DEMO Conference Kicks Off 20th Anniversary with DEMO Fall 2010 in Silicon Valley

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the world-renowned DEMO Conference officially kicked off 48 hours of exciting product launches featuring some of the most important new innovations in the areas of enterprise, mobile and cloud computing technologies.  Day Two will host disruptive technologies in the consumer, and social media technology space.  DEMO Fall 2010 officially marks the 20th anniversary of the semi-annual event that brings together worldwide press, decision making investors and market-defining visionaries – all of whom attend DEMO to discover the next big killer app.

In addition to the famous six minute demonstrations of cutting edge new technology products, DEMO executive producer and editor-in-chief of VentureBeat, Matt Marshall, sat down with industry luminaries like SAP Co-CEO Bill McDermott for a one-on-one conversation to discuss how companies are consuming enterprise technologies.  Other featured speakers included top executives from The Clorox Company, Genworth Financial Wealth Management, Inc. and eHealth, Inc. who discussed strategies for how they seek out and discover best-of-breed emerging technologies for their organizations.

DEMO also featured creator, co-founder and chairman of Twitter Inc., Jack Dorsey, for a discussion around mobile payments, while Microsoft's general manager of developer and platform evangelism, Matt Thompson, discussed the future of cloud computing.

DEMO embraces the full span of the technology product life cycle – from concept to product launch. In addition to the elite demonstrator class, DEMO Fall again showcased its AlphaPitch program, where early stage entrepreneurs and pre-launch mode companies had 90 seconds to share their prototypes to the critical DEMO audience.

This year's DEMO Fall product debuts include everything from a mobile optical scanner to a product that brings cross-agency co-workers together as if they were in the same physical space, to a click-to-call website application, and mobile shopping solution for consumers. Today's introductions included technologies designed for:

• Growing enterprises that need to remain competitive while lowering costs;
• Mobile devices and the anytime-anywhere lifestyle;
• And companies looking to take advantage of the cloud.

Highlights from today's technology introductions include:

Enterprise Technologies

Demonstrators:

• Vonata's Connect –a solution that addresses the typical frustration callers experience when trying to reach a business by phone.
• eM Client Inc.'s eM Client 2.7 –a Windows-based communication client for managing e-mails, multiple calendars, contacts and tasks.
• Federated Networks' FN Connect Secure™ Desktop and Server – seamless, end-to-end networked software security for user's and their data.
• Integrate.com, LLC's Integrate Customer Acquisition Platform – a platform that consolidates and simplifies all lead generation activity into one online location and connects advertisers with qualified publishers.
• Profitably's Profitably – an application that provides a simple and intuitive view into your QuickBooks data along with tools to drive growth and manage profitability.
• PublicStuff, LLC's PublicStuff – an online and mobile system that allows agencies to effectively manage requests by integrating the voice of the masses into a powerful workflow and analytic software.
• Zingaya's Zingaya – a click-to-call website application that lets your site visitors call you without the use of a phone.
• Rocky Mountain Ventures Company's Capture-ID Mobile Scanner –a mobile optical scanner that digitally captures business or identity information away from your desk.
• DoubleDutch's DoubleDutch – a platform that helps any company, brand or community launch their own mobile, geosocial application.

AlphaPitch Companies:

• Meeting Sciences, Inc.'s meeting-eXpert –a SaaS application that helps enterprises get more done during, after and across meetings.

Mobile Technologies for the Anytime-Anywhere Economy (Part 1)

Demonstrators:

• ActionFlow.com's ActionFlow – a website for businesses that provides high-quality, best-practice-based process templates, that once initiated, will send the right tasks to the right people at the right time, by e-mail, SMS or Twitter.
• Mediaspectrum, Inc.'s Adrenalin –the industry's first premium content and advertising platform for publishers to create rich, engaging and customized news-reading apps for tablet devices like Apple's iPad.
• Apsalar Inc.'s ApScience, ApFeedback, and ApBuzz – a suite of mobile analytics tools that delineate and interpret conversion funnels (ApScience), improve your app and mobile channel (ApFeedback), and get your app discovered (ApBuzz).
• Bitbop's (Fox Mobile Group) Bitbop – a new wireless subscription service delivering on demand mobile TV directly to U.S. consumers' smartphones.
• CYNCZ LLC's CYNCZ – an automatic self-updating address book solution for individuals and business that allows users to access most current contact data on any device address book, anytime.
• ExpertMaker's ExpertMaker AI-Search – a desktop artificial intelligence publishing tool for creating your own smart Web and mobile micro search solutions.
• Footfeed's Footfeed – the first dedicated location-based check in aggregation platform and multi check in application.
• Foound Pte Ltd's Foound – an iPhone application that allows you to easily organize hangouts with your friends.
• Parallels' Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac –a virtualization desktop platform that allows users to run Windows and Mac applications side-by-side.

Mobile Technologies for the Anytime-Anywhere Economy (Part 2)

Demonstrators:

• IQ Engines' IQ Engines Any-Image Recognition Engine – an engine that identifies and describes any image, powering customers' visual search applications by unlocking information contained in pixels and connecting it to the existing text-based search infrastructure of the Internet.
• MobiCart Ltd's MobiCart – a web-based service that allows users to build and manage their very own iPhone, iPad and Android mobile e-commerce shop.
• EME International's mParent – a mobile application that will enhance parents' involvement in their child's education by allowing them to view their child's grades, learning progression, activity schedules and be alerted to assignments, exams, absences and more.
• Zappli, Inc.'s myShopanion – a mobile social shopping solution that leverages the power of the web and social feedback to give consumers all the shopping information they need anywhere, anytime.
• Range Networks, Inc.'s OpenBTS – a true IP mobile application delivery platform that delivers scalable cellular mobile infrastructure.
• Particle Code's Particle Platform – an open and extendable cross-platform that automates the porting process, enabling developers to create native applications using powerful programming languages.
• Multiplied Media's The Poynt Offer Engine – an offer engine that drives foot traffic into bricks and mortar establishments with coupons and offers directed at consumers who are searching for those businesses' keywords within a determined proximity of the business.
• HipLogic, Inc.'s *Spark – a global product, available for Android, Symbian & Windows Mobile Pro that brings an Android-style experience to multimedia phones by creating the ultimate active home screen.
• SachManya's YAPPER-Your APP makER v2.0 – online service for publishers of all kinds to create their own mobile optimized, rich and branded apps for mobile devices and tablets.

AlphaPitch Companies:

• Appr.tv's The App Review Channel – a channel that features app video reviews, tutorials, ratings, peer-to-peer user support, and a storefront for app deals across mobile devices and desktop computers.

Cloud Technologies Break the Mold

Demonstrators:

• BDNA Corporation's BDNA IT Genome Center – software that gives customers the power to explore and manage their IT Genome.
• CloudBasic, Inc.'s CloudBasic – a new application platform that fits on top of the Microsoft Cloud Computing Technology Stack to provide the most efficient way for companies to move critical operation to a public or private cloud computing environment without the need for major skill set expansion or technology retooling.
• Delphix Corp.'s Delphix Server – software that virtualizes database infrastructure to provide complete, fully functional databases that operate in one-tenth the space with improved agility, manageability and performance.
• Wappwolf GmbH.'s Wappwolf – a platform for apps developed and provided by a community where members can employ a wide array of cloud apps that can be combined in user-generated workflows to generate, process, transport and deliver all kinds of business or personal documents.
• Social Communications Company's Sococo Team Space – an always-on group communication service for distributed teams that provides an intuitive spatial layout, enabling people to see office interactions as they occur and initiate ad-hoc meetings without hassle.

Visitors to www.DEMO.com may view all DEMO stage presentations within 24 hours of each product launch.

The DEMO Fall 2010 conference continues throughout the day tomorrow with more product introductions and more in-depth discussion around the biggest trends in technology.

Stay tuned to additional DEMO news at:

• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DEMOconference
• LinkedIn:  http://www.demo.com/linkedin
• Twitter:  http://www.twitter.com/demotweets; http://www.twitter.com/mmarshall

DEMO Fall 2010 Sponsors

DEMO Fall 2010 Platinum Sponsors: Qualcomm, LOUD3R, PlugandPlay, and InLab Ventures.

DEMO Fall 2010 Gold Sponsors:  Austin Ventures, Comerica Bank, Cooleye, Goodwin Procter, GreenbergTraurig, Howard, Rice Nemorovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, Invest Northern Ireland, Juno Wallet Giftcards, Mayfield Fund, Mintz Levin, National Science Foundation, NEC, Northern Trust, NYSE Euronext, Porter Novelli, Rothstein Kass, Topaz Partners, Trinet, VCNetwork, Wells Fargo, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

DEMO Demonstrator Alumni include: Bill.com, Rseven Mobile, Inc., eXaudios Technologies, Ltd, Always Innovating, Inc., Boingo Wireless, Inc., Liaise, Inc.

The DEMO Showcase will feature Global Impact, NewsBasis, C2Call, Inner Circle, and Posterbee.

Strategic Partners include: VentureBeat, GuidewireGroup, IDG Ventures, The Demo Coach, New Media Synergy.

The official DEMO Fall Live Broadcast Sponsor is Fora.tv.

About the DEMO Conferences

Produced by the IDG Enterprise events group in conjunction with VentureBeat, the DEMO conferences in the United States and China focus on emerging technologies and new products innovations, which are hand selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, helping them to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and influence early adopters. For more information on the DEMO conferences, visit http://www.demo.com/.

The DEMO community also benefits from the award winning DEMOletter. A weekly e – newsletter designed to reach the people who are creating companies, building products and launching new ideas, DEMOletter provides smart insight and analysis of entrepreneurial business issues. To subscribe, go to: http://www.demo.com

About IDG Enterprise

IDG Enterprise, an International Data Group (IDG) company, brings together unique editorial brands (CIO, Computerworld, CSO, DEMO, InfoWorld, ITworld and Network World) to serve the information needs of our technology and security-focused audiences.  As a digital-centric media company we serve our reader and advertiser audiences with award-winning content and community, driving conversation and conversion, across our entire portfolio of awarding-winning, websites, events, magazines, products and services. In addition, the CIO Executive Council, a peer advisory service, brings together the nation's top CIOs, as well as provides community and leadership development tools for their staffs.

Company information is available at www.idgenterprise.com.

Additional information about IDG, a privately held company, is available at http://www.idg.com

All product and company names are trademarks of their respective companies.

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