Dashwire, Ground Truth, Swype Win Awards

Seattle-area mobile startups Dashwire, Ground Truth, and Swype have been named to FierceWireless’s Fierce 15 list. The 2010 awards recognize innovation and intelligence in emerging companies in the wireless sector (follow the link above to read the FierceWireless writeups of each company). Dashwire makes software to sync people’s phones with the Web and help them share digital media. Ground Truth provides data and analysis on how consumers use the Web on mobile devices. And Swype has developed a new kind of text-input technology for touchscreen devices that could change the way people enter information on the go.

Author: Gregory T. Huang

Greg is a veteran journalist who has covered a wide range of science, technology, and business. As former editor in chief, he overaw daily news, features, and events across Xconomy's national network. Before joining Xconomy, he was a features editor at New Scientist magazine, where he edited and wrote articles on physics, technology, and neuroscience. Previously he was senior writer at Technology Review, where he reported on emerging technologies, R&D, and advances in computing, robotics, and applied physics. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Nature, and The Atlantic Monthly’s website. He was named a New York Times professional fellow in 2003. Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.