Although Silicon Valley gets the bulk of the tech world’s attention, as ReadWriteWeb’s Never Mind the Valley series likes to highlight, there are actually thriving startup hubs all over the place. And arguably one of the most vibrant in North America is in Montreal, Quebec. So it’s good news for the entrepreneurial community that...
Cleantech companies— especially in solar— love to talk about how they’re breaking records. They issue press releases left and right about the most efficient this, that and the other. Such claims fizzle if they haven’t been verified by a third-party lab. They can also feel like greenwash, or Cola War style brand standoffs. Broken...
There are hundreds of millions of people on Facebook and Twitter and a lot of people want to know who is more or less influential than others online regarding various topics. Klout is one of the best-known startups in this market (PeerIndex is another) and this week Klout has added a new feature: personal...
AlJazeera reports that US military is currently developing software that will allow military personnel to create multiple fake online identities with a mission of going into chat rooms and online forums to spread “pro-American messages.” Critics call it propaganda or “systemized lying”, while the Pentagon calls it “countering violent, extremist and enemy ideology outside the US.” Right now it...
If you needed proof that the iPad’s success is affecting adoption of competing tablets then the news, reported by The Loop, that other tablet manufacturers have slowed production of tablets by nearly 10% since last March should give you what you were looking for. A report issued by JP Morgan Chase is stating that manufacturers...
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Microsoft’s Windows Azure DataMarket, the company’s online store of various large data sets, has partnered with Colorado-based web mapping software service OnTerra Systems to offer a quick map view of all data in the data store that has a geographic component. Data marketplaces are hot and likely to get hotter. Place, space, time and...
There have probably been times when just a cursory glance at your Facebook feed or Twitter stream reminds you that it’s flu season and plenty of your friends’ status updates referred to some sort of sneezy, snuffly, achy, barfy condition. Thanks to mobile technology, that’s something you can still do while sick in bed:...
Back in the old days… See Also: Tablets May Be A No-Show At Windows Chief’s Talk In A Few Minutes Windows 8 Will Be Two Operating Systems In One Here Are The First Official Pictures Of Windows 8 For Tablets — And They Look Pretty Cool Last fall, Steve Ballmer said that Windows 8...
Once far off in the distance, iCloud is now quickly approaching. It will be a new service with many layers that Apple will first unveil on Monday during the keynote at WWDC. But the most interesting layer, at least from a consumer perspective initially, is the music one. And the details continue to emerge...