Anyone know if this stock is going to rocket?

Great post by Trinity on ADVFN showing the potential we are looking at;



trinity - 17 Feb'04 - 18:29 - 1598 of 1598


This was released by In-Fusio today. In-Fusio is both a competitor and customer as it recently acquired Cybiko which has a development agreement with superscape. Infusio led a Java Specification Request which was rejected in favour of JSR 184 of Superscape and Nokia. I don't think they have 3d content and so most of the revenues generated which is impressive and apparently profitable is 2d based games. HF2 can work out some projections based on this!

IN-FUSIO ANNOUNCES USD14.4 MILLION REVENUE FOR 2003

- Founded In 1998, The Pioneer In Downloadable Mobile Games Reaches Profitability And Takes Lead In Mobile Game Sector -


Bordeaux, France, February 17, 2004 - IN-FUSIO today announced that it has reached $14,4 million in revenue (Euro11,3 million) for 2003. The company's turnover has more than tripled between 2002 and 2003 and is expected to grow significantly in 2004. This result makes IN-FUSIO profitable despite the cash acquisition of American game development studio Cybiko in November 2003.

Consistently, every month, IN-FUSIO revenues increase by an average of 13%, 1,000,000 game downloads generate seven million premium SMSs and between 600,000 and 700,000 new players join IN-FUSIO's mobile gamers' community.

IN-FUSIO, which was the first company dedicated and focused on downloadable games for mobile phones, has consistently delivered a strategy of unique game services, through an offering based on a portfolio of high quality games (65 to date, developed, published or simply distributed through wireless operators, manufacturers and portals) and the complete management of services to consumers (interactive contest organization, OTA renewable games catalogues, OTA information services about games, etc.) and to operators (service management tools including; games catalogue management, detailed statistics of traffic and players community management).

IN-FUSIO has a strong presence in Europe and China and has begun its expansion in the USA. In order to continue and accelerate this momentum the company, co-managed by Gilles Raymond and Giles Corbett, chose to internalize the majority of its games production, by acquiring Cybiko, which will help sustain an offering of high quality games over the most reputed technologies in the market (Java, BREW, ExEn and Doja).

In 2004, IN-FUSIO will further strengthen its position in Europe and forecasts the continuing success of its service in China (already generating 10% of its total revenues). The USA mobile game market will be a major target where IN-FUSIO predicts it will make significant inroads. In order to help facilitate its growth new funds will be raised to support the development of new Chinese and American subsidiaries.

"Our fantastic results are a clear demonstration of the growth and profitability of the mobile games market as a whole. For five years we have been at the forefront of mobile games and these results today are sure proof of our leadership position. We will continue to innovate and demonstrate our capability throughout 2004, further cementing our position in Europe and China while branching out to the USA," said co-CEOs Gilles Raymond and Giles Corbett.

Reminder / essential figures
Revenues : Euro11.3 million (USD 14.4)
Headcount: 170
Number of games : 65
Number of operators giving acces to IN-FUSIO's games worldwide : 98
Offices: Shanghai / Los Angeles / Chicago / Bordeaux / Moscow
Number of new players registered each month: between 600,000 and 700,000
Number of registered players since creation of service (July2001) : 8 million
Number of downloads each month : 1,000,000
Number of sms interactions each month: 7 million

Thanks to ADVFNfool on iii

I have been digging aroung looking for a link between 20th Century Fox and SPS as they have unofficially announced a tie up for using their IP. Could it be that they are working on Simpson IP from Fox to generate Simpsons mobile i3d content, swerved up of course.

Taken from
http://www.superscape.com/partners/content_partners/partners_thq.asp

THQ Wireless is a world-leading publisher and distributor of games for mobile phones with a current catalogue of more than fifty titles. These include such well-known games as Astrosmash, MotoGP, Snood and Worms. The company has recently been awarded a major worldwide contract with Fox to bring The Simpsons to mobile phones. The company is a subsidiary of THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI).

Looks like the recovery has started. Big conference next week so hopefully some good news to follow.

Agree happy1 mm s have never taken the bid any lower than 31p. yesterday they brought the offer down from 34p to 32p then up to 33p. I took some large june and september bets at 32p plus the premium. 40p- 42p will be where the breakout occurs; just like IMG this week ( very profitable week). Have a look at PDX momentum building for a break within the next week or so.

regards stephen

LONDON (AFX) - Superscape Group PLC said it has agreed a major publishing
agreement with 20th Century FOX Licensing and Merchandising, part of FOX
Entertainment, to develop a 3D wireless game based around the well-known
'Independence Day' film.
The new game for mobiles, which will be available in April for BREW-based
handsets and July for Java-enabled devices, will be promoted by Superscape to
global network operators and handset manufacturers.

When are the next set of company results for SPS???


Company Superscape Group PLC
TIDM SPS
Headline Agreement
Released 09:30 23 Feb 2004
Number 6913V

23 February 2004

SUPERSCAPE SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH 20TH CENTURY FOX TO PUBLISH 3D INDEPENDENCE DAY GAME FOR MOBILE PHONES

Superscape Group plc (LSE: SPS), specialists in the development of industry standard 3D technology and applications for mobile phones (branded as Swerve) announces a major publishing agreement with 20th Century FOX Licensing and Merchandising, part of FOX Entertainment, to develop a 3D wireless game based around the well-known Independence Day film.



The new game for mobiles, which will be available in April for BREW-based handsets and July for Java-enabled devices, will be promoted by Superscape to global network operators and handset manufacturers.

Kevin Roberts, CEO, Superscape Group plc said: This is our first agreement with 20th Century Fox, a giant in the world of entertainment. It represents a prime example of our strategy to develop and publish (or co-publish) leading-edge 3D mobile games which bring together the power of our Swerve technology with globally-recognised brands, such as FOXs Independence Day.

Jim Beddows, Vice President of Mobile Entertainment at 20th Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising said: We are keen to accelerate the growth of wireless services based on the wide range of Fox properties, which are perfect for the wireless demographic. We have been impressed by Superscapes ability to develop console quality mobile games for instant entertainment utilising over-the-air (OTA) delivery. The new game being developed by Superscape has all the ingredients that make up a great mobile game high quality graphics and engaging gameplay capturing the essence of a top-tier property, Independence Day.

In the new Independence Day game, the earth is under attack from aliens who are destroying buildings from their spacecraft. A virus has successfully been uploaded to disable the systems in the mother alien ship and now is the time for the cream of the worlds fighter pilots to shoot down the UFOs and City Destroyers before they can wipe out Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, Washington, Moscow, New York and London. As each alien City Destroyer is defeated and the city is saved, play becomes increasingly challenging with UFOs becoming more agile and harder to shoot down.

About Superscape

Superscape specialises in industry standard 3D technology for wireless environments. The companys 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. 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



About Fox

A recognized industry leader, Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising licenses and markets properties worldwide on behalf of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Twentieth Television and Fox Broadcasting Company, as well as third party lines. The division is aligned with Twentieth Century Fox Television, the top supplier of primetime entertainment programming to the broadcast networks.





For further information, please contact:

Maggie Templeman

Director, Corporate Communications

Superscape Group plc

Telephone: +44 1256 745769

Email: mtempleman@superscape.com



Darren Kyman

Fox Licensing and Merchandising

(310) 369 2664



END



Company website

Xmortal I e-mailed the company's investor relations, regarding when their next set of results will be announced and was informed April 2004.

Does anyone think Superscape is on a big downturn?Or is it just a temporary fall over the last few weeks?I'm puzzled as recent good news hasn't really had the effect you would anticipate.The only real driver seemed to be broker recommendations at the start of the year.
I hope it behaves like Protherics (PTI) did this share fell from a similar position despite good news before reaching recent highs!

I went to a mobile phone shop and asked if the 3D new games are on place, they said NO yet. The latest new phones can only handle 2D games. They also said that it will be sometime before the new phones will handle 3D games. We need to see how these get on on the market but i beleive these will be very popular since it will add value to the phones and nowadays we all want everything in our phones

You know fellow investors; everytime i see the price going down, I think: come on SPS you will not let me down. All the fundamentals are in place, I look the all data price and think: SPS will reach those dizzy height again. The little money I haev put here WILL grow stupid in the next 3 yrs. I will be giggling all the way to the bank. We will get there fellows. Good things comes who those who wait. I am very very positive it will reach 100p by the end of the year. Who else believe this?

I have e-mailed the Investor Relations Department at Superscape asking questions
about how the 3GSM Conference has gone for them.If there is any plans to make games relating to forthcoming events ieEuro 2004 & Wimbledon as these would be good money spinners as the nation gets gripped by such events.I appreciate licenses soon get snapped up for these things but it was just a thought.It's like the Independance Day game why not X-MEN or Lord of the Rings or maybe Harry Potter?
I agree with the thought's of xmortal but believe marketing games which more people can associate with has to be good for Superscape and likewise investors.
I will have to wait and see if I receive anything back.

Well a 25% drop in over a month for no reason ! Looks like it is time to reverse the trend.

Happy1 reason ? far more sellers than buyers.

SPS will recover, and the drop in price is a good opportunity to Add IMHO. The 3D mobile phones are likely to hit the Asian market before Europe as they seem to have a higher turn around of phones (everyone upgrades at least every 12 mths). SPS may reach 100p by year end, but its I'm pretty confident we'll be above the 12mth high in 3mths.

skids

momentum LOL but no reason behind it.

Anyway bouncing very strongly up again.

Can't believe no-one picked it up, and the reason for todays rise is:

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) today announced a global distribution agreement with Vodafone to provide Disney Mobile services to Vodafone live! customers in 14 international markets. Today's announcement makes Disney Mobile content available to millions of Vodafone live! customers in the following markets: Australia - message board; Egypt; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Malta; The Netherlands; New Zealand; Portugal; Spain; Sweden and Switzerland.

Disney will produce a broad range of mobile entertainment content, including logos, wallpapers, animated wallpapers, MMS and Java Games, that will be offered to Vodafone live! customers. The content will be based both on Disney's classic characters and its latest feature animation and live-action movies, such as Disney/Pixar's "Finding Nemo" and Walt Disney Pictures' "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl." The Disney Mobile content will be optimized for preview and selection through "Vodafonelive!" enabled handsets.

"We're very pleased to work with such a significant operator as Vodafone, which provides a great opportunity for even more Vodafone customers to access the Disney magic, whenever and wherever they are in the world," said Mark Handler, executive vice president and managing director, International, Walt Disney Internet Group. "We are pleased to have this global agreement with Vodafone, which shares Disney's vision of empowering consumers by offering them access to Disney magic where, when and how they want it."

Graeme Ferguson, Executive -- Content Development, Vodafone Global Products and Content Services, said: "The agreement with Walt Disney demonstrates Vodafone's commitment to delight its customers with world class mobile entertainment content."

There have been rumours of Vodafone trying to link up with SPS for a while and here it is, DYOR, again this is a very risky share but having your games on the world largest network operators handsets is going to have a major impact. It will hurt the competition and it will probably provide a very strong impetus for nokia to take up swerve if it wants to stay in cahoots with Vodafone.

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It has certainly been a volatile ride for the share price over the past two months but the good news is that it is still above where it started the year albeit by 0.5p.

The price moved up sharply following new year tips by the likes of Justin Urquart Stewart but profit takers moved in again when the price hit 40p and the fall in price has since been extended by the sell recommendation in the Investors Chronicle, the move by some shareholders to switch funds to Imagination Technologies and the announcement this week concerning the link between ARM and Ideaworks3D.

However, following the announcements from 3GSM this week, although it is a little disappointing that none were specific to Superscape, they have at least answered one question that was puzzling me and answered another that I did not know existed.

The point that had been puzzling me was why is the market expecting Superscape to have generated revenues of 1.5M last year, with almost all it generated in the final quarter, but is only expecting 4.5M for the whole of the current year.

The answer seems to be that this year is still mainly concerned with the operators putting the infrastructure in place, the manufacturers waiting for this to happen before releasing their new phones and the likes of Superscape and GWE developing their content and routes to market but basically having to wait on the operators and manufacturers.

With this in mind, it seems that the market currently thinks that a share price of 40p is still too high too soon. If this is the case, then fair enough but this view cannot persist for long because events are unfolding rapidly,

For me, the key announcement at 3GSM was the CEO of Vodafone effectively confirming that 3G will be global by the end of the year and, therefore, Christmas this year will be the time to buy that 3G phone. I am more inclined to the view expressed by the CEO of Nokia that the network must be in place before the new phones are made available because without the new network users will not receive a sufficiently enhanced experience to make them conclude that an upgrade to 3G was worth the money.

The question I did not know existed until the announcement concerning Ideaworks3D was this - is it possible to offer a JSR184 compliant solution that does not provide for over the air delivery?

This factor is obviously of immense importance because if the competition cannot offer OTA delivery then Superscape really does have something special to offer and I think I am correct in stating that, to date, only Superscape and HI Corporation have announced solutions that are both JSR 184 compliant and able to facilitate OTA delivery.

The reason why I consider this fact to be of immense importance is that because if I were the CEO of Vodafone with a need to increase my ARPU I can only do it if I have a solution that facilitates OTA delivery.

If I sell a subsidised phone with a game embedded to one of my customers then effectively I pay for the game but once the phone is in the hands of my customer, I would like to make it as easy as possible for him to purchase more games and for this I will need OTA delivery.

The question that all operators should be asking is not so much is your solution JSR 184 compliant but does it facilitate OTA delivery?

The importance of OTA delivery is being highlighted more and more and for those who remain sceptical about the Companys prospects, I would merely point out that if industry giants like Sony, Disney and 20th Century Fox want little old Superscape to co-publish their OTA content then this must be clear evidence that the Company has a competitive advantage.

With regard to the current share price, it was only a few months ago that institutions considered that 29.5p was fair and in business terms, Superscape has moved on considerably since then.

With the current price hovering around this level, the selling pressure from institutions must abate because it is one thing to take profits at 40p when you have been presented with a 40% gain in less than a month but quite another to short this share at your purchasing price given the spread and the fact that news flow is increasing.

Since the beginning of the year there has been some kind of announcement every week on average.

For those shareholders who have switched to Imagination Technologies, it is certainly not for me to tell them where to invest their money but it must surely be worth pondering if, at this point in time and given the respective share prices, the greater benefit is now more likely to be achieved by rebalancing portfolios in favour of Superscape.

When I posted my comments on the EGM last year, I stated that the share offer effectively removed the financial risk to Superscape and by this I meant that there is now no danger of the company running out of money before the emergence of 3G and the colossal potential of the new market for content.

The comments by the CEO of Vodafone at 3GSM now confirms this point and given that Superscape had sufficient cash for 18 months just before the recent share offer, I would imagine that this has been extended to at least two years and probably more given the recent announcement concerning the licensing of games.

Clearly, if I were the CEO of Superscape and was raising money for content development, I would take the opportunity to raise a little extra to give me that two-year cushion to carry the Company through to at least October 2005.

There can be no denying that Superscape will indeed have the opportunity to exploit 3G and the new market for OTA content that will be available to the masses by the end of this year and sooner or later the stock market will have to reflect this fact. However, investors must be aware that if this new market does not turn into the billion-dollar market that analysts are expecting then the Company could still ultimately fail although it must also be acknowledged that with every announcement the market risk to the Company diminishes just a little bit more.

Finally, it is probably worth mentioning that I was talking to the Finance Director after the EGM and noted with interest that he found it a little ironic that the market had taken the share price to over 5 in the past and yet now with the share price at around 30p, the Company has never been in better shape.

Many thanks for this Happy1. As I said earlier once the news capable phones are available the share will move up. One can almost sense how big this company can grow, take a look at any phone shop and look the phone designs and listen to people asking for everything in a phone. the more and advanced the better. take a look at the braket age of the shop visitors, mostly young 15-30. everybody changes phones all the time, it is a trendy thing to have a new state of the art phone. The early fundamentals are in place and the idea is there, SPS has the edge, one can see the contract won by them. Here we will need to be patience. 100p by year end is my prediction thanks

I thought it an excellent post and well worth sharing.Keep an eye on the iii board as the quality of posting there is excellent.I think this news will boost the tech market today

March 02, 2004

Technology back in favour after Civicas debut
By Nick Hasell
Smaller Capitalisation Shares



AIM followers were heralding a resurgence of interest in technology new issues after Civica, the software house which marked the junior markets biggest flotation this year, jumped 8 per cent in first-day dealings.
The 45 million offering was seen as a test of both investors appetite for IT stocks and the corporate finance skills of Seymour Pierce, the sponsoring stockbroker,m which is typically used to smaller fundraisings. On those counts, Civica which develops software used to process penalty tickets for bus lane and parking infringements was an unalloyed success. The shares, placed at 175p, closed at 189p, giving Civica a stockmarket value of 86 million.



If last years flotations of Northumbrian Water and Center Parcs UK which both raised money prior to admission are set to one side, Civica marks the largest such AIM fundraising since that of PRI Group, the insurer, in June 2002

SPS will be releasing their results on 21st April.