At the recent ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit, I convened a session about emerging mobile applications for sensors and other Internet of Things technologies. It ended up being a lively discussion on the possibilities for new types of mobile apps that will take advantage of sensor and RFID data. The raw notes...
This morning the Online Strategy Roundtable for entrepreneurs ran very smoothly. The five entrepreneurs who presented are all at various stages of validating who their best customers are. The best conversations during these roundtables usually stem from the businesses that have already been validated to some degree, simply because I...
Google just announced Froyo, the next version of its Android mobile operating system. According to Google, this new version will be significantly faster and more enterprise-friendly. Froyo will also offer a backup API, a "cloud-to-device" messaging API and support for tethering and portable hotspots. In addition, Android 2.2 will feature...
About two months ago, the popular music- and photo-streaming service Simplify Media suddenly shut down its services and pulled its mobile apps from Apple's App Store. Today, we finally found out why. During his keynote presentation at Google I/O, Google's vice president of engineering, Vic Gundotra, noted that Google has...
Google is facing another lawsuit today as two Oregonians have filed a writ in an Oregon district court. The writ is part of a class action lawsuit against Google accusing the company of privacy violations when its Street View vehicles collected data from unsecured wireless connections.The suit, brought by Vicki...
Restaurant review site UrbanSpoon is slowly moving into OpenTable's territory. About half a year ago, the company launched a very limited test of a basic reservations tracking system for restaurants in the Seattle area. At that time, however, restaurant owners could only use UrbanSpoon to tell their customers whether they...
Today's Internet was built largely on the IPv4 or Internet Protocol version four, first introduced in 1980. Now, three decades on and with mobile Internet tracing a shining arc across the virtual firmament, the Internet is running out of available IP addresses. So maintain the 130 delegates to the IPv6...
Team ReadWriteWeb will be in New York City on June 11th to host our 3rd public event, the Real-Time Web Summit. It will be an East Coast version of the successful ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit we held in Mountain View last October. Earlier this month we were in Mountain View...
Amidst the flurry of activity streaming from today's Google I/O event, the mobile team at Google has announced the launch of a free Application Programming Interface (API) for its Latitude location service. The API will allow developers to build location-aware apps that can take advantage of Latitude's "always on" location...
Xinhua, the Chinese news outlet, is reporting this morning that the Chinese government will be implementing new standards that are aimed at preventing "state secrets being disclosed and uncertified maps published online."The rules are an update to standards adopted one year ago, and, according to the Xinhua article, require "all...
Today at Google's annual conference, I/O, the company announced a partnership with VMware. This news immediately turned our minds to the possibilities for enterprise app developers. What we see is that like the parent companies, the partnership has a bit of genius embedded in the way it offers more tools...
At the Google I/O developer conference today the company is unveiling a number of remarkable new technologies, but one of the most notable is a paradigm shift more than it is tech. Chrome, Google's Web browser, is now adding an application store to help with discovery and sales of Web...
We're getting the first glimpses of today Google's Google I/O developer conference and already some exciting news is leaking from within the walls of the conference center. According to Fortune's Seth Weintraub, we should expect to see Chrome for Palm webOS in the very near future.Weintraub gave everyone a quick...
If Twitter, Facebook, email and traditional forums just don't meet your needs, then a new combination of all of these might suit your fancy. Micromobs, a group messaging application that launched into public beta yesterday, approaches group communication in a way that lets users organize what they read and what...
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The launch of the "computational knowledge engine" Wolfram Alpha was one of the most anticipated product launches of early 2009. Since then, it's been rather quiet around Wolfram Alpha, even though the company continues to add new features and data on a regular basis. Today, we had a chance to...
Facebook announced the debut of a free mobile site called 0.facebook.com. A kind of replacement for the now spiked Facebook Lite, 0 "includes all of the key features of Facebook but is optimized for speed," according to Sid Murlidhar, Program Manager for Facebook Mobile. Its initial rollout is through 50...
Back-end geolocation data providers SimpleGeo announced today that it has raised over $8 million in Series A funding. Included among the investors is Redpoint Ventures, First Round Capital and Foundry Group, which like SimpleGeo, is located in Boulder, Colorado. While the news of the funding is certainly interesting, the more...
SAP talked a bit more about Sybase at Sapphire Now today and its focus for on-premise, on-device and on demand systems.But is the approach that much different? And is SAP taking a bold step into a future where its more about the best approach versus a white knuckled, clenched fist...
Forget the Nexus One, Google's failed attempt at marketing its own "iPhone killer" via the web - the next big "Google Phone" is definitely going to be HTC's EVO, the first 4G Android smartphone to hit the U.S.Arriving June 4th on Sprint, the EVO comes with a loaded spec sheet...
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