... and now the end is near .
and so TAD faces its final curtain ....

Bout time too.

LOL Dil....

As Stig did it his way....

Beau

Well.....has anybody played Half Life 2...distributed by Valve's technology Steam!!!
This works and works brilliantly even on the lowest 512k broadband we have.
So....I TAD and its stReam technology are obviously barking up the correct tree but appear to not have a clue how to get up it!

If you try the Encarta link on MS for the download its broken. Does this signify that MS is no longing interested in it. Surely its damaged sales of Encarta!

TAD is a story of a great bit of technology in the wrong hands I feel. Mis managed I think we agree.

If you look at the press releases on Endeavours site the last half a dozen are all deals to distribute games. Talk about jumping on the bandwagon a little late.

So, is this company being driven to the wall and then will be snapped up by a third party (MS) for a major bargain. I still thing this could be the way its going. And who looses out on that....hmmmm?

it's certainly an entertaining and interesting story for those of us on the sidelines but most be quite another for those that have been sucked in for all the years and are now trapped by an ever decreasing shareprice.

Still trading south of the 50 day MA unsurprisingly.

I cannot believe this thread has been vacated for a week?

True Blinger - but we all secretly enjoy going for our weekly enenema - now that is a real evacuation (much like the constant sellers at present).

Here is a copy of a post off 3i, if you hold it is worth reading and acting on.

M

In terms of voting power, this is going to be a battle between the Big-Block voter and the little man.
Even if you feel that your shareholding is embarrasingly small, pitch it in, it will help make a difference.

Can I also ask you to get in touch with shareholders who you know have chucked their shares into a drawer and walked away in disgust?

There are 40M shares held in Barclayshare Nominees and about the same in TD WAterhouse.

80M shares held by people who hold the key to TAD's future.

If you know them, point them towards the iii BB or get them to mail me at nildes_@hotmail.com and I'll bring them up to date on the action.

Your investment in TAD needs you to get a bit more active if you don't want its entire value gambled with a funding company which as I understand it makes GEM look like Mother Theresa.

So, dig out those old e-mails, find those numbers, make those calls ;o)
United we stand...
Regards



N.

Snap
on iii said the theme song was "Sandals in the wind",more like `Wind in the Sandals` from that lot.Hot air and guano will get them nowhere, its a dead duck.

down again

quack-quack!!!!!!

Which T-W-A-T in the new set-up decided to sack all the MS/Autodesk/MCI support staff out of hand just as projects like Encarta etc for MS were getting traction? Who's ego was so big he could not see beyond games?
It really galls me to read articles quoting Bill Gates saying Streaming is the future and CD Rom are so last year and ETI which was set up to capitalise on MS future projections has been dismantled and all the bits chucked in the waste disposal unit.
Greg Bolcer must be writhing in agonised pleasure at the lack of foresight on the part of Tad's management. Just when we had it in our grasp they lost the faith and threw it all away.
To cap it all they bought a games streaming company with an aggressive Alan Ladd clone in charge for a sum vastly exceeding their ability to pay for it and vastly in excess of its trumped up value.
G@d how many years have I struggled to hold onto these shares only to see them fritter their chance and fumble the ball when the line was clearly in view?
No wonder they went down today.
Still o.000000001 cent per download from unknown penny-ante games cos is infinitely preferable to and is going to make us so much more money than dealing with the biggest, hugest software conglomerate in the known universe. I can accept the thinking as an addled old timer, I can...and y'know they'll also attempt to take everything you thought you had left into the bargain; if we stand for it.
I feel sorry for all the longterm hardbitten regulars in the Tad army, if that scenario takes place. I don't think SW gives a gypsy's curse for the lot of them/us and/or the Tad board.
Tad made a grave error getting them and us into bed with ST and it is the shareholders who are going feel sore in the morning!
What a bl@@dy mess. What a mess?
Only Tad could manage it. Only Tad!
Good luck to all who sail in her; and good luck to David Lee as he tries to bale it and us out!

I see poor old yufff is down to solicting bets on Fool now, re-arrange ,
"money Fools yufff are parted soon"

90% down and still boasting, on with The Motley yufff

lol!!!!!

I heard a rumour tonight (schhh!), that there will be an RNS next week, can`t reveal the source, but it involves an Alan Ladd,a common Asian name with an Aussie twang to it,a well known shorter on a motor-bike, a receptive person, a "diamond dealer",a character from Only Fools & Horses,the no.3 in percentage terms,three titans from Sicily accumulated, period.

Watch this space!

What a shame that no one has thought to explain to anyone not already in the know why you need to ensure that you can vote your shares held in nominee accounts.

For anyone who doesn't know, Steig is trying to oust David Lee and take over effective control of the whole of Tadpole. The rationale is that Steig wants additional funding for the Streaming Division and David Lee is not prepared to agree.

The source of the extra financing Steig wants is Venture Capitalists. The cost of this to shareholders would be massive dilution of the shares in issue. In effect, it would hand control of the whole of Tadpole over to the VCs.

Steig tried to call for an EGM to put forward a resolution sacking David Lee and putting himself in charge with 'suitable' board additions to give him the majority boardroom vote he would need to control the company. This failed in farcical fashion since he didn't have sufficient shares to force it through. Further comedy ensued as the overall plan was leaked on iii.

It is likely that an an EGM will be called to resolve this as Steig gets additional shares about now as deferred payment from the takeover. If Steig gets control via a resolution at the EGM, he and his (VC) cronies will get back control of the original Stream Theory for far less that they were paid for it less than a year ago. AppsX and the (profitable) Geospacial Division will be thrown in for nothing.

Nice work if you can do it, but not for existing shareholders.

The shareholder revolt will fall apart, as will the company.Nobody will gain, except those over the years who have drawn fat salaries.
There should be little sympathy for share -holders who have never heard of a stop-loss either, investment isn`t a fairy land of fair play and ever rising price graphs, it is a dog eat dog world.
Hopefully most will now forget the past and move on.
I also hear that if an EGM is called, the security at the building will be awesome, as threats to at least one senior manager have been posted on a web-site. Irresponsibles and TAD seem to be irresistably attracted.
The close period will soon arrive, the shutters will fall, in line with the price.
P&O looks good though.

nice to see a bit of good olde banter back again on here.

http://www.techworld.com/networking/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4709&Page=1&pagePos=3&inkc=0

Wyse promises rebirth of thin clients
By Tom Krazit, IDG News Service 2-11-05

Wyse has a new set of products and partnerships in its push for server-based computing.

Wyse CEO John Kish will launch the company's new thin-client computing application alongside Sun president Jonathan Schwartz and CA president John Swainson later today, which whom the company has signed reseller agreements.
The company's new Streaming Manager software can be deployed on servers with the Windows Server 2003 OS to deliver unique sets of applications that run on Windows across a company's network.

My word , looks like a real winner then, better Top Up.

hmmmm...this is interesting. I assume the streaming technology is not TAD's as I recall. So...Sun being Microsofts hated enemy for ions, could this force MS to buyin similiar, i.e. TAD ?

And more good news

M

Surveyors at Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland (OSNI) are undergoing the final stages of training in their new field data capture system - MIDAS Survey. The solution, developed for OSNI by the Geospatial Solutions Division of Tadpole Technology, provides OSNI surveyors with a field data capture system that will integrate fully with their enterprise-wide Mapping Information Database and Surveying system (MIDAS).

ESRI (UK) was awarded the contract to supply OSNI with their enterprise-wide GIS. Development of the enterprise ArcGIS based system was subsequently undertaken by ESRI Ireland, with Tadpole Technology subcontracted to deliver the field component.

"A major factor in our strategic decision to migrate to an ArcGIS platform was the number of our customers who are ESRI users" explains Trevor Steenson, Operations Director at OSNI. "Tadpole Technology's proven expertise building ArcGIS based systems and providing national mapping agency solutions, as well as its long-standing working relationship with Ordnance Survey GB, made it the ideal organisation to develop the field component of our enterprise system."

Tadpole Technology worked closely with OSNI to develop a field system that would not only support traditional graphic survey techniques, but leverage new technology such as GPS and TPS. Combining this with easy to use tools, surveyors are able to efficiently maintain data to the OSNI specification. All measurements can be input using the on-screen keypad or handwriting recognition, or directly captured from survey instruments using Leica Geosystem's Mobile Matrix solution.

MIDAS Survey provides other specialised functionality that has been developed to streamline OSNI's field survey process, such as semi-automated map creation that eliminates the need to manually select and configure data layers. Users of the system will also have access to focused editing tools that have been developed to meet the specific needs of the OSNI surveyor.

"By working closely with OSNI at each stage of development, we have been able to deliver a solution that supports the OSNI datamodel and meets the specific requirements of the user." states James Blackwood, European Professional Services Manager for Tadpole Technology. "This delivery further underlines The Geospatial Solutions Division's expertise in ESRI technology and our ability to deliver leading-edge field solutions."

ends

see this news http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4399018.stm
MS certainly going the streaming online way....so which underlying technology will they use?