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Provision of secure transaction systems and services to the international banking, telphony, retail, and security markets, using a range of smart and magnetic card solutions

In the recent Agm the chairman said "the company has made a positive start to the financial year and the board remains optimistic about prospects for the business."

Pre-tax losses have also nearly halved from 6.4 mln to a loss of 3.4 mln on cost cutting. They have also had a successful fund raising.

Also chart indicators show that it may be time for the next leg upwards past recent resistance at 7.5p. and please remember you are responsible for the timing of your own buying and selling actions.




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Whats the situation with the government ID cards?

BSkyB boxing clever as subscribers soar

JESSICA HODGSON


SATELLITE television operator BSkyB is due to report a surge in new subscribers this week, giving a major fillip to chief executive James Murdochs controversial sales strategy.

Media analysts expect BSkyB to report on average 150,000 new subscribers when it updates the market on second-quarter trading on Wednesday.

But sources close to the company say the Citys expectations are "conservative", and the true figure is actually likely to top 160,000.

New subscriber additions - a key indicator of growth for the company - are expected to come in lower than the 193,000 it added last year.

But the figures are the first significant boost since Murdoch revealed last year that he intended to push sales at the expense of profit margins, and will steady anxieties among some investors that the Sky success story was slowing.

BSkyB is also expected to update analysts on sales of products such as its Sky+ personal video recorder, designed to differentiate Sky from the increasingly popular, lower-cost Freeview digital TV service. Citigroup is predicting that there will be an additional 108,000 subscribers taking the Sky+ service.

Some investors have been alarmed by rumours that the company plans to subsidise the giveaway of Sky+ boxes, in a similar way to BSkyBs mass subsidy of the transition from analogue to digital satellite.

But sources have played down the threat of any such move in the short term.

Sky had a total of 7.4 million subscribers the last time it updated the market, but Freeview now has five million subscribers after adding 1.5 million sales over the Christmas trading period.

BSkyB is also expected to confirm plans to develop a Nectar-style loyalty card for its subscribers, in conjunction with a major bank and possibly some key retailers. The card will take advantage of a second slot in Sky boxes, which will be activated shortly.

Analysts are predicting first-half pre-tax profits in a range from 329m to 332m on revenues of 1.44bn to 1.9m.

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What the hell as that got to do with IDD?

Hi chad, Idd have the experience with loyalty cards so its possible that they have a chance of getting the job. goal.

Dublin, January 25, 2005 – ID Data’s Dublin based Software solutions company CardBASE Technologies Ltd has appointed Hywel Davies as Chairman and Executive Director. Hywel most recently was Chairman & CEO of Bell ID in Rotterdam.

Hywel stated "The smart card is now becoming mainstream in society with Governments, Financial institutions and health care organisations all issuing smart cards, therefore the need for Smart Card Management solutions is increasing. I am delighted to be able to bring my experience of this market to CardBASE as I do believe that the company has a UNIQUE POSITION in the market place"

Vincent Nolan CEO of CardBASE stated " we are delighted to welcome Hywel as he brings to the CardBASE and the ID-Data Group a tremendous knowledge of the smart card management industry on a global basis and the Group welcome Hywel’s decision to accept our invitation to join CardBASE and be part of our dynamic team"

Oh dear red again by 12% on near nil trades.........!!!!!!!!!!! :-[

Shhhhhhhh... it is blue there that will stop it ;-/

..........................and so it did :-[[

I noticed that the 2 purchases of IDD today made by me and also by my busisness partner topping up our holdings -- both showed on streaming as sales instead of purchases! so how many real sales were there today!?!?! Is someone somewhere messing with the price?

It looks about even as far as buys/sells are concerned today,its just the way the trades are interpreted by the computer.

My streaming showed all sales except for 1 buy!

the streaming is meaningless - simply a computer making a best guess

People were buying well into the spread over the last couple of days.

Ive just added at 2.39

The buys today (11/02/05)are at last a little more substantial (including one for 1 million). And the buying pattern has become more encouraging. Here are the total buys for the last seven days:
03/02/05 0
04/02/05 0
07/02/05 0
08/02/05 20,594
09/02/05 50,000
10/02/05 951,737
11/02/05 2,037,081

On the other hand the sells for the same period total 7,669,543 (according to my quick calculation) so it may be too early too read anything into this.

Any comments?

Madison

shall we see a bit o blue tommrrer ... plenty buy today!! ;0\

Hi everyone. This ones been falling for a long time now, and you'll have to excuse me because im not very well-researched on this one, but this looks oversold to me. If 11 million turnover is correct on a market cap of around 6 million, with a loss of 2 million, seems like there's plenty of room for a turnaround and a big jump in the SP on any positive news flow.
Any thoughts?

Hi chad,

I think zscrooge's post 539 sums it up very succinctly. Encouraged me to go in. The customer base seems excellent.

Additionally I liked the major shareholders:

Even Flow Holdings Limited 46,965,000 14.79%
Cox P J Esq 39,355,513 12.39%
Progressive Asset Management Limited 32,113,636 10.11%
Framlington Investment Management 29,248,412 9.21%
Bank Of Scotland (Ireland) Limited 20,157,791 6.35%
Noble Asset Managers 11,978,021 3.77%
Singer & Friedlander 10,209,625 3.21%
Eastbound Consultores E Servicos 9,865,818 3.11%

I agree the potential is very good, just hope the newsflow arrives.

Cheers, Madison

Hi chad, well what was that all about today? have thay lost a contract! not to my knowledge, over 15% down wow what next?? goal.

a mighty hike back up................maybe