Celio REDFLY: A Smartphone’s Mobile Companion
When Celio Corporation received a 2008 CES Innovations Award this past November, the news was out that Ceilo was up to something cool. Kirt Bailey, CEO of Celio Corporation — and former Intel Capital director involved with mobility markets, sat down with Brad Baldwin and shared the story of the REDFLY Mobile Companion.
As Bailey reminds, today’s smartphones are approaching (or already have) the processing power of computers. The REDFLY unleashes the mobile computing and communication power of today’s smartphone that is trapped beneath a tiny screen. The REDFLY is a 1″x6″x9″ clamshell device that connects to a smartphone via Bluetooh or USB to enhance a smartphone with an 8″ high-resolution display, full-function keyboard, touchpad and 8-hour battery life. The REDFLY also has a standard VGA port for output to projectors and displays and charges your phone while in use.
Bailey sees a big benefit for the mobile business traveler who seeks to stay connected while shedding pounds. REDFLY lets salespeople more easily use Salesforce.com or other Web 2.0 apps, allows business managers to forecast in Excel, or helps executives keep up on email — all from their their smartphone and the 1.9 pound REDFLY.
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Skullcandy CEO, Rick Alden, Invents Strapless Snowboard Binding
Rick Alden, the founder and CEO of Skullcandy, shares his entrepreneurial starts when he launched the Snowboarding Jam Event Series back when he knew everyone with a snowboard on a first name basis. While having to replace defective binding straps, Alden had the inspiration to invent a “strapless” snowboard binding. Alden shows off his first prototypes and tells about his first ride without straps. Later he sold the company to Ride Snowboards for 50 percent cash and 50 percent stock.
This presentation is a keynote from the 2007 Young Entrepreneur Summit in Salt Lake City where Alden shared his passion for starting and building businesses. Also watch a second recording where Alden talks about the genesis and brand creation at his latest company, Skullcandy.
Women Tech Council
Cydni Tetro, Sara Jones, Gretta Spendlove and Kimberley Jones introduce the Women Tech Council and share the organization’s focus and community efforts to assist women with careers in technology fields.
Skullcandy: The Genesis and Brand
If anyone knows his target customer, Rick Alden does. With seven years of promoting snowboarding events and the invention, launch and sale of a snowboard binding — and company, Alden has “hung out” with extreme sport athletes for 20 years. Now he’s built the successful Skullcandy brand with audio and cell phone accessories.
Alden shares the genesis of Skullcandy, the products and the importance of brand.
This presentation is a keynote from the 2007 Young Entrepreneur Summit in Salt Lake City where Alden shared his passion for starting and building businesses. Also watch a second recording where Alden talks about his inventing the first strapless snowboard binding and sold the product to Ride Snowboards.
Cemaphore Keeps Email Running and Accessible
When it comes to email continuity and message availability in times of a network outage or as part of a disaster recovery plan, the small and medium business needs what large organizations spec–but they need it at an affordable price point. Cemaphore Systems has created an email continuity and content management solution for SMBs base on Microsoft Exchange that keeps email flowing and stored messages available in a crisis.
Tyrone Pike, President and CEO of Cemaphore, talks with Brad Baldwin about defining the right mix of enterprise-class features for small and medium businesses. Pike also talks about challenges and best practices for email continuity and the hole he sees in the market to provide the same service to companies with just a few mailboxes.
SMBs can leverage Cemaphore MailShadow for as few as 25 up to as many as 50,000 mailboxes. Mail can fail over to Cemaphore within minutes of an outage to keep email up and running. Cemaphore also supports mobile devices that we’ve all come to rely on when traveling. When organizations migrate or upgrade to a new version of Exchange, MailShadow helps out. Cemaphore has built a deep expertise in Microsoft Exchange transaction technology, including being Microsoft’s first Reference Licensee of the Outlook-Exchange Transport Protocol specification (formerly MAPI).
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Intel CEO Keynotes at Utah Tech Council’s Hall of Fame
Intel CEO Paul Otellini presents the keynote speech at the 2007 Utah Technology Council’s Hall of Fame Award dinner.
Otellini presents on the evolution of the transistor, and how the transistor and Moore’s Law has become the basis of all tech innovation. He speaks on the way technology is transforming our world, including how tech is enhancing global communications and education. Finally, Otellini presents his vision of the future of technology — including MIDs or Mobile Internet Devices, and how technology will enhance the lives of people around the world.
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Bernard Daines, Father of Gigabit Ethernet
2007 Utah Technology Council’s Hall of Fame inductee Bernard Daines has a rich legacy of innovation spanning several decades of achievements in the network communications industry, and is widely recognized as an expert in Ethernet technology.
Daines was the first to push Ethernet data from 10 to 100 megabit when he created the first 100MB Ethernet Switch as a consultant at 3Com and Bob Metcalfe. Later, Daines leveraged his experience to push data 10 times faster to create the first Gigabit Switch.
Daines was the first to graduate in Computer Science at Brigham Young University, and played a major role in defining the programs and curriculum for future graduates. After sharing his knowledge as a professor, Daines went on to work at IBM and HP. Later he founded or co-founded a number of businesses centered on Ethernet, including Grand Junction Networks (acquired by Cisco), Packet Engines (acquired by Alcatel), World Wide Packets, and Linux Networx.
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Video Created with CodecSys Minimizes Bandwidth Needs
With Internet bandwidth demand doubling each year through 2010, broadcast media, IPTV, and new user-generated “YouTube-style” video are culprits exacerbating the problem. This is where Broadcast International and their new CodecSys offering can help reduce bandwidth for video application by 50-75%, including High Definition (HD).
For the lay person, digital video is created with a video codec that encodes and compresses a stream of information. There are numerous codecs, each offering its own benefit and/or tradeoffs for visual or audio quality and file size.
Unlike traditional systems that force a single codec, CodecSys runs each frame of video past a collection of the codecs and determines which codec is best for that particular frame or series of frames. Exploiting attributes of multiple codecs, CodecSys can reduce bandwidth needs by 50-75%. Since it’s a software solution, new codecs can easily be incorporated into the system. Cable providers, media companies, and new web or IPTV-based stations can benefit from the CodecSys offering.
Broadcast International CEO Rod Tiede talks with Brad Baldwin about CodecSys and their recent demo with IBM at the 2007 IBC Expo in Amsterdam on the new BladeCenter® QS20 “Cell Blade”.
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Richard Nelson, President and CEO, Utah Technology Council
Richard Nelson, President and CEO, Utah Technology Council, takes a few minutes at the UTC’s 2007 Hall of Fame event to share his thoughts on how the state of Utah is performing in technology and life sciences fields. He also tributes this year’s Hall of Fame Inductees, Bernard Daines, Father of Gigabit Ethernet and James LeVoy Sorenson, Medical Device Pioneer.
Will West, UTC Chairman and Control4 CEO
Will West, Chairman of Utah Technology Council and CEO at Control4, chats about the 2007 Hall of Fame Award dinner. West tributes the inductees and shares this thoughts on why they are the highlight of the event.
Dr. Dinesh Patel, Founding Partner and Managing Director, vSpring Capital
Dr. Dinesh Patel, the 2006 Utah Technology Hall of Fame Life Science Inductee and Managing Director at vSpring Capital, share his thoughts about fellow 2007 Inductee, James LeVoy Sorenson. Patel says, “Jim’s a giant,” and pays tribute to Sorenson’s contribution to the medical sciences and Utah’s business culture.
Dave Curry, Vice Chairman of World Wide Packets
Dave Curry, worked closely with Bernard Daines, founder of World Wide Packets. Curry tributes Daines, a 2007 Utah Technology Council’s Hall of Fame inductee. Curry recognizes not only the inventor and engineer in Bernard Daines but also the visionary businessman who launched and sold multiple companies around data networking and Ethernet.
Franz Kolb, International Trade, Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development
Franz Kolb with thh Utah Governor’s Office talks about efforts to strengthen relationship with European countries and the benefits to the technology industry.
Ron Heinz, Managing Directory of Canopy Ventures
Ron Heinz, Managing Director at Canopy Ventures, sees a lot of business activity as a venture capitalist. The word he uses to describe his outlook of the future is “Bullish.” A strong economy in Utah and a pipeline of good deals keeps a smile on his face.
Alan Hall, Founder & CEO, MarketStar
Alan Hall, Founder and CEO at MarketStar, talks with Cydni Tetro about the 2007 Utah Technology Council’s Hall of Fame event. Hall is the Master of Ceremonies for the event and tells the story of how Paul Otellini was recruited to participate as the keynote speaker.
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