Gulf Pearl Ltd. is my (Shidan Gouran) namespace on the Net and holding company. A number of ventures and projects were incubated or conceived as part of Gulf Pearl Ltd.. These include:

  • Home Jinni Inc.

    • Commercial solutions for the connected home with a focus on taking Internet multimedia past computer screens.

  • The Smart Grid Summit

    • In partnership with TMCNET, Intelligent Communications Partners runs one of the most popular web portals for the Smart Grid industry and organizes a Smart Grid Summit with the aims of bringing relevant parties from the Utilities,Telecoms and IT industries together for discussions and explorations.

  • Social Hardware

    • A community portal for open source enablers of the Connected Home and Smart Objects. This project will be launched in Q1 2010 and will be seeded by Home Jinni's contributions to open source.

  • Magic Hardware

    • An online store for Z-Wave and wireless home automation products and Network IP Cameras. Serving Canada exclusively.

  • Jazinga Inc.

    • Jazinga is recognized as having developed the easiest to use small business phone system. Even though the secret sauce was always the edge device, we envisioned it would be part of a highly distributed VoIP service. Currently it is being sold by Jazinga as a stand alone product, not a service. Although the idea for the product came from Nuovotel Corp, the Company Jazinga Inc. was established independently and funded by BrightSpark Ventures. I co-founded and led product strategy and development. Exited in 2008.

  • Nuovotel Corp.

    • A wholesale VoIP company and provisional CLEC in the province of Ontario, selling H.323 and SIP services. Exited in 2006.

  • Live Inc.

    • Developed one of the first live video streaming and Live DRM solutions based around Windows Media Server and ActiveX components for Internet Explorer 4.0.  Exited in 1998.