Most U.S. wineries have a presence on social media. Microsoft kills the confusing Windows "Live" brand. Google does more monkeying around with the search results page. Learn more about these ...
The Internets ability to show us only what we want to see is notorious. We click things we like. Algorithms look at what weve clicked on and deliver more of the same. Author Eli Pariser called it the...
Introducing ReadWriteWeb’s DeathWatch: highlighting businesses and technologies tottering on their last legs. Each week we’ll examine a vulnerable company, check for a pulse and look at its chance fo...
With the rise of online gaming and digital downloads, video gamers in the United States and other developed countries might well wonder why the gaming consoles they buy still come with optical disk d...
The question “what happens to your social media account when you die?” has been asked to death (pun intended). I first encountered it six years ago in the form of “what happens to your MySp...
Todays theme is defending the planet. We earthlings are pretty proud of our armaments. But would we be able to defend ourselves against extraterrestrial threats? Weve had some close calls already. Fo...
Psychology researchers have long relied on undergraduate college students as study subjects - so much so that the average American college student is 4,000 times more likely than an average person to...
When it comes to planning get-togethers, the logistical details can pile up. Thankfully, we have fancy new digital tools to which we can outsource some of the planning. For curating the music, a numb...
Bloody battles over intellectual property have become the tech worlds new normal. Google just bested Oracle in an epic patent and copyright battle over the use of Java in Android. Apple is fighting i...
Twice a year, every tech website seems to devote lavish coverage to just what startups made it into Y Combinator’s latest class. It’s the tech world’s version of covering the presidential primaries: ...
People search engine Pipls people search API is now out of beta and open to all developers. The API can be used to bring a variety of information about an individual, from social networks like Facebo...
At every public appearance by Tim Cook - say, Wednesdays on-stage interview at AllThingsDs annual D10 conference, or the upcoming WWDC keynote - commentators see the spe...
One of the most interesting statistics in Mary Meekers Internet Trends presentation was that in India, the worlds second largest Internet market, the Mobile Web surpassed the Desktop Web during ...
Microsoft may be listening to its customers, though the final preview edition of Windows 8 before the product ships this fall indicates that it turned its customers volume knob down to about two. Tod...
Oracle has been dealt a final blow in its court case over the use of Java in Android. U.S. District Judge William Alsup dismissed Oracles copyright infringement claim, bringing to an end a dramatic c...
Facebook introduced five levels of administration to its brand pages Thursday. The added protection means more people are going to have access to (and have to learn how to use) Faceboo...
For as long as the iPhone has been available, people in the U.S. have been clamoring for a prepaid version of it. That was never going to happen when AT&T held the iPhone monopoly. The company ha...
After completing every objective of its nine-day mission, the first private spacecraft ever to dock with the International Space Station splashed down off the coast of Baja California today. The land...
The decision by online travel service Kayak Software to delay its initial public offering has been blamed on Facebooks botched public offering a couple weeks ago. But while Facebooks roughly 25%...
The worst-kept secret in Microsoft’s history may well lead to a surprise anyway. This afternoon, the company made available a program that prompts curious Windows users to download the latest Windows...
Perhaps the most visible change to the Windows 8 Desktop (the "old" half of Microsofts new operating system) will come from live performance graphs. Improved heuristics in the new Task Manage...
Jon has been testing the new Google Chromebook and Chromebox for a couple weeks. He and Dan discussed whether these things are ready for prime time. Then Dans audio cut out, so he continued to mime c...
It’s easy to think of gaming as kids stuff, and the behavior-driving techniques honed by the gaming industry limited to getting the unwashed Internet masses to play Farmville or boost engagement in m...
Jeff Ma, the MIT blackjack team member who served as the inspiration for Ben Mezrich’s book Bringing Down the House and the film 21, gave developers at the Atlassian Summit a glimpse of his new steal...
Todays theme is mad scientists. In covering tech, we tend to focus on the products, the problems and the money. But arguably the most important parts of the story are the people themselves. Its their...
Health care privacy laws can’t keep up with rapid technological advances on health websites and social networks, according to a paper in the spring edition of The Neurodiagnostic Journal. W...
Today, Google begins an experiment to change the way you shop online. When you search for a product, Google will deliver paid listings for shopping options right next to the search results. By search...
With the advent of the smartphone, photography has fundamentally changed. While professional photographers will scoff at the masses and their apps, some great art is being created through smartphones...
The single biggest and most valuable customer any software vendor could hope for is the United States government. Microsoft has had a lock on the public sector for decades. But now as many government...
Whats less structured than a business incubator and more community-oriented than executive suites? For an increasing number of startups, the answer is co-working spaces - where entrepreneurs rent des...
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