This week’s top story was about that escalating battle we love to watch: Android and iPhone’s fight for market share. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: Parliament loves the Internet of Things; augmented reality leader Layar turns 1; and there’s a dream team quietly gathering behind the real-time Web service SuperFeedr. Read on for more.
Top Stories of the Week
- Android Steals Market Share from iPhone
- Free Wi-Fi is Just a Small Part of Starbucks’ Plan: Free Access to Paid Content Coming Fall 2010
- Forrst: Stack Overflow Meets Tumblr
- Iceland Passes Proposal to Become ‘New Media Haven’
- Google Earth on iPad…Wow!
More coverage and analysis from ReadWriteWeb
Real-Time Web
- The Dream Team Quietly Gathering Behind Real-Time Service SuperFeedr
- Love Big Data? Infochimps Have an API Call for That
- The Dark Figure Of Social Media: What Can Twitter Teach Criminologists?
More Real-Time Web coverage. Don’t miss the next wave of opportunity on the Web supported by real-time technology! Get ReadWriteWeb’s report, The Real-Time Web and its Future.
Augmented Reality
More Augmented Reality coverage
Augmented Reality for Marketers and Developers: Our Newest Research Report
We’re pleased to announce ReadWriteWeb’s latest premium report, Augmented Reality for Marketers and Developers: Analysis of the Leaders, the Challenges and the Future. This report will help you develop a sophisticated understanding of Augmented Reality (AR), the mobile and Web technology that places data on top of a user’s view of the physical world. The research included will help you decrease your AR development time to market by learning from the first wave of early adopters. AR offers a new marketing and product paradigm for a high impact, high value customer experience. More than 1,000 AR campaigns were kicked-off last year and we expect to see many more in 2010. In this report, we profile key AR development companies, their campaigns as well as development lessons learned. For more information or to buy the report, visit here.
Mobile Web
- Android Steals Market Share from iPhone
- Hackers Port Flash to Jailbroken iOS
- From Your Mouth to a Thousand Ears, New Apps Make Mobile Podcasting Easy
Internet of Things
More Internet of Things coverage
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ReadWriteStart
Our channel ReadWriteStart, sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark, is dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs.
- The Startup Toolkit: A Canvas For You to Sketch Your Business Framework
- Should Startups Worry about Their Company Culture?
- Y Combinator Hosts a Job Fair for Startups Tomorrow
ReadWriteCloud
Our channel ReadWriteCloud, sponsored by VMware and Intel, is dedicated to Virtualization and Cloud Computing.
- Gaming in the Cloud: OnLive Launches Tomorrow
- Weekly Poll: Is Mailing Your Data to the Cloud the Right Solution?
- Majority of Tech Experts Think Work Will Be Cloud-Based by 2020, Finds Pew Research Center
ReadWriteEnterprise
Our channel ReadWriteEnterprise is devoted to ‘enterprise 2.0’ and using social software inside organizations.
- 5 Ways Google Can Up Its Game Against Office 2010
- Jive Bets on the Twitter Firehose and the Data Intensified Social Enterprise
- Open-Source Social Network Elgg Launching Hosted Service
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