Mark Bridge writes:
With less than a fortnight until Christmas, it’s probably time to order the turkey and start thinking about gifts. What could be a better present than being given your very own mobile operating system?
That’s what’s happening over at HP, which is making its webOS software available to the open source community. The big question now is whether developers will respond with “lovely, just what I wanted” or a slightly embarrassed “oh, I’ve already got one of those.”
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Location-based social network Gowalla is to close at the end of January, having been acquired by Facebook.
User data isn’t being transferred; Gowalla says it intends to provide an easy way for users to export this information.
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Ted Landphair of voanews.com writes:
There’s a well-worn phrase in real estate: “location, location, location,” meaning that where a property is located, alone, means more than anything else when it comes to assessing its value.
But ‘location’ is getting new meanings in these days of smartphones and other hand-held devices.
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Social location service Gowalla has just released version 3 of its iPhone application, which can now include updates from Facebook and Foursquare.
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