Yet another tech company is in hot water over its use of geo-location. This time, it’s Microsoft. Seattle-based law firm filed suit against the company alleging that the Camera application on the Windows Phone 7 sends out user information—even when the person has not given the app permission to do so. READ MORE
Web 2.0 is fully upon us. But many are asking, What’s next? The New York Times might have an answer: In a prelude of things to come, the Times has released an interesting semantic web experiment called Longitude. READ MORE
The internet’s potential as an educational tool has been apparent as long as the internet has been around. The problem, of course, is that unfettered access to the internet is hardly conducive to structured in-classroom learning. READ MORE
Those looking to photo-bomb Google’s Street View will have a bit farther to travel: the 360-degree panoramic mapping service is heading for the Amazon river. READ MORE
Facebook is throwing in the towel on daily deals only four months after stepping into the arena. “After testing Deals for four months, we’ve decided to end our Deals product in the coming weeks,” the company said in a statement to reporters on Friday. “We’ve learned a lot from our test and we’ll continue to evaluate how to best serve local businesses.” READ MORE
During the “Arab spring” uprisings, the West decried the ruling regimes’ practice of shutting down or severely limiting protesters’ access to social media. But that’s exactly what the U.K. government recently proposed: to ban social media during times of “civil unrest, disorder, or rioting.” However, after high-level talks with companies such as Research in Motion, Twitter, and Facebook, they are doing a quick about-face. READ MORE
Having customers check in at a location via Foursquare or some other such service is so 2010. That’s the message from start-ups DailyGobble and RewardLoop, both of which use customer receipts rather than check-ins to give diners or shoppers rewards. READ MORE
IPhone users may soon have even more reason to think that their devices are more interesting than the world around them. Apple is working on investing its smartphone with powers of navigational augmented reality, which seems to mean that the phones will now have a uber-distracting GPS system. What this product may look like and when Apple may release it is more or less speculation at this point. A patent application for these capabilities appeared on Patently Apple last week. READ MORE
Foursquare, the mobile check-in application, is adding event check-ins for movies, concerts, and sporting events. Now, a sports fans checking in at Yankee Stadium will also post information about what game he or she is at. If Foursquare could only add virtual heckling capabilities for when the Red Sox are in town, then we’d be talking. The company has partnered with ESPN, Movietickets.com, and Songkick for event information. READ MORE
We’ve all heard stories about the friend or uncle or co-worker who could have invested in, say, Apple long before the company hit big–the sad tales of missed opportunity and phantom millions. What’s it like, though, for the angel investors and venture capitalists who have the same would-have-could-have-should-have regrets about some of the most recognizable start-ups in the tech universe? Business Insider decided to ask eleven otherwise successful investors all about it. READ MORE
