Looking back on the year in Web technology, we can see that several product categories have evolved significantly over 2010. We've already written about App Stores and eReaders. Another market that progressed in 2010 was Internet TV. Among the developments: Apple announced a major overhaul of Apple TV, Google launched...
When I first plugged in my Logitech Revue Google TV unit, I was excited. Then, as I browsed around for the usual free content - Hulu.com, network websites like ABC or Fox - and found they were blocked from Google TV, I became a little distraught. It was only when...
One of the great promises of Internet TV is the ability to facilitate real-time conversations about what we're watching right alongside the show itself. Social media apps help connect TV viewers with a larger audience, well beyond the living room, so to speak. By checking in and talking to other...
There's one great big difference between Internet TV and good, old cable television. Cable television, even at its most complex, is simple - you either subscribe to a channel or you don't. Once you make up your mind, you can sit back, relax, and surf away. Internet TV is a...
Intel recently revealed the first MeeGo netbooks that go on sale at an Intel press event held in Moscow. Prototypes of MeeGo-Intel Atom-based smartphone and a tablet were also displayed at the event. Here we bring you further information about the MeeGo devices. The devices running on the Linux based Operating System, MeeGo,...
Google TV illustrates what changes when the cloud becomes a major factor in how people watch television. That effect is starting to change how we view Web analytics.Web analytics helps a website owner improve any number of aspects to their site. Analytics define how advertisers spend their dollars. Cloud computing...
It's been just a handful of days now that I've had this Logitech Revue Google TV unit sitting in my bedroom and, if anything, it's making me wish I had cable. I was expecting the unit to show up and explode the universe of Internet video onto my television, but...
Watching TV is becoming a more interactive experience - at least that's what a number of companies building interactive TVs and media center products are hoping. From Apple CEO Steve Jobs' "hobby" project, Apple TV, to media center startups like Boxee, there are new ways to "watch" TV that involve...
Last March, we reported that over one-fourth of users ages 18-24 are interested in having more social media features integrated into their TVs. Yet, while a lot of interactions on social media sites center around TV shows, TVs are not exactly hubs for social media interactions, and those TV shows...
Adobe AIR, a cross-platform runtime environment developed by Adobe Systems, Inc., is coming to the TV screen, the company announced today at its developer conference Adobe MAX 2010. With the launch of Adobe AIR 2.5, the software, already supported on various smartphone, tablet and desktop platforms, is being extended to...
There are some 225,000 mobile applications for the iPhone now and 70,000 for Android, so every so often we like to highlight a few that have caught our attention. This latest edition of our favorite smartphone apps includes a few in testing, a few we're madly in love with, some...
If you've ever sat around in a room of geeks with smartphones watching television, then you know how big a part Twitter can play in that activity. Whether it's trash talking the Sunday game or gasping about plot twists, Twitter is the virtual watercooler of the TV geek set.Today, Twitter...
Mozilla announced today a new add-on to its email program Thunderbird, a button called Mute Thread. It's a simple way to say "I'm not interested in this right now, but I might come back to it later." It's an alternative to unsubscribing forever and it's a very smart idea.If everything...
Yesterday we started a new interview series on ReadWriteWeb, focused on web product innovation. We began with a product that aims to change the way people consume news on mobile devices: Newsy. In part 2 of this interview with founder and CEO Jim Spencer, we delve into Newsy's audience and...
The days when TV viewers did nothing else while watching their favorite shows are long over. Instead, many viewers now multitask while watching TV and browse the Internet on their laptops, iPads and smartphones. Now, a new iPad app from ABC (iTunes link) wants to bridge this gap and turns...
Justin.tv is finally breaking into the mobile broadcasting business with today's release of its first Android application and with an iPhone version soon to follow. The company admits that it's not the first to do mobile broadcasting - competitors like UStream and Qik have been around for some time -...
Google TV is the first major test to determine how cloud computing changes television.For years we have seen the dichotomy between television and the Internet. In the earlier years, television had scale. The Internet did not. But now we are in a different era. The massive scale of the cloud...
The number of devices connected to the Internet is expected to hit five billion this month, says IMS Research, and will reach 22 billion by 2020.About one billion computers, laptops and modems were included in the first wave of Internet-connected devices, according to the company, which tracks installed Internet-capable equipment....
Google TV unveiled its logo this week. We're more than a little curious how a cloud-based, high-definition, mobile network will fare.Google TV holds lots of promise but the first days out of the gate will be instrumental in how people view the service. The logo does matter. It won't make...
A study from wireless billing vendor Validas has revealed that Verizon Wireless smartphone owners are now exceeding the data usage of iPhone owners, who are currently restricted to AT&T. According to the study, average data consumption on Verizon smartphones is 421 MB as opposed to 338 MB on the iPhone....
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