DEMOletter Weekly Edition, Sept. 6, 2005

DEMOletter Weekly Edition
Sept. 6, 2005
Volume 10, Number 33

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INSIDE DEMOLETTER THIS WEEK
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THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
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Every year as the DEMO conference comes together, there's
always one or two companies that get away. They are great in
their own right, but for one reason or another, they just are
not able to say "Yes" to our invitation to launch at DEMO.

One such company is Nutrihand (http://www.nutrihand.com), which
I met with earlier this summer. Founded by ex-Microsofter Soraya
Bittencort, Mountain View, Calif.-based Nutrihand offers a
comprehensive Web-based service that helps diabetics and their
health-care providers monitor and control the disease.

Through information, coaching and journaling, the site lets
individuals see how their daily routines and habits affect their
health. With this correlative analysis in hand, the site
provides custom and incremental recommendations - from personal
meal plans to fitness programs - to help customers change their
habits for the better, and reduce the risk of serious health
complications.

In creating Nutrihand, Bittencort and her small team spent four
years researching the disease, recruiting as advisors leading
doctors, nutritionists and other health care providers,
acquiring nutrition information databases, and amassing a
library of information on diabetes and diabetes management.
(Bittencort first exhibited the ability to muster stunning
amounts of information resources when she developed a very early
travelogue CD-ROM on her home country of Brazil. That CD was the
seedling that later became Expedia.) But the site is more than
an encyclopedic collection of medical information, nutrition
databases, and plan templates.

Read more at
http://www.demo.com/demoletter/009916.html

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KEITH SHAW'S END NOTES: CHAT THREATS ON THE RISE
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* DEMO alumnus IMlogic says instant messaging and peer-to-peer
applicaiton threats have significantly grown in the last year.

* GADGET OF THE WEEK: Microsoft launches new high-definition
mice with wired and wireless options.

* Staying on top of the latest IT-related news and topics from
Hurricane Katrina.

Read all of this week's End Notes at
http://www.demo.com/demoletter/009915.html

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WEATHER REPORT
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* Mediabolic has a good week - teams up with OpenTV, Maxtor on
different deals for its media server software.

* Adomo releases its Voice Messaging for Exchange platform,
integrating VoIP onto messaging system.

* Trend Micro wins security company of the year honors from
VARBusiness magazine.

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
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<mailto:keithshaw@nww.com>

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