Technologizer

Live From DEMO09

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

I’m at the DEMOFall conference in San Francisco Diego, the second massive launchpad for new companies and products (after last week’s TechCrunch50) in as many weeks. So far, the product-demo gremlins seem to be having more than their usual amount of fun with the companies onstage: Problems with Internet access and other glitches have bedeviled [...]

The T-List: Special DEMOfall Edition

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

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I had a swell time at DEMOfall, which, despite stiff competition, turned out just fine. And here are a few more debutantes that I found interesting for one reason or another.

Plastic Logic’s Reader: Electronic Paper That’s the Size of a Piece of Paper

Monday, September 8, 2008

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The first morning of demos here at DEMO has begun, and the second product unveiling of the day looks potentially cool: A company called Plastic Logic previewed an e-book reader that uses electronic paper technology similar to that of the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader–but in a larger, thinner form factor with a full touchscreen. Plastic [...]

An Absurdly Busy Week for Technology

Monday, September 8, 2008

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I’m in San Diego for the DEMOFall conference, where more than seventy new products and services–mostly from startups–will debut over the next two days. You’d think that would be enough new stuff for one week in September, but DEMO is going head to head with TechCrunch 50 back in San Francisco, with 52 other debutantes, [...]