Spotify, the European all-you-can-stream music service American listeners just couldn't wait to get their hands on, has been growing fast. Since its July U.S. launch, Spotify has picked up more than 250,000 paying American customers, according to Reuters. This number has grown by 42% since early August. At the time,...
Microsoft launched a website today designed to give users a detailed look at how secure their browser is. The site, called Your Browser Matters, automatically detects the visitor's browser and returns a browser security score on a scale of four points. Not suprisingly, Microsoft's own Internet Explorer 9 gets a...
Looking to spin up a virtual machine and get that project done in a hurry but not sure what your choices are in terms of cloud vendors?Here is a listing (not a rating) of some of the top vendors and what they offer.Amazon Amazon Elastic Compute (EC2) is the dominant...
Collaboration apps are not new but they are gaining prominence in this brave new world where crowd-sourcing trumps individual pontification. Leaders such as Google Docs have already gained notoriety but the purpose here is to share information about great collaboration apps that may not be as well known but are...
Two companies have launched notable video sharing services this week: WeVideo.com and Klip.com. Both have somewhat different approaches but enhance the overall online video experience, especially for mobile users. WeVideo includes editing and 1 GB of cloud storage for free. You can export your video to Facebook, YouTube and Vimeo....
Today, we bring you a step-by-step guide to install MeeGo IVI image file on TX-50, an Intel ATOM E6xx based CPU board. Before you start, please make sure that you know what you’re doing. If you’re continuing with it, you do it at your own risk. Tools needed USB Flash...
Steve Jobs has announced his resignation as CEO of Apple. He will remain chairman of the board of directors. Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook has been named as his replacement. The Apple co-founder has taken medical leave for health problems this year, fueling much speculation about Apple's life after Steve....
The Lenovo's IdeaPad S100 was one of the netbooks that we saw at Computex earlier this year. Now it has started to get distributed in Europe running a single-core, 1.33GHz Intel Atom N435 processor. The standard trim includes a 10.1-inch 1024x600 display, a 160GB, 5,400 RPM hard drive, and...
A simple to use File Manager Application for Meego Harmattan (Nokia N9 / N950). Check out the video to see whats what :-) Also on the coming soon list for File Manager is the ability to allow you to view archives as folders and to 'mount' popular cloud storage...
It appears that Verizon is starting to block hotspot tethering for consumers using jailbroken devices without data plans. A ReadWriteWeb employee using a jailbroken tethered Verizon Motorola X without a data plan was sent to this page outlining Verizon's hotspot data plans today when trying to access a hotspot. This...
In a surprisingly candid move, Google Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond published an opinionated post on the company's official blog contending that its Android mobile operating system is under "attack" from a "hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through...
Alleged members of Anonymous arrested. In December of last year, three Dutch teenagers were arrested; in January of this year, British police arrested five alleged members of the hacking collective; another British teen was arrested in June; and now, in the U.S., the Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested 16...
Google Plus, the ambitious company-wide social network launched late last month, was reportedly built in secret over an extended period of time by scores of engineers and social software designers brought into the company through a campaign of heavy hiring.The scope of Plus's ambition is far from fully realized, though,...
Well, it's finally here. After two years of delay and a fresh $100 million round of funding, European music streaming service Spotify launched in the United States yesterday, much to the delight of music geeks, a handful of celebrities and pretty much everyone on Twitter. In addition to a whole...
Latest news is that Nokia will be spending the tidy sum of $127M (or £80M) on Marketing to help spring board Windows Phone. The launch is said to be in October which would coincide with Nokia World in London and will run for 6 Months. The amount of money...
"Mobile video is shaky by definition," says Norman Winarsky, VP at SRI Ventures, part of Silcon Valley-based SRI International, a nonprofit performing sponsored R&D for governments, foundations and businesses. "A shaky image affects bandwidth and reduces the experience," he explains.But with the technology Google has licensed from SRI, image stabilization...
This is the second time we have seen a developer working on a mechanism to integrate applications into the Nokia N9 Harmattan event feed page. The first one was a Python implementation. I am working on a Qt C++ library that will integrate your application with the Nokia N9...
Twitter may start putting ads in user streams, according to a report from the Financial Times. "Promoted tweets" would appear in the main flow of tweets on the Twitter homepage, likely as an extension of the company's current "Promoted Products" format - trends and accounts.Reporting from advertising conference Cannes Lions...
Rumors have surfaced in the past 24 hours that premium content video provider Hulu has been fielding unsolicited offers to buy the platform. The question, of course: who in their right mind would want to buy Hulu?Yahoo is the name that has emerged. The Los Angeles Times and Wall Street...
I remember distinctly the moment during the official unveiling of the iPad last year that I knew I'd be buying Apple's new tablet device: it was during the demo of the comics app. I was sold. It seemed clear that this was the future of the genre.Now there are a...
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