See Also This Is The Biggest Mistake Black Friday Shoppers Will Make The Ultimate Holiday 2012 Shopping Guide 10 Items No One Should Buy On Black Friday The one holiday gift topping most shopper’s wish list this year is hands down the coveted tablet computer. A fresh poll from Reuters/Ipsos found one-third of consumers...
HP has been a total mess since Mark Hurd was ousted as CEO, and things got even worse for HP today. On top of weak earnings, HP took an $8.8 billion write-down due largely in part to accounting fraud at Autonomy — a company which HP bought last year for $11.1 billion. Jay Yarow explains...
Roman Stanek One of the essential ingredients for a startup is timing. GoodData CEO Roman Stanek knows that particularly well, having started his first major company just as the Internet bubble started, and sold it in 1999. But when it came to his most recent company, the timing was slightly less auspicious, at least...
It goes without saying that 3D printing technology has become an industrial phenomenon, allowing the common man to make anything from guns to houses. Today, MakerBot is taking things a step further, revealing its first fully automated “3D Photo Booth.” Yes, you can now scan and print your face. MakerBot and ShapeShot teamed up to create the booth, which...
The data in this post is fresh, raw, possibly in flux*, and interesting. If you can put on your big kid pants and read on with that knowledge, let’s have some fun. According to new data from NetApplications, for the week of November 11th, here are the following market share percentages of the Windows brand...
Do you have a few minutes to take a survey? Yeah, chances are that you’ve heard that at least a few times in your life and most likely you’ve also encountered one that goes on forever with no end in sight. Why can’t there be a way to poll and solicit someone’s opinion about...
Trying to break your addiction to Facebook’s non-stop party of social micro-happenings? If you use the Firefox Web browser, that uphill battle might just have just reached Sisyphean heights. Tuesday, Mozilla cracked open its social API with native support for Facebook’s chat feature, Facebook Messenger. I spoke with Jonathan Nightingale, VP of Firefox...
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At the first-ever ReadWrite Mix event, ReadWrite editor in chief Dan Lyons assembled a panel of high-profile journalists from across the spectrum to investigate the big picture in tech right now. We spend most days digging up the details, so the live event was a welcome chance to make some broad observations and grand predictions...
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The first-ever ReadWrite Mix event last week was a blast. And perhaps the most fun part came when ReadWrite editor in chief Dan Lyons brought global technology visionary Vivek Wadhwa on stage to show off a $20 tablet computer and discuss worldwide trends that challenge our parochial perceptions of the future of technology. Panelists: Vivek...
Just three weeks after Random House and Penguin announced that they will merge to form the world’s largest book publisher, News Corp, which owns the book publisher HarperCollins, is reportedly in talks to acquire CBS’s Simon Schuster. The “preliminary” talks were reported by the News Corp-owned Wall Street Journal, which says News Corp had “expressed...