Category Archives: Birmingham

TechJournal South, the “business publication for the New South economy,” honored Susan Matlock, CEO of the recently opened Innovation Depot, along with the president of the Technology Association of Georgia and 23 others with the distinction of influencing what was going on in the ever changing Southeastern U.S. technology sector in their November print edition.

Lucky for us, they’ve posted the write-up on their website as well.

You can also check out this audio interview with Matlock done in September by one of the tenants at the Depot, PointClear Solutions, courtesy of ClearCast, their blog.

UPDATE: 9/15/2014 – the links have been removed from this post to the write-up as the site in question has been identified as suspicious by search engines.

Word about the city’s purchase of 15,000 XO laptops, reiterated during the mayor’s comments this morning, has spread across the blogosphere; everyone seems to have an opinion.

Here are just a few of them, some coming after this morning’s announcement during the weekly city council meeting:

Happy New Year, Birmingham – Thomason Tracts

Alabama Schools to be First in US to Get XO Laptop – Slashdot

Birmingham, Alabama schools to get 15,000 XO Laptops –  Gadgetell

Standing Corrected (I XOpe) on Birmingham’s Laptop Computers – Musings on Birmingham

Birmingham Alabama gets 15,000 XO laptops  – OPLC.TV

Birmingham, Alabama to Get 15,000 XO Laptops – The Linux Loop