While e-readers may contain thousands of volumes of books on a single, portable device and allows users to download new titles wirelessly from wherever they are, to many it feels like something is missing.
Paper books may be waning but are...
Google just wrapped up its Chrome keynote at I/O 2011, during which SVP of Chrome Sundar Pichai and Co. revealed some of the details surrounding the long-overdue launch of Chrome OS, including some pretty attractive pricing for enterprise and education users.
The Freeport, Texas, Police Department is in the process of installing video-surveillance cameras in a project with ADT Security Services and Motorola Solutions Inc. The project underscores how wireless technology can be used to increase security for the nation's first responders.
Police...
Hotels.com, a Dallas-based hotel booking service and website, announced the launch of the company’s first mobile apps for the Android and iPhone platforms today.
The new apps offer users the option to look for last minute deals, browse and sort hotels, view and make user...
Wall Street Journal | May 6, 2011 | Giada Zampano
ROME (Dow Jones)--Telecom Italia SpA (TI) Friday confirmed its full-year targets despite a sharp fall in first-quarter net profit, as a strong performance in Brazil and Argentina failed to offset continued weakness in its domestic...
Austin-based Tabbedout, a company that offers a free mobile payment app for Android and iPhone platforms, released that the company has garnered $5.75 million in a Series A funding coup. New Enterprise Associates was the largest group in the funding with $3.7 million invested....
As I sat listening to a series of presentations by successful entrepreneurs at the University of Texas’s AT&T Conference Center in Austin for Texas Venture Week today, it became increasingly obvious that one particular factor was key to their success....
Wireless leaders of the future were among an audience at panel session for competitors in a global investment competition at the University of Texas at Austin Thursday in which past winners and successful entrepreneurs shared wisdom from behind the front lines of business.
At the...
The McCombs School of Business’s Texas Venture Labs launched its inaugural Venture Week on Wednesday with a conference at the University of Texas that showcased some of the city’s hottest tech start-ups and showed off some entrepreneurial success stories.
The ...
An upstart young Austin company hopes to solve a trillion-dollar problem for the wireless industry with its new multi-hopping technology.
Vidur Bhargava, one of three founders of Wibole and PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, says Wibole can...
Frisco, Texas-based EmFinders, a company that makes devices for tracking those afflicted by Alzheimers, down syndrome, dementia, or autism, recently announced that AT&T Inc. (T) will connect its EmSeeQ bracelets to 911 operators across the country. Financial details of the...
The Austin metropolitan area added 13,900 jobs in the past year, giving it a spot in the top 10 best performing metro areas, according to information from the Texas Workforce Commission and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The ...
Facebook is joining the crowded marketplace of companies offering deals, by launching the appropriately named, “Deals.” The social network will attempt to break into five test markets today and will try to pull users from Groupon and LivingSocial. The five...
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...
Today, Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN) announced the company’s newest member to the TMS320C66x (C66x) generation of multi-core devices, the TMS320C6671 (C6671), in addition to architecture software updates to the company’s KeyStone platform to help ease user development.
Using the 1.25...
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) doesn’t just make chips, it also makes software-defined digital up and down converter (DUC/DDC), and today the firm has announced its most powerful to date.
Dubbed the GC6016, TI says its converter is perfect for narrow...
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...
The FCC created rules last fall to make unused television channels operate a new long-range version of Wi-Fi that spreads through walls. This led to collaboration between wireless communications researchers at Rice University in Houston and nonprofit Technology for All (TFA) to provide wireless...
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...
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...
Eon Corp. (EONC), an Austin-based company specializing in wireless telemetry technology, including the likes of advanced meter reading, announced it has settled all lawsuits involved with Raleigh, N.C.-based Sensus USA Inc., a global provider of FlexNet-branded, tower-based, smart grid communications networks and water, gas...
The Winklevoss twins, along with Divya Narendra, portrayed in the hit film The Social Network as angry men who claim Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for the social networking monolith, were denied more compensation from the company after a...
