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ReadWriteWeb is a blog that provides analysis of web products and trends. One of the world's top 20 blogs, ReadWriteWeb speaks to an intelligent audience of web enthusiasts, early adopters and innovators.
ReadWriteWeb was founded on April 20, 2003 by Richard MacManus and is now one of the most widely read and respected blogs in the world. It is written by a team of Web enthusiasts.
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Survey: 88% of Businesses Can't Provide a Single Customer View
23rd February 2012 17:00
If one of the goals of cloud computing is to enable anytime, anywhere access to a single view of a database, a study released today by the DataFlux division of SAS shows we may not be getting close to reaching it anytime soon. Some 551 data management professionals in North America were asked whether their businesses' data centers enabled a single customer view (SCV) - one database or data store that defines customer data for all software and services. The…
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Bing Now Lets You Verify Whether Search Results Are About You
23rd February 2012 16:30
Ever Google someone before a blind date or deciding to hire them? Of course you have. But going forward, if you choose to Bing them instead of Google them, you may end up getting results they have manually approved as being about them. Microsoft launched Linked Pages to its Bing search engine. The feature, which is currently only available to users in the U.S., essentially lets you control what people see when they search you. Sponsor The premise is that…
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Twilio Brings VoIP Calling to Any App With New iOS SDK
23rd February 2012 14:48
Imagine playing a game of Scrabble on your iPhone against your mother. You and Ma are competitive and these games tend to turn into rabid battles for literary supremacy. Also, she's your mother so you want to talk about how things are with the family, your nephew and if Pa is taking that new job in Chicago. So, you press a button in the app and create a voice connection running over your data connection. No dialing, no minutes used.…
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Facebook Faces Nationwide Class-Action Lawsuit
23rd February 2012 13:30
A Baltimore law firm filed a nationwide class action lawsuit against Facebook Friday, claiming the social network illegally tracked user activity on the Internet. In its claim, the law firm Murphy P.A. said the company "repeatedly ignored" warnings from a user who noticed Facebook continued to track users' activities on the Internet even after they had logged off. Facebook finally confirmed the practice in Septmeber and promised to make corrections within 24 hours. Sponsor Facebook is in a quiet period…
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Facebook Shares Could Be Overvalued By First Day Of Trading
23rd February 2012 12:30
More than 1,000 people are now trading shares of Facebook on private markets - well above the 50 to 100 that most companies have ahead of their initial public offering. Sam Hamadeh, head of research firm PrivCo., who made the current shareholder estimates for Bloomberg News, said that has pushed Facebook's valuation over $100 billion and could limit the returns the company's first public investors will see if they buy shares soon after the company goes public. Sponsor On private…
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Daily Wrap: RIM Playbook Disappoints and more
23rd February 2012 02:06
David Strom says the RIM Playbook isn't ready for primetime. 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 about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well. Sponsor
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Flickr Can't Go Back To What It Once Was
22nd February 2012 23:30
Flickr will launch a major makeover in its quest to return to its once young and sexy past, according to reports from BetaBeat. The new Flickr homepage will look more like the slick, image-only homepages of online visual pinboard Pinterest and photo-sharing app Pixable. There will be little white space on the homepage. In the new version, photos will appear four times their current size. They will lie on the page, scattered about like puzzle pieces slipped together without overlap.…
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Open Knowledge Releases Open Data Handbook 1.0
22nd February 2012 23:01
The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) announced the 1.0 release of the Open Data Handbook today. The 1.0 release is the culmination of a project that started in October 2010 at a book sprint in Berlin as the Open Data Manual. The Open Data Handbook provides the introduction to what open data is, why organizations (particularly government) would be interested in providing open data, and how to go about it. Sponsor Open data proponents will find the Open Data Handbook pretty…
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Xerox Goes Up Against RIM in 'BYOD' Mobile Device Management
22nd February 2012 22:30
The firm that entered our lives as "The Document Company" must reinvent itself again if it is to thrive in a world where paper is used less and less as the agent of transferring information. Taking a cue yesterday from Research In Motion, which last November set up a safety net for itself as a mobile document management (MDM) company, Xerox is now headed the same direction. Now, the former "Document Company" has announced it's setting itself up as a…
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MasterCard Mobile Money Partnership Program Aims to Bring Mobile Payments Everywhere
22nd February 2012 22:00
For all of the talk about the mobile payments revolution, most of the world still deals in cash. About 85% of world retail transactions are still done with paper currency and the payment processors are smacking their lips to make up the gap. The problem with digital payments in emerging markets is most people do not have proper bank accounts. Yet, they are likely to have mobile phones. MasterCard announced today a partnership initiative to turn those phones into payment…
