OpenStreetMap is a global map edited by volunteers, like the Wikipedia of the mapping world. Founded in 2004, the project is a fascinating collection of local knowledge and is a lot of fun to participate in. Last month OpenStreetMap founder Steve Coast announced that he was leaving for-profit Cloud Made,...
As we said last week, it's prediction season. We've kicked off our own trends to watch series, but we also wanted to check in with what the analyst firms are saying. Forrester, Gartner and ZapThink have all published their own trend watch-lists. Common themes include cloud computing, mobility and analytics.ForresterForrester...
Verizon Wireless announced that it's extending Skye support to more devices, specifically, "select prepaid smartphones," now bringing the total number of supported devices to 20. For Verizon customers on prepaid accounts, this is good news - using Skype can dramatically lower your rates when making long-distance calls.According to the carrier,...
Skyfire, the mobile browser that brought Flash video to the iPhone, iPad and Android mobile devices, is unveiling version 3.0 for Android today. This latest version of Skyfire, dubbed the "Facebook edition", offers a seriously slick social media integration that, quite honestly, we would like to see on our desktop....
Two new enterprise apps are debuting today that work on the iPad. Last week, Google Docs became available on the iPad.All three apps follow a theme. They provide new ways for a mobile workforce to get work done. With an iPad, workers in the field do not have to carry...
Describing itself as "part online bookstore, part social network," and "the world's first truly social e-reading platform," Copia has launched a platform designed to bring together book-buying, reading and discussion. While there are several sites, such as Goodreads that let you share your reading lists, habits, and reviews with others,...
At HP-Palm's "Developer Day" in New York this weekend, the company revealed details regarding its new application framework called Enyo, named after the Greek goddess of war. Reportedly, the framework loads apps faster, is more flexible and easier to use, and will help support a number of different device form...
Google is unveiling its service to connect a Google account to Microsoft Office today.Google Cloud Connect is intended for people who have not made the full move to Google Docs and are still using Microsoft Office.It allows people to use the Office interface with the features that come with Google...
Apple has released the long-awaited iOS 4.2 update for iPad today, the first major software upgrade for the iPad since its launch earlier this year. For iPhone users, the majority of the software's features are nothing new - multitasking, app folders, threaded messages, fast inbox switching, a Unified Inbox and...
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.There was a slew of...
This was a good week to be an Android developer, a bad week to be a woman on Facebook, and - if you had $360,000 on hand - your first chance to buy up 50% of the Twitter firehose. (As of right now it's flowing at about 1,000 Tweets every...
Data centers hum day and night. More often than ever before we connect to these cloud environments through Wi-Fi networks. According to PCWorld, now it looks like the radiation from Wi-Fi networks is making our trees sick.According to the study, translated from Dutch using Google Translate, trees in urban areas...
Facebook's domination of the Internet continues, as evidenced by numbers released today by Experian Hitwise today that find Facebook accounting for nearly 1 in 4 page views in the United States.In March the intelligence company found that visits to Facebook had surpassed those to Google. And since then, Facebook's growth...
Last week, Apple launched a partnership with Twitter that allows the users of its Ping social network to send their likes to their Twitter streams. Using Microsoft's Archivist, we tapped into the Twitter firehose over the last few days and took a look at how Ping is doing on Twitter....
HTML5 was one of the top trends of 2010 (see Richard's post for a detailed analysis of what has been accomplished so far). And one of the areas seeing increased use of HTML5 is mobile devices. In fact, Richard wrote earlier this week, the Mobile Web is one of the...
Just ahead of the holiday shopping season, Amazon has enabled a new feature in its Kindle store: e-book gift giving. Amazon's customers will now be able to give Kindle books to anybody with an e-mail address, whether they are existing Kindle users or not. According to Amazon, the Kindle store...
At last week's Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, mobile industry leaders including Yahoo! CTO Raymie Stata, SVP and GM at NBA Digital Bryan Perez, and C?EO of Foursquare Dennis Crowley, talked about the changing dynamics of the mobile Internet value chain and what opportunities there are outside of the iTunes...
2010 has been a watershed year for the next version of HTML, the markup language that all web pages are written in. The reason for the emerging popularity of HTML5 strikes at the heart of a company by the name of Adobe: interactivity. Adobe's near ubiquitous Flash technology has been...
Twitter announced yesterday that for the first time, outside developers will be allowed to purchase access to 50% of all the messages that flow through its network. The price for half the firehose? $360,000 per year, payable to partner company Gnip.The full firehose delivers 1,000 Tweets each second, Twitter's Ryan...
For the first time ever, Android has tied with Apple's iOS platform in terms of mobile ad impressions on Millennial Media's mobile advertising network, according to its latest monthly report. Android's mobile operating system has seen rapid gains over the course of 2010, and has increased its ad requests by...
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