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<title><![CDATA[AG wants answers on tracking from Apple, Google]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Citing a need to protect consumers' personal information online, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is calling for a meeting with executives from Apple and Google to get more details on what the companies are doing with location information collected from consumer devices.In a statement posted to Madigan's site and picked up by Reuters, letters from Madigan have been sent to both companies asking about what data is being kept and for how long. The attorney general also seeks to find out what that data is being used for. &quot;I want to know whether consumers have been informed of what is being tracked and stored by Apple and Google and whether those tracking and storage features can be disabled,&quot; Madigan said in a statement. &quot;It's important that these companies ensure that their users' private information is protected.&quot;Madigan's efforts join those of other politicians and government groups who want to know more about what companies are doing with location information. Shortly following the onset last week of the iOS location controversy, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) sent a letter to Apple chiding the company for not encrypting location information that was stored locally on iPhones, as well as in iOS device backups. Congressman Ed Markey, who along with Rep. Joe Barton inquired about location privacy to Apple last year, followed suit, sending another letter (PDF) asking the company to explain what the data was being used for. There's also a lawsuit by two Apple customers, filed today in Tampa, Fla. that claims Apple's tracking is a privacy invasion and an act of computer fraud.Interest in location privacy has picked up last week in light of a database file of timestamped location information found to be stored on certain iOS devices from Apple. The tracking file was a well-known feature in the forensics and law enforcement community, but Apple has now come under fire for not answering questions about why it's there, and why there's not a way to turn the feature off.Google has also become a target of interest for what it does with user location data retrieved from its Android mobile operating system, which already makes use of user location to better its services, such as providing more accurate traffic data to its Maps product. It remains to be seen whether companies like Microsoft, Research in Motion, and Nokia do similar things with user location data.Within Madigan's letters, which can be read in full below, the AG asks whether third parties are given location information, as well as if users on both platforms can opt out of the storage of the location data. In Apple's case, the question is posed as &quot;why didn't Apple provide customers with an opportunity to opt-out of the storage of this data&quot; Madigan also asks Apple if there's a &quot;mechanism whereby Apple customers can delete the information that has been stored,&quot; which is of special interest given some of the only tools that allow that have been targeted at those with jailbroken iPhones and iPads. Madigan's office is giving both companies until May 6 to respond. Madigan's letter to Apple:Apple 042511 Geolocation Ltr(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;)' scribd.type = &quot;text/javascript&quot;' scribd.async = true' scribd.src = &quot;http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js&quot;' var s = document.getElementsByTagName(&quot;script&quot;)[0]' s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s)' })()'Madigan's letter to Google:Google 042511 Geolocation Ltr(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;)' scribd.type = &quot;text/javascript&quot;' scribd.async = true' scribd.src = &quot;http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js&quot;' var s = document.getElementsByTagName(&quot;script&quot;)[0]' s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s)' })()'<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[An early look at Firefox 5]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nanoensure</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Mozilla starts on Firefox 5 designs (screenshots) Firefox 4 hasn't even been fully baked and served up yet, but that's not stopping Mozilla from pushing ahead with plans for Firefox 5. In this slideshow, we get a sense of some of the ideas that Mozilla is toying with for the next version of the browser, including Mozilla's version of Internet Explorer 9's pinned sites feature, a redesigned add-on updater workflow, and heavy promotion ofFirefox Sync.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Idapt launching 'green' device charger]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nanoensure</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS--Idapt's new i1 Eco universal charger can juice up a range of devices and in a way that's friendly to the environment.The i1 Eco(Credit:Idapt)Announced today at the Consumer Electronics Show, the i1 Eco includes both a USB port and a tip port with interchangeable tips. That helps the charger handle more than 4,000 devices, according to Idapt, including theiPhone andiPad, BlackBerry,Xbox controllers, Sony's PSP game console, and various GPS and Bluetooth gadgets. But it's the i1 Eco's greener features that Idapt is touting. The company says that the charger is made of recycled materials and is Energy Star compliant. Specifically, the i1 Eco tries to conserve power by automatically shutting itself off when not being used. It can recharge devices at home through a wall outlet or on the road via a car adapter. The product can also be recycled since no chemical paint is used to make it. The i1 Eco will be available for consumers this coming spring. No word yet on pricing. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Breath sensor could offer on-the-spot cancer report]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers say they've used nanoparticles to create a material sensitive enough to analyze a patient's breath in real time and detect indicators of cancer, diabetes, and other diseases.In a statement released today, scientists at Purdue University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology said that though diagnostic breath-analysis tools have been around for several decades, this is the first time a material has been developed that's sensitive enough to deliver on-the-spot results.&quot;We are talking about creating an inexpensive, rapid way of collecting diagnostic information about a patient,&quot; Carlos Martinez, an assistant professor of materials engineering at Purdue, said in the statement. &quot;It might say, '... you are metabolizing a specific compound indicative of this type of cancer,' and then additional, more complex tests could be conducted to confirm the diagnosis.&quot;These sorts of breath-analysis tools detect changes in electrical resistance or conductance as a gas--i.e., the patient's breath--passes over sensors. The changes can point to the presence of &quot;biomarkers,&quot; substances that serve as red flags for various ailments and physical conditions.The Purdue and NIST technologists basically produced a more effective sensor by increasing its surface area. They replaced a flat surface with a material created using a coating of metal oxide nanoparticles, which introduced lots of nooks and crannies, and made for an extremely porous metal-oxide film.Replacing a flat surface with a porous one lets researchers increase the &amp;34'active sensing surface area&amp;34' to improve sensitivity.(Credit:Purdue University and NIST)They then used the material to detect acetone, a biomarker for diabetes, in a gas that mimicked a person's breath. They were quickly able, they said, to pick up on biomarkers in the parts per billion to parts per million range--at least 100 times better than earlier breath-analysis tools.&quot;People have been working in this area for about 30 years but have not been able to detect low enough concentrations in real time,&quot; Martinez said. &quot;We solved that problem with the materials we developed, and we are now focusing on how to be very specific, how to distinguish particular biomarkers.&quot;&quot;The fact that we were able to do this in real time is a big step in the right direction,&quot; Martinez said, though tools like this for real-world use are likely a decade away, if not longer, in part because precise manufacturing standards haven't been developed for the new approach.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[YouTube: 35 hours of video uploaded every minute]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[This is YouTube's upload growth from June 2007 to October 2010.(Credit:YouTube)Just in case you had any doubts that YouTube was still growing, the folks over at Google have unleashed some stats to prove it.According to a company blog post yesterday, YouTube users upload about 35 hours of video to the site every minute. That means that about 50,400 hours are added every day. In comparison, that figures was 24 hours of video every minute back in March.YouTube attributes the growth to several factors. First, the company's decision to increase time limits from 10 minutes to 15 minutes per video has helped. It also pointed to the site's file size limit of 2GB. With the help of mobile phones, YouTube said that consumers are finding it relatively simple to quickly add videos to the site. It also doesn't hurt that &quot;more companies [are] integrating our APIs to support upload from outside of YouTube.com.&quot;In a report from August, market researcher ComScore noted that Google video sites, led by YouTube, served videos to more than 143 million unique viewers in July and had more than 1.8 billion viewing sessions. The average viewer spent 282.7 minutes--or more than 4 1/2 hours--watching YouTube videos during the month.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Heads Up, Home Design Freaks: Houzz Launches New iPad App, Raises&nbsp'$2M]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nanoensure</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Exclusive &amp;8211' Houzz, the impossibly named online home for home design enthusiasts (because they need their own special place on the Web, too), has raised a $2 million Series A round of funding from a number of notable investors. In conjunction with the financing announcement, the company has just pushed a completely new version of its iPad app onto the virtual App Store shelves (you can get it here, free of charge).All kidding aside, Houzz appears to be a decent idea that&amp;'s been executed well. In essence, Houzz is a photo database and community site specifically targeting home design fanatics, whether they&amp;'re enthusiastic about it from a professional or personal perspective. Already, Houzz claims to serve the largest collection of interior and exterior design photos currently available on the Web, with more than 60,000 high-quality photos contributed by more than 10,000 design professionals.It&amp;'s the Flickr tailored to the home design freaks, if you will.Users can collect their favorite photos and sort them by location, room type and style and also upload photos of their own homes and gardens. In addition, registered users can use Houzz to locate design professionals in their areas and exchange information and tips on home design with other members. A big part of the site&amp;'s appeal &amp;8211' if you fall within the company&amp;'s target audience, of course &amp;8211' are the ideabooks, which are (quite accurately) described by Houzz as the online version of cutting pages out of design magazines and stuffing them in a folder, only much easier to search, save, and share. The startup says more than 130,000 ideabooks have been created by users to date, and that new ideabooks are added every minute. Houzz, which was founded by an entrepreneurial husband-and-wife team (Alon Cohen and Adi Tatarko), has also just secured $2 million early-stage financing from a slew of notable backers. The angel investor roster includes people like Oren Zeev, who has invested in companies like Audible and Chegg' Donald Katz, founder &amp;amp' CEO of Audible.com' Gary Ginsberg, Executive VP of Time Warner Inc.' Jeff Fluhr, co-founder of StubHub.com (and CEO until its sale to eBay) and Amos Wilnai, founder of MMC Networks. CrunchBase InformationHouzzInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Foursquare&'s so hard to pin down]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[What is FoursquareCEO and founder Dennis Crowley offered at least a half-dozen different definitions of the location-based service in an on-stage interview with AllThingsD&amp;'s Kara Swisher today.Fundamentally, Foursquare is a service that allows users to announce their whereabouts to friends online by checking in to a location, and in the process it lets users earn forms of virtual recognition, like badges, points, and mayorships, titles earned through frequent check-ins.&amp;''Where are you going with this&amp;'' Swisher asked Crowley at D: Dive Into Mobile, a conference the News Corp.-affiliated journalist is running in San Francisco. &amp;''I don&amp;'t know,&amp;'' he admitted. &amp;''As the product matures, the paths will become clearer.&amp;''Foursquare recently raised $20 million in a round led by the venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, at a valuation of roughly $100 million. But it&amp;'s not clear &amp;8212' even according to Crowley &amp;8212' what they put their money into.Here are a few of the definitions Crowley offered: Foursquare is a &amp;''social utility that intersects with the real world.&amp;'' It&amp;'s a &amp;''crowdsourced city guide.&amp;'' It&amp;'s a &amp;''stats engine.&amp;''Using Foursquare, in perhaps Crowley&amp;'s most tenuous metaphor, is like &amp;''pulling a lever on a slot machine,&amp;'' referring to the uncertainty of whether a user might earn a badge, a mayorship, or another reward from checking in.He also suggested that Foursquare could offer coupons for local businesses in a manner similar to Groupon, or even help Groupon make its deals more interesting.Swisher asked Crowley if Foursquare, which has attracted acquisition interest from Facebook and Yahoo, will be independent in five years. Crowley was vague in his answer, saying he and his team just wanted to build the local products they&amp;'d been thinking about: &amp;''If we&amp;'re independent, so be it.&amp;''All that uncertainty may be part of Foursquare&amp;'s appeal to Sand Hill Road&amp;'s starry-eyed investors, though. One venture capitalist&amp;'s uncertainty is another&amp;'s potential. And as long as Crowley can keep spinning tales of Foursquare&amp;'s many possible futures, they&amp;'ll keep knocking.Next Story: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested, refused bail Previous Story: Zynga launches rewards program with CitiPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: check-ins, D: Dive Into Mobile, location, location-based servicedCompanies: FoursquarePeople: Dennis Crowley, Kara Swisher          Tags: check-ins, D: Dive Into Mobile, location, location-based servicedCompanies: FoursquarePeople: Dennis Crowley, Kara SwisherOwen Thomas is the executive editor of VentureBeat.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Best Buy offering free iPhone 3GS with contract today]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Now here&amp;'s a way to build some quick publicity (and quickly clear out some old stock). Best Buy will be offering the 8-gigabyte iPhone 3GS for free with a two-year AT&amp;amp'T contract later today (December 10), Engadget reports.The deal, which will only last one day, certainly isn&amp;'t meant for smartphone power users. The iPhone 3GS is one generation behind the iPhone 4. And with 8-gigabytes of storage on board, it&amp;'s not going to be the best option for storing your music collection and having room left over for taking photos and videos. But still &amp;8212' it&amp;'s a free iPhone!The deal follows Radio Shack&amp;'s offer of the first iPhone sale in history &amp;8212' $50 off the 16GB and 32GB iPhone 4 (and a mere $49 for the 8GB iPhone 3GS). Radio Shack&amp;'s deal ends December 11.There&amp;'s a lot we can read into Best Buy&amp;'s offer. Sure, the retailer could just be looking to spice up sales leading up to the holidays. It could also potentially make a killing off accessories from customers overjoyed with their shiny free iPhone. But it also seems clear that Best Buy is clearing out its stock for something, and that could very well be the Verizon iPhone.Previous Story: Intel chips headed to 35 tablets, &amp;''premiere&amp;'' smartphones vendors, in 2011PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: free, iOS, iPhone, iPhone 3GS, sale, smartphonesCompanies: Apple, AT&amp;amp'T, Best Buy          Tags: free, iOS, iPhone, iPhone 3GS, sale, smartphonesCompanies: Apple, AT&amp;amp'T, Best BuyDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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