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Monday should be interesting. Unless there is news of some sort that will skew the PPS pricing up or down, I think we are going up. It appears that we've been delisted from the Berlin Exchange. From recent situations with other stocks, when the chart is no longer available for the intraday, the delisting seems to have occured.
You will notice the chart is unavailable, but you can still click on 5 day and see it.
The same happened to PCCL yesterday/today. As it did back with BIBO and some others. Keep an eye on CYOS as they are still showing a chart as of today, but requested delisting before PCCL.
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Still have not got my spin off shares from a year ago. Got burnt on that deal did we not.I thought I would never buy in after that.
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iBIZ Virtual Keyboard Review By David Ciccone, posted 4 hours ago Reader Comments: 1 Pageviews: 456 Virtual Keyboard not Vaporware
We have been lucky to work with the folks over at iBIZ to get an exclusive of the new iBIZ Virtual Keyboard. In this review we will go over the software install process, fuctionality and ease of use. Many sites have labeled this product vaporware but as you can see we have it. The Virtual Keyboard leverages the power of laser and infrared technology and projects a full-size keyboard onto any flat surface. As you type on the laser projection, it analyzes what you're typing by the coordinates of that location.
Once we received the virtual keyboard I was able to talk with a representative of iBIZ to explain the current situation. As many of you are aware of the litigation issues going on with this keyboard, I was assured that iBIZ is currently looking into a redundant supply chain so the minute we hear they are ready to ship you will know.
The virtual keyboard comes with adapters for Palm, PocketPC, USB, Serial and a power cable to charge the device. In order to load the software driver the user needs to copy the appropriate device driver onto the iPAQ and launch the cab file. Once this process is complete the user will find an icon in the program tab of the iPAQ. Once the application come up you are prompted with a considerable amount of options to select from. First the user would need to click on the “Enable VKB” to create the partnership with the device. Once this happens you will hear a notification beep that the unit has accepted the relationship. Once you enable the relationship you can then select the intensity of the laser that is appropriate for your surface.
When you click over to the properties tab you have an option for sensitivity of your fingertips. We found that setting number 6 was just right for our liking. You will also notice an auto repeat tab that we chose not to select due to the higher success rates we were able to obtain. Another great feature in the software is the ability to see how much power you have left in the device!
As you can see in this picture the unit projected beautifully and I was pleasantly surprised. It took us about an hour to get used to the typing style and also for us to get the feel of typing on a flat surface. I liked the overall clarity of the projection and also was impressed with the availability of an up,down,left,right arrow this was a nice touch and responded appropriately. The only downfall that I noticed was that iBIZ might have thought of also including a universal docking station for the iPAQ. If you look at our photo’s you will notice the iPAQ was laying down and the cable supplied was extremely short. I was able to utilize on of my own universal cradles which made the typing experience enjoyable. During this time we were also able to achieve around three and a half hours of typing time before we had to charge the Lithium Ion battery.
Overall I feel iBIZ has delivered a stellar product. The projector was extremely durable and well manufactured. We did notice though the classic two fingered hunt and peck style of typing works best with the Virtual Keyboard. Which, if you use it with your iPAQ could be heaps faster than using a tiny on screen keyboard or handwriting recognition entry. If you are a geek like I am then you will love this unit. The iBIZ Virtual Keyboard costs $99.00 and can be preordered directly though us. Preorder your iBIZ Keyboard here!!!
quote:Originally posted by TTmaster99: Thanx GOD you guys starting to see it my way... This stocks is nothing but stalling and stealing to me... I say we investors should all together have a suit against this company and CEO himself... Please gather all evidences...
Love the Market, I really like that quote... "I should have known that a leopard usually doesn't change his spots."... That's a great quote to use in a cheating relationship too... Nice...
TTmaster99
I've been with you for a while. I held on thinking this would really move once they got the VKB out and by the time the bad news hit it was too late to worry about selling. If you get something going on this I'll sign up and I know of a few others that would probably sign up as well. I don't have a lot of shares so as long as someone would take it pro bono, I'm in.
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WHIZ.......I am sorry to inform you its never coming............NEVER.......I liquidated today to play another day.......can it get worse......yes.....much worse..........look at what price we started at.
quote:Originally posted by sync2112: WHIZ.......I am sorry to inform you its never coming............NEVER.......I liquidated today to play another day.......can it get worse......yes.....much worse..........look at what price we started at.
Much as I hate to admit it you might be right. Good luck!
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Hey whiz while you are here what exactly are you guys seeing in qbid....it looks like the next ibzt disaster? Only it has less going for it. The big boys own the airwaves....the big boys start the own gay channel which they are....they don`t let qbid on the waves.hence..sianara qbid....pps=.0001
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"Big Boys" do not control subscribers. 20 million+ customers looking for a GBLTV and they will take the one that has nothing to due with MTV. If MTV was a paid channel they would be bankrupt. MTV is noted for the poor programming ability the producers have. LOGO is exactly what that channel will be, one more logo in the TV guide. Q is now, advertisers will not wait, subscribers want real programming. 1 + 1 + 1 = $3 PPS
quote:Originally posted by sync2112: Hey whiz while you are here what exactly are you guys seeing in qbid....it looks like the next ibzt disaster? Only it has less going for it. The big boys own the airwaves....the big boys start the own gay channel which they are....they don`t let qbid on the waves.hence..sianara qbid....pps=.0001
quote:Originally posted by OilMan: "Big Boys" do not control subscribers. 20 million+ customers looking for a GBLTV and they will take the one that has nothing to due with MTV. If MTV was a paid channel they would be bankrupt. MTV is noted for the poor programming ability the producers have. LOGO is exactly what that channel will be, one more logo in the TV guide. Q is now, advertisers will not wait, subscribers want real programming. 1 + 1 + 1 = $3 PPS
.So true but they do control who gets a chance to be a subscriber....better go back to math class and compute shares outstanding times three dollars a share.....you are looking at a market cap in excess of microsoft. Dreaming is great though. The street already does not believe in qbid.... its great to see they have some support. Posts: 425 | From: North,Wa.U.S. | Registered: Dec 2003
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Microsoft market cap is 308 Billion and 3X7.5 is 22.5 so I do not think $3 exceeds microsoft....... also food for thought that would shoot this baby to .50 PPS =================================== We thought we saw it all when Africana.com and Essence were purchased by Time-Warner. We reeled when we knew that NetNoir.com was 25% own by Time-Warner/AOL, BlackFamilies.com (now defunct) was owned by Cox Communications, BlackPlanet.com was owned by Community Connect Inc, and BlackVoices.com was a wholly owned subsidiary of Tribune Broadcasting. Now we have the complete buyout of Black Entertainment Television (BET) by Viacom totally completing the razing of African-American's top media companies.
Grant it that the programming appealed to limited audience, but the revenue generating model designed by Robert L. Johnson, CEO of BET was genuine. Based on figures gathered from a USA article titled "Viacom Considers Paying an Unusually High Price for BET" you can see what it was essentially a no-brainer.
With BET's expected cash revenue of $124 million for 2001 and a standing liability of $570 million, a buy out price of $3 billion dollars more than compensates Johnson for his hard work. Given that he is still tending a deal to buy landing spaces and lease equipment and crews at Reagan National Airport for the creation of DC Air, he should be more than able to pay the $140 to $215 million necessary to seal the deal.
Johnson owns 63% of BET, Liberty Media 35%, and Debra L. Lee, President of BET owns the remaining 2%. In other word, Robert L. Johnson's BET holdings are now worth $1.6 billion dollars.
quote:Originally posted by sync2112: [QUOTE]Originally posted by OilMan: [b]"Big Boys" do not control subscribers. 20 million+ customers looking for a GBLTV and they will take the one that has nothing to due with MTV. If MTV was a paid channel they would be bankrupt. MTV is noted for the poor programming ability the producers have. LOGO is exactly what that channel will be, one more logo in the TV guide. Q is now, advertisers will not wait, subscribers want real programming. 1 + 1 + 1 = $3 PPS
.So true but they do control who gets a chance to be a subscriber....better go back to math class and compute shares outstanding times three dollars a share.....you are looking at a market cap in excess of microsoft. Dreaming is great though. The street already does not believe in qbid.... its great to see they have some support.[/B][/QUOTE]
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You think qbid has 7.5 Billion shares outstanding..have you read that in black and white as in a sec filling?.I sure missed that...I think they are a bit higher than that. Now the .50 a share...never..NEVER..SIMPLE MATH DICTATES IT CANNOT. I know greed tells you otherwise but just watch and see. Too many fokks have shares and the mother of all runs only takes them to .05 cents a share were they will dump the Hoover dam worth of shares.
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GE, Exxon, Cisco all have billions of shares.....
quote:Originally posted by sync2112: You think qbid has 7.5 Billion shares outstanding..have you read that in black and white as in a sec filling?.I sure missed that...I think they are a bit higher than that. Now the .50 a share...never..NEVER..SIMPLE MATH DICTATES IT CANNOT. I know greed tells you otherwise but just watch and see. Too many fokks have shares and the mother of all runs only takes them to .05 cents a share were they will dump the Hoover dam worth of shares.
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Pay close attention to what follows in the six months after QBID begins broadcasting to the public. Every metion of LOGO in the press will cause mini spikes for QBID.
Broadcasting National TV Networks do not trade for less than a buck a share.
First-In-Kind Broadcasting National TV Networks feed off of every PR from big name competitors.
In Orlando, FL, WKMG became the first television station to use GestureStorm when it unveiled the system in December. In July 2003, Sony Computer Entertainment released the EyeToy, a PlayStation 2 peripheral that, using special software and an inexpensive digital camera, can project a video feed of a player into a game, even responding to the player's movements; instead of zapping a bad guy with a controller button, the gamer gives him a swift karate chop. This year, two companies will debut virtual keyboards that let people control personal digital assistants and even automotive equipment with gestures. As far as Charles Cohen, vice president for research and development at Cybernet, is concerned, gesture recognition's time has come. "Gesture recognition is remote control with a wave of a hand," he says
The market is big for VKB.....
Ex. Video games....billion dollars industry..
Canesta is working on there version... **************************************************************************
The clouds have parted. The rain has ceased. As I finish my round of GestureStorm theatrics, I decide to shoo away the clouds and let Detroit return to its peace and calm once again.
Over lunch at a nearby Italian restaurant, Cybernet's Cohen suggests that the mission of gesture recognition is not necessarily to supplant the old keyboard and mouse but, rather, to supplement them. "I won't say gesture recognition is the be-all and end-all," he says.
Indeed, one intriguing application illustrates the way that gesture technology could dovetail with conventional interfaces. A device from San Jose, CA-based Canesta—due out later this year—brings gesture recognition to personal digital assistants. The device projects an image of a keyboard onto a flat surface, such as a desk, through a tiny lens inside the PDA. An infrared light beam directed at the zone just above the projected keyboard senses precisely where the user's fingers are at any instant: the device monitors the time it takes for a pulse of infrared light to leave the emitter, bounce off the moving fingertips, and return to a sensor in the PDA. A pulse's round-trip travel time corresponds with a specific distance, providing a 3-D map of the fingertips' position over the keys, so whatever the user types on the virtual keyboard is captured digitally inside the PDA.
The Canesta device operates at more than 50 frames per second, so it can keep up with even the speediest typist. Because Canesta's technology uses infrared light to measure the distance to the object, it could potentially alleviate one of the problems facing Sony and Cybernet: how to perceive gestures against a bright or busy background. With the current configuration of the EyeToy, for example, I'd seriously mess up my daughter's game of Wishi Washi if I passed in front of the camera's background while she's playing. If Canesta's infrared light were trained on her, and her alone, the game wouldn't register my interruption. Canesta considers the $11 billion video game industry to be a future target area and says it has talked with a number of major players in the electronic-entertainment business. Later this year, a Jerusalem, Israel, company called VKB will introduce a competing virtual keyboard that employs technology similar to Canesta's.
Beyond keyboards, weather forecasting, and games, gesture recognition technology could transform the way people interact with computers in a variety of settings. Universities have been working on the technology for years. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, for example, have explored how gesture recognition may help reduce automobile accidents. A group led by Thad Starner has created what it calls a "gesture panel" in place of a standard dashboard control. The driver adjusts the car's temperature or sound system volume by maneuvering her hand over a designated area, without having to take her eyes off the road
In Orlando, FL, WKMG became the first television station to use GestureStorm when it unveiled the system in December. In July 2003, Sony Computer Entertainment released the EyeToy, a PlayStation 2 peripheral that, using special software and an inexpensive digital camera, can project a video feed of a player into a game, even responding to the player's movements; instead of zapping a bad guy with a controller button, the gamer gives him a swift karate chop. This year, two companies will debut virtual keyboards that let people control personal digital assistants and even automotive equipment with gestures. As far as Charles Cohen, vice president for research and development at Cybernet, is concerned, gesture recognition's time has come. "Gesture recognition is remote control with a wave of a hand," he says
The market is big for VKB.....
Ex. Video games....billion dollars industry..
Canesta is working on there version... **************************************************************************
The clouds have parted. The rain has ceased. As I finish my round of GestureStorm theatrics, I decide to shoo away the clouds and let Detroit return to its peace and calm once again.
Over lunch at a nearby Italian restaurant, Cybernet's Cohen suggests that the mission of gesture recognition is not necessarily to supplant the old keyboard and mouse but, rather, to supplement them. "I won't say gesture recognition is the be-all and end-all," he says.
Indeed, one intriguing application illustrates the way that gesture technology could dovetail with conventional interfaces. A device from San Jose, CA-based Canesta—due out later this year—brings gesture recognition to personal digital assistants. The device projects an image of a keyboard onto a flat surface, such as a desk, through a tiny lens inside the PDA. An infrared light beam directed at the zone just above the projected keyboard senses precisely where the user's fingers are at any instant: the device monitors the time it takes for a pulse of infrared light to leave the emitter, bounce off the moving fingertips, and return to a sensor in the PDA. A pulse's round-trip travel time corresponds with a specific distance, providing a 3-D map of the fingertips' position over the keys, so whatever the user types on the virtual keyboard is captured digitally inside the PDA.
The Canesta device operates at more than 50 frames per second, so it can keep up with even the speediest typist. Because Canesta's technology uses infrared light to measure the distance to the object, it could potentially alleviate one of the problems facing Sony and Cybernet: how to perceive gestures against a bright or busy background. With the current configuration of the EyeToy, for example, I'd seriously mess up my daughter's game of Wishi Washi if I passed in front of the camera's background while she's playing. If Canesta's infrared light were trained on her, and her alone, the game wouldn't register my interruption. Canesta considers the $11 billion video game industry to be a future target area and says it has talked with a number of major players in the electronic-entertainment business. Later this year, a Jerusalem, Israel, company called VKB will introduce a competing virtual keyboard that employs technology similar to Canesta's.
Beyond keyboards, weather forecasting, and games, gesture recognition technology could transform the way people interact with computers in a variety of settings. Universities have been working on the technology for years. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, for example, have explored how gesture recognition may help reduce automobile accidents. A group led by Thad Starner has created what it calls a "gesture panel" in place of a standard dashboard control. The driver adjusts the car's temperature or sound system volume by maneuvering her hand over a designated area, without having to take her eyes off the road
Ok... I'm just a little confused here. If VKB is introducing their own version of the vitrual keyboard later this year, then why would they license iBIZ to use their (VKB's) technology to get one to market before they (VKB) do? Question number 2: The iBIZ legal claim states they had paid $400,000 for 4000 keyboards (that weren't delivered according to contractual obligations). If that is the case, then they paid $100 per keyboard. How is it that iBIZ plans to make a profit from those keyboards if all retail websites and Circuit City are going to sell them for $99 (and still be making a profit)? I'm not sure where iBIZ is making the money from with a deal like that. Question 3: Since they were relying on Enterprise for the license to market the virtual keyboards in the USA and it turned out that Enterprise didn't actually have that license/authority, doesn't that leave iBIZ back at square one? Looks like they aren't just needing a manufacturer... they are needing to get VKB to license the technology to them, which I would think would be a "no go" if VKB is trying to get their own version out the door soon. I think iBIZ is just about even with ME in regard to this. Maybe I should just bring the virtual keyboard to market myself and get it over with. All I lack is a license from VKB, a manufacturer to build the product, all certifications for the laser, and some retailers to carry it. Other than not having any boxes ready to go, I think that puts me just about neck-and-neck with iBIZ in the race. Wish me luck!
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Just because it appears they payed 100 per unit thats not really the case.
You have to pay premium price when you first set up a manufacture line. Likely once ibiz reordered some more units the price would drop dramatically. Because your not just paying for the units but the set up of a manufacture line.
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Do folks think that having the SEC being around has shut the trap of the PR department....Are they holding up press releases from ibiz? We should have seen the financials reported yesterday on Yahoo...not to mention the other news we're waiting for....
quote:Originally posted by mretrade: Just because it appears they payed 100 per unit thats not really the case.
You have to pay premium price when you first set up a manufacture line. Likely once ibiz reordered some more units the price would drop dramatically. Because your not just paying for the units but the set up of a manufacture line.
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Yes on the financials... I just found this site last week and got in with ibiz at .0091. I have been waiting to hear that the vkb situation is resolved based on the e-mail from Ed Lewis. If arrangements have been made for a manufacturer....certifications...and delivery of back orders then I expected to hear that soon...my question was do folks think the involvement of the SEC would hold those up...Folks on this site have been with the ibiz situation much longer than me...
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I don't think the SEC investigation would hold it up, unless they've found something that needs more investigating and they are unsure as to whom the 'culprit' is.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bearclaw: [B]Yes on the financials... I just found this site last week and got in with ibiz at .0091. I have been waiting to hear that the vkb situation is resolved based on the e-mail from Ed Lewis. If arrangements have been made for a manufacturer....certifications...and delivery of back orders then I expected to hear that soon...my question was do folks think the involvement of the SEC would hold those up...Folks on this site have been with the ibiz situation much longer than me...
Do you have a computer,? Can you read? If yes to both go to the IBZT website and read the actual lawsuit..if you read this you will then understand the 10 or so pr`s before it are a mute point. IBZT has a better chance marketing the next generation rocket belt than the VKB. THEY ARE NOW UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF THE sec AND SURELY ARE GOING THROUGH A AUDIT PROCEDURE. ibzt WILL BE BRINGING NOTHING TO MARKET..ADVICE FOR WHAT ITS WORTH.....SALVAGE YOUR CASH WHILE YOU CAN! THE VKB IS COMING TO MARKET....NO ONE NEEDS IBZT TO DO IT FOR THEM ANY LONGER....PRODUCT AWARENESS IS THERE AND THE RACE IS ON.........IBZT`S HORSE DIED THE SECOND THEY SUED THE JOCKEY(ENDEVOUR)
quote:Originally posted by mretrade: Just because it appears they payed 100 per unit thats not really the case.
You have to pay premium price when you first set up a manufacture line. Likely once ibiz reordered some more units the price would drop dramatically. Because your not just paying for the units but the set up of a manufacture line.
Thanks for that reply. I had hoped that was the case, as I know a plant will have to "tool up" to get out a new line. I just wasn't sure (and I'm still not) about what kind of a deal they cut. Any thoughts on the VKB licensing question?
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SEC investigation could ultimately be a good thing. Sure, the aura around it will hurt in the near term, but in the long run, I would rather have them check everything over. We whine that we're getting raped and robbed, but then when the "cops" show up to investigate, we whine about that! If K.S. has done something wrong, then leaving him alone to continue it is not a good option. Also, I was wondering if the informal SEC inquiry has anything to do with the possible naked shorting that may have taken place recently. It would be pretty outstanding if they turned up something conclusive that would prove the point and get it stopped.
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