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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.
Stay Connected to DEMO Companies, Community and Events
By DEMO Conference Team•07/02/2008
If the success of our recent Alumni Party Tour is any indication, the DEMO community has never been stronger. To help you keep track of it all, we’ve built a number of great tools to keep you up to date on the people, product, companies and events surrounding DEMO throughout the year. Read more
Skyfire hires Rowehl to take mobile phone browser commercial
By Mary A. C. Fallon•07/01/2008
Skyfire Labs, makers of the Skyfire (DEMO 08) Web browser for Windows-based smart telephones, today hired mobile software programmer and blogger Michael Rowehl as its scalability architect or as his new business card states "deliverator" to take the product from private beta to commercial use later this year. Read more
Ribbit integrates voice into SaaS
By Mary A. C. Fallon•07/01/2008
Ribbit Corp., (DEMO 08) the self-described first telephone company of Silicon Valley, is offering free, unlimited 30-day trials of its first enterprise application built on salesforce.com, which links mobile voice communications with software as a service (SaaS) business workflows. Read more
salesforce.com pushes Google Apps to enterprises
By Mary A. C. Fallon•07/01/2008
As part of its continuing alliance with Google, salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) (DEMO 2000) has released a developer toolkit to make Google App services, which competes against Microsoft Office, easier and faster to integrate into enterprise applications built on salesforce.com. The Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs is the highlight of the company's ongoing international tour, which hits Tokyo Thursday and hopscotches to other major cities later this month. Read more
Career agent NotchUp opens to all companies, updates from Facebook
By Mary A. C. Fallon•06/30/2008
Swatchbox - Innovator to Watch
By Guidewire Group•06/30/2008
After a near-10-year history building and licensing virtual design applications for home remodeling companies, Swatchbox Technologies of Westborough, MA has created its own interior design site, DesignMyRoom.com. To use, simply select a blank room you want to decorate and start dragging and dropping elements such as paint, lamps, couches, flooring, rugs, and counter tops to create the look of your room. Read more
Aternity introduces "pre-packaged" IT monitoring applications and partner program
By Mary A. C. Fallon•06/30/2008
iotum launches audio conferencing beta
By Mary A. C. Fallon•06/27/2008
With businesses using Facebook to attract customers, iotum™ of Ottawa, Canada (DEMO 06) has launched an open beta of its audio conference calling service, Calliflower, which offers a visual dashboard that lets people chat with voice and text - all based on its experience building the first conference calling application for the popular social networking site. Read more
Eyealike seeks online dating and social net partners
By Mary A. C. Fallon•06/26/2008
Out to attract online dating and social networking Web sites as customers, Eyealike (DEMO 08), a visual search platform, has introduced Eyealike Faces, which looks for similarities in face geometry, skin color, and hair. Eyealike is negotiating with one of the top 10 online dating Web service based outside the U.S., but declined to disclosure its name. Read more
