Evernote just announced the launch of sponsored business accounts for organizations and businesses. These new account types will give schools, businesses and other organizations the option to pay for their members' and employees' accounts. As the company's CEO Phil Libin just told us during an interview at LeWeb in Paris,...
An iPhone application for Google Latitude, Google's location-based friend tracking service, was spotted last night in the Japanese iTunes App Store, thanks to a TechCrunch tipster. Shortly thereafter, the application was pulled down and is now no longer available. Obviously, Latitude's iPhone launch was a bit premature. But it's coming....
BMC and Salesforce.com announced a new joint venture today: RemedyForce - a hosted IT management system based on BMC's popular Remedy product and the Force.com platform. In an announcement today, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff described RemedyForce as "the next major Salesforce cloud offering." At the core of RemedyForce is IT...
One of the most cited features of technology is that it helps humans do things faster, easier and more accurately. While we have gone far from the next room call placed by Graham, we still have giant strides to make. Nokia has been putting great effort in making significant contributions...
Amazon's Kindle books will soon be readable as content embedded on Web pages and Web page publishers will be able to land affiliate fees for Kindle books they sell to their own audiences, the company announced today.You too can now pay $9.99 to read text on a Web page, in...
Today is the first day of the 8th Dreamforce, the annual conference for Salesforce.com users. In advance of the keynote, Salesforce.com has already announced Database.com and Chatter Free. We're listening for other new announcements during the keynote.9:15 Benioff opens by noting that attendance for the event is at 14,500; will.i.am...
Yesterday, Google launched a new version of the Android operating system, Android 2.3, code-named "Gingerbread." Since then, developers have been scouring through the software development kit (SDK) to see what's new. A few have found some interesting items - including hints at possible video chat in Google's GTalk app, references...
Salesforce.com will announce its new hosted service Database.com today at its Dreamforce in San Francisco. Database.com is a stand-alone service available via its SOAP and REST APIs to any language on any platform or device. - not just Force.com developers. Database.com will be generally available in 2011 and, like Force.com,...
This year enterprise 2.0 went from being a fringe idea to being mainstream as CIOs started asking "how?" instead of "why?" Big name vendors entered the marketplace with new products and existing vendors released new versions with innovative new features.We chose to break up the enterprise products of the year...
One of the more subtle trends of 2010 has been the way that our reading habits have changed, due to a convergence of other Web trends: mobile apps, real-time Web (mostly Twitter), and social networking as a way to track news (mostly Facebook). In the previous era of the Web,...
Venture capital database VentureDeal has released its report on investment trends for the third quarter of 2010. During the third quarter, the report finds total funding for Internet companies down by 14% and the number of companies funded down by 6%. The mobile sector, however, saw a 40% increase over...
Apigee,Hootsuite and Model Metrics are now integrating with the new Salesforce.com REST API. The API is a new frontier for Salesforce.com. The company was finding that its SOAP-based API, though valuable, was not as applicable as REST is to mobile devices and social applications. "We needed to make sure we...
"The iPhone is great," I often joke, "right up until you have to make a phone call." Frustrations with dropped calls, missing text messages and overall shoddy AT&T service are legion. Those frustrations are reflected in a new satisfaction survey of 58,000 Consumer Reports readers that ranks AT&T the lowest-scoring...
The NFC Forum has developed the "N-Mark," a trademark which will allow consumers to easily identify NFC (near field communications)-enabled devices. Today, the Forum started a certification program for device manufacturers which will allow them to establish their products as being in compliance with the NFC Forum's technical specifications. Only...
The rumored "Nexus S," also once referred to as the "Nexus 2," has now been officially confirmed by Google. This flagship Android device is the successor to the original "Nexus One," the ground-breaking smartphone which featured a clean installation of the Android operating system. Like the first Nexus phone, the...
After more than a year since we first heard the rumors, Google has entered the world of e-books. Today, the company launched its e-book marketplace with more than 3 million titles on the shelves that will be available to nearly anyone with a smartphone, laptop, tablet, netbook or desktop computer.Previously...
Apple may be planning to launch its Mac App Store this month, according to an unnamed source cited by the blog Appletell. If true, that would be ahead of schedule - Apple CEO Steve Jobs originally promised a launch within 90 days, when plans for the Store were revealed at...
As expected, Salesforce.com announced a freemium version of its enterprise collaboration product Chatter today. Chatter Free will use an invitation model. Any Chatter user will be able invite any colleague to Chatter, even if that colleague isn't already a Chatter user. We selected Chatter as ReadWriteWeb's new enterprise product of...
StreamWork, SAP's enterprise collaboration SaaS, is now available in the Google Apps Marketplace. The company also announced an enterprise edition of StreamWork and a mobile application for BlackBerry handsets. Although SAP is best known as an enterprise software, StreamWork has been focused on SMBs up until now.Given StreamWork's focus on...
Keeping up with every RSS feed item and tweet is hard enough for anybody, let alone someone trying to run a business. That's why at the end of every week, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week's most important tech news and insights for small and medium-sized businesses.The Google Small Business blog...
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