Have a look at Tuesdays trades - time as well no 27 ..... very very odd

In answer to a previous comment on lack of broker forecasts I had this yesterday.


'I recall the comment of EBG's Mike Brennan at the recent EGM - house brokers withdraw analyst forecasts in closed periods pending briefings from their clients once they come out of those closed periods'



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Most informed opinion is the two big trades last week were either a short rollover or a mm switching accounts to generate a misleading situation.

Todays trades (at this time)are believed to be a short rollover or just possibly a sell and buy - maybe from last night. The f trade of 100k is almoost certainly a buy from last night or this morning. it may only be a part order as mm's are restricting stock and it's very hard dealling on the web at this time.

ains

On the move now with all mm's blue - vague rumours of possible director buying - seems doubtful but something is happening - maybe shorters are starting to get worried



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three times the normal daily volume and up over 8% - a good day for Tads


Techmark movers: Tadpole still in the ascendancy

Fri 31 Jan 2003


LONDON (SHARECAST) - Tadpole Technology enjoyed some good follow through from yesterday's comment that sales will be significantly higher next year.
Irish credit card processor Alphyra slipped after giant US corporation First Data pulled its indicative offer of 2.80 per share. It leaves the management buy-out team in pole position with its 2.45 per share cash offer.

FTSE TechMARK - Risers

Tadpole Technology (TAD) 6.38p +8.51%
Generics (GEN) 6.62p +6.00%
MTL Instruments (MTI) 92.50p +5.71%
Macro 4 (MAO) 44.50p +4.71%
Autonomy (AU.) 132.00p +4.55%

Interesting timesTad need to get the news out now! If there is shorters at work here boy are they in for a shock imo.the next few weeks should be VERY interestingas always pays to DYOR..
Happy holder Tris

" BT Conferencing has today launched BT MeetMe Web Tools, enabling its customers to conduct virtual meetings securely via the internet. The software, which requires users to have access to a web browser and telephone to take part, displays a conference table with icons to represent those present, plus a chairperson. The pay-as-you-go application is powered by WebEx, which has integrated Tadpole's Magi collaboration software to allow users to share applications such as Powerpoint and Excel over the internet, chat online and brainstorm ideas on a virtual whiteboard."


All coming together nicely now.


M

ML..Hi..
Yes the BT thingy via Webex was very interesting and Im amazed how this just appeared with no fanfare from Tad and little by way of press articles. Webex are working well for Tad and are to be congratulatedTAD take note!!
Ive been with Tad through thick and thin and this year has to have the most potential for the company to make headway in all of their ventures.
Thanks again for all the info youve supplied on the Co at the advfn site it makes Doing Your Own Research much easier when pointed to all the news items and. Although it takes forever to read them...lol ..Im sure the lurkers and long-term holders appreciate your efforts
Tris

BTW in mentioning the ADVFN site people should be wary of the infighting that goes on there and for newcomers I strongly recommend this article on BASHERS!


Recent revelations have indicated that even Market Makers (those charged with keeping the playing field level) have been involved in stock manipulation by Bashing on a stock message board. HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THIS IS A REAL THREAT!


Remember, BASHERS NEVER Bash A BAD STOCK. Check the boards for stocks with no potential. They never have any Bashers. Bashers only go after stocks that are moving up or have excellent potential to do so. Bashers work to bring the price down to either increase their position at the expense of others or help a Short make their bones.

BRING THE PRICE DOWN. That is the Basher's job. The truth is not important. Lies are the norm. Post continuously on the board every day. They are trying to scare the newbies that are just investigating a stock. They are trying to wear down the faithful longs on the board and gain free reign and control.

BASHERS WANT TO WHISPER IN YOUR EAR - PLANT A SEED OF DOUBT, AND HOPE THAT YOU ARE NOT SAVVY ENOUGH TO RESEARCH THE TRUTH ON YOUR OWN. This is how they achieve their greatest success.

YOU CAN'T VERIFY THEIR STATEMENTS. That's why they make the vague statements they do. They rely on you being to lazy to research their droppings other than to scan the board for others opinions. This is particularly dangerous when you consider that Bashers work in packs and often validate and back up each others nonsense with what appears to be "innocuous and unsolicited" verification by comrade Bashers. Let's face it, we are all conditioned to "believe" everything we see in writing. If others by virtue of their "posts" also confirm this belief, then we are subconsciously doomed to swallow the hook, line and sinker... Basher - 1 Honest Investor - 0



Hmmm strongly recommend a read http://messageboardfools.com/bashers.htm

Tris

Morning Tris ...... up on Friday and over the week - let's hope we have now seen the bottom and times are about to get better. We do need a brokers update and better coverage to help get the news across. I think the shorters are starting to cover and look to be losing again.



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Morning ains .yes agree on the need for better coverageif there is shorters at work here better coverage would stop these antics.
Not sure I agree with shorting full stop!! Bet BH is livid if this is true and guess hell be taking stepsId better say DYOR etc :0)
Tris

Hello?? quiet on here chaps?
notice the 2x1.9mil trades have appeard on mam?
Tris

Yes Tris, it looks like we are seeing some more rollovers today.
Looking at the trades, the bulk of them are down to traders with very few investors getting involved.
Can't see much sign of shorters closing and I think they're trying to tough it out.

D.

Just had it confirmed, that todays trades are mistakes.

They are the ones that were shown on Friday.
so no confusion.


M

Yese ME confimed the trades were duplicates ..... I think the 100k trades were also short rollovers ..... they will come unstuck in near future




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Microsoft to pay $200 million for
PlaceWare
2/3/2003 4:57:25 PM
As companies look to cut costs during prolonged sluggish growth in the economy, they have
increasingly used Web conferencing for meetings, sales calls with outside customers and for online
training courses, turning to companies such as PlaceWare and publicly traded rival WebEx
Communications Inc. (WEBX) for Web conferencing services.


So with Magi and full interop, what is Tadpole worth???
Tris

Curiously, the 1.9 Mill trades are listed on the Moneyam streaming for both Friday and Yesterday.
Are you sure its a mistake and not somebody trying to hide one behind the other?

Densil

what some people think of MAGI and App Express!



In the P2P space, nothing else comes close to Magi.

& nbsp


Secure collaboration across a firewall with no extra configuration. SECURE VPN at this price - I want it!

& nbsp

More expensive than some of its peers - and for a large company that can be a significant extra amount - however the functionality and ease of deployment should mean that any extra costs are recouped with installation. Can't help but recommend.


Finally a tool that works with our firewall. Anywhere you can run a browser it just seems to work. I have to wait for Groove to integrate each individual tool, but Project, Visio, Autocad, and all the Microsoft tools just work across this network. About time someone added some functionality to those tools.

It was a mistake Densil - checked it out with Datastream


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Fear of a Blue Coat?
February 3, 2003
By Christopher Saunders


One of the biggest players in network security is now angling to make a name for itself in the instant messaging market -- a move that will have dramatic implications for the number of players now making headway in the market.

Blue Coat Systems (Quote, Company Info), formerly known as CacheFlow, is a provider of proxy appliances to major corporations. Its products provide for filtering Web content, scanning for viruses, caching, and managing bandwidth.

Beginning in spring, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Blue Coat will be adding instant messaging security to that list. Because its products use content monitoring to police open firewall ports, including IM in the mix is something of a cinch, offsetting the ability of most public IM clients to use a number of ports to connect to public networks.

"IM clients are port-agile applications -- say, you close port 5190 and these applications know how to roll over and look for new ports," said Charles Dauber, vice president of marketing at Blue Coat. "It takes sophisticated knowledge of Web security devices to manage that."

As a result, Blue Coat's IM Traffic Control, like most offerings now on the market, can lock down on IM traffic from most clients, including those using the large public networks and other popular systems, like Jabber. Blue Coat also can apply instant messaging use policies on a group and individual user level, and based on a number of criteria, including time-of-day. It provides logging capabilities, and can enact keywords-based restrictions on the fly -- providing for uses like blocking taboo words before they are transmitted during conversations.

Blue Coat's offering also links to corporate directories -- like LDAP, Active Directory, and Radius -- to determine user privileges.

What makes the offering unique, however, is that it is only available on its own, dedicated hardware. As opposed to most IM security applications, which run on common server operating systems and hardware, Blue Coat's security products work the same way as do most business-class firewalls and routers: running on their own, specialized machines, under a custom OS.

"It's not based NT or Linux, so you've got none of the issues like patching that you have general-purpose OSes," Dauber said. "That's why our Web security applications are so heavily employed by enterprise customers -- they understand a drop-in appliance with security and control, versus a software platform."

As routers and firewalls shifted from software to dedicated appliances, "we think the same thing will happen with Web security, and IM is a part of that," he added.

Additional Threats from the Newcomer

A number of other factors exist in addition to Blue Coat's unique selling point that could spell trouble for the IM security vendors now on the market.

For one thing, Blue Coat plans to aggressively sell its current customer base on IM Traffic Control. Considering that the firm has shipped upwards of 13,000 appliances to more than 5,000 customers worldwide -- including names like Aon Insurance, ABN-Amro, Boeing, Coca-Cola, Johnson Controls, Hewlett Packard, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Discover, Hitachi Data Systems, John Deere, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Air Force.

Among that client list are a number of firms in financial services and healthcare -- potentially representing a major setback for the players currently in the IM security market, who generally view those heavily regulated markets as relatively easy sells for their offerings.

Seven-year-old Blue Coat also is banking that enterprises, even those that it's not already servicing, would prefer to deal with a more established player in IT than a new startup.

"Talking to customers ... they aren't interested in buying a separate solution from startups just for IM control," Dauber said. "We're already in a good chunk of the customers, so we don't have to resell them form scratch."

Blue Coat also plans to compete on a price basis. While costs for hardware could total about $6,000, Dauber said the company is price service at $10 per user, before volume discounting. Aside from that initial cost for new users, the per-seat fees are about half to a third of what America Online (Quote, Company Info), and Microsoft (Quote, Company Info) and Yahoo! (Quote, Company Info) have said they would be charging for their enterprise IM gateways.

"People would just prefer to keep the vendors they've got," Dauber said. "And we're hearing that they think pricing is relatively high, on a per-user basis. Some of the products on the market require client-side software, and they didn't want to have to deal with that. And they just didn't want to have to deploy an entirely new scheme just for doing IM control."

It's still very early in the game for Blue Coat, which is currently able to show off only beta versions of its product. On the other hand, vendors including Akonix, IMlogic, e-Vantage, Endeavors, and IM-Age are shipping their offerings already. FaceTime Communications, known for its IM logging and auditing product, said it soon plans a full-fledged enterprise security product -- similarly intending to upsell current clients on its new solution.

The big public network owners -- America Online, Yahoo! and MSN -- also are now selling or gearing up to promote their own offerings. Those, however, exert control only on their own clients within enterprises.

Christopher Saunders is managing editor of InstantMessagingPlanet.com.

where's old_coast?

worth a read

http://www.vrtprj.de/forum/index.php?topic=Endeavors


btw the 750K trade looks like a short close


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