Tech Tuesday

At the DEMO annual gathering of tech inventions, companies roll out creations that marry your phone and computer, and make the workplace technologically easier. Take a look:

LiveScribe
LiveScribe's Smartpen stores your notes, sketches, and doodles in digital memory so they can be transferred later to your PC. It also records sound. It's not the first "smart pen" to hit the market, and given past flops, only time will tell if consumers want their writing instruments to be this high-tech and pricey.

CrackBerry PCMobilizr

Remember that time you were on a business trip and realized, too late, that you left your presentation on your desktop PC at home? The application creates a secure link back to a Windows computer over the wireless Internet connection on a Blackberry or Windows Mobile device, letting you interact with your desktop as if you were actually sitting in front of it. A version that works with Apple's Mac computers (AAPL) is slated to arrive in February. Support for other handhelds, including the iPhone, Nokia (NOK) phones, and handsets based on Google's (GOOG) Android mobile platform are also planned.

Squidcast
If your e-mail service has ever prevented you from e-mailing a video or big batch of digital pictures because of size limits on attachments, then you'll understand the need for Squidcast. The Web-based service allows you to upload any size file to be sent from its site using any browser on Windows, Mac.

Amphibian
Amphibian is an online service that lets you forward incoming cell phone calls to a Web-based phone application. The Amphibian Web site also lets you make calls and answer voice mail messages without ringing the other person's phone (this is called a "shout"). It can also answer calls to your cell phone when you have no wireless signal, store and search old voicemail messages, and do scores of other things you wish your real phone could do.

All of these will help optimize your business.