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Photos from Prometheus Awards: Dwolla, Book Hatchery and more
The Technology Association of Iowa released photos today from last Thursday’s 2011 Prometheus Awards, the event which honors the top companies and individuals in technology from across the state in the last year. To see this year’s full list of winners, see our post: “Prometheus Awards recognize Iowa’s top tech companies.” The following are select…
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Jesse Andersen’s Push Actions app remotely controls Android devices
Inspired by Android’s support for voice control, Jesse Andersen wanted to take the functionality of voice commands and fuse it with a user-friendly way to take advantage of the feature. His solution: Push Actions. Push Actions is an application supported by Android OS that acts as the “voice” in the voice command process. Instead of…
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Persistence rewarded as Jonathan George gets Boxcar on track
A startup with ties to Wichita, Kan. received a great round of press at the close of March. Boxcar, a notification dashboard previously only found on iOS devices and the web, was released as an app for Mac. On the day of the release, March 31, Boxcar was covered by TechCrunch, Read Write Web, Business…
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Annual report revised
Last November we announced that we’d be putting together the inaugural Silicon Prairie Annual Report to “serve as a recorded benchmark for our entrepreneurial ecosystem for 2010 as well as an annual measurement of our progress in the future.” We undertook this project with the best of intentions, planning to tabulate analytical information on the…