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SAN ANTONIO — In 2008, after 15 years as the Alamo City’s largest corporate resident, AT& T announced it was moving its headquarters to Dallas — and taking 700 executives along with it. In the past, that San Antonio’s first Fortune 500 company had outgrown its home might have seemed an insurmountable blow for this city with a pre-existing inferiority complex. But these days, it is not easy to shake the city’s confidence.

In the last decade, companies have flocked to San Antonio, making it an economic center rivaling Houston and Dallas. With that business expansion has come energetic population growth: according to United States Census numbers, in the past 10 years, San Antonio has added more people within its...

Rackspace Hosting Inc. co-founder Graham Weston has turned the 11th floor of his downtown office building into a collaborative workspace for information technology professionals.
Geekdom, as it is called, is designed to be a place where entrepreneurs, technologists, software developers and other assorted techno-geeks can come together in a mutally reinforcing environment to build businesses and collaborate on various projects.
Nick Longo, director of Geekdom, says the concept is a twist on co-location work facilities found in other major cities. Instead of the emphasis being on the work space and the rental income it generates, Geekdom is focused on the ...

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The Milken Institute ranked San Antonio No. 1 on its annual list of Best Performing Cities Index.
The Alamo City topped the list of 200 large metros, ranked on economic growth and prosperity. The 2011 index takes into account jobs, wages and technology performance.
San Antonio jumped 13 places to land the top spot on the Milken report. The realignment of missions at San Antonio’s military bases along with $3.4 billion in related base construction contributed significantly to the area’s economy. In addition, advances in drilling techniques have made exploration in the Eagle Ford shale formation more attractive to oil and gas companies.
Housing prices fell less than 5 percent from the beginning of the...

The San Antonio InnoTech Trade show is looking for the top IT executives to be honored at this year’s event set for April 5 at the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center.
If you know of someone that deserves a nomination for their work in the industry and the community, please click this link. This year, InnoTech will recognize both a corporate IT Executive of the Year and a Public Sector IT Executive of the Year. Deadline for submitting applications is March 1.
Credit should be given to InnoTech for their role in recognizing the many IT leaders in San Antonio in both the public and private sector. Having witnessed the Austin InnoTech awards program for several years, I can attest to the “buzz” that this event...

DOHA (Reuters) - Hackers are bombarding the world's computer controlled energy sector, conducting industrial espionage and threatening potential global havoc through oil supply disruption.
Oil company executives warned that attacks were becoming more frequent and more carefully planned.
"If anybody gets into the area where you can control opening and closing of valves, or release valves, you can imagine what happens," said Ludolf Luehmann, an IT manager at Shell Europe's biggest company .
"It will cost lives and it will cost production, it will cost money, cause fires and cause loss of containment, environmental damage - huge, huge damage," he told the World Petroleum Congress in Doha.
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If you work in IT or have a background in information assurance, I hope you will check out the Alamo chapter of AFCEA two-day job fair Dec. 14-15. The event is part of a three day ACE conference at the Westin La Cantera.
Representatives from more than 25 technical firms and training institutions will have booths. The free event starts at 4:30 p.m. and ends at 7:30 p.m. on Dec 14. Col. (Ret.) David Patrick, will serve as the keynote speaker for the first day of the job fair. Patrick helps military vets as the Texas career transition coordination for the Military Officers Association of America.
The job fair starts at 7:30 a.m. and ends at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 15. Matt Genovese, the chief executive officer,...

Gen. William Shelton, commander, Air Force Space Command, is set to speak Dec. 15 as the keynote luncheon speaker for the Second Annual AFCEA Alamo ACE conference at the La Cantera Resort, Dec. 15 at 11 a.m.

“We have worked to bring together many of our military leadership in information assurance, military intelligence and medical information technology for this event,” Gary Cain, the Alamo AFCEA vice president in charge of the four day event. “We hope that our local military leaders will allow their subordinates time off to hear some of our senior military and civilian leaders speak on topics that impact their mission.”

Cain added that the event organizers added new focus on medical IT and C2/ISR for this...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Dec. 5, 2011—GlobalSCAPE, Inc. (NYSE Amex: GSB), a leading developer of secure information exchange solutions for businesses and consumers, today announced that the company has expanded its capabilities by acquiring privately-held, Seattle-based mobile file sharing innovator TappIn, Inc., formerly known as HomePipe Networks, Inc.
Founded in 2009, TappIn allows users to instantly access and securely share all files stored on an office or home computer from any web browser and all popular mobile devices, including Apple iPhone® and iPad®, Google® Android™ and Windows® Phone. The service will be known as TappIn™ by GlobalSCAPE®, offering its worldwide customer base an easy, secure method to access...