Setting up a video monitoring system in your home, office or business can be a tedious and sometimes expensive task, often involving permanent server systems.
Avvak's Vue attempts to solve this problem through an inexpensive solution that uses small, easily mounted and deployed cameras, a central video router that requires no PC or server, and a Web-based service for video deployment.
At DEMO 09, I had the chance to talk with Avaak CEO and founder Gioia Messinger about the capabilities and features of the Vue video system.
Click here to see the video In this special eWEEK video, I take a look at the new JavaFX RIA platform from Sun.
While one can easily make the argument that Sun's Java was one of the first examples of a rich internet application platform, Sun hasn't been a big player in the recent rise of RIAs.
But with the release of JavaFX 1.0, Sun hopes to change that. JavaFX takes advantage of many of the benefits of Java while adding the ease of development and deployment common to most RIAs.
In this video I walk through some of the key components and features of JavaFX. Click here to watch my video walkthrough of JavaFX.
In the pavilion at DEMOfall, attendees get the chance to get up close and personal with the products and technologies making their debut at the show. In the pavilion I had the chance to take a firsthand look at the working prototype of Plastic Logic's forthcoming e-book reader.
This product was one of the most interesting presentations of the first morning of DEMOfall 08. The product Plastic Logic demoed is a radically new kind of e-book reader that is based on plastic electronics, from the display to the chips. In this video I interview Plastic Logic's Joe Eschbach about the new device.
Click here to watch the video Two of the most hyped emerging technologies of the last couple of years are Unified Communications and Web 2.0. But besides getting lots of hype, what do these two technologies have in common?
Quite a bit it turns out. After all, both are all about improving collaboration and communication. And both take advantage of new and old technologies in unique and innovative ways.
In this eWEEK video interview, Ashley Daley talks to eWEEK's Chief Technology Analyst Jim Repoza about how Unified Communications and Web 2.0 technologies can work together.
Many new and interesting technology companies were recognized at the recent Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange Awards, or MITX Awards.
These awards recognize technological innovation from a number of companies in the New England area, ranging from small startups to established tech giants.
At the awards I had the opportunity to speak to some of the winners right after they received their awards.
Click here to watch the video At the Berkman@10 conference at Harvard, I had a chance to speak to some of the many attendees and speakers at the conference about the challenges facing the internet today and in the near future.
Phillip Hallam-Baker, author of the dotCrime Manifesto, says stability is the missing ingredient in the Internet in the fight against Internet crime; Kathy Higgins, Educational Technologies, Dept. of Education, N.H., sees a shift to more use of social networking and community voices gaining traction; and Dr. Jim Morris if Carnegie Mellon University comments on the battlegrounds forming for the soul of the Internet.
Click here to watch the video At last week's Berkman@10 conference I had the chance to sit down with John Palfrey, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
In this interview we spoke about the conference itself, some of the changes happening now at the Berkman Center, and about the future of the Center and the Internet.
And while I had the chance to do some interviews at the Berkman@10 event, I also had the tables (or camera) turned on me and was the subject (along with many other attendees) of a video interview.
While emerging technologies can come from anywhere, one event that has seen its fair share of new products and technologies emerge is the DEMO conference. Over the year everything from the Palm PDA to Salesforce.com's hosted sales force management solution to the Tivo has been introduced to the world through the Demo conference.
But what about the DEMO 08 conference that concluded this past week? Will it be the launching point for some new paradigm shifting product or technology?
To look back I spoke to DEMO Executive Producer Chris Shipley about this past week's conference.
This DEMO definitely saw some interesting products designed to solve actual problems that people have. But will these products become household names of the future or fade into oblivion? Only time will tell.
Over the course of this year, virtual worlds got a lot of attention. More than a few businesses spent serious money trying to build presences in virtual worlds such as Second Life. But most of these efforts have so far been pretty big failures.
The question is, were these businesses going about it the right way and did they have the right focus?
One area that they may want to look to for guidance is higher education. A group called Media Grid is working on building a platform to use multiple virtual worlds, from Second Life to games like World of Warcraft, as a collaborative meeting space, providing what they refer to as immersive education. This focus on openess and collaboration shows a potential direction towards gaining real value out of virtual worlds.
I recently spoke to Aaron E. Walsh, Director of Media Grid, about their efforts in virtual worlds and education.
New technologies effect every one of us. For example, the Web 2.0 world has changed the way we socialize and communicate and how we use and even create applications.
And of course large technology vendors are not immune to these effects, if anything, new technologies effect them more than regular users and businesses. For these vendors, adapting to new technologies can mean the difference between future success or irrelevance.
I recently had the opportunity to speak to Wes Wasson, Chief Strategy Office for Citrix, about how Citrix is responding and adapting to new technologies, especially those in the Web 2.0 arena.
Many new and interesting technology companies were recognized at the recent Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange Awards, or MITX Awards.
