The conflict "took it away from the geopolitical stage and put it into a geek-to-geek stage," said Chris Wraight, a technology consultant with Sophos.
While a geek on stage tried to dupe a Microsoft tech support operator, a Wired News reporter was ejected from the hall.
Sturdier melodies such as We Rule the School and I Didn't See It Coming work far better, and the show picks up steam when Murdoch drags a stageful of girls and a few plucky geek blokes on stage to dance to The Boy With the Arab Strap.
Some of the companies, which all come from the life science and high-tech industries, were venture-backed; others hadn't yet left the geeks-in-a-garage stage.
With Nokia setting up shop next to Burberry and supermodels flogging Apple, I think we're finally past the "geeks-in-the-basement" stage of consumer electronics.
19.26 EST I am beginning to suspect there are more stage managers than geeks in this place, according to how many walkie-talkies and headsets I keep seeing.
From below the hastily erected stage, a scrum of geeks who were about to get rich gave him a loud cheer.
The other extraordinary thing about Kitson is his singular stage presence: the most socially awkward geek, yet a perverse kind of alpha male at the same time.
In October, he plans to start bringing "coffee geeks" on board with a campaign for the second stage machine, priced at £500.
Now an attempt to spin his tale – science geek turned muscle-bound crime fighter – on to the Broadway stage is tackling demons of its own.
Expect at some stage to be asked by some of your geeks to "work remote.
