Location New GPS Satellites Will Help Apps Better Pinpoint Your Location Location-based applications are all the rage right now, but anyone who uses them knows that current GPS technology only allows for a certain amount of accuracy. If you pull up Foursquare, Gowalla or any other social check-in app while in a dense business area, chances are the place you're looking for is not at the top of the list. This is because… Chris Cameron View comments
Analysis iPad: $1 Billion Later, What Do You Think of It Now? The iPad has passed $1 billion in sales, according to simple multiplication of the company's 2 million announced-sales of the product after a mere two months of availability. Earlier this month, Yankee Group analyst Carl Howe predicted that the iPad would become the fastest consumer product in history to hit the $1 billion mark. While that's a… Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
RWW Real-Time Web Summit, NYC 2010 Win 5 Free Tickets to the Real-Time Web Summit, New York City, June 11 What if Chris Dixon and John Borthwick were sitting at the same table as you, ready to have a real conversation about what's next for the real-time Web? Would you like to sit across from Marshall Kirkpatrick and Richard MacManus and have a straight-shooting conversation about real-time online media? If so, then the ReadWriteWeb Real-Time Web… Elyssa Pallai View comments
Features The Coming Data Explosion One of the key aspects of the emerging Internet of Things - where real-world objects are connected to the Internet - is the massive amount of new data on the Web that will result. As more and more "things" in the world are connected to the Internet, it follows that more data will be uploaded to and downloaded from the cloud. And this is in addition… Mobile Richard MacManus View comments
Google Use Google Street View Maps & Serve More Time The state legislature in the U.S. state of Louisiana has passed a law adding extra time for committing a crime with an online map. Senate Bill 151 adds at least one year to the sentence of any criminal found guilty of using an "Internet, virtual, street-level map" like Google Maps with Street View to commit a crime. "'Internet, virtual… Curt Hopkins View comments