We are all told to never judge a book by its cover, but let's face it, when we find ourselves at an ugly website, we automatically make assumptions about the quality of the services that site provides. A topic we

RIM's BlackBerry platform is still the most popular mobile smartphone platform in the U.S., but Google's Android was the big winner in the last quarter of 2009. , Android's share of the U.S. mobile market more than doubled from 2.5%

The rise of cloud computing looks like it has lead to the fall of SAP CEO Léo Apotheker, who resigned over the weekend.It's not that cloud computing has been absent at SAP. There are a number of efforts underway. But

As soon as this week, Google might be rolling out a "Twitter-killer" feature for Gmail users, according to a from the Wall Street Journal.Gmail users can currently broadcast status messages via the Google Talk feature. The main difference between the

Lately, quite a few TV channels - like - have replaced their man-on-the-street interviews with the cheaper solution of just doing a Twitter search and displaying the results on TV. 's mission is to help these media companies to make

Now that Google Chrome has entered the world of fully-extensible browsers, with its recent and , you've likely found yourself perusing the libraries and tweaking until your heart's content. With that, however, comes the inevitable - browser crashes. tweetmeme_url =

As more and more of our friends and favorite organizations start publishing updates online, being able to organize them well is becoming even more important. Niche-popular desktop social media stream-reader issued a software update this morning and the most striking

Last September, Google , a web annotation service that makes it easy to annotate any page on the Internet. Sidewiki, however, hasn't attracted a lot of users yet and the public discussion about online content continues to happen in comments

While successful technology entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs founded their respective companies after dropping out of college, research Universities have still succeeded in fostering their own innovative technologies. Currently, however, when a professor or student develops a particularly

the world's largest open source software development website, has backed off a widely unpopular, end of January decision that had banned entire countries from accessing the site's vast assortment of open-source software projects. In a yesterday, SourceForge announced that it

What important web browsing feature is sorely missing from mobile Safari, the iPhone's built-in browser? If you're like us, you probably said the ability to search for text within a web page. We're accustomed to using this feature in the

If our attempts at getting such simple information as bus schedules or account balances from automated voice recognition systems are any indication, then we imagine Google has a lot of work to do in its latest endeavor - real-time, spoken-language

A new survey from finds that consumers' interest in the Apple iPad died down after they heard what the new tablet PC actually had to offer. According to the company, "not only did Apple fail to convince new buyers, it

Yesterday we , looking at how teens perceive technology. Today we're which aims to find out how children 12 years and younger use web technology. We've partnered with Boston research firm , who developed the survey tool and will help

According to reports from , what is believed to be the largest illegal hacker training and recruitment entity in China has been shut down by police.Three people were arrested and the equivalent of a quarter of a million dollars in

According to 4chan's Twitter account and status update blog, they have been "explicitly blocked" by the Verizon wireless network.If you're unfamiliar with 4chan and why an ISP/wireless company would block it, read more about it on . tweetmeme_url = =

Are you suspicious of those sexy avatars and "marketingbizpro" accounts following you on Twitter, but don't have the time or inclination to block and report them one by one as they pop up?We've just found a new, completely free app

SAP's CEO Léo Apotheker resigned today. SAP will return to a co-CEO structure, replaced by Bill McDermott, head of field organisation, and Jim Hagemann Snabe, head of product development.The particulars are to be announced early tomorrow. According to the ,

As the first week of February closes out and football fans gather in living rooms and sports bars across the nation for the Super Bowl, for us here at ReadWriteStart its the time of the week when we take a

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