Mobile marketing platform PlayHaven released new tools today to help app developers maximize the success of their mobile games. Oftentimes game developers will enter their games into an app store and see an initial spike of traffic only to see downloads and engagement flat line over time. PlayHaven believes it...
For a conference whose host boldly proclaims, "We live in the post-PC revolution," most of the innovations introduced by partners and third parties at this year's Dreamforce conference are probably best suited for viewing from your favorite PC Web browser.One huge exception this week comes from Seesmic, which came to...
It may seem less of a shock to those who experience history as a constant, flowing stream, who perceive events as progressions rather than snapshots, who remember the recent, and then the distant, past by rewinding their memories past last week, last year, the year before, to eventually arrive at...
Music streaming service Spotify is opening up development tools to iOS developers which will allow them to write tools for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Spotify functionality will now become available for integration into any iOS app and will be able bring the music services library of 15 million...
ReadWriteWeb presents exclusive embedded video of the Dreamforce 2011 conference in San Francisco, with running commentary by Scott Fulton. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff leads the festivities, and he's beginning by driving home the message that PCs have held users back the way Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Khadafi held back Egypt...
Adam Greenfield was the author of what is still my favorite book about the Internet of Things, Everyware (first published in 2006). Greenfield is now walking the talk with a IoT business called Urbanscale. I've been following its progress, via Greenfield's weekly newsletter on the Urbanscale blog. One of Urbanscale's...
iTunes Match, the cloud music syncing feature that will be launched with iOS 5 this Fall, is now available to developers. Earlier reports that it would enable streaming of songs turned out to be false, but Match is a significant update to the way iTunes works nonetheless.Beginning this Fall, users...
I recently received an email from the guys at MixApp. MixApp was the first collective listening web app. It was founded at the beginning of 2010 by a group of friends who wanted to build the product for themselves, like Foursquare's story. Now, they are closing shop: "Dear all, "At...
Data marketplace and platform Infochimps launched a set of big new features this morning: a common geodata schema that aggregates information about places from multiple sources and offers it up in one API, an automated method of visualizing crowded geodata sets on a map called The Summarizer and a new...
Yesterday's VMware announcements were all about the data center and the global cloud ecosystem. Today the announcements are more end-user focused. Today the company took the wraps off VMware View 5 and updates to VMware Horizon.Aside from a scenic theme to the announcements, what's going on with View and Horizon?...
In a blog post published today, Mozilla user experience designer Ian Barlow previewed the user interface their Mobile Team is in the process of building for a tablet version of Firefox. Firefox for tablets, which does not yet have a release date, will be optimized to run on Honeycomb Android...
Mobile app development framework PhoneGap announced today that it is releasing a plugin that will allow developers to easily connect their apps to Facebook. PhoneGap is bypassing the normal Facebook software developer kit and using Facebook's Javascript SDK to connect apps to the social giant.Nitobi, which created PhoneGap, said that...
This week SplashData will announce the launch of SplashID Enterprise 2.0, featuring updated Windows and Mac OS clients, new mobile apps and a Web-based application for better ID management. They have also integrated the service into Microsoft's Active Directory and now offer a free 30-day trial for unlimited users, and...
The whole point of having a virtual desktop infrastructure is so you can move your office wherever it needs to be, and access it through whatever you can carry with you. And the whole point of unified communications (UC) is so you can integrate all the information and voice traffic...
Mobile advertising company Nexage announced today that it will support rich media ad units using the ORMMA standard. Nexage is adding ORMMA (open rich media mobile advertising) compliance to both iOS and Android software developer kits to deliver rich media ads across its revenue platform that includes a robust real-time...
If you've ever felt underwhelmed by the Web browsing experience on the iPhone, perhaps MoboTap can help. The company just launched an iOS version of its Dolphin Browser, a third party mobile Web browser popular among Android users. In addition to touting a very Chrome-esque tabbed browsing interface, Dolphin has...
In April, social media startup Kosmix was acquired for $300 million by retailing giant Walmart. Kosmix had built a Semantic Web platform called the Social Genome, which organized social media data. The platform powered 3 products: TweetBeat, a real-time social media filter for live events; Kosmix.com, a topic-based search engine;...
It's time for the US Open tennis tournament and inside the players' lounge, there's an ominous sign posted by the event's Tennis Integrity Unit warning of the dangers posed by Twitter.Snapped quickly and posted online by CNBC sports business reporter Darren Rovell, the posted sign and policy are an amusing...
We have long been anticipating the Amazon tablet. Apparently, so has research firm Forrester, which released a report today on the business logistics of an Amazon tablet in a market dominated by Apple's iPad. If Amazon can come in at a price point below $300 and can withstand demand, Forrester...
We all know what the acronym BYOB means, but when it comes to bringing your own mobile devices, there are several implications for enterprise IT managers. Of course, BYOD isn't a new concept: people have been bringing their own PCs and connecting them to corporate networks almost as soon as...
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