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Friday, 25th February 2011

Android Apps Spotted Running on BlackBerry Devices

The Android version of a popular barcode-scanning application has been spotted running on several different BlackBerry devices according to the app's maker ShopSavvy. In a recent blog post, the company revealed that, despite not having an official BlackBerry version of its smartphone application available, its analytics program shows that its…

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Thursday, 24th February 2011

Skype To Go Brings Internet Calling to Landlines

Today Skype is touting the relaunch of its "Skype to Go" service as a new way to make international calls from any phone - even landlines. The service itself has been around for years, but today's launch brings new features, specifically direct dial numbers for your Skype contacts. Previously, Skype to Go users had one access number that would send…

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Hacker Chat: Max Ogden Talks About CouchDB, Open Data and Couchappsora (Part 2)

Max Ogden is a developer living in San Francisco. He's a Code for America fellow and one of the founding developers of Couchappspora, an open source social network built with Apache CouchDB. This is the second half of our interview. Part one can be found here. In this half we focus on Couchappspora, Ogden's open source social networking project.

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Google Announces "Big Algorithmic Improvement" to Search

Google has been under increasing pressure in recent months to improve its search results. From accusations of SEO gaming by big sites to a search results page dominated by the likes of Demand Media and other content farms, the search engine has repeatedly heard the cry that it was becoming less and less relevant. Most recently, the company launched…

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Meet LAUNCH's 13 Best Companies

Nearly 50 companies have presented over the past two days at Jason Calcanis' LAUNCH conference. We've seen everything from well-established companies like StackOverflow launch a job-finder service for its existing members to companies sign $100,000 deals on stage. Now, it has come to an end and, like most things, a winner (or 13) has to…

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