Innovative Mobile Startups @ SDForum Palo Alto

Yesterday I had a chance to attend the Innovative Mobile Startup conference at Accenture Labs in Palo Alto. There were product demos from four companies. Brief description follows..

Ccube.com
The focus of ccube is social networking with main essence of voice giving the personal touch. It allows users to leave a voice profile on the website and also facilitates users to call each other without requiring users to give out their personal phone numbers. There is a rating system which can be used to rate the user after each phone conversation and thus can act as public policing system.
Business Model: Targeted advertisements in the voice profiles as well
as phone system.

flurrymail.com
As the name suggests, they are in the mobile email arena. They facilitate users to access their email on their phones, no matter what kind of phone is used. It installs a Java App on the phone which would activate the features depending on the capability of the phone. Setting black & white filters for the emails on the webinterface, subscribing to the RSS feeds and news.
Business Model: Advertisements on the Web.

Dash.com
Its a neat startup bringing dynamic information to the Navigation System. This was long due and we knew that the potential for such a product would be enormous. The terminal would have two radios, GPRS as well as WiFi and download dynamic data from the central servers. The data could be traffic information, location based information. Neat addition is to send address information from personal PC to car. Possiblity of P2P in future when the cars using Dash increases. Dash works as MVNO, where they buy Wireless Bandwidth from big players.
Business Model: Contracts with the car companies, free with new car for certain time span and then subscription based service.

SoonR.com
I would define soonr as a webbased remote control for multiple machines, where the browser is running on your phone. User needs to install a soonr client on the machine (pc or a mac) and share data, which is then optimised by the soonr servers to be effectively viewed on the Mobile Webbrowser. No need to sync with outlook anymore and view all your mails/calendar events in the mobile browser itself. No installation required on the Mobile Terminal.
Business Model: Business partnership with operators and MVNOs.