NFC, short for near field communications, is a short-range wireless technology that's forming the backbone of new mobile payments and mobile wallet services like Google Wallet or Visa's digital wallet. With an NFC phone, you can pay for purchases at any contactless payments-enabled point-of-sale location with just a tap or...
This week we successfully staged our latest event, the ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit. A series of conversations mirroring the two-way nature of the Web, we welcomed speakers like danah boyd, Jason Calacanis and Baratunde Thurston. We also introduced breakout sessions spotlighting specific issues and speed geeking demos by a host of...
I was one of the presenters at our 2WAY conference in New York City this week and was glad that I had an opportunity to meet so many movers and shakers as well as old friends. I wanted to give you some impressions from an enterprise IT perspective, and apologize...
Time to sit down. Dust off and reflect about the MeeGo Conference in San Francisco. This was the Second MeeGo Conference, the first one being held in Dublin (Ireland) back in November . As numbers go the event was a success, with the keynote being full capacity. ...
Last month we announced our biggest live gathering to date: the 2WAY Summit, happening June 13-14 in NYC. Since our initial announcement, we've been working diligently to put together what we hope will be the best tech event of the summer. To that end, we're extremely pumped and jacked to...
We're living in an exciting era for media. The user experience of consuming (and producing) media is changing rapidly, as new devices take hold of the consumer market. Smartphones, tablets, Internet TVs, eReaders, and more. It isn't just new devices either. The content we're consuming is beginning to change too....
UPDATE: Open session proposals are now closed. Thanks to everyone who submitted one. We'll be in touch soon. As you may have read recently, we're having our next great event, the two-day ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit on June 13-14 in New York City. While programming for day one is all but...
Socialize brings together leaders in social gaming, virtual goods, mobile, marketing, and media for two days of learning, connecting, and sharing about all things social. Experts will show you how all the social media pieces fit together to create a unified, profitable business strategy. This event delivers up-to-the-minute social media...
Today I'm very excited to announce the next evolution of ReadWriteWeb events: The ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit, happening June 13-14 at Columbia University in New York City. We're planning to reward our passionate audience with the best tech, people and ideas the Web has to offer in two unique and fun...
Does Google get social? It sure would like to and just a few weeks ago the search giant brought in-house a world renowned expert in social technology. Until the end of January, Ed Chi was a Principal Scientist of Augmented Social Cognition at the famous research institute PARC. Now he's...
Does Google get social? It sure would like to and just a few weeks ago the search giant brought in-house a world renowned expert in social technology. Until the end of January, Ed Chi was a Principal Scientist of Augmented Social Cognition at the famous research institute PARC. Now he's...
Today HP is holidng a press conference to introduce its new webOS-based tablet and smartphones to the world, while also providing a roadmap for its mobile strategy going forward. WebOS is a mobile operating system that HP acquired when it bought Palm last summer for $1.2 billion and it's expected...
Today HP is holidng a press conference to introduce its new webOS-based tablet and smartphones to the world, while also providing a roadmap for its mobile strategy going forward. WebOS is a mobile operating system that HP acquired when it bought Palm last summer for $1.2 billion and it's expected...
This post is an excerpt from Rana Sobhany's new book, Mobilize: Strategies for Success from the Frontlines of the App Revolution. Mobilize walks developers through the positioning, marketing and outreach needed to create successful apps. In her opening chapter, Sobhany follows the history of the app store phenomenon from its...
This post is an excerpt from Rana Sobhany's new book, Mobilize: Strategies for Success from the Frontlines of the App Revolution. Mobilize walks developers through the positioning, marketing and outreach needed to create successful apps. In her opening chapter, Sobhany follows the history of the app store phenomenon from its...
Shazam, the magic mobile app that identifies music playing in the room you're in, has added a new option for interacting with a song it's identified: listen in Spotify. Spotify, a killer desktop and mobile music app that's not yet available but to a few thousand testers in the United...
Google Translate on Android will now perform real-time, automated audio translation for conversations between English and Spanish speakers, Google announced in a blog post today.The service is just beginning and is reported to be very experimental. Franz Och, head of Google's translation services, said in February of 2010 that this...
At last week's annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2011) in Las Vegas, if there was any obvious industry trend, it was this: Android is everywhere. From smartphones to tablets and even TVs, the mobile operating system was present in a number of the devices being showcased at this gadget-filled event....
Vizio, the electronics manufacturer known best for its flat-panel TVs and LCD displays will soon join its rival Samsung in becoming an Android mobile phone and tablet company, too. According to The Wall St. Journal, Vizio has announced its first mobile phone called the "Via Phone" and its first tablet...
The Data Sciences Summer Institute is a six week summer program for students interested in data science. It will be held at the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science and include: a class on the mathematical foundations of data science, advanced tutorials, expert speakers and collaborative research projects. Why...
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