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Amazon mum on cloud crash

Apr 22, 2011
Amazon hasn't said much about why its cloud services had an outage Wednesday into Thursday. Amazon managed to get its servers back up and running...

You can now take a stroll down Memolane

Mar 9, 2011
It's a new start up based in San Francisco and Denmark. Here's how it works. Users can allow Memolane to troll accounts on Facebook, Twitter,...

Just what we needed. A Wheretheladies.at app

Feb 2, 2011
Sometimes, the ladies just don't want to be found. But, now there's no hiding. Now anyone with an iPhone has a new way to find the ladies....

Facebook wants to eat Foursquare

Nov 3, 2010
Count me as one of the many people who think that the only significant thing announced at today's Facebook event was the Deals program. It provide...

All your geolocation are belong to us

Oct 7, 2010
Yesterday, word came out that Facebook had been granted a patent that essentially made them out to be the inventors of "Systems and methods for...

Who cares about Foursquare? Apparently, people with money.

Jun 30, 2010
Put me in the camp of people who are still mystified by Foursquare. I think they got off on the wrong foot by first entering my world as a stream...

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Tech News In Brief - 6/4/10

Jun 4, 2010
Google data collection mess gets messier China blocking FoursquareU.S. Cyber Command wants to ‘operate freely' to protect and defend computer...

China blocking Foursquare

Jun 4, 2010
China is blocking the mobile social media service Foursquare. People using/playing Foursquare use mobile devices to "check in" wherever they go and...

Foursquare competitor Booyah raises 20 mil in VC funding

May 17, 2010
Tech Crunch reports on Booyah raking in money as the location wars heat up. Booyah makes an app called MyTown which is growing rapidly. The...