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7 Degrees is a start-up company that builds social business applications. One of their flagship products is called PeopleMaps. 7 Degrees has raised $6.8 million in Series B funding from Rho Ventures, vSpring Capital, and Parkview Ventures. The company has raised a total of $8 million thus far.

7 Degrees started in 2007 and launched PeopleMaps in October 2009. PeopleMaps allows professionals to find out how they are connected to people or companies.

7 Degrees searches connects all of your contacts from Microsoft Outlook, Facebook, LinkedIn, Gmail, and Yahoo! It also searches the Internet for public information. The engine uses “connection paths” to determine how you are connected to other contacts or companies. 7 Degrees is based in Utah and is led by CEO Timothy Sheehan.

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Microsoft and Apple have long had a rivalry which shouldn’t come as a surprise considering both companies produce desktop/laptop operating systems with Windows 7 and Mac OS X, respectively.

Apple, in particular, has been known to be quite selective when choosing which devices are capable of syncing with their machines. In fact, iTunes is pretty much capable of syncing with only iDevices such as the iPod, iPad and iPhone.

However, those looking to pick up a Windows Phone 7 powered device need not be alarmed. It was recently announced by Microsoft head-honcho Steve Ballmer that software will be made available that will allow consumers to sync their Windows Phone 7 powered smart phones with Mac OS X powered computers. This is great news as it would be quite the annoyance if a Windows Phone 7 powered device would only be sync-able with a Windows powered computer – but not entirely unexpected considering the above mentioned rivalry.

via engadget

Microsoft is looking to make a hard comeback in the mobile world with their forthcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile platform. In the past we’ve said we won’t know how the platform stacks up against the competition until some of the devices are outed. Well, if you’ve been paying attention, you’ll know that ust afew days ago Microsoft came forth to show us their whole line up of device. One of these devices was the HTC HD7 Pro.

The HTC HD7 Pro features a 4.3-inch touchscreen, a 1GHz processor, 576MB of RAM, a 5 megapixel camera capable of recording 720p HD video and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. While we aren’t exactly sure when we will see the HD7 Pro hit store shelves, it has been made known today that the device will be making its way to Europe early next year.

Of all the devices that Microsoft showed off to run Windows Phone 7, I think the HTC HD7 was one of the nicest looking. What do you guys think?

via slashgear

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The US Patent and Trademark Office approved a patent that Apple filed in 2008 which can prevent users from sending or receiving “objectionable” text messages.

In other words, it is designed to prevent “sexting”. Here is what my Source says that it really does:

In one embodiment, the control application includes a parental control application. The parental control application evaluates whether or not the communication contains approved text based on, for example, objective ratings criteria or a user’s age or grade level, and, if unauthorized, prevents such text from being included in the text-based communication.

If the control contains unauthorized text, the control application may alert the user, the administrator or other designated individuals of the presence of such text. The control application may require the user to replace the unauthorized text or may automatically delete the text or the entire communication.

So is this going to be the end of texting? Perhaps on the iPhone. That, or iPhone users will find a way around it.

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