Court Rules Government Must Get Warrant to Access Cell Phone Location Data
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According to the EFF, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled that federal law allows judges the discretion to require that the government obtain a probable cause search warrant before accessing cell phone location data.
Reuters reports that the U.S. Justice Department is looking into Google's acquisition of ITA software. Google made it pretty clear from the beginning that it expected heavy scrutiny.
PayPal expects to be a significant part of paying for video content streamed to televisions. In a post on the company blog today, PayPal VP of Global Product Strategy, Sam Shrauger, says, "We're sure that PayPal will play an important role in removing the friction and letting consumers enjoy their TV and movies, where and when they want."
Google has been displaying a unique logo today, which breaks apart and moves when you point your mouse to it. You can't click on it for an explanation, but some have speculated its related to Google's birthday. The company tweeted this today:
Boisterous doodle today. Maybe it's excited about the week ahead...Tue Sep 07 18:04:11 via Tap11
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CNET points to an announcement from Microsoft "top game employee" Andre Vrignaud that he will be heading to Amazon. Don Reisinger says this feeds speculation that Amazon is planning a gaming push.
Mapquest has added some new functionality to its iPhone app, which lets the user rotate the phone and the map along with it. "In our continued quest to be your mapping service of choice on iPhone, your wish is our command. In other words, with this update, when you start navigation the top of your map will no longer always be North," explains Mapquest's Michael Iams. "So, if you’re headed SW, the top of the map will be SW (see image on left) allowing your position icon (waving man, dog cow, car, hand dog, etc) to now travel along the road in the same way you do."
TechCrunch reports that Digg VP of Engineering John Quinn has been let go after three years due to Digg's implementation of Database Cassandra, which has apparently contributed to the new version of the site going down repeatedly.
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Wetpaint Launches Content Network for TV Fans
Wetpaint is launching a new content network of 15 sites, dedicated to popular television shows. "Wetpaint has created a sophisticated prescriptive publishing system that taps into trending data, commentary, tweets, Facebook comments, forum topics ...
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Facebook Testing Feature That Would Make it More Valuable for Search
AllFacebook has discovered that Facebook is now testing showing all liked news articles in its search results. This would obviously be a significant move as the company competes with Google. Nick O'Neill writes: Additionally, the results for searches n...
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Apple’s Ping Draws a Great Deal of Criticism
Apple's Ping social network, which the company launched as part of the new iTunes 10, has drawn a big mix of excitement and criticism. While most seem to agree that the concept beind Ping is a pretty good idea (social network-meets-music-buying) it's n...
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Twitter CEO Talks Stats, Ecosystem, Hints at New Features
Twitter CEO Evan Williams revealed some numbers about Twitter usage on the company blog, while talking about how the Twitter ecosystem (of third-party developers and apps) continues to play an important role in the company's success. Twitter has over 1...
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Facebook Tests Subscriptions, Will Launch Remote Log-Out
Facebook is testing a feature that lets users "subscribe" to other users. Nick O'Neill at AllFacebook shares an official statement from Facebook: "This feature is being tested with a small percent of users. It lets people subscribe to fr...
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Just How Concerned with Privacy Are Facebook Users?
PeopleBrowsr shared a rather interesting report with us this week, looking at privacy related tweets during the center of this year's Facebook "privacy storm." The firm studied the public's reaction to Facebook's open graph-related announceme...
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Google, Facebook and Boxee Respond to Apple
Update 2: Swisher reports that Facebook blocked API access to Ping after failing to strike an agreement with Apple, so Apple removed the feature after launch. She credits "sources familiar with Facebook's platform" with this information. ...
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Does Facebook Face A Google-Like Issue With "Like Farms" and "Like Buying"?
Facebook may be going through some of the growing pains that Google went through earlier in its life. Google has always had to deal with link farms and link buying, polluting its search results, and has gotten better and better at keeping this under co...
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Twitter Releases its iPad App with iPad-Specific Features
Twitter has launched its official iPad app. There's a bit more to this than the standard mobile Twitter app. "Twitter for iPad takes advantage of the iPad's fluid touch interface, letting you move lots of information around smoothly and quickly ...
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Implications of New Gowalla Feature, Facebook Gift Cards
Gowalla has launched a new feature called "highlights" which it describes as "little rewards you can give to places that are important to your life". MG Siegler talks about the potential significance of such a feature. "Where ...
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Madden NFL Superstars Launches On Facebook
Electronic Arts has launched Madden NFL Superstars on Facebook that allows users to create their own fantasy team by collecting NFL players and competing in matchups with their friends. “Each day on consoles, fans are playing as many games onli...
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Booyah Utilizes Facebook Places for Standalone App
Booyah, makers of the check-in app/game MyTown, have unveiled a new game today, and it is is the first standalone app to utilize the recently launched Facebook Places API. "In addition to being the first app built exclusively for Facebook Places...
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Target To Start Selling Facebook Credits Gift Cards
Target said today it will be the first retailer to sell Facebook Credits gift cards at all of its 1,743 stores and on Target.com beginning September 5. Facebook Credits gift cards will be available in increments of $15, $25 and $50. Facebook says it...
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Greplin is Real Personalized Search
There's a new kind of personalized, social search available that may trump any effort we've seen from Google to date in this corner of search. Greplin is a new site that searches through "all your online data in one place, really fast" - or...
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