NOVI, Mich. — With the largest presence here among all the carriers at Telematics Detroit 2011, Verizon Wireless (VZ) is showcasing various new services and technology for the car with its partners in the telematics space."We have a complete building block of products and...
Ember Corporation, provider of low-power, wireless mesh networking technology, and Visonic Ltd., developer and manufacturer of wireless home security and safety systems and components, announced a partnership to integrate ZigBee communication protocols with Visonic security peripherals. Following joint development efforts by the two companies,...
Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) announced a series of M2M deals around payments, video surveillance, alarm monitoring and offered some updates on its push into tele-medicine.The Electronic Payment Exchange (EPX), a financial processing network, extended its partnership with the carrier to co-market services and extend...
Visa Inc. (V) has made another pair of moves in its quest to develop a mobile network for financial transactions and maintain its leader position in the nascent medium. The company announced today that it has acquired Fundamo Ltd., an enterprise mobile financial services...
Paul Mansky seems confident in his assessment of Dell (DELL). The Canaccord Genuity analyst wrote that with sales of personal computers waning due to the rise of tablets, the Round Rock-based company needs to make a move into networking, and should do it by...
Google Inc.’s Android OS (GOOG) showed national dominance in a new report released by Reston, Va.-based Comscore (SCOR) that shows Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone overtaking Research in Motion Ltd.’s (RIMM) previous BlackBerry dominance in smartphone markets.
The report highlighted trends in the U.S. mobile phone...
The Austin metropolitan area added 14,100 jobs, or 1.8% in the past year, giving the region the fifth best performing among the 50 largest U.S. metros, according to information from the Texas Workforce Commission and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The metropolitan region...
New York-based ABI Research announced that it has acquired Austin-based teardown startup Market Eye 1. Financial details of the deal were not announced.
The term “teardown startup” may sound confusing, but it refers to tearing down mobile devices at the board and platform levels to...
Polycom Inc. (PLCM) announced it will acquire Hewlett Packard Co.'s (HPQ) Halo video conferencing company for $89 million in cash.
The deal includes HP's products, contracts and employees, but leaves speculation on what will happen to HP's team that developed the Halo technology in Corvallis,...
Austin-based Macheen Inc., announced that the company formed an advisory board and now has a VP of marketing in Kent Libby.
While often quiet about the company’s business plans, CEO Richard Schwartz spoke with RCR Wireless at CTIA in Orlando in March, expanding on Macheen’s...
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...
Round Rock-based Dell Inc. (DELL) said yesterday that the company wants to buy “everything around data centers” in attempts to keep its top spot in the computer server market.
The world’s second-biggest maker of personal computers continues expansion and is targeting company acquisitions across the...
E-commerce software firm Insterpire plans to expand its footprint in its Austin, Texas office from around 40 employees to 70 workers by the end of 2011.
The Sydney-based company announced that healthy growth will likely lead to hiring VP positions in the area of engineering...
According to an alliance of IBM Corp. (IBM) workers for the union organization Alliance@IBM, the technology kingpin is slashing jobs across the country, which includes the possibility that Austin will be affected.
The alliance is affiliated with the Communication Workers of America, and alleges that...
Round Rock-based Dell Inc. (DELL) was chosen by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide computer equipment and hosting services for more than 1,200 VA sites nationwide. Dell landed the four-year, $476 million contract to provide 600,000 personal computers and monitors along...
Austin-based chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor Inc. went public on Wednesday but fell short of company expectations, pricing stock 22% less than projected at $18 a share.
According to an initial public offering filing (IPO), Freescale wanted to raise more than $1 billion, which is around $22...
T-Mobile USA (DTEGY) claims that the carrier is doubling its theoretical peak download speed in its 4G network to 42 Mbps for the metropolitan Austin area. The company also said the increase in download speeds is going live in 51 other cities across the...
Austin's main artery for long-distance travel, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA), finally hammered out a revised deal with operator Boingo Wireless to allow for free wireless Internet usage.
It was feared that the city's airport was lagging behind many other aviation hubs in the nation, which...
National Instruments, an Austin-based company, said that it acquired Phase Matrix Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based radio frequency developer and microwave application technology firm for $38 million. National Instruments also acquired radio frequency software firm AWR Corp. of El Segundo, Calif. for $58M,...
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...
Apple was crowned king of brand values with the top slot as Round Rock-based Dell Inc. plummeted from the 2011 list this year.
Tech companies and telecoms did well on the new ranking of brand values by global agency Millward Brown Inc. Apple climbed a...
If your attention span lulls when you wait in line or sit in an office, you may have a good alternative to keep you entertained in mobile digital television (DTV) services.
Mobile DTV allows live programming, including local news, on a growing number of mobile...
Hakan Eriksson, Ericsson CTO and head of the firm’s Silicon Valley division told press at the company’s Business Innovation Forum that the valley was a perfect home away from home because “basically everybody is here.”
Railing off a long list of companies Ericsson has partnerships...
