ReadWritePredict is a look ahead at the technology trends and companies that will shape the coming year. Startups are all about innovation, although it's often difficult to distinguish in advance between world-changing technology and mere novelty. And the competition to break through is fiercer than ever; there are over 40,000...
At the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday, Samsung Electronics CEO B.K. Yoon talked up his company's strategy to connect everything in your life. "The Internet of Things is ready to go," he said in his keynote address. Turns out, Samsung's latest and perhaps boldest IoT campaign is already underway. The not-so-secret ingredients: Its big...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.At ReadWrite, we like to focus on things that are working and ideas worth pursuing, not the false starts and failed experiments that inevitably accompany innovation. But it's important to learn from mistakes—lest we repeat them....
Smartphones aren't like most other gifts, since they're quite possibly the single most personal gadgets in our possession. They're constantly in our hands. We entrust them with our private messages and photos. Increasingly, we're starting to talk to them and even to count on them knowing us well enough to suggest...
GoldieBlox, the toymaker that markets its wares as a way to introduce girls to engineering, debuted a new ad and product that digs at the toy industry’s love of beautiful Barbie dolls and princesses. And from the reaction around the Internet, you'd think the company had struck a resounding blow...
To salvage its business, BlackBerry's exciting new strategy is to deliver a modern smartphone … circa 2006. It sounds like a joke, but the company's serious about its upcoming Blackberry Classic Q20, heading to the market in December.CEO John Chen took to his company's blog on Wednesday hoping to appeal to the...
Amazon is ready to compete with Google thanks to its just-launched Fire TV Stick.At $39, it is a tiny and affordable alternative to other streaming media options on the market. And good news for Prime users—it's only $19 with free shipping until this Wednesday, October 29. Lest you think for a...
Is that an iPhone 6 Plus, or are you just happy to see me? An actor famous for playing disturbed, difficult characters has been cast as the brilliant a––hole of big tech capitalism, Steve Jobs.Christian Bale, the Oscar-winning actor behind the Dark Knight with a throat disorder, will play the reality-distorting...
If Jeff Bezos has taught us anything, it’s that anything Amazonian is big—including his company's e-commerce muscles, fodder for comedy and ambitions as a consumer gadgets company.Apparently, so are its flops, as well as the CEO and founder's power of denial. Because, as the spectacular failure known as the Fire...
Board meetings can be incredibly stressful, but you can alleviate some of that stress by preparing ahead, familiarizing yourself with key talking points and of course, anticipating important questions about your company's progress.Since it's an activity we all have to face at some point, I asked 8 founders from YEC about...
ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.Entrepreneur, designer and artist Caterina Fake was one of the early pioneers of the Web. She was one of the first online graphic designers and a blogger before people thought it was normal to post...
When is a spreadsheet not a spreadsheet?The answer, according to Bret Taylor, is when it's a Quip document.Taylor, whose startup is challenging Microsoft, Google, and Apple in the market for mobile productivity tools, has just added features for slinging numbers alongside its existing tools for creating documents made of words.See also:...
There has never been a better time to be an engineer, with companies feverishly competing to recruit the best and brightest. But while some engineers may be motivated to work for the highest bidder, most are driven by something more intangible, according to VisionMobile survey data: They want to change...
Just a couple of weeks after it removed the Camera Roll from the iPhone’s new operating software, iOS 8, Apple may be bringing it back from the dead.According to tech site Product-Reviews, the early version of Apple’s first major iOS 8 update, iOS 8.1, went out to app developers recently....
By now you might have heard about a new social network called Ello—plenty of other people sure have. With more than 34,000 Ello invite requests every hour, the site, still in beta, reportedly came very close to cutting off access on Thursday. But while the site soldiers through, it's not something...
From teen fashion gurus to tipsy chefs, bedroom video blogs may be coming to an end for some of YouTube's biggest stars. The Google-owned video site announced it'll soon start paying the production bills for new content. "We’ve decided to fund new content from some of our top creators, helping them not...
The Smartwatch market is certainly going to be a lucrative space for the companies that can be first to release their products, go through the lessons learnt cycle, and also be able to build a viable application ecosystem on top of it, which shouldn't be confused with standard smartphone apps,...
So Amazon is buying Twitch, the video-game livestreaming site, for $970 million in cash, apparently beating out Google's YouTube unit in the process. That unites the e-commerce giant with the world's largest site for the gaming community, on which users can upload or stream video of games or commentary.Which raises an interesting...
Some Windows 8 users who installed Microsoft's August update are once again seeing the dreaded Blue Screen of Death—the sign of a PC suffering a hard, unrecoverable crash. Microsoft says it's investigating the problem and has pulled the update, which can also inflict somewhat less catastrophic typeface problems in some...
It's now officially a trend. Big social-media companies are now so dead-set on getting you to use their apps that they're taking a sledgehammer to them, busting up perfectly serviceable software into collections of mini-apps they hope will have a better chance of catching your eye.Foursquare, Facebook and LinkedIn are...
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