Category: Technology

High Speed Chase

Austin fiber showdown

Austin, Texas is already famous. It is home to the major multimedia festival South by Southwest, a great music and arts scene, and fabulous queso. And now that Google and AT&T have decided to go head-to-head to deliver Austin super-duper fast Internet connectivity, it might be time to change the slogan “Keep Austin Weird” to […]

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Responsive Design

All Platforms, All Users

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that the future of computing is moving from one type of screen – traditional computer monitors – to many types of screens with a plethora of different sizes and resolutions. Smartphone and tablet sales are outpacing PCs, and innovative web-browsing technologies, like Google Glass and the iWatch, appear to be on […]

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Digital House Hunt

HUDHomeStore goes mobile

The Internet has become an irreplaceable tool for today’s connected home shopper. The web has opened a whole new world of home buying possibilities for consumers and real estate professionals. Once upon a time, people turned first to newspapers for home sales advertisements. Nowadays, house hunters rely almost entirely on digital channels. A recent study […]

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Asus Fonepad & Padfone

Tablet + phone

Is it a tablet, is it a phone? Why not two in one? Asus keeps coming up with very interesting technology and based on their latest release, one could say that they’re having a good time experimenting with the industry’s most popular mobile devices: the smartphone and the tablet. At the Mobile World Congress they […]

Walter Cronkite tours a home of the 'future.'

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The Future Is Now

According to Walter Cronkite

Editors’ note: Geneva Ives is the marketing writer for Point2, a leading provider of online marketing solutions for real estate professionals, including custom websites, syndication tools and prospecting utilities. She will be contributing technology-oriented real estate interest posts to The Balance Sheet. It’s no secret that the team at Point2 is a little home obsessed. […]

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Mobile Goes Global

2013 Mobile World Congress

Europe hosts the world’s premiere mobile event, a supersized tech fair that recently brought together over 72,000 participants from more than 220 countries and over 1,700 companies. Held this year in Barcelona, the Mobile World Congress is where the latest innovations in the mobile ecosystem are revealed, with emphasis on the technology behind the scenes […]

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Samsung Unpacked

New Smarrtphone Launch

Samsung has announced that it is Ready 4 the show, inviting fans on March 14th to New York for a special event where the newest device from the South Korean company will stand in the spotlight. The event will be live streamed on YouTube, announcing the next Galaxy. The star will be the Galaxy S […]

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Interest in Pinterest

Social media strategy

As a property manager, it may become prudent to ask yourself: Are you getting the most out of Pinterest? This new social media tool has skyrocketed in popularity over the last year, and owners and operators across the country are finding it is a great way to promote their communities. In a recent webinar called […]

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Password Fast Forward

What does the future hold?

These days, traditional passwords are suspect in their ability to handle the safety of our valuable online data. This isn’t a new problem. Nearly a decade ago, in 2004, Bill Gates was predicting the demise of the alpha-numeric password, calling it a weak spot in security and identity authentication. He was one of the first […]

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Wearable technology

The next big thing?

Ready for a tiny wearable phone? How about augmented reality glasses that feed you information about whatever catches your eye? We’re on the cusp of an era when wearables, like glasses and watches, will replace the functions of the world’s most popular gadget – your smartphone. Apple has been experimenting with the iWatch, a device […]

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Coming Attractions

Consumer tech in 2013

We’re already well into the new year, but it’s not too late – or early – to anticipate some of the consumer tech releases that will be highly anticipated this year. Last month we learned that the Blackberry 10 won’t be available to U.S. consumers until sometime next month. Here are a few other products […]

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Anticipating Apple

What will 2013 bring?

After a stellar 2012, what does 2013 hold for Apple? Let’s have a look at the online speculation and buzz, and tell us your thoughts in the comments. Apple Radio One of the new products on this list is the “Apple Radio”. This will be a free service that would gain revenue through ads, as […]

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BlackBerry Buzz

RIM's new OS comes out Jan. 30

Once considered the go-to phone for the business elite, today BlackBerry struggles to stay above water in a marketplace dominated by iOS and Android operating systems. Three years ago, Research in Motion (RIM) held 50 percent of the smartphone market in the US; in September of 2011 there were eighty million worldwide subscribers to BlackBerry, […]

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Toys for Tenants

Tools for Automated Homes

Whoever said that practical toys couldn’t be fun had never heard of SmartThings. Tenants will soon have access to an undeniably practical, incredibly fun, and potentially life- and money-saving set of devices. Before the ink on the business plan has dried, the product has already taken off, blazing a trail in home automation that is […]

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A Paperless Reality

Roscoe Properties

It’s the time of year to make resolutions, and Steven Rea of Roscoe Properties tells us that the Austin, Texas property management firm has set some ambitious property management technology goals for 2013. “This is still very much an analog business,” observes Rea, who has been in the industry for ten years and worked his […]

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