Facebook Facebook Read Users' Text Messages Update: Facebook is denying claims raised by a British newspaper that reported it had read text messages of people who downloaded the Facebook app to their smartphones. The London Sunday Times is reporting that Facebook read text messages of users who downloaded the social network's smartphone app. The story is behind a paywall, but Fox News… Social Dave Copeland View comments
Analysis How Two Startups Use Games to Beat the Developer Crunch "You can't judge if someone is one of the best programmers in the country in 1 minute, but it turns out you can in 5 minutes." Good software developers are hard to find. Startups are all about finding creative solutions to common problems - so why not this one too? Two startups that have found creative and interesting ways to solve their… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Analysis When Bots Go Mad There may or may not be robots that are truly "good" someday, but there will probably be bad robots, if there aren't already. If not bad robots, then bad robot situations. You can catch a taste of the feeling of what might go wrong in the robot pricing wars that elevate the cost of certain used books on Amazon into millions of dollars. For… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Weekly Wrap-up: Productivity Tips for Evernote Joe Brockmeier shares his strategies for getting the most out of Evernote. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up. After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web - Location, App Stores and Real-Time Web - plus highlights from some of our six channels. Read on… Robyn Tippins View comments
Conferences What Security, Where? Keys to the RSA Conference The cloud is huge. Client access devices are small, and they're everywhere. Personal computers are virtual. Access to all of these resources is continual. Control over the world's single most precious information resource - identity - has become a jump ball. Next week, ReadWriteWeb will be covering the annual RSA security conference in San… Enterprise Scott M. Fulton View comments