Below is a Press statement from Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. "The Linux Foundation is disappointed in Nokia's decision todayContinue reading Linux Foundation Press Statement – Meego and Nokia – Jim Zemlin
Online music recommendation service Pandora has had quite the ride over the last several years. In 2006, ReadWriteWeb named it a runner-up in the yearly Best Little Company round-up and we had high hopes for the company. Four months later, we were writing about how Pandora founder Tim Westergren was...
The self-destructing message, whether a piece of paper that mystically disintegrates at the appropriate moment or the microfiche that goes up in a poof of smoke, is a staple of any spy movie and a childhood wish of my own. TigerText, a private SMS app, has made my childhood dream...
Apple has always been known for its clean, elegant user interfaces and designs. iOS is no exception, expect for one problem area - notifications. Its notifications are terrible. If you're in the middle of doing something and you get a push notification, you have no choice but to deal with...
The conference attendees crowded the hall of the Salt Palace to listen to a librarian who specializes in genealogy talk about online tools like the Internet Archive, Flickr and StoryCorps. There was hardly a seat free in a hall that held several thousand. Par for the course for a tech...
The conference attendees crowded the hall of the Salt Palace to listen to a librarian who specializes in genealogy talk about online tools like the Internet Archive, Flickr and StoryCorps. There was hardly a seat free in a hall that held several thousand. Par for the course for a tech...
GLOBAL – "Today Nokia announced plans for a broad strategic partnership with Microsoft to builds a new global mobile ecosystem" with "Windows Phone as its primary smartphone platform". Damn. I know this was news that most of the MeeGo Continue reading Nokia Choose MicroSoft Platform for Smartphones – MeeGo is...
With mobile phones nearing 100% market penetration, the Chinese government appears determined to transform the country's widespread telephone booths into wifi hotspots. "Telecom operators are also trying to setup hotspots in restaurants, hotels, sport facilities, and so on," writes Asian tech blogger Sherman So. "If the idea is really implemented,...
As confirmed earlier today, Nokia is making Windows Phone 7 its primary smartphone platform. First and foremost, this ensures that Nokia and Microsoft remain in the enterprise game. Nokia is much stronger in the enterprise in Europe than in North America, but Apple, RIM and the various Android vendors have...
What does the next generation of location based social networking look like? Unless something shocking comes up, it's probably going to look like this: persistent location tracking, recommendations and deals based on personal location history and selective location sharing with friends. Those are things someone is going to nail and...
What does the next generation of location based social networking look like? Unless something shocking comes up, it's probably going to look like this: persistent location tracking, recommendations and deals based on personal location history and selective location sharing with friends. Those are things someone is going to nail and...
As expected, Nokia and Microsoft announced a new partnership deal ahead of Nokia's Capital Markets Day which will align the two companies to compete together in the mobile economy. As part of the strategy, Nokia will begin using Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 operating system on its mobile devices as...
HP held a big press event in San Francisco yesterday but not to show off a tablet, a phone, or a printer. The company wanted to show the world its vision of the future. HP is betting that in the future, the "cloud" isn't a destination, it's a medium, wires...
Web workers and small teams are always on the lookout for really solid, affordable productivity apps, especially when it comes to task management. Although the field may already seem crowded with popular products like Remember the Milk, Things and Producteev, there's one more that's worth checking out, called Flow.Flow is...
According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, Google could earn $1.3 billion in mobile advertising revenue in 2012, or $9.85 for each Android user. The analyst forecasted there would be 133 million Android users by 2012, and he arrived at the $1.3 billion figure by using publicly quoted numbers from...
NFC, or near field communication, is an emerging technology that enables the exchange of data between devices in close proximity to each other, typically mobile phones. Much of the interest in the technology at present is in its potential to serve as the basis for a mobile payments system, such...
Nokia is expected to announce a new partnership with Microsoft at its annual Capital Markets Day tomorrow, according to several reports. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, an outsider who arrived from Microsoft last year to take charge of the Finnish company, believes that a partnership between Nokia and another yet-to-be named player...
Nokia is expected to announce a new partnership with Microsoft at its annual Capital Markets Day tomorrow, according to several reports. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, an outsider who arrived from Microsoft last year to take charge of the Finnish company, believes that a partnership between Nokia and another yet-to-be named player...
As expected, Nokia and Microsoft announced a new partnership deal ahead of Nokia's Capital Markets Day which will align the two companies to compete together in the mobile economy. As part of the strategy, Nokia will begin using Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 operating system on its mobile devices as...
As we noted back in December, the somewhat crippled implementation of NFC (near field communication) in the Android operating system was only meant to be temporary. Full NFC support would arrive via a series of incremental updates - and now, the first of those updates has arrived. With the Android...
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