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AUSTIN, Texas-Marissa Mayer, VP of consumer products at Google, gave a keynote on Google Maps at South by Southwest (SXSW) on the first day of the Interactive Festival, March 11. …

Today’s highlights ran the gamut from payment apps to digital wallets, location-based services, and social gaming, to mobile apps for social good.

Mobile electronics accessory and design firm AViiQ has started a solidarity campaign for Japan with donations to the American Red Cross for every user that likes its Facebook page.

“This is a mass market thing – if you have 60 million people playing the game, it’s not just geeks anymore,” said Brian Reynolds, founder of Zynga in a keynote at SXSW today. The gaming company responsible for Facebook games like Farmville and Mafia Wars has turned playing video games into a social phenomena – not a private pastime but rather, a hobby to be shared and celebrated.

America’s students are bored, unengaged and dropping out at alarming rates – but technology may be able to save the day. At least according to the panelists on a Samsung sponsored SXSW panel on Friday entitled: Asleep in the Classroom: A Wake Up Call from Tomorrow.

PC World | March 11, 2011 | Michael Kan Opera Software has announced a deal to embed its Internet browser on mobile phones sold in China, a move that is meant …

With John Stanton at the helm, will a possible business deal between Clearwire Corp. (CLWR),  T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) and Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) come to fruition? It’s a question …

Remember SXSW 2010, when check-in services such as FourSquare, Gowalla and BrightKite were hitting the big time? Austin was awash with people walking into closed doors as they stared intensely at their handsets, making sure they registered that all-important Starbucks check-in.

Rovio is certainly feeling the luck of the Irish this week as the Angry Birds maker picked up a cool $42 million in new venture funding on the same week it released 15 new levels in honor of Saint Patrick’s day.

AUSTIN, Texas-Appconomy, a local startup app developer, unveiled the company’s first app, barely preceding the start of South by Southwest (SXSW) on March 11. The app is named “Grouped{in}” and …

CNET | March 9, 2011 | John Chan According to a report by analytics firm comScore, Internet users in Southeast Asia rely more on Google than the rest of the world. …

Since a very public backlash began over the allegedly decreasingly quality of Google’s search results a few months ago, the search giant has made some very public moves to restore confidence in their ubiquitous service.

There’s no need for Symbian developers to go nok, nok nokia-ing on heaven’s door just yet, because Samsung plans to lure them over to a Bada life.

Every year as part of the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, group of hackers pit their wits against the latest and greatest in browser security at an event called Pwn2Own. The name is a little ’95, but the concept is simple – hack a browser, and you win whatever hardware it was running on.