I’m currently looking at an email from US Airways customer support, where the only return contact info available in the email is a physical mailing address WTF — And a visit to the US Airways website reveals a similar over-reliance on snail mail. I mean, who does that? Still? Granted a little bit of...
Japan-based chemical and tech company Asahi Kasei has developed a small healthcare product that should make life for paramedics, emergency doctors (and patients) easier: the portable device (pictured) makes it possible to instantly access all medical data on a specific person with a PC or smartphone, via RFID. Asahi Kasei uses the FeliCa smart...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Cloudera has long been seen as a potential acquisition target. Last year GigaOm’s...
By now it is a common axiom in Silicon Valley small talk that good engineers are, at the moment, murder to come by. While the most prominent talent battles have thus far been between Facebook and Google, I was curious whether there was a specific smaller startup that everyone wanted to work at. So...
Or maybe iPhone users are just more likely to be taken in by advertising in general.
First you must understand your target audience. If you’re developing applications forkids you must make the application easy to use and easy to understand. For example,consider eliminating text labels, popup menus, etc.When I started developing “My Little Artist” the hardest task for me was to create thebrush icons. The easiest way was to make...
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If you consider an average smartphone user, he primarily uses it for 3 main purposes: Communication such as e-mail, IM and social networking, taking photos and playing games. And if you’re like me, you’re probably taking a lot of photos daily. While social photo apps like Picplz and Lightbox are cool, no one has thought...
The developers of two of the most influential open-source Web browsers are working together on a feature that should make Web apps play together much more nicely. As we covered on ReadWriteHack yesterday, Google’s Chromium engineers announced that they’re working with Mozilla on a framework called Web Intents, the brainchild of Google developer Paul...
Apple has been granted its request for a preliminary injunction against several stores operating in the United States that are emulating Apple’s retail aesthetic, reports Computerworld. Several of those retailers have also been issued a temporary restraining order. The initial complaint was filed on July 25th that named a variety of company names and...