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 …
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 …
Texas Gov. Rick Perry killed his first bill of the year, which would have taxed retailers conducting online business in Texas, citing that the measure would cause “unintended consequences.” The state government passed a Texas House of Representatives bill earlier …
E-commerce software firm Insterpire plans to expand its footprint in its Austin, Texas office from around 40 employees to 70 workers by the end of 2011. The Sydney-based company announced that healthy growth will likely lead to hiring VP positions …
Apple Inc. (AAPL) announced today that it will reveal a sneak peek of the next generation of mobile device and Mac operating systems, including the buzz concerning the iCloud service.In a press release, Apple said that CEO Steve Jobs, who …
Dallas-based Mavenir Systems announced it will extend the company’s 4G and LTE mobile infrastructure solutions by acquiring privately owned Airwide Solutions, a company specializing in mobile messaging solutions.Mavenir also announced the company raised $40 million in its fifth round of …
John Donovan, CTO of Operations at Dallas-based AT&T Inc. (T), wrote in a blog post about the first steps the telecom giant will implement as it prepares a major deployment of its LTE network in attempts to catch up with …
John Donovan, CTO of Operations at Dallas-based AT&T Inc. (T), wrote in a blog post about the first steps the telecom giant will implement as it prepares a major deployment of its LTE network in attempts to catch up with …
It’s national hurricane preparedness week, and carriers are claiming they are more prepared than in recent years, when disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ike crippled communications. In 2010 and the first quarter of 2011, Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) …
According to an alliance of IBM Corp. (IBM) workers for the union organization Alliance@IBM, the technology kingpin is slashing jobs across the country, which includes the possibility that Austin will be affected. The alliance is affiliated with the Communication Workers …
Round Rock-based Dell Inc. (DELL) was chosen by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide computer equipment and hosting services for more than 1,200 VA sites nationwide. Dell landed the four-year, $476 million contract to provide 600,000 personal …
Austin-based chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor Inc. went public on Wednesday but fell short of company expectations, pricing stock 22% less than projected at $18 a share. According to an initial public offering filing (IPO), Freescale wanted to raise more than $1 …
T-Mobile USA (DTEGY) claims that the carrier is doubling its theoretical peak download speed in its 4G network to 42 Mbps for the metropolitan Austin area. The company also said the increase in download speeds is going live in 51 …
Austin, Texas-based chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor Inc. went public on Wednesday but fell short of company expectations, pricing stock 22% less than projected at $18 a share.According to an initial public offering filing (IPO), Freescale wanted to raise more than $1 …
TEMPE, Ariz. – Native American tribes are spread across the state of Arizona, and Mark Goldstein, president of the International Research Center in Tempe, Ariz., consults with some of the independent nations to make their lives more accessible with technology. …
Austin’s main artery for long-distance travel, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA), finally hammered out a revised deal with operator Boingo Wireless to allow for free wireless Internet usage. It was feared that the city’s airport was lagging behind many other aviation …
PHOENIX — Arizona is making an online interactive broadband map using federal funding. In addition to creating its own state coverage map, like all U.S. states, the data is being rolled-up into the building of the Federal Communication Commission’s national …
Google is accelerating its march to join the mobile payment business by partnering with Citibank, Mastercard, Spring and several retailers including Macy’s, American Eagle and Subway. The company is expected to announce “mobile wallet” services tomorrow on the Google Nexus …
National Instruments, an Austin-based company, said that it acquired Phase Matrix Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based radio frequency developer and microwave application technology firm for $38 million. National Instruments also acquired radio frequency software firm AWR Corp. of El Segundo, …
National Instruments, an Austin-based company, said that it acquired Phase Matrix Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based radio frequency developer and microwave application technology firm for $38 million. National Instruments also acquired radio frequency software firm AWR Corp. of El Segundo, …
The word is out, and the Mango update is no longer a myth. Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) previewed its free Windows Phone upgrade this morning. The update is for all current Windows Phone handsets, and should be available this fall. The …
Dallas-based Mavenir Systems sees its future in LTE and is poised to make a product offering that it says is unique to its competitors in Voice over LTE (VoLTE) by partnering with top companies. “We build our solutions by packaging …
The new chief marketing officer at Ericsson (ERIC) is an orange blood who is moving up the corporate ladder at the provider of telecom and data communication systems based in Stockholm, Sweden. Arun Bhikshesvaran, current VP of strategy and marketing …
