| Study: Less Than Half of Top Websites Optimized for Mobile Web [Infographic] In a study 500 of some of the top sites on the Internet, mobile performance consultants Blaze found less than half of the top destinations in the United States were optimized for smartphones Of the Alexa 500 top sites on the in the U.S., 40% were optimized for smartphones (42% iOS, 38% Android). Yet, when it comes to Android, those 200 sites overwhelmingly returned the same page to both a smartphone and a tablet, meaning that developers have not rendered Android specific versions of their sites for Android tablets. See the infographic after the jump.
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More Photos From the ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit Ramine Darabiha, product manager, Angry Birds Magic, announcing the game's new integration with the physical world.
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The Future of NFC, From Mobile Wallets to Angry Birds In case you haven't heard, near field communications (NFC) is a hot technology right now and a number of influential companies are betting that it's going to play a prominent role in our lives in the future. From mobile payments and digital wallets to smart doors and interactive toys, NFC will be embedded throughout our lives, simplifying tasks and enabling us to do previously unimaginable things. In a break-out session of the ReadWriteWeb 2Way Summit on Tuesday afternoon, a panel of experts discussed the many applications NFC will have in the future, with a focus, of course, on mobile payments.
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Speed Geeking at the 2WAY Summit [Video] Speed Geeking is a high-energy event where startups and established tech companies that we've selected give quick presentations to conference attendees. Every five minutes attendees switch to a new startup. It's loud, it's a little chaotic and it's a lot of fun. Over the years Speed Geeking has become a fixture at ReadWriteWeb conferences, but this is the first year we've had so many international companies participating.
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Google Launches New Search Features: Voice, Images, Instant Pages & More This afternoon, Google held a press conference in San Francisco to demonstrate some new features in Google Search, both on the desktop and on mobile. The company says it's trying to knock down the barriers to knowledge - that is, barriers to Google search results - with innovations involving speech recognition, computer vision, translation and other advances.
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OpenCulture Curates Original Audio & Video of Our Cultural Icons OpenCulture has put together an astonishing collection of audio and video of 230 cultural icons. The media allows us to see and hear mythic contributors to culture as the men and women they were and are. This collection extends from audio of the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire reading his poem "Le pont Mirabeau" from the book Alcools in 1913 to video of Nelson Mandela's first TV interview in 1961 to Steve Jobs demoing the first Mac in 1984 to video of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle talking about the origin of Sherlock Holmes.
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Lulzsec Hacks U.S. Senate The hacking group Lulzsec broke into the U.S. Senate's website and stole information. On its site, it posted which it reposted "a small, just-for-kicks release of some internal data from Senate.gov." The Senate's Deputy Sergeant at Arms, Maria Bradford, told Reuters that the group penetrated the public side of the site only and has not created a lasting security problem.
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Facebook and RockMelt Team Up on Improved Version of Social Web Browser RockMelt, the "social Web browser" built on top of Chromium, the open source version of Google's Chrome browser, has now partnered with Facebook on a new version, RockMelt Beta 3, out today. The updated software includes over 30 new features, including improved Facebook Chat and notifications, and a smart feature that knows when you're on Facebook.com. When Facebook.com is detected, RockMelt will deliver a more streamlined appearance where certain Facebook features are removed from the website and displayed within the Web browser itself.
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Study: Kids Are the Road to Tech Innovation Over the course of 2010, Latitude Research completed a multi-phase innovation study, Children's Future Requests for Computers and the Internet, asking kids across the world to draw the answer to this question: "What would you like your computer or the Internet to do that it can't do right now?" This study is part of a larger research initiative by Latitude that positions younger generations as a window into the future of technology, capable of informing tech experiences that resonate with people of all ages. Download the study summary (PDF) for Children's Future Requests for Computers and the Internet.
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Skype is Coming to More TVs via New Comcast Deal The video and voice calling service Skype is coming to a TV near you, thanks to a new partnership with Comcast, a leading provider of cable TV services here in the U.S. This morning, the two companies formally announced a deal that will allow Comcast customers to use Skype's HD video calling on their HD television sets, made available through a Comcast-provided adapter box which works in conjunction with an HD video camera. Customer trials of the new service will begin in "the coming months," but no exact date was given for the service's wider launch, only that more details will be made available "later this year."
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