TNW: Where did you come up with the idea for Zombies, Run!? Adrian Hon: Adrian (another Adrian, CEO of Six to Start) and Naomi (lead writer on the game) had been saying for a long time that we should work together on making a game. We’d previously made Perplex City, an Alternate Reality Game...
Homeless guy Mark aka “Madwhite” is raking in a lot more dough now that he accepts Square, Visa, MasterCard or DiscoverCard transactions. In fact, he’s making 4 times what he normally makes because he says now people can’t use the ”I have no cash” excuse. Smart. Once they swipe their credit card, he even lets...
If you’re one of the 50,000 people Oracle expects to converge on the Moscone Center in San Francisco starting Sunday — or even if you’re not — here are some things to look for at the big Oracle OpenWorld 2011 Conference. 1. Oracle will announce its latest acquisition. It will purchase Hewlett-Packard. Kidding! Or am...
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Image: Flickr/ozcast JAT Capital, John Thaler’s tech-focused ~$1 billion hedge fund, just reported that they’re now a big holder of Netflix. They’ve owned a bunch of Netflix for awhile, but now they own 7.6% of the company, according to a new 13G filing. While JAT is likely thinking of Netflix as a long term...
A bill proposed in Congress last week sponsored by Representatives Lee Terry and Edolphis Towns aims to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to allow “informational calls to mobile telephones and for other purposes.” Basically, it is a bill that would allow robo-calls from marketers and political campaigns (among other entities) to mobile phones....
Even though the Internet is bigger and more ubiquitous than ever, building and managing a website is still really difficult to do. Sure, if you’re an individual person or a small business, such services as Weebly and Tumblr are great. But for major organizations like the University of Southern California or a publication like...
The back and forth of new features on both Google+ and Facebook in the past two weeks have been lightning fast, as we’ve reported. Perhaps the Google+ team decided it was time for a break. Liz Gannes from AllThingsD and Mike Arrington at UnCrunched are reporting on the Google+ Maui vacation. Arrington claims that...
The Google LatLong team just announced that Google Maps is getting 3D previews of travel directions. The interface now displays a “play” button that switches to a Google Earth view that flies along the route automatically. Playback can be paused and resumed at any point, and dragging the map allows exploration of the surrounding...
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 case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware deliver unprecedented reliability in the face of RAM errors. Pantheon is launching a Drupal-based service for creating, managing,...