Daily Wrap: Mass Suicide Threatened at Foxconn and More

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Workers at Foxconn threaten to commit suicide in protest of poor working conditions. This and more in today’s Daily Wrap. Sometimes it’s difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed [...]

What’s Coming in jQuery Mobile 1.1 and Beyond

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Lots of fun stuff coming down the pike from the jQuery Mobile folks. According to a post today by Todd Parker, the 1.0.1 maintenance release for jQuery Mobile will be coming out in “the next two weeks.” After that, Parker provides a look at some of the new features that we’ll see in 1.1 and [...]

Cartoon: Not My Type

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There’s a special appeal that Myers-Briggs personality types holds for folks in the online space. Maybe it’s because of the appeal of a simple yet exhaustive taxonomy that can capture the whole spectrum of human variation. Maybe it’s because you can quantify it, plot it on a graph and measure it against other people’s – [...]

New iPhone, iPad and Android Apps for December 2011

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2011 was a great year for apps. Both the Android Market and the Apple App Store grew exponentially and users now have so many choices that it is hard to sort all of them out. December was an especially big months for apps as publishers revved up for consumers to unwrap new devices during the [...]

The Android-based HDTV: Higher Bandwidth, 6x Streaming, Built-in Sling Media

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The segment of the media delivery industry that may yet take off for consumers consists of programming and services that are delivered to newer HDTVs “over-the-top” (OTT) – meaning, outside of the cable or satellite provider’s pipeline. Naturally, the Internet is the delivery medium here. In prior years, analysts have wondered how (or whether) traditional [...]

Daily Wrap: Google+ Is Breaking the Web and More

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Jon Mitchell has a bone to pick with Google+. This and more in today’s Daily Wrap. Sometimes it’s difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, [...]

Do’s And Don’ts For Twitter Brand Pages [STUDY]

Twitter brand pages launched last month need to work hard to engage the user to be successful, according to an eye track study released Wednesday. SimpleUsability studied four of the 21 brand pages that went live last month. While Twitter had previously allowed promoted tweets and corporate pages, but the brand pages launched in December [...]