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Foursquare Users Are Mobile Male Geeks, Forrester Finds
Foursquare, Gowalla and Brightkite are highly hyped but have yet to reach their potential for Web marketers. Though just a few million users are consuming such applications each month, the ceiling is high, especially for Facebook and Twitter. - Location-based social networks such as Foursquare,
Gowalla and Brightkite are buoyed by a lot of hype that has yet to reach its
potential for Web marketers, but some 84 percent of users surveyed are not familiar with these applications at all.
That's the gist of a market research report from
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Motorola Droid Getting Android 2.2 in Early August
Motorola said in a community forum that Google's Android 2.2 operating system (Froyo) will be pushed out to the Motorola Droid beginning the week of August 2. However, there is no word yet on when the Droid X will get Froyo. - Motorola confirmed that Google's Android
2.2 operating system, or Froyo build, will be pushed out to the original Motorola
Droid beginning the week of August 2.
Motorola Forums Manager Matt wrote in a
brief note on the company's forum July 30:
quot;I'm happy to report that Verizon Wireless wi...


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Motorola 4G LTE Network Planned for Bay Area
Motorola and public safety agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area plan to build an LTE network that will go live in early 2011. Meanwhile, the FCC approves MetroPCS' first LTE handset. - The San Francisco Bay Area will be getting a 4G LTE network in early 2011.
Motorola's Enterprise Mobility
Solutions business and the public safety agencies in the San Francisco Bay
Area announced July 29 a plan to begin installing a 700MHz Long-Term Evolution
system later in 2010 that will serv...


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Microsoft CEO Ballmer Digs at Google, Suggests Bing Challenges
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer poked Google in the ribs during a talk at Microsofts Financial Analyst Meeting, but suggested Bing faces substantial challenges in the search-engine space. - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used a July 29 talk at his
companys annual Financial Analyst Meeting to poke Google in the proverbial
ribs. Despite that nudging, he also acknowledged that Microsofts own search
engine, Bing, lags behind its rival in search-engine market share.
“I was flattered to s...


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Best Buy, Clearwire Partner on 4G Mobile Broadband
Best Buy and Clearwire are teaming up to offer customers access to 4G mobile broadband service through the retail chain's Best Buy Connect brand. - Big box retail giant Best Buy and wireless broadband service provider
Clearwire July 29 announced a quot;strategic wholesale relationship in which
Best Buy will use Clearwire's 4G network to offer mobile Internet service to
customers under the Best Buy Connect service. Beginning in 2011, Best Bu...


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