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Quote from: RichL74 on June 05, 2005, 11:15:48 PM
My question is what is keeping Japanese investors from trading in the Nasdaq market? How does this affect their upcoming offering?

Many thanks in advance.

To trade the nasdaq the japanese people must have an account with an american broker i guess, or their home banking must permit trading on the US. The general public on Japan, as on the rest of the world, dont even know how to do that.

Off course, that a lot of japanese active traders already trade the nasdaq and already bought IIJI, but imagine the rest of the general public ? thats huge !!!!

Thanks for your explanation.

What is everyone's outlook for this week? Does anyone have a read on the Japanese sentiments on this stock? I'm looking to go long, REAL LONG on this stock and would like to see how positive this company is to the average Japanese investor. I've been long on Google since the IPO and would like to move some of the profits to another winner.

Thanks again.

Here is some more information I got .... hope you can decipher.

I stopped out on IIJI automatically on that end of Friday profit taking fall back towards $9. I can't watch the market all day so stops are vital. Yes IIJI is way overextended, but the momentum and 'story' is powerful and will probably see continuation rather than collapse. Momo traders are playing for sure. Huge vol on Friday created black candle with large top shadow, not great signal, but the action on this stock is not over by a long way.
Mike

I hope you didn't lost your position aussie ... remember Old Turkey in Reminiscences 

IIJI slipped into negative territory this morning. I guess this is the best time, if ever, to jump into this stock.

Keeping a close watch on this forum. Thank you all that have contributed.

I have my position thanks 

Testing the highs of the day with strong intraday volume in the last 30 minutes 

There's some action out there !    big fight 

The fight is over...

Next battle a couple of $ ahead ;-)

Agreed. Forget about the 7.5 puts, we are talking about the teens a week from now.

Ram

Wasn't is interesting how it went up against 9.88 four different times, only to fall back down? Then close was amazing.

I bought a few K shares at 7.80 and have been happy with the recent surge. It seems like the old days (ex. JNPR).

Question:  Does anyone think IIJI has the potentila to be > $20 in the short term (30 days)?  With the action, it sure would seem so.

In addition, any history with stocks hitting Mothers and gains after that?

Thanks

Great forum.

Hey Aussie, good thing you got in early today. Nice trading....

According to the projections, the next resistance level is around 10.70.

The rest of the week probably around 11.13. Let's see if it holds true.

Toshiba to Adopt IIJ's Anti-spam Solution
Monday June 6, 10:00 pm ET
Ensuring email protection and security with a multi-tiered filtering technology

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2005--Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ, NASDAQ: IIJI), one of Japan's leading Internet access and comprehensive network solutions providers, today announced that it will provide Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba) with an anti-spam solution.

The anti-spam solution being provided to Toshiba consists of two components: IIJ Edge Filter and IIJ Spam Mail Filter. The IIJ Edge Filter identifies and restricts mass spam mail that is sent to a single server in a short period of time, as well as mail that clearly contains suspicious content. The IIJ Spam Mail Filter determines a spam rating for all incoming mail messages and filters them on that basis. IIJ Edge Filter was implemented in December of last year, while IIJ Spam Mail Filter will be implemented in June of this year.

Every year, mountains of spam are sent to users without their consent, and every year the perpetrators devise more devious and vicious methods to send even more. The problem has become so critical that more than 70% of the mail sent in the U.S. is said to be spam. The problem is becoming more serious in Japan as well, and for businesses in particular, responding to the growing flood of spam mail is a drain on budgets and systems, not to mention a drag on productivity for entire companies.

Toshiba maintains tens of thousands of mail accounts on it's Group network, which makes resolving the spam mail problem a priority. IIJ has worked with Toshiba in the past when it decided to implement IIJ's Web Gateway Service to provide securely managed Web access. With IIJ's advanced Internet technology, the IIJ Web Gateway's record of high performance, and IIJ's pioneering efforts in anti-spam solutions, it was natural choice for Toshiba to enlist IIJ's help again on this project.

After implementing IIJ Edge Filter, Toshiba saw a 30% drop in mail traffic, and this performance is expected to increase once the IIJ Spam Mail Filter is brought on-line.

The IIJ Anti-spam Mail Solution

The IIJ Anti-spam Mail Solution consists of the components described below, and these components create a multi-tiered filtering structure that achieves better filtering rates on spam mail with far fewer false positives, and removes the need to waste money on additional equipment.

IIJ Edge Filter

IIJ's proprietary anti-spam solution uses a three-pronged approach to stop large mass mail transmissions before they reach a customer's system: (1) Mail volume control, which checks the number of messages received in a certain unit of time to determine when large volume mail transmissions are occurring, (2) Access control, which uses IP addresses and sender/receiver information to interrupt or restrict mail from specific sources, and (3) File extension filtering, which interrupts or restricts messages with file attachments that have certain file extensions. This service prevents damage that is caused by large volumes of mail hitting a user's system at once, and improves system availability.

Future developments will make the system compatible with the up and coming sender authentication technology for fighting spam.

IIJ Spam Mail Filter

U.S.-based MX Logic's filtering engine provides the spam filtering features that determine the spam rating of all incoming messages. The spam level is then used to filter out spam. Messages with a high spam rating are put into quarantine automatically on a remote folder where they can be deleted en masse, thus greatly reducing the load on the customer's servers.

E-mail has become an indispensable tool in our daily lives, and IIJ will continue working to develop services that make it easier to use.

About IIJ

Founded in 1992, Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ, NASDAQ: IIJI) is one of Japan's leading Internet-access and comprehensive network solutions providers. The company has built one of the largest Internet backbone networks in Japan, and between Japan and the United States. IIJ and its group of companies provide total network solutions that mainly cater to high-end corporate customers. The company's services include high-quality systems integration and security services, Internet access, hosting/housing, and content design.

My guess is that IIJI withheld this information for awhile. A coincidence that IIJI offering in Japan is only 1 week away?

I think not.

Probably not the last 'nice' press release leading up to the Mothers Market debut IMHO. Thanks for the news link Rich.
Mike