Before Instagram launched in October 2010, the founders had built a location-based social network called Burbn. It was a very early example of a browser-based mobile app, developed using the then experimental new markup language HTML5. It was so unique at the time that I used it in my keynote presentation at the ReadWriteWeb...
Three of China’s most influential Internet companies — Baidu, Sina and Tencent — have vowed to better manage their online platforms more carefully against rumors in the wake of widespread political speculation, according to an AFP report. Heightened rumors of a coup last month saw the Chinese government take action, closing a number of...
After years, yes years, in various states of stealth mode, Seattle-based personalized news aggregation startup Wavii is finally launching to wide scale public consumption. Backed with a list of angel investors that reads like a who’s who of today’s tech industry — Ron Conway, Aydin Senkut, Mitch Kapor, Dave Morin, Shawn Fanning, Keith Rabois,...
We’ve all heard the phrase, “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” It’s a simple, but profound message that many of us forget on a daily basis, largely because we think “it can’t happen to me” or finding workable alternatives is too difficult. When it comes to the cloud the same idea prevails....
IBM/UMD IBM VP Steve Mills’ team put human know-how into servers See Also This Is The Secret To OMGPOP’s Incredible Scaling Success IBM Is Picking A New Fight With Oracle IBM CEO To Attend Masters Even Though Club Won’t Let Her In IBM is one-upping Cisco with new PureSystems servers introduced today. Actually, to...
Last year, we covered an ambitious collaborative RD project called “Startup Genome,” created by three young entrepreneurs, Bjoern Herrmann, Max Marmer, and Ertan Dogrultan. The goal of the ongoing project was (and is) to take a comprehensive, data-driven dive into what makes tech startups successful — and not so successful. Out of its research...
Whatever you do, don’t compare IBM’s new PureSystems to Oracle’s Exadata or Cisco’s Unified Compute System. IBM spent three years and $2 billion to develop these systems, said Rod Adkins, SVP of the company’s Server and Technologies Group. That’s no knee-jerk reaction, but it is a bit late to the party. In Adkins’ view,...
Steve Kovach, Business Insider See Also Some Really Cool And Useful Touch Gestures Hidden In Your iPad Um, Wait — What Is Instagram? Apple Needs To Steal These 11 Android Features For The Next iPhone Nokia confirmed this evening in a blog post that some Lumia 900 phones are affected by a software glitch...
Nokia has confirmed an memory management issue that is affecting some Lumia 900 devices and is preparing a software update to fix it. All customers and future customers will receive a $100 discount to cover any possible issues, making the phone free to buy for the next 10 days. The glitch is said to...
Netflix is releasing an international version of the Netflix app for Windows Phone, greatly increasing the number of devices it runs on in the UK, Ireland and Latin America. Netflix is now available on devices from HTC, LG, Nokia and Samsung that run Windows Phone in those regions. The app features all of the...