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When we heard that Sprint was rolling out 4G service in Austin, we knew it was something that we wanted to check out. For years people have been talking about how great WiMax was going to be, and now it’s finally here. We’ve all had or tried out 3G network data services that generally saw [...]

The Austin chapter of the national Association of IT Professionals (AITP) is excited to announce the 2009 IT Executive of the Year Awards winners held in conjunction with the 2009 InnoTech Austin Conference & Expo.
This was the 12th annual IT Executive of the Year awards competition and is the premier recognition event for Central Texas [...]

Austin entrepreneur Jeff Chambers, former U.S. product director for HomeAway, Inc., has acquired PropertyMaps.com, a leading residential real estate search engine. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Real estate has been one of the hardest hit sectors during the recent slow down in the US economy. However, that pressure created a unique opportunity [...]

I originally posted this interview on the Collaboratory, but I wanted to also share it with AustinStartup readers.
I had a chance to sit down with the founders of Socialware for an interview. I edited our talk down to under 5 minutes. Socialware is an alliance partner of ours, and is  creating a new category of [...]

We assigned a special guest blogger, Scott Francis, to cover Conformity’s recent launch. Scott is Co-founder and CTO of BP3, an Austin-based business process improvement consultancy.

Austin entrepreneur Thomas Marriott was trying to find a multi-function iPhone carrying case, and just didn’t see anything on the market. So what did the former GameWager co-founder do? He decided to explore the market opportunity. The result is the Pocketpack, which can be purchase at www.killthewallet.com.
Thomas and his team did some good old fashioned [...]

Our guest blogger today is Greg Garrison, the president of vrecruting – Recruiting solutions from vcfo. He has over 17 years experience in the recruiting and staffing industry, and is regularly quoted nationally as a thought-leader in employment trends. He can be reached at ggarrison@vcfo.com or 512-450-6569.
The Labor Market and the Economic Recovery
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It’s  been an exciting weekend on the blog. For those who care about administrative little details, we are now running the current verson of Wordpress 2.7.1 and we’ve migrated the RSS feed over to Google. The feed migration wasn’t by choice of course, Feedburner was acquired by Google a while back and now all the [...]

It’s a new year and a new look for AustinStartup. We’re using some new software for the blog which will give us some exciting new capabilities in 2008. You might be seeing them already up in the menu bar. Some new sections for you:

Calendar — We’re hoping to start automatically syndicating calendars from your favorite [...]

Spiceworks, a rapidly growing innovator of ad-supported IT management software, today announced that they had hit the 200,000 user mark which doubles their user base in just six months. The company now has users in all 194 countries of the world. They also announced the release of version 2.0 of their product, as well as [...]