If you haven’t heard of Groupon you are likely over 35, married or male. Groupon is a really cool idea. Each day the site makes a single group offer available. What sort of deals can you get? Pretty standard stuff such as:

$3 for a bagel that would normally cost you $8
$15 for cupcakes that would [...]

We thought it might make sense to create a distinct home for our free barcode scanning libraries and thought http://www.freebarcodescanner.com would work. If you need a scanning library for your mobile app and you don’t have a lot of money, consider using our free library. We use it for [...]

We have been trying to figure out how to best accommodate our recent growth. Our old NOC could only seat 12 engineers at a time and was getting a little too loud. Even with our engineers in the field working on projects and installations we need more seats during our peak support hours. After several [...]

The latest member of Architel Labs is a startup called TapMap. Headed by Philip McNamara, the company is helping to organize retail inventory and pricing in Europe. Working hand-in-hand with our ShopSavvy team, Philip is quickly becoming the largest aggregator of product pricing and inventory data in the European Union. Look for more information about the company in [...]

SevenLayer – Intelligence Voice Cloud

Or at least that is what the folks atSevenLayer think. SevenLayer is latest company to be incubated inArchitel Labs. Headed by Jeff Rothell, the company delivers cloud based voice applications to small and medium sized companies. Prior to co-founding Sevenlayer, Jeff built two multi-million dollar telecommunication companies. From 1999 to 2002 [...]

In 2008 Rylan Barnes introduced himself to me at one of our startup happy hour events. He had a great idea for a comparison shopping application he called GoCart. The idea was simple, turn your cell phone into a barcode scanner. Shortly after we teamed up the application won Google’s Android Developer Challenge and became [...]

Architel Labs was launched in 2005 to commercialize technology created and/or acquired by Architel. Over the past decade Architel has acquired several companies including MightyView (from Lockheed Martin), AtlasTG (a publicly traded company, BLive (a remote desktop company), ART (a regional managed service provider). From these acquisitions Architel has secured valuable intellectual property and software related to network and [...]

Scott Ryan and I co-founded Architel in 2001. Today it is one of the largest managed service providers in North Texas. Serving more than 10,000 users the company is located in the Dallas INFOMART. We started the company because we believed the traditional “break-fix” approach to IT support was broken. By charging by the hour, IT [...]

If you have ever been in a hang glider you know about ‘Negative Target Acquisition’. The concept is pretty simple, if you focus on the obstacles you are more likely to hit them. Hang gliding instructors will tell you, “Don’t focus on the power lines or the trees, instead focus on the path.” This weekend [...]