If you aren’t a gamer, it’s wholly possible that either you don’t “get” Twitch or you’ve never even heard of it. But that won't last for long.Twitch is a website and community where gamers watch gameplay videos uploaded and streamed by other gamers. It’s kind of like a huge virtual...
Over the last year there has been a lot of momentum gathered by the Tizen Operating System. The Tizen Association has launched its Partner Program with 36 New Members to help propel Tizen forward, more development frameworks are now supporting Tizen, and more even more companies are porting their games...
Chris Croteau is an association director and the manager of platform and business management for Intel. He told CITE world that Tizen-powered devices should be commercially available “early next year.” We have already received Tizen, albeit in stealth mode, the Tizen based Samsung Smart Camera. Remember: You've probably been reading...
Another tidbit of Tizen related news? CrucialTec has developed a Biometric CrucialTec Trackpad (BTP) which is a combination of a fingerprint recognition sensor and a track pad. This function (the addition of OTP technology Optical Trackpad technology and improving the status of CrucialTec life in general by providing not only the...
When you ask the average net citizen what they think will happen to YouTube in the next couple of years, the response is optimistic. And why wouldn't it be?At face value, the YouTube ecosphere—with its growing sectors of talent managers, brokers, production companies, advertising agencies and marketers, tool and analytics...
You've seen it before. Someone raises a bazillion dollars and Twitter lights up with congratulations, as if the ability to raise money is synonymous with success. While it's true that sometimes venture money does signal something positive is happening at a company, the best indicator of long-term success is a...
Even as the hype around Hadoop has exploded, its use as a "poor man's ETL" or "unsupervised landfill" has remained somewhat pedestrian. But that's about to change. At least, if Cloudera has its way.Cloudera is moving beyond Hadoop to add services like search, yet keeping these add-on services firmly grounded...
Dell is a computer company desperately in search of a new market as the desktop and laptop PCs dwindles. But the Austin-based company is finding that that an elusive target.Public Cloud? That's So 2011Yesterday the company announced it was dropping Dell Cloud, its home-grown infrastructure-as-a-service public cloud service. It is...
Last night, top YouTuber Ray William Johnson dropped a bombshell: The network he left almost two months ago has yet to return his AdSense account despite promising to do so.Johnson left his network, Maker Studios, in October to much speculation, which I used as an opportunity to address how YouTube...
There was a time when YouTube - and all of Internet video - was dominated by cat videos. dumb stunts and crotch kicks. And while we'll never be free of such lowbrow gems, the genre has grown to accommodate decidely more sophisticated content - particularly in the technology arena.While websites...
Are even early adopters of Windows 8 reluctant to fully commit to the new operating system? A growing undercurrent of grumbling may indicate that that’s the case.According to a survey by Hong Kong-based ForumsWindows8.com, more than 53% of the site’s users prefer Windows 7 over Windows 8. Only 25% of...
Microsoft said Wednesday that it has released Windows 8 to manufacturing, meaning that the world should get its first look at the final version of the company’s next generation operating system in about two weeks, when developers will be able to download the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build. Microsoft also...
The Limo Foundation, who recently announced Tizen, a new open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation have now had a face lift, it is now known as Tizen Association. The new Association is led by a Board of Directors which is tasked with the gathering of requirements,...
Today a new website has raised it heads from the ashes of the LimoFoundation. We are now presented with the Tizen Associates, a website and association that is designed to enable key stakeholders to actively shape the industry role of Tizen and develop its market presence. Tizen Association...
A select group of developers is being invited by Hortonworks, the commercial caretaker of Apache Hadoop, to join a limited technology preview of the company's own forthcoming cloud data platform based on Hadoop. If you haven't heard of it yet, this is either your first time on ReadWriteWeb, or you've...
It's a gradual move that we see people make to the cloud. It may seem slow at times but it is happening. What moves it along are the incremental changes to applications that make the services just a little bit easier to use.Here are three news items from this week...
The world's largest mobile carrier in terms of subscribers, China Mobile, has joined The Linux Foundation, the non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and improvement Linux. Besides sponsoring Linux creator Linus Torvalds and other key kernel developers, the foundation is known in the mobile industry as the host to MeeGo, the...
A couple of weeks ago, we looked at the case of the time-management tool Chrometa and the startup's self-described "failed" launch. In its blog, Chrometa explained some of the steps it took to keep pushing product and consumer development forward.Also answering the question, "You've launched. Now what?" is Cloudomatic co-founder...
Users of desktop-to-cloud synchronization service Nomadesk can now edit files in the cloud with Zoho. Nomadesk users can right-click on a document, spreadsheet or presentation on the web-based Nomadesk dashboard and click "edit" to open the file in Zoho. Changes are then synchronized to the user's desktop.The new feature is...
Cisco is betting heavily on the network as the platform. We took a look at the role of the network in the emerging landscape of cloud computing as part one of analysis of "Will One Company be Dominant in Cloud Computing". We started with Cisco, since the cloud implies the...
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