Web Design

It’s hard to argue that Windows Phone 7 Series’ Metro UI concept isn’t utterly unique in the mobile world, but it was wasn’t the only option Microsoft considered — far from it, in fact. The company has published a bunch a design concepts it churned through on its wild, wacky journey to finalizing Metro as we know it today, and one thing’s for certain: they’d clearly planned on simple, square lines, partially-obscured typography, and in-your-face colors pretty much from day one.

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Windows Phone 7 Series’ cutting room floor is an extravaganza of bright colors and chunky fonts

Despite the proverbial “the customer is always right,” the relationship between the customer and the company has long been organized for the benefit of the latter. But the ability for companies to completely control this relationship has disappeared. Social CRM: The New Rules of Relationship Management , a report from the Altimeter Group released earlier this month, serves to help companies and organizations understand the changing territory.

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‘Breathe Social’: The New Rules of Relationship Management

In a recent conversation here at ReadWriteStart we were talking about what readers want most. Beyond stories about where the latest funding opportunities are found, and beyond wanting to know what startups are doing that works, we know that sometimes our startup readers just want some simple practical advice. Towards that end we’ve posted many a list

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6 ReadWriteStart Lists: Our Best Startup Advice

Microsoft certainly set off a firestorm of controversy yesterday with the revelation that Windows Phone 7 Series won’t have copy and paste , since it doesn’t necessarily line up with what the company has said in private before — and the issue seems to have gotten even more clouded as people have started hacking around the emulator. So let’s set the record straight on what we were told, since it wasn’t ambiguous in any way: Microsoft says leaving clipboard operations out was a conscious design decision based on user research showing that people don’t actually use copy and paste very often, and that instead 7 Series features a systemwide data detection service which recognizes things ike phone numbers and addresses so you can take action on them. Third-party apps can hook into this service, so that an email address can be routed to the email client of your choice, but there’s no copy and paste functionality

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Microsoft on copy and paste in Windows Phone 7 Series: ‘people don’t do that’

Researchers have been hard at work for the past few years trying to build computer chips using self-assembling circuitry built of molecules — meaning that they’re incredibly teensy.

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Microprocessor mega-shocker: self-assembling silicon chips could lead to ever smaller circuitry

Panda Security is reporting a second incident of malware on Vodafone’s HTC Magic, a Google Android smart phone. it provide a clear example for how smartphones are prime targets to become botnets once connected to a user’s personal computer. The incidents provide real-world examples of how companies can inadvertently spread malware

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Provider Fail: Vodafone Sells HTC Smartphone Loaded With Malware

We’ve definitely learned a ton about Windows Phone 7 Series here at MIX , but getting the full picture on multitasking has been difficult, since the OS isn’t ready, no one has final hardware, and the emulator seems to behave differently than actual devices and Microsoft’s descriptions. So let’s set the record straight on multitasking: it’s not going to happen, at least not in the traditional way. Not only have we directly confirmed this with Microsoft executives several times, but the developer sessions here are totally clear on the matter — you don’t tell 1000+ devs that they should expect their apps to be killed whenever the user switches away from them if you don’t mean it.

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Windows Phone 7 Series multitasking: the real deal

While most of the FCC’s new Broadband plan has been about, well, broadband, there’s also some great news for HDTV fans. We expected a few mentions about CableCARD and its future when the FCC requested comments and declared it a failure , but we’re still glad to see that the FCC listened to consumer electronics companies like TiVo and Sony — among others. The biggest news is that the FCC has asked the industry to come up with a residential IP gateway that is open and that will provide same abilities as your provider’s equipment, and most importantly, it should enable the very same gear to work no matter what type of service you prefer, whether it be satellite, cable or fiber — for example, via various gateways the same TiVo would work with either DirecTV or Comcast

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A CableCARD replacement is due by December 2012, bandaids by this Fall

The Web has hit a point where tracking pageviews is useless for startups. There was a time when all you needed to succeed on the Internet were lots and lots of eyeballs, and the best way of measuring those eyeballs was by tracking pageviews (measuring exactly which pages on a website are viewed by individual visitors). The dot-com crash showed us that the eyeball-based business model was a failure

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The Death of the Pageview

Sony’s VP of Realistic Movements Kevin Butler (boy, does that guy have a large business card ) is at it again, this time in a video ad for the PlayStation Move . He’s back from the future to thank us all for the success of the motion control device, and make a few jabs towards Nintendo and Microsoft for their efforts

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PlayStation Move ad pulls no motion-controlled punches against Wii, Project Natal

There’s not a lot to see here — in fact, there’s nothing at all to see at this point — but The New York Times has it on good authority that Google , Intel , and Sony have teamed up to develop an Android-powered internet platform using Atom processors for televisions and set-top boxes. Dubbed Google TV, the apparent mantra seems to be making web app navigation (Twitter, Picasa, etc.) as easy as changing the channel.

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Google TV: Android-based web platform for the living room, with help from Intel, Sony, and Logitech

In the wake of the financial meltdown, a new set of financial regulations proposed by Senator Christopher Dodd aimed at plugging the “too big to fail” loopholes could have some negative side effects for the angel investment community.

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Proposed Financial Regulations Could Cripple Angel Investing

At the RSA Keynote a few weeks back, Amazon’s Security Lead, Steve Riley participated on a panel with other security leaders of the industry. We were impressed with the openness of all of the participants, and particularly excited with the new concepts coming from at Amazon

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Future: Amazon’s ‘Think Clouds’ are Data Aware

Goo.gl good, fb.me bad: a study finds who’s quick off the mark in the link-shortening world URL shorteners have become a fact of life, given the proliferation of short messaging services (and also the demands of print, which finds URL shorteners mean you can link to long URLs in a few characters). But they’re sometimes a roadblock – at least, the one from Facebook is.

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Why short links can take a long time to get you around the web

It’s far and away one of the most genius concepts we’ve seen in the past year, and we couldn’t possibly be happier for one Min-Kyu Choi. Said designer, who recently graduated from the Royal College of Art, was recently showered with laud after the above-pictured Folding Plug nabbed the gold in the Brit Insurance Design contest. Unfortunately, we’re still no closer to understanding when some moneyed manufacturer will pick this up and start producing it, but hopefully this prize will reinforce its awesomeness and catch someone’s eye.

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UK Folding Plug takes home design award, emerges in USB-infused flavor

A little more than a week ago, The Wall Street Journal reported that Google and DISH Network had begun testing a set-top box that uses Google as a search algorithm. In a story published late Wednesday, The New York Times went a step further, claiming that a “Google TV” platform is in the works, from Intel, Google, Sony and Logitech. The Times reported that the Google service will run on Atom-powered set-top boxes, and that Logitech is developing complementary remote controls.

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Google-Powered Google TV" Set-top Box Concept Surfaces Again

While America is trying to figure out how to connect Disney and Vegas with a maglev train, China is going forward with plans to connect a whopping 17 nations with a high-speed rail network. The plan right now is for three major lines: one that connects Beijing to London via the Channel Tunnel (or Chunnel) and continues on to Singapore; a second line that covers Malaysia, Burma, Vietnam, and Thailand; and a third that would bridge China, Russia and Germany to other European railways. And, just when you thought it wouldn’t get crazier: China wants to get this done in the next 10 years.

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China plans massive high-speed train network across Asia and Europe

This one looks to have largely gotten lost among the hubbub of CeBIT earlier this month, but it seems like Archos quietly announced a followup to its Archos 13 laptop, which is now set to debut sometime next month. Complete details are still a bit light unfortunately, but the revised model will sport that always desirably “classy look,” along with an Atom D510, Windows 7 Home Premium for an OS and, presumably, a 13.3-inch display

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Updated Archos 13 laptop to roll out next month

The Winter Paralympic Games are currently going on in Vancouver and fearless athletes are out on the snow and ice pushing their bodies (and some medgadgets) to the limit. Gene Ostrovsky, one of our editors, spoke with Dr.

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Interview With Dr. Mike Wilkinson, Chief Medic of 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games

For years, heat issues have plagued (or have been said to plague) the Xbox 360, with fans and foes alike claiming that they have been a leading cause of the infamous Red Rings of Death. Now, a Chinese forum member has reportedly snapped a picture of an upcoming motherboard, with an integrated CPU and graphics chip. Naturally, if the performance can be maintained, the integrated controller should provide a single thermal hotspot to cool

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"Xbox 360 Slim" May Have Leaked on Chinese Forum