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By Noah Garrett, special to Local Tech Wire DURHAM, N.C. – “Sales cures all,” the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks said on Thursday. Mark Cuban, the outspoken NBA owner and owner of HDNet, laid out his rules for business and offered unique advice to Triangle entrepreneurs and investors during his presentation at LTW’s Executive Exchange event at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham. First of all, boring is not the word for this discussion. After a slight delay in the morning, Cuban arrived in full force to talk with folks and share his life and business experiences with...

Noah Garrett, special to Local Tech Wire DURHAM, N.C. – Let the fireworks begin! Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban along with an accomplished panel of investors and technology leaders shared their experience on free enterprise, business, entrepreneurship, investing, and how to build a successful business during Local Tech Wire’s Executive Exchange event on Thursday at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham. The panel led by Mitch Mumma of Intersouth Partners featured a diverse group that included Rich Lee, CEO of Hosted Solutions; Aaron Houghton co-founder of iContact; Mike Doernberg of ReverbNation, and Cuban, who also owns HDNet and is...

Editor’s note: STEM News is provided on Local Tech Wire through a collaborative effort with the NC STEM Community Collaborative, MCNC, and the North Carolina Science, Mathematics, and Technology Center (SMT Center). To submit story ideas, please email LTW Editor Rick Smith rsmith@wral.com or Noah Garrett noah@thinkngc.com.) By Noah Garrett, LTW/STEM News Editor OTTAWA, Ontario – Take your time reading this. That’s the point. Not all education can be performed online; sometimes it is important to turn off the computer and pick up a book, says author and IBMer John Miedema. Today’s world moves at a much faster pace,...

By Noah Garrett, Innovation Exchange Editor’s note: The "Innovation Exchange," a regular feature in Local Tech Wire, is written by Noah Garrett, former director of communications for the North Carolina Technology Association, a creative spirit, from writing music to news stories, and now owner and operator of The focus of the Innovation Exchange is just that creating a Web community through which people can exchange ideas and foster creativity. You can reach Noah directly at noah@thinkngc.com. CHARLESTON, S.C. – I wonder what would have been without Vista? As I’m installing the trial version of Windows 7 Ultimate edition set...

“Yap is good,” says the Charlotte-based company’s chief operating officer and co-founder. Yap provides voice-to-text conversion for mobile phones, using an advanced form of speech recognition. Users can say anything they want, and the platform will send back a textual representation. Two brothers, Igor and Victor Jablokov, were inspired to create the service after hearing about their kid sister texting on her phone while driving (66 percent of teens do this). The team behind the service has also worked on Apple’s iPod, Honda’s navigational systems and IBM’s ViaVoice. Victor has an extensive career with more than eight years of...

If you have a subscription to Epic Games’ original "Gears of War" and are a frequent online player, you probably already know access online has been locked out for almost a week. An Epic executive apologized Tuesday for the downtime and emphatically said it is not a problem related to digital rights management (DRM), but a public key certificate issue. Epic founder and vice president Mark Rein explained that the mistake was made in a complicated certificate process in which all certificates expired in a way that caused the game to fail. Added Rein, “This was our first game...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which in its current House version has a price tag of $825 billion, carries plenty of provisions that will give a boost to the technology industry and create some new opportunities – but will it work? The recovery package carries a $10 billion investment in scientific research, including investments at the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The package also includes nearly $40 billion in investments in America’s IT network infrastructure (including broadband, health IT and a smarter energy grid). The tech requests could result in...