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Boingo’s already extensive Wi-Fi hotspot network is about to get a little bigger (and perhaps a little greasier). The Wi-Fi aggregator has signed a deal with The Wendy’s Company to install and manage access points in its US and Canadian restaurants. There are about 6000 Wendy’s locations in North America, but they won’t all...
In the aftermath of SOPA, the people sent Congress back to the drawing board on Internet legislation. Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) introduced his AppRights.us initiative Thursday, a crowd-sourced Congressional effort to “consult the folks who use the Internet before we regulate it.” AppRights.us begins from the premise that consumer privacy and control of data...
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If you think that there’s nothing of any value coming out of the fly-over states, you couldn’t be more wrong. The “Silicon Prairie” is filled with companies that are doing huge projects and the world is starting to notice. In honor of that, our friends over at Silicon Prairie News have facilitated the Silicon...
What do Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, celebrity Ashton Kutcher and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt all have in common? Their funds have all put money into a round for a startup called Getaround, which enables users to share their personal cars with other users. The emerging sector is called a variety of things like...
You’ll just have to forgive LinkedIn workers for feeling super, super stoked about working at the professional social network right now—especially the youngest, newest ones. Check out these charming and talented LinkedIn interns doing a riff on Fun’s “We Are Young,” full of nerdy programmer jokes (GitHub repos, anyone?) and references to LinkedIn’s hot-selling...
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Today’s failure in the Senate to end debate on the latest cybersecurity bill and bring it to a final vote will likely mean no action on the issue until next year. And the debate over how government agencies should share critical security information with private software and services firms has resulted in splits in...