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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How to stay synced with iCloud]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Finally, Apple has given users a way to sync their purchased music, apps, and books wirelessly. With iCloud, whatever you download on one device--youriPhone,iPad,iPod Touch, or computer--can be set to automatically download on all other devices. For example, when you purchase a song from iTunes using your computer, it'll immediately be downloaded onto your iPad also. Or, if you purchase a book on your iPhone, it'll be downloaded to your computer and your iPad as well. More iCloud features, including calendar syncing and Photo Stream, will launch in the fall. Until then, you can use the iCloud beta for free to sync your music, apps, and books. Here's how: Note: iCloud syncing is not yet available for Verizon subscribers. Stay synced with iCloud<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Net trade group protests French data retention rules]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A trade group that represents Google, Facebook, and other Internet companies active in France is upset over French regulations that require the companies to retain personal data on their users for a full year.The French group Association of Internet Community Services (Google Translate version) is taking its case to France's Conseil d'Etat, or State Council, on behalf of several Internet companies, which also include eBay and online video site Dailymotion. Launching its appeal with the State Council, which is considered the Supreme Court in France in charge of public law litigation, ASIC is looking to have the decree struck down.Established in early March, the decree is directed toward e-commerce sites, video and music services, and providers of Webmail. It requires such companies to store names, addresses, phone numbers, and even passwords of their users for one year. The rationale behind the rules is that such data must be made available to law enforcement and various government agencies in the event of an investigation.In an e-mail to CNET, Benoit Tabaka, the head of ASIC, explained the concerns behind the decree.The European Commission has so far not been consulted on or involved in discussions about the decree, which Tabaka believes is mandatory and necessary.&quot;Our companies are based in several European countries,&quot; Tabaka said. &quot;Our activities target many national markets. So it's clear that we need a common approach.&quot;The decree also opens up privacy concerns as it requires online companies to retain user passwords, which Tabaka doesn't see as the type of data that would even be needed as identification in a police matter. Further, a breach of security in any system would expose those passwords. Storing the passwords themselves could also be tricky, he explained, since they would need to be saved in a full, clear manner to be usable, but the companies don't currently store passwords in full.Tabaka said that the legal challenge against the decree will be launched before the end of the week. He expects a response from the State Council at the beginning of next year.As a trade group, ASIC works on behalf of the interests of its Web 2.0 member companies as they do business in France. The group was created in late 2007 by AOL, Dailymotion, Google, and Yahoo.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[WikiLeaks leader arrested after rape accusation]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Crysta7</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Julian Assange, leader of the WikiLeaks project that's published extensive secret details of U.S. military and diplomatic activity, has been arrested in London on a Swedish accusation of rape.&quot;He is accused by the Swedish authorities of one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation, and one count of rape, all alleged to have been committed in August 2010,&quot; London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement today.Assange appeared today at Magistrates Court in the City of Westminster in London, the police said. The police's extradition unit arrested him this morning on a European arrest warrant after Assange and his lawyers arranged to meet with police at a London police station.Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle denied bail for Assange, saying he deemed Assange to be capable of breaking bail conditions. Assange has denied the charges, which first surfaced months ago. &quot;The charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing,&quot; he said via Twitter in August.The arrest is a further serious setback for WikiLeaks, whose actions have incurred the wrath of politicians and pundits but also attracted allies drawn to its cause and disturbed by the response to WikiLeaks.WikiLeaks said today that despite the arrest, it's continuing with its current project: the release of 250,000 diplomatic cables. &quot;Today's actions against our editor-in-chief Julian Assange won't affect our operations: we will release more cables tonight as normal,&quot; WikiLeaks tweeted.In addition, Assange, an Australian citizen, published an opinion piece in The Australian today. &quot;WikiLeaks is...fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public,&quot; he said. Major news media have published diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks revealed, &quot;yet it is WikiLeaks, as the co-ordinator of these other groups, that has copped the most vicious attacks and accusations from the U.S. government and its acolytes.&quot;Among other recent WikiLeaks difficulties, Swiss bank PostFinance yesterday froze an Assange account with 31,000 euros ($41,340)' the bank said he had &quot;provided false information regarding his place of residence.&quot; In a response, WikiLeaks said, &quot;The technicality used to seize the defense fund was that Mr. Assange, as a homeless refugee attempting to gain residency in Switzerland, had used his lawyers address in Geneva for the bank's correspondence.&quot;Meanwhile, MasterCard has stopped processing payments made to WikiLeaks--not long after PayPal did the same. Amazon.com and EveryDNS.net also terminated online services, making it harder for WikiLeaks to stay online.&quot;I call on any other company or organization that is hosting WikiLeaks to immediately terminate its relationship with them,&quot; Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut said last week. And the incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee wants WikiLeaks listed as a &quot;terrorist&quot; organization.WikiLeaks still has plenty of allies, though, and many of them have established WikiLeaks mirror sites that have made it harder to keep the WikiLeaks information offline. And a group calling itself Justice for Assange is organizing a protest today at the court.PayPal suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack over the weekend after its actions, and now the PostFinance bank in Switzerland is under a similar attack. So far the attack has &quot;resulted in more than 11 hours of downtime&quot; for the bank, according to Panda Security, attributing the attack to the so-dubbed Anonymous group. Web monitoring firm Netcraft has also documented the Swiss bank's troubles. &quot;Preparing to attack Postfinance.ch again, this time with the help of the good people at @Anon_Operation,&quot; read one tweet by AnonyWatcher.Some supporters also are promoting Assange to be Time's 2010 person of the year through online voting. So far, Assange leads the online poll with nearly 250,000 votes.Updated 4:32 a.m. PTwith further information from WikiLeaks.Updated 5:37 a.m. PTwith quote from Assange opinion piece.Updated 5:37 a.m. PTwith details on DDOS attack on PostFinance.Updated 12:29 a.m. PTon word of Assange being denied bail.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Verizon&'s LTE 4G network lands Dec. 5, serving 110M users in 38 markets]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Verizon&amp;'s 4G LTE wireless network will launch this Sunday, December 5, in 38 markets (serving 110 million people), the company revealed in a conference call today. Launch markets include major cities like New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Los Angeles.Both AT&amp;amp'T and Verizon are betting on LTE, or Long Term Evolution, technology for their 4G networks. WiMax, which Sprint is currently relying on, is the competing 4G network standard.Unfortunately, there won&amp;'t be any LTE-compatible phones coming this year. At launch, Verizon will offer two 4G USB modems from LG and Pantech that will each cost $99.99 after a $50 rebate.Consumers will be able to choose from two LTE data plans: $50 for 5 gigabytes of data, and $80 for 10 gigabytes (overage charges for both are $10 per gigabyte). The company says more LTE modems will be released in the next few weeks. All of the modems support its existing 3G network.The company says its LTE network will offer a ten-fold improvement over its 3G network, with download speeds from 5 to 12 megabits per second and upload speeds from 2 to 5Mbps. The 4G network will offer half the latency of Verizon&amp;'s 3G network, with speeds comparable to wired broadband networks, according to Verizon Wireless CTO Tony Melone. Verizon plans to roll out its LTE network nationwide by the end of 2013.Verizon will also equip over 60 airports across the country with LTE &amp;8212' some inside of its 38 LTE markets, and some outside to serve road warriors.At the moment, Verizon is treating LTE and 3G access completely separately &amp;8212' meaning you&amp;'ll have to pay more for LTE access once LTE phones are available. Come late 2012/early 2013, the company may try to unify its plan structure to include both LTE 4G and 3G. Verizon also says that it will start to transmit voice communications over LTE data (instead of a separate voice network) around that time as well.The company will talk about more LTE-compatible devices at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. It expects to launch those devices sometime mid-2011.Verizon may not be the first carrier to offer a 4G network (T-Mobile is calling its HSPA+ network 4G, and Sprint&amp;'s WiMax 4G network has been live for some time), but it definitely seems to be the most methodical. AT&amp;amp'T hasn&amp;'t fully laid out its 4G plans yet, but we know that it&amp;'s upgrading its 3G network over the next few years as a stopgap solution until its 4G LTE network is available.Verizon, meanwhile, is relying on its swath of contiguous 700 megahertz wireless spectrum to push out its 4G network as quickly as possible. That spectrum means Verizon has the potential to cover more of the country in 4G than any other carrier. It will be interesting to see how AT&amp;amp'T, which only has access to 700 MHz spectrum in certain areas, responds.Via EngadgetPrevious Story: Racktivity raises $8 million for data center efficiencyPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: 3G, 4G, LTE, usb modemsCompanies: Lg, Pantech, Verizon, Verizon WirelessPeople: Tony Melone          Tags: 3G, 4G, LTE, usb modemsCompanies: Lg, Pantech, Verizon, Verizon WirelessPeople: Tony MeloneDevindra 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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<title><![CDATA[New Google Maps for Android to spark jealousy among iPhone owners]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The next major Google Maps update for Android phones looks like it&amp;'ll blow the iPhone&amp;'s aging Google Maps app out of the water. New features include dramatically faster performance, 3D building rendering, and an offline mode.Google Maps 5.0 for Android will offer &amp;''dynamic map drawing&amp;'' with vector graphics, which are smaller and load more quickly than the flat 2-dimensional maps the app previously featured. Overall the map performance is much &amp;''snappier&amp;'', both Engadget and Gizmodo report. There&amp;'s also support for 3D building models in over 100 cities. And just like Google Earth, the new Maps app will support tilting, so you&amp;'ll be able to get a sense of a building&amp;'s height when rendered in 3D. The app will be able to automatically rotate maps using your device&amp;'s compass to help you maintain direction.Thanks to the smaller vector graphics, the app will also be able to cache map data that you use most often to let you view maps offline. The app will download map locations overnight when you&amp;'re connected with WiFi. Google says that this feature will make up for over 90 percent of the times the Maps app fails when there&amp;'s a bad connection. The app&amp;'s Navigation feature will be able to take advantage of the offline maps and re-route you even if you&amp;'re without service.Google&amp;'s Andy Rubin unveiled the new Maps app last night at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference in San Francisco, where he also talked about the failure of the Nexus One. Rubin apparently showed off the app on a prototype Android 3.0 (codenamed &amp;''Honeycomb&amp;'') tablet.Given the amount of new features in this app, it will be some time before Apple manages to update its Google Maps app to compete on the same level.The new Maps app will support any Android device running Android 1.6 &amp;''Donut&amp;'' or above. Features like dynamic rendering and automatic map rotation will only work with more powerful Android phones. It looks like the app will be fully functional on the original Motorola Droid, and any Android device more powerful than that. We can expect the app in the next few days, Rubin said.Via Engadget, Gizmodogallery-1 {margin: auto'}gallery-1 .gallery-item {float: left'margin-top: 10px'text-align: center'width: 33%'}gallery-1 img {border: 2px solid cfcfcf'}gallery-1 .gallery-caption {margin-left: 0'}<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Flurry&'s app recommendation service gains huge momentum, reaching 80M users a month (exclusive)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Finding the right app among the 332,000 available on Apple&amp;'s App Store isn&amp;'t easy. That explains the success of Flurry&amp;'s AppCircle service, which analyzes a user&amp;'s phone apps and makes recommendations for other apps that the user will probably like. It&amp;'s a way to make discovery less painful for users and less expensive for developers who want their apps noticed.Flurry has now grown to more than 80 million users per month on both iOS (iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch) and Android mobile devices. In January, AppCircle completed more than 160 million recommendations, a 1,600 percent increase from September, 2010, when it was formally launched. That&amp;'s a sign not only that mobile discovery recommendations are taking off. It also shows that mobile app consumption is flying through the roof.a4AAppCircle is filling a massive void in discovery of mobile applications,a4 said Simon Khalaf, chief executive of Flurry.The widespread adoption of AppCircle by developers and the acceptance of AppCircle recommendations by users shows how hungry everyone is for a discovery solution that works, Khalaf said.With AppCircle, Flurry creates a market for promoters, or developers who  want to get more users, and developers who want to make more money from  their apps. It analyzes a usera4a4s iPhone apps and figures out what their  tastes are. Then it recommends other Flurry-based apps to users based  on their tastes. Flurry says that, because it knows what apps users  like, it can do much better recommendations than other promotions.San Francisco-based Flurry, which started as a mobile analytics company, already had a huge base of app developers in its fold because it supplied them with analytics. The analytics data measures how much each app gets used and reports the anonymous data back to the developer, who can modify the app as needed to get more usage. Flurry is thus in a key position within a developer&amp;'s feedback cycle. Since it is so indispensable, Flurry found that it could provide services such as recommendations on top of its analytics service.Flurry said today that it is generating big revenues for app developers, paying them as much as $10,000 per day for every 100,000 daily average users. In some cases, Flurry has paid more than $100,000 to app publishers in a single day. In total, AppCircle has already paid out millions of dollars to participating publishers. It has also helped companies acquire high numbers of avid users, and that those numbers have helped apps reach the top 25 ranking in the App Store.Peter Farago, vice president of marketing at Flurry, said that Flurry now collects data on more than 240 million iOS and Android devices each month. He said that more than 1 million smartphones are being activated every day, which is just as many as the number of PCs that are sold in a day.Here&amp;'s a more in-depth explanation of what Flurry does. Application developers can use AppCircle as publishers, promoters or both. As publishers, developers integrate Flurry into their applications, enabling Flurry to serve targeted application recommendations to their consumers. Publishers earn 60 percent of the price promoters pay for each app download. As promoters, application developers create campaigns and set bids on how much they are willing to pay for a new user. Flurrya4a4s recommendation engine will match relevant promoter apps to display in publisher apps, and then use bidding to rank the order in which impressions are shown.Integrating Flurry AppCircle is flexible for publishers. The service allows several integration options including adding links to menu pages, settings pages or serving banner impressions. Publishers can also use their own virtual currency to incentivize downloads. Promoters can set up, fund and run campaigns within minutes.Application developers who act as both publishers and promoters get the best of both worlds: revenue and downloads. Additionally, developers who join as both promoters and publishers receive a 25 percent credit for every dollar they earn as a publisher that is reinvested into promoting their applications, accelerating adoption and revenue generation.Last week, Flurry said that it was getting so much business that it had to upgrade its data centers in a deal with Arista Networks. Flurry manages hundreds of terabytes of data, and it serves more than 37,000 companies across more than 70,000 iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Java-based apps.Since it launched its analytics in January 2009, Flurry&amp;'s network has grown at a rapid rate. In December alone, total system reports tracked grew by more than 40 percent. In a day, Flurry handles 2.5 billion data transactions, qualifying the company as a &amp;''big data&amp;'' company. Flurry has raised $29 million to date, including a $15 million round in December. Investors include Draper Fisher Jurvetson, InterWest, First Round Capital, and Union Square Ventures. Rivals include Google AdMob, Tapjoy, Scoreloop, PapayaMobile and OpenFeint.Next Story: Bigfoot promises wireless internet speeds we&amp;'ve been dreaming of (exclusive) Previous Story: Be your startupa4a4s only board memberPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Analytics, AppCircleCompanies: FlurryPeople: Peter Farago, Simon Khalaf          Tags: Analytics, AppCircleCompanies: FlurryPeople: Peter Farago, Simon KhalafDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. 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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<title><![CDATA[Disconnect stops websites from tracking you]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Still afraid of evil websites tracking you and stealing your information Angel investor Dave McClure says Disconnect is the browser extension for you.Chrome and Safari extension Disconnect, which blocks websites from tracking users and sending private information to other sites, launched today at the Launch conference in San Francisco.The extension automatically stops pictures, icons and pixels on websites that send information to other sites from loading.Once installed, it adds a button next to the address bar that indicates how many sites have been blocked by the extension. Users can click on the icon to find out what types of sites Disconnect blocked from tracking them.Icons and pictures that send data to other sites are deleted from the site and replaced by a blue color block. That even includes tiny tracking pixels. Users can click on the color block to allow loading of the tracking images and content instead of having to disable the extension.But the judges at Launch said the best market for Disconnect was the swath of web browsers that are captured by fear-mongering by some media outlets. McClure said the company should capitalize on the movement to improve privacy settings on large sites like Facebook and Twitter in order to market the service.&amp;''You&amp;'ll never go broke underestimating the C-minus students, those searching for answers&amp;'' said movie star and judge Kevin Pollak. &amp;''It used to be, &amp;8216'if it bleeds it leads,&amp;' and now it&amp;'s all fear based a4&quot; how do you protect, how do you protect.&amp;''The company is moving toward creating some premium services in order to monetize it, but for now the extension is free. There weren&amp;'t any additional details about what kind of premium services might come out. Internet Explorer 9, however, already offers a &amp;''do not track&amp;'' option, and those features are probably coming to other browsers as well.Next Story: Unleash the power of your iPhone&amp;'s camera with ProCamera Previous Story: A cheaper, greener fridge Phononic grabs $10M for thermoelectric coolingPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: chrome, eye of sauron, privacy, Safari, security, tracking, web browsingCompanies: Disconnect          Tags: chrome, eye of sauron, privacy, Safari, security, tracking, web browsingCompanies: DisconnectMatthew 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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