Booting Up: Terms on Service on Your Terms Edition

The cost of Google’s purchase of Frommer’s is said to be $23 million. At that price, how could they not buy

Should’ve read the terms of service.

The cost of Google (GOOGL)’s purchase of Frommer’s is said to be $23 million. At that price, how could they not buy it? [New York Times]

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At last, a service that flags troublesome clauses lurking deep within those terms of service agreements you don’t read. No longer need you fear becoming part of a human CentiPad. [TechCrunch]

The latest addition to Facebook (META)’s timeline: “Expecting a Baby.” The Unbaby.me folks are going to love this. [Facebook]

The Pentagon is testing “hypersonic” flight technology that makes the Concorde (R.I.P.) look lame. Try New York to London in an hour. You can’t even get to Bay Ridge that fast. [CNN]

In the future, we will all telecommute via iPads on wheels with giraffe-like necks. [The Verge]

Booting Up: Terms on Service on Your Terms Edition