The company is called Leap Motion, and if you want to get an idea of how much everyone in San Francisco is buzzing about them, consider this: A few weeks ago I was visiting a different hot new startup in San Francisco, and in the middle of their demo the...
Hear that? No? Well, that's because Facebook is testing a new audio notification system to select members, and if you're not one of the first batch of guinea pigs, all is still quiet on your profile. But if this feature catches on, you and the rest of Facebook's billion networkers might...
Zynga's logo walked into the boardroom with its tail between its legs today as the company presented its third quarter earnings. On the call, CEO Mark Pincus announced the company's plan to wrap a tight tourniquet around its ongoing losses. How to turn things around? Pincus said development teams would cut...
Zynga’s Mafia Wars, Farmville and Bubble Safari are enormously popular pastimes that helped define social/casual gaming. But faced with a changing market and an unpopular leader, can Zynga innovate its way out of the hole it keeps digging for itself?The BasicsZynga’s climb to the top of social gaming didn’t take...
I’ve seen several tweets this morning calling Microsoft’s plan to offer emotion-based advertisements through Kinect “creepy.” Indeed, only the most hardened technologist would think that having their body movements, speech patterns and reactions analyzed through Kinect’s camera is anything but unsettling. But how is this much different than what we already do every day through...
Most U.S. wineries have a presence on social media. Microsoft kills the confusing Windows "Live" brand. Google does more monkeying around with the search results page. Learn more about these stories and many more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-Up.After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories...
This week, IBM announced its next group of IBM Fellows, seven of its employees who share, according to the press release, "a commitment to tackling the world's biggest problems with ingenuity, invention and inspiration." The designation is a big deal for IBM, and over the years only 238 staff members...
Workers at Foxconn threaten to commit suicide in protest of poor working conditions. 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 about stories. We give you a daily recap...
If you're attending the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) this week and have an Android phone, you'll be able to use Google Maps to navigate inside the Las Vegas Convention Center. Select resorts and casinos on the Las Vegas strip are also covered, as is McCarran International Airport.Google has also partnered...
A list of SOPA supporters sparks outrage against domain name heavyweight, GoDaddy. David Strom reviews the new Hedy Lamarr biography. And, Marshall Kirkpatrick looks at the implications of Google's AR glasses that may be coming sooner than we all thought. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.After...
Yesterday Facebook released its list of top games for 2011. Only four of those games were Zynga-owned. The number one and number two slots were filled by Disney Playdom's Garden of Time, a game about locating hidden objects through time travel and EA's The Sims Social, which is most similar...
Location is baked in to just about everything that developers do these days. All the major original equipment manufacturers use the Global Positioning System as a primary means of tracking a smartphones location, but GPS may not be the best source of location data for developers. In steps Loc-Aid, a...
A new local e-commerce application wants to bring local merchants in your town to your smartphone. Pago Mobile is designed to be a new way for businesses to interact with customers through their mobile devices by allowing them to browse, order and pay for local goods through their devices. Pago...
On Friday, the FBI shut down three of the world's most popular online gambling sites, replacing their websites with an announcement that "This domain name has been seized by the FBI pursuant to an Arrest Warrant." Marking the largest crackdown since Congress banned online gambling in 2006, authorities unsealed indictments...
Cheng Jianping has wound up in a Chinese "re-education camp" with a record-breaking five words on Twitter. Mocking nationalistic vandalism that flared up around a Chinese-Japanese dispute over the ownership of uninhabited islands, she retweeted another's message and added the ironic admonition, "Charge, angry youth!"This was identified by Chinese authority...
Video surveillance has come a long way. Cameras are everywhere. They are in airport terminals, parking lots, taxi cabs - the list goes on.Data from video sources alone has grown at an astronomical rate. In turn, there has been an increasing need for video analytics to make sense of data,...
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On Monday we asked you about the workplace of the future - today, it's time to take a look at your comments. The biggest theme was remote work - several of you expect the workplace to be increasingly virtualized. Others suggested a few problems with this idea. "Swarming," as Gartner...
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