Boston-Power, Inc.’s (DEMO 07) first battery of its proprietary lithium-ion technology platform, Sonata ® , is now for sale and available for evaluation testing by computer makers and other electronics manaufacturers.

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Two months after winning a deal with Hewlett-Packard, Salt Lake City start-up Fusion-io (DEMOfall 07)  today announced it’s also working with IBM to improve the data-access performance of IBM’s clustered storage systems while reducing power consumption.

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It almost sounds like an entrepreneur’s death wish: launching a startup targeted squarely at a market’s leading product. And yet time and again throughout the technology market’s history, it’s a strategy that has worked for a lucky few. Don’t forget, today’s nearly forgotten brands, such as AltaVista and Excite, were among the giants of online search at the moment when two MBA dropouts decided to launch a new search engine.

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All registrants of DEMOfall 08 are invited to participate in our newly launched social network powered by EventVue.  The DEMO social network allows attendees, demonstrators, sponsors and press to more effectively plan their time at DEMO. 

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Last week, I wrote from Sydney about a number of companies I met in the first couple days of the ANZA Technology Network’s FocUS workshop series. Since then, I’ve taken a whirlwind tour of Australia, visiting Adelaide, Brisbane, and Melbourne before returning to the U.S.

Like Auckland and Sydney, technology innovation is thriving in the cities around Australia. Here are a few of the promising companies I met along the way.

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Total Immersion (DEMO 07), which integrates video and interactive 3-D graphics, won the award for "best application of visual computing" competing against 60 companies during last week’s NVISION 08 visual computing conference in San Jose, CA.

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Attempting a turnaround, Avistar Communications Corp. (DEMO 08) is trying to carve out an identity in the video conferencing world for a new marketing concept it calls "unified communications," while fending off hostile actions by Microsoft Corp., which is challenging Avistar’s lifeblood - its patents.

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Logitech of Fremont, CA (DEMO 95 and DEMOmobile 04) today introduced the Squeezebox Boom, the latest addition to its Squeezebox line of streaming-audio products that brings iTunes music and streaming Internet audio into rooms and onto nightstands without any external speakers. It features an integrated amplifier and speakers, and will be available in September for US$300.

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What do you do when you want to disconnect telephone service, but reserve your telephone number for future use? You park the number in NumberGarage. A collaboration of Freedom Communications USA and My Media Moxie, NumberGarage of Dickson, TN is a deceptively simple service that allows consumers to effectively take ownership of their telephone number.

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Cisco has signed a definitive agreement to buy PostPath, Inc., (DEMOfall 06) a maker of e-mail and calendaring software, for $215 million and plans to add those capabilities to its on-demand WebEx Connect collaboration platform. The deal is expected to close in October.

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Cisco has signed a definitive agreement to buy PostPath, Inc., (DEMOfall 06) a maker of e-mail and calendaring software, for $215 million and plans to add those capabilities to its on-demand WebEx Connect collaboration platform. The deal is expected to close in October.

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Cisco has signed a definitive agreement to buy PostPath, Inc., (DEMOfall 06) a maker of e-mail and calendaring software, for $215 million and plans to add those capabilities to its on-demand WebEx Connect collaboration platform. The deal is expected to close in October.

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Cisco has signed a definitive agreement to buy PostPath, Inc., (DEMOfall 06) a maker of e-mail and calendaring software, for $215 million and plans to add those capabilities to its on-demand Web Ex Connect collaboration platform. The deal is expected to close in October.

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Aternity Inc. (DEMO 08), an enterprise IT user-experience management platform, today announced an exclusive deal with Israel’s largest IT services company, Ness Technologies (NASDAQ-NSTC), to sell and support Aternity’s products in Israel.

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GreenPlug (DEMO 08), advocates of a universal power supply, today named former presidential science advisor and physicist George "Jay" Keyworth II, Ph.D., 69, of Piedmont, CA, to its board effective Sept. 1. Keyworth currently is chairman and senior fellow of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a think tank studying the implications of digital technology on public policy, and is on the board of General Atomics of San Diego, a division of General Dynamics that builds nuclear power reactors, state-of-the-art unmanned aerial vehicles, and radar systems.

Keyworth is best known in Silicon Valley for his 21 years on the board of directors of Hewlett-Packard Company. Keyworth resigned from the board in Sept. 2006 during a tumultuous period when former HP board chair Patricia Dunn secretly investigated board members - including Keyworth - for allegedly leaking company information to some news reporters.

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