So what's the next step, I asked? Do people start wearing biometric tokens that send signals to devices in the neighborhood, letting you know when you're in their vicinity so they can respond by tweeting you to please buy them?Sure, why not, comes the swift response from Salesforce.com CEO Marc...
The media and news industry, after 10 years of disruption and economic torture, finally thought that it had gotten a step ahead. Publishers were in on the ground floor when the tablet revolution started with products ready to go even before Steve Jobs introduced us to the original iPad. The...
ReadWriteWeb commenters continue to teach us lessons. Today's lesson is one of reasoned debate in the age of ad hominem attacks. This and more in today's Daily Wrap.Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked...
Last Wednesday, ReadWriteWeb published a legal analysis of the Stop Online Piracy Act and its Senate Counterpart, the PROTECT-IP bill. Our story prompted a spirited, logical, and largely rational debate between e-novel author Rowena Cherry, who supports the legislation, and TechDirt founder Michael Masnick, who opposes it.I've been on record...
A Boston-based company is creating a system to make the workforce more accountable and eliminate inefficiencies, starting with the restaurant industry. Objective Logistics works through a restaurant's point-of-sale system to create data points. These are fed into a cloud to make your waiter or waitress more accountable and make the...
According to water & stone, the "big three" open source CMSes from 2010 continue to dominate in 2011. WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla all topped the company's survey of open source CMSes, with WordPress "clearly outpacing" Drupal and Joomla. The survey started with 35 systems, which were narrowed down to 20...
With hundreds of add-on tools, Twitter certainly has plenty of ways you can analyze its data. I set out to find the best tools that I would recommend for you to track and compare your own Tweets, as well as examine the growth of followers and when you actually send...
Last month, Android's user experience lead, Matias Duarte, spoke to The Verge's Joshua Topolsky about the emerging design ethic for the mobile operating system, which Google hired him to help create. At that time, Duarte told Topolsky that there's a special difficulty in maintaining a single design ethic that must...
Boston-based health and fitness application RunKeeper made big news on Monday with $10 million in funding from a variety of venture capital companies. RunKeeper needs no introduction: it was one of the first health apps in the Apple App Store, has six million users and growing and has a CEO...
MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson used to be known as "MySpace Tom," because newly created Myspace accounts automatically included him as a default friend. Nowadays, he may as well be known as "Klout Tom," because of his usage of and influence on the leading social networks of this era: Facebook, Google+...
New research sponsored by Facebook out of a Milan computer science university shows that the old saw of there being six degrees of separation is no longer accurate. Call it 4.7 degrees instead. The researchers used a random sampling of half a million Facebook users who were active in May...
Advertising and data analysis firm Millennial Media issued its monthly mobile trends report this morning for October. It showed that the iPhone was the most used single device for the month with nearly 13% of all use across its network. While Android might dominate the ecosystem, the iPhone as a...
The Kindle Fire just hit stores, but rumors from the supply chain indicate that two new models are already in production for next year. DigiTimes says Amazon will launch an 8.9-inch model by the end of Q2 2012 and is also developing a 10.1-inch tablet. Already, 22% of prospective tablet...
I have written about this before on my Forbes column, but want to raise the question again: Are Business Schools Setting Up Entrepreneurs To Fail? The question has, over time, resulted in huge discussions, some defensive, some self-aware and some even solution oriented.Nonetheless, in the last couple of years, the...
Red Hat has just announced the availability of its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0 public beta. This release, open to all, brings an updated KVM hypervisor based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and scales to 128 logical CPUs and 2TB of memory for host machines. With the latest...
This is an Article Published by Quim Gil: How I became a Qt advocate Some personal news: I’m joining the Qt team to help making the Qt Project rock. A small change of floor at the Nokia offices in Sunnyvale (California) and barely a change to be noticed by my relatives and...
Today, personalized news app News360 made another leap from tablets and smartphones to the desktop. A new browser plugin called Periscope brings some of the service's news aggregation features to bigger screens and helps readers get deeper context and perspective on news stories. The plugin, which is now available for...
The two categories of software that are becoming critical requirements for large-capacity data centers in virtualized environments are performance monitoring and capacity management. Quest Software makes a performance monitoring tools suite called Foglight, which includes a capacity management tool called vFoglight. In a company blog post last August, Quest product...
The days of speculating on Internet domain names have been with us almost as long as when one could first purchase a .COM back in the middle 1990s. But is there any way to really quantify things to figure out whether you are better off with a particular suffix? Given...
For a total of 17 years, Karen Padir was an executive at Sun Microsystems, and was present for that company's astounding transition to open source technologies. She was an advocate for MySQL when Sun acquired that project, and then later when Oracle acquired Sun, promising the "Dolphin" faithful that good...
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