Computex 2011: Intel creates new mobile category, the UltraBook
Intel has invented a new category of mobile computers it is calling the “Ultrabook” the firm revealed at Computex on Tuesday. The company said it was also accelerating its Atom processor roadmap to a...
View ArticleAt CIO Dinner Talk, it’s tough to be a mobile vendor in a tech-savvy town
OP-ED: The Greater Austin area, stretching from Round Rock to San Marcos, is a small market when it comes to big companies headquartered here. You can count the number of Fortune 500 members with two...
View ArticleComputex 2011: Asus PadPhone to sport Android Ice Cream Sandwich
Taipei, Taiwan – The upcoming PadPhone from Asus will sport Google’s Android Ice Cream Sandwich, RCR discovered at Computex this week. Asustek’s tablet/phone combo – which allows consumers to use one...
View ArticleComputex 2011: Chinmore Industry shows off its antennas
TAIPEI, Taiwan – While Computex may famously be the most famous computer show of the IT industry, the world of wireless is certainly having an effect on the Taipei trade show. Nothing says wireless...
View ArticleComputex 2011: C-Media takes cell phone noise cancellation to new levels
Audio appears to be becoming a burgeoning trend in the mobile industry, and at Computex 2011, the vendors were out in force to showcase how best to bring the beats to cell phones. Local Taiwanese...
View ArticleApple leans on competition in latest round of iOS updates
The keynote at Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is just wrapping up in the Moscone Center in San Francisco, where the company's CEO Steve Jobs announced the latest additions to...
View ArticleApple becomes first to tame record labels with iTunes Match
Apple's historically profitable relationship with the four major record labels (Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal) paid dividends today as it became the first music vendor to allow would-be purchasers...
View ArticleGoogle opening labs in Taiwan
Google’s senior vice president for Chrome, Sundar Pichai, said his firm would not have made the progress it had with its Chromebooks and ultraportables had it not been for the remarkable Taiwanese...
View ArticleMEF Asia announces board elections, five open seats
The Mobile Entertainment Forum in Asia is hosting its annual board elections during Communicasia in Singapore next week, with hopes that some US based companies might be interested in running, to get...
View ArticleAT&T scouts Taiwan for new handsets, innovation
While Taiwan is clearly an important country to chip and device makers, US carriers look to the island for innovation too, with AT&T scouting the computex show in Taipei earlier this month for new...
View ArticleNvidia explains Icera acquisition and talks Kal-El
NVIDIA’s Icera acquisition was not about integration was not about integrating baseband onto the processor chipbut about doubling the firm’s opportunity market wise, according to Mike Rayfield, the...
View ArticleAustin contemplates new tech business startup district
The Austin Chamber of Commerce is helping to facilitate an idea to launch a startup district and workplace downtown to rival those seen in Boston and Silicon Valley. The proposed name of the district...
View ArticleHow mobile will revolutionize the hospitality industry
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...
View ArticleDell to repurchase $3.6B worth of stock
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...
View ArticlePhunware releases free app celebrating America
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...
View ArticleTI’s small cell chips win big at Femto Forum Industry Awards
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...
View ArticleSony claims it’s not proprietary as it pushes forward with Android
Despite being hacked and having to pull its network down for around six weeks, affecting 77 million customers, Sony says it was “pleasantly surprised” by the results of the experience, claiming all its...
View ArticleYelp still toying with IPO, but hasn’t started the process claims CEO
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said his firm would likely go public over the next year or so but had not yet started the process, as it continues to grow its mobile following. “We haven’t started the...
View ArticlePayPal demos NFC payments at Mobile Beat 2011
PayPal demonstrated its new NFC capabilities for the first time this week at the Mobile Beat 2011 conference in San Francisco. Senior director of PayPal Mobile, Laura Chambers, gave the audience a demo...
View ArticleHuawei to build WiMAX network in rural Canada
Chinese infrastructure vendor Huawei has announced a partnership with Canada’s Manitoba NetSet Ltd at the Global WiMAX & LTE Development Forum in San Francisco on Thursday. Manitoba NetSet – a...
View ArticleWireless technology helps battle the Las Conchas fire in Los Alamos, N.M.
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – The largest fire in New Mexico history still has some life left in it. The Las Conchas fire may be around 70% contained but continues to burn in the northern and western parts of the...
View ArticleGoogle kicks off “Texas get your business online” workshops
Google Austin: A first-person, customer update Google. They are the digital version of General Electric, but for the 21st century. Both are classic, American-headquartered, global conglomerates,...
View ArticleVerizon opens Application Innovation Center in San Francisco
Verizon Wireless officially opened its Application Innovation Center in downtown San Francisco Wednesday, in an event attended by the firm’s top executives, including CEO Dan Mead. “Innovation is at...
View ArticleQualcomm’s VP says apps and cloud will change computing
Qualcomm’s executive vice president, Steve Mollenkopf, has said the mobile app space will change computing forever. Speaking at an event marking the opening of Verizon Wireless’ Application Innovation...
View ArticleLiving local, growing global – Appconomy leverages Austin talent base to...
Appconomy’s Steve Guengerich is not from Austin, but he says he got here as quickly as he could. He came in the 1990’s, moving his company from Houston when it was ready to go public. Now his latest...
View Article‘I sound like your mother!’ Founder of 3Com offers old-fashioned advice for...
“Eat breakfast because we’re having a late lunch!” These were the words that greeted 200 eager investors and entrepreneurs as they picked up their name tags at the AT&T Executive Education and...
View ArticleTablets, texts and tweets bring new dimension to live entertainment
Social networking is expanding the audience for some of Austin’s biggest events this fall. During UT’s first football game of the season, thousands of fans who did not have access to the new Longhorn...
View ArticleJersey Telecom touts its advantages to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs
The small British Island of Jersey is “open for business” announced the managing director of Global Enterprise at Jersey Telecom during a presentation at the Telecom Council’s TC3 event on Thursday....
View ArticleSwype on track towards install base of a billion devices say CEO
Touchscreen keyboard firm Swype said it’s goal is to be on a billion devices and become ubiquitous across phones, tablets and even TVs, despite a stinginess on the OEM side to invest in native apps....
View ArticleAnnouncing Telecom Exchange (TEX) CEO Roundtable Participants
Co-Hosts Jaymie Scotto & Associates and RCR Wireless News Announce Telecom Exchange CEO Roundtable Participants Live from NYC, Zayo, Allied Fiber, Hibernia, NeXXcom, TW Telecom, Optelian,...
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