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...
Will Visa Inc. (V) have any surprises in store when it adopts a mobile commerce strategy? During an earnings call, the company's CEO told analysts and investors that Visa would make a "significant" announcement about its global mobile commerce strategy as early as next...
Beijing-based NetQin Mobile Inc.'s (NQ) stock is down almost 22% after its Thursday debut on the New York Stock Exchange.The mobile security provider's stock hit a low of $8.30 after an initial public offering price of $11.50, however stock is now hovering around $9.05...
The deployment of 3G services can be viewed as a turning point in the evolution of mobile networks as people began to realize that their wireless phones could do more than just place calls and send text messages. Those devices became multimedia gadgets that...
There was a lot of talk at the Texas Labs Venture Expo today about whether Austin should strive to be the next Silicon Valley, as Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently suggested.
In late April, Gov. Perry told an audience of business, technology and higher-education leaders,...
Two weeks after it first came to light that Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhones were potentially tracking users whereabouts in a hidden log file, Apple has released an iOS update aimed at addressing the problem and allying consumer and legislators' concerns.In the details that came...
The inventor of Ethernet has said Austin does not need more money to be a more innovative city, but it needs more companies that know how to market themselves better.
In his keynote presentation at the second annual Texas Venture Labs Expo on Wednesday, Bob...
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) opened a technology showcase center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the company said it will highlight LTE, video, cloud- and location-based services to help Brazilian operators respond to challenges created by increased mobile data adoption.
The 15,400-square-foot facility in Sao Paulo will cater...
Birds of a feather stick together and so it should come as no surprise that Finnish phone maker Nokia has recruited compatriots Rovio – makers of the infamous Angry Birds – to help it out when it comes to enabling near-field communications (NFC) for...
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has somewhat of an app problem. Windows Phone 7 development is not as prolific as that of the major competing operating systems like Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iOS and Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android, but it is relatively newer as well.To help widen...
Mobile communication is really going mobile according to Juniper Research which says half a billion people worldwide will use their mobile devices as travel tickets on metros, subways and buses by 2015.According to the Mobile Ticketing for Transport Markets report, the practice of using...
The challenge with mobile applications remains that while every brand wants one, consumers are constantly using new platforms to communicate. Thus, applications are going beyond smart phones and tablets to connected TVs and automobiles, noted Chris Ruff, CEO of UIEvolution.The 10-year-old Kirkland, Wash.-based company...
Appconomy, an Austin-based app developer, is also about collaboration and helping companies find each other.
The company previously launched a ‘mobile mind map’ for Austin late last year, documenting the Central Texas mobile community in terms of companies, investors, media and support...
While the Amazon cloud crash affected big sites such as Foursquare, HootSuite, Quora and Reddit last week, it hit home at smaller companies across the nation and in Austin and Texas as well. The Amazon.com cloud center in Virginia was...
One might think that Austin-based mobile check-in and social networking company GoWalla would be happy that one of their competitors is now gone, but the story is more complicated. Groupon acquired Pelago, the parent company of local discovery app Whrrl, which is a similar...
If you’ve ever wondered how you would fare as a billionaire running a business empire, you don’t need to wonder any more - there’s an app for that. Danta Entertainment, an Austin-based educational gaming company, launched a release of its game Robot Tycoon for...
Digby, a homegrown Austin company and developer of mobile commerce software announced yesterday that it had raised $8 million in a recent round of Series C funding in the wake of announcing the company’s partnership with AT&T Inc. (T) last week.
Investors include Mass.-based Battery...
Digby, a homegrown Austin company and developer of mobile commerce software announced yesterday that it had raised $8 million in a recent round of Series C funding in the wake of announcing the company’s partnership with AT&T Inc. (T) last week.
Investors include Mass.-based Battery...
Telecommunications and infrastructure service solutions provider GENBAND is pushing efforts to attract third-party developers by providing cash awards for the top entries in the company’s 2011 GENFuzion Developers Challenge.
The Frisco-based hardware developer will accept entries until July 15, and offer cash to developers using...
In a move which could prove rather disruptive to landline providers, VoIP firm Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG) has announced this it’s launching a new calling plan which includes unlimited calls from 60 countries to 80, including unlimited calling to mobile phones in 42...
Texans looking to access Texas.gov, the official government website for the State of Texas, have another means in which to do so with the launch this week of a new app, available for free on the Android Market. Officials said the move was made...
LAS VEGAS—AEG Digital Media, which produces digital media services for live video-streaming events, is using part of Cisco Systems Inc.’s Videoscape portfolio to live stream video over any device on any Internet Protocol network.AEG has produced live-streaming services for the Grammy Awards, We are...
Location-based coupon dealer Scoutmob is now deep in the heart of Texas. The Atlanta-based company announced the addition of Austin to its listing of local mobile deal services along with nine other cities: Dallas, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Nashville, Portland, Seattle and Washington...
Portland, Ore.-based Urban Airship Inc. has launched in-app billing support for apps running on Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android operating system. The update allows developers to give users the ability to make one-click purchases directly from within their apps.Google launched its own in-app billing mechanism...
