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Below is our live coverage of the Monday morning startup presentations at the DEMO conference in San Diego. Keep refreshing this page to view the newest coverage - we will note once the coverage has concluded. And check our main DEMO and TechCrunch50 conference section for our video event coverage as well.

Opening Remarks - Chris Shipley

– Biggest DEMOfall ever
– 72 companies across all of technology and IT
– Thanks the sponsors
– Let’s make the next two days all about the presenters
– The tech market is moving into the next cycle
– Chris goes through the versions of the Web
– The next cycle will be about creating real market value

Adapx - Turning Ink into Action

– Like many of you we work with paper
– Paper is all around us
– Paper survives because it’s simple and easy
– Trouble begins when you want to get paper into the computer to do things with it
– Announces "captures forms with Excel"
– Basically create a form in Excel, print it out, use a digital pen and then put the data back into Excel
– Must use a digital pen to use it - Allen: this makes this technology tough to use/implement - can’t use with a classroom for example
– "real easy way to capture data"
– once you grab the data off the pen, it can be manipulated as normal data in excel

Plastic Logic

– product won’t go live until next year - it’s codenamed "plastic logic reader"
– looks like what the techcrunch tablet wants to be - but this only does books
– looks like a 9"x12" size - pretty nice looking
– black and white
– can support a variety of types of documents
– they have developed their own display technology
– weighs ounces not pounds - less than 1/3 the weight of the macbook air
– has instant on and readable in bright sunlight

Tikitag

– Tikitag is an alcatel-lucent venture
– Has a Tikitag USB reader - works with pc and mac
– Uses rfid on the business card to send to a special site that’s associated with the rfid tag
– Can be used to connect games to the online world
– can use mobile to attach to the rfid tags - similar to qr codes
– the issue here is that you need a rfid reader for it to do anything
– $49 on Amazon

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