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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[FTC looking into Apple's in-app purchasing policy]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wanabbugtae</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[iPad and iPhone apps aimed at kids are now the subject of a review by the FTC.(Credit:James Martin/CNET)The Federal Trade Commission will review how Apple markets games with in-app purchases, but not for the reason you may think.Apple introduced a controversial policy for developers last week when it said that it would take a 30 percent cut of revenue generated from subscription publishing apps that included in-app purchases. Apple also said it would only accept apps whose subscription offers through its iOS app are consistent with the lowest price offered by the publisher elsewhere. The U.S. Department of Justice said last week it would take a look at Apple's policy, but stopped short of launching any kind of formal inquiry.Today FTC Chairman John Leibowitz wrote a letter to Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) saying he would review the way Apple is marketing in-app purchases, in particular apps aimed at children, according to The Washington Post. Last week the Post reported on parents having to pay massive bills generated by their children making purchases within apps. Children are able to buy items within games that cost real money without fully understanding what they're doing, the report asserts.In portions of the letter published by the Post, Leibowitz wrote to Markey, &quot;We fully share your concern that consumers, particularly children, are unlikely to understand the ramifications of these types of purchases...Let me assure you we will look closely at the current industry practice with respect to the marketing and delivery of these types of applications.&quot;Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tap That App takes on Android security]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wanabbugtae</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<title><![CDATA[Google lets users bill Android app purchases to their AT&038'T accounts]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wanabbugtae</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Applications purchased on the Android Marketplace for phones running Google&amp;'s Android mobile operating system can now be charged to AT&amp;amp'T phone accounts and paid for whenever users pay their bill normally.The change could help application developers by making it a little easier to pay for an app and get it as quickly as possible. iPhone users link credit cards to their iTunes accounts and are able to purchase an app by basically pressing their screen once. Google earlier relied on Google Checkout to purchase applications, whichturned some people off from buying applications.Google is promoting the new option as a way to help solve the nightmare  that is application discovery on the Android Marketplace. There are more than 100,000 applications on the Android Marketplace today.That makes it incredibly difficult to find a new applications. Google also recentlyrevamped its Android Market app to make it easier to browse through applications and discover new ones.It&amp;'s also a good boost for carrier billing evangelists. Carrier billing has become a little more popular as a way to encourage people to purchase new applications by making it easier to do so. There are also a number of companies that want to rely on carrier billing for everyday things and microtransactions and kill off credit cards and other forms of payment, like Boku and Zong.At least a few people a4&quot; investing titan Marc Andreessen included a4&quot; want to consolidate their spending activities to their phone and kill off credit cards and cash. There are a number of ways to go about doing that, like adding a new way of using transaction provider PayPal. Carrier billing is another way.Google earlier enabled carrier billing for apps on the Android Marketplace on T-Mobile around the same time last year. Android users on Verizon are still out of luck, as carrier billing hasn&amp;'t been enabled on that service provider yet. The Android developer blog didn&amp;'t say when a4&quot; or even if a4&quot; Verizon would enable carrier billing, but it said that Google would continue to work with carriers to help ease purchasing on the Android Marketplace.Next Story: Linden Lab gets second new CEO of the year for Second Life Previous Story: 2011 Fisker Karma &amp;8216'final pricing&amp;' goes up again, to $95,900PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: app discovery, carrier billingCompanies: AT&amp;amp'T, Google, T MobilePeople: Marc Andreessen          Tags: app discovery, carrier billingCompanies: AT&amp;amp'T, Google, T MobilePeople: Marc AndreessenMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.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[Projects in 2010 took aim at cleantech&'s chicken-and-egg dilemma]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wanabbugtae</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Green technologies can face expensive and complicated chicken-and-egg questions when it comes to infrastructure. Which comes first, the electric car or the charging station The wind farm or the transmission lines There have been some notable efforts this year by companies to take the first leap. Here are a couple worth watching in 2011:Electric cars vs. public charging infrastructure &amp;8212' Electric cars for the masses are arriving. The Nissan Leaf and partially electric Chevrolet Volt already arrived as of December. Other models from Ford and Toyota are coming within the next year or two, along with releases from Tesla, Coda, Wheego and Think. Advocates argue that the cars will be fine without public charging stations thanks to home charging, while skeptics say sales will be stunted by leery customers until charging infrastructure is built out. Companies like Ecotality and Coulomb are currently rolling out about 20,000 chargers nationwide with the aid of Department of Energy funds. Power plant company NRG Energy has also launched a privately financed charging system in Houston, Tex. with various charging plans.Atlantic Wind Connection &amp;8212' Trans-Elect is planning a transmission backbone that will run from New Jersey to Virginia to enable offshore wind on the Atlantic Coast. Google and Good Energies have taken majority stakes in the first phase of what is estimated to be a $5 billion project, whichseems to have gotten good feedback from the government and environmentalists. But is it too big a risk Wind expert and former Massachusetts assistant environmental secretary R.J. Lyman, who advocates for smaller wind projects, outlined the risks and rewards:&amp;''The Atlantic connection is an important contributor to some of the infrastructure challenges. That&amp;'s like building a highway out into the cornfields of Iowa and hoping that McDonalds and Walmart and homebuilders will build on the interchanges. It&amp;'s a big bet. Maybe they&amp;'re right. But they&amp;'ve never done anything anywhere near this scale. Their largest project was one-tenth a size of this but &amp;8230' you have to start somewhere.&amp;''Offshore wind &amp;8212' Offshore wind would solve a multitude of landbound wind farms&amp;' ills &amp;8212' wind is typically stronger and steadier offshore, and turbines could be located far enough out of sight to avoid complaints about marring the landscape. This isn&amp;'t quite an infrastructure project, but could spur them &amp;8212' the U.S. government is streamlining the permitting process for offshore wind development on the Outer Continental Shelf on the East Coast, which could provide more than 1,000 gigawatts in wind energy, according to Bloomberg.Biofuels stations &amp;8211' Clean-fuel company Propel announced plans to build 75 biofuel stations across California by 2011, thanks to $10.9 million in federal and state funding. The stations will sell E85 and biodiesel.Wind energy for the Southern U.S. &amp;8212' Pattern Energy is proposing a 400-mile transmission line to export wind from West Texas, which is the top wind-producing region in the country. If it&amp;'s successful, buildings in the Southeast could be wind-powered by 2016.Wind energy within Texas &amp;8212' Texas regulators have assigned $4.93 billion of transmission projects to transport wind from the West Texas and Panhandle regions to more highly populated areas like Dallas and Austin. The state&amp;'s Public Utility Commission says the projectswill eventually transmit 18,456 megawatts of wind power. Dallas utility Oncor is planning to build about 850 miles of transmission lines to transport wind from West Texas.[Image via Flickr/robstephaustralia]Next Story: Gain Fitness wants to start your gym resolution early Previous Story: The Resumator scores $100K to make hiring less of a chorePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Atlantic Wind Connection, charging infrastructure, charging stations, CREZ, electric cars, electric vehicles, infrastructure, offshore wind, Southern Cross, Texas, transmission, transmission lines, windCompanies: Chevrolet, Coda, Coulomb, ECOtality, Good Energies, Google, Nissan, NRG, NRG Energy, Oncor, Pattern Energy, Propel, Public Utility Commission, Tesla, Think, Trans-Elect, WheegoPeople: R.J. Lyman          Tags: Atlantic Wind Connection, charging infrastructure, charging stations, CREZ, electric cars, electric vehicles, infrastructure, offshore wind, Southern Cross, Texas, transmission, transmission lines, windCompanies: Chevrolet, Coda, Coulomb, ECOtality, Good Energies, Google, Nissan, NRG, NRG Energy, Oncor, Pattern Energy, Propel, Public Utility Commission, Tesla, Think, Trans-Elect, WheegoPeople: R.J. LymanIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name).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[YouSendIt acquires startups Attassa and Zosh to mix up document delivery]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wanabbugtae</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Digital content-delivery startup YouSendIt announced this morning that its acquiring two startups: Attassa, which makes add-ons for Microsoft Outlook, and Zosh, which has an app to let you to sign documents from an iPhone.Attassa, founded in 2007, provides add-ons for Microsoft&amp;'s Outlook email software, such as file-sharing and backup as well as an improved display of conversations and extended contact information. Its application for the iPhone, All My Mail, lets you browse and manage multiple email accounts.Zosh launched at DEMO Spring last March, winning the DEMOgod award in the Mobile category at the conference. Its presentation featured CEO Joshua Kerrdestroying a fax machine on stage with a baseball bat, to prove the point that the application, which lets you sign documents on your iPhone by emailing them to an address, obviated the need for faxes.YouSendIt plans to integrate the acquisitions to extend its own product offerings and has decided to shut down both individual offerings in the interim. Back in September, the startup raised $15 million in its fourth round of funding. No terms of the acquisition were disclosed.Next Story: AT&amp;038'T&amp;'s 4G LTE network coming mid-2011 with 20 devices by year end Previous Story: Intel CEO says graphics-processor combo chips to generate $125B in revenue for PC makers in 2011PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: acquisition, attachments, content delivery, DEMO, DEMO Spring 2010, digital, e-mail, e-signature, faxCompanies: Attassa, YouSendIt, ZoshPeople: Joshua Kerr          Tags: acquisition, attachments, content delivery, DEMO, DEMO Spring 2010, digital, e-mail, e-signature, faxCompanies: Attassa, YouSendIt, ZoshPeople: Joshua KerrSid Yadav is a contributor to VentureBeat. He currently studies computer science and psychology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He is also the creator of Memiary, a micro-diary utility. You can reach him at sidyadav@gmail.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @sidyadav.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[eEvent helps event organizers spread the word]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[eEvent, a startup that demonstrated at the Launch conference today in San Francisco, is looking to take on services like Eventbrite by offering organizers a new way to promote their events.The company offers a full platform for managing your event, with features like an event website builder and ticketing, but the most interesting feature is the Ambassador program. It turns every attendee into a potential event promoter by offering prizes to people who encourage their friends to attend. So if you grow the attendance at an event, you could earn badges on the event site, and even better, real-world prizes like VIP seating and free parking.One of the Launch judges, Naval Ravikant of AngelList, said that other event sites including Involver have tried similar programs and they run out of steam very quickly. It&amp;'s a cool idea, but people start getting annoyed and ignoring what they see as spam from these so-called ambassadors.eEvent has been available for a month and the company says it has already been used for 350 events in the United States.Next Story: Get ready for the most social DEMO ever Previous Story: Find out where to meet friends with EchoechoPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: events, launch2011Companies: eEvent          Tags: events, launch2011Companies: eEventAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter. 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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