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Wednesday, 28th September 2011

Foursquare Hack Helps You Plan Trips

Last weekend, Foursquare held its second hackathon, a worldwide, weekend-long affair in which hundreds of developers tinkered away and built new location-based apps and tools on top of Foursquare's API. There were about 100 hacks submitted for consideration and today Foursquare announced the winners. Taking the top prize is a handy little Web…

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Engine Yard Adds JRuby, Heroku Adds Python and Django

There must be something in the air. Heroku and Engine Yard are beefing up their platforms today. Engine Yard put JRuby into general availability today after several months in testing and years of development. Not to be left out, Heroku expanded its service to add Python and Django as part of its "polyglot platform."

Hack Joe Brockmeier comments

Big Answer: Market for the Kindle Fire

With the announcement of the new Kindle Fire (hot), tech discussions today have raged that this is either the iPad killer or it's a useless device that's not quite enough to really compete (or not a killer, but a competitor). ReadWriteWeb writers have their own take, of course, but we wanted to know how you felt as well. We asked and you…

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Time's Running Out on MacBook Air Contest for September!

It's hard to believe that another month is nearly over. September is just about over, and that means time is running out to win a MacBook Air. All you need to do? Give us the best answer to the question, "what was the most compelling reason that you used to win over management to switch to virtual infrastructure?" All you need to participate…

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Location-Based Services

Loc-Aid: Location As A Service

Location is baked in to just about everything that developers do these days. All the major original equipment manufacturers use the Global Positioning System as a primary means of tracking a smartphones location, but GPS may not be the best source of location data for developers. In steps Loc-Aid, a location as a service provider that aggregates…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

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