The 2007 CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment conference was held on Oct 22-25 in San Francisco. The event was fairly uneventful (no major new initiatives announced, etc.) BUT Austin wireless companies attending the event were able to shine through the fog. Thanks to the underwriting and support of the Austin Wireless Alliance and the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, four Austin wireless companies were able to attend and showcase themselves at the CTIA press event, ShowStoppers, at a 70% cost savings. The four participating companies from Austin were: Digby (aka 30 Second Software), edioma, Media Excel, and BrainMedia. All of the companies were able to get phenomenal media exposure with Digby landing itself on CNBC news and edioma getting both a full article in the San Francisco Chronicle as well a blog entry, including a video podcast, on Robert Scoble’s blog (Robert, for those of you that don’t know, is one of the top 10 bloggers in the world). More video podcast coverage for Austin included another entry in Scoble’s video blog featuring our good friend Jim Butler with the City of Austin talking about SxSW!

This was a great showing for Austin companies and something that will be continued at the next CTIA event in April and maybe, just maybe, even at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. Go Austin!

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