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• Seratis targets doctor's pagers with health app

  When Divya Dhar became a doctor four years ago, she received a somewhat archaic handout from her hospital: a pager.

• Pointdrive eyes smarter, more polished marketing emails

  Marketers are always looking for a way to stand out, especially when it comes to email, and Chicago-based Pointdrive thinks it has the answer.

• VeloComputer measures bike rides with impressive accuracy

  A computer that measures bicycle rides with impressive precision is coming soon to Android.

• SupportPay aims to make child support transparent

  In relationships, two areas that often cause friction are money and poor communication. So when a divorced couple needs to communicate with each other over child support payments, arguments can easily ensue.

• Nuroast wants a better cup of coffee

  A lot of people are particular about how they prepare their coffee, so it's a confident company that suggests to them they're doing it wrong. But Nuroast is sure there's a better way to get a great-tasting cup of coffee and demonstrated its prototype home roasting system at the Demo conference on Wednesday.

• Startup wants to give you a better night's sleep

  Gadgets surround us throughout our waking hours, and now they're coming to our sleep.

• Skully fits heads-up display into motorcycle helmet

  Ask a hundred entrepreneurs where they draw inspiration and you'll probably get a hundred different answers, but few are likely to be as unusual as that of Marcus Weller. The CEO of Skully Helmets came up with his idea for a high-tech motorcycle helmet after smashing into a car on a street in Barcelona.

• Social startups kick the tires: Great spin or retread?

  For social startups, creating buzz and building a big user base (not to mention finding revenue) isn't what it used to be. Many of the companies presenting at DEMO Fall 2011 in Silicon Valley face the prospect of being a retread.

• Five new ways to build apps for iPhone, Android and Web browsers

  Five start-ups unveiled services for building mobile applications and Web services this week at DEMO Spring 2011, bringing application development capabilities to the masses - or, at least, to people who lack traditional programming and mobile development skills.