If you own a scanner, chances are you are using Nuance's Windows-based PaperPort software, the tool that has been bundled with scanners for more than 20 years. Today the company introduced version 14 of the venerable utility, a new iOS app and a cloud-based scanning solution called PaperPort Anywhere. What...
Appcelerator & IDC's new mobile developer survey is out now, with details on a wide range of development trends including platform choice, developers' future plans and mobile industry challenges. Notably, the companies have now added HTML5 as a new option to rank among mobile development platforms, and its middle-of-road showing...
Having already turned the markets for personal music players, smartphones and tablets on their heads, Apple now appears poised to move even further into another area of consumers' lives: their living rooms. The Apple TV has been around for years and analysts have been predicting Apple's takeover of the living...
Today Tableau announced a new iPad app and a tablet-optimized version of its hosted business intelligence and data visualization solution. "All Tableau views, from both Tableau Server and Tableau Public, are now optimized for touch and gesture experiences when accessed on the iPad," according to the company's announcement.Version 6.1 of...
Google continues its plodding march into the local deals space. They've just acquired The Dealmap, which aggregates local offers and displays them on a Google-powered map. This makes a natural, almost obvious addition to Google's range of local business products as it expands its mobile and social platforms. The acquisition...
Google's Places today expanded its offerings to include restaurant and place recommendations in cities neither you nor anyone you know has recommended before. Recommendations to date have been because "you rated a place like this highly." They now include places "rated highly by people like you." That might sound simple,...
We first bumped into CloudGPS at the first ever MeeGo Conference in Dublin 2010. The Developer was giddy with excitement over his work and frankly, So were we. No one had seen Mapping Graphics on a mobile device work so fast. CloudGPS is a mapping application using OpenGL ES to...
Lectures made sense before the invention of the printing press, argues Harvard physics professor Eric Mazur, but at this point in history they are far from the best way to transmit large amounts of information or to make use of face-to-face time in the classroom.Over nearly 20 years, Mazur has...
Amazon announced today its fifth annual Amazon Web Services Start-up Challenge for entrepreneurs using AWS. This year the contest has been expanded globally and will reward 15 regional semifinalists, five each from the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe/Middle East/Africa. This time Amazon has teamed with YouNoodle.com, a global entrepreneurship network...
We've covered the use of web-, mobile- and location-technologies in the service of the humanities a great deal here at ReadWriteWeb. In fact, my beat, "the culture of technology and the technology of culture" is pretty much devoted to it. Just check out the way we've reported changes in archaeology...
Mobile application search and discovery service Chomp has released its June 2011 report on app search trends and found that, for the second consecutive month, paid app downloads on Android have increased. The increases are small; paid Android app downloads increased just 2% from April to May and only 1%...
As IT becomes more consumerized and cloud computing becomes more of a reality, the app itself is becoming almost irrelevant across enterprises. As the desktop PC model has morphed into the network, and as the network has become just another extension of the Internet, it is all about the API,...
Today, Adobe is launching a new tool called Adobe Edge which will allow creative professionals to design animated Web content using Web standards like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Not Flash.Aimed to coexist with Adobe Flash, not replace it, the Web design software is Adobe's big bet on how it will...
What can it do ? Keep track of the most important people in your life, Latitude Assist for helps you and your family to be located by SOS, out of secured zone area or over speed. Includes SOS tool that allow you to set up to 3 SOS...
Tommi Laukkanen had a dilemma . He needed a Task ToDo Manager that he could run on his "New" Nokia N950 but the Application didn't exist. Well, Like any good developer he started making his own called MeeToDo. I like to get things done. Sometimes there are just...
American Express' new digital payments platform Serve has just announced its second operator partnership here in the U.S. will be with Verizon Wireless. This news follows last month's report that Sprint would also integrate the Serve platform into select Android phones on its network.According to Verizon, its customers will be...
The iPad isn't just a hot new consumer device, it's also an increasingly popular tool for business. Each week we take a look at the new or updated business apps for the iPad, and highlight trends in how tablets are being used in the enterprise.This week we take a look...
The following is a post from Gogi.In: In my previous post I had mentioned about the Samsung N100 Netbook and the MeeGo operating system that it comes loaded with. I checked the MeeGo site and found the OS quite interesting and so I tried the MeeGo v1.2 Linux OS on...
Trover, a photo-driven app for exploring places, has launched out of private beta. Trover lets users share location-tagged photos and browse them by time and location.Though Trover is a photo-sharing app, it is organized for exploration, not just for browsing images. Don't think Instagram; Trover's roots within Seattle-based travel startup...
AT&T has announced that starting on Oct. 1 it will throttle the data speeds of users with unlimited data plans who exceed bandwidth thresholds on its 3G network. AT&T is following in the tracks Verizon and Virgin Mobile in reducing data throughput speeds of its heaviest mobile data users. With...
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