Hoiio Live gives you another option for managing phonebook data in the cloud

If you’re not satisfied with the contacts services that tech giants Apple and Google offer, rest assured that other options are out there.

For instance, Hoiio Live, which launches today at DEMO Spring, offers a comparable service that acts as …

Visualize your dream home and find contractors with Showoff Home Stager

Ever wanted to repaint your living room but wanted to see more than just a swatch of color on your walls before making the decision? Home improvement company VisApp has created the Showoff Home Stager, so you can see your …

Want a store inside your video player? Cinsay can do that

Undoubtedly, the 30-second (or less) video commercial is an effective way to drive a company’s revenue. That’s assuming people take the initiative to visit the company’s store, walk through 2-3 additional steps, and finally confirm payment. Each step holds the …

Meet Hazelcast, the tiny Turkish startup that counts Cisco, Mozilla, and Ericsson as users

Hazelcast, a five person Turkish startup with an open source platform that makes it easy for companies to create cloud-friendly applications. Blue-chip companies like Cisco, Mozilla, and Ericsson are among its early clients.

Open-source solutions are all the rage for …

Finovera is making your offline bank accounts cloud-ready

Bills, invoices, and bank statements are straddling the online and paper worlds, making organizing finances a messy task. Finovera is launching today in an attempt to collect these bills and make people trust accounting in the cloud.

Consumers receive more …

DocSync brings your docs to the iPad, no matter where they’re stored

Last year at the DEMO conference, R. Paul Singh was forced to return home to find a simple document on his computer that he couldn’t access via his iPad. He couldn’t access the file over e-mail, remote desktop was too …

Looqiloo knows you trust friends more, sets up peer-review marketplace

Which one is more convincing: watching an infomercial for the latest juicer, or watching a guy on YouTube pulverize 12 apples into a tasty beverage?

We all know Jack LaLanne is awesome, but Looqiloo is betting that peer reviews on …

Box CEO Aaron Levie dismisses Google Drive

Using humor to cover up his true feelings, Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie said that he had nearly forgotten about Google Drive, the search giant’s soon-to-launch cloud storage product that will threaten the very livelihood of Levie’s seven-year-old business.…

RollApp launches cloud-enabled beta of ‘Open Office on iPad’

On-demand software startup rollApp has launched a free beta of “Open Office on iPad,” its first big stab at bringing cloud-powered software to the iPad’s browser.

rollApp’s focuses on developing the technology to run any existing software app on any …

Here’s the Uber for architecture: elite services for web-savvy commoners

The Internet is all about elite services for common folk these days. Designer furniture, luxury clothing, and even top-notch car service can be had at a fraction of their usual cost for the discerning webizen.

Now we can add custom …

Alpha Pitch: Where 20-year-olds pitch their dreams in 90 seconds

You don’t have to be an experienced businessman to start a company. Indeed, even college students with little “real-world” experience can come up with the next industry-changing idea (Mark Zuckerberg, anyone?). Check out the latest student-led companies who showed off …

Tabillo promises a single interface for all small-business web app needs

Ontario-based Tabillo wants to make it easier for small and medium-sized businesses to create customized, database-driven applications on a budget.

“With Tabillo anyone can turn their static Excel spreadsheets into dynamic and collaborative business apps in minutes without programming skills,” …

Bluega takes web-based HTML5 touchscreen interface across platforms

Touchscreen user interfaces look pretty cool, but why does every device have to come with a different one? With Bluega’s pieOS, you can get a well-designed touchscreen interface that’s usable on every one of your mobile devices.

The secret to …

Fusion-io’s new software development kit gives programmers native access to its flash memory

Fusion-io has been mostly known as an enterprise company helping big names like Apple and Facebook to save money on their data center costs.

But today, the company is announcing its first software development kit (SDK) to provide software developers …

Georama reimagines travel with interactive maps

Lots of travel sites are vying for your attention. Georama hopes to grab you by simplifying the process of planning, booking, and sharing your travel plans.

The site uses a map of the world as its user interface, and users …

FriendsLearn teaches you through social and mobile games

Edutainment, or the melding of education and entertainment, has been around for a long time, but it has never really worked that well. Hoping to change that, startup FriendsLearn is working on what it calls a “learnification” platform, where it …

New app for wait staff & diners takes restaurants into the future

Imagine a soup-to-nuts app that would let you find a good restaurant nearby, make a reservation, order, and pay all in a few clicks and swipes — and imagine the restauranteurs in your area have the same level of sophistication …

Click here if you think conference calls suck (hint: we have a solution)

Conference calls tend to suck the life and soul out of an otherwise productive workday, and it’s not just the content. In fact, sometimes, we all have struggled to simply hear the content over a constant hiss of snaps, crackles, …

Agiliron’s cloud-connected e-commerce tools will help you ‘catch ‘em all’

Agiliron could easily be the name of some crazy Pokemon, and funny enough, the cloud-connected e-commerce startup’s mission, like Pokemon, is to help you catch ‘em all — customers, that is.

Agiliron’s goal to provide an “integrated SaaS platform for …

NetSuite chief spells out the opportunity in the social, mobile and cloud-based enterprise

NetSuite was founded as a cloud-based enterprise company way back in 1998. But Zach Nelson (pictured left), chief executive of the company, has plenty of advice for startups in the enterprise market, where social, mobile, and cloud technologies are all …