Macheen, a global cloud service provider for connected devices, today announced it is live in the United States, with mobile broadband connectivity via the Nationwide Sprint Network.   Available in Europe since February, Macheen’s comprehensive turnkey platform enables connected laptops, tablets and other consumer electronics device makers to not only to reach across continents, but also tap into different mobile network technologies.  For example, in Europe private-label services of device makers, powered by Macheen, use [...]

Many thanks to Michelle Greer for this guest post! “More and more, sound financial information is critical to our daily well being.  As one economist put it, we aren’t just checking to see if we can make more money.  We are checking to see that our money is still there. Enter 9W.  9W is the mobile app currently being built by Edgar Online founders Susan and Marc Strausberg.  9W will give you up-to-date information on [...]

Most of you know our friends at the InfoChimps. Plying the honorable trade of helping you turn your data into money through their data marketplace. You also may be familiar with one of the hottest startups in the silicon valley; Twilio. They provide phone and SMS services in the cloud. The two of them are teaming up to have a little contest for those of you who are technically hip. Do something cool and creative [...]

The folks at Austin-based NaturallyCurly.com announced today that they’ve raised some additional funding. The news isn’t even warm yet, and the San Francisco Chronicle is already pooping on the news saying that this is a sign that investors will fund anything. They are writing as if two grad students just fleeced some desperate VC  out of a check based on a fancy powerpoint deck. The reality is far different. This is the third round of [...]

SpareFoot, the online self-storage marketplace, launched a unique project and blog series called Adventures In Storage, designed to familiarize employees with their product in the most entertaining way possible. The new mixed-media “reality series” documents the start-up’s 18 employees as they experience the process of renting and moving into and out of self-storage units. CEO Chuck Gordon coordinated the nine-week project, in which duos of employees moved a growing pile of possessions from one storage [...]

Calxeda, the company solving the datacenter energy crisis with hyper-efficient processors, today launched its Trailblazer Initiative, with founding members who focus on cloud computing and “Big Data” scalable analytic solutions.   Trailblazer is a program that will open up the Calxeda technology to industry players, hardware companies, systems integrators, datacenter end users, and ISV (software) partners, some of whom are announced today. At Trailblazer launch, Calxeda is pleased to announce Autonomic Resources, Canonical, Caringo, Couchbase, Datastax, [...]

This is a blog post I wrote for the Dachis Group blog today. In the almost two years I’ve been with Dachis Group there is one question that I’ve been asked over and over again. “What is social business?” I’m sure my colleagues have had the same experience. The challenge I have is that social business is comprehensive in nature, and therefore defies trite explanations. My dilemma would be made simpler if “social business” were [...]

There is a Hackathon event tomorrow to build apps with the Lolapalooza API, if you’re more technically inclined. You can find more info on the Plancast for the event, and also check out a blog posting that Tim Gasper from KeepStream wrote. Hackapalooza Austin Hurricanestream 906 E 5th Suite 210 · Saturday, May 28, 2011, 10am-7:00pm It’s a HACKATHON to build cool apps with the Lollapalooza API, brought to you by Keepstream and Hurricane Party. Why? Because [...]

MinorMonitor went live today as a unique, free, web-based tool for monitoring children on Facebook.  Built just for parents to enable a quick, dashboard-view into their child(ren)’s Facebook activities and friends, MinorMonitor was created by Infoglide, a government-grade technology company that has been delivering anti-fraud software solutions to federal and state governments and commercial organizations for over 15 years.   The free, web-based tool is open for sign up. According to a recently released survey by [...]