentives to retain key people...this also makes me think things are not as rosey as we may think.
As for 92.5% more likely to work for themselves....that is just it...they will be working "for themselves" and not primarily for NeoMedia and Qode! Granted there is some overlap, but it is far different than the previous arrangement.
I still believe that NeoMedia/Qode have great potential but am saying that at least in the short term these are not wonderful signs...that is all.
Again, this is just imho and I am open to sharpening!
Although I am reluctant to post this because I have not thoroughly thought it through I neverthess will post.
This is not a good indication. It is symptomatic of a company in trouble financially. However, I am not saying it is indicative of a company that will not make it.
We have heard from mngt several times of how wonderful this company was/is and now we are selling/giving it up?
They have a lot of talent and now they are 92.5% less motivated to see Qode succeed. Unless I am not understanding something correctly--which may be the case. There may be agreements between NeoMedia and Sponge that we do not know about.
Could it be that we truly don't need them? Yes, but I still think that they would have been valuable. According to the 10Q they just spend > $3 Mil for infrastructure to handle a campaign for a client. That must be a major deal.
In addition, I would have thought that from the moment Sponge was acquired that they would have been busy planning and preparing a major campaign promoting qode...if so, has that changed now?
Moreover, even if this is shrewd on the part of managment and they are able to do this on a technicality, and not withstanding an undisclosed agreement with Sponge to bring them back into the fold, it hardly is great news for Sponge--i.e. how committed are they now to the success of Qode?
As for the possiblity of selling Mobot--I do not think so. NeoMedia IP is what makes Mobot truly powerful and I think they know! When Mobot's tech is incorporated into Qode, then we will have a truly amazing tool in the hands of people.
Lastly, I think we will see a lower pps before we see it go north.
imho (please feel free to sharpen my understanding as appropriate).
In China, it's Mongolian Cow Yogurt Super Girl
By Robert Marquand | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
BEIJING – For nearly three hours Chinese society stopped - and voted. No, it wasn't a political revolution, but a mass thumbs up to a 21-year-old from Sichuan who belts out the song "Zombie" from the rock band "Cranberries" as part of her act.
China's "Super Girl" is an American Idol-style TV show whose grand finale of dancing and singing drew 400 million viewers here last Friday night, roughly equivalent to every person in the US and Britain.
In China, Super Girl created a stir from bamboo forest villages to the crab shacks of Shanghai, and is seen as a new phenomenon. Nothing this large and spontaneous has ever pushed its way unapproved into China's mainstream media before.
Some 8 million, mostly younger, Chinese paid the equivalent of 2 cents to send a "text message of support" (the word "vote" is avoided) via cellphone for one of the three Super Girl finalists. Li Yuchun, a music student whose tomboy looks and confidence onstage are the talk of Chinese chat rooms, won with 3.5 million votes. The three finalists, all in their early 20s, became instant celebrities in a nation that really hasn't made much room for the pop star concept, except when they come from Hong Kong or Taiwan.
Unscripted authenticity
Super Girl owes its popularity to its raw authenticity, to indirectly giving voice to individual Chinese through a vote, and to its unscripted creation of a feeling of "happiness," according to a dozen young Chinese interviewed on campus and inside Beijing restaurants on Friday.
The program did not, for example, emerge from the Beijing studios of official Chinese programming, but from a provincial station in the gritty heartland of Hunan, that has a satellite uplink. The contest is officially called the "Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Super Girl Contest." By its rules any female, young or old, talented or not, can participate - not just the familiar beauty-queen types from central casting.
Some 120,000 girls took part in the past year, in a sudden and unexpected burst of enthusiasm that has Beijing authorities slightly worried about the precedent it may set for more unregulated forms of pop culture.
"This is totally new to Chinese people," says Wei Feng, a student from the Beijing Foreign Language Institute. "The whole thing is about singing whatever you want, and millions of young girls in those provinces have never had that chance before."
In fact, the two top scorers on Friday were "girl next door" types, with the more feminine Zhang Liangying, who sang, "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," coming in a distant third. Super Girl Ms. Li has a small army of young supporters who see her as a role model.
"[Super Girl] represents a victory of the grass-roots over the elite culture," argues Beijing sociologist Li Yinhe.
"It is vulgar and manipulative," intoned an official statement from China Central TV (CCTV), the national state-run broadcaster, which added that the program was not high-toned enough, due to the gaudy clothing worn by contestants, and that the show could be canceled next season due to its "worldliness."
Technically, CCTV officials can shut down Super Girl, since they hold a monopoly position on broadcast decisions. Many ordinary Chinese say that it won't be worldliness that prompts any shutdown, but the fact that CCTV's advertising revenue on Friday night was lower than that of its modest Hunan competitor. A pilot of an official version of Super Girl produced by CCTV reportedly failed.
"Most Chinese TV is formulaic," says Luo, a young Beijing University graduate, who would only give his first name. "We can figure out after 15 minutes what will happen, but on Super Girl we can't predict what they will say."
Young Chinese women interviewed say that they want to see examples of confident females interacting spontaneously in Chinese public culture, rather than through an official script.
Private choice, public event
For some students, the exciting part of Super Girl is making a private choice in a public matter. A daring few, online and usually anonymously, link the concept to political voting.
In recent years, and for the first time, China has experimented with online votes, though topics are usually scoured by authorities and sensitivities removed. (One recent online vote in the Xinhua news service asked the question, "Do you think Japan should become a member of the UN Security Council?" The vote was a nearly unanimous, "no.")
One indication that authorities are targeting Super Girl was the number of traditional folk songs sung. At one point, a matriarch from the People's Liberation Army, wearing a green uniform swathed in ribbons and medals, sang a patriotic song in what many younger Chinese interpreted as a way of appeasing the central government authorities.
The new and slightly giddying freedoms of a mass-media program also, it is pointed out by the male viewers, makes a program about the girls, more appealing.
Zhao, an engineering student, was passing out fliers about Li Yuchun at People's University on Friday. The fliers gave step-by-step instruction for cellphone voting on one side, and a particularly love- struck message, penned by Zhao, on the other.
Li Yuchun, Zhao said, is a "no frills, natural girl who has control of the stage, and is not easily disturbed. She has no long skirts or long hair, and will challenge the traditional female idea. She is the Super Girl in my heart."
Even older Chinese have been caught up in the show.
One high-ranking minister who was hosting a lengthy business reception scheduled to last until 9 p.m. was suddenly missing at 8 p.m. on Friday night. Sources close to the minister noted that Super Girl started at 8:30 p.m.
Reminder--don't miss the forest for the trees!
Many here on hung up on relatively small issues and are overlooking the big big picture.
I know we don't like hearing this but the mobile market is still very new and frankly it does not work very well for most!
I just tried to visit google.mobi on my cell phone and it was a pain!
I recently heard from someone in the industry that only 24% of people have ever tried to access the mobile net and that only 9% have ever downloaded something!
Whatever is the easiest will win! And so far qode gets great marks.
Further, mobot's tech combined with Qode will be the coolest!
Add voice and it gets even cooler!
I would suggest a constructive exercise---like a to do list of things that will make qode the success we want it to be.
How about a top 10 things to do:
Begin post with "QODE TOP 10:" and then we will compile them and perhaps post.
I'll start:
QODE TOP 10:
Get Qode working on all the most popular phones in the world.
This is incorrect.....there is nothing in this article about NevenVision. This is Mobot...I know it for a fact. You can also look at the 10q and under Mobot see Acura campaign.
This is Mobot and they are probably excluding Nevenvision from the campaign for some reason.
Unless we just bought google and nevenvision. lol
This is Mobot...not Neven Vision.
The encouraging part is the volume is only 2.5 mil,
the discouraging part is that it is only 10:15 AM!
Nevertheless, today's press release is a good ....lots of exposure!
It is coming out today at 5:30 PM!
are we positive that Q3 is due today?