ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.It was a big year for mobile in 2013, as it has been for the past several years.Smartphones took the first steps toward becoming hubs we can use to control our entire lives. Companies became...
ReadWriteShop is an occasional series about the intersection of technology and commerce.Rarely does the rapid clip of technology seem as relentless as at year-end, when companies hype their latest models while slashing prices on old stock. Ready, set—let the holiday tech shopping begin!But hold on a minute. Slick marketing doesn’t mean...
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels.One oft-repeated statement about Amazon Web Services' cloud compute and storage service is that startups supposedly love it. Why buy the hardware when you can just rent it from AWS, the conventional wisdom goes.But one takeaway from today's launch of AWS Activate, a new program geared to...
This is a post in Back To School, an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers technology trends in education for parents and educators.Preparing for college can be emotional, hectic and, of course, expensive.According to the National Retail Federation, total back-to-college spending will reach $45.8 billion, the largest portion of which will...
After last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, the console war drums are now beginning to beat in a frenzy. Microsoft and Sony have unveiled details of their next-generation video-game consoles, the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.Which one should you buy? We have a radical proposal: neither.Gamers can save themselves both...
Americans watch about 40 hours of television every single week. Even in the Internet Age, television remains a cultural force, a unifying voice and quite possibly our chief storyteller. Do not view this as bad. A number of television programs over the decades have not only been great, but inspirational for...
News broke earlier this week of a new hack to Nintendo's Wii U that would allow gamers to play unauthorized (read: pirated) games. Nintendo immediately disputed it. But whether it's true or not, the Wii U will most certainly be hacked before long — and that fact tells us a...
HTC may have a winner on its hands – if only people will pay attention.The Taiwanese smartphone maker announced its new flagship device, the HTC One, at launch events in New York City and London. The events themselves were a little anti-climatic – short, full of corporate cheerleading and lacking anything of...
Start figuring your gaming budget for 2013, because the clock is ticking down to the Xbox 720's debut at the Electronic Entertainment Expo next June. Microsoft's official Xbox blogger Major Nelson has all but officially confirmed this by posting an E3 countdown to his site with a terse three words:...
HTML5 introduced several interesting features, like the canvas; local, session, and database storage; audio and video elements; and web workers, just to name a few. On the other hand, the CSS3 specification introduced many powerful features, like transitions, transformations and animations, mediaqueries, and webfonts. HTML5 with CSS3 expand...
One thing you don't quite get accustomed to in reporting developments in cloud technology is how even the virtual things become virtualized. Last December, Red Hat released a software storage appliance based on the GlusterFS software-based NAS system that Red Hat acquired in October. That product is a way to...
The latest stable release of the Firefox Web browser is on its way. Firefox 10 will emerge from beta with a few new features, most of which are geared toward developers. As is often the case, the new version pushes forward with a few of the latest features in emerging...
The start of the current fall television season has highlighted the importance of social media in driving awareness and tune-in for new and established TV series as audience consumption habits continue to fragment across device and social platforms.With multiple apps being promoted by shows, networks and even TV service providers...
How do you keep track of what you want? Do you use Amazon wish lists? Do you share them with your friends? How's that working out for you? Get any good gifts lately? Moreover, what do you do with items that aren't sold on Amazon?Enter Whimventory. It's an app for...
Google just launched dynamic views for Blogger, its free blogging platform, and they are something else. Powered by AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3, these new themes for Blogger users are heavy-duty, interactive designs, not mere blog templates. The announcement claims that they also load "40 percent faster than traditional templates," but...
The following article Appears on Talk Maemo and was written by member Helex. The N9 has no keyboard. It's not very comfortable while typing sms or mails on the go and it's even worse to work on the shell or to develop directly on this device. In some cases...
Every good company does backups. (But not all -- see Are Your Files Backed Up? March 31 is World Backup Day.) This is where online backup comes in handy.Daniel P. Dern is an independent technology writer. He can be reached at [email protected] and his technology blog is TryingTechnology.com.Online backup to...
Almost as galling as the Amazon Web Services outage itself is a the litany of blog posts, such as this one and this one, that place the blame not on AWS for having a long failure and not communicating with its customers about it, but on AWS customers for not...
How do three guys with only seed funding process a hundred million messages a day? I sat down with the BackType team to discover how they built a service relied upon by companies like bit.ly, Hunch and The New York Times. BackType captures online conversations, everything from tweets to blog...
Microsoft just announced the launch of the first developer preview version of Internet Explorer 9. This release is clearly geared towards developers and only features a very stripped down user interface. The developer preview does, however, include Chakra, Microsoft's new JavaScript engine, as well as a new hardware accelerated graphics...
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