Google has always been proactive about making it easy to learn how to use their online advertising and analysis products. After all, the more people use AdWords and related offerings, the more revenue Google makes, and the better-equipped business owners are to reach potential customers. Google Engage For Agencies is...
Yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show, All Things Digital's Kara Swisher interviewed Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and discussed the future of Twitter as a business, the company's plans for the future, and how it plans on growing in the mainstream.After explaining why a company like Twitter would be at a...
Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, All Things Digital's Kara Swisher interviewed Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and started off with the most obvious question - what was Twitter doing at a gadget show? According to Costolo, Twitter had been busy meeting with several device makers to try to make it...
Verizon has just announced it will be holding a press conference following this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2011). The invite to the event, which will be held at New York City's Lincoln Center (Frederick P. Rose Hall) on January 11, is arriving in select journalists' inboxes as we speak....
In case you missed it, this week we finally got our official first look at Honeycomb, the tablet-only version of Android (Android 3.0). On Wednesday, Google teased us with a preview video of the new mobile operating system, which represents a fairly large departure in terms of user interface elements,...
During Samsung's keynote address at yesterday's Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2011) in Las Vegas, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar joined Samsung U.S. President Tim Baxter on stage to announce that Hulu Plus, the premium version of the streaming service for TV and movies, will be coming to Android devices in the...
This week's top stories were a grab bag: Twitter and NoSQL, open educational resources, mobile video and a blogging forefather reinventing blogging. Sounds like a typical week here at ReadWriteWeb. Foursquare's launch of a Jersey Shore badge (yeah, it freaked us out, too) was the top location story. In Internet...
You might not think about video transcoding software very often, but the technology it takes to prepare all those videos you watch on your iPad is helping drive new developments that will enable a very different experience of online video in the future. "Video on the iPad," says Sam Blackman,...
Everywhere you look at this year's Consumer Electronics Show there's another company or device focused on streaming content to the ever-expanding sea of mobile users. There are cars with Pandora-enabled stereo systems, Netflix-streaming smartphones and Yahoo-connected tablets. With each new device we add more and more burden to the infrastructure...
As technology companies like Google, Sony, and Intel are working to deliver Web content into the living room, Web publishers, content producers, and advertisers are busy looking into the (not so distant) future to determine how to be successful in this new space. As a Web publisher with a strong...
Skype is on a roll today. The voice and video over IP provider was reported this morning to now deliver 25% of all international calling minutes, then the company acquired live mobile video provider Qik for $100 million. Now Skype has announced that it has gone live with a feature...
Programmable Web is a guide for the state of APIs. It provides one of the clearest pictures about APIs, the uses and how they are being adopted.This week, Programmable Web did its review of the past year. Here are some of their findings.A total of 1,019 APIs were added to...
More signs today pointing to Skype's expansion: reports that the VOIP giant has acquired mobile video streaming company Qik for $100 million.Update: Skype has confirmed the acquisition on its blog: "Through this acquisition, we'll also be able to take advantage of the engineering expertise that is behind Qik's Smart Streaming...
As CES 2011 continues, filled with dozens upon dozens of Android tablets, Google decides to at last grant everyone a sneak peek of "Honeycomb," the tablet-friendly version of its mobile operating system Android due to launch sometime this year. As previously rumored, Honeycomb will be tablet-only, and not available for...
mSpot, a streaming music and movie service, has just announced its partnership with Google TV to deliver more content to the Internet TV platform. The service offers full-length movie rentals, but it also works between devices so you can pick up where you left off when watching a film on...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer officially confirmed the timeframe for the series of planned updates to the company's mobile phone platform Windows Phone 7 during his keynote address at this week's Consumer Electronics Shows (CES 2011) in Las Vegas. No, he didn't give an exact launch date for the updates -...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer officially confirmed the timeframe for the series of planned updates to the company's mobile phone platform Windows Phone 7 during his keynote address at this week's Consumer Electronics Shows (CES 2011) in Las Vegas. No, he didn't give an exact launch date for the updates -...
Apple has opened the new Mac App Store for business this morning. At launch, the store features more than 1000 free and paid apps.The store brings the iTunes app sales model to Mac apps, an effort to make it as easy to find, buy, and install apps on your Mac...
How long have you been hearing about both Apple's and Google's much-anticipated cloud music and media offerings? While we spent much of 2010 waiting to see which of the two Internet giants would get there first, another player was lurking in the background and is now stepping into the fray...
Here's a twist. Yahoo is launching a native Flickr app for Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7 later this month that leverages Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.The app connects Flickr data with Windows Azure via an API. Using Windows Azure, Yahoo is able to optimize the images for the Windows 7...
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