Amazon has stopped pretending that a group of e-reading apps it allowed onto its Android Appstore weren’t available on the Kindle Fire. For whatever reason, the company was effectively hiding e-reading apps from companies like Wattpad, Kobo and Bluefire, even though they worked perfectly fine on the low-cost tablet computer. Confused about why its...
Cloudability, a platform to manage and monitor all of your cloud costs in one place, has raised $1.1 million in seed funding, led by Trinity Ventures and Walden VC. Cloudability, which launched in early November, helps businesses be more efficient on the cloud by analyzing a company’s entire cloud spend for cost savings opportunities...
At first, it’s tempting to look at Farfromhomepage and think, “Why would I need this?” However, dig into it and it’s actually a very interesting way of presenting and sharing online content in a way that tells a story. The idea behind Farfromhomepage is ‘Creative Browsing’, the term that the German team behind it...
Demand for Apple’s new iPhone 4S smartphone boosted the company’s iPhone market share in the UK and US but consumers were less interested in the device in Germany, France, Italy and Spain, with sales slipping from last year, a new report from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reveals. Reuters reports the new study, which highlighted that...
BIM is a relatively new field, having emerged over just the last 30 years. It’s an architectural practice of designing, co-ordinating between all the parties involved (design, builders, client and others) and monitoring the creation and lives of buildings. It’s four-dimensional when you include time. It’s a beautiful concept, and Steve Jobs was moved...
Yep, it’s that time of year where we look back at the trends of the year and then look forward to what we think the next year has in store. We know these lists have become a bit cliche by now, but they really do enable us to reflect on the big picture. So,...
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ReadWriteWeb is all about what’s next on the Web, so our team has been busy making their predictions for next year. Before I began writing my own, I took a look back at my predictions 12 months ago. Predictably, I had mixed success. But that’s a lot of the fun with predictions. Why not...
Editor’s note: Guest contributor Ben Savage is the founder of Spaceport.io, a native Javascript and HTML5 platform for mobile game developers. From tech titans like Zynga, Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Apple, to startups just launching, the battle lines of 2012 will be drawn across the landscape of HTML5. Below are 14 bold predictions for...
Rumours in China suggest that Nokia is testing its new Lumia smartphone range as it prepares to introduce the Windows Mobile 7 based devices to the world’s most populated country next summer. According to a report from DoNews, cited by Penn Olson, the Finnish handset maker is trying out the localised Chinese version of...