All the stories tagged with: sxsw
Roku shows off streaming stick at SXSW
03/16/2012, If you’re keen on finding out what Roku has up its sleeves, it looks like the company is planning to make its set top boxes smaller and easier to use. At SXSW, Roku’s product chief, Tom Markworth, showed off the [...]
Homeless Hotspots program at SXSW causes an uproar
03/12/2012, At the South by Southwest festival in Austin this year, the Bartle Bogle Hegarty marketing firm is holding a strange and highly controversial social experiments. Called Homeless Hotspots, it consists of equipping a number of homeless people with portable WiFi [...]
Ubisoft shows off Rocksmith at SXSW
03/16/2011, At the SXSW event, Ubisoft showed off their latest foray into the world of music-based rhythm games. Called Rocksmith, this game ditches the color coded buttons that you had to hit in games like Dance Dance Revolution or Guitar Hero [...]
Google denies rumors about launching Circles at SXSW
03/14/2011, After not doing too well in the whole social network scene with Google Buzz, new rumors surfaced saying that the search engine giant might give it another go. Google has been rumored to launch a new social network that is [...]
Final IE9 Launches at SxSW
03/09/2011, Microsoft has made it official that (the final release of) Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) will launch on Monday March 14th at SxSW* in Austin, TX. Internet Explorer 9 is currently in beta and is largely seen as Microsoft’s commitment to [...]
Tungle.me Open API
03/18/2010, [SXSW] I saw Tungle the first time when the Canada-based company launched at Demo in Spring 2007, and Richard Zeidel, VP Strategic Alliances, showed me a demo at SXSW where the company announced its Open API. Tungle is a scheduling [...]
Windows Phone 7 Demo at SXSW
03/18/2010, Editor’s note about the Video: the demo was done on a vertical monitor, I shot it in portrait, you may have to turn you screen to watch it more comfortably. [SXSW] Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 at MWC in Barcelona [...]
Loopt Revamped iPhone App with Pulse Feature
03/17/2010, [SXSW] At SXSW, I met with Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO, of Loopt, a location-based social networking site, and he showed me the new Loopt app for the iPhone. Loopt introduced its new Pulse button that allows SXSW attendees to [...]
Paypal Send Money App for iPhone – Version 2.0
03/17/2010, [SXSW] Yesterday at SXSW, Paypal launched its new version of the Send Money application for the iPhone. Paypal allows users to send money securely to others around the world (190 countries, 24 currencies), without the hassle of bank wire transfers [...]
SXSW live with Twitter now
03/15/2010, We’re live at SXSW with Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, who is explaining how his service can help publishers generate more traffic. “We think that Twitter is an information network”, he says. Go to live.ubergizmo.com now if you want [...]
SXSW Day 1and 2 Photo Gallery
03/14/2010, [SXSW] SXSW Interactive, held in Austin, started on Friday and the events schedule is pretty hectic. Check out our photo gallery to get a vibe of the conference.
Alcatel-Lucent New API Bundles for Developers
03/12/2010, Picture: the Alcatel-Lucent Dashboard launched at MWC, picture with new features coming soon [SXSW] Alcatel-Lucent today announced the packaged API (Application Programming Interfaces) bundles, and an associated revenue sharing model that eliminates upfront costs for developers and offers new revenue [...]
Lunch.com Launches Communities: Yelp meets WordPress meets Wikipedia
03/12/2010, [SXSW] We published about Lunch.com when it launched in April 09 at Web 2.0. Lunch.com connects people with similar interests via the proprietary “Similarity Engine” and provides them a platform to publish and share opinions and reviews about various topics. [...]
