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Redmond Channel Partner on HP's Acquisition of Palm

Platform Associates CEO Jeffrey McManus is quoted in a piece in Redmond Channel Partner magazine on HP's impending acquisition of Palm.

There's A New Mayor In Town

Governing magazine did an interview with the BART web team on their integration with mobile social game Foursquare. In the interview the team describes the rationale for using Foursquare and how BART's embrace of open data platforms and social communications has worked for the transit district.

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Fake Steve Jobs: "Developers only now realizing that Android is not a platform"

According to Gadget Lab, app writers have somehow just realized that the reason open source fails in customer-facing use cases (as opposed to back on the server in a locked room) is that it splits like a bead of mercury into a zillion different forms, and nobody can write apps that work across the platform [...]

Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure

Platform Associates CEO Jeffrey McManus is quoted in a story in today's Redmond Developer News. The piece discusses Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud offering in light of new product releases and aggressive pricing by competitors such as Amazon EC2.

BART Partners with Foursquare

Bay Area Rapid Transit has become the first transit agency to partner with the location-based mobile network Foursquare, with the goal of encouraging public transit use. You can read more about the partnership on bart.gov or the Foursquare blog.

Platform Associates advises BART on their open data platform and social media strategy; this partnership resulted from our consulting engagement with them.