Continuing our series on iPad apps for work, today we'll look at presentation tools. Presentations seem like the killer use case for business travelers that need to give presentations but don't need a full-powered laptop.Not every iPad app is capable of outputting to a projector, so even if you want...
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...
In a nutshell MARSSA (www.marssa.org) is the first open source community-driven project in the marine industry: www.marssa.org MARSSA will serve as the base for integration, compatibility and interoperability of electronic systems in the marine industry. With MARSSA the marine industry will become opportunity-driven and innovative with enhanced competitiveness. The...
Application and content discovery on the iPad can be a daunting task, especially for new users. Users often get a feeling of "I know this is a cool piece of technology, but I don't know what to do with it." Sometimes it takes a tech geek friend to show you...
As promised, Google's upcoming version of its Android mobile operating system, code-named Ice Cream Sandwich, will merge the two different versions of Android in existence today. At present, Android-based smartphones run Gingerbread (Android 2.3) or older, while Android-based tablet computers run Honeycomb (Android 3.0). With Ice Cream Sandwich, due out...
Visa announced today it will launch a next-generation digital wallet service which aims to revolutionize electronic payments, including those made online, on a mobile phone, or offline at the point-of-sale. The platform allows consumers to create a digitized version of their actual wallet, in which they load all their cards,...
Android@Home is a new Google framework, announced today, that will allow you to control everything in your home from an Android device. It's an exciting development from Google, which up till now has been on the periphery of the Internet of Things - the fast-evolving trend where real world objects...
Google's yearly developer conference, Google I/O, begins today in San Francisco and we're live at the event to bring you the opening keynote. The speculation thus far has been that Google will finally unveil the long-awaited Google Music offering, which has indeed just gone live on the Web.Stay tuned for...
The National Security Agency is the geekiest of the spy shops. The NSA is responsible for gathering and parsing information from around the world, usually electronic data. At ReadWriteWeb, we're no strangers to big data, in fact we're fans. But sometimes you come face to face with facts and figures...
Today at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, Google announced the opening up and general availability of the Google Places API.The API, which has been in a closed beta testing and only available for a select number of companies for the past year, gives developers access to Google's...
Remember the Milk, a popular task management Web and mobile app, recently launched their long-awaited offering for the iPad. Although the desktop Web version of Remember the Milk works fine on the iPad, the interface doesn't quite take advantage of the tablet form factor. Their new native iOS app fixes...
Mobile applications are not all just about games and news. There are tangible real world benefits that can be derived from apps. There are apps for banking and budgets, calendars and scheduling and keeping yourself healthy.WebMD, one of the leading Internet health sites, has released a mobile application for Android....
ViVOtech may not be a household name like Google, Visa, MasterCard or even VeriFone, but it is a company at the forefront of the NFC industry. This software-and-systems company connects banks, retail stores and mobile phone providers who are offering NFC products and services to consumers. More recently, ViVOtech has...
Google is finally launching its Google Music service at this week's Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, a year after its reveal at the last event. The new service will be similar to what Amazon launched in March, an online storage locker where your songs will be stored in...
The hardest part of finding good music online these days is discovering what you should look for in the first place. Almost all our old favorites are available on demand but finding good new bands and songs remains a challenge. Various services are competing to fill this need as effectively...
Today the Linux Foundation announced that Ixonos is its newest member. For some of us that maybe news, for some of us (me) it was a shock as I already thought they were a Member (?). Ixonos is a company that is offers services that range from concept design,...
Internet TV platform Rokuannounced today that it has reached 15 million channel downloads from the more than one million people on its service. Roku's growth has been spurred by its expanding selection of entertainment channels and the company's recent move into U.S. retail stores. Roku is simple and as a...
Google has launched a test extension for its Chrome Web browser and browser-based Chrome OS computer operating system which seems to solve the problem of easily moving photos from a camera to online services like Google's Picasa. This is more of challenge for Google's so-called "cloud" operating system, Chrome OS,...
Microsoft recently announced a number of changes to its mobile application submission process for Windows Phone 7 to address concerns and confusion cited by its developer community. The changes were made in response to this developer feedback, says Microsoft, and are designed to streamline the overall process, add clarity and...
Want to be able to wirelessly sync songs from iTunes to your Android smartphone? How about the ability to stream media from your Android to your Apple TV, Xbox or PS3? Popular Android syncing application doubleTwist has released an extension to its app that allows users to connect their smartphone...
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