Touch-screen laptop, iPhone service are highlights

03.03.2009

While the show has a big focus on consumers, it will also showcase numerous tools IT pros and businesses may find interesting.

will launch Project Guru, which will appeal to IT pros whose family and friends expect them to solve all their technology problems. The project is a Web-based remote support tool that lets "tech savvy individuals" provide remote support to family and friends.

"It's kind of like the nerd in every social group," Shipley says. "It's software that is going to make it easy for you to provide remote long-distance support for all the people who count on you to do it."

Business users of the iPhone might be interested in ShoutOUT, a voice-to-text Short Message Service (SMS) application that will soon be available in Europe through a major wireless carrier.

"Built on Promptu Systems Corporation's powerful speech recognition technology, ShoutOUT lets users dictate messages in natural language, quickly check their text message and send the SMS to their intended recipients," DEMO says.