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Thursday, 16th February 2012

Glassmap Maps Your Friends

Glassmap launches today. Interesting name, right? It aptly describes a touchscreen map app. Co-founder Geoffrey Woo says the name is inspired by even more futuristic interfaces. For now, it's an app that persistently shares your location with your friends in the background. But it aspires to let you "point at them, see what they're seeing, jump…

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Cloud Computing

Is Your Cloud Over-Provisioned?

In the fairy tale of Goldilocks and the three bears, the heroine was trying to find the solution that was "just right." But when it comes to server provisioning in the cloud, do you often make the wrong choice, picking an instance that ends up being too costly for your needs? Mike Raab at CopperEgg wrote about this situation last fall and it is…

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msnNOW Doesn't Want To Be Your Grandfather's News Curation Site

Microsoft launched msnNOW, a new site aimed at tracking news trends from social networks. Although we're a bit skeptical about a spokesperson's claim in an email that it's "the first service designed to surface breaking trends from across the Web, show what people are saying about the trends, and why they matter with the help of expert editors…

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Wednesday, 15th February 2012

Making Sense of Jelly Bean

There should be a new bounty of dessert coming to Android lovers later this year. Android 5.0 "Jelly Bean" is rumored to be announced in the second quarter of 2012 and provide a better operating system for Android tablets. The report comes from Digitimes, a Taiwanese tech site that specializes on reporting rumors for the supply chain of the world's…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Readers Can't Remove Contacts From Twitter

Several people who read yesterday's post about Twitter storing their smartphone contact information for 18 months have reported trying the Twitter-recommended fix only to get an error message. "I just attempted to do this and received the error 'Oops, we couldn't remove your contacts at this time'," jeffehobbs wrote in the comments for the post…

Social Dave Copeland comments

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