AustinStartup

iPhone DevCamp Austin (part 2) starts on Friday and goes through Sunday. In the “unconference” spirit of BarCamp, this event will focus on iPhone development in conjunction with the main iPhone DevCamp in San Francisco. There’s an event on Upcoming if you’d like to let the community know that you’re going. The kickoff party will [...]

If you’d like to demonstrate or launch your new technology at the Beta Summit at Innotech, the deadline for submitting your application is this Friday August 1st. It’s a great platform for demonstrating and launching your new technology, as there will be many people and press at the event. You’ll get an incredible amount of [...]

If you’ve been waiting to decide if you’re going to attend SummerMash Austin, you need to purchase your tickets now. The event is tonight! The folks from Mashable including Pete Cashmore, Karen Hartline, and Mark Hopkins have made it to Austin for what Pete is calling SXSW Part 2!
If you’re cooking a tech startup, have some ideas, [...]

Austin-based gaming company Heatwave Interactive announced that they’ve raised $7.5M from Syncom Venture Partners. Syncom is taking a unique approach to creating a studio that will develop video game IP that can be used across other forms of media. The company is comprised of gaming industry veterans that have been responsible for titles such as [...]

We’re checking out FriendFeed, and it’s pretty cool. There’s some new functionality that lets you create your own rooms. Come check out ours.
http://friendfeed.com/rooms/austinstartup

Here’s some of the interesting items we’re following:

Connie Loizos over at PEHub blogged about a conversation with former Austinite Mike Maples. In it he talks about the window for investing in social media companies, and what types of deals his new $33M fund is looking at now.
Lori Hawkins at The Statesman had a writeup on [...]

Spiceworks, the ad supported, Austin-based IT management company, has announced a pretty cool feature for their 400,000 IT managers -crowdsourcing.  The new features, called SpiceLists, enable users to collaboratively develop, share, and rank IT best practices, products and services, and reports – making it even easier for them to manage their networks. The SpiceLists address [...]

Next Wednesday July 30th the people behind Mashable.com, the top social networking and social media blog, will be in Austin. They’re here for the Austin stop of the Mashable Summer Tour in conjunction with Austin Tech Happy Hour.
Pete Cashmore, Mark Rizzin, and Karen Hartline will be in town to see what Austin’s got goin’ on in the [...]

Site Controls, the leading provider of enterprise energy management, facilities intelligence and grid efficiency solutions, today announced the asset acquisition of Excel Energy Technologies, including its Ikanosphere™ energy management solution for retail chains.
Site Controls currently operates at thousands of client locations, monitoring nearly 300,000 endpoints for leading retailers. Through its September 2007 joint venture with [...]

HelioVolt Corporation, a producer of highly-efficient thin film solar energy products, today announced that it has garnered an R&D 100 Award from Research & Development (R&D) Magazine for work performed in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Known as the “Oscars of Invention,” the R&D 100 Awards celebrate the [...]