For smartphone owners, asking people on the street for directions is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Why bother trying to remember a series of turns and landmarks when your phone can do that and more?
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Google Maps for Android Gets Turn-By-Turn Walking Directions, Satellite Imagery
Posted: 9th September 2010 by Chris Chandler in UncategorizedTags: data, galaxy, google-maps, guide, iphone, maps-on-android, phone, smartphone, street, street-view, turn-the-phone
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Study: Location-Based Services Users are Passionate but Niche
Posted: 9th September 2010 by Marilyn Abad in UncategorizedTags: based-networks, data, facebook, friends, location, mobile, networks, phone, research, social-networking, social-networks, users, using-the-apps
A new report released today from mobile media provider Myxer examines the current trends among “check-in” applications, that is, the particular group of location-based mobile social networks that allow users to announce their arrival at a specific venue in return for rewards, coupons, deals or other offers. The company found that among the top mobile check-in applications, there was a clear leader: Booyah Networks’ MyTown , a location-based game built around your own city’s local shops and businesses.
Weekly Poll: What Was Hot at VMworld?
Posted: 8th September 2010 by Jeff Timkin in UncategorizedTags: connections, conversations, data, demonstration, endpoint, enterprise, flickr, greater, intel, spring, technology, terremark, vmworld
We’re doing a wrap up of VMworld and we want to know what you thought were the hot trends of the conference. We have a few thoughts of our own but what do you think were some of the most significant developments that emerged from VMworld? Sponsor What was Hot at VMworld?
Hack of the Day: Using Flot to Display a Graph
Posted: 8th September 2010 by Jason Kendall in UncategorizedTags: coordinate, coordinates, data, graph, hack of the day, recent-activity, script-plotting, the-coordinates, the-following, values-provided, working-example
Logging statistics is a two-stage process. First, you need to collect the information and store it. Next, you need to expose this information to end users
iPhone Apps Overtaking Songs in Terms of Total Downloads
Posted: 8th September 2010 by Mike Adams in UncategorizedTags: analysis, apple, before-the-year, creator, data, development, internet, iphone, itunes, Money, music, price, reasons, songs, trend
There’s an interesting chart making its way around the net this morning comparing the number of iTunes app downloads to the total downloads of songs. The surprising reveal is that it shows apps are being downloaded much more rapidly than songs. In only 2.2 years, the iTunes App Store has reached the same total downloads as the iTunes Music Store did after 5 years
How to Make Objects Come Alive for Your Enterprise
Posted: 7th September 2010 by Susan Pierce in UncategorizedTags: current-cost, data, developer-tools, five-datastrems, internet, pachube, products, professional, scale-up-access, trigger-actions
The Internet of Things took a step closer to mainstream adoption today with the announcement of Pachube ’s first enterprise offering. Pachube (pronounced “patch bay”) shares real-time sensor data and enables users to analyze data or trigger actions in a variety of ways through its SaaS
How Open Data is Used Against the Poor
Posted: 7th September 2010 by Jimmy Benjamin in UncategorizedTags: analysis, data, digitization, direct, financial, internet, language, open, work
Open data is all the rage these days, but is simply opening up aggregate public information for outside analysis enough to change the world for the better? A new article by Mike Gurstein, Editor of the influential Journal of Community Informatics , argues that open data may merely make the rich richer and the poor poorer, unless the “open access” paradigm is extended with what he calls “effective use.” Here at ReadWriteWeb, we often write about the potential for innovation created by aggregate online and public data. Leading technology publisher Tim O’Reilly is a big, open data proponent as well (his newest conference is all about big data ), but he called Gurstein’s article a “sobering account of how open data is used against the poor…” “We need to think deeply about the future,” O’Reilly said this afternoon.
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Posted: 6th September 2010 by Leland Beauregard in UncategorizedTags: data, domain-names, millions-domain, the-best, their-data
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No Crackdown but Questions in Europe About Data Protection and the Cloud
Posted: 5th September 2010 by David Paxman in UncategorizedTags: cloud computing, data, european, german, harbor, harbor-privacy, potential, rights, united-states
German authorities have recently expressed skepticism about cloud computing and the potential it has for breaking data protection laws. According to the Information Law Group , there is no imminent danger of a European crackdown but legal experts are advising international companies to address the potential concerns in their planning and operations. Sponsor The controversy stems from Dr
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Posted: 4th September 2010 by Michelle Shelton in UncategorizedTags: concerning-the-website, cost-as-well, data, drive-space, evaluation-consists, one-calls, primary, the-data, the-primary, transfer-provided
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