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Wednesday, 19th January 2011

RailsBridge: Encouraging Women to Program with Free Ruby on Rails Workshops

The RailsBridge Open Workshop project, which teaches web app development to programmers and non-programmers, has announced its 2011 schedule that'll include eight more of its popular free workshops for women. RailsBridge's workshops take place on a Friday evening and full-day Saturday, during which time participants learn how to develop a web…

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Tablets Will Rock the Enterprise This Year

Deloitte made a prediction today that organizations will buy on the order of 10 million tablets this year. We see this as another sign of the transition to an enterprise that requires better device portability and accessibility to information that you can act upon no matter where you might be.

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Report: Spotify Inks Deal With Sony

Last week, the word on the street was that everyone's favorite European music service, Spotify, was finally nearing a deal with major music labels in the U.S. and would soon enough be on its way across the pond. Today, Media Memo's Peter Kafka reports that the company "has finally signed with Sony for U.S. distribution deal." While this doesn't…

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Collecta Ends its API, Says "We're Changing"

For the past two years we've been keeping an eye on real-time search engine Collecta, watching as it's inked some big deals, widgetized its real-time feeds and raised some funding. Today, however, it looks like the company has decided to change directions. Collecta announced to developers today that "Collecta is changing over the coming months" and…

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Rare Huge-Format Koran Digitized for Study

The John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester in England is digitizing one of the largest and most important Korans in existence, one that could previously be studied by few due to its size, weight and fragility. Funded by the non-profit Islamic Manuscript Association, the project will take just under 1,000 images of the 500 year old…

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