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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[iOS 5 beta jailbroken in less than 24 hours]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A shot of an iPod Touch with what is purportedly a jailbroken version of iOS 5.(Credit:Twitpic)The next major version of Apple's iOS has been exploited less than a day after its beta release to developers.A member of theiPhone Dev Team--a group of hackers that targets Apple devices and is not to be confused with Apple's group that designs the iOS software--announced through a tweet last night that the developer beta release of iOS 5 was susceptible to limera1n, an exploit that targets a vulnerability in the iOS boot software. As a result, iPhone Dev Team member &quot;MuscleNerd&quot; said that it was possible to install third-party application installer Cydia, which lets users download applications not offered through Apple's App Store. The device used was a fourth-generationiPod Touch running the beta of iOS 5, software Apple offered up to developers following yesterday's WWDC keynote address and iOS 5 unveiling.For proof, MuscleNerd has posted two photos of the jailbreak, one of which includes the iPod's home screen, which prominently feature the Cydia logo. Another is a screenshot from the third-party SSH iOS application, iSSH, which shows that root level access to the iPod's file system has been obtained.As ReadWriteWeb notes, the jailbreak technique that was used results in a tethered solution, meaning users are required to go through the process each time their phone reboots. The more advanced solution--and what has been offered for previous versions of iOS--is untethered, which sticks around until the next software update from Apple is manually applied.That Apple's brand new iOS build would be jailbroken so soon should not be too surprising. The gold master version of iOS 4, which was the same version of the software to ship on the iPhone 4, as well as to be delivered to customers as an update, was jailbroken a day after its release to developers. Apple has said it intends to release a final version of iOS 5 to customers this fall. In the meantime, it's offering registered iOS developers a crack at testing out the software and working on making sure apps are compatible with its new features and APIs. When readying iOS 4 for customers, it took Apple four separate beta builds for developers before reaching golden master status and a final release. During that time, numerous changes are made, including bug and security fixes, giving Apple time to fix vulnerabilities ahead of a public release. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[iAd advertisers scale back on apps for kids]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=iad-advertisers-scale-back-on-apps-for-kids</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 07:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>svetalapp</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Dex, an app affected by advertisers on Apple&amp;39's iAd platform.(Credit:ClickableBliss)Advertisers participating in Apple's iAd platform appear to be going for a slightly older demographic, a move that's affected revenues for several developers with ad-supported games aimed at kids.As picked up by MacStories, developer Michael Zornek, who makes Dex--a Pokemon-themed application--recently noticed a sharp drop-off in fill rate, or the percentage of ad requests that actually produce ads when they're called for by an application. Over the weekend, for instance, Zornek saw that rate drop down to zero. Curious about the drop, Zornek e-mailed Apple's iAd support and was told advertisers had withdrawn from apps aimed at young children.&quot;We periodically review the apps in the iAd Network to ensure that all apps receiving ads are aligned with the needs of our advertisers,&quot; a reply from Apple's iAd support said. &quot;Currently, our advertisers prefer that their advertising not appear in applications that are targeted for users that are young children, since their products are not targeted at that audience.&quot;Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr confirmed to CNET that it was the company's policy to keep iAds off apps targeted at children. &quot;We pulled iAds from this app,&quot; Neumayr said. &quot;Our policy is that we don't serve iAd into apps for kids.&quot; In a post about the matter on Zornek's blog, the developer says he's peeved that Apple did not alert him, and others with children's apps, to let them know about the changes. He's since removed iAds from the app entirely, and now uses Google-owned AdMob along with an in-app purchase option that buyers can use to get rid of advertising entirely. The change has also kept him from including iAds in one of his upcoming iOS apps.&quot;Today was another harsh reminder weiPhone developers are making a living at the beck and whim of a powerful platform vendor,&quot; Zornek wrote. &quot;Be careful putting all your eggs in his basket.&quot;Other developers are in the same boat. Bram Stolk, who has a number of iOS applications, including ones aimed at kids, found that his game Jump Daisy Jump sank down to a zero percent fill rate. Oddly enough, this was after e-mailing Apple's iAd support about the fact that his &quot;regular&quot; game title The Little Crane That Could was down at a zero percent fill rate, while Jump Daisy Jump continued to hover around 15 percent. &quot;For five days or so, they had it the wrong way around: Daisy still got the ads, Little Crane did not,&quot; Stolk wrote in an e-mail to CNET. &quot;I did reply to Apple's boiler plate e-mail yesterday, so I wonder if that triggered the fix. In any case, I had not heard back from them.&quot;Stolk said he understood the pullback of advertising for kids, but found the implementation to be less sound.&quot;I wonder if Little Crane got designated 'for kids' purely on the title alone. Nothing I spec'd could have caused this designation, other than that it does not contain sex nor violence,&quot; Stolk said.Apple launched its iAds platform last year to go head-on with Google and other companies in the mobile advertising space. CEO Steve Jobs positioned it as an ad platform that would be easier for developers to implement inside their applications and that users would find more compelling than what was currently available. The platform specifically offered ads that would send users outside of an application, giving developers a way to maintain the integrity of the app experience without making concessions on when and where ads could appear.Since launch, the iAd platform has moved beyond the iPhone and onto the iPad, as well as expanded internationally. Apple has also created entire applications to demonstrate its capabilities, as well as some of the existing campaigns on the service.Updated at 4:04 p.m. PT with comment from Apple.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kevin Rose resigns from Digg]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>svetalapp</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rose has left Digg, the news aggregation site he founded in 2004, after a few months of uncertainty over his role in the company.Rose has begun working on a separate startup that is already close to completing an initial round of funding, according to TechCrunch. Rose launched Digg in 2004. He always shied away from being a direct leader of Digg, instead hiring Jay Adelson (who later got the boot) and most recently Amazon.coma4a4s Matt Williams to run the company.Digg decided to remake the site and kill a number of features, leading to a mass exodus of its users to competing news aggregation site Reddit. Traffic research company Quantcast indicates that Digg now has 8.2 million unique visitors, down from nearly 16 million unique visitors in August before the latest version of Digg was released. Reddit boasts nearly 14 million unique visitors, according to the numbers it released today.Part of the reason Digg began to stagnate was because of poor strategic decisions during the height of the recession. Rose said he would have hired additional engineers to handle implementing new advertising features instead of reallocating engineers to other tasks, like sustaining revenue.Google considered buying the news aggregator in 2008 for around $200 million, but the search giant walked away from the deal at the last minute. Google did not consider the team at Digg a good fit for Google after interviewing each employee individually, making it cut the deal short.Since then, Rose was less of a direct leader of the site and more of an adviser. That didna4a4t stop him from intervening in the sitea4a4s activities from time to time a4&quot;such as asking his Twitter followers whether or not the site should bring back its a4Aburya4 function, which pushes submitted links out of sight if they are unpopular enough.The San Francisco, Calif.-based company has raised around $40 million to date.Previous Story: Angry Birds maker may go public in the coming yearsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: bury, news aggregation, news aggregator, Social MediaCompanies: digg, RedditPeople: Kevin Rose          Tags: bury, news aggregation, news aggregator, Social MediaCompanies: digg, RedditPeople: Kevin RoseMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat 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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