Live Coverage: DEMO Session I – Moving the Chains

Below is our live coverage of the Monday morning startup presentations at the DEMO conference in San Diego. Keep refreshing this page to view the newest coverage – we will note once the coverage has concluded. And check our main DEMO and TechCrunch50 conference section for our video event coverage as well.

Opening Remarks – Chris Shipley

– Biggest DEMOfall ever
– 72 companies across all of technology and IT
– Thanks the sponsors
– Let’s make the next two days all about the presenters
– The tech market is moving into the next cycle
– Chris goes through the versions of the Web
– The next cycle will be about creating real market value

Adapx – Turning Ink into Action

– Like many of you we work with paper
– Paper is all around us
– Paper survives because it’s simple and easy
– Trouble begins when you want to get paper into the computer to do things with it
– Announces "captures forms with Excel"
– Basically create a form in Excel, print it out, use a digital pen and then put the data back into Excel
– Must use a digital pen to use it – Allen: this makes this technology tough to use/implement – can’t use with a classroom for example
– "real easy way to capture data"
– once you grab the data off the pen, it can be manipulated as normal data in excel

Plastic Logic

– product won’t go live until next year – it’s codenamed "plastic logic reader"
– looks like what the techcrunch tablet wants to be – but this only does books
– looks like a 9"x12" size – pretty nice looking
– black and white
– can support a variety of types of documents
– they have developed their own display technology
– weighs ounces not pounds – less than 1/3 the weight of the macbook air
– has instant on and readable in bright sunlight

Tikitag

– Tikitag is an alcatel-lucent venture
– Has a Tikitag USB reader – works with pc and mac
– Uses rfid on the business card to send to a special site that’s associated with the rfid tag
– Can be used to connect games to the online world
– can use mobile to attach to the rfid tags – similar to qr codes
– the issue here is that you need a rfid reader for it to do anything
– $49 on Amazon

FusionIO

– faster than the worlds fastest ssd disk
– launching a shared IO SAN – 660 gig max space
– has disk controller technology
– hybrid RAID controller
– 1.5gb per second in a single pciexpress interface
– can transfer a DVD movie in 3 seconds

Alerts.com

– why do we need to go search again and again?
– the distributed web is about agents going to find what you want and bring it to you
– free for users
– can setup alerts like "cheapest gas in 90210" or "best baseball team – yankees"
– launching 30 alerts here at demo
– can get your alerts via mail, sms and voice
– uses targeted ads based on the alerts you setup
– launching the open API today
– also launching the ability to create groups

Telnic – .tel

– registry operator for the .tel registry
– basically it creates a page with all of your contact details – phone, aim, im, geolocator info
– "your communications hub"
– on your own domain so its your own
– freely available and open source
– "publishing to the internet couldn’t be simpler"
– can pull the data via mobile as well
– Allen: it’s basically a fancy address book

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