Mobile Technology at DEMO Fall 08
DEMOfall 08 is a conference where new products and ideas get unveiled with great hope to be the the next big innovations in technology. Among several products presented. NetworkWorld selects few of them as “Technology to watch”, among them the below offer ideas related to mobile technology for you to see!
Alerts.com
Technology: Just like it says, Alerts.com is a place where you can aggregate all the alerts you want. The lowest gas prices in your neighborhood, job postings, news and weather feeds can all be seen in one place. You can also monitor products you want to buy, and get notified as soon as the price drops. Alerts can be received via e-mail, text message or voicemail. "Alerts.com aggregates content from multiple sources eliminating the need to manage multiple accounts and profiles," DEMO organizers say.
RemoTV
Technology: Known as Channels!, this application installs on your personal computer and lets you share movies and music with friends. RemoTV streams "any type of media" to "any Internet-connected device including PCs, cell phones, smartphones, social networks, game consoles, the iPod Touch and iPhone." A free version is available to consumers, while licensing plans will let media companies distribute content to their customers.
Awind
Technology: mobiShow connects your PC or smartphone to your television set using a wireless transmitter, allowing you to stream high-definition movies, your desktop or any video format to your big screen. "Born of expertise in delivering high-definition, PC-based presentations to the television screen, mobiShow makes it easy to discover and watch IP-based video," DEMO organizers say. "But it’s the transcoding of PC-based video into high-definition video scaled to fit the television screen that makes Awind’s offering remarkable."
Message Sling
Technology: Get your voice messages anywhere you want with Message Sling. A voice-to-text transcription service lets voicemail be delivered as text messages and e-mail. Or access messages as MP3 files on any phone. "Message Sling isn’t tied to any one carrier, so you can swap out your phone, jump to another carrier and even lose your phone without losing your message," DEMO organizers say.
Alcatel-Lucent
Technology: Tikitag, a new Alcatel-Lucent project, essentially connects everyday items to the Internet using RFID technology. "The same technology that allows warehouses to track pallets of Wheaties is the basis for a consumer service that bridges the tangible and digital worlds," DEMO organizers say. The idea is that people can wave NFC (near field communication)-enabled mobile phones or RFID readers at certain objects and receive information about the objects over the Web.
Objects must be outfitted with a so-called "tikitag" in order to be scanned. But if the idea catches on, potential uses would range from "travelers requesting information about a monument that’s tagged, to children interacting with a PC via tagged toys."
Asyncast
Technology: Rocketron, a mobile news delivery service that relies entirely on voice. Use voice commands like "sports news" or "technology news," and then listen to the news as it is read to you. If the story bores you, just say "next article" and go to the next one. Rocketron works with any mobile phone. "While we’ve explored a number of mobile news and podcasting services, we like Rocketron for its simplicity, flexibility and depth," the people at DEMO say. "The voice-command search and navigation interface drives a rich database of news sources, delivered quickly and at your command. Over time, the system learns your preference and interests and pushes relevant content to the fore."
[Via NetworkWorld]
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