DEMOfall 2006 to Showcase New Technology
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By MAY WONG  Instant messages. Text messages. E-mail. Voicemail. Blogs. Online social networks. And the good ol' cell phone. If you thought there were enough ways to communicate with others and express yourself, think again.
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New technologies wirelessly transmit high-definition video.
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(InfoWorld) - The Demofall show has never had quite the cache of the bigger Demo conference, but itâs still a fun time, as startups from across the tech sector give their patented six-minute pitches for why their companyâs product will change the world. This yearâs show will feature 66 companies, with products ranging from core infrastructure to enterprise middleware, security, and mobile and wireless services, said Chris Shipley, executive producer of Demo. âItâs a wide-angle lens of what the marketplace is doing now,â she said. Java will be the thread that ties many of the Demo companies together. About 50 percent of vendors involved are offering products based on the platform, Shipley said. Platform considerations aside, there are a few companies in the âthatâs just coolâ category this year. Among them is BuzzLogicâs eponymous technology for performing business intelligence in the blogosphere. BuzzLogic gauges what is being said about a specific product, Shipley said. Topping the âgee-whizâ category is stealth-mode startup Ringcube Technologies, which will demonstrate its MojoPac virtualization and encapsulation software that allows you to run Windows 2000, XP, or Vista from any USB 2.0-compliant storage device. Simply plug your device into a host computer, and your desktop appears, applications and file system included, with no client to install and no files left behind. Translation: Your iPod is now your desktop. Jajah, meanwhile, is offering J2ME (Java 2 Mobile Edition) technology that uses VoIP messaging to circumvent long-distance calling charges from cell phones. With everyone trying to muscle in on Appleâs iTunes monopoly, Zing Systems and Sirius Satellite Radio are getting together to create an end-to-end service for music downloads, Shipley said. Also featured at the show is a keynote presentation on future technologies by John Patrick, president of the Altitude consultancy and a former IBM executive, who is expected to discuss mobility and applied nanotechnology.
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With the new year comes new products, and, as it is every year, many of them will be showed off at the semi-annual Demo conference, this year being held in Palm Desert, California.Twice a year, Demo witnesses a gathering of VCs and corporate high-tech investors who watch as demonstrators are given six minutes each to present what they hope will be evaluated as breakthrough technology worth investing in.Every instance of Demo seems to bring with it a new product focus, and at Demo 2008, the hands-down winner is video products.Visible Measures has a technology, Visible Suite, that leverages the phenomenal growth of Internet video and attempts to make sense of audience behavior while watching videos. The on-demand service integrates with an Internet site's video player. Matt Cutler, vice president of marketing at Visible Measures says "view counts alone are not enough." Rather, the VisibleSuite captures all video interactions, including play, pause, rewind, fast forward, and forward to a friend.One unique feature of the technology is its ability to capture what Cutler calls "hot spots," places in the video where users keep returning to. "The hot spots are reflective of the interest of the audience," said Cutler.While Visible Measures captures the data, sometimes it is up to the client to understand why a particular hot spot is of high interest. For example, at StreetFire.net, users kept returning to a car that was only revving its engine. To the uninitiated, there may be nothing unusual to the sound of a revving engine, but an enthusiast will notice where "a guy blows a header," said Cutler.While delivering stats on viewers is in the first roll-out of the product, Cutler said Visible Measures will be also partnering with demographics companies to add more data about viewers.Meanwhile, Vidyo introduces VidyoConferencing, which has the unique differentiator of being able to broadcast high-definition video over standard IP networks. In each instance of a broadcast, each end point will display the highest quality video it is capable of handling. The ability to scale video performance based on the end point is achieved through a relatively new technology called H.264/SVC (Scalable Video Coding) that compresses and distributes the video stream.BitGravity also claims to send broadcast-quality video over the Internet. BG LiveBroadcast is based on Flash and is a streaming service that will be marketed to video content providers. According to Perry Wu, CEO and co-founder, BitGravity built a network for delivery of content that will rival cable and satellite and help make the Internet the most powerful medium of all for content delivery.Three months ago, the company launched BitGravity CDN [Content Delivery Network] to delivery video. Now it is introducing BG LiveBroadcast for delivery of live video content. The system is able to encode video in real time, get it on the network, broadcast, and deliver it to desktops with clear, crisp video at a high data rate, said Wu. "Performance will rival the quality of content on TV, giving the user video that is responsive when a user switches between videos, plays back video, or rewinds," said WuVideo provider Tube Mogul takes its name from a play on YouTube, but there's a twist to this video content distribution company. TubeMogul users can upload any video to its site and leave the distribution of the video to TubeMogul, which will distribute it to as many video sites as the user designates. Like Visible Measures, the company also uses analytics technology to compile video viewing data from the video publishing sites.While the TubeMogul site freely distributes video, Liquidus' niche is distribution of commercial advertising video. The company also offers production and placement services on everything from digital cable to standard TV and IPTV. Demo officials called Liquidus "a liferaft" for smaller advertisers who would otherwise have trouble competing with the high-quality production values available to major advertisers.On a more private front, VideoIQ iCVR offers a surveillance camera along with intelligent software that can send alerts to security personnel when the camera identifies unusual behavior. The system also reduces bandwidth usage, said officials.In all, Demo 2008 will see 78 presenters come on stage in seven separate categories: business hardware, consumer devices, small business software and services, consumer software and services, IT management and services, enterprise software and services, and enabling technology.
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PALM DESERT, Calif. C ompanies that want to help advertisers track who's watching what on the Web, social networks that try to help Cupid along, and a device that attempts to tackle electronic efficiency -- These are some of the areas grabbing attention at the DEMO show, which enters its third and...
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Microsoft is offering yet another glimpse at its oft-delayed Longhorn edition of Windows. Two new concept videos have been posted to the MSDN Web site that demonstrate potential real-life scenarios for the software giant's next generation operating system. The demos -- one geared towards telecoms and the other toward governments -- take a detailed look at longhorn's core technologies and discuss its promised benefits. Longhorn is expected to ship sometime in 2006; although, pundits are questioning Microsoft's ability to deliver on its key components like the WinFS file-storage system and the Avalon graphical subsystem.
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Forget the blather. With a new audio search technology, users could jump right to the area of interest in podcasts, and soon also in videos. Pluggd Inc. showed off its HearHere search software Tuesday at DEMOfall 2006, an elite tech show of emerging technologies.
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An image from Microsoft's E3 event rehearsal hints of a new model in the gaming console line.
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Gadgets have always taken center stage at the Consumer Electronics Show, but this year more than ever, even the coolest devices seem to be mere means to an end -- access to content and services whenever and wherever you want them.For years the underlying trend at CES, held in Las Vegas from Monday through Thursday, has been convergence, the increasing connection among communications, consumer electronics and computer industries. This year the stakes have been raised, with new mobile services, devices that connect to wireless broadband networks, and deals between content and entertainment companies and computer vendors.With the addition of Web 2.0 services and content into the traditional convergence mix, expect the term Convergence 2.0, which pops up occasionally, to be used more frequently in the future.The diverse array of gadgets and standards at the show can be a barrier to convergence, however. Industry executives acknowledge that despite -- or because of -- the various connectivity technologies on the market, making products work together is still a complicated and daunting task for consumers.As usual,&#160;Bill Gates set the tone with the initial CES keynote&#160;Sunday, although this year was the Microsoft co-founder&#39;s final appearance at the show. Gates and Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division President Robbie Bach unveiled new partnerships for Microsoft&#39;s MSN, Xbox Live, and Mediaroom IPTV services.They also announced that NBC will use Silverlight technology for video playback and on-demand access to events. In addition, Microsoft is working with TNT, Showtime, and CNN to provide IPTV-based services, and announced deals with MGM and ABC to bring content to Xbox Live.&quot;XBox Live is attracting virtually all the content people because of the volume we&#39;ve got there and they see this group of very engaged users spending a lot of hours and finding new media in that environment,&quot; said&#160;Gates, in an exclusive interview&#160;with the IDG News Service. &quot;Our announcement with NBC on the Olympics is about our innovations in this Silverlight, where you can view interactive content, multiple video streams.&quot;Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang underscored&#160;the importance of mobile services in his Monday keynote, introducing a new look for the company&#39;s Go mobile Web interface, and new technology to let third-party developers build mobile widgets for the mobile platform.One sign that the concept of convergence has been juiced up: the head of the largest chip maker in the world spent most of his keynote time talking about future &quot;personalized&quot; Web experiences. &quot;Increasingly, computing and communications are coming together, bringing a new level of capability and intelligence to the Internet experience,&quot; said Intel CEO Paul Otellini in a Tuesday keynote. &quot;The personal Internet of tomorrow will serve you, delivering the information you want, when you want it, how you want, wherever you are.&quot;Otellini demonstrated the Canmore system-on-a-chip platform, due out in the second half of the year, which enables high-resolution imaging and broadcast TV for consumer electronics devices. The chip includes the Intel Architecture processor, and an audio-visual unit that supports 1080p high-resolution imaging and surround sound.Qualcomm, meanwhile showed off a prototype of what it called a Windows-mobile based &quot;pocketable&quot; computer running on its recently released 7201 chip. The screen, at 800 pixels wide, is designed to view Web sites designed for regular PCs, rather than versions altered for ultramobile PCs. Connectivity features include HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access), GPS (Global Positioning Service), Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth.Small computing devices are often ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), a term marketed by Microsoft, but vendors use a variety of terms.Intel was showing off prototypes of UMPCs based on its upcoming Menlow chips. A Lenovo device was running Red Flag Linux OS, and sported a 4.8-inch touch screen as well as a camera. Other devices at the booth included small handheld PCs with touchscreens, from Toshiba and Clarion.For all the UMPC prototypes being showed here, though, industry insiders were quick to acknowledge that the market has not taken off as quickly as had been expected. One reason UMPC sales have not increased dramatically, at least in the U.S., is that wireless bandwidth for mobile devices up to now has been slow, they say.&quot;A true ultramobile experience is being able to put a device in a handbag, go have a picnic in the park, pull out your mobile device and easily surf the Web, said Alp Sezen, a sales director for Via Technologies based in Fremont, California. &quot;Right now, you can&#39;t get that experience.&quot;&quot;It will take a year or two for the mobile wireless experience to get better,&quot; he said. &quot;Wi-Max, and the opening up of Verizon&#39;s EV-DO network in the third quarter this year will help give a better experience for ultramobile users.&quot;Sprint Nextel and its hardware partners, meanwhile, said they are on track with WiMax plans for the second quarter. Nokia and Samsung officials said they will have devices that will operate with WiMax in the second quarter, and Motorola said it is working on a device that will operate over Sprint&#39;s EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) cellular network, Wi-Fi and WiMax.For short-range wireless connectivity, devices incorporating the new 11n Wi-Fi standard were also on display. Netgear, for example, unveiled a two-radio 5GHz 802.11n for less than $130. The company also released an 11n router with five Gigabit Ethernet ports.One development that might end up making things easier for consumers puzzled by all vast array of gadgets and standards -- not all of which are interoperable -- was the decision by Warner Bros. to go with Blu-ray Disc, rather than HD DVD, for high-definition movies. The announcement, on the eve of the show, sparked thoughts that the high-definition format war may be over.Of course, Akio Ozaka, head of Toshiba America Consumer Products,&#160;put up a brave front&#160;at a news conference. But Philips Consumer Electronics also threw its full support behind Blu-ray, adding a Blu-ray DVD player, the BDP7200 DVD to its product lineup.(Additional reporting by Martyn Williams, Dan Nystedt, Elizabeth Montalbano, Agam Shah, and Nancy Gohring in Las Vegas.)&#160;
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Photo from the CEATEC technology showcase in Tokyo.
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SAN DIEGO -- At this year's DemoMobile 2004 conference here, the pulse of the wireless industry is registering a move toward service-based computing, which is about delivering applications and data from a managed platform to a variety of secure devices.
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Microsoft has announced that start shipping its next version of its Windows operating system in 2006. However to meet the new tight deadline a number of technical innovations will have to be dropped from the OS.
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PALM DESERT, Calif., Jan. 31  /PRNewswire/ -- The DEMO 07 stage program opened today in Palm Desert, launching 68 new personal and corporate computing technologies into the marketplace.
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Companies will demonstrate how their technology will work together.
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Microsoft used a Seattle conference to show off some features of the next version of Project.
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A second-generation "mylo" communicator device will be on display at CES this week.
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(InfoWorld) - San Diego -- An anti-botnet appliance, PC-sharing, and codeless application development were featured technologies at the Demofall 2006 conference Wednesday, with a multitude of hopefuls vying to provide the next industry-changing innovations. A myriad of offerings in the security, application development, and virtualization areas were covered as attendees gained insight into the use of nanotechnology to improve computer storage. Trend Micro, which unlike most other Demofall exhibitors has been around for many years, showed its InterCloud Security Service, which features an appliance and a service to combat botnets, which compromise security to gather confidential information. "We're here today because security threats on the Internet are growing faster than ever before," said Dave Rand, CTO at Trend Micro. "The main objective of these threats? Profit. The main cause? Botnets." NComputing, meanwhile, pitched its technology for PC-sharing via the use of terminals. "We expand the market by allowing [any] modern PC to be shared by multiple users at an incredibly low cost," said Stephen Dukker, chairman and CEO of nComputing. The company offers PCI- and Ethernet-based devices to enable sharing of PCs and servers. On the application development front, BriteSoft touted its system for configuring applications rather than coding them. "The software industry is at a crisis," said Fazel Naghshineh, CEO of BriteSoft. "Four-hundred billion dollars are spent annually on software development," with billions wasted on canceled projects, he said. He cited code-centric development as the problem, with developers having to choose from a multitude of coding platforms such as Java or Hibernate. BriteSoft, however, offers its BriteWorks system in which templates, a drag-and-drop paradigm, and an objects library are used to assemble applications quickly. "You can develop applications without writing a single line of code," Naghshineh said. Widgetbox demonstrated its self-named online directory of Web widgets for use in blogs and Web pages. "Widgets are hard to build, they're hard to find, and theyâre hard to use, and Widgetbox aims to solve that," said Ed Anuff, president and CEO of Widgetbox. The Diggs RSS Viewer was cited as the most popular widget available from Widgetbox. Meanwhile, an IBM executive touted the potential capabilities of nanotechnology in storage devices. "Nanotechnology is going to affect that in a very dramatic way," said Gian-Luca Bona, department group manager of Science & Technology at IBM's Almaden Research Center, in San Jose, Calif. One idea being considered for building devices as small as five-by-five nanometers involves the concept of using DNA-based molecular strands, Bona said. "It's all about scaling the technology to smaller and smaller area sizes," reducing costs and increasing performance, he said. Research is being done on scaling down storage devices but obstacles remain in atomic-based developments, according to Bona. But devices are being sought that are faster than today's flash or hard disk drives. "We're talking about 1 million instructions per second that you want to retrieve information out of a device that is non-volatile," which means it holds onto information when turned off, Bona said. Also in security, Data Security Systems Solutions showed its OTPK (One Time Private Key) online digital signature technology enabling secure transactions via handheld devices. "When was the last time you saw a digital signature on a mobile phone that's legally binding?" said Tan Teik Guan, CEO and CTO of the company. Imaginestics demonstrated its 3DSeek search site that enables users to doodle diagrams of component parts they need but cannot describe in words. A user, for example, could sketch a metal bracket and the site would retrieve items that resemble that drawing. PostPath unveiled version 2.0 of its PostPath Server, providing a Linux-based alternative to Microsoft Exchange. The new version features an AJAX-based (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web client. "We're so compatible that Outlook thinks itâs talking to Exchange. Really, it's talking to PostPath," said Duncan Greatwood, CEO of PostPath. Teneros added disaster recovery support to its "e-mail continuity appliance," called the Teneros Disaster Recovery Appliance for Microsoft Exchange. Trigence touted its application virtualization technology that uses the concept of an application "capsule," in which a virtual application environment is created with everything needed to run an application elsewhere. Tuesday afternoon featured one of the more peculiar inventions displayed at the conference. Violet launched its "Smart Rabbit," called Nabaztag. The rabbit-shaped, interactive device performs a variety of tasks for its owners and connects wireless Internet users with others. Nabaztag can recite text messages and e-mails, monitor the weather, and play M3 and MIDI files. Responding to commands issued wirelessly or from the Internet, Nabaztag's mobile ears engage in "ear play," in which one Nabaztag owner can reposition its ears and the recipient rabbit's ears then make the same movement. Moixa Energy on Tuesday presented its new battery technology USBcell, which features batteries that leverage USB ports for recharging.