Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Edward Cruz from GuruStorms, which was a finalist in the SXSW Accelerator program. MobileRoadie won the category, but being a finalist should help the company’s visibility.

You’ve got to hand it to the mice in the ATX promotion machine…they are eating their multi-vitamins these days and spinning the wheels of Austin goodness extra fast in the major media. Take Time magazine’s recent coverage of Austin.

Undercover Tourist, an Orlando, Florida-based discount travel company, is helping visitors of Walt Disney World® navigate those long attraction lines with the launch of a new iPhone application. The Undercover Tourist App, developed in conjunction with Phunware, Inc., is an innovative, first-of-its-kind application designed to maximize the enjoyment for visitors to Disney World® by minimizing the time they would otherwise waste standing in long lines or looking for their favorite attraction. “They no longer need [...]

Last week, as the technorati returned home from their working spring breaks in Austin for SXSW Interactive, the backlash began almost immediately. It started with Jolie O’Dell’s post, smartly entitled “Why SXSW Sucks.” It quickly followed with the predictable back and forth, and many reporters and attendees said that this year’s SXSWi was too big, too crowded, and too overtly sponsored.

This week at the DEMO Spring 2010 Conference in Silicon Valley, Austin-based Zosh officially launched. Zosh is an iPhone and Ipad application that alleviates the need for a computer or fax to complete a form document or to provide a signature for a form. The application allows for a mobile worker to sign and complete document form information using an iPhone.

SolarBridge Technologies announced that it has been awarded $1.5 million from the State of Texas through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) for the development of its module‐integrated microinverter and management system. SolarBridge will use these funds to accelerate product development as the company prepares for the 2010 launch of the SolarBridge Microinverter, a critical component in an integral, alternating current photovoltaic (ACPV) solution. For years, solar companies have been working to reduce the Levelized [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Anthony Castoro, the CEO of Heatwave Interactive. The company has been at SXSW Screenburn showing off Platinum Life, their iSamJackson iPhone app, and Gods & Heroes. Perhaps you were at their party at The Belmont last night?

Have you been at a bar wanting to order a drink but your waitress or waiter was not around?  Odds are that it has happened to you this week.  If you are at SXSWi here in Austin, it has happened to you more than once.  Busy bars make it tough to order drinks – especially when you are seated at a table.  My big pet peeve is sitting with an empty glass and nobody comes [...]

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If you’ve been to SXSW before, you’re well aware of the glut of panels and parties. There is simply too much to do and too many places to be at once. The conference tries to alleviate the hectic nature with some pre-planning, offering the ability to build your own schedule on their website. But the technology is clunky and laborious; I know my eyes started to glaze over pretty quickly. So in the interest of preserving your sight and sanity, I thought I’d share some panels that jumped out at me.