Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry
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Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry |
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 Monday, June 29, 2009 Dell Claims Strong School Interest In Netbooks Round Rock-based Dell is reporting today that it is seeing "strong interest" in a new netbook that the firm is aiming at K-12 students, and has now signed up more than 500 school districts as purchasers of its netbook product. Dell said the schools are buying its Latititude 2100 netbook, which it launched last month. The Latitude 2100 is one of Dell's entrees into the hot "netbook" market, the lightweight, laptop-like products that computer manufacturers have begun to ship in volume recen (More info...) posted on Monday, June 29, 2009(Full story) Limestone Ventures Funds Florida Firm Austin-based LimeStone Ventures is leading a $1.5M, Series A funding in a Florida life sciences company, Sharklet Technologies. According to Sharklet, Limestone Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm based in Austin, is leading the round for its funding, which is expected to close this month. Sharklet is developing a surface which inhibits microorganism growth. Limestone Ventures' is the newest venture fund of the team which previously operated Gefinor Ventures. posted on Monday, June 29, 2009(Full story) Interview with Steve Kiser and Paul Sexauer, Sychron This morning's interview is with Austin-based Sychron (www.sychron.com), which is developing software for the desktop virtualization market. We spoke with Steve Kiser, President and CEO of the firm, along with Paul Sexauer, the company's Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, to learn more about what the firm is doing, and to learn more about the desktop virtualization world.
posted on Monday, June 29, 2009(Full story) Silicon Laboratories Announces Hybrid TV Chip Austin-based Silicon Laboratories announced a new, hybrid TV tuning chip this morning. According to Silicon Labs, its new chip is targeted at allowing TV makers to improve picture quality and reception in their designs. The new, Si2170 chip combines both a TV tuner and analog TV demodulator on a single CMOS iC, which the firm said should enable a simpler design, lower manufacturing cost, and higher production yields, in addition to better reliability for digital TVs, set top boxes, and ot (More info...) posted on Monday, June 29, 2009(Full story) eGistics Inks Multi-year Deal Dallas-based eGistics revealed today that it has landed a multi-year contract with national claims and risk management provider Avizent of Columbus, Ohio. The financial impact of the customer win was not disclosed. According to eGistics, it will supply Avizent with a hosted platform for archiving and retrieving workers' compensation claims documents. eGistics said it will also provide Avizent with multiple document-capture capabilities, such as batch upload and scan-to-Web. eGistics noted (More info...) posted on Monday, June 29, 2009(Full story) |
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