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Thank you cloud. I need more understanding. I'm deeply invested in this one as many of us are and haven't sold a share. I want to understand how to help this company, given how ripe it is now.
TY, TP. I'll run with that and learn more.
I'm in too. Who is speaking?
I will post on that SEC board. Please explain the best way to try to be effective.
I am ))
TYVM...Great to see you koko...haven't touched base with you in quite awhile. What a ride this one has been. Maybe it's ready now, huh?
What can be done to stop this manipulation, if anything? Damn damn.
Trusted and longest longs,
Please be so kind to give a full report of the CC this morning. JP, success, Drmyke, streetstyles, koko, et al. Thanks.
At FT.com, doing a search for 'Mobile groups' yields both articles. It appears it was edited later that night.
http://search.ft.com/search?queryText=barcode&aje=true&dse=&dsz=&x=5&y=5
Beam11, Brilliantly stated. IMO, you should forward this post to the ranking members of the BOD.
neomanic
Starting to have some doubts about Neomedias proposed future. Yea, I know, this space is huge. Basically in it's infacy in the US. Plenty of pieces of pie...yada yada. Will someone please try to tell me why I should keep my 200K, given there appears to be stronger players persuing this space, with the financial capabilties, expertise and position. My stongest trepidations are more advanced, more functional and encompassing technologies, that bypass the bridge, or don't need it, for one reason or another.
Thanks.
Continuing to stay long and stong.............
neomanic
The bar code gets a hip new life
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06144/692714-96.stm
(sorry if repost)
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
By Jessica E. Vascellaro, The Wall Street Journal
While shopping at a Whole Foods store in Los Angeles, Richard Jefferson spotted a curious sticker with tiny black squares on a package of Yum Tum raw vegan pizza. Intrigued, he sent a text message to a number listed on the package and received a link prompting him to download software to his Sony Ericsson cellphone to decipher what turned out to be a bar code. The software allowed him to snap a picture of the bar code to be connected to a Web page with recipes and health tips from Yum Tum, a raw-foods brand in Los Angeles. "This could be huge," he says.
A rising number of people are using new free services to connect to the mobile Internet by photographing bar codes. The codes -- either conventional bar codes or digital ones -- are showing up on more products, advertisements, books and even buildings. The technology is popular in Asia but previously failed to catch on in the U.S. after several attempts. Now, improving technologies and the ubiquity of camera phones are triggering a host of new bar-code services.
Nokia Corp. has built its own bar-code reader into new models of two camera phones that are scheduled to become available in the U.S. this fall. Scanbuy Inc.'s. Scanbuy Shopper, expected to be live in the next few weeks, grabs Shopping.com prices and reviews, for example, from a Universal Product Code, or UPC. Nextcode Corp. has launched ConnexTo, mobile software for reading digital bar codes that are cropping up on food packaging and posters. NeoMedia Technologies Inc., which owns mobile-ad firms, will launch its bar-code reader PaperClick later this year.
The codes are appearing gradually in grocery stores, embedded in business cards, on promotional posters and T-shirts and even near landmarks like the Chrysler Building, around where people placed a code linking to the building's Wikipedia entry. They are piquing the interest of advertisers who see the potential to serve up more relevant ads -- a trailer downloaded off a movie billboard, for instance -- and consumer-product companies trying to make products more interactive.
The technology, part of the mobile industry's push to embed more functions and features into mobile devices, is still in its early stages, meaning the new services may only work with some camera phone models and service providers. While there is vast potential for the technology -- from downloading movies off billboards to helping diabetics purchase food safe for them to eat -- a range of hurdles have some questioning whether the applications are functional enough to succeed.
Not all software programs can read all types of bar codes. This means consumers must, for now, pick and choose among services. Scanbuy, for instance, works with standard bar codes while Semacode Corp. uses a code standard called Data Matrix. When PaperClick launches it is likely to used a third symbology, Aztec.
The new services also have some competition from other companies working to provide similar services off existing logos and images, not bar codes. Mobot Inc., owned by PaperClick's parent company NeoMedia, lets users snap images directly from a magazine or billboard. The user sends the picture to an address, and Mobot's technology reads the contours of the image stored in its database and sends a message back with the relevant content, such as promotion details.
Companies are seeking to make the bar-code technology easier to use by preloading it on mobile devices. Consumers, who are turning to their phones for a multitude of functions from downloading ringtones to text messaging to mobile Web browsing, also appear more ready for the services, which are free excluding data fees. About 15 percent of U.S. cellphone users accessed the Web on their phone last month, according to Seattle-based mobile-research firm M:Metrics.
While two Nokia models will come with bar-code readers standard in a few months, consumers for now have to get the software themselves. Most services can be downloaded to a camera phone by typing a Web address into the device's browser. Some applications, such as PaperClick, ask those who sign up for some demographic information such as age and location to better tailor the types of results they see. From there, users click on the application icon, hold the camera a few inches away from the code, and click as if taking a photo. (Some detect the code automatically and register it without clicking.) The software decodes the information, typically a Web link, and quickly directs the user to the relevant Web page.
It's a new chapter in bar-code history. In the 1950s, two inventors filed the first bar-code patent, which included a sketch of a ring of concentric circles. In later decades the Universal Product Code, a symbol whose fine lines could be scanned at a checkout counter, for instance, emerged. Today, commercial uses of bar codes proliferate. Airlines use them to shuttle around baggage and delivery services rely on them to help track packages.
Scott Shaffer, 39 years old, a private investor in Boca Raton, Fla., recently went to the ConnexTo Web site to create his own bar code that he now puts on his business cards. Now, anyone with the ConnexTo reader downloaded to their phone can snap one of his cards to be routed to a Web site with his name, address, phone number and email.
Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. already offer mobile versions of shopping Web sites or text-messaging services that pull up a few lines of abbreviated text per query. Scanbuy Shopper promises to deliver more information like reviews and comparison statistics through miniature Web pages. The new service, which will allow users without the appropriate camera phone or lens to key in the bar-code number manually, has also been updated to read codes in dim light and at odd angles.
Textbook publisher Prentice Hall will be putting PaperClick smart codes in the next edition of one of its introductory-marketing textbooks expected to be released in January 2007. A handful of codes will appear in some entries in the text linking to further examples and related news articles.
Nonprofit groups also are using bar codes for new purposes. A world-wide project called Semapedia involves people creating more than 2,500 codes that they are sticking to or near landmarks like the Leaning Tower of Pisa or Machu Pichu. The codes link to the Wikipedia entry for the location.
RE: Scanbuy - We need to have our fears allayed by NEOM management. Will someone who has corresponded with Chas in the past, please do so. Thanks very much in advance.
Thanks seeclear, peterkev and success. That does indeed shed a 'clearer' light. Hopefully Scanbuy will be snatched up within time too - one way or the other.
DD: Scanbuy - Red Herring Releases Short-List of Finalists for the "Red Herring 100 North America" Awards
(Doing some DD - sorry to have to post folks. So do wish it was NEOM listed here.) - neomanic
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=115919
Red Herring Releases Short-List of Finalists for the "Red Herring 100 North America" Awards
Most-Promising Technology Ventures Will Be Honored at the Red Herring Spring 2006 CEO Summit
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/05/2006 -- The Red Herring announced that it has narrowed the field of contenders for its annual "Red Herring 100 North America" list to 200 companies. Well over 1,000 privately held technology companies submitted to this year's edition of the prestigious award, giving evidence to the invigorated innovative and entrepreneurial strength of the technology ecosystem.
The names of the 200 companies short-listed as finalists for the "Red Herring 100 North America" can also be found online at http://www.redherring.com.
Following another rigorous review process, the "Red Herring 100 North America" will be unveiled at the exclusive "Red Herring Spring 2006" CEO summit, May 23-25 in Monterey, California, during which the technology industry's most-innovative CEOs, venture financiers, and corporate strategists will gather to meet this next wave of disruptive companies.
High-quality companies
"We can see the resurgence of the tech sector reflected in the quantity and variety of excellent companies that we had to choose from in putting our list together," said Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-Chief of Red Herring. "It was difficult to choose the 200 finalists and we are very happy with the stellar quality of the companies on this short-list."
More than just buzz
The "Red Herring 100 North America" award is an important part of Red Herring's tradition of recognizing new and innovative technology firms and their entrepreneurial founders. The over 1,000 nominees were rigidly evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their ecosystem. This unique assessment of potential complemented by a review of the actual track record and standing of a company allows Red Herring to see past the "buzz" and make the list an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry.
Bringing together the best
As part of this tradition to honor innovation and entrepreneurship in the business of technology, Red Herring will again host "Red Herring Spring," a two-day invitation-only summit for the CEOs and founders of the Red Herring 100 winners and finalists in Monterey, California. The summit's C-level attendees will convene under the theme "The Pursuit of Disruption" to discuss major trends and opportunities and to explore partnerships, alliances, investments, and M&A activities. Further information regarding the event and how to register is available at http://www.herringevents.com/rhspring06.
About Red Herring
Red Herring is a sophisticated insider's guide to the business of technology, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy, from the Internet to wireless communications and digital entertainment. Red Herring reports on how innovation and entrepreneurship are transforming business and how the business of technology is transforming the world, providing readers with a deep understanding of venture capital and capital markets. Recognized as an essential resource in today's fast-changing business world, Red Herring gets the right answers before anyone else even thinks to ask the questions. More information on Red Herring is available on the Internet at www.redherring.com.
The 200 companies short-listed as finalists for the "Red Herring 100 North America" are (in alphabetical order):
COMPANY, CITY, STATE
3VR Security, Inc., San Francisco, CA
A10 Networks, San Jose, CA
A123Systems, Watertown, MA
Adknowledge, Inc., Kansas City, MO
AirG, Vancouver, BC
Ambit Inc., San Diego, CA
Amp'd Mobile, Aliso Viejo, CA
AmpliMed, Tucson, AZ
Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc., Emeryville, CA
ANDA Networks, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA
Aperto Networks, Milpitas, CA
Application Security, Inc., New York, NY
Attensa, Inc., Portland, OR
Barracuda Networks, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Bay Microsystems, Inc., San Jose, CA
Bazaarvoice, Austin, TX
Become, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Berkeley Design Automation, Santa Clara, CA
Bharosa, Santa Clara, CA
BioPassword, Inc., Issaquah, WA
BitTorrent, San Francisco, CA
Black Duck Software, Inc., Waltham, MA
BorderWare Technologies Inc., Mississauga, ON
Boston Circuits, Inc., Burlington, MA
BroadLight, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Buzz Metrics, Inc., New York, NY
Calix Networks, Inc., Petaluma, CA
Cape Clear Software, Waltham, MA
Cavium Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
Caymas Systems, San Jose, CA
Centrality Communications Inc., Santa Clara, CA
Centro, Chicago, IL
ClairMail, Novato, CA
ClearFuels Technology, Inc., Aiea, HI
Cloudmark, San Francisco, CA
Cobasys, Orion, MI
CollabNet, Brisbane, CA
Contactual, Inc, San Mateo, CA
ContextWeb Inc, New York, NY
Converged Access, Billerica, MA
Current Communications Group, Germantown, MD
CyThera Inc., San Diego, CA
Data Domain, Palo Alto, CA
Delta-Q Technologies Corp., Burnaby, BC
Determina, Redwood City, CA
DiVitas Networks, Mountain View, CA
DriveCam, Inc., San Diego, CA
Dualcor Technologies, Scotts Valley, CA
Egenera, Inc., Marlboro, MA
Egenix, Inc., Millbrook, NY
EnerNOC, Inc., Boston, MA
Enigma Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA
EnterpriseDB Corporation, Iselin, NJ
Entropic Communications, San Diego, CA
E-One Moli Energy (Canada) Ltd., Maple Ridge, BC
EqualLogic, Inc., Nashua, NH
Eurekster, Inc., San Francisco, CA
FatLens, Inc. , Mountain View, CA
FeedBurner, Chicago, IL
FilmLoop, Palo Alto, CA
Firefly Energy Inc., Peoria, IL
First Solar LLC, Phoenix, AZ
Forterra Systems, San Mateo, CA
Funambol, Redwood City, CA
Geomagic, Research Triangle Park, NC
GetActive Software, Berkeley, CA
GlobeImmune, Louisville, CO
Glu Mobile, San Mateo, CA
GlycoFi, Lebanon, NH
Gotuit Media Corp., Woburn, MA
GraniteEdge Networks, Bellevue, WA
GreenFuel Technologies Corporation, Cambridge, MA
Groove Mobile, Inc, Andover, MA
GUBA, LLC, San Francisco, CA
Habeas, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Havok, San Francisco, CA
HelioVolt, Austin, TX
Hypnion, Inc., Lexington, MA
I4 Commerce, Timonium, MD
Infinera Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
Infoblox, Sunnyvale, CA
Ingenio, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Ingres Corporation, Redwood City, CA
Innodia Inc., Laval, QC
InPhase Technologies, Longmont, CO
Inrix, Inc., Kirkland, WA
IPextreme Inc., Campbell, CA
iRise, El Segundo, CA
iUpload, Burlington, ON
Jadoo Power Systems Inc., Folsom, CA
JAJAH, Menlo Park, CA
JasperSoft Corporation , San Francisco, CA
JLT Mobile Computers, Tempe, AZ
JotSpot, Palo Alto, CA
Ketera Technologies, Santa Clara, CA
Koolspan, Inc., Bethesda, MD
Kosmix, Mountain View, CA
Lentigen Corporation, Baltimore, MD
Lockdown Networks, Inc., Seattle, WA
Log Savvy Corporation, Berkeley, CA
LogLogic, San Jose, CA
Luminetx, Memphis, TN
Magenn Power Inc., Kanata, ON
Magnolia Broadband, Bedminster, NJ
Massive Incorporated, New York, NY
Matisse Networks, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Mediabolic, Inc., San Mateo, CA
Medsphere, Aliso Viejo, CA
meebo Inc. , Palo Alto, CA
Meetro, Palo Alto, CA
MeeVee, Inc., Burlingame, CA
Melodeo, Seattle, WA
Miasolé, Santa Clara, CA
Mimix Broadband, Inc. , Houston , TX
Mobilitec, San Mateo, CA
Molecular Imprints Inc., Austin, TX
MovieBeam, Inc., Burbank, CA
Mozilla Corporation, Mountain View, CA
mPortal, Inc, Vienna, VA
Nanosphere, Inc. , Northbrook, IL
Nantero, Woburn, MA
Navio Systems, Cupertino, CA
Nereus Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA
NetContinuum, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
Neterion, Inc., Cupertino, CA
Network Chemistry, Redwood City, CA
Neugenesis Corporation, Mountain View, CA
Newport Media, Inc., Lake Forest, CA
Nexidia Inc., Atlanta, GA
Nextrials, Inc., San Ramon, CA
Novare Surgical Systems, Inc., Cupertino, CA
nTAG Interactive, Boston, MA
Ojos, Inc., Redwood City, CA
Open-Silicon, Sunnyvale, CA
OpSource, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
Optimer Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA
OQO, Inc. , San Francisco, CA
Origen Therapeutics, Burlingame, CA
Orion Genomics, St. Louis, MI
Parkingcarma, Berkeley, CA
Passmark Security, Menlo Park, CA
Pentaho Corporation, Orlando, FL
PGP Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
Pluck Corporation, Austin, TX
PodShow, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Primera Biosystems, Mansfield, MA
Quartics, Inc., IRVINE, CA
Rapt, San Francisco, CA
Raza Microelectronics, San Jose, CA
Reconnex Corporation, Mountain View, CA
Red Bend Software, Framingham, MA
Revver Inc., Hollywood, CA
rPath, Raleigh, NC
Ruckus Wireless, Mountain View, CA
Scaled Composites, LLC, Mojave, CA
Scanbuy, New York, NY
Sharpcast, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
Silver Peak Systems, Mountain View, CA
Skybox Security, Inc., San Jose, CA
SkyPilot Networks, Santa Clara, CA
Sling Media, Inc., San Mateo, CA
Small Bone Innovations, Inc. , New York, NY
SNOCAP, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Socialtext, Palo Alto, CA
Solfocus, Inc., Saratoga, CA
SOMA Networks, Inc., San Francisco, CA
SpikeSource, Inc., Redwood City, CA
Spot Runner, Los Angeles, CA
Stealth Communications, Inc., New York, NY
Streamload, San Diego, CA
SunRocket, Inc., Vienna, VA
superDimension, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
Surface Logix, Inc., Brighton, MA
TagWorld Inc, Santa Monica, CA
Tarari, Inc, San Diego, CA
Tazz Networks, Providence, RI
TeleCIS Wireless, Santa Clara, CA
The Multiverse Network, Inc., Mountain View, CA
The NewsMarket, Inc., New York, NY
thePlatform, Seattle, WA
ThingMagic, Cambridge, MA
Tizor, Maynard, MA
Topix Technologies, Inc., Laguna Hills, CA
TorreyPines Therapeutics, La Jolla, CA
Traction Software, Inc., Providence, RI
Transera Communications, Cupertino, CA
U3, LLC, Redwood City, CA
Visage Mobile, Inc, San Francisco, CA
Vivace Semiconductor, Inc., Beverly, MA
Vivisimo, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
Vivox, Framingham, MA
ViXS Systems, Inc. , Toronto, ON
Voxify, Inc., Alameda, CA
Xceive Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
Xencor Inc., Monrovia, CA
XOsoft, Waltham, MA
YouTube, San Mateo, CA
Zazzle, Palo Alto, CA
Zillow, Seattle, WA
Zimbra, San Mateo, CA
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Terpin Communications Group
xenia@terpin.com
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DD: Scanbuy/Qualcomm connection at CITA
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060404/latu081.html?.v=48
Press Release Source: QUALCOMM Incorporated
QUALCOMM Drives the Convergence of Wireless Communications Through the Delivery of Powerful Multimedia Products and Solutions
Tuesday April 4, 7:30 am ET
- Company to Demonstrate the Transformation of the Wireless Industry through Advanced Next-Generation Technologies at CTIA Wireless 2006 -
LAS VEGAS, CTIA Booth #2047, Hall C4/C5, April 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM - News), a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced wireless technologies, today announced that the Company will showcase a variety of leading next- generation wireless products and solutions at CTIA Wireless 2006 in Las Vegas, April 5-7 in Booth #2047, Central Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
3G wireless technologies are used around the globe and, with more than 266 million reported* 3G subscribers worldwide, the convergence of comprehensive wireless voice and data connectivity via 3G devices is defining the future of wireless communications. As QUALCOMM drives the long-term evolution of mobile wireless technology, it invests significantly in advanced wireless R&D every year and makes these advances broadly available to companies in the wireless value chain. This strategy enables the Company's customers and partners to rapidly bring state-of-the-art wireless products to market and enhances competition, which makes possible the kinds of innovative applications of wireless technology being demonstrated at CTIA.
"We are witnessing a transformation in the delivery of multimedia services, enabling each of our partners throughout the wireless value chain to play a critical role in accelerating mainstream adoption of high-speed wireless data applications such as video, music and gaming," said Jeffrey K. Belk, senior vice president of marketing for QUALCOMM. "At CTIA this year, QUALCOMM will demonstrate some of the innovative solutions that enable our customers and partners to create a comprehensive mobile communications experience, while greatly expanding the boundaries of the wireless lifestyle."
On the show's opening day, Wednesday, April 5, QUALCOMM will host a press briefing at 2:30 p.m. PDT in the North Hall, Room N242, where Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, QUALCOMM's chief executive officer, will discuss the 3G roadmap, QUALCOMM's news at CTIA and the MediaFLO(TM) system, the Company's mobile TV solution.
Demonstrations of QUALCOMM's advanced technology, products and solutions featured at the Company's booth include:
* Live demonstrations of the MediaFLO system, including live video and
audio on devices from leading handset manufacturers, and an IP
datacasting demonstration featuring content from Major League Baseball
Advanced Media's Gameday and a Stock Portfolio Tracker application.
* Wide-area coverage capabilities of FLO(TM) technology, featuring
citywide coverage in Las Vegas during CTIA.
* Advancements to the latest semiconductor and software technologies for
wireless markets, including: the QUALCOMM Single Chip(TM) (QSC(TM))
solutions, integrating multiple components to bring cost efficiency and
slim form factors to entry-level and mainstream mobile devices; the rich
multimedia capabilities of the Company's Enhanced Multimedia and
Convergence Platform solutions; and gpsOne® technology for accurate
and ubiquitous positioning capabilities to enable location services that
add new value to the mobile experience.
* Increased data rates on HSDPA networks of 7.2 Mbps, enabled by QUALCOMM
chipsets and further enhanced with receive diversity technology for
dramatically improved network capacity.
* The latest notebooks equipped with embedded CDMA2000® 1xEV-DO modules
running on Verizon Wireless' BroadbandAccess network, making ultra-
convenient high-speed, wide-area wireless broadband service for laptop
users a reality. Notebooks include models from Dell, HP and Lenovo.
* Full duplex telco-quality VoIP services on a CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev. A
system. EV-DO Rev. A enables the efficient deployment of converged
Internet protocol service offerings and VoIP services for richer and
more integrated voice, data and video capabilities.
* Low-latency gaming will be demonstrated over an EV-DO Rev. A system and
live multiplayer gaming sessions will be performed illustrating advanced
techniques to enhance the performance of delay-sensitive applications.
EV-DO Rev. A significantly reduces latency and improves performance of
delay-sensitive applications.
* Demonstrations of QUALCOMM's advanced content management and delivery
offerings, deliveryOne(TM) and marketOne(TM), which facilitate unified
content delivery and enable fully scalable content services for
operators seeking to provide advanced mobile data in the most efficient
way possible.
* Upgraded 3G software applications, including uiOne(TM) 3D graphics user-
interface capabilities for handsets. The uiOne solution provides a
rich, integrated user experience for end users seeking to customize
mobile devices.
* QPoint(TM) location-based services developed for the BREW® solution
from Autodesk, Bones in Motion, Networks in Motion and WaveMarket.
* Multiple publishers and developers showcasing the latest applications,
content and services developed for the BREW solution, including:
AccuWeather.com; AG Interactive; EA Mobile; eMbience; FusionOne;
GAMEVIL, Inc.; Gesturetek Inc.; Glu Mobile; Immersion Corporation;
JumpTap, Inc.; LOC-AID Technologies; MobiTV, Inc.; Namco Networks;
Novarra; Obopay; Orative Corporation; Punchcut; Remoba Inc.; Rocket
Mobile; Scanbuy; Sega of America, Inc.; SkyZone Entertainment; ViVa!
Vision; and Xringer Inc.
* The new multi-tasking capabilities of QUALCOMM's QVM(TM) solution, a
software application from the Launchpad(TM) suite that now supports the
concurrent execution of multiple Java(TM) applications.
QUALCOMM executives also will speak on key wireless industry trends at CTIA Wireless 2006 and Billboard MECCA (in conjunction with CTIA Wireless):
* Michael Boyd, senior director of programming, MediaFLO USA, will take
part in the "Ask an Expert: Mobile Entertainment Content Commerce &
Applications" session on Tuesday, April 4, 11:30 a.m.-12 p.m., Las Vegas
Hilton Center, Barron Room at Billboard MECCA.
* Mike Yuen, senior director of the Gaming Group, QUALCOMM Internet
Services, will participate in the "Get Your Game On" panel on Tuesday,
April 4, 3-4 p.m., Las Vegas Hilton Center, Barron Room at Billboard
MECCA.
* Mitch Oliver, vice president of product management, QUALCOMM Internet
Services, will participate in "The Battle for the Mobile Platform"
session on Tuesday, April 4, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Las Vegas Hilton Center,
Breakout Room E at Billboard MECCA.
* Rob Chandhok, vice president of engineering and international market
development for QUALCOMM MediaFLO Technologies, will participate in the
"Mobile TV Technology Choices" panel on Wednesday, April 5, from
3:30-5 p.m. in Room N111, Las Vegas Convention Center.
* Chandhok also will participate in "The Future of Mobile Video & TV:
European Usage and Best Practices" session on Thursday, April 6, from
2-3 p.m. in Room N256, Las Vegas Convention Center.
* Dean Brenner, vice president of government affairs, will participate in
the "Facilitating Next Generation Wireless Services" panel on Thursday,
April 6, from 4-5 p.m. in Room N110, Las Vegas Convention Center.
For additional information about the Company's activities at CTIA Wireless 2006, please visit www.qualcomm.com/press/ctia2006.html
QUALCOMM Incorporated (www.qualcomm.com) is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on CDMA and other advanced technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., QUALCOMM is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a 2005 FORTUNE 500® company traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market® under the ticker symbol QCOM.
QUALCOMM, BREW and gpsOne are registered trademarks of QUALCOMM Incorporated. MediaFLO, FLO, QVM, QUALCOMM Single Chip, QSC, deliverOne, marketOne, uiOne, QPoint and Launchpad are trademarks of QUALCOMM Incorporated. CDMA2000 is a registered trademark of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA USA). Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
* As of February 28, 2006, according to 3GToday.com.
QUALCOMM Contacts:
Jeremy James, Corporate Communications
Phone: 1-858-651-1641
Email: corpcomm@qualcomm.com
Bill Davidson, Investor Relations
Phone: 1-858-658-4813
Email: ir@qualcomm.com
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My feelings exactly. I'm sitting here with my 83 yo father (who worked in advertising/sales/maketing for major co's...mid 6 figures), wanting to know...WTF? Cornell, naked shorting, what is it that keeps this company from showing life, if it has so much promise in this 'space', that has been DD'd to kingdom come.
Someone in the know please advise. Isn't Neven Visions application an infringement on NEOMS patent, which Mobot provides? Or is Neven Vision working with NEOM? TIA.
DD: Comparison Shopping on Sale
Matt Rand, 12.14.05
IMO, this article illuminates and puts into perspective somewhat, what's on the horizon. However unfortunate, again no mention of NEOM, just our competitors.
http://www.forbes.com/2005/12/14/bow05121401.html
As shoppers reject the malls for merchandise found on their brightly lit LCD’s, comparison-shopping Web sites have become white hot.
It’s Christmas time and, not surprisingly, comparison-shopping Web sites are all the rage. However, much of the action is going on behind the “screens,” as bigger companies jockey for position in this fast growing Web sector. Experian, a $1.3 billion credit-report company that maintains files on 215 million Americans, announced today that it bought PriceGrabber.com for $485 million. That’s a hefty premium of more than eight times the $60 million in revenues that the company says it expects comparison-shopping site PriceGrabber to report for 2005. In August, EBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) bought Shopping.com (nasdaq: SHOP - news - people ), for $620 million, and a month earlier E.W. Scripps paid $525 million for Shopzilla (formerly Bizrate.com).
That's a lot of money flowing into an industry that, according to Brian Smith, an industry analyst with Comparison Engines, will have combined 2005 revenues of less than $650 million. Online shopping, up nearly 24% this season, is clearly one of the fastest-growing areas of Web commerce. The benefits are clear. E.W. Scripps owns newspapers and cable channels, including HGTV, FoodNetwork and DIYnetwork. Shopzilla offers it a host of cross-promotional opportunities. With Shopping.com EBay now has a comparison-shopping audience with whom it can seed its auction listings, and comparison-shopping results to offer its auction users. Experian’s credit databases are brimming with shop-aholics. PriceGrabber and another of its recent acquisitions, Lowermybills.com, would seem a perfect fit.
And as fast as comparison-shopping sites are bought up, new ones are born. The past year alone saw the launch of Smarter.com, Become.com, and EDeals.com. The pedigrees of these start-ups vary. Become’s founders are the same people who started MySimon.com in 1998 and sold it two years later to CNet for $350 million. Whereas EDeals, a site that includes coupons and auction results, was launched on December 1, by a 22-year old college drop-out and five developers in Chenai, India. [For Best of The Web’s complete reviews of 12 comparison-shopping sites, click here.]
It’s no wonder that comparison-shopping sites are springing up around the Web. The technology needed to build these sites is relatively easy to acquire, and if you can build enough of an audience and thus attract clicks, the spoils are great. Most comparison-shopping sites make money when shoppers click on their links. HitWise, a market research firm, reports that 5.3% of traffic to online retailers was driven by comparison-shopping sites during the first week of December. That’s up 26% from a year ago. And according to ComScore Networks, consumers will spend $82.7 billion online for non-travel purchases in 2005. For consumers, the intense competition for clicks is a boon because comparison sites are getting better at taking the hassle out of holiday shopping. On the surface, most of these sites serve up the same product data because Web merchants, eager to generate volume, push their inventories out to as many sites as possible. The best comparison-shopping sites, however, provide a superior merchandising experience, almost like going into a well-stocked and organized department store whose displays and aisles are brimming with the most alluring and best deals of the day. Some sites offer easy access to product research, shipping and “true costs” calculators. Some serve up coupons, and highlight free shipping deals or generous return policies. The key is to stand out at a time when comparison-shopping searches will tell you, for example, that a 4-gigabyte IPod Nano is available at 23 stores. Some online retailers will even lose money to gain your business. In the third quarter, for example, Amazon.com (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) lost $47 million on shipping, based on free shipping offers on its site.
One good way to find deals is to find the cheapest price on a comparison-shopping site and then check at Ebates.com to see if there’s a rebate offered for the merchant you found.
There are other ways that comparison-shopping sites vie for shopper loyalty. Most now port their services to wireless devices, such as cell phones. And mobile searching is about to get even more advanced, as users with camera phones will soon be able to scan bar codes with their phones for instant price checks. Amazon offers the service, which it calls ScanSearch, in Japan. Scanbuy and NextCode offer similar services here in the U.S.
Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people )’s comparison-shopping site, Froogle, recently added local search to its offerings. With Froogle’s local service, merchants with brick-and-mortar stores can upload data feeds of their inventory. Punch in your zip code and you’ll be able to search for items near your home or office.
User-generated reviews are another perk offered at comparison sites, especially ones with large audiences, like Yahoo (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) which has 425 million global users. EBay’s Shopping.com rolled Epinions reviews into its service two years ago for the same reason. Another relatively new comparison site feature is wish lists. While Amazon has been doing this for years, Yahoo recently added wish lists and user-published buying guides in its new Shoposphere service. The company plans to pay out affiliate revenue to users whose buying guides drive purchases.
While the vast majority of user reviews and merchant ratings provide a useful service, online shoppers can still get caught by disreputable merchants. One blogger, Thomas Hawk of San Francisco, recently attempted to purchase a Canon EOS 5D camera that he saw listed for $2,899 at PriceRitePhoto—the lowest price online at the time. Hawk checked and found positive store reviews, but after placing the order, Hawk claims he was contacted by a PriceRitePhoto, employee who tried to sell Hawk expensive accessories to go with the camera. When Hawk declined, the employee said the camera was no longer available and threatened to charge Hawk’s credit card and never send the camera. (PriceRitePhoto did not return phone calls requesting a comment.)
Yahoo Shopping’s vice president, Rob Solomon, said that PriceRitePhoto had rigged Yahoo’s feedback system to garner positive reviews. Hawk was lucky because he was able to cancel his credit card before any money was charged. However, things could have been worse. Yahoo Shopping offers a money-back guarantee to its buyers, but that guarantee is capped at $1,000. Sites like Become.com and NexTag offer no such guarantees.
Like many other customers, Hawk was lured by the lowest prices. These teaser rates can lead to trouble. Most of the time established brick-and-mortar retailers, such as Best Buy (nyse: BBY - news - people ) or J&R Music World, will offer the same product for a few dollars more. It’s worth it. Had Hawk checked with the Better Business Bureau online, he would have found numerous complaints and business aliases for PriceRitePhoto.
Besides checking with the Better Business Bureau, online shoppers should also look for certifications from sites like the non-profit TRUSTe, which provides online businesses with certifications indicating that they comply with TRUSTe’s standards. TRUSTe partners with Shopzilla and Shopping.com.
Figuring out when you can trust a seller will soon become more important because comparison sites have begun mixing in auction results, from sites like EBay and Ubid.com, and classifieds with new merchandise from established retailers. When you buy via auctions and classified ads, you are generally buying from an individual, as opposed to a business. This makes doing your homework even harder and collecting a refund almost impossible.
Craigslist (which is 25%-owned by auction site EBay) has long been the leader in online classifieds, with its free, no-frills listing service. Another, Oodle, aggregates classified ads from around the Web and ties them to an online map.
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) is also working on a classified ad system, likely to be named Microsoft Live Classifieds. One of the unique features that Microsoft’s classifieds will have is the ability to limit classified ads to your MSN Messenger contacts or to users with the same e-mail domain (useful if you want to sell an item to someone who works at the same company as you do). Product manager Garry Wiseman says that he’s already sold an IPod, a DVR player and a digital camera within Microsoft using the service (which is internally available at the company), and that he’s bought a Creative media player. The option to buy from or sell to smaller circles of users—often linked socially or professionally—gives you more trust in the people dealing with. Social Web shopping. Who knows, it may be the next big thing.
Clawmann: Appreciated, thanks. Hopefully we'll see a correction to Hunt's article.
DD: Sleazy Scambuy again given credit for our tech in 'The Financial Times.'
Reference paragraph bolded.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/b30ab490-5030-11da-bbd7-0000779e2340,ft_acl=,s01=1.html
All ringing, all dancing
By Ben Hunt
Published: November 11 2005 11:55 | Last updated: November 11 2005 11:55
Do you remember your first mobile phone? If you bought it in the mid-1980s, you probably do, as it’s likely you’re still having treatment for the back problems caused by carrying it around. In the very earliest days of cellular communications, the average handset was about the size of a Fiat Panda, and you needed a trailer to haul around the battery.
A decade later, as phones were beginning to deserve the prefix “mobile”, you probably had a “candy bar” phone - from Nokia, Motorola or Sony Ericsson, more than likely - with a rudimentary grey screen and a standard black fascia.
Mine was made by Philips, a candy bar so chunky that it would have caused instant obesity had I chosen to eat it. If I’d had a couple of thousand of them, I could have built a house.
I had cause to remember it recently while at the launch of the Serene, a phone built in partnership by Samsung, a company that’s fast establishing a reputation for mobile phone excellence, and Bang & Olufsen, which is better known for its high-end televisions and audio systems.
The Serene is a bold experiment. It doesn’t look much like a mobile phone. Its curvaceous, sleek, black exterior (with an anodised aluminium hinge no less) screams B&O. But open it up and there’s a circular dial reminiscent of vintage landline handsets and a simple but crystal clear split-screen display - the twist being that the designers have turned convention on its head, with the dial on the upper shell and the screen below. This, according to the press release, “is the best way to hold a small mobile telephone comfortably”. Those convinced by this can buy the Serene for a mere £600.
As Kitae Lee, president of Samsung’s telecommunications business, handed the Serene to me for inspection, my thoughts flashed back to the Philips brick. For all of its clunky awfulness, at the time it was a technological miracle. Just imagine, you could walk down the street and make a call! Sit on the train and make a call! “I’m on the train!” you could say.
But few making their first cellular calls could have envisaged a £600 handset that’s as much objet d’art as it is a telephone with sufficient memory and processing power to store and play a dozen albums, and record moving images. Or that Nokia would become the world’s leading manufacturer (by volume) of cameras.
And in place of that chunky candy bar, there has been an explosion in shapes, sizes, colour, materials and functions. We now have sophisticated handsets with sliding fascias, and all manner of handheld devices with full internet connection and e-mail capability. A quick glance through the most recent Carphone Warehouse marketing magazine reveals a phone for each and every taste. Some are pink; others have flowers on them; one has stainless steel casing; two carry the iconic Walkman tag; cheaper models still resemble the monocolour phones of the mid-1990s, while another comes with the option of a package that turns it into a satellite navigation tool.
“Manufacturers had been trying to take one colour, one design and one form to as many people as possible to save the unit cost, but people’s requirements are becoming diversified,” says Simon Hahm, vice-president and general manager for Europe of LG Electronics’ communications division. “Ladies are raising their voices. They want a phone matching their dress, shoes and handbag. So now manufacturers are making different mobile phones for ladies, teenagers and the elderly.”
At the same time phones are growing both smaller and bigger. Motorola shook up the industry with a wafer-thin model you could lose in your jeans while others are big enough to include a full qwerty keyboard.
In many European markets, there are more handsets than people, which not only suggests that a lot of us own and use two or more phones, but that we are buying new ones in vast quantities. So once you have finished fondly reminiscing about that Motorola StarTac you had 10 years ago, ask yourself: with the options available, what do you want from your next phone? And what might the one you buy in 10 years’ time be able to do?
Whatever else it might be, it’ll still be a phone, according to Jan Wareby, executive vice-president and head of sales and marketing at Sony Ericsson. “Even when we look at the market of advanced consumers who are interested in the latest features and functionality, from our point of view our products are phones, and the success of the business, whatever type of functionality you put in, rests on whether it works as a phone,” he says.
This may sound obvious, but it strikes at the very heart of the debate about what, and how many, gadgets people will carry with them in the future. The BlackBerry, for example, has built an untouchable reputation for its mobile e-mail service, but has recently been criticised for the quality of its voice connection forcing many users to carry two devices.
And for all the gold struck by Apple with its iPods; and for all the success of digital cameras in all but eradicating magnetic tape devices, their tens of millions of sales pale by contrast to the billion-plus mobiles in circulation worldwide.
The communications tool is king - all that remains to be decided is the combination of add-ons that will be welded on to it and whether other devices such as digital cameras and MP3 music players can withstand what seems an inevitable onslaught on their markets.
That clash of devices was made inevitable at the turn of the century, when the wireless communications industry took a multi-billion-dollar gamble that their systems would be more than a mere pipe for carrying conversation. They paid extravagant sums for licences that would give them the radio spectrum to launch 3G, a new “third” generation of services - pictures, video, gaming, instant messaging, e-mail, internet connectivity and everything else bar the kitchen sink - which consumers who would clamour to have and would pay handsomely for. Since then they have paid even more to roll out the necessary infrastructure to support these services.
But so far the public - in Europe and the US at least - has remained distinctly underwhelmed. Ben Wood, mobile telecommunications analyst at research house Gartner, says that while the market for upgraded replacement phones is healthy, so far people are not buying them for reasons that suggest they are about to adopt new services. “They are now such a central part of society, it’s become fashion as much as function - it’s now almost shameworthy to have a clunky brick. It’s almost got to the point that without a cool phone you’re nobody. But as yet none of the reasons beyond its basic function are making people buy phones. One possible exception to that was the colour screen, but cameras, music and these other things have not delivered,” he says.
But Wood, a great enthusiast, perhaps even an obsessive, about the industry (to the extent that he has a personal collection of handsets that he admits runs into the hundreds) says that there is some evidence that the mobile market has reached a point where the multi-purpose multimedia phone is fit for use.
“We are now seeing the emergence of the ‘Swiss army knife’ phones that do everything. And the one out there doing the best job is Sony Ericsson’s Walkman-branded W800 music phone, with a two mega-pixel camera, a cool funky design and a good voice experience in one package,” he says.
What’s particularly clever about the W800 is that from the front it’s clearly a phone, yet viewed from behind it looks like a camera, while the cream and burnt gold finish yells Walkman cool. And - an encouraging sign for the rest of the industry as much as for Sony Ericsson - it is a hit in the shops.
If the W800, and similarly versatile handsets such as Motorola’s Rokr (which features Apple’s excellent iTunes software) can begin to demonstrate that mobile phones are no longer merely phones. They may begin to usher in a whole host of new possibilities.
Technologically, almost anything seems possible.
David Wood, executive vice-president of research at Symbian, an industry-owned software company that builds operating systems on which multimedia smartphones rest, says its customers are demanding more sophisticated software. “They are looking for richer functionality packaged more conveniently - to get more software packed into less hardware,” he says.
And to see the future of this richer functionality, it has become necessary to look to Japan and Korea, markets where the adoption of multimedia services has been more enthusiastic than in the laggard text-message-and-voice cultures of the west.
David Wood has been particularly impressed with technologies from Japan that have the potential to threaten even the humble wallet with extinction. “Japan has done interesting things with what we call ‘near-field communications’. I have previously written about the Selica chips in some handsets in Japan enabling mobile payment for goods. Well, the next thing happening is the Toreca. It is the same chip but has evolved to capture information for products as well as buying them. So, if you are in a shop and want some more information about the CD playing, you wave your phone in front of a sensor and get the details beamed back into your phone.
“Another variant of this is Scanbuy, which uses the camera feature so when in a shop if you take a photo of a barcode it will do a price check by consulting an online database and tell you to buy the item cheaper at another store.”
These technologies already exist and are in commercial operation. Mobile television, too, is beginning to generate a great deal of excitement as it slowly emigrates from Korea and Japan towards Europe - Samsung’s Kitae Lee even speaks confidently about building handsets with satellite reception, a vision that 10 years ago would have conjured images of users wandering around with dishes on their baseball caps. And while television might not be proven commercially, it represents no great technological leap forward any more.
Peering into the future to see what might follow is more difficult, of course. David Wood likens the industry’s future development to a game of chess: only the smallest handful of grandmasters can see more than the next five moves ahead. Jan Wareby admits to having little idea of what the must-have handset of 2015 will look like or do, but says, “it will be obvious with hindsight”.
Simon Hahm is prepared to venture one outlandish guess at least: “If I really knew, I would be delighted. But maybe people will listen to their music through the phone, not through the ear but rather through the hand with their vibrating skeleton.”
If that sounds extreme, think back to your Fiat Panda and try to imagine what your response would have been if someone had told you that one day you’d be using a version of the same device (only about 10 times smaller) to record full colour videos of your children building sandcastles and send them to their grandparents on another continent.
Now that really was far-fetched.
Success: Scambuy video coverage with Attia on WNBC New York on Monday 10/17, during the 6:00 PM evening news. Featured in the 'Ask Asa' segment.
Here's a link to WNBC's websites summary of Asa's coverage:
http://www.wnbc.com/askasa/5109489/detail.html
DD: Alliances shifting in techno battle
Stephen Ellis
13oct05
THE commanding heights of the information technology industry, inhabited by the likes of Microsoft, IBM, Intel and now Google, have always been a place of constantly shifting alliances and blurred lines between competition and co-operation.
But last week's important-sounding but vague partnership between Google and Sun, and this week's pact between Microsoft and Yahoo to link together their consumer messaging services, seem to be a signal rather than noise - that could be the start of a broader re-alignment in the consumer computing and internet markets.
In simple terms, Google has used the platform created by its immense recent success to thumb its nose at Microsoft and announce itself as a challenger, and now anyone else with interests in the markets where the two firms play is under pressure to take sides.
However, as the expected Microsoft-Yahoo agreement to allow interoperability between their instant messaging services shows, there is more going on than just the emergence of Google as a rival to Microsoft.
In parallel, the rise of disruptively cheap internet communication, such as instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP), is tantalising consumer-focused tech firms which see it as a way to pocket a chunk of the $US1.2 trillion ($1.6 billion) the world's phone companies will collect this year.
It was that pile of money which prompted eBay to dole out $US2.6 billion for VoIP firm Skype four weeks ago.
By teaming up, Microsoft and Yahoo create greater convenience and value for their internet communication users by enlarging the network of people they can connect with.
They also give themselves credible scale in the battle to shape and control the internet alternatives to traditional telephony. The two handle half the world's instant messaging traffic, with the other half handled by Time Warners AOL unit.
Microsoft has also reportedly been discussing closer links with AOL, including combining their internet interests in a joint venture. But what the Bush-era Justice Department might think of such a plan is unknown as yet.
Even a less dramatic detente between AOL and Microsoft could leave the two plus Yahoo with a vast united subscriber base, and in a commanding position to set standards and choose technologies for internet communication services.
Seen in this light, the decision by Yahoo - often viewed as the least technological of the four or five big firms vying for position in the consumer internet market - to line up with Microsoft on messaging makes sense.
It allows both firms to leverage their strengths as they enter a tough but potentially lucrative market, without locking either into a deeper relationship.
Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN unit continue to compete in markets such as internet search, where both trail Google.
Needless to say, Google has launched its own thrust into instant messaging and VoIP but with limited early success. It currently holds about 1 per cent of the consumer market.
While it is early days to judge a company with access to virtually unlimited resources and a record of superb execution in its core search-linked ads business, Google's forays elsewhere have not so far generated many tangible returns.
At one level they may not have, given Google's plan appears to be to give away online services (search, webmail, and now mooted offerings from online books to free wireless internet for San Francisco residents) and use advertising to monetise the resulting traffic later.
If that sounds the same as the business plan of every 1998 dot.bomb, that's because it is - but Google made it work spectacularly thanks to excellent search technology and marketing buzz, the huge audiences these enticed, and the attractive segmentation that ads linked to search results offered to advertisers.
In the hothouse Silicon Valley atmosphere which surrounds Google, Sun, Yahoo and many of their peers (Intel, Apple, eBay, HP, Oracle, Symantec and Cisco are also based there) the presumption that Google is a legitimate challenger to Microsoft is rarely questioned.
Apart from a laudable ambition to be the alpha dog, however, it is not clear why Google is so set on toppling Microsoft. The two today operate in largely separate markets, overlapping only in online consumer services notably search.
Microsoft is in fact busy trying to expand into enterprise data centres and consumer living rooms and onto mobile phones and game consoles, shifting its centre of gravity away from the places where Googles current competencies play best.
That will change as Google uses its resource windfall to expand. The two would no doubt find themselves at loggerheads should Google's grand plans to organise the world's information (presumably so targeted ads can be placed next to it all) came to pass, but that's a big if.
Google and Microsoft are also on opposite sides of a more subtle battle: over how, where and when web-delivered services replace servers and PCs for some computing tasks.
Sun has long championed the idea of enterprise IT as a utility, and more recently became a reluctant convert to the power of open source software and commodity hardware as enablers of that objective. Google believes in this model, and uses such an infrastructure today.
Throw in long-standing enmity between Microsoft and Sun, and the Google-Sun alliance - which in the near-term allows the latter to make money off Java downloads, the only way it touches the consumer market - was hardly a surprise.
Network-delivered utility computing and open source software certainly pose a challenge to Microsoft's current products. But it will also fight for these markets as they emerge by leveraging its PC dominance to build equal clout in computing services. It also has more experience than most firms of the pitfalls in making services actually work.
Google certainly has some interesting ingredients to mount a challenge over time to some of Microsoft's core activities. But it is still a long way from posing a true threat to Microsoft, despite the other firms lining up in camps behind the two.
Add in the posturing on both sides, expect more picking of sides by other tech firms over the coming months.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,16901618,00.html
Beacon27: That's what I figured as well. Wanted some validation. Thanks.
Will someone with far more knowledge than I pertaining to PC's suite of patents, ascertain if this is an infringement, please.
Thanks,
Jeff
Picksit: Your welcome. If you have any questions, feel free.
Jeff
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http://www.onepartharmony.org/Resources_Books_Macro_Healing_Stories.htm
If you google Elaine Nussbaum, the resources are plentiful.
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Godspeed to all and go NEOM.
Jeff
OT: More on Ballmer vowing to "kill" Google:
Court docs: Ballmer vowed to 'kill' Google
By Ina Fried
http://news.com.com/Court+docs+Ballmer+vowed+to+kill+Google/2100-1014_3-5846243.html
Story last modified Fri Sep 02 13:07:00 PDT 2005
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to "kill" Google in an expletitive-laced, chair-throwing tirade when a senior engineer told him he was leaving the company to go work for Google, the engineer claimed in court documents made public on Friday.
The allegation, filed in Washington state court, is the latest salvo in an increasingly nasty court fight triggered when Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee jumped to Google in July in what Microsoft claims is a violation of a one-year, non-compete agreement.
In a sworn statement made public Friday, Mark Lucovsky, another Microsoft senior engineer who left for Google in November 2004, recounted Ballmer's angry reaction when Lucovsky told Ballmer he was going to work for the search engine company.
"At some point in the conversation, Mr. Ballmer said: 'Just tell me it's not Google,'" Lucovosky said in his statement. Lucovosky replied that he was joining Google.
"At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office," Lucovosky recounted, adding that Ballmer then launched into a tirade about Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google." Schmidt previously worked for Sun Microsystems and was the CEO of Novell.
Late Friday, Ballmer issued a statement disputing Lucovsky's declaration. "Mark Lucovsky's account of our conversation last November is a gross exaggeration of what actually took place," Ballmer said. "Mark's decision to leave was disappointing and I urged him strongly to change his mind. But his characterization of that meeting is not accurate."
The Lukovsky declaration is the latest salvo in the heated battle between Google and Microsoft over Google's hiring of Lee. Google has said Microsoft is attempting to scare its employees away from Google.
In the filing made public Friday, Google also said in the filing that if Lee is allowed to join the company before a trial he will not "work or consult in any of the technical areas identified in Microsoft's proposed preliminary injunction. Rather, pending tiral, he will open a product development center in China, and staff it with non-Microsoft personnel."
Meanwhile, in separate court documents also made public Friday, Microsoft said e-mails that Kai-Fu Lee sent to Google executives bolster its case that the researcher is seeking to violate his employment contract by taking up a position as head of the search giant's China efforts.
According to the filing, Lee sent a May 7 e-mail to Google's founder and chief executive saying that he had heard Google was opening a China office and expressing interest in discussing the matter. In the e-mail, Lee described himself as "Corporate VP at Microsoft working on areas very related to Google," Microsoft reveals in the court documents.
Microsoft also notes that, in the same e-mail, Lee linked to his corporate biography, which Google has cited as evidence that Lee's work was not directly related to the work he would do at Google.
In addition, the filing for the first time notes the size of Lee's pay package from Google. Microsoft says the search company agreed to compensation "worth in excess of $10 million, including a $2.5 million cash 'signing bonus' and another $1.5 million cash payment after one year, a package referred to internally at Google as 'unprecedented.'"
The document is part of Microsoft's argument as to why a judge should issue a preliminary injunction preventing Lee from taking a position at Google that would compete with his work at Microsoft until a trial can be held in the case. A hearing on the injunction request is planned for Tuesday in King County Superior Court in Seattle. The judge hearing the case has already granted Microsoft's request for a temporary restraining order preventing Lee from doing such work for Google until Tuesday's hearing.
Plans by Google to hire Lee sparked an immediate legal battle between the two companies, which have increasingly emerged as one another's top competitors. The search company announced on July 19 that it was hiring Lee to head a new China research center, with Microsoft immediately suing to block the move.
Google filed a countersuit in California court to invalidate the pact with Microsoft. That case has been moved to federal court in San Jose.
Microsoft's request for the injunction was filed some time ago, but only made public on Friday after both sides had an opportunity to redact confidential information.
A representative for Microsoft did not comment beyond the filing. A Google representative was not immediately available for comment. (Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking with CNET News.com reporters until July 2006 in response to privacy issues raised by a previous story.)
In the latest documents, Microsoft also charges that Lee began advising Google on China recruiting and China strategy while he was still working on those issues for Microsoft.
Previous Next "In early June 2005, Dr. Lee engaged in active e-mail correspondence with Google employees...regarding specific candidates that Google was considering--or candidates Dr. Lee wanted them to consider--for Google's China R&D facility," Microsoft said in the filing. "Dr. Lee gave detailed feedback and Google acted on his recommendations."
The filing cites examples of Lee's work on Microsoft's China strategy, including a white paper titled "Making it in China: strategic recommendations for Microsoft." The software maker said it was "surprised and disappointed" to learn that Lee had forwarded an edited version of that paper to Google on June 7, while he was still a Microsoft employee. The version he sent, the Windows maker said, removed the "Microsoft Confidential" notation as well as credit to other Microsoft contributors and the chapter entitled "recommendations for Microsoft."
Microsoft also said in the filing that Lee also "advised Google on the possibility of recruiting candidates in China from Microsoft" noting that Intel and Microsoft were the best opportunity to get technological leads for projects, but that recruiting from both would be difficult. Microsoft also cites an e-mail response Lee got from Google Vice President Omid Kordestani, in which the Google executive writes that "it was nice talking to you and learning about your insights into a successful approach to Google's operations in China."
OT: crusher, yup...you beat me to it :)
OT: pvc, It's Newmarket Technology (NMKT) formerly known as IPVO. TS introduced it in early 2004, along with NEOM.
Kokonutguy..Thought not, but had to make sure.
Thanks much.
I googled just the word 'Neomedia' and this came up:
http://www.eff.org/patent/wanted/patent.php?p=neomedia
Do they stand a chance, or shouldn't we be worried at all?
Thanks to all the great minds on this board!
Neomanic
First time poster, although I've been lurking awhile, absorbing and learning about what we own. I'm quite excited, too, being long since neom was .08.
Tonight I encountered this:
http://www.shotcode.com/#start
Is this not PC patent infringemnet?
Thanks in advance for any info.