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   Anonymous Pundet, Feb 22nd, 2006 @ 11:31am

   
   

   Obvious

   The obvious answer for where the other $62 million has gone: I would suspect right into the hands of organized crime. It's probably funneled through lots of interesting channels. E.g. lavish expenditures on marketing, facilities, furniture, ... basically like a "mini-dot-com" ripoff, except perhaps a ripoff from the get go.
   
   Raise an IPO on vaporware, spend next to nothing to develop it, funnel the rest of the money to your buddies and out of the country.
   
   If the SEC can't prosecute this company's behavior, than why trust the markets at all?
   

    

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   Max Messinger, Feb 22nd, 2006 @ 12:13pm

   
   

   Re: Obvious

   Exactly, you build up the company, get some money form stock and then just vanish. Maybe they named the console the Phantom as a joke. Hmmm. Well, it really is too bad that the SEC is too slow and cumbersome to deal with problmes before, oh, I don't know, $62 million dollars disappear. The Tech Journals

    

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   BD, Feb 22nd, 2006 @ 12:39pm

   
   

   Re: Obvious

   I thought this was dead a while ago. There was no way this company could compete with microsoft and sony. Especially when you look at how much they were spending on development. 4 years and $62 million and all they come up with is a keyboard. It's obvious all they were developing was a big scam that got them rich. The SEC needs to investigate where all the money was spent. What I mean to say is who got rich and retired.

    

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   Stoolio, Feb 22nd, 2006 @ 12:48pm

   
   

   Re: Obvious

   To any moron who invested in this shit... HAHA

    

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   Investor, Feb 22nd, 2006 @ 12:54pm

   
   

   No Subject Given

   This makes me very mad, about a year ago I bought 400 shares of this company because I thought they were going to actually make something. UGHHHHH

    

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   Taylor, Feb 22nd, 2006 @ 1:02pm

   
   

   How much went to 2Advanced.com?

   How much of that 62 million do you think went to 2Advanced for doing that kickass website?

    

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   Sohrab, Feb 22nd, 2006 @ 1:05pm

   
   

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   you bought their stuff? Im so sorry man but im going to have to agree with the other poster. How can this company Compete with Sony or Microsoft, let alone Nintendo.
   
   If Sega couldnt stay in the game, this company offered nothing new.

    

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   WollyHood, Feb 22nd, 2006 @ 1:07pm

   
   

   Well yeah...

   If investors waste $62m in a risky venture then the right people to blame are the SEC. Don't blame investors who fail to do their due diligence. Don't blame investors who enter into an arrangement knowing the risks and attendant rewards. Don't blame the managers who gambled on an audacious and possibly lucrative idea. Blame the government agents who oversee the market where it occurred.
   
   And whatever you do don't notice that the market mechanism is working as it ought by exposing the bad venture. That the accounting information demanded by the SEC is in fact cited in the article. Be sure to insist that it should have happened sooner.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 22nd, 2006 @ 1:36pm

   
   

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   This falls squarely in the "if you invested with this company, you got exactly the payoff you deserved" situation.
   
   Complaining to the SEC about this company is like calling the cops because the speakers you bought out of the back of that panel van were actually just bricks in a used Klipsch box.
   
   Considered it an expensive lesson learned.
   
   TANSTAAFL

    

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 22nd, 2006 @ 2:57pm

    
    

    Re: No Subject Given

    Did any of the investors think about were their millions were going? Didn't anybody at all get pissed after all these years of "development" and all the company has to show as was a keyboard? Forget the CES, the investors really should have said something, asked for reports, photos, shareholder meetings, jesus christ.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 22nd, 2006 @ 3:00pm

    
    

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    Did anyone visitng their websitre notice that the head of the board of directors and the development team are the same person? That and the company employs only 5 people worth noting on the site?

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 22nd, 2006 @ 3:37pm

    
    

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    just recently the company showed at e3 which isn't bad, so did hundreds of others... they have a new director now. and basicly its just gona be a computer with some special edition of xp on it with nvida graphics card. the idea is good.
    they will be competing and using microsoft at the same time, which is a weird idea.
    so i have mixed oppinions, but maybe the new ceo is actually trying. i love games and this sounds like a good idea... even though it's staggering.

     

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    DittoBox, Feb 22nd, 2006 @ 4:11pm

    
    

    DeLorean anyone

    Hmmm, I wonder if they're also offering a Phantom built into a DeLorean, now that would be cool.
    
    The /. way:
    1. Start fake company with fake product (DeLorean, Phantom, OLED keyboard)
    2. Get fake dollars from fake vulture capitalists
    3. Get real dollars from real vulture capitalists
    4. Spend some fake dollars on development
    5. Buy a hummer limo
    6. Move to the Bahamas
    7. Profit!

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 22nd, 2006 @ 4:35pm

    
    

    Hence the name "Phantom"

    Its like investing in a company that calls it self "Media Con" - it hints right in the name of it that its a scam, except that Phantom sounds cooler than Media Con

     

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    Jeffrey Kroll, Feb 23rd, 2006 @ 6:25am

    
    

    Infinium

    Ha... sad thing is this company is located about a block from where I am currently sitting. I can look out my window of my office and see the Infinium sign. The company is currently located in Sarasota, FL... oddly enough ... the sign was being worked recently, so that leaves me only to wonder if they are going to be closing there doors soon.

     

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