2011

Microsoft, impeccably timed bunch that they are, held two Windows 8 first-look events within hours of one another on different sides of the globe. First, Windows President Steven Sinofsky took the stage at the D9 conference in California to unveil …

Polycom Inc. (PLCM) announced it will acquire Hewlett Packard Co.’s (HPQ) Halo video conferencing company for $89 million in cash. The deal includes HP’s products, contracts and employees, but leaves speculation on what will happen to HP’s team that developed …

Polycom Inc. (PLCM) announced it will acquire Hewlett Packard Co.’s (HPQ) Halo video conferencing company for $89 million in cash. The deal includes HP’s products, contracts and employees, but leaves speculation on what will happen to HP’s team that developed …

Austin-based Macheen Inc., announced that the company formed an advisory board and now has a VP of marketing in Kent Libby. While often quiet about the company’s business plans, CEO Richard Schwartz spoke with RCR Wireless at CTIA in Orlando …

Bet you didn’t see this one coming. Jonathan Kaplan, former CEO of Pure Digital Technologies, the company behind the Flip family of portable video cameras, has announced his next venture will be into the exciting and cut-throat world of grilled …

OP-ED: The Greater Austin area, stretching from Round Rock to San Marcos, is a small market when it comes to big companies headquartered here. You can count the number of Fortune 500 members with two hands – and that’s using …

Round Rock-based Dell Inc. (DELL) said yesterday that the company wants to buy “everything around data centers” in attempts to keep its top spot in the computer server market. The world’s second-biggest maker of personal computers continues expansion and is …

A tragedy in a Denver suburb earlier this week not only underscores the importance of the emerging category of devices designed to track people and assets, but the dire consequences that can occur when those devices fail to work properly. …

Taipei, Taiwan – Intel has invented a new category of mobile computers it is calling the “Ultrabook” the firm revealed at Computex on Tuesday. The company said it was also accelerating its Atom processor roadmap to a one-process-generation per year …

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Qualcomm Atheros Inc., Qualcomm’s networking and connectivity subsidiary is showing off several next-generation wireless chipset technologies this week at the COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2011 conference in Taiwan. Qualcomm Atheros, which makes dual-band Wi-Fi in both the 2.4 GHz and …

Intel is considering buying Texas Instruments’ OMAP division according to a highly placed executive at another fabless semiconductor firm.

Recently the Finnish company behind the seminal Angry Birds, Rovio, announced that their game had been downloaded more than 200 million times, cementing its title as the most popular game of the smartphone era, and the most popular game of …