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Developers, check out our new channel ReadWriteHack, sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. Mon Oct 25, 2010 ReadWriteWeb VLC Makes Its Way to the iPhone, iPod Touch VLC has made its way fully onto iOS with this week's release for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The open-source, multi-platform video player will allow Apple's mobile device users to play a number of different video formats, from DiVX to AVI and more. This latest version of VLC works on the iPhone 4 and 3GS, as well as the iPod Touch 3rd and 4th... Continue Reading » Exclusive: First Look at Siine, a Revolution in Text-Based Communication As the world shifts to using more tablets, touchscreens and mobile devices as the point of access to the Web, there's an increasing need to rethink the keyboard. On smaller form factors, the traditional method of tap typing may no longer be the best way to enter text on a screen. Enter Siine, a semantically-based, intelligent interface that... Continue Reading » PBS Rolls Out Major Expansion Featuring National-Local Integration As a continuing effort toward becoming a "a multi-platform media leader," today, PBS rolled out an extensive expansion of its website, featuring an improved back-end, significant increase in national-local integration, expanded video offerings; as well as new iPad and iPhone apps. 18 months ago, PBS launched an initiative to make the public... Continue Reading » Adobe AIR Coming to TV Adobe AIR, a cross-platform runtime environment developed by Adobe Systems, Inc., is coming to the TV screen, the company announced today at its developer conference Adobe MAX 2010. With the launch of Adobe AIR 2.5, the software, already supported on various smartphone, tablet and desktop platforms, is being extended to televisions with the first... Continue Reading » Adobe Announces InMarket, New App Distribution Service Today at the Adobe MAX 2010 developer conference, Adobe Systems, Inc. announced the launch of a new service called "InMarket," which (thankfully), is not yet another "app store" but rather an app distribution service. With InMarket, developers can submit their applications in order to reach the millions of customers who use app stores to find... Continue Reading » Amazon Kindle Will Let You Lend Your eBooks. Once. Maybe. Amazon's Kindle Team announced on Friday that it plans to make lending for Kindle available "soon." The feature will allow you to loan your Kindle books to other Kindle devices or Kindle app users for a two-week period. This announcement brings to the Kindle one of the key features touted by the Barnes & Noble Nook: the ability to loan out your... Continue Reading » Twitter Employees Encouraged to Build New Projects During Hack Week It's Hack Week at Twitter. According to a post on its engineering blog that kicked things off, the company will be holding its first Hack Week through Friday October 29, giving employees a chance to be "building things that are separate from our normal work and not part of our day-to-day jobs." The past five weeks have seen Twitter roll out a... Continue Reading » Apple Adds Special Education Section to the App Store Apple has created a custom area for the App Store titled "Special Education: Learning for Everyone." The new section contains five subsections: Communication, Hearing, Language Development, Literacy & Learning, and Organization. The apps featured include speech-to-text app Dragon Dictation, assisted hearing app iHearClearly, and handwriting... Continue Reading » Cartoon: Please Retweet Me, Let Me Know The etiquette around Twitter is hotly disputed. Questions range from "Do you have to follow everyone who follows you?" to "Do you automatically DM people when they follow you?" to "Were my tweets from last night's food-poisoning incident TMI?" But I've seen near-fist-fights break out over this one: "When is it appropriate to ask for a... Continue Reading » Check Out the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb Possible Our readers know ReadWriteWeb as the blog that's ahead of the technology curve. Our sponsors know us as that, too. Once a week we introduce our sponsors to our readers and let them know a little more about who they are and what they do. You can say thanks to the companies that make ReadWriteWeb happen by tweeting them (see the link below each... Continue Reading » ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 23 Oct. 2010 Coming up this week: China Mega-Forum for Entrepreneurship & Innovation - FailCon - Freemium Summit - PayPal X Innovate 2010 - GOSCON - IgniteGov - Consumer Forum 2010 - Book Lauch: Social Media for The CEO - PR+MKTG Campâ„¢ East. We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that... Continue Reading » Weekly Wrap-up: Gene Simmons Takes on Anonymous, OS X Lion Live Blog, Google Demo Slam, And More... This week's top story was Gene Simmons versus, well, something that so far is much stronger than his KISS Army: Anonymous. In Internet of Things news, Nukotoys wants to plug Silicon Valley into the toy market. On the mobile news front, Square made amends with the iPhone 4. And don't forget about our latest free report, The Age of Exabytes: Tools &... Continue Reading » RWW SPONSORS ReadWriteStart Big Data, Small Startups: One Angle On Turning Data Into Money Piles of data, piles of dough, right? Not so fast. Despite an increasingly urgent, broad range of needs around processing data juggernauts, we're seeing just as many startups go *poof* when it comes to turning Big Data into Big Money. Or Mini-Money, for that matter. Data-driven startups should know by now that out of the gate, transforming data into cold hard cash requires a lot more than just showing up with a great team and a great idea. A holodeck would be ideal, but until we live in the future, we found one useful analysis that breaks... Continue Reading » ReadWriteBiz This Week in SMB Tech: Apps For Conferences, Social Media Truths and Square Mobile Payments Keeping up with every RSS feed item and tweet is hard enough for anybody, let alone someone trying to run a business. That's why every Friday, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week's most important tech news and insights for small and medium-sized businesses. On Monday, we covered some interesting research from American Express Open that showed that one third of small businesses are using social media to interact with their customers. We also took a look at Spreadable, a referral marketing tool that helps facilitate sharing via social media and... Continue Reading » ReadWriteEnterprise Google Apps Now Offers Business Process Automation on Google Sites with Scripts Google announced today that Google Apps Scripts, a "JavaScript cloud scripting language" for automating tasks in Google products, can now be embedded on any Google Sites page. Google Apps Script has been around for a while, but the ability to create custom pages with the scripts is new. Sponsor Google Apps Scripts can be used to automate tasks such as "sending emails, scheduling calendar events, creating and updating site pages using data from other systems, and more." You can create a script in Google Sites by clicking "More actions" >... Continue Reading » ReadWriteCloud Q&A with Socialcast: What is the State of Activity Streams? We are trying some new ways to provide a bit more depth to our coverage. You may notice we are packaging posts to explore topics a bit with interviews, profiles and resources that we hope will give a deeper perspective about cloud computing. For example, we wrote two posts about business intelligence technologies early last week. And we ended the week with two posts about mobile virtualization. The week before, we promised to do more posts about how e-commerce is being affected by the cloud. Expect more posts on that topic in the weeks ahead,... Continue Reading » ReadWriteHack W3C Announces MathML 3, New Standards for Math on the Web W3C has announced the third version of its standards for the inclusion of mathematical expressions in Web pages. MathML (Mathematical Markup Language) is aimed to make math on the Web more accessible and more international. While the basic markup remains the same, this version brings to it some improvements for assistive technology, as well as for formulas in languages that are written from right to left. The MathML standard is supported in a number of applications already, beyond just websites - eBooks, equation editors, screen readers,... Continue Reading » ReadWriteMobile Just Because Apps are Free, Doesn't Mean There's No Money to Be Made Today's article in The New York Times (see: "App Makers Take Interest in Android") focused on the growing Android app ecosystem, and the unfortunate side effect of being a Google-led project: people aren't used to paying for Google services and that mentality extends to Android. But developers, take heart: making your app a free download doesn't mean you don't get paid, a point the NYT article practically glossed over, preferring to focus on Android's other issues, like its fragmentation, use of Google Checkout for buying apps, lack of... Continue Reading »

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