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The major problem most of us have with Google Fiber is that we can’t get it, but that could change soon for residents of Austin, Texas. According to reports by VentureBeat and KVUE News in Austin, invites are going out for an event on Tuesday at 11 AM put on by Google and the city. Anonymous sources indicate that’s where the two will announce plans to bring the TV and high speed internet hookup’s plans for expansion Until we hear differently however, Google Fiber’s rollout is still only confirmed for the Kansas City area, so plan your living arrangements accordingly.

Update: A tipster informs us that the news section on the Google Fiber “Cities” page is currently (3AM ET) flashing a “Google Fiber’s Next Stop: Austin, Texas” header. While author “SoAndSo” is not particularly well known, we’d figure this removes any remaining doubt where the service is landing next.

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Source: Venture Beat, KVUE, Google Fiber

Taco Cannon? Taco Cannon. Created by the mexican restaurant Torchy’s for this weekend’s Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, this modified t-shirt cannon will be making several scheduled appearances. All the video of this thing in action on YouTube suck. If you shoot or find something better send it to us. [Upproxx and TMDaily] More »

In a career filled with many clutch throws from the baseball mound, former Boston Red Sox ace Curt Schilling’s main calling card was a gutsy post-season performance made even more memorable by a blood-soaked sock. It was a pitch made by Schilling outside of Major League Baseball, however, that would prove to be his most daring one yet.

In 2010, Schilling convinced Rhode Island officials to give his video game company, 38 Studios, a $75 million loan guarantee. A self-professed fan of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG), Schilling’s dream was to create a worthy competitor to Blizzard’s MMORPG juggernaut, World of Warcraft. In 2006, Schilling started Green Monster Games, which was later renamed 38 Studios. Luring the company away from Massachusetts was supposed to bring in more than 400 jobs and serve as the linchpin for launching a new tech-based industry in Rhode Island. Instead, the state’s taxpayers found themselves left at the table with a multimillion-dollar tab.

Continue reading Fallen kingdom: 38 Studios’ collapse and the pitfalls of using public money to support tech companies

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Fallen kingdom: 38 Studios’ collapse and the pitfalls of using public money to support tech companies originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Fujitsu’s bank balance may be a little lighter today, since Acacia Research Corp. has reported that subsidiaries of both companies have signed a settlement deal over patent disputes. As usual, Acacia is keeping tight-lipped about exactly what the patents cover, but a little digging on our part has revealed they are related to flash memory and RAM technologies. The agreement resolves lawsuits in the works at district courts in Texas and California, which is probably a good thing. After all, these cases can get pretty messy when they go to court.

Continue reading Fujitsu and Acacia resolve patent disputes with settlement, keep it out of the courts

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Fujitsu and Acacia resolve patent disputes with settlement, keep it out of the courts originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sprint may have played slightly fast and loose with its definition of a 15-city LTE launch this month — some of those areas were mighty close to each other — but it’s taking that expansion a little further down the road with its next stage. Hand-in-hand with its second quarter results, the pin-drop network has outlined plans to revisit its 4G hometown in Baltimore as well Gainesville in Georgia, the Junction City-Manhattan area in Kansas and the Denison-Sherman region in Texas, giving them all LTE by Labor Day. The expansion will certainly please Georgian Galaxy S III owners; unfortunately, it still leaves many major cities fending with EV-DO 3G until later in the year, if not 2013. Maybe Sprint’s Hitchcock-inspired nightmares are to blame.

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Sprint LTE spreads its wings to four more areas by Labor Day originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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