Breaking Mobile Barcodes Deal: NeoMedia Hutchison Whampoa HongKong

Nice to see Gavitec’s EXIO reader being used by Nokia and 12Snap for McDonald’s SMS Lounge in Germany.

Hi Bena:

(Congrats on the new business developments for you! Best of luck.)

Could you please explain (to the non-Chinese-speaking amongst us) where and/or what the reference is?

“The only reference I have found for this so far is here: http://www.weekendhk.com/”

Thank you very much, since even though we’re winding up the week I have yet to see anything ‘official’ on this mentioned by NeoMedia itself , or anywhere else other than on another blog.

Thank you!

Best regards,

jonesie-test

Jonesie you and Brewski remind me of my exwife. Always thought she had to be right about everything and would go on and on about nothing. Got really old listening to it

Of course Larry, only in your group, an official looking, blog breaking news story would equate to nothing.

But Jonsie’s persistence in the matter has finally revealed that the official looking story, which is believed to be the source for this blog as well, turned out to be an unfounded rumor, a certain blogger decided to write his own PR looking story on, stating facts that can not be verified by his own admissions.

He has admitted in the forum you and your group like to attack doubters in, that the NON NEWS event came from a rumor from a source to remain un-named, and that he has no idea whatsoever how the link that he used and Bena used here has anything to do with Neomedia.

The only possible link, because in that supposed reference Neomedia is not mentioned, is the picture of an AZTEC code. And that is even more puzzling. In his official looking news release he states as fact that Neomedia’s NEOSPHERE was used to generate those AZTEC codes. Perhaps because Neomedia was the only 2D bar code reader focused on the AZTEC code, he came up with that presumption.

But whats really puzzling is, if this campaign in the pictures is current(no date to verify that), and Neomedia’s solution is still focused on the AZTEC code, when the rest of this space has moved to the QR and the Data Matrix, whats that say about NEOMEDIA and their development efforts, when they still are not in tune with what code the markets are moving to? All the effort that Gavitec went through to develope the Neoreader, and their back end solution is still based on the Aztec code? Their Neosphere code generating application still is focused on AZTEC codes?

Yes Larry, only in your world, would those who ask these important questions to get to what is fact and what is rumor, sound like your ex-wife. And these questions are very relevent, when involving a public company, whose stock can rise and fall on non factual news written to appear as though its official, and later determoined to be a rumor.

Maybe your ex-wife(you brought her and me into this discussion) went on and on, because even there, when she was right about something, she faced the same abuse to love to dish out on that other stock message board, where this rumor was also present as fact and anyone who questioned it come under attack by the group.

Bena,
I apologize for any confusion I may have caused. I stated a belief, which on this side of the pond is an opinion, based on what was known at the time I posted. I was not concerned about the source, as much as I was concerned about the validity of the information.

Simultaneously on two blogs a rumor appeared, in the middle of the night. The LINK both blogs provided, to validate this huge breaking news, has nothing to do with Neomedia, to anyone who does not know the company. There is no mention of Neomedia, or any kind of partnership with the companies they are alleged to have partnered with in that rumor.

As a share holder in Neomedia myself, who has researched this company extensively since 2002, I was very bothered by a rumor popping up with one of the largest global companies involved, that the source LINK gave no credit to what so ever.

The source LINK which you yourself stated did provide some kind of validation when you stated that “this is all I can find”, does not in any way validate the rumor.

Rumors of this magnitude that have no verification what so ever, other then a private source said so, can and typically do have huge impacts on publicly traded companies such as Neomedia. Investors buying on such news or supposed news, wind up losing big, when it turns out to be unfounded.

I am sure that you, as a professional who wishes your blog to be a business blog, thats paid for content, can appreciate the effect these types of rumor typically have in the public investment sector.

So Jonsie if I understood his posts correctly asked repeatedly how this source LINK pertained to Neomedia as you and another blogger suggested that it had, when through the various translation tools available, there was no mention of Neomedia in this link at all, or even on any of these companies web sites, which supposedly partnered with Neomedia.

Jonsie then came under attack for being persistent in his question, by a poster who is known in another forum to only attack those who disagree with him and the group he is a part of. During the attack he drug me into the discussion(which I was silent on) by using my name in a derrogative manner, to which I felt a response was in order, laying out the issue as it was BELIEVED to be by many at the time.

In closing I will only say, no one to date has yet to clarify how they connected this source LINK to NEOMEDIA as has been done on both blogs. I might add the other blog also goes into very specific details on what tools were used to create the codes etc., so the source of the rumor appears to be the same for both blogs which ran the rumor at the same times, one full of detailed supposed facts, and yours much more general. The only possible connection, which I pointed out in my earlier post, is that the source LINK has a picture of an AZTEC code in it. Which really means nothing, since those AZTEC codes are open source. Just ask Streetstylz how relevent they are when Sprint has had an AZTEC code on their website for quite some time now, yet acknowledges it was an error on their part, but left it there any way, but is not working with Neomedia at this time and instead is working with their long time foe Scanbuy.

So regardless of the source of the rumor, the source LINK validating that rumor is suspect at best, and thats what others and myself were seeking clarrification on. And yesterday the other blogger clarified in that other investment forum, that it was just a rumor from a source who wishes not to be named, and that he was unaware of how the link he used connected Neomedia to the rumor.

Hope this clears things up, so these rumors with no validation do not keep reoccurring when public companies are involved, whose stock price can move in big directions to the benefit of some well others get caught holding the bag when the rumor is unfounded.

This whole stock manipulation possibility could be avoided, if bloggers(not you) did not go through the effort to write blogs that would appear to be official announcements, and if they disclosed at the time, that it is an unfounded rumor they have been unable to verify. Instead they chose to make their blog post look like an official PR, they put in supposed facts that are not available anywhere publicly, and then get evasive when asked to provide some kind of validation to the so called BREAKING NEWS EVENT.

I apologise also - I don’t want to manipulate anything. Just tell the facts or the news. I have been very busy with new project and am on holiday - from next week - normality will return. Also - the time has come for me to hire a manager for gomo news - more coming.