At one point, Multiple Listing Services was innovative technology designed to help buyers find homes. Today, though, its only getting in the way. With more users finding homes on national search sites, arcane rules and local focus have made MLSes as relevant as the binders they replaced.The BasicsFor more than...
Since 2010 Apple has been suing everybody in sight for allegedly infringing on its intellectual property. Apple hasn't just been suing its rivals but also portraying itself as a beacon of innovation and depicting its rivals as cloners and copycats -- thieves, basically.So perhaps there is some satisfaction in seeing...
Nokia has bet the company on Microsoft and its Windows Phone mobile operating system. That would be a risky but defensible bet… if Nokia was the only company making Windows Phones. Unfortunately for Nokia, other mobile manufacturers also vie for consumer attentions with Windows Phones, notably HTC and Samsung, two...
If it's not a smartphone, it's dumb. Despite current global dominance, basic "feature phones" will give up the ghost in just a few years.The BasicsAfter the Blackberry and then the iPhone created the "smartphone" category, we needed to call the rest of our cellphones something, and "dumbphones" sounded, well, dumb....
With the formal launch of Windows Phone 8 on Monday, Microsoft took pains to position its new smartphone operating system as a logical extension of the Windows environment into the phone.Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that the new Windows Phones help connect the Windows ecosystem, which now includes Windows...
Today will be one of the most important days in Microsoft's nearly 40-year history. The company that ruled the PC era rolls out a long-awaited new version of its flagship operating system that could determine whether Microsoft can regain its standing in the computer industry and carve out a place...
Nobody doubts that the classroom of the future will look very different than it does today. It will, at the very least, involve fewer dead trees and be much more tapped into that globe-spanning network of knowledge we call the Internet. Learning will also be even more geographically distributed than...
Thanks for listening and reading our sometimes contentious views on Apple. Still hungry? For more meat, take a bite and get more details on the mini-announcement from Taylor Hatmaker and Jon Mitchell on the updated iPad. 11:13: Dan Rowinski: The 3rd gen had LTE. 11:13: Fredric Paul: Well, the 4G replaces the new...
One Laptop Per Child puts computers in the hands of the world's most vulnerable children to help educate them out of poverty. It's a noble cause championed by our brightest minds - but it doesn't seem to work.The BasicsIn the mid-2000s, faculty members from the MIT Media Research Lab set...
Earlier this year, a judge in the United Kingdom awarded a rare gift to Samsung in its global patent battle against Apple. The judge ruled that Samsung did not infringe on Apple’s design patents and offered a strange remedy: Apple must publically apologize to Samsung in prominent news publications in...
Consumers looking for a tablet computer this holiday season will have plenty of great choices. Microsoft has its Surface RT tablets ready for pre-order, there are new Kindle Fires from Amazon, and Google’s Nexus 7 tablet leads a wide variety of quality Android options. And the big dog of the...
When the Web was still text links and tables, Adobe Flash brought us rollovers, interactive games and kitten videos. But a hard stand by Apple was the begining of the end for the groundbreaking technology, and guess what? We'll be OK without it.The BackstoryThe early years of the Web were...
RWW Founder Richard MacManus' New Chapter, Why iPhone Is Not Your Mother's Smartphone, and The Best Time To Send Emails. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping...
A business' data is still its most important asset, but that doesn't mean it every company needs to spend millions of dollars building and maintaining its own datacenters. The cloud has grown up, and the days of the company-owned-and-operated datacenters are numbered.The BasicsIn the pre-PC days, computers were sprawling and...
Facebook's $7 Update, Watching The Presidential Debate Online, and Why Apple's Fight With Google Hurts Users. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.After the jump you'll find more of this week's top stories on the key topics that are shaping the Web - Location, App Stores and...
For the first time in a long time, two American companies are driving innovation and leading one of the planet's most important industries.(This report also ran in the Fall/Winter 2012 issue of SAY Magazine.)The first half of 2012, I flew more than 60,000 miles, searching for interesting tech stories for...
If Microsoft really is considering its own “Surface” smartphone, the business decision would be a callous, cold-hearted one that could alienate future partners and leave just two other manufacturers of Windows Phones. But as history has shown, this kind of bold move could pay off.Boy Genius Report claimed Tuesday that Microsoft...
Point-and-shoot cameras have been a hit with consumers for more than a century, and they keep getting better. But it doesn't matter, they're doomed anyway. Even awesome image quality and all the features in the world can't save them from the mighty smartphone.The Basics"You press the button, we do the...
Modern game consoles are much more powerful than yesterday’s Pong-pads, but their setup and business model remain virtually identical to the Ataris and Colecovisions of yore. But all of that’s about to change - this coming generation of game consoles will be the last to resemble anything you remember.The BasicsIn...
9:21: John Paul Titlow: We've got 40 minutes to go, and still the last-minute leaks and rumors are churning. What has been confirmed is that we'll be getting the iPhone 5 (by that name), new iPods and an iTunes update. If history is any indication, they should be pushing out...
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