A 2012 Harvard Business School study, “E-Mail: Not Dead, Evolving,” found “communication between individuals—the original intent of e-mail—isn’t even listed in the top five activities” of how we use email today.I have worked in the world of technology since 1982 and even worked as the vice president of an email...
There is big. Then there is massive. The Galaxy Note 3 smartphone “phablet” is big. The brand new Nokia Lumia 1520 is massive. Really, this smartphone should come with a warning label: “Putting this device against your face to make a phone call will make you look ridiculous and is not practical...
Remember the robot that walks a bunch of dogs in the movie I, Robot? How awesome would that be—for both the owner and the dogs? I mean, we do have iOS apps for animals now, but Hollywood has trained me to expect more. Just because dog-walking robots don’t yet exist,...
Instagram is many things to many people—but if cat pics and selfie-fests are clogging up your feed, it might be time to refresh your following list. Instagram is an amazing way to stay connected to friends and family, but it's also a great way to learn something entirely unexpected while...
The unexpected news that Samsung has acquired the video-startup Boxee—reportedly for $30 million—is supposedly a plus for the South Korean company's smart TV plans. In fact, though, it's a likely death sentence for a much-loved start-up's technology—and one that isn't likely to do much for Samsung, either. Meet BoxeeBoxee, which started...
Would you trust the "wisdom of the crowd" over your own doctor? CrowdMed thinks you might. The San Francisco start-up has an audacious plan to use crowdsourcing techniques to tap the "collective wisdom" of strangers to help diagnose patients - particularly those who've bounced from doctor to doctor for years trying to understand uncommon...
It’s all about enterprise connectivity, performance and new platforms We have kept ourselves pretty busy here at Appcelerator over the last couple of months. Today we are excited to announce a major release for both the Titanium and Cloud products: Titanium Studio and SDK 3.1 and Node.ACS GA. Titanium...
Thank you for your quick feedback on our last beta. We’re pleased to announce our release candidate version of Titanium. As noted before, this release focuses on performance with a new ListView component and an average 20% across-the-board performance gain on iOS and an average across-the-board 36% performance gain on Android....
Thanks to your smartphone, we spend arguably almost every waking moment online. And the past few years have taught retailers and consumers the value of e-commerce on these multi-function devices. But are we missing something? Is this platform also the future of online food ordering and delivery?A flurry of major moves...
We may pine for the days when reading a long article transported us to a new world or gave insight into something we’ve never thought about, but apparently our brains aren’t wired for that kind of communication. The most accurate peek into the chatter of our inner minds, in fact,...
A day after switching over to Windows Phone 8, I found myself rooting for Microsoft’s evangelists on stage at its BUILD developer conference. I’m not sure that my switch will be permanent. But for someone who originally first starting using a smartphone with Google’s Android operating system, shifting from Android to...
Halloween is the spookiest time of the year. Here at ReadWrite, we couldn't help but think of tech-based nightmares. And we couldn't help but share them...Google combines everything it knows about you from all its various services - and then uses it to blackmail you over your insipid kitten photos...
With the formal launch of Windows Phone 8 on Monday, Microsoft took pains to position its new smartphone operating system as a logical extension of the Windows environment into the phone.Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that the new Windows Phones help connect the Windows ecosystem, which now includes Windows...
If Windows 8 succeeds, it will be because its users come to embrace three of its exclusive elements as critical to the way they work and the things they do. Here we address the first of those elements: Windows 8’s approach to sharing media.Unlike almost any other mass-produced product,...
BuzzFeed announced its hire of Web video pioneer Ze Frank today. For a media organization touted as the master of Facebook and Twitter clicks, the question is, what took so long? YouTube is a vast ocean of talent untapped by marketers, ad agencies, news organizations, non-profits, political campaigns - really,...
On Thursday, Amazon announced another family of branded shopping carts in which consumers can pile a wealth of digital goods. Sure, they may look like a Kindle e-reader, or the new Kindle Fire tablets - but make no mistake about the goals Amazon has for the new devices.Company executives pitched...
Sixty-three floors up, the view is stunning. Below, Central Park's lawns, bike lanes, kids boating in the lake. To my right, apartments and shops lining a canal. In the distance, the ocean, planes approaching, and a sweeping highway bridge. I'm not in New York, or Venice, or even in Las Vegas....
For the past two days, one young Pennsylvanian man has found himself facing hours of celebrity-endorsed cyberbullying on Twitter after telling Family Guy creator and Twitter favorite Seth MacFarlane his rape joke wasn't funny.MacFarlane had tweeted "The lyrics to "Call Me Maybe" sound like the prelude to a horrific date...
With the recent passage of the JOBS Act, crowdfunding is about to get even hotter. Serial tech entrepreneur, speaker and consultant Scott Steinberg, author of The Crowdfunding Bible, explains how to make crowdfunding work for your startup. Steinberg, CEO of TechSavvy Global, answered ReadWriteWeb’s most pressing questions with these 10...
Arizona's passage of SB 1070, a law that made it a crime to be an undocumented immigrant, has heightened the state's culture of fear, especially among immigrants. A Department of Justice investigation into racial profiling of Latinos by Maricopa County Sheriff's Office found that Latinos are now four to nine...
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