Smartspace Software Share Discussion Threads

[garth] 28/3/2007 14:06

Chunky buys at 5p today :0)

[garth] 27/3/2007 20:42

Certainly nice to see the late tick up to leave us just a little short of highs with the offer at levels equating to those the day of the Hitachi announcement.

It would appear that there is not a great deal of stock around, although I'm sure they can flush out a few sellers if they get frisky enough with the bid.

As I said when they announced the Hitachi deal - reckon we could easily justify 6.5p ;0)

G.

[pyman] 27/3/2007 17:43

strong finish
looks healthy

[bonty] 27/3/2007 16:43

I wonder if we can hold on to the rise this time ???

[mistertibbs] 27/3/2007 13:56

tHanks pyman. I wasn't but may do so now. Going for the security market by the looks of things. Slightly different angle here. Security will be a tougher nut to crack I reckon.

[pyman] 27/3/2007 12:41

yup- lurking for the longterm here and buying . IGP trading statment today if you are watching them.

[bigchrisrogers] 27/3/2007 12:05

Watching happily from here. Good week again.

[mistertibbs] 27/3/2007 11:48

The BIG goggles are now on

[garth] 27/3/2007 11:44

And up again as we speak. There are quite a few watchers here, I believe :0)

[garth] 27/3/2007 11:43

3 trades through and the bid up a bit. I would have been happy for them to drift a bit longer ;0)

G.

[mistertibbs] 27/3/2007 11:41

Put in a small order myself and waiting to see if I get at 4.25 but looks unlikely. 2 trades I believe and only 1 showing up at 4.5p would be nice to see it tick up.

[garth] 21/3/2007 06:23

Growth Business
Monday 19th February 2007

A business case for design

'Everything is either well designed or badly designed. The problem for businesses is to make design decisions consciously and in the most cost-effective way.' So says David Kester, chief executive of the Design Council, the UK's national strategic body for design........

Encouragingly, there are numerous companies across a range of sectors with talented, driven people who see design as a distinct and important feature of their business.
For Advanced Smartcard Technologies (AST), a Scotland-based software company specialising in smartcard technology, design is its raison d'être.

Barry Hochfield, technical director at the company, believes the secret to successful innovation is to bounce technical possibilities against commercial viability, although this is easier said than done in his sector.

Trial and error

'Someone may come up with the idea for the software to do something, but you then have to go and test that idea on the market,' he says. 'You can't write software unless there is a need for it. However, having said that, sometimes while there might not be an existing market, there might be a potentially new one.'

Breaking into an untapped area for a software company is the equivalent of a lone prospector striking gold. Says Hochfield, 'You can look at functionality in a couple of ways. You can dream up a new function that no-one has done before or you can attack an existing set of problems in a different way.

'That, to use the trite but very true expression, is about "paradigm shifting". When this is done successfully, a product cracks a nut more elegantly than any other product has done before.'

There are plenty of examples of paradigm shifting that have radically altered our daily lives, ranging from cars replacing horses as the preferred means of travel to desktop publishing rendering typewriters and a large portion of the print industry obsolete.

Hochfield observes that the company is constantly innovating. Presently, there are between five and ten active projects on the go, with another 50 or so in the pipeline. Of these, he expects only ten per cent to succeed, which he says is fairly typical within the technology sector.

[garth] 20/3/2007 15:37

Accourt (advisors on "Your London Card") plugging Ecebs as a "powerful card management" solution to Local Government smartcard needs:

[garth] 20/3/2007 14:18

Hyperlinked to homepage:

[mistertibbs] 20/3/2007 08:39

I feel people are more interested at the moment with other forms of security yet we use plastic cards all the time and general public recognise this format instantly.

[garth] 19/3/2007 14:05

Thanks for the links Mastertibbs.

I believe there will be plenty to catch people's attention going forward. I look forward to the day it becomes a sudden scramble to get in!

G.

[mistertibbs] 19/3/2007 08:29

Hope I am not repeating an earlier link garth. If I am, I am duly reprimanded in advance.

This is one of my smaller investments but I'm starting to get interested. As it turns out, sold some of smrt's neighbour in East Kilbride, rwd to come here 2 weeks ago.

Just re read the agm note that clearly states current discussions with Global Payment card institution. mmmmmm

[mistertibbs] 19/3/2007 08:07

Many thanks for your reply on 15th garth. ou got me as a young man now. Must be all this walking to and from hospital 5 miles away.

We just require a bit of attention from the wider public and this may take off. Slowly does it meantime.

this to me demonstrates however how large this industry must be. A lot of competion out there but to win it, you got to be in it so to speak.

[garth] 18/3/2007 23:17

Pleasure Bonty.

I'm not sure what the current state of play is. From comments on the website it looks as though Elva have delisted while business builds. Helps to illustrate though that SMRT are not a one-trick pony.

Roll on news of that global payment card contract.....

I still think that current progress (post Hitachi RNS) supports a share price closer to 50% ahead of where we are now.

G.

[bonty] 18/3/2007 23:13

Garth
Thanks for that, the link wouldn't open on my other machine, but got it now.
B.

[garth] 18/3/2007 20:46

Ecebs is the only independent Software house to achieve Visa and MasterCard
certification. The company Supplies EMV chip + Card O/S solution.
Within iProved, eCebs carries out the integrated EMV - VocalidÒ solution with key benefits to Banks. Ecebs are supplying low cost EMV '96 approved solutions for iProved.
Ecebs are at the forefront of EMV 2000 developments and can/will supply for
production in 2004 including iProved-based demand.

[garth] 18/3/2007 20:43

Ecebs join European consortium

Ecebs have been invited to participate
in a consortium of telecom, banking
and technology companies headed by
ELVA, the French-American design
centre which is strongly positioned in
the sectors of identification and
authentication.
Code-named "iProved", the project is a
take-up trial supported by the European
Commission which aims at testing and
unveiling the VocaliD system on a
European scale. VocaliD is a new model for
secure on-line transactions based on a
smartcard. It combines innovative
smartcard technology with a traditional
magnetic stripe card. VocaliD emits a
variable acoustic authentication signal for
systematic validation online by an
authentication server. It therefore requires
only a telephone (mobile or otherwise) or a
computer dispensing with the need for any
smartcard reader. This has obvious
potential anywhere in the world - at home,
work, a friend's house, on the street,
offering the same security each time. On a
broader front, its independence from any
card reader infrastructure means it is ideal
for deployment in developing countries.