Samsung Spills The Milk At SXSW

Slacker has teamed up with Slacker Radio to launch the latest entry into the world of streaming music. The space itself is getting crowded with mainstays Pandora, Spotify, and even Slacker Radio holding a dominant role amongst new comers like Beats Music. Slacker Radio and Samsung often have a huge presence at SXSW in Austin [...]

Wearables Take Center Stage At SXSW Accelerator

The SXSW accelerator is one of the most popular attractions at the SXSW interactive festival in Austin Texas. In years past some of the bigger high growth potential companies, like Siri, have been featured at the SXSW accelerator. This year was no different except where normally we hear about social local mobile apps and reward [...]

Android SDK For Wearables Coming In Two Weeks [sxsw]

Google's Sr Vice President of Android and Chrome, Sundar Pichai took to the stage at SXSW on Sunday afternoon as part of SXSW's Featured Sessions. The session, entitled "Sundar Pichai, conversation with John Batelle", was a fireside chat style session focusing on two of the fastest growing open platforms in the world, Android and Chrome. [...]

Tobii: Eye Tracking in Gaming and Assistive Tech

You have no doubt heard of eye tracking, but most likely in an analytics context. However, Tobii offers eye tracking in two contexts that are incredibly unique: "Gaze Interaction," and "Assistive Technology Devices & Solutions."

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Wandoo Planet: Kid-powered Interest Genome Project

Wandoo Plant is built on the premise that if children are actively learning about and doing the thing that they love, they will transcend their reading levels. With that idea as the foundation, Wandoo Planet seeks to expose children to, and help them uncover more of the things that they enjoy.

Chevrolet And OnStar Makes Major Beats Music Announcement At SXSW

OnStar is once again on the ground here in Austin for SXSW now through March 16th for both SXSW Interactive and SXSW Music. As in years past OnStar will be teaming up with Chevrolet to give people free rides wherever they need to go downtown. The only caveat, instead of using a smartphone or traditional [...]

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Infographic: 50 Insane Facts About Bitcoin

It seems these days no matter what tech sites you read or what's going on in the world, there is some kind of daily news about the virtual currency Bitcoin. Bitcoin is very popular because of it's anonymous nature. At the same time it's very scary for some because they hear about insane fluctuations and [...]

Hang w/ App To Bridge SXSWi & SXSWm With 50 Cent

Year after year the synergy that crosses over from the SXSW Interactive festival to the original SXSW Music festival continues to roar. More and more music lovers are coming a few days early to catch the latest and greatest in technology products, apps, and new high growth potential companies. At the same time more and [...]

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LG Teams Up With Clyde Drexler To Do Game Day Right

Now in their fifth year as an official corporate sponsor with the NCAA, LG Electronics is going all out for the NCAA March Madness tournament and the Final Four being held later this month in North Texas. A campaign LG is wrapping around the tournament and it's semi-final round will feature NBA star, coach and [...]

Brace Yourselves, Nintendo Is Beating Microsoft In Video Game Sales

Let that headline sink in for a minute. Nintendo is beating Microsoft in video game sales. Now I promise you the next story isn't going to be about Blackberry beating Android. On Wednesday, Forbes reported on the latest data from VGChartz which compiled weekly estimates on video game and video game console sales. The latest [...]