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We Are Austin Tech Launches Second Season
Weekly video blog spotlights leaders in Austin’s tech community The weekly video blog We Are Austin Tech, live for nearly a year at weareaustintech.com, has launched its second season. Today’s post...
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Online Education: The Future Grows
This is a guest post by Christina St-Jean is an English teacher who has been engaged in virtually every level of the educational system at one point or another. When she’s not teaching, she is...
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Tips for Outsourcing Your IT
This is a guest post by Carmen Brettel, a writer and manager for Student Grants. In her spare time, Carmen enjoys gardening and volunteering at animal shelters. Outsourcing has become a popular option...
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February 8th is Work From Home Day
WFH hopes to get 10,000 cars off Austin-area roads for a day to foster lower ozone and carbon emissions while educating our work force about tools to make working remotely simple and manageable. On...
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Get Shit Done with Finish Up Weekend
Many of us have the same problem, we start projects and when things get tough, too challenging or too boring we give up just to start with the newest and coolest thing. Austin, TX is a very innovative...
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Austin-based startup acquired by LinkedIn
Austin-based 3-month-old startup “TheTechMap” was acquired by LinkedIn according to news released in the startup’s blog. TheTechMap offers an online community where geeks and creatives can connect with...
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Meet the first person to buy an iPhone 5 C/S
Did you buy your new iPhone yet? this guy did. Full story… We are launching a highly curated marketplace of projects and talent, request an invite today! Related articles Why the gold iPhone 5s is a...
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Why we are building a new marketplace for projects and talent
After many years as a software developer and entrepreneur I have come to the realization that hiring the right technical talent is one of the most if not the hardest thing for startups and companies of...
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How do we connect projects with talent in our marketplace?
In our last blog post we mentioned the soft launch of the website for our new highly curated marketplace to help connect projects with talent and the reason we were doing it. Now we would like to share...
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Current state of freelancers in LinkedIn
As of September of 2013 there are 780,627 profiles in the Unites States with the word freelance in either the title or job description. This is a number that we are monitoring closely as our findings...
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Microsoft Reports Record Revenue
Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $24.52 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2013. Gross margin, operating income, net income, and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $16.24...
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Happy 30th Anniversary Macintosh
For me, 1984 was the year of Van Halen’s wonderful [sic] album, The Right Stuff, and my second semester of college. It would also prove to be a time of enlightenment for me and computing. On this 30th...
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Windows Phone is outselling the iPhone in 24 countries
This month Microsoft broke these areas down country by country and confirmed exactly where Windows Phone is specifically outselling the iPhone. The list reads as follows: Chile, Colombia, Czech...
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OneDrive
Why OneDrive? We know that increasingly you will have many devices in your life, but you really want only one place for your most important stuff. One place for all of your photos and videos. One place...
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Apple First Quarter 2014 Results
The Company sold 51 million iPhones, an all-time quarterly record, compared to 47.8 million in the year-ago quarter. Apple also sold 26 million iPads during the quarter, also an all-time quarterly...
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Jason Calacani’s new venture Inside.com is live
The idea has similarities to Circa and to what Calacanis was already doing on a smaller scale for tech news with the Launch Ticker. Snyder and Calacanis aren’t pitching this as a replacement for...
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Google Glass with Designer Frames
The move comes as Google Inc. prepares to make Glass available to the general population later this year. Currently, Glass is available only to the tens of thousands of people who are testing and...
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Google browser as a platform
Google today launched Chrome apps for Android and iOS. The company is offering an early developer preview of a toolchain based on Apache Cordova, an open-source mobile development framework for...
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Microsoft reduces prices on Windows Azure Storage to match AWS price reduction
As you may recall from the April announcement, we committed to match Amazon Web Services prices for commodity services like compute, storage and bandwidth. Effective March 13, customers will see lower...
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Satya is Microsoft’s new CEO
Microsoft Corp. named Satya Nadella chief executive officer, tapping an insider steeped in business technology to speed turnaround at a software maker that helped usher in the personal-computing age...
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