As vendors, coders and users inch toward the smart-devices-everywhere future colloquially known as the Internet of Things, they're starting to address a whole bunch of nitty-gritty issues. For starters, there's the question of just how the various devices connected to the Internet of Things will talk to each other.Beyond that,...
So let's get this straight: both Samsung and Apple are soaring, with profits at all-time highs and a comfortable duopoly in the industry-defining mobile market. Cause for celebration, yes?Well, no. Both companies have seen their share prices slide in recent months as their dramatic growth has shown signs of cooling,...
LinkedIn Endorsements may be the fastest-growing new product launch in the history of LinkedIn, but it is also arguably the most pointless. Launched as a lightweight way to recommend colleagues so as to boost their resumes, LinkedIn Endorsements have become useless noise on an otherwise useful service.Yet LinkedIn shows no...
Leaks that suggest the NSA is vacuuming up personal information from the phone records and online-service data of U.S. citizens have some people concerned about the prospect of an Orwellian surveillance state that can track our every move. But hold on a second. More recent revelations suggest that intelligence agencies are...
Here at ReadWrite, we're super proud and excited to show you something really stunningly beautiful...I'm sorry, for a second there, I got myself confused with an overly enthusiastic Apple executive.You don't need tech-industry bombast to state the obvious: ReadWrite looks different than it did yesterday—and we hope you'll think it...
Guest author Seth Payne is a senior product manager at Skytap.Big Data, just like Cloud Computing, has become a popular phrase to describe technology and practices that have been in use for many years. Ever-increasing storage capacity and falling storage costs - along with vast improvements in data analysis, however,...
Tizen Devlab When: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 from 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM (PDT) Where: Salon Solutions Linux CNIT Paris-La-Defense Hall Marie Curie - Workshop Rue Carpeaux 92800 Puteaux France The DevLab Plan: Tizen Devlab conference will make its debut in France about the Tizen operating system. Developers...
The lean startup - as envisioned and explained by Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur, associate professor at Stanford University and ReadWrite contributor - is no longer just for startups. “Companies are facing continuous disruption. Business-as-usual is not a credible response,” Blank writes in the cover story of the May issue of...
This post is the fourth and final installment in the ReadWrite series Making Android Pay, focusing on the opportunities and challenges that mobile developers face trying to make money from Android Apps.Android is truly a worldwide platform. If you are a developer trying to make money with Android apps, that...
Lately, it seems like Hadoop, the open source data platform seemingly so integral to the rise of Big Data, can't catch a break. Instead of relying on Hadoop as a key Big Data storage and analysis tool, vendors and observers are increasingly positioning it as "just" a storage tool. But this...
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) polices are increasingly popular as a way for companies to let workers use the hardware they like best and are most productive with. But according to a new study from Cisco, that not be the best way to think about BYOD.Implement a strong BYOD policy,...
You can't have a conversation about Big Data for very long without running into the elephant in the room: Hadoop. This open source software platform managed by the Apache Software Foundation has proven to be very helpful in storing and managing vast amounts of data cheaply and efficiently. But what...
Here is the Tizen Developer Conference Schedule (May 2013). There are many interesting talks and also the opportunity for developers to ask the burning questions that they want the answers to. Wednesday 22nd May 10:00am Registration and Check-In Opens Location: Lobby Level REGISTER ONLINE 10:00am – 6:00pm Tech Showcase Location: Golden Gate Welcome! Now...
If the Xbox One is the future of gaming, then that future is as grim as everyone feared.In an event Tuesday morning that felt like a casual bar conversation compared to Sony's brain-exploding extravaganza back in February, Microsoft unveiled the next-gen Xbox — not in a giant conference center, but in...
It's not every day one of the big three gaming powerhouses announces a new console. In fact, we've been waiting a solid eight years. In an event on its Redmond, Washington home turf today, Microsoft announced the Xbox One, its next generation Xbox gaming console — and more.In fact, the...
Qt for Tizen is a purely community-driven port of Qt 5 to the Tizen [en.wikipedia.org] mobile profile. Tizen IVI [wiki.tizen.org] profile as well as unofficial Netbook/Notebook profiles would benefit too. Contributors are welcome! Pages Introduction | Roadmap Development: Qt Creator for Tizen Analysis | Qt Quick Controls for Tizen Build: Build Qt 5 for Tizen Emulator Related: Build Qt 4.8.1 for Tizen 1.0 Larkspur on...
In the Gold Rush to accumulate and put to use Big Data, we may actually be making it harder to actually glean insights from that data. Yet the prospect of data solving all of our problems is so tempting that even the brightest minds of our generation seem confused.Take, for...
If you're visiting the Google I/O developers conference this week, you're a tiny part of a giant Google experiment to sniff out everything from your body heat to your breath. Google is even listening to your footfalls as part of its Data Sensing Lab I/O 2013.Think that's a scary, Big-Brother...
Since at least the 1990s, when personal computers first became commonplace, public policy experts have worried the ill effects of a Digital Divide. That is, a learning, socialization and economic gap across socio-economic status, race and gender caused by unequal access to computing resources.No need. The Digital Divide has now...
Each year, the U.S. government declassifies thousands of documents and releases them to the public through collections like the Declassified Document Reference System (DDRS) and the CIA's FOIA Reading Room. Some, however, contain "redacted" information that's too sensitive to be released — leaving, for instance, key details of an FBI...
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