Links for October 23rd through October 26th

Salesforce.com, Adobe Partner on Flash Toolkit
MagnaQuest Technologies buying eVapt
Former RedMonk client, and startup of one of my friends & co.
VatorNews – Web 2.0: What do teens want?
What is Steampunk? » Geek Entertainment TV
Amaze your enterprise-y friends with steampunk knowledge before it goes mega-mainstream.
BMC eats Tideway for discovery tools
PHP 6 to boost internationalization with Unicode | Developer World – InfoWorld
Canonical takes on Windows 7 with latest Ubuntu release candidate | Open Source – InfoWorld
BART – BART partners with location-based service Foursquare to encourage transit ridership
This is really something trend-y. Foursquare is a post "we don't make money" dot com company, so it's good to see what they're figuring out revenue wise. Integration with the real world is also the interesting bridge here. The web traditionally is unattached from meat-space, where-as many newer social things, and esp. geo-location apps are slaves to 3D space rather than floating above it like a ghost.
Gartner's 'Magic Quadrant' set for court dismissal
“The Magic Quadrant is incredibly powerful and is a huge deal," he said. "It's the difference between trying to sell something and trying to fulfill. The business of IT purchasing is predicated on requests for proposals. Everybody in the leaders [quadrant] is always going to be invited to bed."
Windows 7: Good Prospects in Europe
AT&T cuts churn rate; Activates 3.2 million iPhones; Touts network upgrades

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