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Why Samsung's Galaxy Tabs Fail Against the iPad & Kindl... Jan 25 2012 18:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Why Samsung's Galaxy Tabs Fail Against the iPad & Kindle Fire One of the most entertaining aspects of studying the Android ecosystem is the fact there is just so much of it. It is overwhelming, especially for consumers that do not know what smartphone or tablet they are supposed to buy because a new device is released every other day. Samsung is the largest culprit of the flood of Android devices to inundate the flood plains of the mobile coastline. Just look at its Galaxy Tab line of tablets. None have performed well on the market. Unlike smartphones, t... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Today In Facebook Scams: Is Chuck Norris Dead? Jan 25 2012 18:28:00	ReadWriteWeb
Today In Facebook Scams: Is Chuck Norris Dead? Facebook scammers are spreading a vicious rumor on walls everywhere. The headline reads: "[video] Chuck Norris dies at age 71! Not a Joke," and is accompanied by a video of the star. You may remember Norris from such films as "The Karate Kid" and "Karate Kommandos," and the CBS series "Walker, Texas Ranger." The Naked Security blog reports that this is in fact another Facebook scam, and that Chuck Norris is still alive. What's the deal behind this spam attack? Facebook users who have... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Who's Using Pinterest? Yup, It's Mostly Ladies Jan 25 2012 18:15:55	ReadWriteWeb
Who's Using Pinterest? Yup, It's Mostly Ladies Well, there's a reason it's not called Dude-terest. The latest darling of the up-and-coming social sharing space, Pinterest, has experienced rapid growth in both users and industry buzz in the last few months. If you had a sneaking suspicion that the majority of those users happen to be young females, you were right. Pinterest's users are 80% women, according to recent data from Google Ad Planner, as presented by Ignite Social Media. The site is biggest among the 25-34 age range, followed by ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
[UPDATED] Source: Next Xbox Won't Play Used Games Jan 25 2012 17:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
[UPDATED] Source: Next Xbox Won't Play Used Games An unnamed source is telling video game news site Kotaku that the next version of Microsoft's Xbox will not play used games. The person, identified as a "reliable industry source" also told Kotaku that Xbox 720 will be able to play Blu-Ray discs, an option not offered on current versions of the Xbox. The next generation of Xbox is expected to be released later this year or early in 2013.We've asked Microsoft for confirmation and comment. We'll update if they get back to us. So far mos... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Google Maps Gets Public Safety Alerts for Weather & Ear... Jan 25 2012 17:35:00	ReadWriteWeb
Google Maps Gets Public Safety Alerts for Weather & Earthquakes Google Maps added public emergency alerts today for weather, earthquakes or other public safety concerns. Users can browse all active alerts at google.org/publicalerts, and relevant alerts will also appear on normal Google Maps searches depending on the query. Clicking through an alert on the map displays more info from the organization sending the alert. Alerts from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Weather Service and the US Geological Survey (USGS) a... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
New VMware VCenter Ops Suite Geared More Toward Managers Jan 25 2012 17:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
New VMware VCenter Ops Suite Geared More Toward Managers On the surface, it would seem to make sense that management is a task best performed in an organization by managers. When you apply that ethic to the emerging structure of data centers, which now use virtualization and private cloud foundations, you realize there are changes that can be made. Casting business resources as cloud services moves the budgeting process from capital expenditures to operating expenditures. And for more organizations, it means relocating management responsibilities f... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Cyfe Has Cool All-in-One Dashboard Jan 25 2012 17:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Cyfe Has Cool All-in-One Dashboard There are lots of social media monitoring dashboards out there, but a new service from Cyfe.com attempts to become the mother of all dashboards by combining more than a dozen different metrics into a single easy-to-track screen. You can sign up now for its beta and while you are limited to tracking just five items at once for the free account, it still is a pretty powerful service. Besides the usual Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube statistics, you can also add in Google Analytics and AdS... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Could You Ever Love An Ad? Jan 25 2012 16:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
Could You Ever Love An Ad? Today, ads are something we skip. They coat everything we watch, read and listen to like a sticky film, blinking and shouting and shocking us into paying attention. Their value is measured in "impressions," how many people's eyeballs scan past them, and on the Web, a click on an ad is the holy grail. That's what passes for "engagement." Have you ever seen an ad that made you say, "My daughter would love this ad!" Cooliris builds ad technology that elicits that response. "Our vision is to make e... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Could Jailbreaking Your iPhone Become a Crime Soon? Jan 25 2012 15:40:13	ReadWriteWeb
Could Jailbreaking Your iPhone Become a Crime Soon? Whether or not jailbreaking or rooting one's smartphone is a legal act isn't something most of us in the U.S. have had to think about for some time. That's because, in 2010, the U.S. Copyright Office declared that jailbreaking devices is not a violation of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Fine, said Apple, but it will still void your warranty and we bet it will screw up your phone. Despite the company's official disapproval, jailbreaking iOS is still big among a certain subset of use... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
GOP Tries To Top White House's #40dollars Twitter Campaign Jan 25 2012 15:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
GOP Tries To Top White House's #40dollars Twitter Campaign Last month the White House struck upon a particularly effective idea: using the #40dollars hash tag on Twitter, they asked voters what $40 meant to them. That, the Obama administration said, was the amount of money that would have disappeared from an average middle class paycheck if Republicans allowed a tax cut to expire. The move was so popular, Republicans are trying it for their election-year digital strategy. Ahead of last night's State of the Union address, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., GOP ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
There Is Opportunity In Diversifying Your Android Publi... Jan 25 2012 14:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
There Is Opportunity In Diversifying Your Android Publishing Strategy Mobile marketing company Tapjoy has had a tumultuous ride in the last year. It has been bounced around by Apple and its App Store terms of service, has gone to the Web to skirt Apple's policies, integrated mobile video ads and set up a fund for iOS developers to port their games to Android. It has been scattershot and frenetic but it appears that, finally, the company is starting to see some success. Tapjoy launched a mobile Web-based application store late in 2011 with the intention of skirtin... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Tibbr Has a New Twist on Geolocation Jan 25 2012 14:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Tibbr Has a New Twist on Geolocation We haven't written much about TIBCO's enterprise social media tool tibbr since a year ago. But they have interesting news, including updates to the service, that they are announcing today with v3.5, scheduled to be available next month.Perhaps the most unusual aspect of this version is its geo-location service that checks in the location to you, rather than the other way around as Foursquare and Facebook Places et al. do. So for example a gate at an airport can become the context for ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
[Infographic] Increase Click-Through Rates For Your Tweets Jan 25 2012 14:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
[Infographic] Increase Click-Through Rates For Your Tweets HubSpot's resident social media scientist Dan Zarella released a new report on how to get the highest number of click-throughs for your tweets. Some of the information (presented below in a handy infographic) is stuff we already knew: Tweets between 120 and 130 characters tend to get retweeted more often than longer and shorter tweets and tweeting links at a slow rate gets more clicks, for example. But other findings - including click-through rates for tweets containing the word "daily is out" ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
The Shift From Watching TV to Experiencing TV Jan 25 2012 08:00:38	ReadWriteWeb
The Shift From Watching TV to Experiencing TV Over half of all devices at this year's CES, the world's largest consumer electronics trade show, were Internet connected devices. Nearly 60% of those were non-traditional computing devices such as TVs, car devices, refrigerators and washing machines. In fact 90% of the TVs at CES were Internet-enabled. As more and more devices in your home get connected to the Internet, the user experience becomes increasingly important. It's hard enough to use your PC sometimes, let alone fiddle with the rem... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Apple's Growth Rate Is Simply Incredible... And It's Ac... Jan 25 2012 02:12:01	ReadWriteWeb
Apple's Growth Rate Is Simply Incredible... And It's Accelerating There are plenty of impressive stats in Apple's December quarter earnings report, such as 37 million iPhones shipped, $46 billion of overall sales, and $13 billion of profit. But Apple's most impressive stat continues to be its growth rate: Apple is not only huge, but it is growing at a rate far greater than its peers. And, even more incredible, its growth rate is accelerating. As a company gets bigger, or as a market matures, its growth rate typically falls. It's only natural: The numbers get... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Dasient Crew Picked Up By Twitter: Now What? Jan 25 2012 02:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Dasient Crew Picked Up By Twitter: Now What? Just a week after Twitter's acqui-hire of Summify, the company has done it again. This time Twitter is grabbing Web security firm Dasient and winding down the Dasient business. Instead of servicing the old customer base, the Dasient team is going to work on Twitter's revenue engineering team. Wait, what? You might think that Twitter would be looking to snag Dasient in order to curb problems with spam and other attacks on the platform. Instead, it looks like Twitter is hoping to use Dasient's te... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Mozy Adds File Sync Services Jan 25 2012 01:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Mozy Adds File Sync Services Online backup vendor Mozy, part of EMC, announces this week the addition of file synchronization services called Stash to its lineup. The idea is to have agents on various endpoints that will automatically sync your files everywhere you have Mozy running, to make it easier to grab your files when you are away from your main desktop. The endpoints initially supported include all Windows from XP SP3 and Macs from OS 10.5 and iOS and Android phones, including the Kindle Fire. After you in... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Cloud Roundup for January 24, 2012 Jan 25 2012 00:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Cloud Roundup for January 24, 2012 Craigslist loves Perl, Amazon wants to help customers use geo-blocking, and if you're looking for an overview of Hadoop solutions then we've got a good link for you. Geo-Blocking Content With Amazon CloudFront – Geo-targeting has its good and bad side. I'll let you decide where geo-blocking content falls. If it's something your company needs to do, though, Amazon has a short post by Nihar Bihani of the CloudFront team on using geo-blocking for content with CloudFront.Big data ma... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Driven By iPhone and iPad Growth, Apple Revenue Topped ... Jan 24 2012 23:35:45	ReadWriteWeb
Driven By iPhone and iPad Growth, Apple Revenue Topped $46 Billion Last Quarter In its quarterly earnings call this afternoon, Apple threw around quite a few very large numbers. For starters, the company brought in $46.3 billion dollars in the last quarter, which was a 73% increase over the previous year. In terms of profit, they netted $13.1 billion, a 118% year-over-year increase and a number that exceeds Google's entire quarterly revenue, as one observer pointed out. By far the biggest chunk of revenue came from the iPhone and related products. This isn't surprising con... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Facebook Posts Only Live For 3 Hours Jan 24 2012 23:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Facebook Posts Only Live For 3 Hours It happens to me every time. I copy and paste it, log-in to Facebook and drop it in. I hit "Post." The link, image or whatever it is publishes. I wait a few moments, then scurry back to the news feed and eventually sign off. I come back later, waiting to see what my post has done on Facebook. How long will it live, and is it going to get many likes or comments? Sound familiar? A new study from Edgerank Checker suggests that the average lifetime for a Facebook Page post is only three hours. ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
iOS Developers Take Home $700 Million in Q1 Jan 24 2012 23:18:00	ReadWriteWeb
iOS Developers Take Home $700 Million in Q1 Apple just blew everybody out of the water. It is astonishing, really. Revenue of $46.33 billion? Yeah, Greece called. It is looking for a bailout. Anyway, there is one number that is making mobile developers across the world salivate: $700 million. That is the amount that Apple paid out to iOS developers in the last quarter. Apple has paid out $4 billion cumulatively to iOS developers through the App Store. If we extrapolate those numbers considering Apple's 30% take of App Store purchases, th... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Why The Internet Cares So Much About Teenagers Jan 24 2012 23:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Why The Internet Cares So Much About Teenagers The Internet is fascinated by teenagers. People are in awe of the things that teenagers do and say, online and offline. Dr. danah boyd, a senior researcher at Microsoft, assistant professor at NYU and fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Societ, -thinks that perhaps adults are worrying too much about what teenagers are doing and saying online. What happens at lunchtime on the playground is now happening on the Internet, mostly on social media sites. Kids talk about stuff they ca... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
The 4-Terabyte Data Object Store: CAStor's Latest Volle... Jan 24 2012 22:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
The 4-Terabyte Data Object Store: CAStor's Latest Volley Against RAID Last month, we introduced you to a cloud-based backup system called CTERA - a practical demonstration of the flexibility of the underlying object storage platform. That platform, called CAStor, is essentially a mapping system for files stored over a widely distributed pool of clusters in the cloud. CAStor takes care of where things are located in the cloud; applications like CTERA map those locations using systems that make sense to humans. Today, the company behind CAStor - Austin, Texas-bas... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Google Issues New Privacy Policy for 1 Unified Google E... Jan 24 2012 21:53:00	ReadWriteWeb
Google Issues New Privacy Policy for 1 Unified Google Experience While the tech world gasped at Apple's quarterly earnings, Google announced a total overhaul of its privacy policies, which are now just one privacy policy. "We're getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that's a lot shorter and easier to read," Google's new policies website says. As Google's leaders have made abundantly clear, Google is working towards one unified product, and the new privacy policy and terms of service reflect that. The new ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Moving Away from Menus: Is Ubuntu's HUD Change We Can B... Jan 24 2012 21:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Moving Away from Menus: Is Ubuntu's HUD Change We Can Believe In? Canonical and the Ubuntu folks have taken a lot of risks in the Unity interface that ships with Ubuntu Linux. One of the things that the company has been leading towards is the Head-Up Display (HUD), a new tool for controlling applications that moves away from the traditional menu interface that debuted decades ago with the Xerox PARC GUI. Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth blogged about the new interface design today, with a description, screenshot and a video demonstrating the use of HUD. Sponso... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Why Apple's Restrictive iBooks Author Rules May Not Be ... Jan 24 2012 21:15:27	ReadWriteWeb
Why Apple's Restrictive iBooks Author Rules May Not Be Legally Enforceable When Apple unveiled plans last week to ramp up its efforts in the education space, the company's announcement was met with decidedly mixed reactions. While many welcomed Apple's foray into digital textbook publishing, others were less enthusiastic. The idea of delivering textbooks via tablets may have promise in theory, but Apple's initial execution doesn't look all that disruptive yet. The latter part of the announcement covered the impressive expansion of iTunes U and the launch of iBooks Au... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Running Out of Time for Monki Gras Tickets Jan 24 2012 21:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Running Out of Time for Monki Gras Tickets The RedMonk folks are getting ready to close the door on signups for The Monki Gras. The conference is scheduled for February 1st and 2nd in London, and features a delightful pairing of industry experts and beer. If you want to attend, you need to speak up today – the organizers are closing ticket sales on January 25th. The Monki Gras is a follow-on conference to Monktoberfest, which took place last October in Portland, Maine. (As some would have it, "the Real Portland.") Spons... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Google Docs Can Now Be Exported Through Takeout Jan 24 2012 20:56:00	ReadWriteWeb
Google Docs Can Now Be Exported Through Takeout Google Docs can now be exported from the Google Takeout menu, thanks to Google's Data Liberation Front. Previously, users could export and import documents in various formats, but they are now available alongside data from all other Google services in Takeout. Google Takeout was unveiled in summer 2011. It allows Google users to export all their Google data to disk or just data from individual services. It's all thanks to the Data Liberation Front team, which builds tools to give Google users c... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Real Voters' Disinterest In Anti-Piracy Legislation May... Jan 24 2012 20:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Real Voters' Disinterest In Anti-Piracy Legislation May Give SOPA New Life Interest in news about last week's protest against anti-piracy legislation was highest among people under the age of 30, according to the latest weekly News Interest Index survey. The survey was conducted Jan. 19-22 among 1,002 adults by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. While the Stop Online Piracy Act that was pending before the House and its Senate counterpart, the Protect IP Act, are on indefinite hold after last week's protests, the Pew poll shows little interest in the p... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Cloud9 IDE to Enable Node.js App Posting to Windows Azu... Jan 24 2012 20:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Cloud9 IDE to Enable Node.js App Posting to Windows Azure Cloud As the Windows Azure platform began branching out last year from support for purely Microsoft frameworks like .NET, going so far as to incorporate Java, one possibility that was overlooked at the time was to support JavaScript. The reason seemed obvious: JavaScript, as its creators would tell you, is a client language. Well, that's no longer true, now that Node.js makes it about as easy to write JavaScript for the V8 interpreter on the server as it is for V8 in Google Chrome on the client. L... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Nearly 1 Million People Jailbroke Their iPhone or iPad ... Jan 24 2012 19:45:36	ReadWriteWeb
Nearly 1 Million People Jailbroke Their iPhone or iPad Over the Weekend People sure do love jailbreaking their iOS devices. In fact, after Friday's launch of the Absinthe A5 tool, jailbreaking iOS 5 on A5-powered devices was almost as popular as the iPhone 4S itself when it first launched. Nearly 1 million people jailbroke their iPhone 4S or iPad 2 between Friday and Monday, according a blog post from the Chronic-Dev Team, who took the lead in developing the untethered solution for jailbreaking iOS 5 on Apple's newest gadgets. News of Friday's launch of ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
President Obama to Give the Most Interactive State Of T... Jan 24 2012 19:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
President Obama to Give the Most Interactive State Of The Union Address Ever As we saw last week with the blackouts associated with the Stop Online Piracy Act protests, the Internet has given common citizens of the United States an unprecedented ability to interact with the political process. This precedent is also evident in the social media battles being waged between candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination. Tonight President Barack Obama will take that participation to a deeper level with the most connected State Of The Union Address ever.... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Forget MP3s: Soon You'll Download Your Sneakers From Th... Jan 24 2012 18:59:00	ReadWriteWeb
Forget MP3s: Soon You'll Download Your Sneakers From The Pirate Bay We're at a watershed moment for intellectual property. Not a day after online protests drove Congress to shelve SOPA/PIPA, the feds demonstrated that they don't even need new laws to crack down on websites that threaten the interests of moneyed rights holders. They unceremoniously shuttered Megaupload, spooking other services that cloud-host users' files. TechCrunch reports today that the Megaupload crackdown cut the site off at the knees just before it planned to launch a disruptive and legal ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Facebook Ad Revenues Hit $3.8 Billion In 2011 Jan 24 2012 18:35:00	ReadWriteWeb
Facebook Ad Revenues Hit $3.8 Billion In 2011 Boston-based Nanigans, a firm specializing in the Facebook ads marketplace, recently released new data confirming a year-over-year jump in the Facebook ads marketplace this past holiday season. Facebook ads charged a higher cost-per-click (CPC), otherwise known as pay-per-click (PPC), which means that an advertiser pays each time a user clicks on the listing. This is especially interesting considering Facebook's latest incentive, which offers discounts for Facebook ads that keep users inside the... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How Google, Apple & Amazon Will Augment Reality in 2012 Jan 24 2012 18:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
How Google, Apple & Amazon Will Augment Reality in 2012 Google Maps and Google Earth just got their second update of 2012 to add 45º imagery, which now covers 17 U.S. and seven international cities. These 45º views cause buildings to cast shadows and rotate with real perspective. It's an almost-3D view that makes the satellite view of a place more realistic while still supporting most systems. 45º views act as a transition between the standard top-down view and Google's new Google MapsGL, a full-3D Maps experience powered by WebGL in the browser.... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Researchers Use Twitter-Bots To Increase Human-To-Human... Jan 24 2012 17:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Researchers Use Twitter-Bots To Increase Human-To-Human Interaction By 43% A group of Web researchers may have found a way to use Twitter bots to increase interaction between people, as well as between Twitter users and brands. As first reported by MIT Technology Review, the Web Ecology Project started as a contest to see which team of researchers could get the most @ mentions on Twitter. Some teams developed surprisingly lifelike Twitter bots which tricked human Twitter users into thinking they were real people. But then something unexpected happened: not only did t... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
[Infographic] The SMB Social Media Cheat Sheet Jan 24 2012 17:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
[Infographic] The SMB Social Media Cheat Sheet The folks at Flowtown have put together a quick reference guide to six different social media services. Called the SMB Social Media Cheat Sheet, it contains basic stats on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, Tumblr and Digg. What, no LinkedIn? That is perhaps the biggest missing service, but otherwise the infographic, reproduced below, is worth bookmarking for those noobs in your company that are looking to learn more about each service. I particularly liked the how to begin for each ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Big Question (Answered): "Worst Excel Spreadsheet" Jan 24 2012 16:30:39	ReadWriteWeb
Big Question (Answered): "Worst Excel Spreadsheet" Many of us are still haunted by our colleagues' Excel dependence. Even though I remembered the ghastly spreadsheet's I've been sent, I didn't expect to see as many truly horrible ways to use Excel as you have shared. Clearly someone needs to teach folks how to use a spreadsheet. From dropping images in it and sending it via email to creating a blog wireframe using Excel borders and shading, your answers had us all giggling. What is the worst use of an Excel spreadsheet that you have seen? W... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Facebook Timeline Is Here To Stay Jan 24 2012 16:18:00	ReadWriteWeb
Facebook Timeline Is Here To Stay Facebook is pushing Timeline out to all 800 million of its users. And there's no turning back to the "old" profile. Users have seven days to clean up their profiles before their Timeline goes live, transforming the bulletin board-like profile into a visual scrapbook of their lives. With Timeline, users have the option to add a second, bigger magazine-esque "cover photo" in addition to the profile photo. The profile photo has changed in size from a rectangle or square to a thumbnail that resemb... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
EU Commissioner: Rights of Media Could Trump Rights of ... Jan 24 2012 16:15:00	ReadWriteWeb
EU Commissioner: Rights of Media Could Trump Rights of Individuals There are two rights issues that stoke the flames in the heart of European Commission Vice President and Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding. One is something she's dubbed the "right to be forgotten:" the ability for an individual to tell an online collector of personal data to destroy its data about her. The other involves the rights of the media to express itself freely, an issue that Europe could not ignore during last week's SOPA protests. But what about when those two rights collide, whe... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How One IT Shop Cut Costs With the Cloud Jan 24 2012 16:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
How One IT Shop Cut Costs With the Cloud In the space of a year Precise, Software, a midsized provider of application management technologies based in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv, Israel completely transformed its IT infrastructure to virtualization and cloud software, saving more than $2 million of its annual IT costs. This reduction came through cutting half of their IT staff and closely examining a variety of other technologies.Precise completed a soup to nuts transformation to the cloud in 2009. The process was faster and... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Supreme Court's GPS Ruling Has Broad Implications On Tech Jan 24 2012 15:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Supreme Court's GPS Ruling Has Broad Implications On Tech Those old reruns of "The Wire" I've been working my way through, in which seemingly at least once a season Baltimore police used the latest GPS tracking gadgets to follow a bad guy, just wouldn't be the same had they been written after Monday, when the Supreme Court ruled that its unconstitutional for police to use GPS tracking devices without a search warrant. Sort of. In effect, the court ruled that it's okay for police to track every move you make. The only thing wrong they did in this part... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
[Report] Enterprises See One Tablet Request Per Every T... Jan 24 2012 15:15:00	ReadWriteWeb
[Report] Enterprises See One Tablet Request Per Every Three Smartphones Networking giant Cisco is attempting to quantify the enterprise market for tablets. So, the company spent the last several months of 2011 surveying 1,500 executives, middle management, salespeople and clerical staffs of medium to large business around the world. What they found was that, on average, enterprise IT shops handle one tablet request for every three smartphone requests across the world.Cisco results are a stab at boiling down how IT departments really feel about the evolutio... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Some In China Get Around Government's Twitter Censorship Jan 24 2012 14:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Some In China Get Around Government's Twitter Censorship Social media use grew 300% in China last year and more than half of the country's 500 million users are on a social network, according to a government report released last week. And that's why Chinese New Year became the most micro-blogged event in history, with 481,207 messages posted in the first minute of the year on a Chinese, Twitter-like service, as well as 32,312 messages posted in a single second: well above Twitter's record of 25,088 tweets in a second. Still, many Chinese, both in Chi... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Dolphin Teams With Evernote to Release Skitch Extension... Jan 24 2012 14:00:01	ReadWriteWeb
Dolphin Teams With Evernote to Release Skitch Extension for Android What do you get when you combine two companies that innovate some of the best products on the Web and have a propensity to build early and ship often? Some terrific tools and superb functionality, that's what. And that's what is happening today as browser maker Dolphin is teaming with cloud storage juggernaut Evernote. Dolphin and Evernote are teaming up to release two extensions to Dolphin's Android browser. The first and most exciting is powerful and popular Web-based image editor Skitch. The... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
iTunes U 2.0: Not Perfect, Just Awesome Jan 24 2012 05:50:22	ReadWriteWeb
iTunes U 2.0: Not Perfect, Just Awesome iTunes U has been around for a long time, but its expansion last week onto iPhones and iPads, as well as into new content like K-12 curriculum, has truly made this a 2.0 release. And it's very, very good. The iTunes U website carries the bold title "Learn anything, anywhere, anytime." That's an overstatement for sure, with 500,000 assets it's more like learn something about many things. But it's great either way. I spent the weekend neglecting other duties to play with iTunes U and below ar... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Parse.ly Dash Will Make Web Publishers Eat Their Vegeta... Jan 24 2012 05:09:11	ReadWriteWeb
Parse.ly Dash Will Make Web Publishers Eat Their Vegetables This morning, Parse.ly launched Dash, a content management system smart enough to make a blogger weep with joy. It analyzes the Web to show publishers what's hot. It tracks trends within the site, revealing what works for the audience. It points out when old posts are getting popular again. It follows individual authors over time and shows how their coverage performs. It shows where traffic is coming from to improve targeting. In short, it helps publishers plan. It does all of this by analyzing... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
More Than 50% of Devices at CES Were Internet Connected Jan 24 2012 04:25:37	ReadWriteWeb
More Than 50% of Devices at CES Were Internet Connected More than half of the devices launched at CES earlier this month were connected. That's according to the GSMA, a worldwide association of mobile operators and related companies. GSMA calculated that more than 90% of TVs at CES, 70% of automotive devices, 44% of healthcare devices and 30% of cameras were connected. GSMA predicts there will be 24 billion connected devices in the world by 2020. That's up from 9 billion today. It identified car connectivity as an especially important product categ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Daily Wrap: Community Manager Appreciation Day and More Jan 24 2012 03:00:10	ReadWriteWeb
Daily Wrap: Community Manager Appreciation Day and More In celebration of Community Manager Appreciation Day, I defined the characteristics of a Community Manager. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well. ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Cloud Roundup for January 23, 2012 Jan 24 2012 01:24:53	ReadWriteWeb
Cloud Roundup for January 23, 2012 Much has been said about Facebook's Timeline feature, but very little attention has been paid to the actual tech behind the feature. Timeline goes well beyond the scope of Facebook's previous profile pages and deals with years of Facebook activity. Starting this Fall, O'Reilly and Cloudera are going to be smooshing together their conferences, and Siddharth Anand has some thoughts on the state of NoSQL in 2012. The State of NoSQL in 2012 – Anand has some thoughts on the limitations of toda... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Just in Time for "Anonymous" Attacks, U.S. NIST Drafts ... Jan 24 2012 01:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Just in Time for "Anonymous" Attacks, U.S. NIST Drafts a New Readiness Plan Two years ago, the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security firmly decided (again) that a policy of responding to vulnerabilities in the nation's cybersecurity when they happen, is insufficient. The National Institute of Standards and Technology set about on a plan to model a 21st century perpetual vulnerability mitigation scheme - a continuous monitoring (CM) framework that attempts to model security procedures not in terms of crisis and response, but instead as a perpetual cycle of monitoring and enga... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
5 Things You Should Look For in a Community Manager Jan 24 2012 00:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
5 Things You Should Look For in a Community Manager In honor of Community Manager Day, I thought it would fun and worthwhile to share some tips with employers looking for the perfect community manager for their business. The community manager role is more relevant now than ever, and the numbers show it. In a joint research report released by Booz and Co. and Buddy Media, titled Campaigns to Capabilities, brand marketers said that hiring full-time employees is the number one investment they are making in social media. Furthermore, 63% of all soc... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Why People Have Fake Facebook Profiles Jan 24 2012 00:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Why People Have Fake Facebook Profiles It's late afternoon, and you're clicking around on Facebook. Then you stumble upon a person who appears to be Facebook friends with many of your mutual friends. This person is active on Facebook, posting links, videos, images and status updates. Still, something just seems off. A bit more digging reveals that this user isn't a real person. But Facebook hasn't noticed. Sound familiar? "Facebook has always been based on a real name culture," a Facebook spokesperson says to me via email. "We funda... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Embed Real-Time Group Chat With Sazneo Jan 24 2012 00:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Embed Real-Time Group Chat With Sazneo British software vendor Sazneo has launched a version of their chat software that you can now embed in any Web service or application. We last wrote about Sazneo about a year ago. "Sazneo Embed is ideal for companies that love the idea but are reluctant to introduce a new application onto busy desktops that already have email, instant messaging or social media tools." said Brett Davis, CEO. "Many of our clients have already started putting Sazneo into their internal applications and a number of ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
After SOPA's Death, Anti-Piracy Advocates Scramble for ... Jan 23 2012 23:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
After SOPA's Death, Anti-Piracy Advocates Scramble for a Way Forward The effective success of grass-roots efforts to stall anti-piracy legislation in the U.S. Congress now has people whose lives and careers are affected by piracy worried about their futures. With Congress unable to launch a successful dialog about proper methods to combat piracy; the entertainment industry having tried out for, and landed, the role of the villain; and with "Anonymous" launching somewhat successful attacks against U.S., Polish and other governments' websites in defense of the "ri... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How Companies Use Social Media To Pick Stocks Jan 23 2012 23:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
How Companies Use Social Media To Pick Stocks This week Topsy Labs Inc. released a report claiming its model was able to predict a drop in Netflix's share price after it decided to split its DVD rental and streaming video services by tracking phrases like "just canceled my Netflix subscription." It's arguable whether investors really needed a sophisticated sentiment measuring analyses to predict Netflix's shares would drop after what has been called the worst business decision since the introduction of "new" Coke in 1985. But social media ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Hacker Releases 100K Facebook Credentials Jan 23 2012 22:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
Hacker Releases 100K Facebook Credentials The ongoing Israel and Arab Internet feud continues. Now a hacker who says he is acting "in defense of Israel" released 100,000 log-in credentials of allegedly Arab Facebook users, according to reports from Computer World. The hacker, who goes by "Hannibal," posted the credentials to Pastebin on Saturday, and also made all details available through 14 sharing sites, including mediafire.com, sendspace.com, wupload.com and zshare.net. "Jewish people named me as the general of Israel's hackers,"... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
New RIM CEO Thorsten Heins Is A Patsy Set Up To Fail Jan 23 2012 22:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
New RIM CEO Thorsten Heins Is A Patsy Set Up To Fail A patsy is a person that is easily taken advantage of, the guy that gets set up to take the fall so the big wigs in power can extricate themselves from a situation free from blame. As you may have heard, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has named a new CEO today, Thorsten Heins. He takes over for co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis who are both moving to non-operational seats on RIM's board of directors. Poor Heins. This is a big break for a guy that started his career as an engineer. Ye... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Social Media Finally Does Something Useful In The Presi... Jan 23 2012 21:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Social Media Finally Does Something Useful In The Presidential Primaries So far I have been skeptical about how much of a role social media buzz has been playing in the presidential primaries, particularly when it comes to "predicting" winners. But of the three primaries to date, Saturday's race in South Carolina may have been the one that was most influenced by Twitter. Traditional polls still did a better job of predicting the outcome of Saturday's South Carolina primary, but a backwards look at Twitter may show why and how Newt Gingrich scored such a decisive, 12... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Google+ Updates Real Name Policy to Allow "Alternate Na... Jan 23 2012 21:21:00	ReadWriteWeb
Google+ Updates Real Name Policy to Allow "Alternate Names" Google VP of Product Bradley Horowitz has announced a series of changes to the Google+ real names policy. Google+ will now support "alternate names," such as nicknames, maiden names or names in languages with non-Roman characters. Alternate names will appear in the main profile, as well as when a cursor is held over the name. Alternate names will appear in "other areas of Google+" as the feature is implemented over "the next few weeks." The update also broadens support for "established pseudony... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Will Windows Phone Really Overtake iOS by 2015? (Poll) Jan 23 2012 21:15:24	ReadWriteWeb
Will Windows Phone Really Overtake iOS by 2015? (Poll) These days, the smartphone wars are typically viewed as a competition between the platforms of two companies: Apple and Google. Despite its years-long dominance of the desktop, Windows has hardly been a blip on the smartphone marketshare radar, where it clocks in at just under 2% of the market. That's all set to change within three years, according to a growing chorus of analysts. The latest to vouch for the impending growth of Windows Phone is iSuppli, who last week predicted that the platfor... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
YouTube's Reach Begins to Eclipse Television Jan 23 2012 21:01:30	ReadWriteWeb
YouTube's Reach Begins to Eclipse Television YouTube's statistics continue to boggle the mind. It revealed today that it serves 4 billion videos every day, a 25% increase in the past eight months. YouTube users upload one hour of video every second, which has prompted Google to create an annoyingly cute website to visualize this awesome stat. At the end of 2011, YouTube reported that it served a trillion videos that year, about 140 views for every living human being. As Reuters notes, Google reported that only about 11% of YouTube views a... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
A Brief History of the BlackBerry Jan 23 2012 20:40:14	ReadWriteWeb
A Brief History of the BlackBerry Back in the early 1990s, we didn't have BlackBerries or any kind of wireless data devices. Phones weren't very "smart," and dial up still ruled the land. Then a trio of companies came together to invent the Viking Express which was a combination of an Ericsson Mobidem wireless data modem that was the size of a small brick, an HP 100 pocket-sized computer that looked more like a big calculator, and software from a company called Radiomail that ran on the DOS operating system of the HP. The world ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Meme Pool: Survival of the Fittest on Tumblr Jan 23 2012 20:32:00	ReadWriteWeb
Meme Pool: Survival of the Fittest on Tumblr Mr. E.C. Mendenhall has built a robo-Tumblr called Meme Pool to experiment with the evolution of ideas. Just as a gene pool is the collection of all biological expressions (genes) in a population, a meme pool is the pool of memes, or transmittable ideas. Mendenhall's Meme Pool draws on Tumblr's vast reservoir of image memes, picks the two fittest every day, mates them and posts their offspring. There's no relation to memepool, the once-great mini-blog of handpicked Internet goodies. That one ha... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
PaaS Makes Progress in 2011 Jan 23 2012 20:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
PaaS Makes Progress in 2011 While Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has always had its cheerleaders - yours truly included - the harsh reality is that, commercially speaking, PaaS offerings have underperformed relative to expectations for several years running. This is particularly the case among enterprises, which have, by and large, turned a blind eye to the technology.Past performance notwithstanding, many industry watchers have predicted 2012 to be the breakout year for PaaS in the enterprise. Gartner, for exampl... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
MegaFallout: Shutdown of MegaUpload Spooks Other Services Jan 23 2012 19:40:19	ReadWriteWeb
MegaFallout: Shutdown of MegaUpload Spooks Other Services The fallout from last week's FBI raid and shutdown of MegaUpload isn't limited to founder Kim Dotcom and his associates. As intriguing as that story will be to follow, some of the more immediate side effects are being felt among other file-hosting services. Some companies that are perceived, correctly or not, of having a similar model to MegaUpload's are now scrambling to prevent their own demise now that that the legitimacy of that model has been very publicly - and dramatically - challenged.... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
No One Cares That Novell Has A New Version of GroupWise Jan 23 2012 19:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
No One Cares That Novell Has A New Version of GroupWise Today Novell released its 2012 version of its email software GroupWise, and the announcement was greeted by most with a big yawn. GroupWise? Seems so last century. (Actually, the last updates to the software were for version 8 back in 2008-2010.) According to one analyst, "GroupWise has 10,000 customers and is used by 47 of the 50 US state governments." It has been a distant third to Exchange and Lotus Notes for a while, and many GroupWise customers have switched over to Google Apps in the past ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
App Testing Catches Up With the New Era of Gesture-Base... Jan 23 2012 18:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
App Testing Catches Up With the New Era of Gesture-Based Input Gesture-based input is the present and future of computing. We have added whole new meanings to words like swipe, pinch, zoom and flip. For mobile developers, reconciling touch-based input with design and functionality goals in apps has become a problem. Testing gestures in an app is time consuming and problematic. A "cloud testing" company by the name of SOASTA wants to change that. It has come out with several new products today to help developers test gesture-based input for mobile applicat... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Facebook Photo Editing App Offers Instagram-Like Appeal Jan 23 2012 18:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Facebook Photo Editing App Offers Instagram-Like Appeal This weekend Google announced that it was shutting down Picnik, its handy dandy free photo editing software. I've used it on a number of occasions for fast, easy jobs that didn't require anything more than simple resizing. But let's be honest: How many of those types of quick photo editing jobs are just for Facebook photos? Aviary, a photo editor for Web and mobile apps, saw this opportunity and jumped on it, launching a photo editor app today for Facebook. The Aviary photo app offers ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
InfiniBand Acquisition Puts Intel Back in the Networkin... Jan 23 2012 18:08:21	ReadWriteWeb
InfiniBand Acquisition Puts Intel Back in the Networking Business Two technologies have made the quantum speed leaps in high-performance computing possible. One is the rapid ascent of commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) processors that made computing speed cheaper. The second is InfiniBand (IB), the switching technology that Sun Microsystems helped evolve into a fabric - the underlying infrastructure of a carrier-grade cloud. Today, after an on-again, off-again relationship with InfiniBand that stretches back to its very beginning, Intel is back in the network... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
It's Not Wrong for Google to Focus on Its Own Users Jan 23 2012 17:33:00	ReadWriteWeb
It's Not Wrong for Google to Focus on Its Own Users When Google shipped its Search, plus Your World update earlier this month, it turned out better than expected. Google left users the ability to click back and forth between personal and global modes or opt out altogether. Google's personal search draws in the user's Google+ relationships to tailor the results. When it launched, Google took the position that other social networks were welcome to participate, they just had to make a deal. Google does make some effort to identify content from othe... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Android to Top iOS In Developer Interest In 2012 [Report] Jan 23 2012 17:02:00	ReadWriteWeb
Android to Top iOS In Developer Interest In 2012 [Report] More app developers are going to go "Android first" over Apple's iOS this year, according to a survey by research firm Ovum. While there is a legitimate chance of this happening, we will believe it when we see it. It often seems like analysts are shooting in the dark with these types of proclamations, no matter what kind of survey data they collect. All the corollary evidence suggests that developer interest will overtake that of iOS. More Android devices are shipped and activated across the w... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Failure Is An Option Jan 23 2012 17:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Failure Is An Option Failure is a word that, understandably, carries a negative connotation. Nobody wants to fail, really. But failure, if you're doing anything worthwhile, is inevitable. What's important is to plan for failure, learn from it, try to avoid damage and do your best to recover gracefully. That was the topic of Selena Deckelmann's keynote, "Mistakes Were Made," Sunday morning at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE). Deckelmann is founder and COO of Prime Radiant, the company behind Checkmarkable... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Groupon's Next Step Into Social Shopping Jan 23 2012 16:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
Groupon's Next Step Into Social Shopping Andrew Mason wants to know what your friends like to buy. Groupon is expanding its Goods section with last Friday's purchase of Mertado, a Silicon Valley-based social shopping start-up focused on letting consumers buy products through social networks such as Facebook. Mertado's goal is create shopping experiences that "build bridges between content, commerce and community." Groupon has been working on personalizing its daily deals since going public back in November 2011. "Mertado ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
More Songs Doesn't Make Raditaz Better Than Pandora [RE... Jan 23 2012 16:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
More Songs Doesn't Make Raditaz Better Than Pandora [REVIEW] If you've spent more than a few tracks worth of time playing with Pandora, you know that you can't access every song or even every artist you may be into. You can find plenty of music by the Pixies, for example, but another favorite from my college days, Liz Phair, is nowhere to be found on the service. Raditaz launched earlier this month with promises 14 million licensed tracks, compared to the "more than 900,000" currently offered by Pandora. But guess what? Still no Liz Phair. And now, seem... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Can Microsoft Rally Developer Enthusiasm For Windows Ph... Jan 23 2012 15:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Can Microsoft Rally Developer Enthusiasm For Windows Phone? The great thing about being a Wall Street analyst is few people ever go back to check and see if the bold predictions you made months or even years ahead of time actually come true. Still, a report released by IHS in the wake of Microsoft's earnings announcement last week is worth a closer look.Wayne Lam, IHS's senior analyst for wireless communications, is predicting that Windows Phone will be the second most popular mobile operating system by 2015, eclipsing Apple's iOS and coming i... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Research In Motion's New CEO Needs More Than Just "Flaw... Jan 23 2012 15:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Research In Motion's New CEO Needs More Than Just "Flawless Execution" What do you get when you mix a train wreck ravaged by a tornado then washed away with the torrents of a tsunami? That would be BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. Now the company has a new chief executive, as co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are turning over their tightly held reins of the once-powerful smartphone manufacturer to chief operating officer, Thorsten Heins. Who is Thorsten Heins? He is a product designer and engineer that rose to be the COO under Balsillie and Lazaridis. ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
SoundCloud Hits 10 Million Users, Launches Instagram St... Jan 23 2012 14:48:51	ReadWriteWeb
SoundCloud Hits 10 Million Users, Launches Instagram Storytelling Mashup Not even two years after reaching 1 million users, social audio service SoundCloud announced today that it has surpassed the 10 million user mark. The Berlin-based company has risen to become a major force in audio content creation and sharing on the Web, becoming a sort of "YouTube for audio" used by musicians, journalists and pretty much anybody with a need to record and share their own audio files. To celebrate the milestone, the four-year-old startup has released an audio slideshow storyte... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
New Malware Protection Using Big Data Analytics From So... Jan 23 2012 14:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
New Malware Protection Using Big Data Analytics From Sourcefire Security software vendor Sourcefire announced today a new kind of endpoint security solution called FireAMP that couples the power of big data analytics with real-time threat detection and prevention. The idea is to use what is happening around the Internet in real time to lock down Windows endpoints and prevent them from running malware.As you can imagine, this is not a completely new concept. Network Box gathers intelligence from data collected around the world at major Internet peer... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Priceline's Shatner "Negotiator" Makes His Last Deal Today Jan 23 2012 12:21:50	ReadWriteWeb
Priceline's Shatner "Negotiator" Makes His Last Deal Today Perhaps not since "The Sweet Hereafter" has there ever been a more pivotal bus crash shown on TV or in the movies. Today Priceline begins a new ad campaign that shows the death of its William Shatner "Negotiator" character. For those of you that haven't seen "The Sweet Hereafter," a movie based on a Russell Banks story, it is worth renting just for Ian Holm's wonderful performance. But back to Priceline and Shatner. Shatner is still under contract with Priceline for another year, and ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
TechData Opens An App Store for VARs Jan 23 2012 12:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
TechData Opens An App Store for VARs Giant distributor TechData announced today the opening of its StreamOne Solutions Store. Think of it as an app store for VARs. No, your local VAR isn't going to start selling iPad apps, but the "bigger apps" for their clients to download cloud services or download commercial applications software products and their licenses. It is a great idea. "The Tech Data StreamOne platform is unlike anything currently offered within the channel," says Gertrud Pillay, Vice President, Category Marketing and ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Cartoon: Where Were You When the Sites Went Out? Jan 23 2012 03:28:00	ReadWriteWeb
Cartoon: Where Were You When the Sites Went Out? SOPA and PIPA, the twin bills before the U.S. Congress, may not be dead dead. But after the past few weeks of protest, culminating in Wednesday's remarkable day of action, they're not looking at all well. Votes on both bills are now delayed indefinitely. (Or, to put it in terms the MPAA would understand, they're in development hell.) Former sponsors are now fleeing for higher ground; the bills' supporters are fodder for The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.This doesn't mean that vict... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Community Manager Appreciation Day 2012 Jan 22 2012 14:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Community Manager Appreciation Day 2012 Today is the 3rd Annual Community Manager Appreciation day. Originally founded back in 2010 by Jeremiah Owyang, the 4th Monday of January has since become a day to both thank Community Managers and to enjoy some great community-themed content. Community Managers are, on the whole, good people. They are slow to anger, and quick to give second (and tenth) chances. They cheer-lead awesome folks and great ideas, while quietly, but firmly, discouraging bad behavior. They're passionate about th... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Weekly Wrap-up: SOPA 2012 and More Jan 21 2012 21:00:41	ReadWriteWeb
Weekly Wrap-up: SOPA 2012 and More Dan Rowinski publishes an easy to understand explanation of SOPA. Joe Brockmeier wishes Americans were always so tuned in to their elected representatives' doings. A Google contractor is caught vandalizing Open Street Map. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up. After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web - Location, App Stores and Real-Time Web - plus highlights from some of our six channels. Read on for... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How to Fix Your Router, According to McSweeney's Jan 21 2012 20:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
How to Fix Your Router, According to McSweeney's I am a big fan of David Eggers, first having come across his A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, part novel, part autobiography, several years. Since then the man has become a paragon of bringing good writing to the children of various inner cities with his 826 Valencia projects (where I once volunteered, name after the initial effort's address in San Francisco), starting up a quarterly literary magazine called McSweeney's, a book imprint, and the quirky but always interesting website. T... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Here's How to Win $5k For Your Favorite Non-profit Jan 21 2012 18:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Here's How to Win $5k For Your Favorite Non-profit Wanna win $5000 for your favorite non-profit? All it takes is to post a slide deck on Sliderocket for this contest called Make an Impact. Your presentation needs to be posted before March 28, and probably as soon as possible so you can begin promoting it and get some views. The four presentations with the most unique presentation views and judged to have the best storyline, composition and compelling cause will each win a $5,000 donation to their non-profit. You don't have to be employed by th... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, January 21, 2012 Jan 21 2012 18:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, January 21, 2012 We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want to get your event included in the calendar? Let us know in the comments below or email us. Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
International Reaction to Megaupload Indictment: This M... Jan 21 2012 00:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
International Reaction to Megaupload Indictment: This Means War A sizable chunk of Internet traffic went dark yesterday. No, I'm not talking about a SOPA protest. The #91 Web site on the entire Internet, Megaupload, was taken down after U.S. authorities executed a warrant to seize its Virginia-based servers and arrest four of its proprietors in New Zealand. To give you some perspective: On Google AdPlanner's scale, Walmart.com is #97. Social document sharing service Scribd.com is #90. Huffington Post is #86. To pretend it's a revelation that Megauploa... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Google Shut-Downs & the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Ve... Jan 21 2012 00:08:51	ReadWriteWeb
Google Shut-Downs & the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Google announced today that it is closing a number of services that it wasn't able to attract millions of users to without making any effort. The worst of the lot to lose are two: the Social Graph API and DIY data extraction service Needlebase. Following on the heels of the kitten-stomping-bad sunsetting of Postrank, these latest closures are really meaningful, even if the adoption of the services never was. Back when there was hope for Needlebase, the Social Graph API and for Postrank, thos... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Survey: 41% Of Teens Experience Cyber-Bullying On Their... Jan 20 2012 23:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
Survey: 41% Of Teens Experience Cyber-Bullying On Their Cellies Teenagers are endlessly fascinating, strange balls of neurotic/sexual energy. What company isn't interested in collecting data points about teens' behavior toward technology? (If you can think of one, please tell me in the comments. I promise to send you a shout-out on Twitter.) A new study from Openet, a provider of Service Optimization Software (SOS) conducted a small-scale survey using data from 503 U.S. 13-17 year-old cell phone users. The survey discovered that cyber-bullying on cell phon... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Russia's Top 5 Web Startups Of 2011 Mostly Rip Off U.S.'s Jan 20 2012 23:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Russia's Top 5 Web Startups Of 2011 Mostly Rip Off U.S.'s In America, 240 million people are wired...to the Internet. And in Russia, 60 million people are online. That's nearly half of Russia's population of 139,390,205 people. Russia is currently the largest Internet market in Europe, and its Internet population has been steadily growing year over year. The population of Internet users has just hit 42.8% of the entire Russian population. Last year, we wrote about the top 10 startups of 2011. But what are the top Russian startups? And are they all just... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Cloud Roundup for January 20, 2012 Jan 20 2012 23:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Cloud Roundup for January 20, 2012 Little bit of news around Node.js today, Amazon has added support for Identity Federation, and Oracle customers might want to pay attention to a fundamental flaw that's been discovered in Oracle database systems. Node.js v0.6.8 – The Node.js team has released a new stable version, 0.6.8. This release updates V8 to 3.6.6.19, updates npm to 1.1.0-2, and fixes a number of bugs. Identity Federation to the AWS Management Console – Amazon is announcing single sign-on to AWS usi... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Google to Close Picnik & Social Graph API, Open-Source ... Jan 20 2012 22:50:00	ReadWriteWeb
Google to Close Picnik & Social Graph API, Open-Source Sky Map Google keeps on slimming down its product line to focus on what CEO Larry Page calls its "big bets." Today it offered updates on five products that will be going dark this year. The photo editor Picnik, which Google acquired in 2010, will be closed down, and the team will work on Google's other photo products. Google is also shutting down its Social Graph API as its Google+ API slowly trickles out. Google will also open-source its Sky Map this year in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon universi... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
IDC: New Gov't Cloud Architectures Reduce Costs Through... Jan 20 2012 21:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
IDC: New Gov't Cloud Architectures Reduce Costs Through Sharing Government computing resources, like any other government procurement, used to be purchased by agencies for those agencies... and nobody else. It didn't make sense to share, because the very concept of sharing compute power didn't even exist. Now in an almost unprecedented shift of philosophy, the U.S. Government is one of the world's leading adopters of private cloud infrastructure. In order to slash costs fast, it's moving to the cloud sooner than almost anyone else. Now, some government a... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Infographic: What the Heck is an LLC? Jan 20 2012 21:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Infographic: What the Heck is an LLC? The kind folks at Intuit have posted this infographic on their blog this week that describes what a limited liability corporation is and how it stacks up to other kinds of corporate entities. It couldn't come at a better time for my family, as my wife is considering expanding her own business and wants to investigate her options. LLCs are great if you want to limit the amount of bookkeeping you have to do and if you don't mind paying self-employment taxes. A better choice for larger businesses i... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
It's Embedded vs. Mobile Devices for the Hearts and Min... Jan 20 2012 20:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
It's Embedded vs. Mobile Devices for the Hearts and Minds of Retailers "The Store of the Future," as retail electronics vendors have depicted it over the past few years, features eight-foot touchscreen walls that double as mirrors, interacting with the customer as she tries on virtual clothes without sacrificing her own modesty, scanning the ID tags and profiles of items she's already selected, and giving store clerks tools to dazzle the customer with demos and make on-the-spot deals without having to rush to the back office. These are the wonders made possible by... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Little Startup Makes It To the Big Stage, the Super Bowl Jan 20 2012 20:15:00	ReadWriteWeb
Little Startup Makes It To the Big Stage, the Super Bowl There comes a time in the life of any startup where the founders look at each other, let out a sigh of relief and say, "we're going to make it." Startup founders and their first employees work countless hours making sure the product is functioning, helping clients and customers and responding to mini-catastrophes that crop up all over the place like wild fires during the Santa Ana winds. The founders of Boston-based startup Promoboxx must be breathing that sigh of relief. Promoboxx has landed ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
News.me Swoops In to Save Summify Users Jan 20 2012 20:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
News.me Swoops In to Save Summify Users News.me deserves credit today for some start-up agility and helpfulness. Yesterday, Twitter bought Summify, a service that crunched down links from one's Twitter feed into a need-to-know email digest, and it will be shut down. Loving users freaked out. News.me, which provides a similar service, heard those cries for help, and it has redesigned its homepage and launched new features to welcome those Summify users in. News.me got popular with its iPad app, but it also offers an email digest with ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
A New Collaboration Tool From Zurb For Website Mockups Jan 20 2012 19:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
A New Collaboration Tool From Zurb For Website Mockups We often write about better tools for how people can collaborate easily, and one of our favorite companies just keeps coming with new ones that now it is hard to keep track of what they have in their portfolio. I guess that is a nice problem to have. Starting this week, Zurb.com launched a new service called Influence. It is useful for quickly collecting remarks and advice on graphics and PowerPoint slide decks. It is a great way to work jointly on website design mockups or presentations for exa... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
What One Chinese Blogger Said About SOPA/PIPA Jan 20 2012 18:35:00	ReadWriteWeb
What One Chinese Blogger Said About SOPA/PIPA Pro-Internet freedom Americans aren't the only ones who got pumped up about this Wednesday's Internet blackout day. The L.A. Times reports that Chinese Internet users praised American Internet users for taking action against their own government. Wen Yunchao, a prominent Chinese blogger and government critic who left the mainland for Hong Kong, says that China's Great Firewall, which was initially about stopping online piracy and pornography, quickly became about Internet censorship of website... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »

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