Painpoint Software Job Fair Happening this Friday
Category: Austin TechDoor 64, Austin's largest technology organization company, will be hosting the Painpoint Software Job Fair this Friday in the Austin Convention Center. The Job Fair will be looking...
View ArticleABI Research Expands to Austin
Category: Austin TechABI Research, an R&D company focused on the electronics and semiconductor industry, has opened up a new research and teardown facility in Austin....
View ArticleQuarri Partners with Barracuda for Total Web Protection
Category: Austin TechQuarri Technologies, an Austin-based company specializing in web security software, announced they will be partnering with network firewall firm Barracuda Networks. Quarri states...
View ArticleThis Week in Geek - October 4 - 10
Austin Tech Life isn’t all about networking events and making business connections. Sometimes you need to find like-minded geeks for some relaxing fun. Once a week, we round up the best geek social...
View ArticleAustin Mavens Dish on What Makes Our Tech Scene Work
Austin Tech Technology is a notoriously cutthroat industry. The nonstop battles for venture capital and industry attention are known to split marriages, end friendships and start bitter rivalries....
View ArticleInto the Rockies Part 3
Lives The Bearded One and I recently discovered that roundtrip flights from Austin to Denver are surprisingly affordable (we got ours for about $160 each). We decided to go just at the end of the...
View ArticleIt’s Banned Books Week. What’s Not Kosher in Texas?
Texas News The American Library Association launched Banned Books Week in 1982 to combat challenges to books in schools, libraries and bookstores and celebrate the right to read. Thirty years later,...
View Article3D Printing: The Good, The Bad and The Disturbing
Austin Newshttp://flic.kr/p/7JFrzn A hitman passes security carrying only a briefcase. Slipping into an unused conference room, he opens his case and assembles... a printer. Not just any printer but a...
View ArticleWillie’s Roadhouse & More to Beam Out from New Austin SiriusXM Studio
Austin NewsPhoto by Christopher Durst Even if Willie Nelson spends more time at home in Hawaii than his Austin area abode when he’s not on the road – can ya blame the guy? – the Red-Headed Stranger...
View ArticleFrank "Fruit Tree" Ramsey Shames the Devil
Austin HistoryFrank T. Ramsey Frank Taylor Ramsey worried not only about his own legacy, but about that of his customers as well. The nurseryman once wrote fondly of the trees around his childhood...
View ArticleWhat Recruiters Recommend: Modern UX/UI Skills
Austin Tech Door64 recently hosted the Painpoint Job Fair for companies at the “pain point” where they couldn’t move forward with vital projects until they hired new coders. They focused on four...
View ArticleDining In at the Cinema: A Guide to Austin's More-Than-Moviehouses
Austin N00bhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/wwiggins/ Forgive me if I get a little over-excited here, but man, I love going to the movies in Austin. This is my tenth city, and honestly, in the last nine...
View ArticleShopping with the Other Half at Family Dollar
Lives As Austin becomes a full-on upscale metro boutique high-dollar shopping experience, there are times you still wanna save a few bucks, right? Even more so, in fact, as costs of living climb...
View ArticleHating Haters Paint Over "Robots" and "Breathe" on Railroad Bridge
Art Beat The Austinist turned us on to the sad news that two cheerful message-murals painted on the railroad bridge between Lamar and South 1st Street have been painted over, redacted in rust red. We...
View ArticleSpredfast Strengthens Ties to LinkedIn
Category: Austin TechAustin-based social marketing firm Spredfast announced a new integration into professional networking site LinkedIn to help support company pages and targeted status updates. This...
View ArticleTolly Moseley Eavesdrops on Austin
Austin Media Tolly Moseley has brought us the Austin Eavesdropper since 2007. The newly minted 30-year-old describes herself as a book publicist by day, blogger by night, and aerial silks dancer in...
View ArticleAustin Kickstarter of the Week - Texas or Die: An Anthology of Horror
ArtistsBilly SaguloIn the last couple months, short story writers suddenly realized Kickstarter was a great way to finance an anthology. Heck, there are 192 anthology projects on Kickstarter alone,...
View ArticleTech Events Roundup October 9-15: GDC and Austin Startup Week Edition
Austin Events Once a week the Austin Post rounds up all the networking, social and just plain nifty technology related events taking place in the greater Austin metro area. This week, Austin is host to...
View ArticleFestivals? By the Time I Almost Got to Woodstock
Lives I am not a festival fan. I’m not saying I can’t enjoy them, but as someone who has spent a most of my years seeing live music, they are among my least favorite places to do so. My lack of...
View ArticleACL Fest Avoidance Guide (Part 1): Weekend Getaways
ACL Fest 2012 Austin City Limits Music Festival is one of those times when we give over a good part of our city to visitors. If you aren't attending but still want to have some fun this weekend, one...
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