Foursquare might’ve been last year’s breakout app at SXSW, but it looks like this year had a much more profound impact on the service’s growth. The location based network tweeted on Wednesday afternoon that it’s added “almost 100,000 users” in the past 10 days.That’s a huge number when you consider that the year-old company reported having “over 500,000” use […]
Earlier today, FTC commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour cited Google Buzz’s “irresponsible conduct” at launch as an example of how companies are being too careless with consumer privacy and online data.The Wall Street Journal reports that the remarks were made at a public roundtable on privacy-related matters hosted by the FTC, where Harbour made it clear that […]
Today, RIM is opening up the BlackBerry Push Service to all BlackBerry developers.Push notifications let applications notify users of an alert or new message in real-time. This feature has been available to some developers since October of 2008, but today, everyone can get in on the action.This can be especially useful for breaking news, sports scores or for […]