Blog Profile / ReadWriteWeb
| URL : | http://www.readwriteweb.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Technology | |
| Posts on Regator: | 23670 | |
| Posts / Week: | 86.8 | |
| Archived Since: | March 2, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Geek Film Review: Iron Man 3 Reveals It's A Tech World After All
Iron Man 3 is a great - nearly classic - summer blockbuster, filled with awesome special effects, stellar performances, fewer plot holes than explosions and a heartfelt geek message at its core: technology drives and inspires us, enables...Show More Summary
Hulu On The Auction Block
Four companies are reportedly making bids for online video service Hulu, which has apparently put on the auction block after a disagreement between owners News Corporation and Walt Disney Company on how to operate the TV steaming service. Former...Show More Summary
Making Android Pay: 5 Tips To Topping The Charts On Google Play
This post is the third in the ReadWrite series Making Android Pay, focusing on the opportunities and challenges that mobile developers face trying to make money from Android Apps.
In the waning hours of the Google I/O developers conference...Show More Summary
A Modest Proposal To Stop The iPhone Crime Wave
If you haven't heard, we're in the midst of a rampant and sometimes violent iPhone crime wave. In San Francisco, smartphone theft accounts for nearly half of all robberies in the city. Most of these are iPhones. In New York City, there were more than 11,000 thefts of Apple products - mostly iPhones - in just the first eight months of last year. Show More Summary
Hadoop 2.0 & YARN: Get Ready For This Summer's Big Data Breakthrough
Lately, it seems like Hadoop, the open source data platform seemingly so integral to the rise of Big Data, can't catch a break. Instead of relying on Hadoop as a key Big Data storage and analysis tool, vendors and observers are increasingly positioning it as "just" a storage tool.
But this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Show More Summary
Waze Mapped As The Billion-Dollar Treasure
Reports are coming out today that Israeli mapping company Waze is now being eyed as an acquisition target by Google, for the tune of $1 billion. This, just days after similar reports that Facebook was looking at picking up Waze for a...Show More Summary
Nintendo's Epic Fail — Grabbing Copyright From Its YouTube Fans
You might think that Nintendo, beleaguered by falling revenues, minuscule profit and the almost-but-not-quite-failed launch of the Wii U, already has enough problems to worry about. And you would be wrong, as Nintendo itself set outShow More Summary
Geek Pride Day Is May 25: Here's How To Celebrate
Ready to embrace another arbitrary holiday - or just looking for an excuse to slack off and eat cake? Who isn’t?
This Saturday, May 25, is internationally known as Geek Pride Day. “But, Pi Day and Star Wars Day already happened,” you might be thinking. Show More Summary
News Flash! Tablets Are Not Smartphones
You probably already knew this, but a new report from Forrester wants to emphasize this seemingly obvious point: Tablets are not simply larger touchscreen smartphones. There are significant difference in where people use them, how they...Show More Summary
Shazam's New iPad App Is Designed For Watching TV With A Tablet, Too
Shazam, an app best known for identifying songs playing around you, is making a big move into identifying all kinds of media playing around you.
That promises to move Shazam from our pockets, where its smartphone apps mostly identify songs, to our living rooms—and hence to the tablets we typically keep near our TVs. Show More Summary
Google App Engine Cuts Prices By One-Quarter
Google is reducing Datastore prices by up to 25%, according to an announcement on their Cloud Platform Blog. This price change impacts both App Engines HRD and the new Cloud Datastore introduced last week at I/O. The price decrease is...Show More Summary
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Saves Companies Money - But Could Cost Users Big
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) polices are increasingly popular as a way for companies to let workers use the hardware they like best and are most productive with. But according to a new study from Cisco, that not be the best way to think...Show More Summary
Android Dramatically Extends Lead With Open Source Developers
Despite Google Android's long market-share rise against Apple iOS, developers continued to stick with iOS as their first deployment target. While Android offered superior volume, that volume was fragmented between different versions of the OS and disparate hardware. Show More Summary
Square Storms Japan
Square, the mobile payment service that has been making strong inroads within the North American retail sector, has announced the availability of its service in Japan. The company is already processing $15 billion in annualized payments, and this move into Asia is expected to greatly increase the popularity and profitability of the service.
Hadoop: What It Is And How It Works
You can't have a conversation about Big Data for very long without running into the elephant in the room: Hadoop. This open source software platform managed by the Apache Software Foundation has proven to be very helpful in storing and...Show More Summary
Mailbox Takes Its Email App To iPad, With Android Waiting In The Wings
What has Mailbox founder Gentry Underwood and his team been up to since selling the email-app maker to Dropbox for a reported $100 million in March?
Mostly working on new versions of the product—like an iPad version of the app, which...Show More Summary
Making Android Pay For Developers: Checking Out The New Tools In Google Play
This post is the second in the ReadWrite series Making Android Pay, in which we explore the opportunities and challenges mobile developers face trying to make money from Android apps.
How do you get mobile developers to love you? Give...Show More Summary
LinkedIn Continues To Simplify With New Navigation Bar
Aligning itself aesthetically more along the lines of social networks like Facebook and Google+, LinkedIn has introduced a new navigation bar to its website. The aim is in line with the company's simplification efforts, which so farShow More Summary
Don't Look Now, But We Might Be In A Developer Drought
Hey, developers! Do you feel like you're in demand? Apparently you should.
HubSpot, a Cambridge-based marketing software-as-a-service venture, has started a new initiative to handsomely compensate anyone who can refer a developer friend. Show More Summary
Twitter Finally Gets Two-Factor Authentication
In a pure case of closing the barn doors after the horses have come home (and so many corporate Twitter accounts have been hacked), Twitter has announced today the option to implement two-factor authentication. If users opt-in, any sign-on...Show More Summary