ReadWriteWeb: August 2009 Archives

Skype Sale Reported to be Announced Tomorrow

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 31, 2009 10:29 PM / 9 Comments

Update: This news is now official. Online telephony service Skype will be sold by eBay to a group of private investors, possibly including Netscape founder Marc Andreessen's new venture capital Continue reading »

Your Cyborg Eye Will Talk to You

Written by Dana Oshiro / August 31, 2009 9:30 PM / 5 Comments

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Just as many of us are getting used to augmented reality applications for cellphones and digital cameras, Babak Amir Parviz and his University of Washington students are taking it one Continue reading »

Cartoon: Annotating the World

Written by Rob Cottingham / August 31, 2009 7:00 PM / 2 Comments

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This past week's buzz phrase (so much so that it was a trending topic on Twitter) was "augmented reality" (or AR), which is what you get when you mix your Continue reading »

Finding Better Friends: Delicious and SPEAR

Written by Dana Oshiro / August 31, 2009 6:00 PM / 2 Comments

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Between self-aggrandizing FriendFeeds, bottom-feeding link baiters, and perpetual Twitter spammers, finding cool online friends can be challenging. Michael G. Noll and Ching-man Au Yeung created the SPEAR (SPamming-resistant Expertise Analysis Continue reading »

N. American Subway, Light Rail Augmented Reality App Ready & Waiting for iPhone 3.1

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 31, 2009 5:08 PM / 3 Comments

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Discover Anywhere Mobile, a Toronto-based mobile travel guide publishing startup, announced today that it has completed an iPhone app with Augmented Reality (AR) views of subway, light rail, train and Continue reading »

World's Second Largest Publisher: $9.99 eBooks Will Kill Hardcover Books

Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 31, 2009 10:42 AM / 14 Comments

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Arnaud Nourry, the CEO of the world's second largest book publisher, Hachette Livre, says that the current pricing trends for eBooks may soon kill the hardcover book as we know Continue reading »

Augmented Reality for iPhone May Not Come Next Month After All

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 31, 2009 10:12 AM / 5 Comments

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Developers and enthusiasts have hoped that official support for Augmented Reality (AR), the display of data on top of a view of the real world, would come to the iPhone Continue reading »

Wikipedia Plans to Use Color Codes to Highlight Untrustworthy Text

Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 31, 2009 8:49 AM / 4 Comments

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Not sure how trustworthy those Wikipedia articles really are? A few months from now, the addition of WikiTrust as a standard feature for the English Wikipedia will give users one Continue reading »

A New Way to Backup from Gladinet: Cloud-to-Cloud

Written by Sarah Perez / August 31, 2009 8:10 AM / 2 Comments

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A newly released feature from "cloud desktop" software maker Gladinet lets you perform a new kind of backup procedure: cloud-to-cloud. Usually, when you think of cloud backup programs, you think Continue reading »

Got an iPhone? With Fwix, Now You Can Be a Reporter

Written by Sarah Perez / August 31, 2009 6:32 AM / 8 Comments

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Fwix, a website for local news, aims to be a "real-time local newswire" for your hometown. Offering a combination of traditional content pulled from newspapers and blogs along with items Continue reading »

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