Tagged: Announcements

RWW Founder Richard MacManus Starts His Next Chapter

Last night, which was today, New Zealand time, Richard MacManus announced his departure from ReadWriteWeb. He was our founder, navigator, and editor-in-chief, and we will miss him.

ReadWrite Editors comments

Amazon

Get Ready For The Madness: Next Month's Schedule of New Mobile Device Announcements

During any given year, new mobile devices are announced and released like clockwork. The Consumer Electronics Show, Mobile World Congress and other large conference herald the first round. The second round comes as the holiday shopping season approaches. Spurred by Apple’s expected announcement of the new iPhone on Sept. 12, announcement of new…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Announcements

ICANN Reveals New Top-Level Domain Applicants

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has revealed the list of applicants applying for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) that will redefine how the world navigates the Internet. In total, there are 1,930 applicants, with many new domains being sought by more than one applicant. By the beginning of 2013, Internet…

Dan Rowinski comments

Announcements

New Prize for Bio-Sensors Announced by X Prize Foundation

Today the X Prize Foundation announced a $2.25 million Nokia Sensing X Challenge to produce a new generation of health care and biometric sensors. This adds a new health-related prize to their roster of other scientific challenges, including a $10 million prize to produce a wireless health monitor like the Star Trek Tricorder, another $10 million…

David Strom comments

Announcements

Blowing the Cloud Wide Open: Box.net to Begin Negotiable Enterprise Licenses

The generally accepted definition of "cloud services" - even the one prescribed by the U.S. Government (PDF available here) - includes the existence of metered or measured service - usually a flat rate that scales along with the service consumed. Now one of the cloud's most prominent competitors is opening up its enterprise license…

Scott M. Fulton comments

Announcements

Oracle Bets Big on Social Message Management, Acquires Vitrue

There's a belief (which, for some, has metastasized into a desperate hope) that how you say something online, not so much what you say, directly translates to whether you'll read it. Today, a corporation that's notorious for never changing the way it says anything, announced it's acquiring a company whose business is message adjustment for brands…

Scott M. Fulton comments

Announcements

Salesforce's Chatter Elbows Microsoft's Skype Out of the Enterprise

Salesforce users are starting to understand that Chatter, the messaging and transactions system for the entire Force.com platform, is not a chat tool. Rather, it's a communications stream that substitutes for most internal email. Why isn't it a chat tool, you ask? The only plausible answer - that Salesforce simply hasn't plugged in…

Scott M. Fulton comments

Announcements

Salesforce Builds a Cloud-based Apps Market Just for Governments

Public sector technology workers can only look with envy on what Salesforce and its Force.com apps have been able to achieve in commercial enterprises. Even as more and more enterprises eagerly move to the new social apps model, public sector IT functions remain solidly stuck in the 20th century, if not the 19th. Salesforce is hoping…

Scott M. Fulton comments

Announcements

Kaazing Launches WebSocket Platform in Amazon's EC2 Cloud

It's the stateful communications protocol that HTTP lacked from the very beginning, and now it's a key component of the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox. The HTML5 debate has cast WebSocket as a future component of every Web browser and every real-time Web app. Now its principal architects at Kaazing are changing the…

Scott M. Fulton comments

Announcements

Yammer Acquires OneDrum.com

Corporate microblogging and enterprise social networking tool Yammer has taken some of its latest investment funding and made its first acquisition today: a small British software engineering firm called oneDrum. The idea is to extend its features to the desktop, improve collaboration and give Google Docs a bit of a competitive push too.

David Strom comments

Follow us:

ReadWrite

Share on:

RWW Founder Richard MacManus Starts His Next Chapter

Get Ready For The Madness: Next Month's Schedule of New Mobile Device Announcements

ICANN Reveals New Top-Level Domain Applicants

New Prize for Bio-Sensors Announced by X Prize Foundation

Blowing the Cloud Wide Open: Box.net to Begin Negotiable Enterprise Licenses

Oracle Bets Big on Social Message Management, Acquires Vitrue

Salesforce's Chatter Elbows Microsoft's Skype Out of the Enterprise

Salesforce Builds a Cloud-based Apps Market Just for Governments

Kaazing Launches WebSocket Platform in Amazon's EC2 Cloud

Yammer Acquires OneDrum.com