DEMO 08, Message in a Bottle Session
Story posted on: January 29, 2008
Toktumi
Toktumi offers affordable PBX (Private Branch System) functionality. You can receive and place calls from the phone or the computer, the application has a neat Search-to-call feature that allows users to search for a person or company name in their computer, dial the phone number and access in one click a Google map to locate the person/company address. It cost $12.95 a month plus 2 cents per minute and you can try it before subscribing.BloCafe
BloCafé=(Blog+Live Forum+Live Public Conversation)*pushing message. With BloCafe users can host live forums to share files/cooperate on files shown at their computer desktop with attendees while they’re talking, provide live conversation rooms to attendees to allow them talking in public, send push messages to attendees, and write their blog.Movial
Currently, people cannot share their social media instantly with all their friends. Movial’s Social Communicator provides a solution to this need. This application offers a chat-like user interface, where users has their contacts, can access their video from their favorite social website (YouTube is used for the demo) and send it to their friends via the Social Communicator dashboard, and recipients receives notifications message on their comuter or their mobile phones.Continue Reading"DEMO 08, Message in a Bottle Session"
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January 28, 2008
Pulse Smartpen: Read, Write, Speak and Listen With Your Pen
Story posted on: January 28, 2008
[DEMO 2008] Today, Livescribe unveils the Pulse Smartpen, a computer embedded in a pen that captures handwriting and simultaneously records audio, synchronizing it to the writing. This is particularly useful for taking notes during a class or a conference! To replay what was recorded while writing a specific word, users simply tap on the word - they can’t miss anything from a presentation. I need to buy one, which would be so useful for tech conferences and interviews!
The Pulse Smartpen is equipped with an ARM 9 processor and a high speed infrared camera with a Dot Positioning System (DPS) that works with the Dot paper Notebook; the micro dots printed on the paper tell the Pulse Smartpen where a user is writing or taping. The Paper Replay Notebook cost around the same price as a regular notebook, and users can print their own dot paper for free on their personal printers.
The pen comes with a 3D recording headset especially designed for far-field recording, each earbud has an embedded microphone to record in large room or noisy environment. The goal is to record exactly what’s coming into both ears.
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TAG Reading System, the new learn-to-read device from LeapFrog
Story posted on: January 28, 2008
[DEMO 08] Leapfrog is coming at DEMO with its new reading system, the Tag Reading System. This pen-shaped device interacts directly with real books: by simply touching the Tag reader anywhere on any page of a specially printed book, children can hear words and stories read aloud.
The Leapfrog Connect Application (PC/Mac) allows users to download and manage audio for each book, and with 16 MB build-in flash memory, the Tag Reader holds up to five books.
An infrared camera placed in the tip of the Tag reader reads dotted media and works as an imaging system to recognize letters, words and symbols printed with micro-dots. This technology seems similar to the one used in the more advanced Pulse SmartPen also launching today at DEMO.
The Tag Reading System will be available this summer 2008 for $49.99, Tag books and Activity books will be $13.99 each. We have seen a similar device at CES from the Chinese manufacturer Aigo. Learn more on the Tag reader website leapfrog.com/tag. This article will be updated with the link to the demonstration video in the next few days.
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PCMobilzr: Control Your PC from Your Mobile Phone
Story posted on: January 28, 2008
[DEMO 08] Rove Mobile Inc. unveils its new mobile application that enables users to have a remote access to every file and application on their computer. They can display their PC computer’s desktop and control the keyboard and mouse from their Black Berry or Windows mobile phone. The client application can be downloaded from the computer or the mobile device. Users can access their computer simply using a username and password for a monthly subscription rate of $9.50 which feels expensive to me.
According to Chris Shipley, executive producer of the DEMO Conference, “PCMobilizr is impressive […]. If I forget a document, or need a file, a spreadsheet – anything on my computer – I can now access, edit, and even print directly from my phone. All with super convenience.” I have to try it as soon as possible to see how impressive it really is.
A similar Remote Desktop functionality is included in Windows Mobile 6 Pro and there is a related service called SoonR, but I am not sure if it allows to display the PC screen and control the PC mouse and keyboard through the phone in the same way. This article will be updated with the link to the demonstration video in the next days.
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Support.com Launches New Online PC HealthCheck
Story posted on: January 28, 2008
[DEMO 08] Support.com, today announced the addition of PC HealthCheck to its list of services. PC HealthCheck is able to scan remotely a consumer’s PC over the Internet and check the performance, security and overall system. Then the support.com technicians can resolve any issue using services such as System TuneUp and Virus and Spyware removal.
According to support.com, the most frequent problems consumers encountered were virus and spyware issues ( 27 percent), tune-ups (31 percent), simple quick fixes (32 percent) and Microsoft Windows Vista (10 percent of calls).
PC HealthCheck is free and available today. Remote repair services range from $29-$99 and come with a money back guarantee. Visit www.support.com. This article will be updated with the link to the demonstration video in the next days.
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EYEALIKE: Visual-based Search to Prevent Online Video Copyright Infringement
Story posted on: January 28, 2008
[DEMO 08] Eyealike is launching Eyealike Copyright, an application that helps video producers flag copyright infringed content across User Generated (UGC) Websites.
This patent-pending technology is able to analyze and process hundreds of images and video clips per minute by image, motion and face to automatically recognize and flag any video content published illegally online. (Photo) This solution is very interesting, knowing the huge amount of money that copyright infringement could cost both in lawsuit (Viacom $1B lawsuit against YouTube) and profit loss.
Eyealike Copyright is available immediately. The pricing is based on an annual licensing fee and varies depending on CPU, storage size, modules purchased and frequency of utilization. This article will be updated with the link to the demonstration video in the next days.
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Point-of-Care: the Physician’s Interactive Notebook
Story posted on: January 28, 2008
[DEMO 08] This new application built on Adobe Air is an interesting health record solution. Acesis claims that their software is better tailored to the way physicians work and think, unlike existing health IT solutions.
Point of care provides a secure and flexible data capture system with structured medical vocabularies for reporting and analysis. Physicians can easily create and modify templates and forms dynamically expand based on prior responses, helping physicians focus on appropriate lines of clinical inquiry.
I would like to test it to see how intuitive the user interface is, even if I am not a doctor. The article will be updated with a link to the demonstration video in the next few days.
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JOGGLE: Manage Your Media Files Across Multiple Devices and Websites
Story posted on: January 28, 2008
[DEMO 08] Based upon Adobe AIR, Joggles offers a solution to easily manage digital content no matter where it is stored: social media sites, online communities, external storage devices and computers. Users can manipulate and share your content from the Joggle viewer (Photo), create slideshow, play lists… and then publish it using widgets on multiple websites, or share privately with people via email. When a change is made to the master copy, Joggles updates automatically all the copies in all the places where the content has been published.
People who sign up at www.joggle.com will be invited to try out the Beta preview launching in February 2008. The public beta service will be available in Spring 2008.
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SKYFIRE New Mobile Browser Optimized for Flash and Ajax
Story posted on: January 28, 2008
[DEMO 08] SKYFIRE just launched a new mobile browser, and they claim that users can experience the “real Web” now, accessing any Website wit any Web technology, including dynamic Flash, Ajax, Java and more – at the same speed as they do on a PC.
I have to check this as soon as the Demonstration Pavilion opens on Tuesday morning. If I am lucky, I can meet with the Skyfire folks at the opening reception tonight and get a private demo. I want to make sure that the real user experience matches what they claim on paper.
Skyfire features include a multiple engines Web search with results displayed in multiple tabs, a bookmark system that allows users to get back to specific content location on a page in one click, full screen navigation, thumbnails view and zooming/resizing the Web content to fit the screen.
The Skyfire patent-pending technology is claimed to support all Web technologies, both current and future at speeds comparable to the PC. Skyfire is announcing a private beta to support Windows Mobile phones, both touchscreen and non-touchscreen, in the U.S For more information about the company, visit www.skyfire.com. This article will be updated with the link to the demonstration video in the next days.
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STEPware Voice-Filtering for Hands-Free Car Kit
Story posted on: January 28, 2008
[DEMO 08]
STEP Labs’ STEPWare Auto is a technology that can filter out unwanted noise for in-car voice recognition. By noise, they mean “a moving car with the windows down, the radio on, and children playing in the backseat”, which would perturb many voice-recognition systems. At least, that’s what the company claims and we are going to see it on stage during DEMO 08. We will report back to tell you if it really works.
STEP Labs partners with manufacturers who are interested in integrating its voice-filtering technique in their voice-driven solutions.
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MoBeam Keychain Barcode is the iPod for Coupons
Story posted on: January 28, 2008
[DEMO 08] Ecrio’s MoBeam is a small device that can store coupons transferred via Bluetooth. The coupons can originate from many sources, including a cellphone (downloaded from the web/email/SMS) or a coupon-broadcasting station at a retailer. The device is capable of sending light signals that emulate the reflection of a paper barcode to a normal barcode reader. That’s good news for the retailer because there’s no need for expensive equipment expenditures.
From there, it’s not hard to imagine a PC application and an iTunes equivalent of local coupons… Is this “Coupons 2.0”? Also, if that leads to having less SPAM in my (physical) mailbox, that would be great!
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Cellspin: Mobile Application to Post Audio, Video and Text to Favorites Websites
Story posted on: January 28, 2008
[DEMO 08] Cellspin is launching a mobile application that enables users to create video, audio, photos and text on their cell phone or via the Cellspin Web site, and then publish the content easily to their favorite social networks Web sites. On the mobile phone’s display, users select one of the four media types they want to create (photo on the left) and then with one click, they upload the newly created content to the website of their choice (photo on the right).
CellSpin currently supports sharing media with Facebook, Blogger, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, Live Journal, Live Spaces and eBay. I did not test this service yet, but from the interface photos it seems very simple to use, and that is what I like!
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Celsias: Website for Fighting Global Warming
Story posted on: January 28, 2008
[DEMO 08] Celsias.com is launching Celsias Projects where people can interact and network to create join or sponsor projects to fight global warming.
The Celsias community works with project leaders (who create and manage project) and project sponsors (people who financially support project). Creating a project on the website is easy. Once you have an idea, you just have to fill an online form and you become a Celsias leader (free of charge). To manage the project, the leader can add pictures, maps, activate a donation widget, link to posts on the Celsias blog, manage meetings and schedule and publish on a mini project blog.
Also, expecting to attract the corporate market, Celsias offers private project and limit access to a company’s employees for only $29 per project per month or $299 per year. This article will be updated with the link to the demonstration video in the next few days.
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VisibleSuite: Video Audience Behavior Measurement
Story posted on: January 28, 2008
[DEMO 08] Visible Measures Corp. is announcing VisibleSuite, a patent-pending software solution that monitors every video interaction in every video from every viewer, from play to pause to rewind to forward-to-a-friend and more.
This audience behavior measurement solution will help video publishers and video advertisers understand how audiences find, view, share each video and then map results to specific campaigns. Monetization of online video is a challenge, may be this new tool could provide a solution.
VisibleSuite is available immediately and is already in use by DEMO, Hill Holliday, Streetfire, Honeyshed/Droga5, Boston.com and others. VisibleSuite pricing is based on overall video consumption and starts at $2,000 USD per month. This article will be updated with the link to the demonstration video in the next few days.
