Since 2006, Zave Networks has been working on digitizing coupons and loyalty rewards programs with products like Zavers. With the rise of smartphones, the market has been exploding. Today, Zave Networks takes their cause to a much bigger potential audience: Google has just acquired them. As they have announced on their site, “When we...
Chinese search giant Baidu is reportedly developing a cloud-based smartphone platform in attempt to dip its toes into the mobile pool. Mobile internet users in China totaled 233 million in 2010, projected to reach 957 million by 2014. For some perspective, the total population of both the European Union and the United States was...
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. Just in time for the holiday weekend (in the U.S., at least) Amazon...
Changing user behavior. It’s a dangerous game. Sometimes it works and you succeed, sometimes it doesn’t and you fail. More often than not, the latter is the case. It’s with this in mind that I approached the Novation Twitch controller for Serato Itch with caution. As a long-time DJ, coming from an analog world...
Solyndra’s ground breaking ceremony in 2009 Now that solar maker Solyndra has revealed that it plans to file for bankruptcy, get ready to hear a whole lot of Republican finger pointing at Obama and the Department of Energy over the misspent funds all the way up to the next election. Solyndra was the recipient...
Netflix has more subscribers than any single cable company, a number that is up 10 million from last year. That’s impressive. But perhaps not as impressive as the 80 million the major cable companies boast as a collective. That figure could explain why Starz walked away. “For now, they may be in a better...
Remember when this was the future of the living room? Neither do we. Image: Microsoft See Also: Why Did Microsoft Cut Dolby Out Of Windows 8? Microsoft’s Enterprise Sales Chief, Simon Witts, Is Out Windows Chief Explains That Microsoft Wants It Both Ways Microsoft has admitted that people just don’t use the Media Center...
Barnes Noble is reportedly planning a new Nook Color tablet as early as this month, based on information from component suppliers in Asia. The company is looking to have up to 3 million Nook Color 2 devices produced before the end of 2011, based on industry sources speaking to DigiTimes. Although the current Barnes...
All Google Notesbooks content is being rolled into Google Docs, the company announced today, as part of a wider revelation that it is pulling the plug on several of its popular products. Google Notebook enabled people to combine clipped URLs from the web and free-form notes into documents they could share and publish. “We’ll...
Google’s doing a bit of house cleaning today, announcing on its blog that it’s shutting down a handful of properties and projects, including a big one they shelled out $50 million for. Social search company Aardvark is getting the axe just 18 months after being acquired. The explanation? It was just an experiment. It’s...