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Supreme Court unanimously rules warrants required for GPS tracking
Posted from VentureBeat 4 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
It looks like the law has caught up with technological change. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that a search warrant is required if law enforcement agencies want to track a vehicle through the global positioning system (GPS). The decision means that computer age advances won’t trump ... (original story)
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Anonymous wants to shut down Facebook on Jan. 28
Posted from VentureBeat 4 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
Anonymous is planning another attack on Facebook, and this time they want your help. “While SOPA and PIPA may be postponed from congress, this does not guarantee that our Internet rights will be upheld,” said an Anonymous member in a dramatic YouTube video proposing the take-down. Last w... (original story)
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Fantage recruits schools one by one for kids online virtual learning world
Posted from VentureBeat 4 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
With more than 16 million registered users, Fantage is one of the rare successes among startups focusing on kids virtual worlds. The Fort Lee, N.J.-based company has created a world where kids can chat, play mini games, and engage in activities such as virtual fashion shows. Now the company is shif... (original story)
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Intel buys QLogic’s Infiniband networking business for $125M
Posted from VentureBeat 4 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
Intel announced today it is to acquire the InfiniBand networking business from QLogic for $125 million in cash. The acquisition is a bid by Intel to increase its share of the high-performance computing market. Infiniband is a fabric technology, or one that can connect speedy computers and other devi... (original story)
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Google+ Hangout with Obama planned for Jan. 30
Posted from VentureBeat 4 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
In what might be the biggest promotion yet for the Google+ social network, President Obama will be participating in a Google+ Hangout and answering questions submitted via YouTube on Jan. 30. While there’s been some controversy over forced registrations for Google’s social network and m... (original story)
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Net Optics wants to be Apple of the enterprise, buys TripleLayer & nMetrics (exclusive)
Posted from VentureBeat 4 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
Net Optics, a company that lets you listen in on your network activity, has acquired TripleLayer and nMetrics in an effort to create more easily-installed products in an anything but user-friendly industry. “We adopted the use of a product kind of like Apple,” said Net Optics chief execu... (original story)
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Absinthe jailbreak for iPhone 4S, iPad 2 saw 1M first day downloads
Posted from VentureBeat 4 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
Proving that anticipation was exceptionally high for a full iPhone 4S jailbreak, the folks behind the Absinthe jailbreaking tool report that it received over 1 million downloads within its first 24 hours. Even more impressive, the number only includes downloads for the Mac version of Absinthe, as th... (original story)
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Google+ is now allowing nicknames, pseudonyms & more
Posted from VentureBeat 4 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
Google+ is now allowing users to bring their nicknames, pseudonyms, and other identities onto the social service. Up until now, Google+ users were supposed to only use their given-by-their-parents-on-a-birth-certificate names, which might have worked well for a lot of normal social-web users accusto... (original story)
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Add VentureBeat to your Google+ Circles
Posted from VentureBeat 4 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
VentureBeat has officially made its debut on Google+! We’ve taken our time to curate a Google+ page that offers you the latest and greatest VentureBeat posts throughout the day. Add VentureBeat to your circles and we’ll keep you updated with everything that’s happening in the tech... (original story)
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Google+ introduces new Q&A feature for crowdsourcing answers from friends
Posted from VentureBeat 4 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
Google has taken social interaction with your friends to another level. The search engine giant has introduced a new Google+ feature that allows you to ask friends about your search results. Google is testing the new “Ask on Google+” feature, which pops up at the bottom of your search results. C... (original story)
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