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February 01, 2008

Behaviour Analysis Is Key To Avoid Another Societe Generale Scandal, Cataphora CEO says (video)

And if you are fluent in French, check the video of Cataphora's engineer (and formerly at Societe General), Pascal Marcellini, that explains in his native language how the French bank could have been saved by his solution. At Societe...

January 30, 2008

[DEMO 08] Chris Shipley Opens Day 2 With Another Dance session! (video)

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...

January 29, 2008

[DEMO 08] Skyfire's Internet Browser Goes After Opera mini, Minimo and iPhone's Safari (video)

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"...

[DEMO 08] It is Easy Being Green session: Green Plug, Celsias (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...

[DEMO 08] Let's Jam session with iVideoSongs! (video)

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...

[DEMO 08] See it Again for the First Time session: LiveScribe, seesmic and MOLI (video)

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),...

[DEMO 08] Simplify Simplify Simplify session: LiquidTalk, Zodiac Interactive, Voyant, Review2Buy, Acesis, blist, Ecrio and CellSpinSoft (video)

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)....

[DEMO 08] StepWare Auto Eliminates Ambiant Noise (video)

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...

[DEMO 08] LeapFrog's TAG Reading System Lets Parents Monitor Kids Learning Path (video)

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...

[DEMO 08] Morning sessions, My Faves: Leapfrog, Skyfire and STEP Labs

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....

[DEMO 08] Demo Drives To Represent Entire High-Tech Market (video)

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...

Demo 2008 Kicks-Off! (video)

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...

January 28, 2008

The Week Ahead: Demo, Demo and More Demo and Finally... Lunch?

- 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...