The Wall Street Journal thinks it's news that Zulily is developing "more software in-house." It's not. At all. As Eric Raymond wrote years ago, 95% of the world's software is written for use, not for sale. The reasons are many, but one stands out: as Zulily CIO Luke Friang declares,...
About half of the 50 most popular Android apps have vulnerabilities, and the reckless reuse of code libraries is the blame, according to the researchers who uncovered the Heartbleed security bug. Codenomicon, the IT research firm first to publish its findings about an OpenSSL vulnerability and dubbed it “Heartbleed,” reports...
We knew StackOverflow was different. Turns out it's, well, really different.The technical Q&A site looks like your standard Web developer hangout. But according to new data from IEEE Spectrum, its community has some unusual technical tastes. For instance, its readers evince a serious interest in the niche-y area of embedded hardware development—that is, programmable...
No one doubts anymore that Amazon Web Services is a big deal. But few appreciate just how unprecedented its growth has been. In fact, no other software business in history has grown as fast past the billion-dollar mark as AWS, as Businessweek's Ashlee Vance points out. See also: Amazon's Cloud Spends...
I live in the future. My body, pockets and home are festooned with smart gadgets that can command nearly everything in my life with a phrase, gesture or tap. It’s a cool and exciting experience—or at least it would be, if it didn’t constantly shackle me to power cables.See also:...
Looking at smartphone and tablet sales, Google's Android ecosystem should be printing money for developers. After all, not only are Android device sales outpacing Apple's iPhone and iPad sales, but Google also shares more Android-related revenue with its ecosystem than Apple does with the iOS ecosystem. And yet iOS developers earn...
On Monday, Google announced the end of its first foray into social networking, Orkut. September 30, 2014 will be the 10-year-old network’s final day. ReadWrite has been covering underdog Orkut since its invention. We followed its rise to dominance in India and Brazil and its ever-constant (if somewhat understated) battle with...
Last week it was the monthly AppJunction event in London. This was my first time attending this event, after wanting to attend numerous times before. Appsjunction.net is a networking, crowd funding & freelancers platform, which goes through the steps of getting your app from initial concept, to finance, to development...
It's standard to size a market by the number of widgets sold, but in the Internet of Things, which numbers sensors and devices in the billions, widget counts don't really matter. In part this is because the real money in IoT is not in the "things," but rather in the...
Just as YouTube isn’t just about Gangnam Style and viral videos of animals eating burritos, the online-video conclave VidCon, which kicks off a little little later today in Anaheim, Calif., isn't just a giant celebration of all things YouTube. In fact, VidCon is really two conventions in one.The first is for YouTube's...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Yes, it’s tiresome how every new startup describes itself as an “X, but for Y." When an early employee of Uber started working on a doctors-on-demand service, everyone inevitably called it an “Uber for healthcare,” ridiculing it as...
Guest author Alex Salkever is head of product marketing and business development at Silk.co. This piece first appeared on his Tumblr.At the 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple released an entirely new programming language called Swift. It is a higher level coding language that aims to provide the power of Objective-C with the...
Apple is almost ready to announce the structural underpinnings of every product that it will release this year at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. For developers, everything you need to know to build iOS apps for the iPad and iPhone, the additions and design of Apple's Mac...
Is the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 really the tablet that can replace your PC? That's the fundamental proposition on which Microsoft is pinning its entire Surface tablet line. Unfortunately, it's a dicey one.Forget trying to compare the Surface Pro 3 to other tablets. It's not made like other slates, and...
The Internet is invading our homes, and Apple doesn’t want to miss the trend.Sources tell the Financial Times that Apple will unveil new technologies for controlling smart, connected devices like thermostats, lights, door locks, and more at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, which takes place in San Francisco next week.According to the...
The Financial Times reports Apple Inc. is closing in on a deal to buy Beats Electronics—specifically, the company's headphones and streaming music service—in what would be the Cupertino company's largest deal to date.Obviously, a deal like this would have huge implications for Apple—particularly its music-related divisions, including iTunes, the fledgling...
Venture capital luminary Fred Wilson believes Apple will lose its place as a top-3 tech company within 10 years because of its focus on hardware and weakness in the cloud. But Apple's ability to connect with developers might actually be a bigger problem.See also: How Mobile Is Killing Innovation, And...
It’s a dangerous world out there, now made a little scarier thanks to Heartbleed.A small coding error in OpenSSL, a massively adopted open-source protocol, the Heartbleed flaw managed to go undetected for two years as it tore security holes across huge swathes of the Internet. That’s enough to strike fear into...
Internet users have spent the last week changing their passwords and checking their online accounts for potential hacks resulting from Heartbleed, a bug in the open-source security software OpenSSL that left nearly two-thirds of the Web vulnerable to malicious attacks. See Also: Protect Yourself Against Heartbleed, The Web's Security DisasterHeartbleed has...
People are on edge thanks to Heartbleed, a coding mistake that inadvertently laid waste to the security of many big online services.See also: Weekend Project: Start Guarding Yourself Against HeartbleedThe revelation this week shocked the world. And new reports coming out about Heartbleed only seem to inspire more worries, not...
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