She did it again! To jumpstart this morning we needed no less than Demo's executive producer dancing on stage and throwing away Zune MP3 players and Windows Vistas to wake us all. The night was too short and the coffee...

Skyfire's mobile Internet browser is quite impressive. After you install the browser client on your Windows mobile phone (and soon for Symbian, iPhone and Blackberry), you'll be able to display "any web site, any web applications and any web video"...

Green Plug Green Plug develops a chip that enables real-time collaboration between electronic devices and their power sources, using the Green Plug Universal Power Protocol (UPP). Green Plug is the developer of Green Talk - a digital protocol for...

iVideotunes On iVideosongs’ website you can learn to play your favorite songs from the original artists who created them. You can learn from legendary side men and some of the best teachers anywhere. iVideosongs has licensed full rights to its...

LiveScribe Ubergizmo published yesterday a long article about the best gadget of DEMO: the LiveScribe PulseSmartpen. Many people here told me that this device is no new technology because they remember other digital pens from Logitech or Leapfrog (Flypen),...

CellSpin enables mobile users to create media content and publish it to their favorite websites in one click from their phones (e.g. Facebook, blogger, YouTube and Ebay)....

After STEP Labs demo (below) I caught up with CEO Robert Mitro who provided more details on the technology and his company. Taiwanese company GG Telecom has already built a visor-mounted Bluetooth car kit using STEP's technology, the R1 Car...

We already wrote here about LeapFrog's TAG Reading System for kids between age 4 to 8 years old. Here is the video of Craig Hendrickson, LeapFrog's vice president of reading products, demo. He mentioned the successful LeapPad product, but fail...

Phewww... morning sessions are over but I'm still digesting the products of the first 19 companies. Out of all of them I particularly liked Leapfrog's Tag reading system, the Skyfire Internet browser for mobile phones, STEP Labs noise cancellation chip/solution....

In her introductory comments, Demo executive producer Chris Shipley explained that Demo's goal is to present the broader picture of the high-tech market, not just about Web 2.0 companies, gadgets, enterprise software, etc... In Shipley's words all these market segments...

Here we are again... another January in Palm Springs, another Demo! 77 companies, out of hundreds screened, are presenting over the next 2 days. With our colleagues at Ubergizmo, we'll post tons of pictures, videos and interviews throughout the...

- Monday through Thursday: To wrap up a very busy month (CES, MacWorld, SD Forum, Churchill Club...), I'm getting ready to fly to Palm Springs for the Demo conference. I'm expecting lots of start-ups I never heard of but...

I just came back from a CommonWealth Club event titled "It's easy being green" about ways to "green" your life (reduce your carbon footprint, help save natural resources, reduce pollution, protect wildlife and improve our community) without spending a...

Now that MacWorld 2008 is in the back mirror, I finally decided to upgrade my Mac mini to Leopard. The upgrade took over 2 hours to complete (and I'm not counting the time checking the installation DVD that can...

Inspite of worldwide competition from regions like Europe, Japan, Australia, China, India or Russia, Silicon Valley still leads the world of venture capital. In the US, the region alone is responsible for about 35% of the U.S. total VC...

With the new motto "Smart Made Simple", PC accessories company Kensington is taking the "digital lifestyle" route with sleeker and stylish designed mices, keyboards, bags, iPod accessories and even power adapters... how sexy can that be! At MacWorld, Kensington's...

Are there any viruses on the Mac? That was the billion dollar question that I asked Symantec's Mac product manager Mike Romo (pictured) during an interview at MacWorld. And his answer: "There hasn't been any viruses really. There has...

With a large theatre at its centre, the Apple booth is of course the main attraction of the show. And if you are an exhibitor I was told you should do your best to be on the right side...

If Equinux had a motto it would certainly be, "less is better". And for several reasons. According to CEO Till Schadde (pictured) that I met during the show, Equinux is all about simplifying the user interface. No matter how...

At the ezGear press conference, marketing manager Sarah Madsen presented 3 new products for the iPod, 2 alarm clocks and the XL90 sound bar, as well as the ezVision Connect, an video and audio wireless transmitter/receiver system for the ezVision...

Microsoft finally launched its long awaited [3 years in the making!!!] update of its productivity software suite for Mac. Now Apple users can finally open Office 2007 attachments! No small achievement believe me. So to celebrate the new release,...

I didn't stay very long at the VMware party... long enough to play with the Veodia service and record the ambiance... the music was good but nobody was dancing! So after some refreshments, time to head to the Microsoft...

Unlike the other press conferences I attended today, the VestaLife one was packed with reporters waiting the end of the event to receive their personal review unit of the $110 Ladybug speaker dock for iPod! There, VestaLife co-founder and Chief...

The MacWorld Expo opened just after Steve Jobs' keynote. The expo is spreaded over two halls: Moscone South (where these pictures were taken and where the Apple booth is as well) and Moscone West. It feels that this is the...

A short interview with CEO Till Schadde as well as the press release for the TubeStick after the jump....

This is Ntractive press conference with CEO Dale Jensen. I did a quick interview of Jensen after the jump....

SeeFile is a Mac server software that lets you easily share your files over the Internet. Users then access the SeeFile server through an Internet browser. The software costs $500 for 5 concurrent users. More info on our video interview...

The Keynote is over. Thanks for tuning in! 10:15 Macbook pricing: $1799. Shipping in 2 weeks Macbook Air can access the optical drive of a nearby Mac 10:10 Macbook Air has been announced! Super thin: 0.76” – 1.2” 3lbs 13.3"...

8:30am Jean Baptiste is in line for the keynote and has made it to the breakfast table.. come back to Uberpulse later this morning to get an update as the keynote unfolds. In the meantime, Here are some photos... you...

Check out UberPulse tomorrow morning around 9 AM Pacific/U.S. West Coast Time for our live video and blogging feed of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote at MacWorld 2008 in San Francisco. I just came back from the Apple EU dinner...

Penton Overseas has been doing foreign language books for the past 20 years. And they are now porting their courses to MP3 video that works on iPods, PCs and other compatible devices for people under 30 that want to...

Little that I know that this Corning company that I met during the Lunch @ Piero's was the foundation for the whole flat panel/LCD industry: TVs, laptops, cell phone screens... anything that is built using high-quality glass. I was...

Mobivox lets you make international phone calls from any phone ( I tried with my cell) for free and without having to create a new number for your international contacts. I'm currently using Rebtel that I found being the best...

Lunch @ Piero's is a press only event that happens at Piero's, a fine dining restaurant just across from the Las Vegas convention centre. It was started by Pat Meier-Johnson over 20 years ago and now attracts over 2...

The folks at Opera were nice enough to confirm the soon availability of the Opera browser for the Apple iPhone. Maybe next week or with the release of the iPhone SDK. Also at CES, the Norwegian company launched Opera 9...

Of the 3 media-only receptions at CES 2008, ShowStoppers is by far the nicest: better food, more space/confortable, the organisers tried their best to regroup companies by categories. I also like the mix of companies, both small and large. Overall...

After the BlogHaus, I went with the Ubergizmo team to the Digital Experence press event at the Caesar Palace. Yes... I missed Bill Gates last keynote at CES! I found the Digital Experience event more comfortable than yesterday's CES Unveiled:...

Beer and Blogs... that could be the motto for this second BlogHaus hosted by Podtech, Seagate and HP at the Bellagio hotel throughout CES. It opened this afternoon at 4PM and there is already close to 100 bloggers chatting,...

As a new owner of a $1,000 Panasonic Plasma TV, I'm not yet ready to fork $800 for OmniMount's mounting arm albeit motorised! Actually, you can find the Motion 52 on Amazon for $470. Anyway, Kimberly Fabiano (pictured) of OmniMount...

Finally a useful product that I can afford. Invisible Shield has developed over1,500 thin film protectors to protect from scratching the body and/or screens of your favourite gadget like an iPhone or a camera. I liked the lifetime warranty: if...

But who would buy a $4,000 massage chair? Perhaps the rare super-rich techies that care about their health, work and exercise a lot! If you know any, tell them about the 7450 from Human Touch. This chair reclines and...

2 days before the CES show officially begins, the media is having a first glimpse of some of the latest products to be "unveiled" later this week. My guess is that there was close to 100 companies. The event was...

The Logitech press event was kicked off this afternoon by the company's newly appointed CEO (pictured). Gerald "Jerry" Quindlen stressed the Swiss company's ever more focus on the digital living room market with products like a new Bluetooth multimedia device,...

Like our colleagues from UberGizmo, we are now on site in *stormy" Las Vegas to cover the largest consumer electronic show in the world, namely CES. Although the show does not officially start before Monday, the press and bloggers are...