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Because the most exciting thing you can do when you go somewhere is to check-in with Foursquare.

AT&T Says Loss of iPhone Exclusivity Won’t Affect Earnings

In a Friday 10-Q filing, AT&T assured investors that the termination of any handset exclusivity agreement (especially that itsy bitsy deal with Apple) will not have a “material negative impact” on earnings.

Good luck with that.

YC-Funded Whereoscope Gives Parents An Easy Way To Track Where Their Kids Are

Whereoscope consists of an iPhone application that runs in the background (you’ll need iOS 4, which enabled background apps). During an initial setup process, you designate a handful of key locations, or geofences, that your children often visit — their school, home, a best friend’s house, etc. You can elect to receive a push notification whenever your child leaves or arrives at one of these areas. Your child doesn’t have to actually do anything to check in, so there’s nothing for them to forget. And, if your child were to “accidentally” disable the application, Whereoscope can send you a warning giving you a heads up.

It does come with one caveat for now, though: the current system requires that both the parent and the child be using iPhones running iOS 4

Parenting in the digital age. Instead of calling to check up on your daughter, you can just find out her exact location. Well, her phone’s exact location.

Apple Patents Direct Copy of Existing 3rd Party App Screen

Google, Verizon Look to Sabotage Net Neutrality with Deal

Google and Verizon are said to be “nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are willing to pay for the privilege,” according to an article yesterday in the New York Times. The move would allow companies like Google-owned YouTube to pay to ensure that its content “received priority as it made its way to consumers” and “could eventually lead to higher charges for Internet users.”

“Do No Evil” eh?

Employee Fired for Refusing to Disclose Weight

UK Government Won’t Upgrade Browsers Because It Costs So Much.

The UK government is not yet interested in ditching Internet Explorer 6, saying the costs required to do so outweigh the benefits. Six months ago, an online petition started in hopes that the UK would abolish all use of the world’s most-loathed browser.

The true reason the UK government doesn’t want to upgrade becomes clear in the last paragraph of [the speech]. It doesn’t want to spend the money:…

I guess the gulf isn’t the only thing that the British are going to have breached this year.

Kid Gives Friend Chicken Nuggets; Friend Arrested for Theft

Google Dump Wave – Hooks Up with New Project

But despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects.

I guess Google got fed up with Wave and wanted to move onto the next hot project. What are they going to tell the children?

Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images

For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.”

Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all.

If anyone read the above paragraph and had a hint of shock or surprise come over them, they need to read the news more often.