As if it’s not enough to have the CTO of AT&T, the President of Nokia, and the VP of Open Development at Verizon in town to speak at the Texas Wireless Summit, they’ve just announced that Michael Bayle, the Senior Director of Global Mobile Advertising at Yahoo! will also be presenting. Given that this is really a Texas-focused event, I’m amazed at the level of speakers that this program delivers each year. The summit begins [...]

For Austin Innotech, having the public debut of the Microsoft Surface in Austin for the first time is a real coup for the Oct. 16 trade show. Contributing blogger, Matt Scherer, completed this interview for Austin Startup with Robert Miles, vice president of speakTECH’s Central Region about the innovative Microsoft technology platform’s debut. Q. How was your firm able to get the Microsoft Surface for Innotech Austin? speakTECH has a very deep relationship with Microsoft [...]

If you’re an early stage Information Technology (IT) or Web 2.0 company, you should consider at the Rice Alliance’s 6th Annual IT/Web 2.0 Technology Venture Forum on December 11th. Submit an electronic version of your company’s non-confidential executive summary to tvforum@rice.edu. This annual event is probably the premier early stage venture forum in Texas. Check out the complete call for presenters here. Besides the tremendous networking opportunities, you have a chance to showcase your company [...]