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Boingo Wireless Gets Patent

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Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless , which operates an international network of Wi-Fi access points, said today that it has been awarded its first patent, covering a method for accessing networks by a mobile device. The firm said the patent, No. 7,483,984 was issued by the United State Patent and Trademark Office.

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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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Aber Whitcomb is a partner at startup co-working and incubation community io/LA , CTO of SGN , and former co-founder and CTO of MySpace. We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. Or Tapes and CDs?

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. Take electricity as an input and through a process called ultrasonic transduction to convert it to a soundwave that can be beamed from a transmitter to a sleeve on your mobile phone that would use and ultrasound receiver to convert it back to electricity and charge your phone.

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How Beatshare Is Tackling Music And Messaging

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Orange County startup Beatshare --backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Harvard Business School Angels, and Archangels, among others�thinks it's figured out the formula to make music the message in its mobile app. Photo: Barry Lieberman, President and COO; Eli Aizenstat, Founder & CEO; and Rob Patrick, CTO).

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

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Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. "We are doing something in mobile advertising." Some resources on this: Intellectual Property is More Than Patents Does My Startup Have Intellectual Property? " Ummm. "Good luck with that."

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

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Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. "We are doing something in mobile advertising." Some resources on this: Intellectual Property is More Than Patents Does My Startup Have Intellectual Property? " Ummm. "Good luck with that."

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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We have a lot of proprietary technology which we have developing with these phone numbers, including a way to identify attributes of a telephone number before our clients accept a particular user, for example, when someone is going to register with them. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved. It's been fantastic.