Whatever happened to the concept of ‘smart cities’? We used to write about them all the time, but the whole discipline seems to have splintered in recent years into a myriad of public and private urban smart-infrastructure sub-sectors, mostly covering the creeping modernisation of...
The autonomous bus trial, which will be split into two different phases, will be launched this month
Transit agency Capital Metro announced plans to explore automated vehicle (AV) technology in buses across the city of Austin, Texas, through evaluation demonstrations.
AV tests are expected to be...
Silicon Labs recently released its new Thunderboard React, a cloud-connected, Bluetooth-enabled, sensor-driven "internet of things" developer kit that lets customers demo, evaluate and develop their own projects. To show off the capabilities of the new platform, Silicon Labs hosted a pinewood derby race with IoT-enabled cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dybp-89g6hM
The...
Silicon Labs recently released its new Thunderboard React, a cloud-connected, Bluetooth-enabled, sensor-driven IoT developer kit that lets customers demo, evaluate and develop their own projects. To show off the capabilities of the new platform, Silicon Labs hosted a pinewood derby race with IoT-enabled cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dybp-89g6hM
The company invited...
From dumpster to smart home
AUSTIN--Jeff Wilson, CEO and founder of KASITA, moved from a modern, comfortable, 3,000 square-foot home to a 33 square-foot dumpster.
His inspiration for the drastic, unconventional change came from a UCLA study that tracked the movements of 32 middle class families throughout...
From dumpster to smart home
AUSTIN--Jeff Wilson, CEO and founder of KASITA, moved from a modern, comfortable, 3,000 square-foot home to a 33 square-foot dumpster.
His inspiration for the drastic, unconventional change came from a UCLA study that tracked the movements of 32 middle class families throughout...
AUSTIN, Texas – The 2016 Energy Thought Summit, geared toward innovative approaches to energy management and sustainability, highlighted an important aspect of the growing smart city trend.
Representatives from Austin Energy and the City of Austin showcased the local initiatives at the Seaholm eco-district. The...
AUSTIN, Texas – The 2016 Energy Thought Summit, geared toward innovative approaches to energy management and sustainability, highlighted an important aspect of the growing smart city trend.
Representatives from Austin Energy and the City of Austin showcased the local initiatives at the Seaholm eco-district. The...
AUSTIN, Texas – This year’s South by Southwest Gaming Expo hosted several panels about the world of mobile gaming. One of the aspects of this is the push to offer console-quality gaming experiences for mobile users. Representatives from industry giants EA Mobile, Sega of...
AUSTIN, Texas – Mobile advertisements. They’re in our favorite free applications and games, and an everyday part of life for every mobile consumer. Yet, do we really pay much attention to their form or function? Industry experts from Havas Media, Starcom MediaVest and Renegade...
AUSTIN, Texas – Wearable technology was a major focus at CES 2014, and since then buzz has only continued to grow as multiple panels at South by Southwest 2014 addressed the rising trend. Several of the world’s largest brands, including Coca-Cola and Visa, spoke...
AUSTIN, Texas – Edward Snowden, the famed NSA whistle-blower gave his first public appearance since leaking secret information about the NSA’s massive web of surveillance. No, he wasn’t there in person, but was beamed into a Google Hangout with the Austin audience, pinging the...
It's that time of year again when the worlds of tech, film, and music descend on downtown Austin, Texas for an entire week. South by Southwest begins Friday, March 7. RCR Wireless News will be there covering the event and reporting on the topics...
AUSTIN, Texas – LG debuted its G2 smartphone at the “LG G2 Experience” last night at The Belmont in Austin, Texas. Over a dozen of the G2 phones were on display with attendees offered discount coupons for the device via purchase through retail giant...
AUSTIN, Texas – Competition for technical talent can be fierce, and often employers find that their best recruiting tool isn't the job or even the corporate culture, but the city where the job is located. And no one sells a city better than the...
The VC business can be a strange game sometimes. That was typified for me this week courtesy of two lines in my WSJ reader (see below). While the "Larry the Bird" makeover took top billing on my screen, the two entries surrounded in...
Austin is one of the bright spots in the national employment picture. While US unemployment ticked up to 8.2% last month and the economy created just 69,000 jobs, Austin's unemployment rate is just 5.9% and the local area economy is expected to create 19,000...
On the day that Sprint tooted its horn as being the leading U.S. carrier in terms of customer satisfaction, the wireless operator's service went down covering nearly the entire Austin, Texas metro area. Local station KEYE TV reported that "a marathon repair effort...
As the company that revolutionized the mobile industry and continues to set the bar, Apple has no problem getting an audience with local and state governments when it announces plans for expansion. So the Austin City Council was all ears last summer when Apple...
Tens of thousands of geeks were in Austin, Texas, this week for the South by Southwest Interactive conference (SxSW or SxSWi if you prefer) and mobile was a big part of the event. Verizon Wireless' network seemed to hold up well, but both the...
Samsung Electronics says it plans to borrow roughly a billion dollars to fund operations at its chip-making facility in Austin. The Austin factory produces the A5 processor that powers Apple's iPhone 4S and iPad 2, so while Samsung competes with Apple in the smartphone...
Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) today became the latest semiconductor company to announce a restructuring. The Austin-based chipmaker says it will create two new strategic product groups, one focusing on networking and multimedia, which will include cellular products, and the other focusing on automotive and...
The unemployment rate in Central Texas slipped to 7.1% in October, down from 7.5% the month before. The news points to a significantly brighter jobs outlook in Austin than in Texas overall, where the unemployment rate is 8%. (The national unemployment rate now stands...
