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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.

Those who have been waiting impatiently for Apple to unveil the iPhone 5, complete with LTE support, will be sorely disappointed according to sources who say the new phone will be nothing but a minor update with HSPA+ thrown in.

GameSalad Inc., an Austin and Los Angeles-based firm specializing in game creation for the Web, iPhone, iPad and Mac without the use of coding announced that the company has released …

A little while ago we discussed how analyst predictions about Apple’s iPad dominating the tablet market for the next four to five years seemed broadly plausible, despite the historical inaccuracies of those same analyst’s long-term forecasts. Today numbers released by research firm Nielsen indicate the iPad’s inevitable slide may have already begun.

In News Corp.’s quarterly earnings call yesterday there was good and bad news for the media giant – although mostly bad. TV revenues grew, movie revenues were reasonable, however Murdoch’s online division, which includes the likes of MySpace and The Daily, lost a massive $165 million in the first three months of the year.

It’s been fairly obvious for a while that Amazon is planning to release a fully-fledged tablet. Having already got their hardware feet well and truly wet with the Kindle, the online retail giant has been slowly putting the building blocks in place for their own tablet ecosystem built atop Android. Now rumours are beginning to circle that they have tapped giant OEM Quanta to build the device, to be released later this year.

If you’ve ever wondered how you would fare as a billionaire running a business empire, you don’t need to wonder any more – there’s an app for that. Danta Entertainment, …

Hot on the heels of Google’s earnings call at the beginning of the week, today was Apple’s turn to publish their figures and, surprise surprise, they beat expectations and sold a whole load of bushed aluminium to mobs of doe-eyed consumers.

I’ve never been an Apple fan. But I only recently became an Apple non-fan, after a series of visits to the fruit firm’s retail outlets left me more than a little cold.

The scarce supplies and huge demand worldwide for the iPad 2 are creating a new market in places like New York City, where large groups of “investors” are camping out, …

Those who sift through emails from Groupon, LivingSocial, Entertainment.com, Crowdsavings, Restaurant.com and others, now have a new local option to view the best deals in their cities from Austin-based coupon …

I’ve been fairly critical of Rupert Murdoch’s new digital newspaper The Daily, both over the ludicrously large investment News Corp. has made in the property, and the subsequent missteps in terms of social integration and target market.

When Apple Inc. launched the iPad the most striking thing about the device, which would go on to define the tablet market, was the price. Five hundred dollars for an awesome browsing slate was quite the bargain, especially coming from a company famed for their premium pricing.

Forbes | March 20, 2011 | Kerry A. Dolan Eike Batista, the world’s eighth richest man, expressed his desire last November for Apple to build a plant in Brazil, in …

BBC News | March 16, 2011 Apple has postponed the launch of the iPad 2 tablet in Japan, as the country struggles to recover from the recent earthquake and tsunami. …

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) …

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 presentation in San Francisco is still winding down, but Apple have today taken the wraps off the next generation of their uber-successful tablet. The specs of the iPad 2 line up pretty nicely with all the leaks that have littered the blogosphere in the past couple of weeks, with a couple of noticeable omissions.

It would seem that after all those rumours attributing an astronomical price point to the Motorola Xoom, common sense has won out and the Honeycomb-powered tablet will indeed be relatively affordable at launch.

Apple, as you’ve probably noticed, are quite a secretive bunch. Nine times out of ten nobody knows what Steve Jobs is going to whip out when he walks on stage, and no matter what he whips out you can bet it’s going to dominate the tech news for the next day or two – perhaps even longer.

Last week Apple announced they would be beefing up their In-App Purchases system (the catchily-named IAP API), introducing new rules which mandate all Apps that sell additional content, services or subscriptions MUST use Apple’s system, and pay them a 30% cut for the privilege.