Typical online commerce sites, for instance, will offer a customer buying a notebook PC additional memory, even when a system comes installed with 1GB of RAM. Using the rules-based engine, CNET's Intelligent Cross-Sell application allows e-tailers to create more targeted opportunities, such as a wireless travel mouse.

So confident are CNET executives that the application will improve sales, CNET's business model is based on a pay-for-improved-sales-performance fee structure.

Meanwhile, if computer troubleshooting is a major pain point for a company, Network Streaming says it has the solution with a 1U rack-mounted appliance for remote control of user desktops to resolve trouble tickets.

In total, there were 17 products, both consumer and enterprise, presented in the morning session, with more promised for later in the day.