The Austin metropolitan area added 14,100 jobs in the past year ending in May, giving the region the fourth best performing among the 50 largest U.S. metros at 1.8% change in growth, according to information from the Texas Workforce Commission and the U.S. Bureau...
Apple Inc. (AAPL) said the company is working to fix security flaws highlighted by the German Federal Office for Information Security (GFOIS) this week. The agency said “critical weaknesses” in Apple’s iOS allows software viruses to infiltrate the mobile operating system when users open...
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...
Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN) announced it has won the Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Award for “Enabling Technology” for its latest small cell base station System-on-Chips (SoCs).
The Femto Forum, an independent industry and operator association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, recognizes achievement and contributions...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued American Tower Corp. (AMT) a subpoena seeking tax-related documents dating from 2007 to current financials. This is in the midst of a company push to change its corporate status in a manner that should reduce taxes in...
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...
Texas Instruments (TXN) released a new technology that allows users to stream content from their devices to larger screens via the Netflix HD app for Android. TI is the first to achieve the Netflix Silicon Reference Implementation (SRI) certification ...
Hexus | July 1, 2011 | Press Release
AirLive, one of the most advanced worldwide brands for networking and communication equipment, has unveiled the most powerful Wireless-b/g/n routers which provide wireless coverage up to 2.6km. AirLive N. Power is the first Wireless-N...
T3 | June 20, 2011 | Luke Johnson
Orange has revealed its ‘Sound Charge’ t-shirts that will keep mobile handsets powered at this year’s Glastonbury Festival Ahead of this year’s Glastonbury Festival, which kicks off later this week, Orange has unveiled the ‘Sound...
Independence Day is almost here, and in addition to firing up sizzling grills and popping off fireworks, Austin-based Phunware Inc. would like users to download a free app launched today to celebrate the occasion. The company’s new “Our America” app is available for free...
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,...
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...
The second biggest liquid crystal display (LCD) manufacturer in Taiwan has sued Dallas-based AT&T Inc. (T) and South Korean-based Samsung Electronics Co. (SSNLF) alleging patent infringement.
AU Optronics Corp. (AUO) alleges that AT&T and Samsung disregarded intellectual property rights in flat panel display product lines...
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...
Ericsson | June 24, 2011 | Press Release
Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, is now the operator with the largest HD voice network in the world. Across more than 2.1 million square kilometres of Australian landmass, Telstra offers the...
Syniverse | June 27, 2011 | Press Release
Syniverse Mobile Video Broadcast Service receives Innovation Award
TAMPA, Fla. – June 27, 2011 – Judges of the inaugural Asia Communication Awards presented Syniverse with the prestigious Innovation Award in Singapore on Wednesday, June 22, recognizing the groundbreaking Syniverse...
ZTE | June 28, 2011 | Press Release
28 June 2011, Shenzhen – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today announced that it has successfully...
Huawei | June 27, 2011 | Press Release
: Huawei, a leading telecom solutions provider, today announced that it has teamed up with Telenor Norway, the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway, to jointly launch the world’s northernmost LTE site. The site is...
ZTE | June 27, 2011 | Press Release
ZXMP M721 enables end to end optical metro transport network
27 June 2011, Shenzhen – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and...
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...
Penn Olson | June 27, 2011 | Willis Wee
Mobile advertising expenditure is rocketing around the world, but nowhere like it is in China. Citing eMarketer, Chinese Internet research firm iResearchproduced a graph showing rising mobile spending in China. By 2015, the figure will hit a whopping $1.4...
