Apple’s Messages Beta: Pretty Meh in a Mixed OS World
As part of the Mountain Lion preview last week, Apple put out a beta of its revamped chat application, Messages. If you spend a lot of time connecting with other folks on iOS devices, Messages is a must-have. If not, it doesn't really add much to the m...
Mozilla is Placing Itself in Position to be the King of the Mobile Web
HTML5 Web apps are going to become a definitive section of the mobile ecosystem in 2012. The difference between the mobile Web and its native counterparts is that there is no one company seen as the de facto leader of the movement. Apple leads iOS, Goo...
The Hats Swap Heads: Microsoft Uses EU Leverage to Pin Google on Patents
Microsoft confirmed to ReadWriteWeb this morning that the formal competition law complaint it filed this morning with the European Commission is against both Motorola Mobility (MMI) and Google, its would-be parent company. The office of the EC's Competition office confirmed...
Judge Rules Against Man Who Claimed Harassment Over Embarrassing Facebook Photo
One of the first rules of public relations is "never be photographed with a drink in your hand," but now, in the Facebook age, it may simply be "never be photographed."
A judge ruled that people can't sue for harassment simply because someone posts an...
Sorry, RIM: The Playbook Still Sucks
I updated my Blackberry Playbook yesterday to the new OS, and I was struck with a confluence of ironies when it comes to the current crop of tablet computers: We have a company that made its name in messaging (RIM) that took a year to deliver a substan...
Storify for iPad: Make The News By Hand
Storify for iPad. That's a complete sentence. Storify is a noun, yes. It's a company that makes an app. But it's also a verb that company invented. To storify is to take a series of discrete moments and thread them into a story. It stand alone or be em...
Amazon Launches Cloud-Based Business Process Automation Service
Amazon just announced the availability of a new service called Simple Workflow Service (SWF), which allows developers to define a series of complex steps in carrying out a business process, then implements and monitors those steps all together, as a se...
Buzz Rethinks How the iPhone Handles Contacts
Buzz Contacts for iPhone is the latest offering from savvy apps, makers of the popular alternative calendar app, Agenda. Both apps take built-in iOS apps and offer new interfaces to save users time and sanity. Actually, Buzz takes on three apps at once...
How Brands Are Using Pinterest – And What They Can Do Better
This year's hottest new online service is undoubtedly Pinterest, the "virtual pinboard" website. Once a social site becomes popular with consumers, brands soon follow. In 2011 brands flocked to Google+ when it became the hot new thing. Now, in 2012,...
Daily Wrap: Facebook Profile Suggests Future Job Performance and more
A new study finds it's possible to judge your potential job performance using your Facebook profile. This and more in today's Daily Wrap.
Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked...
Piracy Wars: Grooveshark’s Looming Shutdown and Why Pirate Bay May Be Next
Online music piracy has been an issue for well over a decade, but things have gotten much more interesting in the last few months. The shutdown of Megaupload was more or less the opening shot in the latest phase of the ongoing war over online piracy. E...
Legal Claims Served Via Facebook in the U.K.
Is getting sued today on your mind, Facebook user?
The reports that a High Court judge in England has approved the use of Facebook to serve legal claims. The case: two investment managers against a brokerage firm they believe overcharged them.
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