Smartspace Software Share Discussion Threads

[bonty] 29/3/2007 16:46

Well I don't think we've ever gone up three days in a row before - long may it continue. Perhaps someone has finally seen the great potential here. I'll certainly be holding for a good while yet.

[mistertibbs] 29/3/2007 15:54

Well done EJ. I'm holding until some time later.Looks like good potential to me. I don't have L2 and I'm not able to get my shares mag today. My thoughts were a tip also Garth. However, checked the Hoodless Brennen site and they don't mention any news on smrt today in any newspaper or magazine.

[garth] 29/3/2007 14:08

Hhhmmmm. Interesting day again today. Have we been tipped somewhere or are recent rises bringing some attention?

Some chunky trades and the price heading up on a narrowed spread - but a lower offer than the last couple of days. Anyone with level 2 want to explain whats going on?

Either way we are at all time highs :0)

G.

[awilson] 28/3/2007 15:05

With a bit of luck, many of the "weak" holders who took on stock at the 3p placing price in December 2005 have taken their profit.

[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.