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Newsgator Shuts Down Its Online Feed Reader
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 30, 2009 12:26 PM / 13 Comments
NewsGator, the company behind the popular FeedDemon and NetNewsWire feed readers, just announced that it will shut down the NewsGator Online Reader on August 31, 2009. The company will provide Continue reading »


Why Do You Tweet?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 30, 2009 10:39 AM / 19 Comments
eMarketer reports that, according to the "Consumer Internet Barometer," the majority of Twitter users (42%) use the service to communicate with their friends. tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_do_you_tweet.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; About Continue reading »


Skype As We Know It May Not Exist Much Longer, eBay Says
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 30, 2009 10:28 AM / 40 Comments
EBay is working on software to replace the guts of Skype but is worried that it may not succeed, may lose a court battle with Skype's founders over rights to Continue reading »


My6Sense: A Smarter Feed Reader for the iPhone
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 30, 2009 9:10 AM / 6 Comments
Google Reader offers a nifty mobile interface, and apps like Byline (iTunes link) and NetNewsWire (iTunes link) are well-designed native apps that allow iPhone users to keep up with their Continue reading »


Yahoo's New Local Search is Great, Too Bad It'll Get Binged
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 30, 2009 8:41 AM / 12 Comments
Oh, the irony. One day after it was announced that Microsoft's Bing will be replacing Yahoo's own search engine on Yahoo.com, Yahoo! came out with a new local search functionality Continue reading »


All Your Messages Belong to Us: Silentale Prepares to Launch
Written by Sarah Perez / July 30, 2009 7:56 AM / 2 Comments
Silentale is a soon-to-launch startup whose goal is to consolidate your conversations and contacts from all the platforms you use including webmail, social networks, and even your mobile phone. Running Continue reading »


Are Mobile Botnets in Our Future?
Written by Sarah Perez / July 30, 2009 6:32 AM / 4 Comments
Today at the cybersecurity conference known as Black Hack, researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner will present an SMS exploit that could take over your iPhone with just one text. Continue reading »


The End of Lost Luggage? RFID Slowly Coming to Airports
Written by Richard MacManus / July 30, 2009 5:30 AM / 6 Comments
In this latest installment of our ongoing series on the Internet of Things, we look at one of the big advantages of Internet-connected objects: trackability. In other words, knowing precisely Continue reading »


A New Commercial Ontology from Hakia
Written by RWW Sponsor / July 30, 2009 5:00 AM / 6 Comments
Editor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want Continue reading »


Immersive Social Gaming: Twitter and Facebook on XBox
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 29, 2009 9:52 PM / 5 Comments
Companies in the internet TV space should start worrying. It seems Microsoft's foray into life streaming on the XBox 360 will arrive as early as autumn. As promised in early Continue reading »


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