Ted, Doug, and Lupin,
It is nice to see this thread getting busy again with all your comments. I'll try to respond to some of your observations and questions. I don't know which product is represented in the HP interface. I suspect the proprietary algorithm is the same. They have a white paper on the technology. In most sites when you download a thumbnail picture, then the entire file, you end up downloading two files. With WarpRes, there is a very tight compression algorithm that allows the image to download from the same file at whatever resolution or size you want. Also, their compression allows for very efficient storage and extraction of pixils. You may see the entire picture appear or you may see increasing resolution of the entire object rather than a section by section download. Regarding the ATM question, they started out with around $20,000,000 from the IPO and a very creative financing with 12 dollar warrants that later proved to be worth pennies on the dollar. They envisioned running their own ATM WAN for commercial image transfer as well as having their own sales organization. They were too ambitious and had to retrench. Early after the IPO, the stock went from 12 to 15 in response to hype from a guest on Wall Street Week whose comments were subsequently criticized in a financial journal. From then on it was a slow descent with brief dramatic spikes up in response to promising news. Meanwhile, their losses continued to get smaller and their income, though small increased in fits and starts. As another post stated, WARPF seems to increase fast and drop slow, unlike most stocks.
A few months back, some one or some institution(s) kept buying to keep the price above 1.00. Check out the chart for the straight line to see how it was not allowed to drop below a dollar. (Since this rally there has been similar action keeping the price at 2.50.) I stayed in and kept buying because I figured that whoever was putting their money into supporting the price must have known something I didn't. The 16% correction from profit taking today hardly sounds like speculators running to the exits which is what you would normally expect after a two week rise from .25 up to almost 5.00 a share.
I may be wrong, but WARP 10 could be a baby gorilla.
Happily long on WARP 10
David Moyer |
