07-01-2004, 02:30 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Virtual Keyboard: A Tangled Web Gets Stickier
Ok, let's recap, shall we? I posted the news last month that iBIZ was not able to sell their Virtual Keyboard because they didn't get proper certification. It looked like the Virtual Keyboard was just that - virtual. Fast forward a few weeks, and we have RobertS over at smartmobileassets.com digging up some "disturbing information". Then Dave of Dave's iPAQ actually gets his hands on one, reviews it, and likes it. Not so virtual, then - maybe the rest of us will be able to buy one soon?
Not so fast, compadre. RobertS over at smartmobileassets.com has done some MORE digging and has unearthed some interesting artifacts. Multiple lawsuits, shell companies, SEC investigations, licensing deals gone wrong, dogs and cats living together, etc. I fully expect someone in this whole mess to pop up and say that he's a vampire, or that his mother is really his aunt, but that doesn't matter because he REALLY loves Esmerelda, even though Esmerelda killed the baby he had with Janet in a tragic blimp accident. For those of you missing the Sarcasm Gene, this whole thing reeks of Soap Opera. :roll: While it's all very interesting to read about, I think this only makes it increasingly unlikely that the Virtual Keyboard will be released any time soon. What's your take?
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07-01-2004, 02:37 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 332
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I open the bidding for Dave's test model at 50 dollars.
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07-01-2004, 02:40 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2002
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I bid 100 iBIZ-bucks...to be delivered as soon as the IRS and the US Treasury certify the bills, and as soon as the infra-red ink used to print the bills, dries...
does anyone smell smoke, or vapor?
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07-01-2004, 02:43 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 267
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the sucker works! why not some other company do a hostile takover of the technology so the rest of us can actually buy it! 
Better yet add BT connectivity, assuming WIDCOM BT stack of course.
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07-01-2004, 02:44 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 434
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iBIZ- we put the virtual in keyboard.
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07-01-2004, 03:19 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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Re: Virtual Keyboard: A Tangled Web Gets Stickier
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Originally Posted by Pat Logsdon
While it's all very interesting to read about, I think this only makes it increasingly unlikely that the Virtual Keyboard will be released any time soon. What's your take?
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I don't even care, but I love your post. :rotfl:
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07-01-2004, 03:35 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 740
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I used to do Regulatory Affairs for a Medical Device Company. If they didn't get regulatory clearance for the laser, getting it AFTER the fact is nearly impossible. It can happen, but you have to beg for the privilage to beg forgivness.
Its very difficult, and while it can happen, its quite painful. Add the SEC, the IRS 2 patent clerks, a couple of monkeys and the Staf Fleet Trainee you have here, and its the biggest mongolian cluster ***k you've ever seen.
So much for the Virtual Keyboard. I doubt that anyone would be able to do a hostle take over of the company. Who would want to?!? You'd inheirit the headaches, too.
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07-01-2004, 03:49 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 193
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Wild.... Well, iBIZ sounds screwed, but the technology is real. I've used various versions of this at three different trade shows this year. I tried the Panasonic one at CES, the Siemens one at CTIA, and the Samsung at CommunicAsia.
They all work about the same: okay, but not great. It's clearly all the same technology inside... or else someone is seriously infringing on someone else's patents, because they look the same to me.
With so many major companies licensing this, (from... whoever,) I have to believe someone will eventually bring it to market. Just not iBIZ, it seems.
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07-01-2004, 05:20 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 268
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How about no more posts on this until it's actually new again (gone for good, company folds, or actually SHIPPING.. and not just them saying it's shipping)?
-arebelspy
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07-01-2004, 05:24 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 194
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Just read last week in a newsletter that Samsung is releasing it in Asia under their own brand. They have demonstrated it in CommunicAsia, and are getting ready for the launch.
A quick google search for samsung and "virtual keyboard" brought me this link that tells the same that I read:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/3237024145734446/
So something is happening in parallel, since according to the picture it is exactly the same device.
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