China based Red Flag Software has showed off a MeeGo-based tablet prototype at a software trade event in Dalian, China. Red Flag Software, an early supporter of the Intel Atom-oriented Moblin mobile Linux operating system that forms the basis of MeeGo, said the NPad tablet will go on sale in...
Google Docs rolled out a new feature today, with the addition of a "Version history" for uploaded files. Now you can upload new versions of the same file, and the URL and sharing and folder settings will remain the same. To use this new feature, select a file, then choose...
For a while now, Google has allowed select mobile advertisers to add their phone number to AdWord text ads so that customers can just click on the number and place a call. Until now, though, it was hard to track how well these ads really performed, as Google didn't give...
Today Oracle announced its intent to acquire e-commerce company ATG. In addition to typical online retail features, ATG offers analytics, click-to-call and call tracking features that will compliment Oracle's own offerings. Forrester's Suresh Vittal and Altimeter's R "Ray" Wang agree that the move targetsIBM.Although Larry Ellison has been more known...
This morning, the new Foursquare Elections page went live. And when the polls open, Foursquare users who check in at polling places around the country will receive an official badge. If they choose, they can shout out to friends on Foursquare or their followers on Twitter using the #IVoted hashtag....
It's been just over two months since Skyfire submitted its mobile browser to the App Store and today the app has been approved. The big to-do, of course, is that Skyfire brings Flash video to the iPhone and iPad by translating it into HTML5 video in real time.When the company...
Mobile security and antivirus software maker Lookout is launching a premium version of its popular Android software on November 16th, via a solution called "Lookout Premium for Android." The new system includes additional privacy controls, expanded data backup and restore capabilities, remote wipe and lock, priority customer support plus the...
Right now, it's easy enough to store all of your commonly used documents and files on the Web so you have access to them wherever you go, right? But what about the rest of your settings - all the tweaks and settings that make your computer yours? What if you...
Amazon.com is buying more land in Oregon, showing again why the the Pacific Northwest is a choice region for companies such as Google, Facebook and T-Mobile to build data centers.According to Data Center Knowledge, Amazon has already built a data center in Boardman, Oregon, along the Columbia River. It also...
The mobile payment space has been heating up lately, with some big-time names like Bank of America and Visa partnering up to test out mobile payments. The big problem with most of these solutions, however, comes down to hardware requirements and compatibility. Last week, however, PayPal updated its iPhone app...
Note to Android developers: the Google Android Market is open, but it's not that open. After being profiled by The New York Times Bits blog, DLP Mobile's new app Secret SMS Replicator, which forwards all SMS text messages to another device unbeknownst to a phone's owner, has been banned from...
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.We heard quite a bit...
Estimates peg the number of text messages that'll be sent worldwide this year to be around 6.1 trillion, triple the number that were sent in 2007. American teenagers - renowned for ther embrace of text messaging - send and receive on average 3339 texts per month. And although many people,...
Millions of tweets run through Twitter. It's the poster child for big data on the Web.To get data out of Twitter and use it to track sentiment requires tools with considerable processing and computational capabilities.BigSheets is a tool created by IBM that takes terabytes or even petabytes of Web data...
It's pretty common for our live blogging of Apple events to be the top story of the week, but this week Microsoft finally had its day with Frederic Lardinois' coverage of the PDC Keynote event. In Internet of Things news, Richard MacManus explained how to connect your car to the...
Edith Yeung has a knack for bringing smart people together. For evidence of that, one needed to look no further than the fourth floor auditorium of the Metreon in San Francisco last weekend. It was there that Yeung and her team hosted a series of speakers, panels and product demos...
YouTube crossed the 1 billion subscriptions mark today and if some of those aren't yours - you're missing out. Subscription to YouTube channels is a great way to make use of the service, especially on mobile devices.Have you got some favorite YouTube subscriptions? I do, and I thought I'd share...
Hardware manufacturer Samsung recently launched a new developer forum for its upcoming Android tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Although developing apps for the new device is similar to developing apps for Android smartphones, the larger screen size of the Galaxy Tab (7 inches, with a 1024x600 resolution) allows for more...
A few months ago, we wrote a list featuring some of the top jailbreak apps for the iPhone 4. And yet, things like a Wi-Fi hotspot and lockscreen customizations couldn't convince some of our readers. One person even commented: "I keep looking for a reason [to jailbreak], but it's just...
Google has updated Google Maps for Android and is launching Google Maps 4.6 this morning. The latest edition of Google Maps for Android comes with updates to Place page reviews, upgraded search filters and an option to view you and your friends' locations in real-time, using Google Latitude.Google knows that,...
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