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- SXSWi - party like its 2009
- Prior to SXSWi I was asked goodness knows how many times if I was likely to be there. I said the same thing to all comers: 'I don't get it. I don't see the point. Waste of time.' Much against my advice, at least one SAP...
- Tags: Innovation, Austin, Enterprise, SXSWi, Drunkenness, Breakthrough Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Spotlight on Austin: BuzzStream's Paul May
- Even though South by Southwest Interactive SXSWi ended yesterday, I have one more installment of my Spotlight on Austin series. Next up is Paul May, CEO and co-founder of BuzzStream, a company that makes tracking and managing and promoting links a lot easier for Internet marketers. BuzzStream, the youngest company...
- Tags: Austin, Social Media, Tool, BuzzStream, Public Relations, Productivity, Marketing Research, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Spotlight on Austin: Click Forensics' Steve O'Brien
- Click Forensics is the center of part four of my Spotlight on Austin series, which highlights creative Austin-based companies who are participating in South By Southwest Interactive SXSWi. The company was launched in early 2006 to fight click fraud in online CPC advertising campaigns. Click Forensics scores, audits and aims...
- Tags: Innovation, Advertisement, Austin, Online Advertising, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- Spotlight on Austin: Powered's Aaron Strout
- The third part of my Spotlight on Austin series features Powered, a social marketing firm that is changing the way that businesses integrate social media with online marketing. It's interesting to note that in part one and part two of the Spotlight on Austin series, both interviewees -- Peter Kim...
- Tags: Austin, Social Media, Podcasts, Marketing Research, Internet, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- AT&T network getting extra boost in Austin
- Ever since I landed in Texas, iPhone users have been complaining about slow service. Yesterday, many people even mentioned that they had zero service for a good portion of the day. AT&T has responded and deployed ground troops in Austin. But how many...
- Tags: Network, Austin, AT&T Corp., Network Performance, Networking, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-03-15
- Spotlight on Austin: Anue Systems' Tommy Landry
- The second part of my Spotlight on Austin series features Anue Systems, which provides network emulators for testing real world network conditions and tool aggregation for optimizing networking and application monitoring. While Anue Systems isn't a Web or social media company that would normally fall onto my radar, it has...
- Tags: Data Center, Network, Austin, Monitoring, LifeSize Communications, Tool, Network Emulation, Data Centers, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Spotlight on Austin: Dachis Corporation's Peter Kim
- South by Southwest Interactive SXSWi kicks off tomorrow in good ol' Austin, Texas. While a lot of companies from all over creation are heading down south to network and display and launch new technologies, there's a bevy of innovation and creativity coming out of the city as well. I...
- Tags: Austin, Social Media, Endgame, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- Austin Police Department Relies on AMD Technology and Corporate Support to Solve High Tech Crimes
- The High Tech Crime Unit of the Austin, Texas Police Department APD resides in a nondescript office building several miles north of downtown. It needed is providing assistance in crime investigations that require a greater understanding of the arcane technology of particular companies. Most of Blanchard's detective work involves carefully...
- Tags: Austin, AMD Athlon, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Computer, Productivity, Leadership, Processors, Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Austin Traffic 1.0 (Mobile)
- Austin Traffic is a tool to give you information about currently known traffic incidents on roadways in the Austin, Texas area. The information is displayed in a manner that is easy to quickly interpret. Austin Traffic is useful for route planning. If you are stuck in an unexpected traffic jam,...
- Tags: Mobile, Austin, Road, Apple iTunes, Kerlmax, Austin Traffic, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-12-01
- More new Microsoft codenames, A to Z
- For those, like me, who like keeping track of Microsoft codenames, here are a couple of new ones to add to your file: Austin and Zermatt. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Austin, Codename, Microsoft Corp., ResponsePoint, SP1, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Supercomputer performs prostate surgery
- A supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center TACC recently piloted a laser to perform prostate surgery on a dog. The operation was done in Houston without the intervention of a human surgeon while the Lonestar supercomputer, a Dell Linux Cluster with 5,840 processors, was in Austin. According to TACC,...
- Tags: Treatment, Houston, Supercomputer, Austin, Surgery, Laser, Lonestar, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- City of Austin Emergency Contingency Plan Includes Dell
- In addition to its normal workload of supporting the City of Austin's increasing population, the city's Communications and Technology Management department was suddenly tasked with providing technology resources for thousands of New Orleans evacuees relocated to Austin after Hurricane Katrina. The department created a Technology Response Team consisting of volunteers,...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Austin, Contingency Plan
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Photos: Austin builds on green concepts
- Big oil, step aside. City Hall, children's hospital in Texas' capital set environment-conscious design and construction standards.
- Tags: Austin, hospital, Texas, standards, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-05-15
- McDwiff 1 (Mac)
- McDwiff connects to Autodesk's online DWF translator, so accuracy is always 100%. Of course this means your DWF is being uploaded to Autodesk servers, so don't use McDwiff unless you're OK with that. It's all private and stuff, but you never know. Open any DWF (2D or 3D) on your...
- Tags: 3D, Apple Macintosh, Silver Software, Autodesk Inc., Austin, McDwiff, DWF
- Software downloads 2007-03-25
- Photos: SXSW wraps it up
- The 10-day festival offered a blend of music, technology, film, art and down-home bohemian that's unique to Austin, Texas.
- Tags: festival, blend, Austin, Texas, photograph, music
- Image galleries 2007-03-19
- Photos: Live from SXSW
- South by Southwest, Austin's annual music-tech-film-art event, continues to morph and grow.
- Tags: Austin, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-03-14
- Photos: Scenes from South by Southwest
- At the Austin, Texas, multimedia extravaganza, interactive media melds with music, film, Legos and parties.
- Tags: extravaganza, Austin, Texas, multimedia, photograph, music, media
- Image galleries 2007-03-12
- Photos: Roomba does Frogger rumba
- It's what happens when tech geeks at Austin's SXSW music conference play real-life Frogger with a Roomba vacuum cleaner.
- Tags: Frogger, iRobot Roomba, Austin, conference, music
- Image galleries 2006-03-15
- Photos: Dooce is wild
- When popular blogger Heather Armstrong, aka Dooce, suggested an impromptu gathering at an Austin cafe, her fans took notice.
- Tags: Blogging, Dooce, Austin, blogger
- Image galleries 2006-03-13
- Photos: Dooce is wild
- When popular blogger Heather Armstrong, aka Dooce, suggested an impromptu gathering at an Austin cafe, her fans took notice.
- Tags: Blogging, Dooce, Austin, blogger
- Image galleries 2006-03-13
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