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To: N. Dixon who wrote (7021)11/13/2007 12:58:51 AM
From: inchingup
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Shorts expect that REFR is headed to $0, which IMO is substantially more than its worth.

I'd short this at a buck.

43 years without an arms-length product sale.

About 200 press releases containing a plethora of outright lies, material misrepresentations and dare I say "fraud"?

Not a single verification of so-called SPD properties by an independent certified laboratory.

Supposed "first sales" of products scheduled for 1991, 1993, and in 1996 a press release stating that "products to appear in the near future".

Company announced in 2002 it "expected" to be profitable in 2003. End result for 2003, not a single verified product sale...as usual.

A failed, or an investor rip-off, of $7,000,000 for a supposed SPD plant that to this day has only been verified by pictures of a building in Korea that had a sign, in ENGLISH, saying it was used for production of SPD. And known sales of products from that plant totaling -0-.

Buyback programs announced that management who immediately sold stock rather than buying back stock as per PR.

Management selling directly into fluff press releases and conference call.

Supposed distributors for the product that seemingly worked from their garage.

And then there's you Nancy who claimed in a post in 2004 that you had ordered a 2005 auto with SPD windows. Where is that, eh?

REFR and their shills are a pack of lies. REFR will soon be trading back in the single digits and I expect it to be under a dollar....soon.

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From: N. Dixon11/13/2007 2:33:43 PM
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3DIcon Welcomes Victor Keen To Its Board
Last Update: 11/13/2007 6:00:08 AM

3DIcon Welcomes Victor Keen To Its Board

TULSA, Okla., Nov 13, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 3DIcon Corporation (TDCP), a development-stage technology company, today announced the appointment of Victor Keen to its board of directors. Mr. Keen is a significant shareholder in 3DIcon and currently serves on the board of directors of Research Frontiers, Inc. (REFR). He has extensive experience in the arena of technology commercialization and licensing.

Victor Keen is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Trinity College. Until March 1, 2007, he served as the chair of the Tax Practice Group at Duane Morris, LLP, one of the 100 largest law firms in the U.S., with more than 600 attorneys. Mr. Keen has become of counsel to the firm. He currently devotes the majority of his time to his board memberships as well as real estate investments in New York City.

For more than ten years Mr. Keen has served on the board of Research Frontiers, a developer of "Smart Glass" through licensees around the world. For the past five years he has also served as the head of the compensation committee for Research Frontiers. Recently, Mr. Keen assumed the position of Board Observer for Egenix, Inc., a bioresearch firm focused on developing treatments for several specific cancers.

Mr. Keen has a successful history of investment in both start-up and operational-stage companies. "I look forward to playing an active role as a board member by supporting 3DIcon through its next phase of growth via technology commercialization, licensing, strategic partnerships, and revenue generation," stated Mr. Keen. "I see tremendous potential in their technology portfolio."

Martin Keating, 3DIcon's chairman and CEO, stated, "We are honored to welcome Victor Keen as our newest board member. The progress we have made has attracted topflight business people to our board who, we feel, will further support and facilitate our growth."

About 3DIcon Corporation

3DIcon Corporation is a development-stage company whose mission is to create and market genuine full-color, volumetric 360-degree 3D technology. Through a sponsored research agreement with the University of Oklahoma (OU), 3DIcon owns the exclusive worldwide marketing rights to all 3D intellectual properties developed or under development under its SRA.

SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT UNDER THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION ACT OF 1995

With the exception of historical information, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The actual future results of 3DIcon could differ significantly from those statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include risks and uncertainties such as the inability to finance the company's operations, inability to hire and retain qualified personnel, and changes in the general economic climate. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential" or "continue," the negative of such terms, or other comparable terminology. These statements are only predictions. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, such statements should not be regarded as a representation by 3DIcon, or any other person, that such forward-looking statements will be achieved. We undertake no duty to update any of the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. In light of the foregoing, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.

SOURCE: 3DIcon Corporation

Copyright Business Wire 2007

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From: Bill Wexler11/14/2007 4:44:13 PM
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Update on the REFR stock fraud

In years past, and usually during the "dump" phase of REFR's numerous pump-and-dump schemes, I would usually post a note explaining to new investor-victims exactly how they were defrauded, and the fact that Robert Saxe and Joe Harary have been engaged in this criminal enterprise for a long, long time.

This time around I really have no sympathy for the victims. Anyone idiotic enough to pay near $200 million for a concern with a thoroughly documented history of stock fraud, which has produced no earnings (much less verifiable arms-length sales) going on close to half a century, deserves to lose every penny - and then some.

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To: Bill Wexler who wrote (7024)11/14/2007 4:57:15 PM
From: 613
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Welcome back Bill!

You don't still claim that the film doesn't exist, do you? Lot's of people have now seen the film (myself included). Not many have seen an products though (myself not included).

So if there is film, how can you call the company a fraud? Still to be determined how well it can sell but that's a whole different story.

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To: 613 who wrote (7025)11/14/2007 5:33:58 PM
From: Kevin Podsiadlik
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You don't still claim that the film doesn't exist, do you?

You don't still beat your wife, do you?

So if there is film, how can you call the company a fraud?

Now really, isn't that just about the silliest comment that gets made about this company? Since when is "nonexistent product" the only kind of corporate fraud in the world?

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To: Kevin Podsiadlik who wrote (7026)11/14/2007 10:40:45 PM
From: 613
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Kevin - are you Wexler?

Unfortunately, all predictions - as stupid as they may have been - are made under the safe harbor act. But if you choose to file a class action lawsuit against against the company for being over exuberant to the point of financial fraud, I might sign on.

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To: 613 who wrote (7027)11/15/2007 12:37:13 AM
From: Kevin Podsiadlik
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Kevin - are you Wexler?

I'm surprised at how often I get asked that.

if you choose to file a class action lawsuit

Even if I believed in that as a viable course of action (hint: REFR could be easily bled dry by management long before such a suit got to court), I don't personally have any damages to claim. Not from REFR itself at any rate.

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To: Kevin Podsiadlik who wrote (7028)11/15/2007 8:43:22 AM
From: 613
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Kevin - save me the trouble of going through your old posts.

Do you believe that the growing list of large companies announcing something to do with SPD are all being paid by RFI to develop the emulsion, film and products, put them in a bus at an auto show (and highlight it - not like the Jeep from a few years ago), go to the trade shows etc.

All that does cost some significant money and as you point out, they really don't have that much.

Until these last couple years (since the presentation by Hitachi and DIC at the annual meeting, you're arguments had much more of a basis.

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To: 613 who wrote (7029)11/15/2007 11:46:22 AM
From: Kevin Podsiadlik
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save me the trouble of going through your old posts.

Oh, please do. I've made enough of them, and there aren't 1% of them I'm not proud of in hindsight. How many bulls can say that? In fact, I find the easiest way to get a REFR bull angry is to bring up old posts.

Do you believe that the growing list of large companies announcing something to do with SPD

What "growing list"? That little Houston company is the first new licensee in quite a long time.

are all being paid by RFI to develop the emulsion, film and products, put them in a bus at an auto show

I don't know how much, if any, of that was subsidized by REFR. Then again, there's hasn't exactly been much "developing" that I can see; the "new" film has been known about as far back as the message boards go. As for the bus, it's not like Hino wasn't putting together concept buses anyway, so the incremental cost of installing SPD on half the windows of one bus is pretty minor relative to the overall budget.

(and highlight it - not like the Jeep from a few years ago), go to the trade shows etc.

By "highlight" you mean "mention", I think. As I recall, the windows were like the seventh thing mentioned in Hino's writeup of the bus that contained them. And even then they called them "photochromatic" like they didn't even understand what they were working with.

Similarly, is there any reason to think AGP wasn't already a regular exhibitor at Sema?

Until these last couple years (since the presentation by Hitachi and DIC at the annual meeting, you're arguments had much more of a basis.

I see, and how many SPD products have been sold over the course of the two-plus years since that landmark presentation? Yeah, that's what I thought. The only thing that gave that whole argument credibility was the boom in the share price, and now that's going away at a rate that's even surprising me.

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From: Bill Wexler11/15/2007 1:22:17 PM
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If you're a victim of the REFR stock fraud...

Here is an interesting thing you can try...

Call the Woodbury office and ask to speak to Robert Saxe or Joe Harary. Ask them if they have a single pane of SPD glass installed in the headquarters or in their homes.

In nearly half a century, the REFR criminal enterprise has not delivered a single penny in earnings to its shareholder-victims nor a single verifiable arms-length sale of an SPD window.

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