Latest Trade Show news
* NEWS FROM DEMOFALL 2006:
18 must-see products at Demofall 2006, 09/25/06
Forget Hollywood, South Beach or the streets of New York. If you’re a tech start-up and you want to “be seen,” the DEMO shows are the place to go.
Demofall 2006: Day 1 highlights (video)
Keith features two cool technologies from the first day of Demofall 2006: Presto’s service that let’s non-technical family members receive photos through e-mail without a PC and Tribeca Labs’ Photobot that automatically touches up your digital photos to make them look their best.
Demofall 2006 Blogs
Don’t miss a beat from Demofall 2006 by following the blogs of Network World Editors Keith Shaw, Jason Meserve and Paul McNamara.
Teneros targets disaster recovery appliance at Exchange users, 09/25/06
E-mail continuity vendor Teneros Monday added disaster recovery to its lineup of appliances for Microsoft Exchange.
DekiBox appliance brings Wikis to the enterprise, 09/25/06
Users are beginning to see the power of Wikis, which are Web sites that enable real-time collaboration through file sharing, chat sessions and other real-time tools. While these open source tools can be powerful, they also pose risks as the data being …
Electronic Shelf Label lets retailers update prices faster, 09/25/06
Retailers, such as grocery store chains, spend exorbitant amounts in labor to update paper shelf labels. A typical supermarket chain manually changes thousands of paper labels each week, which can cost more than $100,000 per store per year in labor, …
Quipit lets users scan documents with camera phone, 09/25/06
The Quipit service will extend the company’s click2scan service by allowing users to take photos of documents with a mobile phone or digital camera and have them stored on a Web site for organization or review at a later time
Photobot cleans up bad digital images, 09/25/06
Users need only to install the software and specify which folders the software should look at for enhancements. The software then scans the hard drive and makes the improvements to the images – including features such as red-eye removal, exposure …
Genius Interactive provides on-demand e-commerce customer tracking, 09/25/06
Genius Interactive is an AJAX-based, on-demand service that lets companies track how customers are using their site as well as personalize the experience and interact with them.
Wi-Fi bunny gets an upgrade: meet Nabaztag V2, 09/25/06
The Nabaztag rabbit, also known as the “Wi-Fi rabbit” or “wireless bunny” is a device that connects directly to the Internet through Wi-Fi. Version 1 was launched last year, and has developed a cult following amongst the blogosphere for its ability to …
MyPW offers authentication via reusable tokens, 09/25/06
Health care providers, e-commerce vendors, banks and other organizations are struggling to offer users secure access to information. While two-factor, token-based authentication is considered strong, asking users to carry separate tokens for each …
MojoPac lets you put anyapp on a storage drive, 09/25/06
Software that can be installed on any storage device, giving users the ability to run any PC application from that storage device. The MojoPac software will let users install Microsoft Office on an iPod, for example, and run the application from the …
ScanR offers business card scanning with camera phones, 09/25/06
ScanR gives you more functionality to your camera phone or digital camera, turning it into a business card scanner or document scanner. The service takes images from digital cameras or camera phones and converts them into PDFs or VCF (for business …
PhotoShowTV puts multimedia on cable channels, 09/25/06
SimpleStar, maker of the PhotoShow Deluxe desktop software, expands its presence with PhotoShow.com, an online service that will let users make their own “PhotoShows” online; and PhotoShowTV, which works with cable TV companies to let users post their …
VaporStream lets you e-mail without an e-trail, 09/25/06
Federal and private sector mandates require companies to keep records of e-mail and, in some cases, instant messaging. But some organizations, such as the military, need a way to communicate without a permanent record being generated.
TotalView lets you see everyone in the board room, 09/25/06
The TotalView conferencing system is an appliance that melds VoIP and videoconferencing. The camera/phone combo, which is placed in the center of the room, captures audio and video from the entire room and streams it to remote participants.
InterCloud Security Service aims to stop botnet and zombie attacks, 09/25/06
Trend Micro’s InterCloud Security Service uses a behavioral model to analyze and remediate botnet and zombie attacks.
Eyespot provides online video editing for mobile phones, 09/25/06
Online video Web site Eyespot, which provides users online video editing tools (or mash-up tools), will announce a mobile phone application that is integrated with the online mashup tools.
PhotoCrank adds some fun to camera phone images, 09/25/06
The PhotoCrank service lets people create entertaining photos from their mobile phone camera images, through the use of clip art, borders and text sayings.
OTPK lets users digitally sign electronic transactions easier, 09/25/06
Laws surrounding the use of digital signatures are becoming stricter, making security for mobile users challenging. In many Asian and European countries, such as Singapore and Germany, governments mandate that private keys used for digital signatures …
Cuts.com lets you be your own film editor, 09/25/06
What it does: The Cuts.com platform is software that lets you make “cuts” to copyrighted material that you own in order to make “age appropriate” movies, shortened versions of content (compress a long TV show into its most important parts) or create ” …
* NEWS FROM INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM:
Intel to ship quad-core chips in November, 09/26/06
Intel will ship quad-core processors in November for servers and gaming PCs, accelerating its effort to regain momentum in sales of power-efficient chips.
* LATE NEWS FROM INTEROP:
NAC, wireless convergence still works in progress, 09/25/06
Hot topics such as network access control and convergence of cellular and Wi-Fi voice lured IT decision-makers to Interop last week, where they got to see the latest advances but also were warned that technology shortcomings mean they should …
* NEWS FROM STORAGE DECISIONS CONFERENCE:
Signiant targets tape data backup in remote offices, 09/26/06
A Massachusetts vendor has addressed the problem of tape data backup in remote offices by removing tape from the enterprise entirely.
* LATE NEWS FROM HACK IN THE BOX SECURITY CONFERENCE:
Microsoft gets credit for tightening security, 09/22/06
CodeRed, Nimda and Blaster. These high-profile worms, which exploited flaws in Microsoft’s Windows operating system and other applications, made Microsoft the butt of security jokes and forced the company to reexamine its approach to developing secure …
* NEWS FROM BEAWORLD 2006:
Q&A: BEA CTO details SOA platform, 09/21/06
BEA Systems at the BEAWorld 2006 San Francisco conference this week stressed SOA as a core technology and unveiled its SOA 360 platform. Comprising multiple BEA products, some of which have yet to be released, the ambitious SOA 360 strategy features …
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Oct. 9 – 11, San Jose
Business Objects Global Summit
Oct. 15-17, Orlando, Fla.
MPLS 2006 Conference
Oct 15-18, Washington D.C.
Oct. 22-26, San Francisco
Nov. 7-8, San Francisco
Nov 7-9, Los Angeles
Yankee Group’s 2006 Telecom Industry Forum
Nov. 13-14, New York
The Gartner Enterprise Networking Summit
Nov. 14-16, Las Vegas
Gartner 25 Annual Data Center Conference
Nov. 28 – Dec. 1, Las Vegas
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Nov. 29 – Dec. 1, Las Vegas
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Nov. 30
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