Last night I was lucky enough to attend the NISP CONNECT 25K Awards.
The overall winner of the awards was Affyon Networks, a company which produces a chip which performs Deep Packet Inspection at wire speed in order to eliminate SPAM and Viruses at the router. End users don’t need to worry about this stuff – it’s aimed at Intel, Cisco and similar companies. I do wonder, however, how it works when email traffic is SSL encrypted. At the moment not everyone uses SSL for email but nearly all good ISPs support it (which says a lot if your ISP doesn’t support it).
Other notables included the solar-powered water purifiers from Clean Tech Global and the Disability Heroes, devised by Kyle Boyd – the latter of which was one of the “Digital Media” category entries and therefore has particular interest to me.
Infurious plans to help Kyle promote Disability Heroes by getting his content onto the iPhone using the Infurious Comic Reader application as well as getting him talking to similar organisations and help him secure funding for bringing his ideas to the next level. It’s my intention to bring this in to also cover not just physical disabilities.