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Meet The New Foursquare. Same As The Old Foursquare — But Prettier.

It’s hardly a secret that all of the major location-based players are planning big updates to their services to coincide with the SXSW festival starting next week in Austin, Texas. One of them peeked out a bit early: Foursquare.
Earlier today, the latest version of Foursquare, 1.6, went live in the App Store for a brief [...]

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Sun, March 7 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Speaking Of Creepy Location Features: Google’s Opt-Out Latitude Alerts

The past couple of days have seen some brouhaha over location privacy issues. Please Rob Me brought up the potentially troubling issue of tweeting out your location updates (and Foursquare responded). But actually, Google is doing something that’s perhaps even creepier.
While their Google Location Alerts feature is not new (it started beta testing in November [...]

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Sat, February 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Apple Surveying iPhone Developers’ Happiness With The App Store

Last year, there was no shortage of developers who were complaining about Apple’s App Store. The situation got so heated that no less than Apple senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller, got personally involved with a number of developers having issues. Since then, the complaints seem to have died down quite a [...]

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Mon, February 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Linus Torvalds: Google’s Nexus One First Mobile Phone I Don’t Hate

Linus Torvalds, the inventor of the Linux kernel, has an absolute disdain for mobile phones. All of the ones he has purchased in the past, the man writes on his personal blog, ended up being “mostly used for playing Galaga and Solitaire on long flights” even though they were naturally all phones run on open [...]

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Sun, February 7 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments