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...
There was a lot of talk at the Texas Labs Venture Expo today about whether Austin should strive to be the next Silicon Valley, as Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently suggested.
In late April, Gov. Perry told an audience of business, technology and higher-education leaders,...
Freescale Semiconductor used the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose this week to announce its Make It Challenge design contest, which asks engineers to build a robot or system design based on the firm’s latest sensor development kit. In other words, a walking robot...
The inventor of Ethernet has said Austin does not need more money to be a more innovative city, but it needs more companies that know how to market themselves better.
In his keynote presentation at the second annual Texas Venture Labs Expo on Wednesday, Bob...
While the Amazon cloud crash affected big sites such as Foursquare, HootSuite, Quora and Reddit last week, it hit home at smaller companies across the nation and in Austin and Texas as well. The Amazon.com cloud center in Virginia was...
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...
AUSTIN, Texas-It’s time to shine the silverware and grab a bib. Launched in 2008, Austin Restaurant Week will run another installment April 10-13, and April 17-20, to celebrate fine dining in Austin. This year, of course, there is an app for it as well.
Participants...
AUSTIN, Texas--There was little carrier exposure in terms of physical presence at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin this year, which is largely a shame due to all the opportunities for collaboration and investment available for mobile carriers at the...
AUSTIN, Texas-Rock Health, a San Francisco-based mobile health and Health 2.0 seed incubator, launched officially at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival last week. The mission of the company is to provide healthcare expertise, development resources and funding to the...
AUSTIN, Texas-Marissa Mayer, VP of consumer products at Google, gave a keynote on Google Maps at South by Southwest (SXSW) on the first day of the Interactive Festival, March 11.
Mayer kicked off by asking the audience how many people used maps on...
AUSTIN, Texas – Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said he will introduce antitrust legislation to curb the influence of telecommunications lobbyists, but that effort will ultimately fail without the support of artists involved in online technology.
Franken, who kicked off a number of...
AUSTIN, Texas-Our staff was able to view and shoot a demonstration of “Angry Birds Rio,” a take-off of the hit original game “Angry Birds,” at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival today. According to game developer Rovio, the app will debut exclusively on...
AUSTIN, Texas-Former boxing king Mike Tyson showed up to knockout a promotion and sign autographs for RockLive’s new iPhone/iPad game, “Mike Tyson Main Event” at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival on Sunday, March 13. The champ appeared approximately 45 minutes late, and forced...
AUSTIN, Texas-This is the first year IBM Corp. has involvement at Austin’s South by Southwest (SXSW) and the company felt the need to become a part of the festival to work with business and innovation, and of course, provide a ...
AUSTIN, Texas-Downtown Austin is likely to blossom fruit this week in the form of Apple Inc. Several local news agencies are reporting that Apple will open a temporary store in the Scarborough building offices at 522 N. Congress Avenue in downtown Austin, near the...
BARCELONA, Spain—Dan Hays, an analyst at PRTM, says the MVNO model 3.0 could see success in the United States under wholesale models like that offered by LightSquared and Clearwire Corp. Nevertheless, Hays notes that with 2011 being the year of 4G technologies, operators are...
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...
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...
HOUSTON-IEEE Globecom 2011, an international conference dedicated to the global advancement of communications, has extended a “call for papers” deadline to March 20 for its 54th annual event to be held from Dec. 5-9 in Houston, Texas. Hosted by the...
BARCELONA, Spain—Invest Sweden is a government initiative formed to get foreign research and development dollars in Sweden in the telecom and IT sectors. Swedish companies are making huge advances in graphics on mobile devices this year, said Niklas Johnsson, head of information and communication...
BARCELONA, Spain— LG Electronics Co. Ltd.’s Optimus 3-D mobile phone takes a little getting used to, reports RCR Unplugged Editor Sylvie Barak from the show floor during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, last month.
Depending on the angle the user is holding the phone...
BARCELONA, Spain—Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s new 10.1 -inch Galaxy Tablet 2 has a nice user interface and is an improvement from its first version, reports RCR Unplugged Editor Sylvie Barak from the show floor during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, last month.
The tablet,...
BARCELONA, Spain—With 35 million downloads, The Weather Channel is the second-highest smart-phone application in the United States. Now the company is reigniting its international efforts. The Weather Channel's Mike Zarrilli spoke with Executive Editor Tracy Ford about those plans during Mobile World Congress in...
