A recent aquisition for Intelliplus Group plc and new contracts for this company are coming in thick and fast. Result - share price is consistently heading north - Up 46% since 1/10. Perhaps one to quietly be a ten bagger over the next few months. DYOR

LOL

I am really lost with this share. The results were fantastic together with a contract win announcement but the share price keeps on heading south. Anyone out there know what is going on??

after mondays results i was all set to get a 32 inch lcd tv out of profits.oh well back to the 14 inch portable.

I am lost as well bought in August and expected some drop due to profit taking but not as much as this. Bought Baggeridge Brick recently as well can't understand how they increased profits by almost 100% upped their dividend and the share price is falling. I'm giving up on this game after Christmas.

Greeting! to all eckoh holders.
Commiserations to all of us who didn't book the profit on day of results.
Yes it's been painful watching it melt away before my very eyes over the last few days.
I'm keeping hold of my stake.
Let's hope all the short term holders have now been flushed out.
Good luck to all.
Regards.

i'm as baffled as you all, I think its the market makers shaking out nervous recks, obviously not us... I'm thinking of buying more after buying @ 18p and 17p

If it is the mms shaking out the nervous recks then surely we would see some big trades going through made by the mms.

The price is up slightly but for how long I am not sure. Don't get me wrong, I have faith in this company, they have the best products in this sector.

I am still a holder but not sure whether the price has bottom yet?

investers chronicle recon ECKHOis"fairly priced"I STILL THINK THEY ARE A HOLD

They are definitely a hold for long term. I do personally think that this stock will do very well in 04.

Have taken the advantage of price drop to top up some more.

Have a good Xmas and New Year all.

Looking good today. Anybody know why?

Legins have not heard from you for a long time. What is your view on this stock now? Is it still worth holding onto?

Hi ticker,

Sorry for not posting for a while on this thread as I've been very busy with construction & building work starting up.

My view of this stock is that this remains a good solid company that will continue with growth over middle to long term and is a company that will follow perhaps slightly behind the growth expected throughout 2004 in Telecom, TMT, and Technology sectors.

However, I also speculate that a significant deal between ECK, and Peter Dubens companies Pipex Communications PXC and ukbetting UKB could be forming due to this RNS news on 29Dec. The following extract is what has interested me and sparked this train of thought:-

Eckoh Technologies plc ('Eckoh') today announces that it has agreed to sell its
40% equity investment in Rivals Digital Media Limited ('Rivals') as part of a
sale of the entire share capital of Rivals to ukbetting plc. Eckoh will receive
consideration totaling 700,000, payable half in cash and half in ukbetting plc
shares.

Eckoh will have approx. 700k shares at around 50p each in ukbetting plc. ECK's technology in voice recognition and artificial intellegent call services for betting account customers of ukbetting plc has enourmous potential for both companies in forming a deal.

What do you think? I wonder if ukbetting would accept a bet on this happening 2:1 favorite!

Eckoh Technologies PLC
28 January 2004


28 January 2004

Eckoh Technologies appointed as interactive telephony partner for ITV

Eckoh Technologies plc ('Eckoh'), one of Europe's largest speech application
service providers, today announced it has been appointed by the UK's biggest
commercial television network ITV (formerly Granada and Carlton), to provide
interactive telephony services to the channel.

The contract, which commences on March 1st 2004, was won after a competitive
pitch process, and is anticipated to generate considerable revenues for both
organisations as the interactive telephony formats for broadcast programmes
continue to grow and develop. The agreement covers existing shows which use
telephony such as This Morning, CITV, Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway,
Trisha and The Vault, as well as new formats that are yet to be broadcast.

Today's announcement will allow ITV to gain access to Eckoh's sophisticated call
processing platform which with over 7,000 ports is the largest of its kind in
the UK. The platform supports the traditional telephony broadcast services such
as votes, competitions, polls and audience data capture, but also provides new
technologies such as speech recognition which gives ITV the opportunity to
enhance new programming concepts still in development.

Nik Philpot, Chief Operating Officer for Eckoh Technologies, says:

'This deal further consolidates our position as one of the largest providers of
managed interactive telephone services in the UK and having worked well with
Granada in the past we are very much looking forward to a similarly productive
relationship with ITV. We have a shared desire to grow telephony revenues by
developing innovative, compelling formats and we are delighted to be assisting
ITV harness the huge potential of interactive television.'

Ian McCulloch, Managing Director of Operations for ITV Broadcasting, commented:

'We have appointed Eckoh as our partner in this area after a rigorous process
and I believe they are best placed to help us take the telephony services
business forward. I am confident that they bring us the necessary technical
capability and expertise which is essential to maximising the potential
opportunity and we are very excited about what we can do together'

For further enquiries, please contact


Eckoh Technologies plc Tel: 08701 100 700
Martin Turner, Chief Executive Officer
Nik Philpot, Chief Operating Officer
Brian McArthur Muscroft, Finance Director

Buchanan Communications Tel: 020 7466 5000
Mark Edwards/Jeremy Garcia

Notes to Editors

About Eckoh Technologies:

Eckoh Technologies plc designs, builds, hosts and manages Speech Solutions for
large corporations and organisations using ASR (Advanced Speech Recognition) and
IVR (Interactive Voice Response) technologies. It is a leading UK service
provider and infrastructure owner/operator, and intends to exploit the
anticipated growth in demand for Speech Solutions across Europe.

In January 2003, Eckoh signed a landmark deal to create an exclusive speech
alliance with BT to provide hosted speech recognition solutions to their
corporate client base over the next 2 years. This contract was then subsequently
extended until December 2006. A two-year contract with TD Waterhouse for a
speech recognition share check service was announced by BT and Eckoh in October
2003.

In June 2003 Eckoh enlarged its call processing infrastructure to 7,000 lines
(capable of handling 500,000 calls an hour) by installing another platform into
a BT hosting facility. This created the largest speech enabled call processing
platform in Europe.

Eckoh has secured contracts to supply hosted Speech Solutions to clients
including Virgin Mobile, Centrica, William Hill, Wyevale Garden Centres and the
RNIB.

Eckoh also operates the following businesses:

* IVR - following the acquisition of Intelliplus Group plc in Sept
2003, Eckoh is one of the largest providers of managed IVR and SMS services in
the UK to media clients including the BBC, Channel 4, Chrysalis, Endemol, EMAP,
Johnston Press and Cartoon Network.

* Network Services - under the 'Symphony' and 'Freecom' brands, Eckoh
supplies fixed line and mobile telephony services, broadband and data services
to SMEs in the UK and Ireland. Following the acquisition of Intelliplus Network
Services now has an SME customer base of over 13,000.

In the year to 31 March 2003 Eckoh Technologies plc generated a turnover of 55
million and had a cash balance of 12m. In December the company announced deals
worth over 6 million covering a range of clients including the Royal National
Institute for the Blind.

Further information can be found at
www.eckoh.com
.


This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

This is great news but the share price is still not moving as much as I would have thought.

Lots of buying into this one. It is the considerable revenues that will commence in Mar04 that will really see the share price moving. ECK will no doubt be handling calls for ITV programs like "Pop Idol", "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here" amoungst many others.

Definitely a very strong BUY. Added more to my holding.

I have also topped up a few days ago but my average price paid is still 18p, got in when it was at its peak a few months ago. Am looking forward to the day whent he share price really takes off. :0)

Saw this article posted in another thread and thought may be ECK holders might find it an interesting read.

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.

What is happening to streaming prices - I can't believe my eyes bid/offer 45 - 55p - is this real?

I must have missed it Legins.

There seems to be alot of people buying into this stock today. Do you think there is something in the pipeline? I have been such a faithful holder, and am hoping for a good return :)