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Appconomy launches the company's first mobile app

AUSTIN, Texas-Appconomy, a local startup app developer, unveiled the company’s first app, barely preceding the start of South by Southwest (SXSW) on March 11. The app is named “Grouped{in}” and is designed to organize an individual’s work and personal life. The Austin-based company claims that...

Appconomy launches the company’s first mobile app

AUSTIN, Texas-Appconomy, a local startup app developer, unveiled the company’s first app, barely preceding the start of South by Southwest (SXSW) on March 11. The app is named “Grouped{in}” and is designed to organize an individual’s work and personal life. The Austin-based company claims that...

Rumored Apple temp store to push iPad 2 sales at 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 Scarborough building offices at 522 N. Congress Avenue in downtown Austin, near the...

Lamebook.com in ongoing name-game legal battle with Facebook

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...

Mike Tyson to knockout new game at SXSW

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...

RCR Wireless News Desk @SXSW to feature live game of Angry Birds : RCR Wireless News will be broadcasting live from Alcatel-Lucent's ElevenAPI Developer Lounge During @SXSW

RCR Wireless News is bringing its 2011 Mobile Broadband Innovation & Opportunity Tour to Austin, Texas, March 10 to March 17. While in Austin, RCR Unplugged Editor Sylvie Barak, RCR Wireless News Austin Editor Marc Speir and special guests will be broadcasting live...

IBM's Watson supercomputer creator to lecture at SXSW

AUSTIN-David Ferrucci, lead researcher and principal investigator at IBM Corp. for the Watson/Jeopardy! project, is scheduled to speak at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival on March 14 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Austin. Attendance is...

IBM’s Watson supercomputer creator to lecture at SXSW

AUSTIN-David Ferrucci, lead researcher and principal investigator at IBM Corp. for the Watson/Jeopardy! project, is scheduled to speak at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival on March 14 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Austin. Attendance is...

Alcatel Ya What, Stop by the Eleven API Lounge

SXSWi News | SXSW is proud to have the Alcatel-Lucent ELEVEN API Lounge back at SXSW 2011. This ultra-lounge located in room 406 of the Hilton campus will have plenty to occupy SXSW Interactive Registrants, from daily games and a hangover party to business networking and live...

eBay Hangover Party and Speed Hack at SXSW

Sunday, March 13, 2011 from 11:00 AM - 9:00 PM (CT) Please join us for the first ever eBay Hangover Party and Speed Hack at SXSW 2011! Running all day Sunday March 13th from 11am until 9pm in the Alcatel-Lucent Eleven ...

@ Austin, TX: Eve Richter on SXSW

An interview with Eve Richter, Emerging Technologies Coordinator for the City of Austin, on SXSW.

Sen. Al Franken to speak on net neutrality at SXSW

AUSTIN, Texas—South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival officials have confirmed that Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) is expected to speak at 9:30 a.m., Monday, March 14, at the Town Lake ballroom in the Radisson Hotel located at 111 East Cesar Chavez Street in downtown Austin. Franken,...

SXSW Interview: Notice Technologies

Sylvie Barak interviews Chris Treadaway, Founder and CEO of Notice Technologies at SXSW

Bits, bytes and buzz from day two @CTIA 2010


***LG says don't text and drive***Forget about drinking and driving! Do you text and drive? Or are you a hopeless Facebook addict who is unable to go five minutes without checking status updates? Well, the first step is admitting you have a problem. The...

RCR Unplugged: Bits, bytes and buzz from day five @SXSW Interactive

***Spotify consumes more data than Sweden***
Are you a hipster bandwidth hog? Do you stream ironic YouTube clips to your shiny iPhone, watch Hulu episodes of Battlestar Galactica on your Misfits-decorated Macbook and download gritty Velvet Underground MP3’s? Yeah, we all do it. But not...

RCR Unplugged: Bits, bytes and buzz from day four @SXSW Interactive

RCR Unplugged: Bits, bytes and buzz from day four @SXSW Interactive***Twitter briefing causes mass exodus***Bored hacks and hyperactive industry reps made a mad dash for the crowded exit shortly after Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced his "@Anywhere" platform. According to the pedantic Williams, new...

Unplugged More reactions from SXSW

Sylvie interviews two attendees about their experience at the show on day 2.

Unplugged at SXSW Seeking practical advice

Slyvie Barak gets a perspective on SXSW from someone seeking a bit more practical advice

RCR Unplugged: SXSWi Photos

Check out our photos from SXSW interactive on flickr! Don't forget to follow us, and explore #SXSW

RCR Unplugged: Bits, bytes and buzz from day three @SXSW Interactive

***Does Yelp suck?***Does it? Well, that is what a room full of foodies, restaurateurs and a posse of indignant "social media" hacks all wanted to know. During a controversial debate, Yelp reviewers were roundly criticized for focusing on specific minutia, rather than fact. Others...