Analysis How IT Can Empower Your Employees What do smartphones, tablets, and self-service business information tools have in common? All three are on high-growth trajectories for enterprise adoption. In a new report issued last week by Forrester Research called called TechRadar For Enterprise Architecture Professionals: Technologies For Empowered Employees, Q4 2011, it shows how these and… Enterprise David Strom View comments
E-Books Findings.com Turns Marginalia into Discovery Engines Findings.com is a new service that gives users a way to highlight and save quotes from digital texts and e-books, and send that information into a central, socially oriented news feed. The idea came about four years ago, when writer Steven Johnson wondered what it would be like to capture what someone was reading. Finding and capturing quotes is… Social Alicia Eler View comments
Google Why Google Is Talking Up Google Plus Engagement At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco last week, Google held a special press roundtable with Google co-founder Sergey Brin and SVP of Engineering for Google Plus Vic Gundotra. As he had been earlier in the day, Gundotra was relentlessly upbeat about the performance of Google Plus. Yet there continues to be a frustrating lack of specifics from… Social Richard MacManus View comments
News One of World's Top UX Designers Leaves Google to Join Startup Quora Elizabeth Windram Laraki has worked for more than 6 years as the lead designer first at Google Maps and then at YouTube but tonight announced on Twitter that she's left Google and joined high-profile Q&A startup Quora. Her title is now Product Designer. Quora is led by a team of very early Facebook employees, particularly former Facebook CTO Adam… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
RIM RWW's Panel of Esteemed Grown-ups: The Prognosis for BlackBerry Now that we've seen Research In Motion's vision for a vivid, rich mobile operating system for some kind of device -- probably a PlayBook, maybe a phone or two -- does BlackBerry have a chance by 2013 to regain the level of relevance it had in 2009? ReadWriteWeb talks at length with the world's best telecom and mobile platform analysts (pictured… Mobile Scott M. Fulton View comments