Austin is known as the home of the South-by-Southwest (SXSW) festival, which has become one the premier tech culture events in the world. When you consider that two of the three named components of the festival are “Film” and “Interactive,” then you’d expect to...
With more than half of 2011 behind us, Chetan Sharma Consulting is projecting the mobile industry to drive $1.3 trillion in activity by year's end. Mobile data is expected to comprise 24% of that market with revenues cresting above $300 billion worldwide for the...
eBay Inc. (EBAY) has reached a deal to acquire Zong for $240 million in cash. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company provides mobile payments through carrier billing channels and has deals with more than 250 operators around the world.eBay plans to combine bring Zong’s...
Raytheon Co. (RTN) will build out a public-safety LTE contract awarded under the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, winning an $8.7 million contract to provide Adams County, Colo., with a public-safety network at 700 MHz. The 15-site systems will connect more than 1,500 first responders...
Enterprise Fleet Management is working with Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) to bring the carrier’s wireless connectivity and new features to its Mobile Resource Manager (MRM). The Web-based machine-to-machine offering provides its mid-size business customers with real-time visibility into the whereabouts of their fleet...
Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) wants to dominate the sports stadium and entertainment industry by catering to the end user and wants to make flawless reception and especially smartphone and tablet use a pleasant luxury at large venues.
Cisco launched the company’s new...
Satellite communications provider Inmarsat plc reported that current CEO and wireless industry veteran Andrew Sukawaty will relinquish his position to Rupert Pearce effective Jan. 1, 2012, at which time Sukawaty will move to his new position as executive chairman of the company. Pearce, who...
RCR Wireless News has named Roberta Prescott editor in chief of RCR Wireless News Latin America, as the news group expands its global coverage of the mobile and wireless industry.Prescott will be responsible for reporting news and analysis coming out the region, interviewing key...
Considering how frequent new projections come out for the mobile payments space, at least one conclusion can be drawn: expectations for mobile finance is high. The latest study from Juniper Research predicts the total value of mobile payments will reach $670 billion by 2015.Marking...
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IBM Corp. spent $1.2 million and software giant Oracle Corp. paid $1.1 million to lobbyists in the first quarter, attempting to influence interests from patent concerns, international trade and immigration law, to tax loopholes and government health care legislation.
Among other agencies,...
AT&T Inc. (T) has launched a pilot to help employees manage diabetes. In partnership with WellDoc Inc., AT&T mHealth Solutions is going to pilot DiabetesManager for up to six months among a select group of employees at AT&T and Health Care Services Corp.,...
Austin-based technology consultancy Catapult Systems announced a partnership with Seed Labs to create a new division known as Mobile Alchemy to focus exclusively on developing custom apps for mobile phones and tablet devices running on the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Windows operating...
Nokia Corp. (NOK) continues to shed business interests as it shifts its strategy on many fronts. The latest to go is the company’s operator-branded messaging business, which gave carriers in North America the opportunity to sell white label email and instant messaging services to...
DETROIT — Linda Daichendt, a small business consultant, was frustrated a couple years back when she kept coming up empty in her quest for mobile businesses based here in her home state of Michigan. With large, national associations barely touching the state or local...
San Francisco-based Zynga Inc., which creates online games for mobile devices and sites such as Facebook, plans to file an initial public offering (IPO) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) expected to be as early as today, reports...
Round Rock-based Dell Inc. (DELL) has already repurchased around $1.6 billion in shares so far this year and executives said the second-largest computer maker in the world plans to buy another $2 billion before the end of 2011. Details about the...
Square Inc.'s valuation has surged to $1 billion on the heels of a fresh venture financing round totaling $100 million. Led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, with participation from Tiger Global Management, the new funding will be used by the eight-month-old company to...
TelePacific Communications, an IP, voice, data and Internet services company , announced today that it will acquire Tel West, an Austin-based voice, data and Internet service provider. Specific financials of the deal were not disclosed.
Tel West provides services to around 3,400 small and medium-sized...
I recently had a chance to attend the Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC), billed as the world’s largest hospitality technology conference, which recently concluded in Austin, Texas and ran June 20-23.
As it turns out, the conference’s producer - the...
Texas companies Interphase Corp. (INPH) and Diodes Inc. (DIOD) both made recent announcements concerning expansion. The Plano-based companies are both involved in the wireless market in networking and components, respectively.
Interphase Corp., a developer of hardware networking products, announced that the...
A new fixed wireless access service from Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) is being targeted at the enterprise. If successful, Sprint 4G Enterprise WAN (wide area network) could replace traditional wired options by connecting businesses to the carrier’s multiprotocol label switching network in any...
More than 2.5 billion wireless subscribers are expected to use mobile payment services by 2015, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Representing a 40% growth rate from 1.8 billion projected users this year, the firm said tickets for transportation and entertainment are...
