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Mobile app showdown

Shazam, tag, buy, and discover music on your mobile phone. Hear a song you can’t name? Run the app and it will listen and tell you what the name of the song is.

Truphone Voip calls on iPhone using wifi. Low rates apply for internation. No subscriptions or contracts. Free iPhone app. iPod touch compatible. Now iPod touch becomes a phone when on wifi network. Requires accessory to add mic to touch. Truphone to truphone is free. Includes instant messaging to popular IM’s.

Telenav GPS Provides navigation for sprint an AT&T phones. Now available as an iPhone app. Find as prices, buy movie tickets, send coordinates to other telenav application users.

SPB Mobile Shell Customize your phones’ user interface. Demo performed on Google Nexus One. 3D view of email shown. Screens set up on a multifaced 3D cube like interface. Motion sensitive. Organize contacts. Grab images for your friends from facebook. Also demo’d on windows mobile phone.

Gwabbit for blackberry Quick and easy way to add contacts to your blackberry without copy and paste. Video available at foxnewsradio.com

DateCheck App allows people to perform background check on potential suitor. Email, name, or phone number to search. Sleeze detector checks criminal records. After sleeze detector, money checker, astrology checker, property checker. Tiger woods joke included. Check social networks. Take notes and add photos. Rate individuals. Created by Intellius. Pretty models throw out condoms to crowd.

Aha iPhone app. Brand new app thr hits the market next month. Video presentation. Turned websites into radio stations for use in the car to drive safely. Play nearby traffic channel based on your location. Fox news radio is in the demo screen shot. Plays facebook wall status updates. Played 5 minute newscasts in demo. Food nearby. Driver rants - leave comments while driving. Twitter channel. Foxnewsradio tweets??? Robert Acker, President and CEO

Clixter Create and share photo events, uses GPS, popular events, invite people to follow your event. Share your media for event coverGe like CES. Web service is also available for those who don’t have iPhone to contribute to the event. Social networking behind photos.

Geodelic Mobile location discovery. Looks like Sherpa. Food, entertainment, theme parks, movie times, music and video demonstration. Instant info based on location. Lots of categories. Dancer on stage. Throwing dollars out to crowd. Available on android and iPhone. Crowd pleaser. Presentation or app?

Lots of free giveaways in exchange for votes. Also plants in audience to boost crowd cheering for winners.

Online winner - gwabbit Presentation winner - runoff for three apps. No plants Allowed. Finalists are truphone, clixster, and geodelic. Free offers fill the crowd. Winner is … Clixster

Dr. Evil And demobot present Pico Laser Projector

Darth Vader and Jedi battle over Droid phone

Dr. Evil And demobot present Pico Laser Projector

Neato robot vacuum scans floor with camera and vacuums based on map od area and not bumping into stuff

Acer 3d laptop any 2d content converted for 3D view. Didn’t finish presentation.

Que proReader ereader for business users (nice look slow on screen refresh). Super slim and keeps format of original content.

Haeier trainer - pedometer 3G ccelerometer mp3

Nvidia tablet - created by ICD powered by nvidia. touch screen 3g wifi adobe flash. didn’t finish presentation.

Sony dash personal Internet viewer. Touch screen. Like Chumby. But sleek. $199 and ships in April

Intel reader. Photographs any printed material and reads it to you. Demo wowed the crowd. Very impressive tech for people with learning disabilities.

Showwx laser pico projector presented by dr. evil. iPod under projected on screen. Very entertaining. Great impression. Demobot. Crowd involved “we want lasers”

Motorola droid - device so popular that a Jedi storms stage followed by darth vader based. Fight ensues. No product information presented.

Boxee box - digital media on the big screen. 1080p. Dlink partnership. Crowd already familiar with boxee. Cheeky commercial created that offers entire Internet on cd rom. No more wires to connect. No more viruses. Video on adult swim. Peoduct info - Small form factor. Growing green logo on side. Connects over wifi $199 available Q2 in 2010 Remote has full qwerty keyboard. Ran out of time.

Votes - Que pro reader had plants in audience for voting. Make noise signs. Que, Sony, intel reader really loud, boxee storms stage to raise the roof.

Online Winner is pico projector.

Presentation winner is boxee. Intel close behind.

I have recently been using an iPhone 3G and 3GS and I must say what a difference. The speed and responsiveness alone is worth the upgrade if you have a 3G or earlier. Or, you can wait until June when apple releases another model.

Zoom Safer Intro Video - Zoom safer is a software for your mobile device (Blackberry at the moment) that helps the driver of any car drive safely without the distraction of your mobile phone. The software suppresses incoming phone calls, emails, and text messages that would normally prompt you to use the phone while driving. A contact list of priority people can be listed on the myzoomsafer.com website, and announced when they call. If you take the call it will go to speaker phone or blue tooth if enabled. Any call that was suppressed, or ignored will prompt a text message to be sent back to the caller if they called from a mobile phone.

Why would anyone want to get this for themselves? Well, if you want to be a responsible and safer driver, this is the way to go.

Parents will love something like this for their teenage drivers who are more likely to be distracted with text messages than their parents. Companies with fleets of drivers would also be a target for software like this to limit their liability. They can require their drivers to use this software to limit their distractions in company vehicles.

I have tested the ZoomSafer software on a loaner Blackberry unit. The software automatically activates when it senses you are driving. When it turns on you hear a message alerting you to the fact that it is now enabled. This message can be customized with up to five rotating clips that you can upload on the myzoomsafer.com website. You can upload audio of your child, or a spouse, or your favorite cartoon character. Anything to give you the positive re-enforcement you need to feel better about not having access to your phone while driving.

Let everyone know that you’re on the road! Only if you want to. Using the controls at myzoomsafer.com you can integrate your account with twitter and facebook. Why? Well, to tell everyone you’re driving, of course. What else do we do with facebook and twitter. Or, better yet, it’s tell everyone not to bother you. You’re busy being safe. In all honesty a few of my friends thought the message was a spam invasion on my account. At the time of testing I did not notice an area to customize the message that is sent to your account.

If you’re the passenger of the car you can tell the software that you are the passenger and it will go to “sleep” for any length you set from a pull-down menu. Anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. It is possible for someone who is actually driving to use this feature to bypass the software, but at that point the driver is making a conscious decision to LIE to the software so they can use their phone. For a company, that places responsibility squarely on the driver. For a teenager, well, consider them BUSTED when the parents check the logs.

These are the basics of the service. There are a few premium features that I did not get to test out. Like stats, and voice portal.

Bottom line, I would use this software if it was available on the iPhone. I have texted while driving and it scares the hell out of me when I lose focus and see the cars stop short in front of me. I definitely would love something like this for my son when he starts to drive. Lucky for me I don’t have to worry about that for another 8 years. Check them out at zoomsafer.com

Omnimount - http://www.omnimount.com/

“I cannot imagine there is an easier wall-mount kit on the market. I was able to hang my 37” Panasonic LCD by myself in under 20 minutes, with a minimal number of tools (screw driver, and drill)and parts. There were 4 screws into the wall, 2 into a wall stud and 2 with wall anchors. With only 4 more screws to attach the mounting brackets on the rear of the LCD, the TV was up and running in minutes. The kit also includes a template and level to make things even easier. “

- Jon B.

Continuing with the Web Apps page and the options panel

Launching Google Chrome OS Beta from a USB Flash Drive, logging in, showing web apps tab. Recorded with iPhone 3GS