The memo has already gone out to the various book editors, news editors and technology analysts: The proper phrase is not "tablet PC" any more. A tablet and a PC are perceived by both consumers and businesses as two separate classes of device. You probably saw the TV ads this...
Mobile payments solution LevelUp is ringing in the new year with some big news in an attempt to grow into a leading mobile payments provider. The SCVNGR-owned platform has bagged its first big brand. LevelUp is teaming with Villa Pizza, a national pizza chain with more than 400 locations, to...
new Nemo Mobile weekly release is available, with following changes. Bugs fixed: NEMO#7 - Terminal has no icon NEMO#9 - Battery indicator is not working NEMO#21 - Swipe extension prints a lot of debug output NEMO#36 - DSME needs to be updated to newer version ...
The Internet is in an uproar over the Stop Online Piracy Act. The battles lines are drawn. Big Media (the record labels, movie studios and TV networks) support the bill while Big Tech (search engines, open source platforms, social networks) oppose it. The bill, introduced to Congress by Representative Lamar...
Organizations using Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud are now able to create network interfaces that exist separate from the EC2 instances. The upshot of this is that customers will be able to have a lot more flexibility in managing network interfaces for EC2 instances. The new feature, Elastic Network Interface (ENI)...
ReadWriteWeb is all about what's next on the Web, so our team has been busy making their predictions for next year. Before I began writing my own, I took a look back at my predictions 12 months ago. Predictably, I had mixed success. But that's a lot of the fun...
"The communications public policy effort that may affect all of us the most in 2012... will take place far from our shores," stated U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell, in a speech in Washington before a bar association two weeks ago. "As we sit here today, scores of countries, including...
2011 saw the biggest boom in personal computing since the Apple II invaded homes and offices across the world. This time around it was not a desktop computer, or even some fancy new laptop. The smartphone has penetrated society with such speed and to such depth that basic human interaction...
One of the nice things about following cloud technologies and virtualization? It's never boring, especially given how new cloud technologies are. That means that there's plenty of room for change, and ample speculation about where the industry is going. While we usually spend time reporting on what's just happened and...
Oh, the hubris of year-end predictions posts. How did ReadWriteWeb do last year? We nailed a few of our guesses informed forecasts: 2011 saw the arrival of a $200 tablet, a Verizon iPhone, and Spotify in the U.S. We rightly predicted that Kevin Rose would leave Digg, NewsCorp would sell...
The New Nemo Mobile Image has been released. Information below as per mailing list: New weekly Nemo Mobile release is available for N900, N950 and ia32 platforms. This release contains following bug fixes: NEMO#2 - Device does not notify user from incoming call NEMO#14 - VKB opens even...
It's the end of a big week here at ReadWriteWeb. For one, we just got acquired by SAY Media. As I sit here thinking about what happened in 2011 and what's to come in 2012, I keep in mind the simple fact that soon ReadWriteWeb will be operating under a...
Would you and your project like to talk about Open Mobile Linux at FOSDEM 2012 ? Check out the following mailing list post for information and contact details: At FOSDEM 2012 we will have a devroom related to Open Mobile Linux. Our primary goal is to facilitate meetups, collaboration...
Would you and your project like to talk about Open Mobile Linux at FOSDEM 2012? Check out the following mailing list post for information and contact details: At FOSDEM 2012 we will have a devroom related to Open Mobile Linux. Our primary goal is to facilitate meetups, collaboration and...
There have been over 1,000 instances of Android malware found this year and the rate of growth has nearly doubled since July. Smartphones are increasingly becoming targets for malicious hackers because they are filled with rich data, tied to payments processing services and typically have less security than a personal...
It's been a long, strange trip for SUSE. What started in 1992 as a small German company (SUSE was an acronym derived from "Software und System Entwicklung," or "software and systems development") with a derivative of Slackware Linux became a mighty Linux distribution in its own right. Money problems led...
When I sat down on my porch today to consider what 2012 might bring to the intersection of free speech and technology, I drew a complete blank. This is not because there are no precedents to consider. A quick glance at our free speech coverage for 2011 is a typhoon...
At today's roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe.Social ContactsOur audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs. And what do entrepreneurs do? They market and they sell. Well, at the very heart of the marketing and selling problem is...
The New York Times released a new iPhone app this afternoon and it looks great - if you're a Times subscriber at $15 per month. Will a large number of people pay that much to access high quality content about the public interest in a mobile app? I'm not so...
One of the most astoundingly sudden changes ever to happen in the software landscape in so short a period of time is the rise of "big data" and NoSQL, and the companies that manage it. What started out as a laboratory side-burner project at Yahoo just last year, is today...
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