Loopt, a GPS-based geo-location service that allows you to broadcast your whereabouts on the web, is now available on the Google Android, including support for the HTC G1.
Loopt, as with Loki and Yahoo’s FireEagle service, are all in the same category of sites that I feel actually go a little too far in terms [...]

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I asked Google this question earlier this week: who is using JRuby for large scale projects?  Here’s the list I got:

Oracle Mix – built by Oracle’s AppLabs folks, it is primarily a demonstration site to show what kind of social concepts Oracle is thinking about.  Oracle Mix was used at 2008’s OpenWorld, which hosted [...]

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MyFox Washington DC reports that they were able to snag a $20 used BlackBerry at a McCain campaign fire sale that included some interesting tidbits:
When we charged them up in the newsroom, we found one of the $20 Blackberry phones contained more than 50 phone numbers for people connected with the McCain-Palin campaign, as well [...]

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uTest, the virtualized QA department that I’d written about previously, recently performed a Bug Battle with over 1,300 testers.  The results were interesting: Internet Explorer 8 came out with the fewest bugs, 168 were discovered by their testers.  FireFox came in second with 207 bugs, and Google’s Chrome was in last place with 297 [...]

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As was widely reported today, Google announced that they are taking chrome out of Beta after just 100 days.  Chief amongst their stats about the Beta program: in the 100 day duration, they saw over 10 million (yes, that means 10,000,000) active users.  Whether that means they’re only counting the number of times Chrome [...]

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