ReadWritePredict is a look ahead at the technology trends and companies that will shape the coming year.Many enterprises seem content to toe-dip in the mobile deluge. That's unwise. As Facebook, Uber and a host of mobile-first companies up-end traditional ways of communicating and commuting, companies that don't take a mobile-first...
President Obama from Everett Collection / ShutterstockThe Internet exploded in empty rhetoric Monday over Barack Obama's Congress-short, six years late endorsement of "net neutrality," an issue that will likely continue to go nowhere fast despite the president's full-throated tone.In a statement posted on the official White House website Monday, just two...
Pity the IT professionals. For years they've been bludgeoned for allegedly obstructing enterprise innovation. But in the increasingly mobile world, that "bludgeoning" is about to hit overdrive.According to a recent Forrester report ("Developers Are The St. Bernard For Mobile Projects"), there are four key ways that IT blocks mobile innovation. As...
Android developers, you too can have break-out success in Google Play—and Google itself wants to show you the way. The creator of the mobile software and its related app store has put together a game plan to help app makers make it big using its resources.Perhaps anyone can write an...
Most companies are just coming around to the idea that open source can help lower costs and boost innovation within their organizations. But Web companies like Netflix, Twitter and Facebook understand that open source can be more: a powerful weapon for recruiting and retaining top engineering talent.See also: The Reasons...
Bless the OpenStack crowd for taking the trouble to figure out the exact moment when it becomes cost effective to run your Amazon Web Services workload in a private cloud ($7,644/month, as Brandon Butler reports). If only that number mattered.See also: Amazon's Cloud Is The Fastest-Growing Software Business In HistoryAfter...
Microsoft used to be evil. Then it was irrelevant. Now it looks like a winner.How did this happen?I have competed against Microsoft for most of my career, battling Windows with Linux in the mobile, desktop and server markets, but also taking on SharePoint while at Alfresco and SQL Server in...
In a world being eaten alive by software, you need to hire more developers. A lot more.Perhaps more importantly, according to former Netflix cloud chief and current Battery Ventures Technology fellow Adrian Cockroft, you need to help to make them productive. Which mostly means you need to get the heck...
The message from the Federal Communications Commission is loud and clear: Do not mess with people’s access to the Internet. That's a lesson it's trying to teach the wireless carriers and, it turns out, hotels too. According to the FCC, Marriott's Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center intentionally used Wi-Fi jamming tactics...
For the latest confirmation of the porous boundaries that separate YouTube stars and their devoted fans, look no further than the latest trend on Twitter. Though it's not what you might think at first glance.The Twitter hashtag #YouTubersIWantToBang has been trending since earlier Friday. As you'd expect, it's popped the...
Pity poor Hadoop. The open-source software framework is virtually synonymous with the Big Data movement. Yet one of its earliest, biggest users has joined a chorus of critics, charging Hadoop with being “unpredictable” and “risky.” Others, like Gartner’s Merv Adrian, worry about its weak security provisions.See also: Hadoop: What It...
Editor's note: This post was originally published by our partners at PopSugar Tech.Zero-emissions vehicles for all! The luxury electric carmaker Tesla confirmed in Autoexpress that an incredibly affordable sedan called the Tesla Model 3 is in the works.In the world of Tesla, affordable means under $35K, which cuts the price for...
ReadWriteDrive is an ongoing series covering the future of transportation.The first self-driving cars will hit the market in about 2017 or 2018. But that’s not fast enough for Kyle Vogt, the chief executive and founder of Cruise Automation.Last month, the company launched the industry’s first after-market assisted-driving product—a $10,000 self-driving...
ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.I’ll never forget my first time seeing a Raspberry Pi. The tiny, credit-card sized computer is powerful enough to operate as a home PC, a media center, a gaming console, or anything you can dream up. At...
Worldwide IT spending is expected to increase this year, but it's nothing compared to how much money will flow into Big Data. And for employees at those companies, more money is certainly a good thing.As a new IDC report reveals, spending in the Big Data market will reach $32.4 billion...
Asking IT about emerging trends in enterprise computing is increasingly a fool's errand.Open source pioneer Billy Marshall once quipped that "the CIO is the last to know," because she was too far removed from what open-source code her IT team was downloading or which SaaS services they were accessing. Now...
After forecasting a third straight annual loss on Friday, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said the company is considering a big shift which could possibly—finally—place its hit game franchises like Super Mario Bros. and Zelda in the hands of iOS and Android users.But such a move could threaten Nintendo’s own hardware...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.It was a big year for mobile in 2013, as it has been for the past several years.Smartphones took the first steps toward becoming hubs we can use to control our entire lives. Companies became...
To date, there are still more installed PCs in the world than there are smartphones or tablets. Next year, that's likely to change. According to projections from mobile analyst Ben Evans, the number of smartphones in use around the world will pass that of PCs for the first time next year. According...
On the Internet, the “fear of missing something” may be powerful fuel for social networks like Facebook and Twitter, but at home, the stakes are even higher. That something missed could be Fluffy scratching at that pricey couch, an electrical fire starting or, even worse, an intruder ransacking the house. No...
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