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Monday, 19th September 2011

Foursquare Holds Hackathon Weekend

This past weekend groups of developers gathered across the world for Foursquare's two-day global hackathon. Officially taking in place in New York City, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris and unofficially in numerous other places, thousands of programmers built various add-on location-based apps which you can now vote on for your favorites here. The…

Hack David Strom comments

Google Wallet is Just Another Beta

Google and MasterCard have announced the official launch of Google Wallet, their joint effort in mobile payments using near-field communications (NFC). Google Wallet is rolling out in a limited fashion, but there aren't enough NFC-capable phones out there to really call this a "launch." And that's just the hardware part; customer behavior will…

Mobile Jon Mitchell comments

Appcelerator Announces Open Mobile Marketplace

Mobile cloud platform Appcelerator is having its first-ever developers' conference this week in Mountain View dubbed CODESTRONG. At the conference the company is announcing the "Appcelerator Open Mobile Marketplace" that is essentially a Salesforce AppExchange-like marketplace for independent software vendors and cloud providers. Appcelerator's…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

SLAs Throttle Cloud Adoption

The cloud is hiccuping its way forward for lack of buy-in by vendors. You wouldn't necessarily know that from the pat and parceled messaging that places blame for slow cloud adoption on the timidity of buyers. Buyers are skeptical, and have good reason to stay so until cloud vendors put some skin in the game.

Pam Baker comments

After 25 Million Downloads, Joomla Aims to Expand Into Apps

What was born just before YouTube and Twitter, powers whole websites with open source code and has now been downloaded 25 million times? Joomla! The popular Content Management System with an exclamation point in its name passed a major milestone this month and now says its future will be based on helping developers build all kinds of other…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

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