Anyone know if this stock is going to rocket?

AND ANOTHER...
SUPERSCAPE AWARDED EXCLUSIVE WORLDWIDE AGREEMENT TO DEVELOP AND

CO-PUBLISH 3D IRONMAN GAME FOR MOBILE PHONES


Superscape Group plc (LSE: SPS), specialists in the development of industry
standard 3D technology to deliver console quality, over-the-air (OTA) games on
mobile phones announces that it has signed a further exclusive licensing and
co-publishing agreement with Global Wireless Entertainment (GWE) for the Ivan
Stewart 'Ironman' brand. This follows the announcement (on 26 January 2004)
about the two companies working together on the development of a new 3D Evel
Knievel game.

More RNS today, this time an interest from Microsoft. See below.
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Superscape Group PLC
28 January 2004

28 January 2004



SUPERSCAPE INVITED TO JOIN MICROSOFT
MOBILITY PARTNER ADVISORY COUNCIL (MPAC)



Superscape plc, specialists in the development of industry standard 3D
technology to deliver console quality over-the-air (OTA) games on mobile phones,
has been invited to join Microsoft's Mobility Partner Advisory Council (MPAC).
Formed in January 2002, MPAC's aim is to bring together companies who are
creating innovative and unique mobile technologies, applications and services.
A dedicated team within Microsoft provides MPAC partners with marketing and
technical support to help speed their products to market.

Membership of MPAC is by invitation only, with current members including
Accenture, Fujitsu and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.

'Superscape's wealth of experience in graphics technology for mobile gaming
solutions makes it a valued new member of Microsoft's Mobility Partner Advisory
Council,' said Julie Wymetalek, Partner Marketing Manager, Microsoft Mobile
Devices Division. 'We are delighted to engage with Superscape to bring
interactive 3D games to the hands of our customers and make the most of the
Windows Mobile platform's rich data capabilities.'

Kevin Roberts, CEO, Superscape plc said: 'I am very pleased that Superscape has
been invited to join this select group of mobile industry specialists. The
technical support and networking opportunities provided by the group will
contribute significantly towards further extending the adoption of Superscape's
Swerve technology and applications throughout the global wireless sector.'



Notes for editors:

About MPAC

The Mobility Partner Advisory Council (MPAC) is an invitation-only program
developed by Microsoft to empower top partners to create software solutions for
Windows Mobile-based devices by providing them with the tools and programs they
need to be innovative and successful. Member companies share ideas and exchange
feedback with Microsoft aimed at enhancing the success of their products and
services built on the Windows Mobile software platform. As part of their
membership in the program, MPAC partners participate in quarterly networking
meetings and engage with sales representatives on an ongoing basis, and receive
dedicated technical support and access to exclusive marketing programs that help
them discover new opportunities in the wireless industry. More information on
the MPAC program and its partners is available at


http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/resources/providers/default.mspx
.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq 'MSFT') is the worldwide leader in software,
services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The
company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people
through great software -- any time, any place and on any device.

Microsoft and Windows Mobile are either registered trademarks or trademarks of
Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries.

About Superscape

Superscape specialises in industry standard 3D technology for wireless
environments. The company's Swerve technology is a complete solution comprising
a software-only 3D engine (Swerve Client), a powerful development tool
integrated into 3ds max(tm) (Swerve Studio) and a catalogue of 3D games (Swerve
Content) available for licensing. Key players such as ARM, Siemens, Samsung,
Motorola, THQ Wireless and SavaJe have already endorsed Swerve.

Superscape is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and has corporate offices in
Hook, Hampshire (UK) and San Clemente, California (USA).


www.superscape.com



For further information, please contact:

Superscape Group plc 01256 745769
Maggie Templeman
Director, Corporate Communications
Email: mtempleman@superscape.com

Hudson Sandler 020 7796 4133
Jessica Rouleau/Sandrine Boussard





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Whats going on, announcements like this should push the price up, instead people are selling. Crazy!!! Anyway I feel is a buy and hold for the next 2 years to get the most of this gem. Thanks

xmortal,

It could be that MM's are trying to gather stock as with a success story like this institutional buyers are now wanting to get in. IMHO hold & add.

legins,

I agree with youon this one. Opportunity to Add IMHO.

skids

Had to phone up this morning to add to my holding. The limit was at 50000. It would not let me even buy 15000.
It seems that Legins could be right.

Def hold.

Only time will tell.

If you look at the price action this afternoon,at 1400 bid offer was dropped from 35/37 to 34/36. only 15000 shares were bid against 100,000 buys and 170,000 dly. offer was subsequently raised to 37p.imho mm s are trying desperately to gather stock.As soon as there is any buying momentum, price will rocket, time could be next week at games forum.

Too much good news for this not to rise over time.

Not just the stream of good news that will soon drive the share price up. Its the good revenues that will also come.

Remember how much wealth was created from operating systems and software through the rise in demand for the first 286, 386, 486 PC's, well this will be repeated in small powerful 3G mobile phone handsets and telecommunications & computing software to run on them. It won't take quite as long this time for Superscape, as Tadpole's SymbianOS backed by Nokia and now Microsoft want Swerve.

Not only that, Superscape has had a great deal of foresight. Now there is a fight with these companies as to who's operating system will get lions share of market and be the largest global operating system like Dos & Windows did in overtaking Apple in desktop & laptop PC's.

Whatever operating system that is ultimately the most popular they all will be heavily graphics oriented for users to be attracted to it. Superscape has made sure that their Swerve graphics technolgy is universal to mobile telecom & computing software and the popular programming languages of Java & Brew for either of the two leading contestors in operating systems.

Superscape now cannot loose and without doubt are the major leader in the whole global market for downloadable graphics applications on mobile telecommunication and computing devices.

I think this one will remain steady for a while, until the big mobile firms start reaping rewards from the vast amounts of money they've invested, in the 3G mobile phone licenses.When they start really talking up 3G it will be time to watch the price rise.
I agree with legins on the foresight of Superscape, they definately have people in the firm who have realised the potential in the market.Rather than putting their eggs in one basket.It's better to have fingers in more than one pie.

It is being shorted so holders have two options.

1 Buy more and make then close

2 Wait until they reverse long

This share has a support level of around 30p at which institutions bought in the recent fund raising, it shouldn't go below that and should bounce back up given the recent news, let the shorter have his day, far too much institutional support and news for this share! Excluding cash, you are now paying 25m for a company that is signing with virtually every big name in the business, it is only a matter of time before the share bounces strongly!

Happy 1 very risky share to short, with an almost 10% spread, and more news due anytime. My view is small investors have been selling following IC article. Buying has not materialised follow recent news. so mm S have walk the price down and will continue to do so.

Five tech stocks that could deliver in 2004
Published: 08:10 Mon 2 Feb 2004
By Richard Lander, Editorial Director
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Picking some technology winners for 2004 is a far tougher job than finding those for 2003, but here are five companies that should have bigger things up their sleeve this year.

Our five technology tips for 2003 gained an average 78% in twelve months and several others that we selected in the middle to end of 2002 have done even better.


However, we have been warning for some time that valuations appeared to be running ahead of actual company results, and as we stand at this early stage of 2004, it looks highly unlikely that we will see anything like the levels of return available last year.


One veteran technology analyst, Richard Holway of Ovum, reckons we are likely to see a correction in technology stock valuations half way through this year, and his forecast for growth in the tech sector over the next decade is a very modest 5% a year. However, he does concede that there are still some good individual companies that should offer opportunities for greater returns.


The five tech companies we think could still do well this year are; Pipex Communications, Intec Telecom, Systems Union, Eckoh and, still speculative at this stage, Superscape.


* PIPEX (PXC) is an alternative telecoms company that has been rapidly built by taking advantage of a unique moment in history. The former GX Networks reversed into AIM-listed Zipcom and bought up several small companies that had invested millions of pounds of dotcom-era money in infrastructure only to burn through their cash before they could realise a return on their investment. Pipex's management has an aggressive strategy of cutting costs and leaving itself with the valuable infrastructure.


The company made an audacious 55 million acquisition of profitable internet service provider Pipex in October 2003 and has just produced its first profits before goodwill amortisation. It looks as though there could be more acquisitions in the pipeline, and the business now has the feel of one that could become a far larger player and a serious alternative telecoms operator to the UK business community.


The shares are currently at 10.5p, valuing the company at 187 million. This prices the business at 26 times this year's forecast earnings. While this may not be exactly cheap, you would be buying in to the distinct possibility that Pipex could become a much bigger player in the next 18-24 months.


* INTEC TELECOM (ITL) provides billing and operational systems software for telecoms companies. Its interconnect billing software enables operators to bill each other for calls carried across their networks and its mediation software gathers all of the necessary data from the telecoms switch to feed into systems such as billing and security. The company has had to scale down its expectations during the severe telecoms downturn, but has still managed to sign significant new business and turned in revenues for the year to September 2003 up 7% at 59.7 million with pre-tax profit before write-offs of 5.4 million from 2.2 million last time.


At 71.5p with a market capitalisation of 187 million the shares trade on a rating of 28 times next year's estimates. So at first glance it looks pretty fully valued. However, there are plenty of fund managers who seem to think that analysts are still being overly cautious on their earnings estimates in general, and that therefore there is scope for upgrades if the economic recovery shows signs of longevity. The punt on Intec is that for the type of software it provides to the type of global customers that it services, 148 million is still a pretty insignificant size with plenty of scope for upside.


* ECKOH TECHNOLOGIES (ECK) has spent the past couple of years incubating its new speech recognition technology, aimed at further automating call centre and interactive voice applications. The company has a deal with BT, under which BT hosts the system, and, hopefully, brings in some blue chip customers. Eckoh's bread and butter business is interactive voice response (IVR), and it recently announced a win with ITV to provide the voting, polling and interactive services used on programmes such as This Morning, CITV, Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Trisha and The Vault. (continued...)

The company saw turnover for the half year to September down slightly at 25.7 million, although continuing operations were up slightly. Operating losses were reduced to 1 million from 7.4 million and net losses down to 1.3 million from 9.4 million. The IVR business is profitable, but it is the new speech business that has yet to break even.


At 16.5p (38.6 million market cap), the company is valued at 18.2 times next year's forecasts, but a couple more large wins for the speech software could significantly transform the company.


* SYSTEMS UNION (SUG) is the developer of Sun Systems and Pegasus accounting software chaired by serial entrepreneur Bob Morton. It ran into trouble a few years ago when, known as Freecom at the time, it made a disastrous acquisition of ecommerce company Oneview, for which it had to write off a massive 100 million.


* SUPERSCAPE (SPS) has been promising jam to investors for so long now that many have given up and walked away. Citywire has followed the company for several years, and now reckons that if 2004/5 is not Superscape's year, nothing will be.


The developer of real-time three-dimensional graphic software originally designed for virtual reality on a PC finally found the perfect market for its technology in the mobile phone space, and particularly for the next generation of mobile phones. The company effectively re-wrote its software for wireless, and in the past couple of years signed a deal with chip designer ARM to embed the software into ARM's mobile phone chips. Significant deals with handset manufacturers and content providers have started to flood in but as yet we have not seen any effects of these on revenues or profits. The last published results in October showed turnover for six months to July of just 94,000 down from 510,000 the previous year with losses down 26% to 3.7 million. However this did not include any revenues from the wireless business.


Since the start of this year the company has announced licence deals with two further brand owners. But there is still a problem with Superscape. Citywire has been talking about its jam tomorrow story for a couple of years now. Research analysts have clearly been driven away from the stock, and even house broker Evolution Beeson Gregory has not written on the stock since September, at which time it was still expecting a 5.4 million loss for the year just closing.


ARM has taken a 12% stake in Superscape and also put substantial research and marketing effort into the deal. There are some very large names being announced as licence partners, and Superscape could be on the cusp of becoming a major supplier of both software and content (sophisticated 3D games in particular) to the mobile industry. If that were to happen, its 34p share price and 42 million valuation could look very cheap in a couple of years time. But we are still waiting to see the money roll in.

Has the overhang now been cleared.

Superscape Group PLC
03 February 2004

3 February 2004



SUPERSCAPE SIGNS 500,000+ EUROS LICENCING AGREEMENT WITH LEADING HANDSET
MANUFACTURER


Superscape Group plc (LSE: SPS) announces that it has signed a major licensing
agreement with a value in excess of 500,000 euros with a leading handset
manufacturer for a portfolio of 3D interactive mobile games. In addition,
Superscape will receive on-going royalties based on revenue generated by network
operators from the distribution of these games.



About Superscape

Superscape specialises in industry standard 3D technology for wireless
environments. The company's Swerve technology is a complete solution comprising
a software-only 3D engine (Swerve Client), a powerful development tool
integrated into 3ds maxtm (Swerve Studio) and a catalogue of 3D games (Swerve
Content) available for licensing.



Superscape is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and has corporate offices in
Hook, Hampshire (UK) and San Clemente, California (USA).


I like this bit "500,000 euros"

Regards

up 8.5% already

I like this bit: "on-going royalties"

Dont know where IC got that this co has not got future..... idiots!!

xmortal,

agreed. and once the revenue starts coming in the price will start to rise. for the moment tho my advice is hang on or add. this is all my opinion of course and I am a holder.

skids