Social networking site Ning announced its new pricing scheme today, following its announcement last month that it will abandon the freemium model and eliminate free subscriptions.In July, the company will roll out three tiers of service - Ning Mini, Ning Plus and Ning Pro - and subscriptions will range from...
Right about now, Rise of the Machines, a conference taking place in London on the Internet of Things, is about halfway over. Earlier today, one of the speakers, David Orban, sat down with another speaker, David Wood, for a five minute talk about the current state of IoT. As the...
On Thursday morning of this week I will be interviewing Gary Vaynerchuk, social media maven and host of the wildly popular Wine Library TV video podcast. You may remember we mentioned Gary a while back when reviewing his book Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on...
If you thought that Web TV was a thing of the past, then Google's latest decision may come as a surprise. According to an article in this morning's Wall Street Journal, the company "is planning to introduce Android-based television software to developers at an event in May, according to people...
Dropbox, the file storage, sharing and sync service, is now available for the iPad. With an early morning update to the company's iPhone application, the free Dropbox app is now a "universal" app, a term that describes single apps that resize and reformat themselves to function properly on the iPhone,...
Google has been working to harden Google Apps for its arrival into the enterprise. The tools bring browser based productivity into another dimension. And, where people are productive, security is to be questioned. In this short review, we look at the new feature Google offers admins and look a bit...
If you like your Internet rammed into things - lighting systems, automobiles, art, books, crookedneck squash - you'll light-up like a Japanese robot when you lurch into the mashupInternet of Things conference in London. To refer to the conference by its full name (my hand to God), "Internet of things:...
Mint, the popular personal finance service that aggregates data from all your online banking and investment accounts, just announced the launch of its Android app. The application offers roughly the same features as the company's popular iPhone app, but it also features a number of Android-specific features, including integrated search,...
Early last month, Apple changed the terms of service agreement on its software development kit for the iPhone and iPad to include section 3.3.1, which effectively prohibited developers from using Adobe Flash on its mobile devices. Today, the New York Post is reporting that this move may have brought about...
BumpTop, the 3D desktop organizing and interface tool has been snapped up by Google. An announcement on the website says that downloads of the free version will end in a week. "BumpTop (for both Windows and Mac) will no longer be available for sale. Additionally, no updates to the products...
We've been plugging it for months, and now it's finally here: the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010. It's not too late to sign up. We'd love to have you join us. It's going to be the premier place to explore the latest mobile development trends - both the technology and the...
Once again, Facebook is our top story of the week - this time thanks to its high-pressure opt-in tactics. Oh Facebook, our readers just love reading about your privacy antics. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: On the Internet of Things highway, cars are...
How can you tell a 1973 Batard Montrachet from a bottle of Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill? Or a '45 Mouton-Rothschild from a box of Franzia? Well, you could taste the difference, presumably. But what if you had to discern between the '45 and one of the top years of the...
Apple plans to shut down Lala, the cloud-based streaming music service it bought in December 2009. Lala stopped accepting new users today and will close on May 31. Thanks to its unlimited music locker and innovative pricing scheme, Lala had long been a favorite of ours. Rumor is that Apple...
It appears that Opera is looking to increase its cross-platform and cross-device stickiness. The Norway-based browser company announced this morning that it has acquired webmail service FastMail.fm.Opera, which is now available not only for Mac and PC, but also a number of mobile devices and platforms, now including the iPhone....
According to this year's Edison Research/Arbitron Internet & Multimedia Study, Twitter has now reached the same ubiquitous brand awareness in the U.S. as Facebook. In 2008, only 5% of the U.S. population was aware of Twitter. Today, this number is 87%. Only 7% of Americans actually use Twitter, however, while...
While Flash on the iPhone and iPad certainly isn't in the cards, it looks like it will be coming to Android even sooner than Google VP Andy Rubin said it would.Mobile browser company Skyfire released version 2.0 today, which brings Flash video to Android along with a few other features....
We were surprised to find a long missive penned by Apple's CEO Steve Jobs posted to the Web this morning. The subject? Why Apple hates Adobe Flash. Ever since the Cupertino-based company opted to reject the plugin-based technology on the iPhone and its Wi-Fi-only companion, the iPod Touch, people have...
Although the privacy issues surrounding Facebook's new, opt-out only data sharing policies are making people uncomfortable, one area where folks are apparently happy to have their private data shared is on their mobile phones. And by private data, we mean exact GPS coordinates. Coordinates that are shared with software developers,...
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