Guest When Mobile, Location and Content Converge - I'll Have a Guinness It's almost a decade ago now that the 2002 film Minority Report showed the moral majority what the future will look like in 2054 when mobility, geo-location and targeted content technologies merge. While the movie looks at various elements of the digital future, the biggest 'ah ha' moment for both privacy advocates and marketers alike happens… Ian Truscott View comments
Security Anonymous Hacks Stratfor A rogue group of malicious hackers penetrated the database of U.S. think tank Stratfor over the Christmas holiday weekend and stole thousands of credit card files. Those credit cards were then subsequently used to make online payments to a variety of charitable organizations. Modern day digital Robin Hood? Think again. The hack was perpetrated… Dan Rowinski View comments
News Boxee To Drop Support for Windows, Macs, and Linux The Boxee folks have posted an update today about the 1.5 beta release. After the details of the release's UI enhancements, the Boxee team has also let slip that the 1.5 release will be the last one for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. According to the post, the team has been able to bring "Boxee for Computers to about 85% of the Boxee Box in terms of… Joe Brockmeier View comments
2011 Redux New Wikipedia Layer on Geoloqi Gives You Vision Beyond the Greek Gods Last night I rode my wife's bike through North East Portland, Oregon and my new favorite iPhone app purred in my pocket with push notifications each time I passed through a new little neighborhood. "King is a neighborhood bounded by MLK and the river..." it whispered (in text). "Vernon is a traditionally working class neighborhood now subject… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
2011 in Review > Best of 2011 Top 10 Enterprise Cloud Apps and Services of 2011 It seems like just like summer, Bill Murray used to sing, and that's because it was. This year, for the first time, ReadWriteWeb expanded its coverage of the technologies that change our world through the Web, with new emphasis on cloud-based services to consumers and cloud technologies for businesses. Cloud services are more than just hosts… Scott M. Fulton View comments