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Does Your Facebook Profile Make People Think You're Boring And Ugly?
Even if your resume is perfect, your references are in tip-top and your job skills are up to date, new research suggests employers and others could still find reasons to dislike you. Last month,...
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Why Blockbuster's Streaming Collapse Won't Hurt Netflix
After backing out of plans to compete with Netflix, Blockbuster is all but done. That's not great news for the streaming-video space, and Netflix is in a rough spot. But Blockbuster's latest stumble...
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ReadWriteWeb DeathWatch: Flash
When the Web was still text links and tables, Adobe Flash brought us rollovers, interactive games and kitten videos. But a hard stand by Apple was the begining of the end for the groundbreaking...
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Forget The iPad Mini - Is There Room For An iPad Maxi?
With the impending announcement of the iPad Mini, all eyes seem to be focused on making tablets smaller. But the truly unexplored territory lies in the other direction - in tablets that go big. Really,...
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ReadWrite DeathWatch: One Laptop Per Child
One Laptop Per Child puts computers in the hands of the world's most vulnerable children to help educate them out of poverty. It's a noble cause championed by our brightest minds - but it doesn't seem...
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ReadWrite DeathWatch: Feature Phones
If it's not a smartphone, it's dumb. Despite current global dominance, basic "feature phones" will give up the ghost in just a few years. The Basics After the Blackberry and then the iPhone created the...
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ReadWrite DeathWatch: Real Estate Multiple Listing Services
At one point, Multiple Listing Services was innovative technology designed to help buyers find homes. Today, though, its only getting in the way. With more users finding homes on national search sites,...
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Online Universities: Why They Still Don't Measure Up
Assume you're a front-pager, a specialist in need of a certification, or someone else who really needs a degree to make career progress. Have we reached the point where online universities like the...
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The Tricorder X Prize: The Biggest Thing In Home Health Care Since The...
The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize promises to turn everybody into a Doctor McCoy by 2016. It could change everything about the way we practice medicine. But are we ready for it? If you're a redshirt...
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ReadWrite DeathWatch: Sharp
After 100 years of innovation, Sharp is the worst-performing company in the world. In the end, its lack of consumer focus sealed the deal. The Basics 100 years ago, a metalworker and inventor named...
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ReadWrite DeathWatch: AMD
Intel's success and a shrinking PC market have seriously hurt the No. 2 chipmaker. Does it have enough fight left to reinvent itself? The Basics In 1982, Advanced Micro Devices cut a deal with Intel to...
View ArticleWhy Do Tech Companies Dominate "Best Places To Work" Lists?
When the Great Place to Work Institute released its 2012 World's Best Multinational Workplaces list this month, ranking the world's 25 best employers - tech companies ruled. High-tech companies grabbed...
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Cheating DeathWatch: Microsoft Isn't Dead Yet
The ReadWrite DeathWatch is known for serving up plenty of doom, gloom and grumpiness. But for the Holiday Season, we're going to take a slightly different tack, and highlight companies and...
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Netflix Does Deal With Disney: The End of Flat-Rate Movie Pricing?
Tuesday morning, Deathwatch-favorite Netflix announced a new partnership with Disney. While the financial terms have yet to be disclosed, this looks like a huge step in the right direction for the...
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Gaming Industy Numbers Keep Sliding - So Why Isn't Everyone Panicking?
The latest numbers on the video game industry aren't encouraging. But don't worry, you can probably ignore them. In a preview of its upcoming report, research firm NPD announced its November gaming...
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Augmented Reality Game Gets Player Busted: The First Of Many?
Ingress, the Alternate/Augmented Reality (AR) game from Google's Niantic Labs, is a major evolution of mobile gaming. Apparently, it's also a good way to get arrested. According to a post on Reddit (I...
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Cheating DeathWatch: ARM Holdings Holds Out
The ReadWrite DeathWatch is known for serving up plenty of doom, gloom and grumpiness. But for the Holiday Season, we're taking a slightly different tack - highlighting companies and technologies that...
View ArticleSaaS: Enterprise Software Vendors Are Still Denying Reality
As Silicon Valley girds for $1 trillion wealth transfer from the enterprise software incumbents to nimble upstarts, it makes sense to look how the entrenched players are responding the challenge. While...
View ArticleOptioCore: Super-Secure Android Wants To Invade The Enterprise
OptioLabs has just released OptioCore, a secure version of Android, to handset makers. It's pretty cool, but does it mean Android is ready for the enterprise? From a security standpoint, Android has...
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Why And How To Destroy Your Data
Holding on to old data slows applications, increases storage costs and backup times, and dramatically increases the danger of attacks. A good data disposal policy can reclaim some of your budget and...
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