Casio America, Inc.'s XW-P1 Performance Synthesizer kicked off 2013 with not one, but two prestigious industry awards – Electronic Musician's "2013 Editors' Choice Awards for Affordable Synth Awesomeness" and The Music & Sound ...
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TouchTunes Interactive Networks, the industry leader for interactive music and entertainment in 57,000 venues nationwide, enabled crowdsourced music at the 2013 frog SXSW Interactive Opening Party. Held at the Palmer Events Center in ...
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MakieLab also picks up an Entertainment and Gaming award. Over 100,000 digital Makie doll characters have been created to date. The news comes as creator of the 3D printed dolls, MakieLab, is honoured at the SXSW 5th Annual Accelerator ...
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South by Southwest Interactive is best known as the technology festival that put such social networking mainstays as Twitter and Foursquare on the map. But if there was a "next big thing" at this year's event, finding it would be pretty ...
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3D printing's capabilities in art, sculpture and toys have generated considerable buzz at South by Southwest Interactive over the past few days. But one Austin, Texas-based group has a more controversial application in mind: guns. "When I ...
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AMD is planning to sell and lease-back its Austin, Texas-based "Lone Star Campus" to 7171 Southwest Parkway Holdings, an affiliate entity of real estate investment company Spear Street Capital. Upon closing, net of all fees, the sale ...
Some school administrators are testing a bold idea to integrate the multitude of systems that are used to store student data, giving teachers a single view of how students are performing and allowing them to better deliver the right ...
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Tech enthusiasts at South by Southwest Interactive exploring the exhibit hall's gizmos and apps on Sunday were greeted a little differently at one booth -- the figure approaching them was not a person but a television-sized monitor mounted ...
As Google aims to expand search's ability to answer increasingly difficult questions based on contextual information, several key obstacles still stand in its way. Knowledge Graph, a feature designed to put users' searches in context and ...
Facebook's Graph Search could be a powerful tool for steering people toward products and services on the social networking site, and marketers are starting to wrestle with the impact it may have on their brands. Graph Search allows users ...
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Could anonymous chat be the next big thing? At this year's South by Southwest Interactive, the place that helped put Twitter and FourSquare on the map, a fledgling app for anonymous chatting is gaining some traction. GhostPost is giving ...
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Brooklyn-based Sprezzat wants to modernize caller ID for people's smartphones with a little help from Twitter and Facebook. This week the company launched Thread for Android, a mobile app designed to display recent activity on Twitter and ...
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This year's South by Southwest Interactive will play host to tech trends in areas as diverse as gaming, artificial intelligence, 3D printing and social networking, but whether the next Twitter will emerge at the conference is harder to say. ...
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Games are an important element in every culture around the globe. Simple games give structure to children's playtime and help enforce basic social skills like courtesy, sharing, and taking turns, and more intricate games can help children ...
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The growing use of handheld devices and social media among students is creating a technology tipping point for schools that could completely break down the barriers between teaching platforms within five to 10 years, Bill Gates said ...
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