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SimpleGeo Launches, Aims to Make All Apps Geo-Aware — Are you ready to learn a whole lot more about the world around you, every time you launch a location-aware application? Countless apps are likely to get a lot of real-world data dumped into their databases thanks to two new data sources available for free as of today.
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Twitter Says Networking Error Caused Downtime — Social network Twitter experienced several hours of downtime this morning, causing its site, 3rd party Twitter clients and services reliant on it for user authentication to be inaccessible. — Twitter spokesperson Carolyn Penner just offered …
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HP App Lets You Pin Any Webpage to a Location — I’m standing outside a beautiful old building, rich with hidden history. I pull out my phone, expose my location and am shown the online content voted most relevant for that particular spot. Maybe it’s a Wikipedia entry, maybe it’s public records …