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Developers, check out our new channel ReadWriteHack, sponsored by the Intel Atom Developer Program. Thu Sep 9, 2010 ReadWriteWeb Amazon Upgrades Checkout, Plays Catch-up with Google, PayPal It's been a few years since online retail giant Amazon started offering hosted e-commerce payment services in the form of Checkout by Amazon, and today the company has rolled out some upgraded features that should be good news for merchants. Third-party sellers now have the ability to provide customers with a full-blown Amazon.com experience from... Continue Reading » Apple Relaxes Restrictions on Mobile App Development Today, Apple announced it is relaxing the previous restrictions on the use of third-party development tools for the creation of mobile applications on iOS, the operating system that powers the iPhone, the iPad and the iPod Touch. Specifically, sections 3.3.1, 3.3.2 and 3.3.9 of the iOS Developer Program have been modified with new language that... Continue Reading » First Android TV Launches Weeks Before Google TV Arrives Earlier this week we looked at the upcoming launch of Google TV. It's slated for this fall (U.S.) and will be integrated into a new line of Sony Internet TVs. Meanwhile a Swedish company has just launched its own Internet TV, built on top of Google's open source Android Operating System. The company is called People of Lava and its new line of... Continue Reading » For Advertisers, Location-Based Services "Blew Up Overnight" Advertisers have long talked about the mystical possibilities of using real-time location data to target customers. The technology existed; most cell phones have a GPS receiver in case of emergency. But real-time location data was off-limits to advertisers until Web-centric phones introduced people to the concept of sharing their location in... Continue Reading » MasterCard Releases Person-To-Person Payment App MoneySend for BlackBerry You can't pay with your phone at the register yet, but you can use it to pay the babysitter. MoneySend, an application from MasterCard for sending and requesting money in informal person-to-person transactions, is now out in the BlackBerry App World. MasterCard's app lags significantly behind PayPal's mobile payment app, available for Android,... Continue Reading » Advocates Want Craigslist to Stop Making Money on "Adult Services" Ads Craigslist took down Adult Services in the U.S. four days ago, replacing it with the word "censored" without explanation. Advocates seized on the ambiguous move today, calling on Craigslist to remove the infamous section in cities across the world. It's hard to say what the effect of shuttering Adult Services will be on the profitability of the... Continue Reading » This is Your Brain on Google Instant Search Google unveiled a new way to display its search results this morning, called Instant Search. Instant brings search results to your browser, as you type. Letter by letter - it's amazing. The feature will be rolled out to all users over the coming hours and days but is available to be tested here. It's fast. It's satisfying. But if respected... Continue Reading » RWW SPONSORS ReadWriteStart Valuable Startup Advice Emerges from Debate Between Angels & VCs One of the big debates in the venture capital industry lately has been the growing argument between so-called "super angels" and traditional VCs - the former being prone to mention how they feel the latter "sucks." As one would expect, many voices in the industry have made themselves heard in the form of VC blog posts and passionate, profanity-laced shouting matches. But when the fog of war clears, what should startups take away from the debate? Should they seek investment from VCs or super angels? Or both? Thankfully, some level-headed... Continue Reading » ReadWriteEnterprise 5 Companies Thriving on the Rise of Shadow IT The read/write enterprise isn't just about using social media in the enterprise - increasingly, it's about employees actively choosing the technologies they use to get their jobs done instead of relying on decrees from on high about what sorts of technology to use. The term "Shadow IT" refers to "IT systems and IT solutions built and used inside organizations without organizational approval." In the past few years, it's gone from being cosidered a problem to being consider something to be embraced and learned from. Thanks to SaaS, entire... Continue Reading »     ReadWriteCloud Big Data and a Critique of Geek Culture We are fascinated here at ReadWriteWeb about Hadoop. It can be used in so many ways. It gives you that sense of excitement that shows how big data can open up all kinds of possibilities. So we got a tad excited tonight when we ran across a post by Mike Pearce about "10 Hadoopable Problems: or in other words, 10 things you can do with Hadoop. But excitement turned to disappointment when it reminded us of how limiting we can be when thinking about big data in standard terms. We won't go into detail about each of the 10 ways Hadoop can be used.... Continue Reading »

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