Thursday, August 30, 2007

DEMOletter Weekly Edition, Aug. 30, 2007

DEMOletter Weekly Edition
Aug. 30, 2007
Volume 12, Number 29

CHRIS SHIPLEY: INNOVATION CONTINUES DOWN UNDER

Again I find myself on a whirlwind tour of the Land of Oz, invited by the ANZA Technology Network to meet about fifty young companies throughout Australia and New Zealand. In the past 10 days, I've seen everything from a signal processing engine that identifies faulty ball bearings in train wheels to data routing middleware for the financial services industry.

Here?s a quick tour around Australia's technology regions:

Read more at:
http://www.demo.com/demoletter/innovation_continues_down_under.php


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KEITH SHAW: IT BETTER START WORRYING ABOUT THE NEXT IPHONE

Better late than never, I finally received my iPhone evaluation unit from Apple (whoo!). After fighting off several co-workers, our summer intern and my 20-month daughter (don't ask) for control of the device, I was able to explore some of the device's features first hand.

My initial thought? IT is going to have some serious problems down the road.

For a lot of enterprise IT managers, it was easy to "just say no" for enterprise deployment of an iPhone - they could point to a general corporate policy (if they had one) about not supporting first-generation devices or equipment. Hey, even Microsoft has to generally wait until it rolls out a service pack or two before most companies start to take the offering seriously (good news for Vista fans - SP1 is set to arrive somewhere between January and March 2008).

Even if the iPhone-ravenous employee was able to get by the first "no" from IT, there is still difficult Exchange e-mail interaction, the slower AT&T EDGE wireless network and other issues that make the first iPhone not as enterprise friendly as most companies would like.

Read more at:
http://www.demo.com/demoletter/it_better_start_worrying_about_the_next_iphone.php


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DEMOTRACKER: The latest from DEMO alumni

* Vivid Sky (DEMO 2006) teams up with Detroit Tigers on its SkyBOX system for on-demand instant replays at the ballpark.

* MooBella (DEMO 2006) hires new CTO.

The complete DEMOtracker archive is located at http://www.demo.com/demoletter/weather_report.php


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

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