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SXSW 2011 News
Opinionaided, recently reviewed on IntoMobile, decided to use its far-reaching user base to learn which social apps were considered popular outside of the SXSW conference. According to these types of preliminary, vague, and inconclusive “reports,” Foursquare won the location battle (I say “battle” because the war is pretty much over) with Gowalla trailing in second,…
The cool thing about SXSW 2011 is getting to see some cool, new apps in action and we got some hands-on time with the Addieu iPhone app, a connector for all of your online personas. In a way, the Addieu iPhone app is like Hashable because it’s trying to get rid of the business card.…
AT&T brought a bunch of COWs to Austin, TX. to keep their network up and running at the annual South By Southwest (SXSW) 2011 festival – and no, they’re not milk-making cows, they’re Cell On Wheels mobile cell towers that help boost network capacity and performance when existing cell sites are overwhelmed. So, naturally, we…
The great thing about SXSW 2011 is just roaming the beautiful Austin streets and running into CEOs and founders of really cool mobile companies. One issue with handing them a business card is that sometimes that can get lost. We spoke with Hashable CEO Michael Yavonditte about how his apps make exchanging contact information fun…
Services like Foursquare are good for checking-in and letting people know where you are but the Bizzy iPhone app is tailored for people checking out locations and letting others know what they think of it. We were able to hang out with the Bizzy iPhone app team at the SXSW 2011 conference and we had…
By now, I’m sure most of you have either played or heard about Angry Birds but I’m guessing you may not have seen it being played in real life. Well, that’s exactly what the video below will show you, as Rovio set up a live-action game at SXSW 2011. The live-action Angry Birds was accomplished…
Your car’s license probably isn’t associated with much beyond getting you tickets but Bump.com is trying to change that by making your car’s license plate your name in a social network. If the idea sounds crazy, I completely hear you – your license plate seems like something you wouldn’t want to give out on a…
We were spending the last few days at the SXSW 2011 conference, so I’ve been a bit removed from the tragedies that are happening over in Japan. While we can only hope for the best at this point, it’s good to see the mobile industry doing what it can to help and today XCom Global…
CoTweet, a popular enterprise-grade social networking client, has launched a salvo of mobile apps at SXSW to keep marketing, support, and PR professionals in touch with their customers via Twitter. They’ve had an iPhone client for a little while now, but Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone apps are all new. Windows Mobile is a strange…
The HTC Arrive was announced not-too-long ago but this is the first time that you’ll see the Windows Phone 7 smartphone not being tethered to a stand. Yeah, that’s just kind of how IntoMobile rolls. The HTC Arrive is a Windows Phone 7 device that will debut on Sprint soon and it will be the…