Allen, Texas-based Privus Mobile, a provider of caller ID services and mobile apps for smart phones, said today that the company is behind the world’s first national rollout of mobile caller ID for the nation of Vietnam.
Privus said they completed an agreement to make...
Txt2Get is launching its do-it-yourself mobile marketing platform in the United States. Already in Australia and New Zealand, Txt2Get's platform connects advertisers with customers, potential customers and social media followers. The company is targeting its web-based text and quick response code campaigns at brand...
Application platform provider Service2Media said it received $10 million in round C venture-capital funding from Prime Ventures and the Private Plus Fund. CEO Geert Kolthof said the funding will enable it to expand its partner network, add staff, and increase sales and marketing efforts,...
DUBLIN – Cloud computing is the buzz word associated with the trifecta of mobile technology: the ability to access information and files from a home computer, a mobile device and a work computer or tablet. One of the most obvious applications of cloud capabilities...
OP-ED: The Greater Austin area, stretching from Round Rock to San Marcos, is a small market when it comes to big companies headquartered here. You can count the number of Fortune 500 members with two hands – and that’s using just your hands, not...
Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Eric Schmidt, now executive chairman after stepping down as CEO earlier this year, opened up during his keynote at the D9 Conference last evening about some mistakes, the platform wars (it involves a "gang of four") and the good and bad...
BROOMFIELD, Colo. – Developers need to take the user experience into account when they are deciding whether to build their application to be native or wrapped for their mobile experience, said Guilhem Ensuque, director of product marketing at OpenPlug, a company acquired by Alcatel-Lucent...
BROOMFIELD, Colo. – Growth, simplicity and money are driving open application programmable interfaces, said John Musser of Programmable Web. Open APIs are becoming increasingly popular, and the growth rate of open APIs is getting steeper, Musser told the audience in an opening keynote at...
BROOMFIELD, Colo.—Service providers are not the enemy of application developers, despite a preconceived notion that they are, Alcatel-Lucent's Laura Merling told a crowd of developers at this morning's Glue Conference during a keynote speech. The conference is more streamlined than traditional wireless conference, so...
AccessU, a unique conference focused on universal design and drawing expert trainers from around the world, recently celebrated its tenth year, with a special focus on mobile applications.
The conference is produced by Knowbility, Inc., an Austin-headquartered non-profit and recognized national leader for providing equal access to technology for people with disabilities.
Editor's Note: In this piece by Carlos Urreta, guest columnist and techie from Austin, Texas, Urreta reveals loopholes to securing the cheapest cell phone deal a user is likely to construct (with some loopholes) without losing most major services.
I bought my first cellular device...
Austin-based Tabbedout, a mobile payment solution provider, will be at local watering hole Shiner’s Saloon (422 Congress Ave. Suite D) to demonstrate and promote the company’s app to encourage patrons to experience closing out a tab on a user’s phone.
The company will randomly select...
On Monday Google unveiled its latest efforts in its quest for local relevance by announcing its new mobile "News Near You" feature for smartphones.
As the name indicates, the new capability attempts to bring Google News users the latest from their surrounding location on their...
On Monday Google unveiled its latest efforts in its quest for local relevance by announcing its new mobile "News Near You" feature for smartphones.
As the name indicates, the new capability attempts to bring Google News users the latest from their surrounding location on their...
StackMob Inc. has landed a new $7.5 million round of funding to expand its hosted and managed platform for mobile app development, customization and monetization. StackMob's overarching value proposition is to narrow down months of coding into a couple minutes, Ty Amell, CEO and...
BOSTON – Privacy issues associated with location-based services took center stage at the Mass Technology Leadership Council’s Spring meeting today. Companies must be transparent in how they handle their customers’ personal information in order to gain the trust of their customers going forward, according...
San Jose, Calif. - One in five people check their Facebook straight from their phone while still in bed in the morning, according to Michael Bjorn, head of research at Ericsson Consumer Lab.Commenting on people's modern day propensity to remain always connected and always...
SAN JOSE, Calif.–Christopher Russo, Deputy Fire Chief of Hull, Massachusetts, told an audience at Ericsson's Business Innovation Forum that emergency response systems needed a huge technological boost in order to increase their efficiency. “Emergency response for emergency responders is broken,” he said adding, “we're...
NEW YORK CITY — This city is teaming with startups. Like any good metropolis with considerable talents and clout across entertainment, media, technology, fashion and so much more, the costs of founding a company in New York are often outweighed by the potential return...
Hotels.com, a Dallas-based hotel booking service and website, announced the launch of the company’s first mobile apps for the Android and iPhone platforms today.
The new apps offer users the option to look for last minute deals, browse and sort hotels, view and make user...
Following a beta launch and subsequent expansion to 12 cities all on self funding, HotelTonight has closed it first round of funding, snatching $3.25 million. The round was led by Battery Ventures, including participation from Accel Partners, First Round Capital and travel industry veterans...
Austin-based Tabbedout, a company that offers a free mobile payment app for Android and iPhone platforms, released that the company has garnered $5.75 million in a Series A funding coup. New Enterprise Associates was the largest group in the funding with $3.7 million invested....
Wireless leaders of the future were among an audience at panel session for competitors in a global investment competition at the University of Texas at Austin Thursday in which past winners and successful entrepreneurs shared wisdom from behind the front lines of business.
At the...
Hold the phone – those sacred moments of silence that tick by while your call is connecting are about to be gobbled up ... by advertising.
Austin company Vocal Media plans to deliver eight-second audio advertisements into international telephone calls. The ads will be targeted...
