News EU Commissioner Reding Misquoted on Data Protection Reform The Associated Press this afternoon quoted European Commission Vice President Viviane Reding as stating that the E.U. government should not only federalize its approach to granting safe harbor for social networks, but essentially should hold all Internet service providers on the continent, including social networks, responsible for informing… Enterprise Scott M. Fulton View comments
International WikiLeaks Operations Still Handicapped One year ago today, the slow leak of over 250,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks began. It would be the biggest exposure of such information in recorded history, and the event would trigger both a massive wave of support for the organization and an unprecedented backlash that has included governments, financial institutions and… John Paul Titlow View comments
Amazon Black Friday Kindle Sales Up 400% Amazon's Kindle sales on Black Friday were up 400% over last year, according to the company. The Kindle Fire tablet is now the bestselling item on Amazon.com. Prior to its release, Amazon ordered 5 million Kindle Fires to meet demand. Amazon also refreshed the e-ink Kindle line this year, introducing a touchscreen version. Amazon is usually… Jon Mitchell View comments
2011 in Review Top 10 Social Web Products of 2011 Every year at this time, ReadWriteWeb picks out the best of the Web over the past calendar year. Our annual Best Of series will be even bigger and better than ever in 2011! We have no less than ten themed 'top 10' lists coming your way over the following four weeks before Christmas, each prepared by a different member of our writing team. We'll… Social Richard MacManus View comments
News New ARM Dev Toolkit for Android Addresses Platform 'Hodgepodge' There are too many simultaneous permutations of almost the same hardware, forcing developers to build a plethora of native code implementations of the same software, all of which are nearly impossible to keep aligned with one another. No, that's not a complaint about Android. That's a complaint by many Android developers about building for ARM… Hack Scott M. Fulton View comments