Caringo Named to “25 Coolest Emerging Tech Vendors”

Caringo, a provider of clustered content storage software, was named among the “25 Coolest Emerging Tech Vendors” in the June 30 issue of CRN magazine for providing “innovative cutting-edge technology backed up by channel programs that pack more margin and support.”
The 25 “Coolest” vendors were selected from 178 companies included in this year’s Emerging Vendors [...]

iPhone App Store Details

There are only a few more days until the new iPhone 3G hits stores, the new iPhone software will be ready for download, and the iPhone App Store will be open for business. We have yet to find any local developers that have been approved to be in the App Store, but the screenshot shows that [...]

CSIdentity Hits Million Customer Mark

Business is booming for Austin, Texas-based identity theft protection company CSIdentity. By offering a comprehensive suite of business and personal security solutions targeting all aspects of identity theft, CSIdentity has grown exponentially since the beginning of the year with no signs of stopping. The company hit the one million mark in the number of lives [...]

Friday Links

Here are some interesting links for Friday:

Pluck releases SiteLife 3.3
Hilarious music video from the Bazaarvoice Social Commerce Summit
Steve Jobs keynote address from the WWDC where he announced iPhone 3G
The big news yesterday was the deal between Yahoo and Google that seems to be changing the balance of power in the internet world, but may put [...]

Sosa Brothers Announce MPower Ventures

Roy and Bertrand Sosa, two incredible entrepreneurs that started NetSpend, announced a $100M fund for emerging companies under the name MPower Ventures. Their first investment, something called MPower Labs which is the research and development arm. From the website’s front page:
MPower Labs is a global research and development incubator and business accelerator serving MPOWER Ventures [...]

Solarwinds Announces Exchange Monitor

SolarWinds announced today that its online community for network engineers, Thwack, celebrated its first anniversary. To commemorate the event, SolarWinds released a new free tool for monitoring Microsoft Exchange servers.
The Thwack community site was founded by network management software leader SolarWinds to provide its more than 16,000 members with a venue for sharing ideas, technical tips [...]

Digby Launches Mobile Platform

Austin-based Digby announced their mobile commerce platform today. Previously the company had announced the Digby Marketplace which allowed people to shop using their BlackBerry at retailers like Best Buy, FTD, Godiva, Barnes & Noble, and OfficeMax. Today the company announced “Powered by Digby” which allows retailers to have their own mobile commerce websites. Godiva Mobile [...]

Mirage Networks Receives Frost & Sullivan’s 2008 Best Entrepreneurial Company Award

Mirage Networks, an Austin-based developer of Network Access Control (NAC) technology, has been named the winner of the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Best Entrepreneurial Company Award.   The award is presented annually to the company with fewer than 300 employees showing the highest achievement in innovative product development, strategic business development and focused market strategy.
“NAC technology [...]

Alereon Announces New Reference Designs

Alereon announced a full range of high performance worldwide reference designs for Wireless USB applications. Included are the Worldwide PCIe Half-MiniCard and Worldwide PCIe ExpressCard/34 reference designs for host laptops; and the Worldwide Wireless USB Graphics Adapter reference design for device solutions. Leveraging on Alereon’s first generation products, which were certified by the USB-IF, the [...]

ON Networks Makes “Top 100″ List

ON Networks today announced that it was named one of the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies by AlwaysOn. The OnHollywood 100 is a power list of the top private emerging technology companies in digital entertainment and media. ON Networks was handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on a set of five criteria – innovation, [...]