The National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Federal Communications Commission have released a map of the broadband connections across the United States. The most surprising thing in looking at the map? The reality that much of the country is not connected to broadband at all. But that was rather...
Verizon is considering adjusting its data plan pricing as it prepares to launch its next-generation 4G wireless network. Not only will the network price data plans based on the amount of data consumed, it may also price data plans based on the speed of the connection itself."If you want to...
Earlier this summer, we posed the question of whether or not native mobile applications would eventually be made obsolete by the mobile Web. Many agreed that the power of the mobile Web and cloud over native apps may be an inevitability, but according to a survey released today, four out...
Our top story this week is brought to you by Google's silver-tongued CEO, Eric Schmidt, who suggests that you may want to change your name to escape his permanent record. This week we also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: The Internet of Things lets you...
Twitter is requiring password resets for users who signed up for "suspicious" third-party programs that promise to automatically (or magically) get them followers. Twitter usually pushes out password resets to users whose accounts it believes have been compromised due to phishing or other attacks."We're currently pushing out password resets to...
As we have mentioned previously, the success of augmented reality depends partly on its exposure through major mainstream brands. Late last week, the Ben & Jerry's ice cream empire took its first steps into the world of AR by adding the functionality to its iPhone app - but not in...
This week's news was all about the new iPhone, but our top story was about something completely different: Java, and whether or not you need it. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: The Internet of Things really is a series of tubes; augmented reality...
This week's top story was about that escalating battle we love to watch: Android and iPhone's fight for market share. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: Parliament loves the Internet of Things; augmented reality leader Layar turns 1; and there's a dream team quietly...
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Last Friday, ReadWriteWeb hosted our second unconference event in Mountain View, California as experts from around the world gathered to discuss the mobile Web and its future. One of the hot topics I was eager to discuss going into the event was augmented reality (AR) - a top trend that...
In preparation for the upcoming ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit, we're outlining the 10 leading trends of the Mobile Web in a 3-part series of posts. In Part 1 we explored 3 important design and development issues for the Mobile Web. Now in Part 2, we look at 4 classes of mobile...
There are seven new events on the calendar this week: Head over to Stanford University to learn whether the real-time Web is an imperative or insanity. Check out the Net Prophet conference in Cape Town, South Africa. There's also the Digital Sport Summit in Melbourne, Australia. And don't forget to...
It's SXSW weekend so you may be pretty burnt out on conferences - or just sick and tired of hearing about them - but if you're in New York City this week, don't miss what's sure to be a profound and fascinating conversation between Chinese digital activist and artist Ai...
In only four short years, the worldwide mobile data traffic will reach 40 exabytes per year. This is according to new research from Cisco which sees the traffic jumping from 0.09 exabytes per month in 2009 to 3.6 exabytes per month by 2014. And in case you don't know what...
Call us cheesy, but the video below is just adorable.Hallmark, manufacturers of fine greeting cards and pointlessly sentimental holdiays, have launched augmented reality (AR) greeting cards. Like some of the prototypes we've played around with, the whole affair involves a little real-world hardware (in this case a webcam and a...
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we announce our first event: The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit on October 15th in Mountain View, California. It's a 1-day event that will bring together some of the smartest minds doing real-time...
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze the 5 biggest trends of 2009 on the Web, review the iTunes and iPhone announcements made by Apple during the week, tell you about a new Wordpress feature that makes...
One exabyte is a billion gigabytes. It's one quintillion bytes. And yes, "quintillion" is a number so large, it almost seems made-up. But that's how much online video will be consumed by 2017, according to new reports from U.K.-based research firm Coda. Actually, to be precise, they're claiming that mobile...
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we review the state of smart cards around the world, update you on the latest Augmented Reality news, ask whether eReaders are being priced too high, analyze Google's Chrome OS browser plans,...
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we explain why augmented reality is ramping up (and look at three new iPhone examples), analyze the top websites in the U.S., check out new Twitter statistics suggesting that teens don't tweet,...
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