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Real-Time Web
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- Online Language Learning Company Babbel Adds Voice Recognition Tool
- Mapping the Oil Spill in Real Time
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Augmented Reality
- Can Augmented Reality Help Save the Planet?
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Augmented Reality for Marketers and Developers: Our Newest Research Report
We're pleased to announce ReadWriteWeb's latest premium report, Augmented Reality for Marketers and Developers: Analysis of the Leaders, the Challenges and the Future. This report will help you develop a sophisticated understanding of Augmented Reality (AR), the mobile and Web technology that places data on top of a user's view of the physical world. The research included will help you decrease your AR development time to market by learning from the first wave of early adopters. AR offers a new marketing and product paradigm for a high impact, high value customer experience. More than 1,000 AR campaigns were kicked-off last year and we expect to see many more in 2010. In this report, we profile key AR development companies, their campaigns as well as development lessons learned. For more information or to buy the report, visit here.
Mobile Web
- iPhone 4: Your Burning Questions Answered
- Google Activates Android “Kill Switch,” Zaps Useless Apps
- Developers Betting on Android for Long-Term Success, Says Surveyy
More Mobile Web coverage
Internet of Things
- Google, GE & Others Prototype Wireless Mote to Connect Any Device to Smart Grid
- The Internet IS a Series of Tubes: Real-Time Mapping of the London Underground
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ReadWriteStart
Our channel ReadWriteStart, sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark, is dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs.
- Is Venture Capital Broken?
- Posterous and Ambition: A Lesson for Startups?
- Delicious Founder, AOL Exec Launch Hacker Angels
ReadWriteCloud
Our channel ReadWriteCloud, sponsored by VMware and Intel, is dedicated to Virtualization and Cloud Computing.
- Oxygen: A Desktop Network Connected to the Cloud
- Architects of Amazon Web Services Launch Nimbula, Promise an OS for the Cloud
- Weekly Poll: Is Salesforce.com Chatter Really That Unique? Does it Matter?
ReadWriteEnterprise
Our channel ReadWriteEnterprise is devoted to 'enterprise 2.0' and using social software inside organizations.
- Antivirus Product Testing is Changing, Whether Vendors Like it or Not
- 3 Up-and-Coming Collaboration Suites
- Google Apps Now Supports Multiple Domains
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bmi is the second largest airline at London Heathrow, one of the world’s busiest international airports. From our Heathrow hub we operate services in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa.
bmi’s global reach is further extended by being a member of Star Alliance, a grouping of 27 international airlines.
bmi is committed to using technology such as E-ticketing, Online Booking, Self Check-in at the airport and via the InternetInternet, helping to improve the pre-flight experience. This means the airline can boast one of the best punctuality records of any airline operating in the UK.
IGLOO is a social software company that builds online communities for business. Uniting content management, collaboration and knowledge sharing tools within one secure social networking platform, IGLOO enables organizations to overcome the barriers to communication and collaboration that emerge because of size. Whether the obstacles are organizational or geographic, a more open and connected business improves employee productivity (Workplace Communities) and helps to foster better relationships with customers, partners and suppliers (Marketplace Communities). Learn more about how IGLOO is socializing the workplace and helping organizations build successful online communities through the IGLOO Social Media Playbook.
IDG’s Strategic Marketing Services group works with tech marketers to deliver services that include integrated multimedia marketing programs, program consulting and IDG Amplify social media advertising.
Yield Software’s Yield Web Marketing Suite optimizes paid search (PPC) natural search (SEO) and landing pages, all in one easy-to-use Web-based system. A simple, intuitive interface together with sophisticated algorithms work seamlessly to optimize SEM campaigns every minute of every day, enabling growing businesses and their agencies to lower costs, improve performance and increase profitability. Yield also offers a free SEO Analyzer, which delivers a report covering how well a site is optimized and suggestions for improvement. Yield Software—Web Marketing Made Easy.
Clickatell offers mobile social networks the opportunity to measure their return on investment. Not only does Clickatell offer an Interactive Campaign Manager tool that allows you to monitor and intervene in your customer campaigns in real time, it also generates and manages database integration and comes with additional marketing tools. Track the delivery status of your text messages and the responses; take the guesswork out of campaigning. Your valuable messages will always be delivered as our products allow for message escalation to alternative delivery gateways. Social networks are also, through the account management package, given control over network channels and connectivity options. All necessary tasks have been automated and our central interface allows you to manage multiple connections and projects at the same time.
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BizSpark is a program which offers new software businesses and entrepreneurs access to Microsoft design, development and production tools with no upfront costs for up to three years. Members can also connect with a nationwide community of Network Partners – investors, incubators, service providers and entrepreneurial organizations – who are keen to help.
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Founded in 1998 as a free service, Dynamic Network Services Incorporated (Dyn Inc.) now operates two extremely reliable, “rock solid,” global DNS platforms; DynDNS.com for home/SMB users and the Dynect Platform for corporations and enterprises. As a leading provider of managed DNS services, Dyn Inc. plays a key role in keeping the Internet’s DNS infrastructure running smoothly, handling trillions of queries per day and servicing nearly four million active users. With a range of innovative solutions, from domain name and e-mail services on DynDNS.com, to failover, load balancing, traffic management and CDN balancing services with the Dynect Platform, Dyn Inc. remains committed to world class customer service and engineering excellence. Uptime is the Bottom Line. For more information about Dyn Inc., visit www.dyn.com, e-mail hello@dyn.com or call +1-603-668-4998.
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