By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Officials with Rackspace and Intel Thursday officially cut the ribbon on the OpenStack Innovation Center at Rackspace’s headquarters. “We are going to make this the launching pad to make OpenStack and the entire cloud available to everyone in the industry,” said Imad Sousou, vice president of the […]
Almalence Receives Investment from Intel Capital
Almalence, a computational imaging startup, announced Monday it has received an investment from Intel Capital. The amount of investment and terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Austin-based startup, founded in 2005, plans to use the funds to develop the next version of its mobile imaging technology to enable mobile cameras to achieve the […]
Intel Seeks Inventors for New Reality TV Show with $1 Million Prize
A new television series “America’s Greatest Makers” is looking for inventors, makers, designers and engineers who are creating the next big wearable or smart-connected device. The competition, backed by Intel, Turner Broadcasting Mark Burnett, the producer of “Shark Tank,” “Survivor” and “The Apprentice,” will award a $1 million grand prize and other prizes for the […]
Measr[food], a Smart Food Scale, Wins Intel’s Internet of Things Roadshow in Austin
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Americans have a problem counting calories which contributes to skyrocketing rates of obesity, said Brad Hughes, software engineer at National Instruments. He thought Intel’s Internet of Things Hackathon might be a good place to tackle the problem. He pitched the idea of a smart food scale connected […]
Intel to Host Internet of Things Workshop at TechShop in Austin
Intel will be hosting its Internet of Things Roadshow at Techshop in Austin on Saturday and Sunday. The roadshow is one of ten events the company is doing worldwide and the only one in Texas. Other events in the U.S. are in Mountain View, Calif. and New York. Other events globally are being held in […]
The Open Compute Project helps data centers save energy and increase efficiency
By L.A. Lorek Data centers gobble up energy. But some of the smartest minds in the information technology industry want to change that. They are meeting in San Antonio today and tomorrow to rethink the old ways of putting together servers, power and cooling units and the rest of the guts of data centers to […]
HP uses Calxeda’s technology to power its servers
Calxeda introduced its high-performance low power semiconductors Tuesday to power Hewlett Packard’s servers. The Austin-based start-up held an event in Palo Alto to introduce its new products along with its partner HP. But in its hometown, employees, customers, analysts and others gathered to watch a live stream broadcast of the event and to celebrate. They […]
Michael Dell hosts Dell World 2011 in Austin
At Dell World 2011, Michael Dell will take questions today during a panel discussion with press and analysts at the Long Center in Austin. The sold-out Dell World event begins with a welcoming reception at Austin City Limits Wednesday night. Then, bright and early, Michael Dell will deliver the keynote at 8 a.m. Thursday at […]