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<title><![CDATA[Senators target Bitcoin currency, citing drug sales]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[  Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer currency floating around the Web, is now being targeted by two prominent senators.Democratic Senators Charles Schumer of New York and Joe Manchin of West Virginia have written a letter to both Attorney General Eric Holder and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) chief Michele Leonhart expressing their desire for the organizations to take down an online marketplace known as &quot;Silk Road,&quot; which allows customers to buy illegal drugs, including cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, and marijuana. The senators said this about Bitcoin in their letter to the government agencies:The only method of payment for these illegal purchases is an untraceable peer-to-peer currency known as Bitcoins. After purchasing Bitcoins through an exchange, a user can create an account on Silk Road and start purchasing illegal drugs from individuals around the world and have them delivered to their homes within days.Bitcoin sprang up in 2009 as a peer-to-peer currency that intentionally avoided the prying eyes of law enforcement officials. In order to acquire Bitcoins, users access exchange sites to transfer actual currency, such as U.S. dollars, into the digital option. According to a posting on Wikipedia, there were 6.2 million Bitcoins on the market in May. The currency's official site says users can purchase a single Bitcoin for about $10.Hackers also commonly use Bitcoin for donations.For instance, the group LulzSec, which recently made a name for itself by hacking PBS and revealing personal information of Sony users, accepts Bitcoin donations. The organization said on its Twitter account that it needs Bitcoins to help it engage in more hacking.As for Silk Road, there's no telling if the Justice Department or the DEA will be able to take it down or if anyone will be brought to justice. As the senators note, the marketplace uses anonymizing service Tor to keep personal information hidden. And moving it to another server wouldn't be all that difficult.The DEA did not immediately respond to request for comment on what it might be doing to target Silk Road and Bitcoin.(Via Reuters)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple, Google, Facebook to talk privacy with Senate]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 07:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[An iPhone 4 running Google Maps.(Credit:Josh Lowensohn/CNET)A second U.S. Senate hearing over location privacy has been scheduled, a move intended to highlight how well companies notify their customers about when and how their whereabouts are stored and transmitted.Following the U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing about mobile privacy last week, representatives from Apple and Google are expected to again appear in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to answer questions from U.S. lawmakers in a new hearing that will also include Facebook.The topic of a hearing, put on by the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance, is &quot;consumer privacy and protection in the mobile marketplace.&quot; It's being led by chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia).On the docket to testify as part of a witness panel is Bret Taylor, the chief technology officer for Facebook' Catherine Novelli, Apple's VP of worldwide government affairs' and Alan Davidson, Google's director of public policy for the Americas. Joining them is Morgan Reed, the executive director of the Association for Competitive Technology, and Amy Guggenheim Shenkan, the president and COO of Common Sense Media. Ahead of that panel is David Vladeck, the director of the bureau of consumer protection for the Federal Trade Commission.Notably missing is the U.S. Department of Justice, which made up part of the opening act in last week's hearing, as well as a representative from Microsoft, which also collects location information from Windows Mobile 7 devices with a unique ID. During last week's hearing, the Justice Department discussed forward-looking policy initiatives to require mobile providers to collect and store information about their customers, which is likely to be a topic at Thursday's hearing.Location tracking has become a particularly high-profile area of interest for consumers and lawmakers alike. Last month, researchers highlighted a location database file that was being stored on iOS devices including theiPhone andiPad. The file contained information like nearby Wi-Fi hot spots and cellular towers, which Apple later came out to say was a smaller part of a private, crowd-sourced database it maintains and makes use of on its devices to help them more quickly locate where they are. Along with describing what the database did and what its intentions were, Apple promised to secure the location data, fix a bug that kept it from being logged for more than a few days, and delete the entire database when users disabled location services--all things it did with a software update released a week later. The company has also promised to fully encrypt this database on the phone itself as part of the next major iOS software update.Despite those actions, and an extended testimony from Apple vice president for software technology Bud Tribble, lawmakers like U.S. Rep. Edward Markey still have questions for Apple, particularly about who else can access its location database. In a letter to Markey last week, Bruce Sewell, Apple's general counsel and senior vice president of legal and government affairs, noted that the company was indeed sharing the anonymized location information with a partner, something Markey said he was following up with the company about. That topic could be broached once again this week.Google, for its part, has similar crowd-sourced efforts on its Android platform that grabs Wi-Fi hot spots and MAC addresses, as well as location information to help source traffic information for its mapping service. That traffic component is also built into the Google Maps application that ships on Apple's iOS, which Apple hinted that it might be working to replace later on down the line with its own data.As for Facebook, which is a newcomer since last week's hearing, location has become an increasingly important part of the service since it unveiled its &quot;places&quot; feature late last year. That feature lets users check themselves and their friends into locations like restaurants, movie theaters, and other businesses by using the Facebook app on their mobile phone. More recently location has played a part in the company's deals service, which offers coupons, discounts, and other rewards to users nearby participating businesses, competing with Groupon and other sites like it.Still, Facebook would definitely seem the odd company out compared with Google and Apple, which both create the system software and marketplaces that allow customers to acquire applications on their phones. Late last year, a report suggested Facebook was working toward that goal itself, though that did not come to fruition. Nonetheless, Facebook is integrated into millions of mobile devices, both as an app and a way to sync contact information, which could end up being the focus of the Senate's inquiry.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DEMO: Kuggaaa4a4s Global Mobile Ecosystem lets you share files across any device]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Kuggaa Mobile is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the  DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week in Palm Desert, Calif.  After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of  them remains objective.New startup Kuggaa Mobile, which is launching at today&amp;'s DEMO conference, is aiming to solve the problem of accessing documents across the multitude of web-enabled devices in our lives, including smartphones, computers, and even game consoles.Founder Al Mel Quist says he was inspired to create the company so he could easily share, sync, or change files between his cellphone and his wifea4a4s. Kuggaa offers a single browser-based online environment where you can save files and access them from practically any other web enabled device. Kuggaa has worked to create different interfaces for every device, so accessing the site via an iPad will be very different from just opening it up via a PC.Quist calls Kuggaa a a4AGlobal Mobile Ecosystema4 because it serves as a single interface for multiple devices. For example, you can go to Kuggaa on your iPhone and access the same files you would on an Android phone. Kuggaa also supports the Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii, because they have web browsers (the Xbox 360 does not).Kuggaa will offer its services on a subscription model. The base subscription will cost $7.00 a month, and users can spend more to increase their storage (just $2.99 more gets you 100 gigabytes of storage). Alternatively, you can purchase an annual subscription starting at $88 with 10GB of storage, and $99 with 100GB.Kuggaa is certainly entering a crowded space, but ita4a4s differentiating itself from other cloud storage solutions like Google Docs by offering users an entire online environment. Quist says the company has 27 contracts with device makers to put Kuggaa icons on their products in the second quarter of this year. Ita4a4s also in negotiations with two major cellphone carriers to offer Kuggaa as an add-on when customers get a new phone.The Las Vegas, Nev.-based company was founded just this year and has raised around $300,000 from friends and family.Next Story: DEMO: Nimble Contact joins social customer relationship management race Previous Story: DEMO: EyePredict uses neuroscience to improve product catalogsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cloud storage, DEMO, DEMO Spring 2011, Global Mobile EcosystemCompanies: Kuggaa MobilePeople: Al Mel Quist          Tags: cloud storage, DEMO, DEMO Spring 2011, Global Mobile EcosystemCompanies: Kuggaa MobilePeople: Al Mel QuistDevindra 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. 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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