Gregg Lowe welcomes guests to Freescale Technology Forum as the company launches several new products that impact mobile.

As the company that revolutionized the mobile industry and continues to set the bar, Apple has no problem getting an audience with local and state governments when it announces plans for expansion. So the Austin City Council was all ears last summer when Apple (AAPL) started talking about locating a new campus in northwest Austin. [...]

Tens of thousands of geeks were in Austin, Texas, this week for the South by Southwest Interactive conference and mobile was a big part of the event. Verizon Wireless’ network seemed to hold up well, but both the conference Wi-Fi and AT&T Mobility’s 3G network were regularly slowed to a crawl. The LA Times took [...]

Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) today became the latest semiconductor company to announce a restructuring. The Austin-based chipmaker says it will create two new strategic product groups, one focusing on networking and multimedia, which will include cellular products, and the other focusing on automotive and industrial solutions, which will include M2M products. Freescale’s networking and multimedia [...]

“Eat breakfast because we’re having a late lunch!” These were the words that greeted 200 eager investors and entrepreneurs as they picked up their name tags at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center on the University of Texas campus this morning. They were there for the 3rd annual