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Here's all the news and commentary about DEMO alumni companies and emerging technology trends written by DEMO writers and analysts. Please comment on stories of interest to you.
Logitech unveils Squeezebox Boom tabletop music player
By IDG News Service•08/28/2008
Logitech of Fremont, CA (DEMO 95 and DEMOmobile 04) today introduced the Squeezebox Boom, the latest addition to its Squeezebox line of streaming-audio products that brings iTunes music and streaming Internet audio into rooms and onto nightstands without any external speakers. It features an integrated amplifier and speakers, and will be available in September for US$300. Read more
NumberGarage - Innovator to Watch
By Guidewire Group•08/28/2008
What do you do when you want to disconnect telephone service, but reserve your telephone number for future use? You park the number in NumberGarage. A collaboration of Freedom Communications USA and My Media Moxie, NumberGarage of Dickson, TN is a deceptively simple service that allows consumers to effectively take ownership of their telephone number. Read more
Cisco offers $215M for PostPath to boost WebEx email capabilities
By Mary A. C. Fallon•08/27/2008
Cisco has signed a definitive agreement to buy PostPath, Inc., (DEMOfall 06) a maker of e-mail and calendaring software, for $215 million and plans to add those capabilities to its on-demand WebEx Connect collaboration platform. The deal is expected to close in October. Read more
Aternity signs Ness Technologies to manage sales in Israel
By Mary A. C. Fallon•08/26/2008
Green Plug names Keyworth, ex HP director and Reagan science advisor, to its board
By Mary A. C. Fallon•08/26/2008
Green Plug (DEMO 08), advocate of a universal power supply, today named former presidential science advisor and physicist George "Jay" Keyworth II, Ph.D., 69, of Piedmont, CA, to its board effective Sept. 1. Keyworth currently is chairman and senior fellow of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a think tank studying the implications of digital technology on public policy, and is on the board of General Atomics of San Diego, a division of General Dynamics that builds nuclear power reactors, state-of-the-art unmanned aerial vehicles, and radar systems.
Keyworth is best known in Silicon Valley for his 21 years on the board of directors of Hewlett-Packard Company. Keyworth resigned Read more
Digital Fountain HD streaming video backs Citizen Kate for the election season
By Mary A. C. Fallon•08/25/2008
Political video blogger Citizen Kate - a.k.a. Kate Solgin - this election season got Digital Fountain's vote and its high-definition DF Splash (DEMOfall 07) video streaming technology for free for her offbeat coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions.
"Streaming high-quality video is what we need to really leverage what the net is capable of for media programmers like us," said Solgin, a University of Wisconsin communications graduate who got talked into the blogging gig over a beer before the primaries. Read more
Cause TV - Innovator to Watch
By Guidewire Group•08/25/2008
CauseTV is the online platform (in beta) that enables conversation between personal causes, organizations, and cause-affiliated consumer brands, creating an environment where causes and products interact with their most loyal advocates.
The core of the offering is a “social responsibility framework” that combines video interaction, peer participation, and sponsored causes into an emotional experience designed to engage users and encourage values-based purchase decisions. Read more
GlamMedia hires sales VP for Midwest
By Mary A. C. Fallon•08/25/2008
GlamMedia, Inc., (DEMOfall 05 and DEMOfall 07) of Brisbane, CA, which brokers deals between advertisers and online publishers of 640 fashion and entertainment Web sites, today hired Christine McNicholas in the new position of vice president of sales for the Midwest region to help expand the company's sales team. Read more
Skyfire hires entrepreneur Singh as vp of business development
By Mary A. C. Fallon•08/22/2008
