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The first time you walk into an Apple Store and pick up an iPad, you’ll understand the hype: Apple has managed to create a beautiful, thoughtfully designed, compelling product in a space where mediocrity was, until now, status quo. But odds are yo...

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Nuance is killing the SpinVox service, informing its users, which are located in the UK, via text that their accounts will expire within a week. The move which prompted an outcry on Twitter marks the end of a very popular voice-to-text service ...

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Given how bad most people are at driving, I have to wonder why car companies keep giving us tools of distraction ways to make phone calls when driving, to watch DVDs when driving, etc. Add to that list sharing your geo-location when driving. Aft...

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An interesting patent of Apple’s relating to a social networking app surfaced recently. Dubbed iGroups, the app aims to solve the pitfalls of traditional social networks, like Facebook, that require users be a member before being able to partici...

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Palm shares plunged in late trading Thursday after the company posted yet another dismal quarter and warned that revenue for the current one will fall far short of Wall Street expectations. The company will have to take substantial charges to help...

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The fact that many people love games isnt really that new. Retailers and even our own governments have used our love of games to sell us products and hook us on lotteries and whatever else they can think of to boost revenue. But the rise of onli...

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Plastic Jungle, a Mountain View, Calif.-based company that runs a gift card exchange says it has raised $7.4 million in a round led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from previous investors, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital and Bay Part...

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With the release of court filings in the three-year old copyright infringement suit between Viacom and YouTube, weve seen the video share site argue that it is not liable for infringing videos uploaded to its site, as it claims protection under the safe harbor provision of the Digital Milennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

But in Viacoms filing for a partial summary judgment, it makes the case that the sites founders and later executives of acquirer Google turned a blind eye to copyrighted material in an effor...

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Music is moving into the cloud, right? Access is replacing ownership of albums and song files, online streams are replacing desktop playback and mobile access is renewing interest in on-demand music subscriptions. Older services such as Rhapsody a...

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Not so long ago, calling something Web 2.0 increased its value. It meant fresh, new, interactive, responsive. Now, if someone uses that term you know theyre woefully out of touch. For me, its been a trip to re-adopt my former web beat on GigaOM a...

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Twitter Search Is About Popularity

For many people, Twitter offers a larger, more diverse stream of constantly flowing data than they've ever had to deal with before in their life. Depending on how many people you follow and how much they tweet, the information can become unmanagea...

Formspring.me: Another Startup Packing Its Bags for Silicon Valley

News broke yesterday that popular online Q&A; startup Formspring.me had raised some $2.5 million in venture funding and would be relocating to Silicon Valley from Indianapolis. As a user and fan of the service, I am happy to see the company rewarded for its success, and I am excited to see how they can improve their already great product. However, as a follower of the national and global startup culture, it is a little disappointing to see the company leave their home and head west to the Valley.

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Travelers Love the Mobile Web - But Most Don't Use Travel Apps Yet

Once upon a time, you had to bring travel guides, maps and paper tickets on every trip. Today, you can just take your smartphone and get access to all of this information without having to lug a couple of books and magazines around with you. Today, according to a new study by analytics firm Compete, 38% of smartphone users conduct travel research on their devices and 28% use their phones to book at least some of their trips and travel activities.

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Compete found that the most popular travel-related a...

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If You Tell Them On Facebook, They Will Come...Again and Again

In continuing to look at the way that Facebook has become a driving force behind online news consumption, Heather Hopkins of Hitwise has dove into the numbers again, this time examing how Facebook users compare with others in return visits.

According to Hopkins' article, Facebook not only drives a high amount of traffic, higher than Google News, but its users are far more loyal, as well.

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Hopkins took a look at the data earlier this month, noting that Facebook drives three times as much traffic to...

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Novell Gets Ready To Release Pulse and Federation with Google Wave

Novell is providing the first glimpse of Pulse, its new real-time collaboration service. The new service will eventually fully integrate with Google Wave. This version does not include Google Wave as part of its service. But there is an expectati...

Three iPhone Apps To Save Yourself & The World

We saw a cartoon recently that shows the attendees of a "Climate Summit", with a single naysayer yelling out from the back of the crowd "What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?" Well, in the spirit of creating a better ...

OneRiot Brings Its Real-Time Ads to the Web

Until now, anybody who wanted to implement real-time ads from OneRiot's RiotWise network had to get these ads through OneRiot's API and create a customized user interface around these ads. This severely limited OneRiot's appeal for website owner who wanted to experiment with real-time ads on their sites and services but were looking for a plug and play solution. Today, OneRiot is launching a new set of real-time ads that website owners can just plug into their sites. These dynamic ads will refresh automatic...

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Weekend Fun: New Apps for Your iPhone

As one of ReadWriteWeb's iPhone users, I'm always looking for new applications to try out. Some get downloaded for a day and then deleted right away, others slowly inch their way closer to my homescreen. Even rarer are the ones that become activel...

The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn't Prove Influence on Twitter

A group of researchers have proven something we already expected to be the case: your Twitter follower count is somewhat of a meaningless metric when it comes to determining influence. To reach this conclusion, the researchers examined the Twitter...

Will Windows Phone 7 Series Be A Smartphone for the Enterprise?

We're seeing a few glimpses from Mix10 of what Windows Phone 7 Series will look like for the enterprise. Perhaps most compelling is the continued emphasis on creating an experience more so than an enterprise "phone." It appears that Microsoft ha...

5 Old-School Businesses That Rely On User-Generated Content

You think the idea of user-generated content as a business model was invented in the Aughts? No way. Media outlets have been drawing on material created by amateurs, consumers and customers for generations and repackaging it for your entertainment...

8 Ways to Better Understand the Internet of Things

The world's second Internet of Things Conference is scheduled to take place at the end of November in Tokyo. The deadline for papers was just extended to June 1 - which gave us an idea. Conference planners have put together a list of suggested top...

Got Budget? Virtualization as Poster Child for Less Meetings

McKesson is a global health care leader that has 26 operating companies. The centrial IT group had the vision to automate "the last mile" of IT planning, the budget approval process. We think of it as the budget approval dance, and when containi...

The Oracle Effect: Sun's Best and Brightest Move On to New Places

What is the effect of the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems on cloud computing? Well, there have been quite a few if you look at where Sun's best and brightest have moved on to in the past few months.

Tim Bray is the latest Sun star to move on. You may know Bray as the co-founder of XML. Eve Maler is also a co-founder of XML. She had worked with Bray for many years until her departure from Sun last Spring to join PayPal. Eve as many of you many know, is one of the leaders in developing identity stand...

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Google Will Soon Allow You to Opt Out of Google Analytics Tracking

Google Analytics offers site owners an easy and free way to gather highly detailed analytics about their websites' visitors. A lot of people, however, don't feel comfortable with the idea that Google can track their every move on the Internet. After all, even if you don't use any Google product yourself, you will still send personal data about yourself to Google through programs like Google Analytics. According to an announcement the Google Analytics team just posted on its blog, you will soon have the opti...

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If youre of the camp that believes your iPhone or iPod touchs screen needs some kind of additional protective layer to prevent it from getting damaged, you may want to head to the Apple store soonish to stock up on said accessories. In the very ...

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Im one of those people who has a tough time trying to schedule meetings. Whats worse is that times change, mostly because of the ever-shifting deadlines that come with blogging. Thats one of the main reasons my calendar constantly descends into ch...

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Formspring.me, the fascinatingly simple and popular personal Q&A site, has raised $2.5 million from a top-shelf list of angel investors: Baseline Ventures, Freestyle Capital, SV Angels, Maples Investments, Chris Sacca, Dave Morin and Kevin Ros...

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In whats looking like a standard operating procedure, Google just released its free Gesture Search software for Android 1.6 devices and expanded availability outside of the U.S. The application launched two weeks ago on Android 2.x devices. With i...

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Having gone toe-to-toe with Macmillan Publishing over e-book prices last month, only to retreat in the face of a consumer backlash, Amazon is once again talking tough with publishers. This time, however, the stakes are even higher for the Kindle-m...

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Deep discounts are helping to push smartphones beyond early adopters and hardcore business users and into the hands of mainstream U.S. consumers, according to figures released this morning from The NPD Group. But those lower prices are stalling re...

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For years, network operators happily called all the shots when it came to developers, effectively saying, You want to be on our network? Then jump through all these hoops to get approved, and be happy with whatever margins we pay you.

You cant get away treating people like that for too long. Indeed, these days, developers are calling the shots, requiring more open development platforms and a 70-30 split with mobile providers. Carriers such as O2 (Litmus) and SK Telecom have both agreed to the new arrangeme...

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I had the chance to sit down with Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark recently at his favorite breakfast spot in San Francisco, just a block or two from the house where Craigslist was launched 15 years ago this month. We talked about a number of hi...

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The location wars between rival mobile check-in services, the unmet expectations of the Twitter keynote and the hordes of newbies crowding out regulars (as they do every year) were some of the leading threads at SXSW this year. And rightfully so ...

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Chris Hughes, who co-founded what became one of the worlds largest social networks and then just a few years later orchestrated a social-media campaign that helped put Barack Obama to the White House, has launched a new, non-profit startup that ...

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Worldwide shipments of GPS-enabled GSM/WCDMA handsets increased 92 percent in 2009, according to figures released this morning by Berg Insight, as the technology has become a standard feature in smartphones and mid-range feature phones. But GPS is...

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Marrying location with marketing message has always been viewed as the holy grail of local advertising. Google has started taking strong steps towards this future, starting today in Australia. The company has started to put ads on Google Maps in A...

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Google has partnered with Sony, Intel and Logitech to develop a yet-unannounced product called Google TV, according to an article by New York Times technology writer Nick Bilton. Google TV will be based on Android, according to Bilton, and could come in the form of a dedicated set-top box or a software platform that could be deployed on Internet-connected TVs and similar devices, directly competing with solutions from Vudu, DivX and Boxee.

Details about Google TV are still scarce, as Bilton dindt get a...

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The Federal Communications Commission issued the long-awaited National Broadband Plan this week, a 376-page document that makes clear the agency accepts the reality of the current wireline duopoly and as such, has decided to put the burden of com...

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Provider Fail: Vodafone Sells HTC Smartphone Loaded With Malware

Panda Security is reporting a second incident of malware on Vodafone's HTC Magic, a Google Android smart phone. it provide a clear example for how smartphones are prime targets to become botnets once connected to a user's personal computer. The i...

6 ReadWriteStart Lists: Our Best Startup Advice

In a recent conversation here at ReadWriteStart we were talking about what readers want most. Beyond stories about where the latest funding opportunities are found, and beyond wanting to know what startups are doing that works, we know that someti...

'Breath Social': The New Rules of Relationship Management

Despite the proverbial "the customer is always right," the relationship between the customer and the company has long been organized for the benefit of the latter. But the ability for companies to completely control this relationship has disappeared.

Social CRM: The New Rules of Relationship Management, a report from the Altimeter Group released earlier this month, serves to help companies and organizations understand the changing territory. The report offers a thorough framework with which companies ca...

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The Death of the Pageview

The Web has hit a point where tracking pageviews is useless for startups. There was a time when all you needed to succeed on the Internet were lots and lots of eyeballs, and the best way of measuring those eyeballs was by tracking pageviews (meas...

New Mozilla Labs Project Wants to Give You Total Control Over Your Address Book

Currently, your contacts live in address books that are distributed all over the Internet and your desktop. Because of this, chances are that you have numerous address books on the web that are often "inconsistent and disjointed." Contacts, a new ...

Future: Amazon's 'Think Clouds' are Data Aware

At the RSA Keynote a few weeks back, Amazon's Security Lead, Steve Riley participated on a panel with other security leaders of the industry. We were impressed with the openness of all of the participants, and particularly excited with the new co...

Proposed Financial Regulations Could Cripple Angel Investing

In the wake of the financial meltdown, a new set of financial regulations proposed by Senator Christopher Dodd aimed at plugging the "too big to fail" loopholes could have some negative side effects for the angel investment community. According to...

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The mayor of Sarasota, Fla., went swimming with the sharks today yes, literally in an extreme effort to woo Google and land that sweet fiber network the company plans to dole out to some lucky town. And hes not alone. Cities across the country ...

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There’s a battle looming in California over smart meters and energy prices. Google says the state should require its big utilities to give near real-time pricing information to every smart meter-enabled customer by the end of next year. California...

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I don’t trust Yelp any more. And thats not a conscious decision. Ive largely ignored the well-publicized allegations of how the ad side manipulated ratings and reviews to drive sales, instead continuing to turn to the site for recommendations on ...

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Sequoia Capital partner Mark Kvamme, citing examples from campaigns run on Funny or Die and AdMob, told an audience of marketers at OMMA Global in San Francisco today, If you can harness social media marketing, you dont have to pay for advertising...

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If youve been cooking up a great business idea for how to use IT to fight climate change, you need to enter our Green:Net 2010 Launchpad! Were only accepting submissions until 5 p.m. PT on Friday, so make sure you and your colleagues enter soon. Y...

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Communications networks are eating up a lot of power and with the proliferation of online video and data-rich mobile applications, such consumption is set to climb even further. According to the Smart 2020 report, information and communication technology services are currently responsible for a full 2 percent of the total carbon footprint; communications networks alone account for a third of that consumption. And the report estimates that given user demand and production, those numbers are going to double ...

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Music subscription services promise unlimited access to enormous libraries of songs, typically on the order of 6-10 million tracks. And while a few superstar artists are famously absent from streaming services as well as Apple’s iTunes -– the Beat...

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Googles content comprises between 6 and 10 percent of global Internet traffic, making its internal network one of the top three ISPs in the world, according to Arbor Networks. The maker of deep packet inspection equipment, which runs a survey of i...

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After having seen tremendous success with its geo-local app, Where, the Boston-based uLocate Communications today rebranded itself as Where. The company also launched a new web site that allows mobile users to sync information in the app between t...

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Qualcomm plans to bid for a chunk of spectrum in Indias upcoming 3G auction, the chipmaker said today. Qualcomm is taking a page out of Googles playbook the search engine giant bid for spectrum in the U.S. but never had any plans to become a netw...

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FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has spoken to a YouTube team about the National Broadband Plan and tried to respond to questions from Internet users across the country. The answers were, to put it politely, nuanced at best. Regular reader Brent Gl...

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The mobile application economy will be worth $17.5 billion by 2012, according to a report released this morning from analyst Chetan Sharma surpassing that of the worldwide market for CDs. But while all eyes here in the West are focused on the iPh...

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Less than 0.2 percent of people who use Twitter wind up going to news and media sites from the social-networking site, according to a recent analysis by traffic-measurement firm Hitwise (although Hitwise just looked at traffic coming from the we...

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After I participated in a rousing SXSW panel about content recommendations, Emmanuel Marchal, general manager of London-based LikeCube approached me in the hall to tell me about his company. I thought it was pretty cool, so I captured a video interview with him right there.

LikeCube was co-founded by a semantic web technologist and an anthropologist four years ago, and funded by the UKs National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts. It combines metadata, user activity and personalization to help c...

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If I were to describe the attributes of a smartphone platform to you, could you guess which platform it is? Lets try it and see. Heres your first clue: Applications for it can only be installed through one specific app store. Since everyone has an...

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How US Government Spies Use Facebook

The US Department of Justice this week released slides from a presentation deck titled Obtaining and Using Evidence from Social Networking Sites. The document was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

The DoJ presentation describes Facebook as much more co-operative with law enforcement requests for user information than Twitter and MySpace are. It also explains to officers what the advantages of going undercover on social networking si...

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Internet of Things Explained (Video)

IBM's Smarter Planet team has created a great 5 minute video explaining the emerging trend of Internet of Things, an exciting topic ReadWriteWeb has and will continue to cover frequently and in depth. Internet of Things is about, as the video exp...

Rulers of the Cloud: Will Amazon's Computing Fabric Become a New Economy?

This is the third entry in our exploratory series "Will One Company Dominate the Cloud". Today we're blinking twice after reviewing the innovation engine at Amazon. The Amazon AWS product is all about services. While others are marketing the c...

4 Technology Partners And What They Say About the IBM Cloud

The IBM Cloud is a prototype of the ecosystem we expect to see emerge in the world of cloud services. It has the flavor of other platform environments, with the primary goal of integrating IBM with third-party applications to serve developers and ...

Google Denied Trademark on Android Nexus One

It's been a rough day for Google's Android phone, the Nexus One. First we learned this morning that initial sales have been far weaker than the iPhone saw when it first came out of the gate. Now it's being reported that the U.S. Patent and Trade...

Applying to Incubators Takes More Than a Great Idea

As the month of March trudges on, we are getting closer each day to spring and eventually summer when numerous startup incubators hold their camps for early-stage companies. Many incubators are still taking submissions, including TechStars Boulder...

Which Mobile App Platform Should a Startup Focus on?

As much as startups want to launch their applications across all mobile platforms, it's often more realistic to focus on just one. But which one? The iPhone has the biggest numbers in terms of both apps and app buyers, whereas Android usage stats ...

Mac Owners: Chrome Bookmarks Now Usable

Google Chrome is probably the best browser available, if speed and extensions are both important to you, and one major problem experienced by Mac users was just solved. The developer version of Chrome for Mac just released an update that allows u...

FCC's New Mobile Apps Could Shape Federal Policy

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission built upon its growing new media prowess with the launch of its own iPhone and Android applications. The FCC's new apps allow users to test the speed of mobile broadband services and report deadzon...

Seed Incubator Panel: YCombinator, VentureHacks, Capital Factory, TechStars

A decade ago, entrepreneurs saw seed funds as a means to an end. There was little effort to brand the separate groups, there were few celebrity angels and the entire VC community seemed shrouded in mystery. Enter the seed incubator model. Betwee...

Cloud-Based, Open-Source Future For Teachers?

A computing device for every teacher and student so they can access the Internet at school or at home? That, along with an embrace of cloud computing, Creative Commons, and open-source technologies is part of a new set of recommendations from the...

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Earlier this morning during a keynote at SxSW, Twitter CEO and co-founder Evan Williams announced the availability of Twitters @Anywhere platform. It is an identity system and is widely viewed as an answer to Facebook Connect. It allows Twitter su...

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Quick, picture a tech startup founder: Are they male, maybe around 27 years old, a resident of Silicon Valley? Apparently thats what it takes to build a tech startup for a seed incubation program, at least according to the explicit and implicit wi...

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DoubleDutch: Build Your Own Check-In App For Your Event, Business or School

Ten year old local business rating company RateItAll has released a white-label location based mobile social networking platform called DoubleDutch. Events organizers, companies that work with multiple locations and others can work with DoubleDut...

Chatroulette: Everyone Talks About It, Few Actually Visit

Chatroulette has been talked about a lot over the past 30 days but for all the media mentions - ComScore reports that the site is still seeing less than 1 million unique US visitors per month. Site visitors are disproportionately young, male and ...

Spotify Founder Leaves Us Looking to MOG, Napster & Others

Everybody piled into the ballroom today at the Austin Convention Center to hear Spotify CEO Daniel Ek give the final keynote interview of SXSWI of 2010 fully expecting to be blown away with the release of the peer-to-peer music player. Instead, w...

IBM Makes A Major Move Into The Cloud; Amazon Is In Its Sights

IBM is extending its cloud infrastructure to the IBM Cloud and enhancing its offering with commercial- and enterprise-grade test and development services with a broad reach of partners and collaborative approaches. The effort follows its launch in November of a test-and-development cloud-based service. With this announcement, IBM is laying the foundation for a cloud ecosystem that will differentiate the company from Google, Microsoft and Amazon.

Perhaps one of the most compelling aspects of the news is tha...

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Founding a Startup? Credibility is Your Best Friend

We hear a lot about how starting a company takes some serious entrepreneurial DNA with traits like ambition, drive, relentlessness, and above all, passion. But some might argue that these are just the good sounding attributes that can lead to succ...

Microsoft Launches First IE9 Developer Preview with Support for Hardware-Accelerated HTML5

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 subsystem and additional developer tools.

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Microsoft is clearly focusing on making Internet Explorer compatible with the late...

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The Rocky Road for LBS: Beyond Smartphones and LBS Games

The first thing we think of these days when someone mentions "location-based services", or LBS, are the mobile social platforms we've gotten used to "checking in" to wherever we go - Gowalla, Foursquare, Brightkite, MyTown and the like. But lookin...

BizSpark Accelerator Finalists: Our Pick for 'Most Innovative Web Technology'

Today at the South By South West festival in Austin, three finalists competed in the Microsoft BizSpark Accellerator finals in the "Innovative Web Technologies" category. The companies, RecycleMatch, Siri and Skimble argued their positions on sta...

Nexus One Flopped, but Android Didn't

A new report from mobile analytics firm Flurry reveals some interesting numbers about Google's first attempt to sell its own custom branded Android device, an HTC-built phone called the Nexus One. It's a flop. After 74 days, the same amount of tim...

Crowdsourcing in the Enterprise With Gambling In Mind

In the world of risk management, it's all about probability. But often, it takes considerable time to get an answer to important questions. But as of late, risk management is seeing a transformation, in most part fueled by the advent of real-time ...

NPR and WSJ Building iPad-Only Websites

The Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio (NPR) will be launching custom-built iPad-only websites next month when the new Apple slate computer known as the iPad is made available for sale. Both sites will automatically detect when web surf...

POLL: What's the Best Way to Support Startups, Services or Cash?

After wrapping up a panel with a gamut of pro- and anti-VC types at SXSW, I'm left wondering why there aren't more services-oriented startup firms. Let me explain: Most of the time, when a startup goes after venture capital, they're still in the ...

Weekly Poll: What Companies Will Be at the Top of the Cloud in the Next 5 Years

We take a look at the future of cloud computing services this week. We want to know: What companies do you think will be at the top of the cloud world in five years? This past week, we had 93 people respond to the question: 'Is There A Place For...

LadyGaga as a Service: Bringing Apple and Google to Commerce 2.0

Lady Gaga, along with her record company, is evolving the album in the form of software as a service. Considering the content of her hit new video, Telephone, it is fitting that she would use software to tackle the hard problem of getting paid by...

Digital Activism in China: A Discussion Between Ai Weiwei, Jack Dorsey and Richard MacManus

Earlier tonight, the Paley Center hosted a discussion about social media and digital activism with celebrated artist, architectural designer, activist and blogger Ai Weiwei, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and ReadWriteWeb's editor and founder Rich...

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TechStars, a seed stage investment program which has outposts in Boulder (Colorado), Boston and Seattle, recently decided to graded itself. So far, the group is not doing to badly. Out of the total 39 companies to come out of TechStars, 29 are sti...

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Google, to its credit, is rolling with the punches thrown in response to its Buzz launch from last month, making changes to the product to address user concerns, and staying committed to it despite a messy launch. Members of the Buzz product team ...

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Universal Check-in App Confirmed: Brightkite's Stealth Service

We write this for you, the tired, the weak and the weary, the dogged attendees of the South By South West festival in Austin this weekend. We know that you're exhausted, but it's not from the booze, the parties or the product pitches - it's the endless location based check-ins. If only someone had solved this in time, right?

From what we can tell, the folks over at Brightkite have the solution with Check.in, but have yet to release it to the achey-thumbed, smart-phoned masses.

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