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Blip.tv co-founder, Charles Hope, talks about the beginnings of Blip.tv, how it all came about. With all the traction they have gotten with Blip.tv, what they look forward to and where they see themselves going. Charles defined what Blip.tv is and how they are different from Yahoo! and Google Video sites. Launched over a year ago, Blip.tv has risen to a position of immense value to video producers all around the globe. They remain free to upload for the general public. Broadcast channels such as CNN are using Blip.tv technology for their own usage.

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Zing has made a product called the Sirius: Stiletto 100, which is a connected device allowing you to get Sirius channels and when you find interesting music or content, you can zing it and save it as a bookmark to buy or visit again later. You can also connect to the interent. Anything you hear, you can replay and record (which it does automatically for you to rewind, replay and so on). it also allows to program recording times and so on. Launching the product just this week, it has automatic updates so one never has to bother with downloading updates and maintaining the software. We can only expect better things from them in the coming future.

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PhotoCrank lets you add captions to your pics taken by your mobile phone. Making it easier to personalize the pictures, adding text, captions, and sending it to friends instantly. For an established mobile phone market and billions of phones world-wide - with camera phone and internet capability, this is absolutely the “in” technology, that surely all chatters and friends will enjoy.

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W5 Networks are in the process of replacing paper price tags in supermarkets and stores to electronic shelf labels. This in essence means instantaneous price updates and changes made to all products store-wide as it goes on sale, or is part of a promotion. There’s an LED that displays the price, and the central control makes sure all prices are accurate and up-to-date. Again very 21st Century, and should be there in every store soon enough.

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Violet have a product called the Nabaztag, which is a wireless rabbit that is always connected via wifi to the internet. It will search for information and get it to you as you go about your day without being on a PC. It can read the news, play music, recieve messages. Now they have made it capable of hearing instructions, it can stream audio sources, set times for when you want it to do certain things. Amazingly enough it can smell, it’s a well connected pet if you like. They will keep improving and adding features, and soon will have other products like Nabaztag to be the next cyber pet for everyone who wnats one!

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Mvox have created a product, called the Mvox Duo, which is basically a single gadget replacement for a wired headset, bluetooth headset, handsfree car kit, conference phone, speaker phone. The thing about the Duo is, it provides for one touch dialing, you can talk to it and the same goes for receiving a call. Quite an innovative idea. Feels very much 21st century - oh wait! - it is the 21st century! It contains your address book, that you never need to punch even speed dial for. Interactive and one click simplicity.

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Moixa Energy is all about making it easier for the consumer to have a replacement for chargers and batteries that is universal in nature, therefore inter-operable. This is the future of energy, portable energy that is, energy for portable devices. They call it the USB Cell. It’s a regular battery which has USB connector, that you can connect to your laptop and charge. Quite an innovative idea and they have had a great online response already.

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Lirix allows updateable advertisements to be added to downloadable music, in the process allowing the music to be free for the consumer. The ads are added between tracks of music, and the goal is to get piracy down. They call the process On-Device-Dynamic-Ad-Insertion.

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Paul Jacobs, the CEO of QualCOMM talks about the innovation in our mobile lifestyles and topics like - mobile video on demand, in this speech at DEMOFall. From where mobility started, and what it meant then to what it has become now and where we are headed. Paul compared the features we will expect these devices to have and globally where these technologies stand at the present time. An interesting talk about mobile technology and faster responding networks, for the new forms of media that people expect to now have available at their mobile devices. These devices need to be accommodating to all the various features people want combined to one - the digital camera, MP3 player, phone, web-enabled, GPS- enabled and so on.

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John Patrick moderated a panel discussing the Future of Mobile at the DEMOFall 2006 event. The panelists included Tom Jacobs from Sun, Joe Ziskin, VP for IBM, and Juergen Urbanski, GM at Fon. Tom has been with Sun for over 20 years. Norgan is an expert on mobile with a focus on WiFi and VOIP. Joe is experienced with telecommunications and is the VP for Global Telecommunications for IBM. John Patrick was VP of Internet technology at IBM for over 3 decades.

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