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Interesting panel at the Texas Wireless Summit today with folks like Wallace Henderson from the TRPSA and Meredith Attwell-Baker of the NTIA. Very timely given the election as well. Probably too much detail for you, unless you’re really interested in various parts of the wireless spectrum, and the regulatory aspects of them. If that interests [...]

LifeSize Communications, a leader in high definition video communications, today unveiled the next generation in high definition video communications and telepresence: Full HD, standards-based 1080p at 30 frames per second and 720p at 60 frames per second. LifeSize® Room 200™, the first Full HD video communications solution and LifeSize® Conference 200™, the first Full HD telepresence [...]

Another one of the Austin Emerging 100 bites the dust today, as the deal with NetEffect and Intel gets completed for $8M. Last month NetEffect filed for bankruptcy protection as part of a deal to sell to Intel for $8M. Other bidders were invited, but since the Intel deal is closing we assume there weren’t [...]

One of the most unrecognized groups to help make the Austin Innotech trade show as a premier trade show is the Austin Association of Information Technology Professionals. As one of the sponsors, AITP is hosting the award program this afternoon which recognizes the city’s top technology leaders. Last year, the chapter, recognized the following IT [...]

If you’re attending Innotech tomorrow, make sure you stop by room number 14 at 11am for the second Beta Summit. You’ll see some “soon to be announced” technologies from some great Austin companies. The finalists for the beta summit have been announced, and the list of presenters that will be giving their 8-minute demos is:

21st [...]

Sitting in on a great panel at the summit on location-based services. Panelists include:

Joe Chen, GeoSpot
Bryan Jones, Moximity
Andrew Graham, Bones in Motion
Dan Lowden, Wayport

The panel is moderated by Clint Wheelock, from ABI Research. As a moderator, Clint has been doing a great job of sprinkling into the conversation some relevant details about the market, based [...]

Doug Newsom will be speaking at tonight’s World At Your Fingertips event, and we had the opportunity to ask her a few questions. Doug (yes, she is a woman) is a professor at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and a public relations practitioner. A Fulbright lecturer in India in 1988 and Singapore in 1999, [...]

With Innotech just hours away, we were lucky to get an interview with Kevin Gough, senior product and marketing manager for Google. Gough has been responsible for launching various business search and collaboration products, including Google Apps, the Google Search Appliance, Google Mini and Google U.S. Government Search. Previously, Gough was co-founder of and director [...]