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ReadWriteWeb  10 hours ago:

Geek Pride Day Is May 25: Here's How To Celebrate -

Ready to embrace another arbitrary holiday - or just looking for an excuse to slack off and eat cake? Who isn’t?

This Saturday, May 25, is internationally known as Geek Pride Day.

ReadWriteWeb  13 hours ago:

News Flash! Tablets Are Not Smartphones -

You probably already knew this, but a new report from Forrester wants to emphasize this seemingly obvious point: Tablets are not simply larger touchscreen smartphones.

ReadWriteWeb  14 hours ago:

Shazam's New iPad App Is Designed For Watching TV With A Tablet, Too -

Shazam, an app best known for identifying songs playing around you, is making a big move into identifying all kinds of media playing around you.

ReadWriteWeb  14 hours ago:

Google App Engine Cuts Prices By One-Quarter -

Google is reducing Datastore prices by up to 25%, according to an announcement on their Cloud Platform Blog.

ReadWriteWeb  16 hours ago:

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Saves Companies Money - But Could Cost Users Big -

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) polices are increasingly popular as a way for companies to let workers use the hardware they like best and are most productive with.

ReadWriteWeb  17 hours ago:

Android Dramatically Extends Lead With Open Source Developers -

Despite Google Android's long market-share rise against Apple iOS, developers continued to stick with iOS as their first deployment target.

ReadWriteWeb  17 hours ago:

Square Storms Japan -

Square, the mobile payment service that has been making strong inroads within the North American retail sector, has announced the availability of its service in Japan.
ReadWriteWeb  18 hours ago:

Hadoop: What It Is And How It Works -

You can't have a conversation about Big Data for very long without running into the elephant in the room: Hadoop.

ReadWriteWeb  18 hours ago:

Mailbox Takes Its Email App To iPad, With Android Waiting In The Wings -

What has Mailbox founder Gentry Underwood and his team been up to since selling the email-app maker to Dropbox for a reported $100 million in March?

Mostly working on new versions of the product—like an iPad version of the app, which is coming out Thursday morning on Apple's App Store.

ReadWriteWeb  19 hours ago:

Making Android Pay For Developers: Checking Out The New Tools In Google Play -

This post is the second in the ReadWrite series Making Android Pay, in which we explore the opportunities and challenges mobile developers face trying to make money from Android apps.