Google has acknowledged that it broke its promise to delete all the personal data its Street View cars collected from unsecured Wi-Fi networks in Britain and other countries two years ago. While Google says the failure was a mistake, its long-term consequence could mean more scrutiny from British regulators, which...
The U.S. Senate is about to deliberate a highly revised cybersecurity bill - one that last weekend won the endorsement of President Obama. The current version of the bill no longer contains measures that would essentially declare any device that may at some point contain critical government information - even via...
"Big Data" is the technology that is supposedly reshaping the data center. Sure, the data center isn't as fun a topic as the iPad, but without the data center supplying the cloud with apps, iPads wouldn't nearly as much fun either. Big Data is also the nucleus of a new and growing...
Staying on top of trends is key to any startup’s success. Spotting trends early makes it possible tocome up with smart startup ideas - or modify your startup plans to jump on a new trend just as it takes off. Just as most important, you can avoid the risk of...
Like its initial public offering, Facebook’s earnings didn’t live up to hype on cable business news channels. Facebook reported second-quarter earnings of 12 cents per share on revenue of $1.18 billion, even with a consensus estimate by Wall Street analysts of 12 cents per share and slightly above revenue estimates...
mHealth is an emerging trend in technology. It stands for 'mobile healthcare' and means utilizing smartphones and medical mobile devices to help diagnose and monitor health conditions. According to a new research paper from the Economist Intelligence Unit (commissioned by PwC), the adoption of mHealth will be slow in the...
Bad software developers, like bad athletes, have bad habits. And that can be a whole lot of bad. Do you copy and paste someone else’s code into your designs? Or maybe you spend all night debugging bad code that should have been more carefully written in the first place. The...
Apple will deliver its summer earnings update on Tuesday afternoon, reporting its June quarter results and September-quarter forecast. Here's a rundown of the most important numbers to look for.1. iPhone SalesThe iPhone is Apple's most important product line, representing half its revenue over the past year (and likely much more of...
The world’s first software-defined network (SDN) is one step closer to being launched, as more than 300 network engineers gather at Stanford University this week to prepare an OpenFlow 100G Ethernet SDN within the research project known as Internet2. Scientists and academics at the Summer 2012 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs conference...
When Steve Ballmer took the stage in San Francisco on Monday to reveal the next step in the evolution of Microsoft’s most important application, he gave the world’s 1 billion users of Microsoft Office plenty to look forward to - but also some things to worry about. Here’s a sampling...
One record that isn’t likely to be broken during this summer’s London Olympic Games is the speed at which key websites, including London2012.com and NBCOlympics.com, load for visitors. Yottaa, which correctly predicted which advertisers would have website problems after their commercials aired during this year’s Super Bowl, completed an analysis of the major Olympic...
The discovery of the Flame virus earlier this year brought cyberespionage to the international stage. Flame is highly sophisticated spyware, software designed to snoop on infected machines, of unprecedented complexity and scale. But spyware does not need to be created by government-backed hackers to be highly effective. Sometimes simple viruses work...
At ReadWriteWeb, we often disagree with each other. We rarely disagree violently. But wading through angry responses to a post that Antone Gonsalves wrote about the Retina MacBook Pro, I found myself sympathizing with the hordes. There was a lot of bloviation and idol worship in the reactions, but I...
Just as Groupon brings shoppers local deals on restaurants and spa services, an upstart service analyzes housing inventory to alert homebuyers about bargain properties. Is real estate ready for more of this kind of tech-based disruption?The housing market is bouncing back, but to homebuyers that trend translates into more competition...
A self-aggrandized breach of nearly 450,000 Yahoo Voices account passwords Wednesday has troubling implications for data security practices during corporate acquisitions of Web service providers. The Yahoo Voices service includes content from the company’s 2011 purchase of Associated Content.The password breach was posted on a public website by a group...
On the last day of the Google I/O developers conference, we sat down with engineering director Peter Magnusson to digest the introduction of Compute Engine, which adds Google-scale processing power to the company's list of cloud offerings designed to take on Amazon Web Services. Here are the announcement's five key...
Google's Compute Engine, announced Thursday morning at the company's annual developers' conference, gives Google a new way to monetize its huge investment in data centers and networking, offers new options for companies looking to run their businesses in the cloud, and presents a direct challenge to Amazon Web Services, the...
Continuing our mid-year review of the top trends of 2012, in this post we look at the emergence of the Visual Web. Two of the hottest products in the first half of 2012 are the best examples of this phenomenon: Pinterest and Instagram. But one or two swallows don't make...
Big Data has had its marquee conferences with Strata and Structure, but there are several newer venues that you might want to consider, including two conferences coming up in St. Louis. If you are just getting started, or even if you are an old hand, these are great places to...
Hadoop is designed to store big data cheaply on a distributed file system across commodity servers. How you get that data there is your problem. And it’s a surprisingly critical issue because Hadoop isn’t a replacement for existing infrastructure, but rather a tool to augment data management and storage capabilities....
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