While the impressive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) is often measured in revenue for the devices that enable it, the “soft revenue” potential is even more impressive. Connected devices, supported by analytics and software, are boosting efficiencies in business, shortening sales cycles, improving customer satisfaction, and eliminating the...
Did you get the memo? We’re living in the future. But despite being in the middle of the 4th Industrial Revolution (or Industry 4.0), we’re not seeing the increase in productivity we’re used to seeing with the previous revolutions. Labor productivity growth is at a historical low, in defiance of...
Alphabet’s self-driving division, Waymo, is far ahead of the competition in the autonomous car race, according to data released by regulators in California. Compared to other autonomous car systems, Waymo’s is more accurate, requires less human intervention (0.2 times per thousand miles) and has logged 30 times more autonomous miles...
When you think about field service, what comes to mind? If it’s not literally delivering service in the field, then you’re probably seeing hard hats, safety glasses and leather tool belts surrounded by industrial machines. You’d be mostly right, because for a long time that’s how it’s looked. Lots of...
Samsung are a company that is serious about Fitness and their latest fitness device, the Gear Fit2, speaks volumes about their desire. It can be used to measure and track exercise routines, duration, heart rate, calories burnt, and more. Once you've ponied up the money and actually bought the...
The Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) 2016 in San Francisco was the largest conference of its type in Samsung’s history. This was also the first time that Tizen was featured so heavily throughout the conference and was also part of the keynote speech. Developers enjoyed so many sessions for the...
This month Zapier announced their new Multi-Step Zaps. If you're not already familiar with Zapier, it's a handy automation platform which syncs apps (a process they call zaps), enabling them to talk to each other and thus perform actions without the need for programming. This could be as simple as...
Can you picture your boss building an app? Just as anyone who wields PowerPoint can create a logo, now anyone can build a business app, thanks to Microsoft's new PowerApps, a new enterprise service to help workers create apps. Introduced last week at its annual Convergence MEA, Microsoft's Software as a Service (SaaS) PowerApps can also connect to...
Guest author Scott Gerber is the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council. As a company grows, individual teams often develop their own project management styles. But when you're trying to scale, having multiple systems can lead to confusion and missed deadlines. So how do you adjust that methodology as you...
Guest author Lindsey Irvine is the director of business development and strategic partnerships at Salesforce and heads up its Salesforce Wear developer platform. We’ve been hearing a lot of buzz around how wearables will continue to enhance our everyday lives. From steps and calories, to sleep and diet, wearables are starting...
Guest author Doron Reuveni is CEO and co-founder of Applause, a software-testing company based in New England.When the topic of customer service comes up, names like Amazon, Zappos and American Express often spring to mind. They should—these companies invest deeply in customer service, listening to their patrons, asking what makes...
Brian Solis is a digital analyst, anthropologist, futurist and author of X, What’s the Future of Business (WTF), Engage! and The End of Business As Usual.In a time when connectedness is part of everyday life and people have become online media platforms, customer experiences either work for a company or...
Guest author Robert J. Moore is the CEO of RJMetrics, a provider of business intelligence to online companies.Much of the growth in software-as-a-service companies is being driven by a “land and expand” strategy: Tools first get used by individuals, then by small teams, and so on up the organizational hierarchy. Eventually the company finds...
Guest author Danny Boice is the CEO of Trustify, a service that allows anyone to hire a private investigator on demand.Uber is so successful that the name is now synonymous and interchangeable with on-demand marketplaces that overturn the status quo and leverage technology at scale. Uber did not invent the...
Amazon released new Android and iOS software developer kits for its Amazon Cloud Drive service on Wednesday. For the first time, developers can bake direct access to Amazon’s cloud storage into their apps, freeing users from having to log in to their Amazon account anytime they want to access their...
This excerpt from ZK Research’s white paper Compute Transitions Drive the Need for the New IP Network is sponsored by Brocade. It reflects the views of the sponsor, not ReadWrite's editors.The architecture and infrastructure used to build legacy networks have not changed in almost three decades. There have been great...
Guest author Peter Yared is co-founder and CTO at the push-notification startup Sapho.Since its inception in the 1960s, the modern computer has offered humans the same “pull computing” paradigm: make a query, get a response. Or, as we often experience it: Go to the haystack, try to find the needle.But...
Karen Gillan is Eliza Dooley in ABC's Selfie.Selfie is a terrible name for a sitcom. On that, plenty of people on the Internet agree. But, like the show itself, it could be worse. The new ABC sitcom, premiering at 8 p.m. Tuesday (Sept. 30), doesn’t have a laugh track, for example....
ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.For a 100-person company founded in 2009, the tech firm Cloudflare certainly seems to have an outsized impact on the Internet.Shortly after the Heartbleed bug became public knowledge on April 9, Cloudflare decided to revoke...
Despite starting as a "cancerous" and purportedly "anti-American" blight on the software world, open source has come to be as American (and capitalist) as apple pie. Everyone uses it, big companies like Facebook bake it into their standard development practices and practically no one questions its value anymore.Which is interesting,...
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