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Neoware Thin Client Laptops: What Hard drive?

Hard drives are for suckers. Ok, maybe not, but they are easily compromised should your laptop be stolen or lost. While for most of us it’s not a big deal for some thief to find our “ScarJo_Naked_mov.avi” files, it’s something large corporations live and die by. The loss of laptops containing sensitive data is in the news from time to time, and, as usual, you don’t want to be the guy on the news.

Neoware, a thin client company, has developed a series of thin client laptops based on the Citrix infrastructure. Running either Linux or Windows XPe, the laptops aren’t just terminals. Sporting a 15″ screen that maxes out at 1600×1200, the notebooks boasts the stereo speakers, USB, modem, VGA out, LAN and WiFi any other laptop would have.

In addition, their proprietary security software makes it almost impossible to get to your data. If keeping your intel out of the hands of ne’erdowells is important, think thin.

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Broadcast Photos To Cable TV

We’ve been tracking SimpleStar’s PhotoShow since Brian Ascher, a general partner at Venrock Associates, mentioned them in passing over lunch a couple of months ago. The hook? He said “Imagine if you could watch your friends’ Flickr pictures or YouTube videos on a dedicated cable television channel.” No need to get your grandmother online. Just point her to channel 917 and she can see your most recent vacation pictures right there on her television.

Photoshow’s core offering is an online slide-show service. Users can create a slide show, adding photos, video clips, templates, music, transitions, captions and effects. I created a test slide show in a couple of minutes. It’s free, and registration is not required to create a slide show.

These shows can then be embedded into MySpace or any other website, or a link to the show can be sent from the service. Photoshow also allows users to buy a dvd version of the show. As far as basic tools to create slide show memories of vacations and other events, PhotoShow is top notch.

And then there is the broadcast-to-tv feature.

It’s currently available only to Time Warner cable subscribers in Hawaii. On October 18 the company will have an official launch party and announce expanded coverage of the service. Once it’s live, users can click a button and, once approved, add it to a local cable channel. This channel is menu driven - when viewers go to the site they can scroll through various topical categories and find slide shows that people have published to the channel. There’s no privacy for these shows, but the convenience factor for sharing these with people who want to view them on television is innovative. If Photoshow is successful in closing deals with local cable channels, this differentiating factor with competitors could make it a winner.

The company has raised $6.3 million from Venrock in August 2005. The company, which also sells a desktop version of the PhotoShow software, presented at DEMO two weeks ago (the video of the demo is available here). See Dan Farber’s recent coverage of the company as well.

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