DEMOletter Weekly Edition, June 13, 2005

DEMOletter Weekly Edition
June 13, 2005
Volume 10, Number 22

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INSIDE DEMOLETTER THIS WEEK
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IMAGIS EMERGES FROM BUMPY ROAD
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Imagis Technologies (http://www.imagistechnologies.com/) is a
great lesson in how to make a viable company from the pieces you
have. Founded in the pre-9/11 world, Imagis created software for
police booking systems, and it did remarkably well selling the
software to a long list of police departments in the U.S. and
Canada. Post-9/11, the company began to develop face recognition
technology that would be used to match mug shots in police
databases. This new technology focus consumed the company's
resources.

The booking product was all but abandoned while developers
tried to deliver the face-recognition software as a tool kit for
other developers.

By mid-2003, Imagis was "on its last legs," according to the
company's new CEO, Roy Trivett. Despite financing from angel
networks, the company couldn't deliver the component technology
to the market. By November 2003, the investors had enough, and
they merged Imagis with another, thriving investment, a data
integration company called Briyante Software Corp. This
effectively joined the expertise Imagis had with serving top-
tier law enforcement customers with Briyante's data integration
technology, to create an integration architecture for federated
data systems.

Read the full story at
http://www.demo.com/demoletter/009200.html

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KEITH SHAW'S END NOTES: T-MOBILE EXPANDS HOT SPOT COVERAGE
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* New roaming agreements for T-Mobile HotSpot service around
the world.

* Gadgets of the week: Nokia launches seven new handsets,
including a wideband CDMA 3G phone.

* Gartner analysts reveal list of over-hyped security threats.

Read all of this week's End Notes at
http://www.demo.com/demoletter/009190.html

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WEATHER REPORT
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* LiveVault offers new video content for its Institute for
Backup Trauma.

* Sonaptic gets investment from Motorola Ventures for its 3D
audio technology.

* Danger and T-Mobile launch Sidekick II in Germany.

The complete Weather Report archive is located at
http://www.demo.com/demoletter/weather_report.html

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DEMOletter Weekly Edition is written by Chris Shipley
<mailto:chris@cshipley.com and Keith Shaw
<mailto:keithshaw@nww.com>.

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