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| Meet Charlie, the Service that Helps You Rock Your Next Meeting | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 11:31 PM | Emily Price |
| AUSTIN — If you attend a lot of meetings, you often might not know much about your fellow participants. Enter Charlie, a new service designed to help you better prep for meetings, and know more about with whom you’re chatting on your next conference call. A 2013 SXSW Accelerator finalist, the app pulls in information about people in your meeting as well as details about what you and that person have in common.
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| Hands on With Leap Motion's Controller | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 11:04 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| AUSTIN — The future of desktop computing is here. Leap Motion's powerful controller, which lets you control 8 cubic feet of virtual space in front of your computer, is, as promised, impressive. I took it for a test drive at South by Southwest 2013 and can tell you, it feels like the real deal. I've seen photos and videos of the device before, but didn't realize how small it was until I tried it out for myself.
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| Taxi App's 'Closed Door Policy' Helps Female Passengers Feel Safe | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 8:05 PM | Anita Li |
| To help its female passengers feel a little safer during late-night cab rides home, one taxi app has launched a "Closed Door Policy," just in time for International Women's Day. GetTaxi, a free app that lets users order a taxi directly from a smartphone, now requires its drivers to wait until female customers safely enter their destination — and shut the door — before leaving.
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| Self-Healing Asphalt Could Change Your Driving Experience | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 6:29 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Could pot holes go the way of the Ford Pinto? Delft University of Technology engineering professor Erik Schlangen may have created a way to make that happen. Schlangen has invented self-healing asphalt, a material that could make roads safer and the dreaded "construction season" a thing of the past.
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| 45 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 5:18 PM | Elisha Hartwig |
| This week has been one for the books. From the unveiling of Facebook's completely redesigned newsfeed to Paul Rand's 12-hour filibuster, it would be almost impossible to stay caught up with all of this week's news. On top of that, the South by Southwest conference in Austin got underway on Friday. If you're interested in staying current with the trending topics, you can check out the Mashable SXSW Trendspotter powered by Topsy.
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| Younity Makes All Your Files Available Everywhere You Need Them | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 3:48 PM | Emily Price |
| AUSTIN — We’ve all been there: You get to the office only to realize you left the document you were working on all night at home. Enter Younity, a service that attempts to make all of your files available on all your devices whenever you want them, with no need to intentionally sync those files to make them available.
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| Top 10 Tech This Week | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 3:25 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Mobile World Congress in Barcelona brought a flurry of new mobile launches, but this week in tech has been just as exciting. There was no big gadget announcement, but a lot of other exciting news. Perhaps the biggest was the launch of a new Ferrari, the LaFerrari, a hybrid super car that goes from 0 to 60 MPH in just 3 seconds and reaches 205 MPH.
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| Russian Satellite Hit by Debris from Chinese Anti-Satellite Test | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 1:37 PM | Space.com |
| A small Russian spacecraft in orbit appears to have been struck by Chinese space junk from a 2007 anti-satellite test, likely damaging the Russian craft, possibly severely, SPACE.com has learned. The space collision appears to have occurred on Jan.
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| Need Funding? Pass Shaq Your 15-Second Startup Pitch on Tout | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 11:07 AM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| AUSTIN — "I'm a geek, I'm a nerd and I'm proud to say it," former basketball star Shaquille O'Neal tells Mashable by phone in Atlanta, taking a break from packing for his business trip to South by Southwest Interactive. Yes, a business trip.
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