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Echo Labs Wins “Quick Pitch” Contest with Digital Hybrid Microscope

Xconomy

Cho made his case for Revolve, a digital instrument created for biology labs that combines the features of an upright microscope (for viewing glass slides) and an inverted microscope (for viewing live samples in a petri dish). Echo Labs’ hybrid microscope.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

m-Via does financial remittances using mobile phones for people from the US to Mexico. I know that their are independent software companies now focused on this like UserVoice and Get Satisfaction. They recorded it. I was impressed with their desire to truly understand the customer. Another great example is Bill Barhydt of m-Via.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). Conceived in 1987 by Motorola and spun out in 1990 as a separate company, Iridium planned to build a mobile telephone system that would work anywhere on earth. It’s good fun to create something as scaled down as 20 slides at 20 seconds each. Keep going.