Microsoft rolled out Microsoft Office Web Apps on Skydrive to users in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Ireland yesterday. Users can login with their free Live accounts and create and edit Word 2010, PowerPoint 2010, OneNote 2010 and Excel 2010 documents in their browsers, and store them in the cloud....
Have you ever tried to plan a get-together with a group of friends only to find yourself texting and calling individual people in a frantic maze of communication? Thankfully there are now web apps that make the process of event planning easier, but what about those times when you need...
This is one headline Google doesn't want to see this morning. Less than 24 hours after Apple introduced its latest and greatest creation, the iPhone 4, at its conference for Apple developers, a small, but growing group of Android developers are reporting issues with their updated applications disappearing from the...
This morning, much of the tech world stood still as Steve Jobs delivered his keynote address at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, introducing the next-generation iPhone. As usual with a "Jobsnote," Steve took some time to let the audience know where the company stood with a few back-patting statistics. Jobs said...
By 2015, it's estimated there will be one trillion connected devices. People with pacemakers will be monitored by wireless systems. In the near future, automobiles will run on 64-bit, multi-core processors, running millions of lines of code.It's a future that IBM believes will be increasingly dominated by a "system of...
According to reports by the venture capital database, VentureDeal, overall venture funding for Internet technologies in the first quarter of 2010 held steady compared to the last quarter of 2009.These reports assess four sectors: alternative energy, biotech, telecom and wireless, and Internet and ecommerce. Of these areas, overall investment in...
The presentation by Steve Jobs opening Apple's developer conference today was packed full of details large and small about the company's hardware and software, but the one detail that could have the biggest long-term impact well beyond Apple itself was the introduction of Apple's new video calling system, FaceTime. Jobs...
The iPhone 4 is now here and it's all that we had hoped for and... well, that's about it. Apple's now predictable keynote began with stats, ended with "one more thing" and detailed a few highlights throughout regarding the company's latest creation, the iPhone 4.But one thing didn't happen today:...
At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference today Steve Jobs specifically highlighted iOS4's support for the enterprise. "I wanted to hit for a moment on the enterprise integration - our customers are thrilled," Jobs said. He announced support for multiple Exchange accounts and support for Exchange Server 2010, as well as...
Today in San Francisco, Steve Jobs introduced the newest iPhone to a packed house in Moscone Center for the Worldwide Developers Conference. The device, dubbed the iPhone 4, features live video chat with a front-facing camera, a thin stainless steel design and 720p HD video capabilities. Predictably, the prices come...
During his WWDC keynote today, Steve Jobs announced that Microsoft's Bing will now be one of the search options in Safari on the iPhone. Microsoft already developed a Bing iPhone application that allows iPhone users to use the search engine's features on the iPhone without having to create a browser...
Excitement is building for our upcoming Real-Time Web Summit on June 11 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. This is our first East Coast summit and it has some absolutely amazing attendees. If you haven't registered yet, I don't know what you are waiting for - register today...
This morning at Moscone Center in San Francisco, Apple is expected to introduce its newest member of the iPhone family as Steve Jobs is set to deliver another carefully crafted keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). As per usual, the highly-anticipated event has sent the rumor mills spinning...
You may have heard that a little company called Apple will be announcing, among other things, a new iPhone today. Supposedly called the "iPhone 4" (or maybe the "iPhone 4G? HD?"), for the first time ever since the product's initial debut, news of the company's latest gadget may not be...
By the time you read this today, the BP/Transocean/Halliburton oil hemorrhage may finally be on its way to a resolution. Or it may still be burbling away, happily coating wildlife, habitat and the region's tourism and fishing industries with a viscous sheen of Game Over.A lot of us have taken...
Blogs with Balls 3 is happening in Chicago this weekend; next week's H+ Summit is all about the "Rise of the Citizen Scientist"; and a few days after that is the Corporate Social Media Summit, which features speakers from McDonald's, Adidas, PepsiCo, Dell, Johnson & Johnson and Nokia. And don't...
While Facebook was once again the biggest story this week ("Likejacking" Takes Off on Facebook), our top stories range from the coming data explosion to an argument against linking. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: There are RFID hoaxes and hexes in the Internet...
Info-Tech Research Group released its evaluation of enterprise collaboration software earlier this year. Microsoft's Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Open Text's Open Text Social Media 7 won the highest praise. But as worker expectations change, there's clearly room for competition on usability.Info-Tech evaluated the following solutions:Drupal - Drupal 6.0 with...
Most of the writing you find on the Web - including here on ReadWriteWeb - is relatively short. Long-form journalism often doesn't fit into the 24-hour news cycle and most online readers don't really have the time to sit down and dedicate half an hour to just one story on...
Popular online business review site Yelp announced an updated iPhone app today which expands upon its recent addition of check-in capabilities, placing them in direct competition with the likes of Foursquare. Previously, Yelp users could check in at business establishments while also viewing or creating a review of the location....
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