A project that has more to do with Google's past than with its future is being shutdown as the company has announced that its News Archive Project will no longer update features and functionality.In an email to newspaper publishers, Google said that it is closing down the project and will...
Today Google announced a new netbook offering, called Chromebook. It's being touted as a new kind of computer that offers "nothing but the web." A chromebook will look like a laptop, only it won't have any software programs or storage space. The only thing it has is a web browser,...
Having long wooed the educational market with its Apps for Education suite of productivity tools, Google is now poised to bring to students and teachers the hardware necessary to take full advantage of these Web-based apps and of the Web itself. Google's Chromebooks for Education announcement at Google IO this...
It's hard to keep track of all the database related terms you hear these days. What constitutes "big data"? What is NoSQL, and why are your developers so interested in it? And now "NewSQL"? Where do in-memory databases fit into all of this? In this series, we'll untangle the mess...
Today at BlackBerry World in Orlando, FL RIM announced it will add support for managing Android and iOS devices to its BlackBerry Enterprise Server platform. The technology will come from RIM's pending acquisition of ubitexx, which was announced today.RIM also announced the availability of Gist for BlackBerry. RIM acquired Gist...
We try to tell you everything you need to know about the cloud here every week, but sometimes there's just too much news and analysis for us to give everything the space it deserves. This posts highlights some important events and interesting thoughts in cloud clouding from around the Web.Microsoft...
I did not think of the very obvious when writing a post yesterday about Jive Software's new members to its board of directors.The men Jive chose are all talented, intelligent and well-respected people. They have risen to the top of their fields. But where are the women?Jive is not an...
Iran can now track Tor users. Tor users in Iran more than doubled to 2,800 after the 2009 presidential election. Tor, the onion-routing tool that allows users to visit the Internet without betraying what sites they are using, is now traceable by the Iranian security forces. UPI quoted Andrew Lehman,...
I just came across two anecdotes that tell a story about the state of the developer market.The first is from Dan Zambonini, who posted a poll on Hacker News that asks: "Why are you building a web app?" The second comes from Stephen O'Grady of RedMonk who knows the developer...
The notion of the distant, uninvolved and uninvested nerd has taken a well deserved beating in the last few years. But archetypes have an amazing tenancity, even when they've outgrown their value. I wonder if the notion of the empathy-free computer weirdo will survive the Egyptian uprising. Geeks have helped...
A security company that's been working with the government to track down the cyber-activists involved with Anonymous has now become the target of that very group. HBGary's website has been defaced and its CEO Aaron Barr has had his social media accounts hijacked and his personal information leaked online -...
Business social network LinkedInfiled to go public on the stock market today and is expected to be just one of a number of initial public offerings by tech companies this year. In a survey we ran on ReadWriteWeb earlier this month, 66.04% of respondents said they would consider buying stock...
AmazonTote, Amazon's free home-based delivery service, may soon expand into new markets according to a new report from the Financial Times. Although the report was delivered without citing any sources, it seems more than plausible, given Amazon's desire to tap into the groceries market now that it's mastered the art...
It has now been nearly a month since my iPhone committed suicide, jumping out of my pocket's safety and into the shallow water of a sandy-bottomed pond. I stuck it in a bag of rice, desperately trying to revive it, but it was a goner. I even drove it to...
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....
During the holidays, the Web becomes an even more significant part of our lives, connecting us to our relatives and friends around the world. The Internet might be truly global then, but the world of startups still revolves much around Silicon Valley. Together with 40 Nordic entrepreneurs, we decided to...
Well, that didn't take long. The unofficial WikiLeaks app has been yanked from the Apple Store. The app was approved on Dec. 17, but yesterday developer Igor Barinov received word that the app was removed from sale.Apple is by no means the first or only tech company to take this...
Foursquare has an open position for a data scientist. Specifically, the company is looking for someone with "experience with prediction or recommender systems, search and ranking algorithms, and classification algorithms." In September, Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley told the audience at Picnic that the company is building a recommendation engine. About...
Yesterday, Google launched a new version of the Android operating system, Android 2.3, code-named "Gingerbread." Since then, developers have been scouring through the software development kit (SDK) to see what's new. A few have found some interesting items - including hints at possible video chat in Google's GTalk app, references...
Last week, hardware manufacturer Acer announced its Alive store, a single place to buy apps for all Acer platforms, including its newly announced Android and Windows tablets, plus its PCs and smartphones. The store, which launches in December in the UK and Italy, will begin rolling out to other markets ?worldwide in...
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