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Two Mobile Operating Systems, One Phone

VMware Brings Virtualization to Mobile Phones

VMware , a company known for their virtualization software for the desktop and datacenter, recently announced their plans to bring that software to mobile phones through their new VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP). The software is built on technology the company acquired from Trango Virtual Processors just last month. With this new technology, you would no longer have to carry both a work phone and a personal phone. Instead, your I.T. department could just deploy the corporate phone's profile to your personal device where it would then run in a virtualized space.

MeasuredUp Connects Businesses with Disgrunteled Customers

MeasuredUp is a review service that allows customers to share their positive and negative experiences about local or online businesses, but until now, these businesses did not really have a chance to reach out to these customers through the service and rectify potential customer service issues. Now, MeasuredUp has introduced a new featured, Direct Connect , which allows companies to claim their identity on the service and reach out to their customers.

2009 Web Predictions

It's time for our annual predictions post, in which the ReadWriteWeb authors look forward to what 2009 might bring in the world of Web technology and new media.

Looking back at our 2008 Web predictions , we got some of them right! "The big Internet companies will [embrace] open standards" ( Google Yahoo and others did this); "Mobile web usage will be a big story in 2008" ( check! ); "Web Services platforms will be a fierce battleground" ( Microsoft Azure and Google App Engine were released and AWS grew ). We also got some wrong, including most of our acquisition picks! Digg, Twitter, Zoho, Tumblr - all remain independent. Not to be deterred, ...

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