One of the companies at DEMO that really rang my bell was DeviceScape out of San Bruno, CA.
While some are panning what they have to offer, by pointing out the shortlist of devices it runs on, I see nothing but good in what they are doing. In simple terms they make getting on a WiFi network as easy as finding someone to hook up with on Craigslist. Their software makes it easy to get onto free or paid WiFi networks because it learns how to from one user, and shares it with all DeviceScape users.
While their debut was at DEMO I’ve been using it on my Nokia Tablet 770 for sometime and really like it. I like it so much that I was slightly disappointed when their software didn’t run yet on the new Nokia Nseries 800 Internet Tablet that just came out in January, but the DeviceScape folks tell me that’s coming soon.
For VoIP users they have the thin client working on the Linksys WIP 300 VoIP Phone but as Om pointed out, and as I suggested to their team they need a lot more and soon.
But beyond the short list of devices offered today, the one thing that DeviceScape does is eliminate software bloat to hook up, and get on a wireless network that exists today. This means people (like me) who have to latch on to paid networks can have one client manage all that. That is after they COME OUT WITH A MAC CLIENT!!!!!
Being the optimist, I’m rooting for this company to take their recent third round funding and apply it to two things…getting the software onto more devices and to get more users using the software on those new devices.
WiFi maven Glenn Fleishman has thoughts on this also.