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Earlier this week we looked at the upcoming launch of Google TV. It’s slated for this fall (U.S.) and will be integrated into a new line of Sony Internet TVs. Meanwhile a Swedish company has just launched its own Internet TV, built on top of Google’s open source Android Operating System. The company is called … Read more

The Internet of Things, when real world objects are connected to the Internet, has been slow to attract the attention of budding entrepreneurs. However, there has been some startup action in so-called “social objects.” We’ve covered two companies in this domain in recent times, StickyBits and TalesOfThings. The New York Times profiled a third company … Read more

In May, Google announced a new Internet TV product called Google TV. As we noted at the time, the most interesting aspect of the announcement was the developer ecosystem that Google is introducing to television. Google TV will not just allow you to view television programs and online video content, it’ll also give you access … Read more

One of Apple’s announcements yesterday was a completely redesigned Apple TV. It’s competing in a crowded and still confusing field of products that stream video from the Internet to your TV. Boxee and Roku are two smaller companies trying to crack it; and Google TV was unveiled in May. The ultimate goal of all of … Read more

Part of the new iTunes 10 software, announced and launched yesterday, is a significant new social networking feature for iTunes called Ping. It allows you to comment on music, ‘like’ it a la Facebook, or rate it. Ping is also very similar to Twitter, in that you can ‘follow’ people and music stars. All of … Read more

Recently we’ve been exploring how the book industry is adjusting to electronic books. There are pros and cons to eBooks, but regardless the industry is moving to digital formats fast – even to the point of the Oxford English Dictionary considering not publishing another print edition. Some book publishers aren’t just adjusting to eBooks, they’re … Read more

Today we’re launching our fifth channel, ReadWriteHack. Sponsored by the Intel Atom Developer Program, ReadWriteHack is a resource and guide for developers. In this channel we will outline best practices for designing and developing applications. We will also provide examples of hacks and how they work, to inspire you and show you what’s possible. ReadWriteHack … Read more

Just as the iPad has proven to be a boon to magazine publishers, newspapers have flocked to the device too. All of the major western newspapers have an iPad app now: the New York Times, Wall St Journal, Guardian, USA Today, Financial Times, and others. There are also new forms of news services that have … Read more

When the iPad was launched earlier this year, one of the big talking points was that the iPad might be the savior of magazines. By now many magazines are available on the iPad, either in their own standalone app or in a virtual magazine store. In this post we look at how magazines are using … Read more

SpringerLink is a platform for eBooks, journals and reference works totalling over 4.8 million documents. The service has just launched a re-design, with new semantic linking features that enable users to access related content across eBooks and journals. The semantic linking feature displays links to related content from SpringerLink’s archive. It’s similar to the ‘see … Read more

One of the emerging trends of 2010 has been the Internet of Things, a term for when real-world objects get connected to the Internet. One of the key aspects of this trend is the data explosion that will occur when millions of objects send data to the cloud – mostly via very small sensors. Just … Read more

Ultimate Chart is a new type of music chart for the Internet age. It doesn’t just measure music sales and radio play, as Billboard has traditionally done, but popularity over a variety of online services – YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, iTunes, MySpace, MTV.com, and many more. But does Ultimate Chart live up to the hype its … Read more

This coming Monday, application boxes will disappear from your Facebook profile or fan page and you’ll be told to use application tabs instead. In a nutshell, this means that third party content – such as Flickr photos or YouTube videos – can only be displayed on a Facebook profile page or fan page (the equivalent … Read more

Last week we looked at the pros and cons of eBooks vs traditional paper books. For the consumer market, eBooks are still at the early stage of adoption – but becoming more popular due to the iPad and the price point getting lower for eReaders like Kindle. Another market where eBooks have a lot of … Read more

As Facebook becomes more and more popular, the social network giant is putting more emphasis on the real-time feed. In other words, the activities of your friends displayed in reverse chronological order on your Facebook homepage. In the old days of Facebook – and indeed traditionally with social networks like MySpace and Friendster – you’d … Read more