When you've got just a moment to spare and your brain has a hunger for the freshest good news in whatever field of interest you focus on - what do you do? These days I spend those times perusing hot blog posts, fresh Tweets and great screenshots from the Web's...
In the spirit of keeping you up-to-date on mobile industry news and changes, we've rounded up a few items you may have missed over the last week or so. This round-up includes an update on the games network OpenFeint, details about Sencha Touch 1.1's release, the latest numbers for the...
Here we are at the opening for Sugar CRM's Sugarcon event. The theme is openness and the social world.This is a defining event for Sugar as the service is moving deeper into the enterprise with IBM as a partner. IBM is investing heavily in Sugar CRM. A total of six...
U.S. operator Sprint is planning to launch its own NFC-enabled mobile payments service ahead of Isis, the joint venture from the three other major U.S. operators, AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless. While Isis plans to launch commercial services in 2012, in conjunction with Discover and Baclays U.S., part of U.K....
Over the weekend, the group of iPhone hackers known as the Dev Team released two new tools to jailbreak the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 4.3.1. Both the PwnageTool and the tool called redsn0w allow users to perform an "untethered" jailbreak, which means that when rebooting your...
For online radio service Pandora, the car was a logical place to take their web app. At a SXSW Interactive panel on connected cars, Jessica Steel of Pandora noted that radio is already a well established experience inside a car. "50% of all radio listening happens in the car," she...
It's Sugar CRM's first ever analyst day and Estaban Kolsky has the best tweet so far for what we are seeing.In his words: "To summarize, SugarCRM v6 is now hype, technology, trend, and coolness compliant - you can do pretty much anything you want w/it."It seems like a good time...
Angry Birds has been ported from mobile phones to netbooks. The game is now available from all versions of Intel AppUp center, including those distributed by Best Buy, Best Buy Canada, Future Shop, Dixons, Walmart, Asus, Croma, HSN, New Egg and TigerDirect. Angry Birds makes an interesting case study for...
In a tweet today Forrester analyst James Kobielus asked when business intelligence vendors will leverage augmented reality to overlay 3D analytics. Kobielus was responding to an article from Smarter Technology called "Augmented Reality: From Zero to Billions in No Time," which looks at the emerging AR market, how the technology...
Over the Weekend the Flourish 2011 Open Source Conference took place in Chicago. Unfortunately we could not attend but we did dig up some information for you. One of the sessions of particular interest to us was by Rajesh Lal from Nokia titled Fun with QML and JavaScript on MeeGo...
The Web is awash in "exchange data" - from apartment listings on Craigslist to job listings on LinkedIn, Monster and Twitter. There are handcrafted goods on Etsy and real estate offerings on Zillow. But each site offers its own method for hosting similar data, with the end user left to...
Spammers are using Facebook Events to trick users into completing online surveys, taking part in online contests and perform other tasks which allow spammers to generate commissions. In some cases, users are also tricked into giving up their mobile phone number, which is then automatically signed up for expensive premium...
Amazon may integrate the emerging technology known as NFC (near field communication) into its mobile applications, allowing customers to pay for items at point-of-sale using only their mobile phone. The technology is currently being explored by the company's Amazon Payments unit, BusinessWeek recently reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the...
It's the one year anniversary of the launch of the iPad. But has the iPad had as much impact on the online world as smartphones like the iPhone and Android phones? In an internal discussion here at ReadWriteWeb, at least one of our number uses smartphones far more than the...
iPads. Interactive Whiteboards. Netbooks. Video games. Although educational technologies are being implemented more and more in classrooms across the country, we don't often stop and ask students - or their parents - what they think their technology needs are. But the newly-released Speak Up 2010 survey has done just that....
It was two short, short years ago that the Obama administration thrilled data and transparency wonks by launching Data.gov, USASpending.gov and a number of other ambitious sites. But as Marshall Kirkpatrick reported in our top story this week, Congress is now planning to eliminate the sites' funding. There's a push...
At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced our collaboration with Microsoft around a $100,000 grant that they are offering to four Indian entrepreneurs as follows: A $40,000 grant each to two entrepreneurs, one in Mobility and one in Cloud Computing; and a $10,000 grant to two...
The iPad isn't just a hot new consumer device, it's also an increasingly popular tool for business. Every week we take a look at the latest developments in its use in the enterprise.This week we look at iPad-only applications for sales people, a company bringing Microsoft SharePoint to the iPad...
We've written before about the Quantified Self, the movement to track our own behavior and biology online in order to know where we're at and how well we're taking care of ourselves. This week I learned about what is undoubtedly the most sophisticated self-tracker I've seen yet: Basis. Now available...
Apple may be considering adding a 3D photo capabilities to a future iPhone, according to this recently uncovered patent application. Of course, Apple patents many things, so you can't take this as confirmation of a forthcoming iPhone feature. That said, there are some 3D-enabled smartphones arriving on the market ahead...
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