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A month after being named one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Texas, San Antonio-based Rackspace Managed Hosting also has been ranked one of the fastest growing firms in North America.
Rackspace ranked one of the fastest growing tech firms in North America
Altman’s key-chain fob was a TV-B-Gone, a new universal remote that turns off almost any television. The device, which looks like an automobile remote, has just one button. When activated, it spends over a minute flashing out 209 different codes to turn off televisions, the most popular brands first.
Sleep medicine experts have successfully treated a rare case of a woman having sex with strangers while sleepwalking.
Will business owners rush to buy a big sport-utility vehicle and get a $100,000 tax break before it expires?
San Antonio is the least entrepreneurial major city in Texas, according to Visa’s Innovation Index.
S.A. ranks last in entrepreneurial spirit among Texas cities
You really aren’t driving a Mini unless you’re driving it like this…
According to the new Visa Innovation Index, which examines variables of innovation for its Ideas Happen campaign, Austin is the most entrepreneurial city in the country, receiving a score of 95 out of 100.
The FBI yesterday seized a pair of UK servers used by Indymedia, the independent newsgathering collective, after serving a subpoena in the US on Indymedia’s hosting firm, Rackspace. Why or how remains unclear.
A Canadian company has bought ServerBeach, a spin-off of Rackspace Managed Hosting, for $7.5 million in cash and other services.
Vancouver-based Peer 1 Network Enterprises Inc. (TSX VENTURE: PIX) on Tuesday said that its wholly owned subsidiary P1 Acquisition Ltd. has agreed to acquire all of the assets of ServerBeach Ltd. in San Antonio.
Mary Poppins was wrong. “A spoonful of sugar” doesn’t cut it anymore. In a diet-obsessed culture, many Americans are going sour on sugar.
Hundreds of airline passengers suffered disruption to their travel plans when a major regional airport was shut down for an hour after a humming and vibrating adult sex toy was mistaken for a bomb.
After a long night at work as a radio DJ, Junko Suzuki likes to snuggle at bedtime — and she says she’s found the perfect partner: a man-shaped pillow.
iPod Agent currently does the following:
The “Brilliant” campaign employs the services of two somewhat quirky Guinness brewmasters who go so far as to compare GDIB to other life-altering inventions such as sliced bread. Thanks to a specialized production technique using vintage photographic images, modern day two-dimensional photography and Brilliant animation of course, our intrepid brewmasters interact with each other in a lifelike manner that is as unique as the black stuff itself, complete with Irish accents!
Private screening of the newest Guinness TV spot, “Brilliant”
Rackspace Managed Hosting’s revenues for the first half of 2004 grew 55 percent compared to the first half of 2003.
Exclusive Interview with Mr. Patrick Condon,One of the founders of Rackspace Managed Hosting. He shared with us his key success and his best experience for leading Rackspace to become the fastest-growing managed hosting specialist.
Patrick Condon, One of the founders of Rackspace Managed Hosting
Denver-based Qwest Communications has subleased out a large chunk of its space in Heritage Business Park IV in Grapevine to a San Antonio-based company.
Security vulnerabilities have been found in WordPress, the popular PHP-based open source blogging application. Some scripts in WordPress are not properly validated, leaving the program open to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks in which third parties could insert content into a WordPress-driven site.
Cereal is about to get a lot healthier. On Thursday, General Mills, the nation’s No. 2 cereal maker, will announce plans to convert all its cereals — including Trix, Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms — into whole grain products.
Today’s twentysomethings won’t have the lives their parents had. And that’s OK by them.
Eight months later, Janet Jackson’s infamous performance during the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show remains the most replayed moment in TiVo history, a representative for the digital video recording company said.
I had a front row seat for the Internet Bubble, because I worked at Yahoo during 1998 and 1999. One day, when the stock was trading around $200, I sat down and calculated what I thought the price should be. The answer I got was $12. I went to the next cubicle and told my friend Trevor. “Twelve!” he said. He tried to sound indignant, but he didn’t quite manage it. He knew as well as I did that our valuation was crazy.
A major breakdown in Southern California’s air traffic control system last week was partly due to a “design anomaly” in the way Microsoft Windows servers were integrated into the system, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
Coming to cash registers near you: new $50 bills sporting splashes of red, blue and yellow.
The first prescription treatment for women with a flagging libido could enter the market next year, and a second, related product might not be far behind.
We learn that the never-married Davis (Alice), 78, is happily retired and living in a Christian community in San Antonio, where she sings in her church’s choir, watches baseball on TV, plays computer games and takes frequent naps.
With competitive prices on everyday goods, high-quality items and brand-name products, Costco attracts bigger spenders and bigger revenue per warehouse than Wal-Mart’s competing Sam’s Club, which it has battled for its 21 years. All the while, Costco has stayed true to a set of corporate mores that smack of times gone by.
Yet another company threatens the world’s short supply of man-made Swarovski crystals by hot gluing them to a bit of consumer electronics. Crystal Mini claims “One crystal per song,” as their slogan, which isn’t bad as these things go, I guess. It’s certainly better than “Chafe Differently,” or “Ice Ice iPod.”
Students reprimanded for lewd behavior, making unapproved improvements.
Stripper pole in JU dorm draws crowd
(Thanks Tito)
H-E-B has developed a milk product that has 60 percent less sugar, 35 percent more calcium and 75 percent more protein than traditional milk. It has also been enhanced with vitamins A and D and it is lactose free. However, it only has four grams of carbs.
The maker of Twinkies, Ring Dings and Wonder Bread has gone stale.
Top 10 things to put in your microwave include a few bodily fluids and furry hald-dead critters.
San Antonio-based Rackspace Managed Hosting has developed a new offering from its Intensive Hosting division designed specifically for application service providers (ASPs).
At a time when more people are cured of cancer than ever before, fewer doctors seem willing to say so. They call the cancer undetectable, or in remission. They tell patients they can quit seeing cancer specialists. They quote statistics and say chances are slim that the disease will come back.
San Antonio-based Rackspace Managed Hosting has signed a multiyear agreement with EMI Music North America that will allow Rackspace to support the company’s Blue Note, Capitol Records and Virgin Records Web sites.
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