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October 2009 Archives

Wednesday, 28th October 2009

US Department of Defense Embraces Open Source

At the US Department of Defense, open source and proprietary software are now on equal footing. According to Defense Department guidance issued yesterday (PDF), open-source software (OSS) should be treated just like any other software product. The document also specifies some of the advantages of OSS for the Department of Defense (DoD). These…

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Google Maps Navigation: The First Killer App for Android 2.0

Android 2.0 just got its first killer app: Google Maps Navigation. Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 will be available for free and will be part of the default Google Maps app on Android 2.0 phones. The service offers all the features that users expect from a modern GPS app, including traffic data, 3D view and turn-by-turn voice guidance…

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TwitterPeek: A New Standalone Mobile Device for Twitter. Seriously.

From the company called Peek, the makers of handheld devices dedicated to checking email on-the-go, there now comes another single-purpose gadget, this one for checking Twitter. The new TwitterPeek is a mobile device that lets you access the microblogging network from anywhere in the U.S. with no hefty data fees or contracts to sign, just as the…

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Tuesday, 27th October 2009

Social Networks

Facebook U.S. Visits Increase 194% Over Past Year; Tagged is Beating Twitter?

New data released from Experian Hitwise reconfirms what we've known for some time: Facebook is killing the other social networks. Nowhere is that more true than here in the U.S. where they found that the visits to the site have increased 194% from September of last year to September 2009. However, it's Twitter that's seen the largest year-over-year…

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Intel Helps Joyent Become the First Cloud Computing Service to Launch in China

With some help from Intel, Joyent is announcing it is the first cloud computing service to launch in mainland China. Joyent is working with Intel and the Qinhuangdao Economic and Technology Development Zone (QETDZ) to bring its infrastructure cloud computing service to the Chinese market. The Joyent service is already being promoted with a…

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