Video artist Ze Frank used to say that it would take him all day long to produce each of his five to ten minute long pieces. That's not unusual: creation of multi-media content is incredibly time and resource expensive, especially compared to the creation of text content. That's why I...
As reported earlier this month, Google may be working on a mobile payments service which ties together a number of Google products, including its mobile operating system Android, the business listings on Google Places and Google's recommendation service (plus local advertising program) called Hotpot, which just today arrived in app...
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....
Google Hotpot, the restaurant review system that looks like a game of flashcards, is now pushing recommendations to Google Maps search results pages for participants. A new Google Places app with Hotpot included just hit the iPhone app store, too. Hotpot launched in November and looks firmly aimed at undercutting...
With yesterday's launch of the iPhone on Verizon's network, ending the three-and-a-half year exclusivity deal Apple had with AT&T here in the U.S., there is a lot to get excited about. AT&T users who suffered from poor coverage and dropped calls - basically, phones which really couldn't even be used...
With yesterday's launch of the iPhone on Verizon's network, ending the three-and-a-half year exclusivity deal Apple had with AT&T here in the U.S., there is a lot to get excited about. AT&T users who suffered from poor coverage and dropped calls - basically, phones which really couldn't even be used...
Well-known South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook has shot his latest film entirely on the iPhone 4. The 30-minute short "Paranmanjang," Korean for "ups and downs," is fantasy-horror film about a middle-age man who catches a woman's body while fishing in the middle of the night. Despite some of the limitations...
Last month Gartner released its Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting. The report positioned AT&T, Rackspace, Savvis, Terremark and Verizon as the leaders. Controversially, Amazon.com didn't make the cut as a leader partially because it doesn't offer certain features such as managed hosting or options...
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is almost upon us, and this time, it appears the general theme is "evolution" not "revolution." Like 2010's event, there will be e-books and tablets and newer and better TVs. There will be more 3D and Web-connected devices, including TVs, Blu-ray players and set-top...
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is almost upon us, and this time, it appears the general theme is "evolution" not "revolution." Like 2010's event, there will be e-books and tablets and newer and better TVs. There will be more 3D and Web-connected devices, including TVs, Blu-ray players and set-top...
At the end of every year, ReadWriteWeb reviews the progress (or otherwise) of big Internet organizations and names one of them our 'Best BigCo.' We started this tradition in 2004, making this the 7th year. In 2009 it was Google, thanks to Chrome, Android and other advancements. In 2008 we...
It looks like there's been an interruption in Google's regularly scheduled programming. The company has asked three separate television makers to hold off on their Google TV debuts at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month after receiving a round of lukewarm reviews.Already, both Sony and Logitech have...
With more than 550 million people on Facebook, 65 million tweets posted on Twitter each day, and 2 billion video views each day on YouTube?, social media has become an integral part of our connected lives. But this is just the beginning.For the past two years, I have been forecasting...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt wrote a blog post today about why the network computer failed and how cloud computing has made it possible to support a Web-based operating system.Schmidt calls the announcement of the Chrome OS notebook earlier this week one of the most important developments of his working life....
During this week's roundtable, one of the questions that I answered was about the One Million by One Million program's plans around supporting social enterprises. Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. We see a lot of businesses...
MobiCart, one of the more promising startups to emerge from September's DEMO conference, is a service that lets anyone create their own mobile storefront...for free! Currently, the service supports iOS devices, but the company has plans to include support for Android and Blackberry, according to its website.Today, MobiCart has emerged...
If you're in the market for an enterprise SaaS solutions or a cloud management providers, you've got few resources to evaluate the different options. You can check sites like this one, read analyst reports and or ask for recommendations from your colleagues. LinkedIn's new Company Pages opens up a new...
At last week's Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, several high-profile mobile app designers and publishers spoke about how developers can improve their mobile applications, gain and retain users. On stage were Google's Lead Interaction Designer, Chris Nesladek, Shopkick's co-founder Jeff Sellinger and Urban Airship's CEO Scott Kveton. Each spoke...
Branded mobile apps - that is apps from companies like Starbucks, eBay or Nike - are now a standard fixture in mobile app stores, but a new survey that user interface design and app development agency EffectiveUI commissioned from Harris Interactive found that 38% of users today are not satisfied...
Local search and business review service Yelp entered the location-based check-in game nearly a year ago, following in the footsteps of other services like Foursquare and Gowalla. Over the summer, the company added badges and mayor-like features and we wrote that the move clearly placed Yelp "in direct competition with...
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