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Lamebook.com in ongoing name-game legal battle with Facebook

AUSTIN-Some argue that there is little to a name, but if any of those people work in the world of the Web, they are very wrong. For companies that use either the terms “face” or “book” in a name on the...

Mike Tyson to knockout new game at SXSW

AUSTIN-Mike Tyson, former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, will visit the SXSW Interactive Festival from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 13 at the ScreenBurn Arcade located on level one, exhibit hall two in the Austin Convention...

Sen. Al Franken to speak on net neutrality at SXSW

AUSTIN, Texas—South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival officials have confirmed that Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) is expected to speak at 9:30 a.m., Monday, March 14, at the Town Lake ballroom in the Radisson Hotel located at 111 East Cesar Chavez Street in downtown Austin. Franken,...

Samsung to host free bada code camp in Austin

AUSTIN-Samsung Electronics will host a series of free, interactive, full-day bada platform code camps in Austin, Texas; Atlanta; Boston; Denver and Vancouver, B.C., Canada, to cover the basics of the open platform and how to deploy applications into the bada app store for use...

Dell targets enterprise customers with suite of mobile computing solutions

PLANO, Texas— Dell Services recently announced a line of six new services and solutions that are designed to aid enterprise customers achieve benefits of mobile collaboration, computing and communications-enhanced business processes. The new “enterprise mobility services” comprise a portfolio of enterprise scale end-to-end solutions...

An industry first: Freescale Semiconductor unveils innovation at MWC

BARCELONA-In a leap in the infrastructure field, Austin-based Freescale Semiconductor, one of the 10 largest chip makers worldwide, unveiled the industry’s first multimode wireless base station processor family that scales from small to large cells. The announcement arrived at 6 a.m. on February 14 in...

Texas bank branches introduce integrated mobile banking

AUSTIN, Texas – American Bank of Texas in Marble Falls and Waggoner National Bank located in Vernon have launched First Data Corp.’s Mobile Manager mBanking for use on mobile devices using technology from mobile provider mFoundry. The offering is now available to Internet banking...

Freescale Semiconductor to demonstrate new network technology at MWC

AUSTIN-Freescale Semiconductor is preparing to announce advancements resulting in a new portfolio of wireless networking technologies that they say are currently unavailable in the market. An announcement and demonstration of this portfolio of wireless network/access technologies will be made at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...

Cypress Industries doubles electronics plant in Austin

AUSTIN-Cypress Industries, an Austin-based electronics manufacturing company, recently doubled its square-footage by moving to a new 30,000 square foot facility at 8027 Exchange Drive. The move was largely due to rapid growth in its U.S. manufacturing business. "In 2010, we saw tremendous migration back to...

Six months down the road: The normal life expectancy of my phones

I don’t claim to be the most daring of persons, but when my Samsung Impression from AT&T Mobility went screwy, I figured I would be OK to get it replaced for free. Granted, I go through phones like a carpenter goes through nails, so...

Lie detection goes mobile in Austin

AUSTIN-Everyone is faced with a moment when accused of being dishonest. For instance, have you called in sick to kick off Austin City Limits or recover from your third day of South by Southwest? In an era of increased demand for efficiency, some businesses...

RFMicron rides rising Wireless Tracking market in Austin

AUSTIN, Texas--A new wireless tracking trend may soon become a large part of mobile broadband applications. Locally, investment in the industry is starting to heat up. As the brainchild of RFMicron, Shariar Rokshaz graduated from the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) in July 2010 with...

Austin's bullish tech economy to be featured on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric

Report to highlight $3.6 billion expansion of Samsung Austin Semiconductor AUSTIN, Texas--The old adage of everything being bigger in Texas is often true, and the boastful economic figures reported by the Austin Chamber of Commerce are making a solid impression that the capital of the Lone...

Austin’s bullish tech economy to be featured on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric

Report to highlight $3.6 billion expansion of Samsung Austin Semiconductor AUSTIN, Texas--The old adage of everything being bigger in Texas is often true, and the boastful economic figures reported by the Austin Chamber of Commerce are making a solid impression that the capital of the Lone...

Powerwave: Building Network From Inside Out

An editorial interview with Powerwave Chief Product and Development Officer Khurram P. Sheikh at Texas Wireless Summit 2010.

CEO of TabbedOut

An interview with the CEO of TabbedOut Rick Orr at TWS in Austin 2010.

Austin Chamber of Commerce on Workforce

An editorial interview with Susan Davenport, Sr. VP of Global Technology Strategies for the Austin Chamber of Commerce.

Editorial Interview: Freescale

RCR Wireless Editor Tracy Ford interviews Scott Aylor, GM of DSB Products at Freescale.

Freescale Recent Announcement Interview

RCR Wireless sat down with Scott Aylor, GM of the DSB Product Line at Freescale to discuss their most recent announcements.

@ TWS: Future of Wireless Innovation

Texas Wireless Summit 2010 Moderator: Prof. Ted Rappaport, Founding Director, WNCG Panelists: Dr. William Tranter, Director, Communications Foundation, National Science Foundation Mudan Jagernauth, VP Wireless Product Management, Huawei Technologies Dr. Tom Richardson, VP Engineering, Qualcomm

@ TWS: Augmented Reality & Other Emerging Tech

Texas Wireless Summit 2010 Nagraj Kashyap, VP Qualcomm Ventures, Qualcomm

@ TWS: Augmented Reality & Other Emerging Tech

Texas Wireless Summit 2010 Nagraj Kashyap, VP Qualcomm Ventures, Qualcomm

@ TWS: Wi-Fi Alliance

Texas Wireless Summit 2010: Liam Quinn, Compensation Chair, DELL

@ TWS: Smart Grid

Texas Wireless Summit. Andres Carvallo, Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer, Grid Net.