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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook feature converts profiles to business pages]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>oversoftijs</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Facebook)Facebook users ready to move from a personal profile to a business page can now make the switch through a new process offered by the company.Sparing people from the chore of building a business page from scratch, Facebook's Profile To Business Page Migration tool can provide a head start by just converting an existing personal profile. The process is geared for a variety of business types and categories, including local companies, larger organizations, public figures, causes, and even individual products.The migration works by converting all of a user's friends into fans and moving over his or her profile photos. All other content, including wall posts and extra photos, won't come along for the ride. After choosing the appropriate business category, a user can specify a name, subcategory, and a few other items. Once the business page is live, the user can then fill in any other necessary details.Be aware that the conversion is a one-way trip. Once it's finished, you can't transform your business page back into a personal profile. Facebook advises users who need to save content from their personal profile to download the information through the data downloader feature that the company set up last year.You'll find more details on the conversion process and tips on maintaining a business page at Facebook's Help Center.Though this new conversion may benefit business users, Facebook isn't just offering it out of the goodness of its heart. The company warns that having a personal profile for anything other than a single individual violates its guidelines. For such profiles, Facebook suggests converting them to business pages, otherwise users could lose access to their own content.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Did Google pull app for in-app purchase violation]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>oversoftijs</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[It seems that in-app purchase problems are starting to affect Google too. Reports surfaced Thursday that the company removed an app over a violation of &quot;payment rules.&quot;(Credit:Google)Earlier this week, Google notified one of its developers that the developers' free app, Visual VoiceMail, was being pulled from the Android Market. The reason given was that the app violated a section of Google's developer agreement that covers pricing and payments, according to a report on GigaOM.While Google hasn't been clear about the exact violation, Jonathan Hollander of PhoneFusion, makers of Visual VoiceMail, believes the problem is that the app doesn't use Google Checkout for in-app purchases. Instead, PhoneFusion runs in-app purchases through its Web site.Google's developer agreement states that &quot;all fees received by Developers for Products distributed via the Market must be processed by the Market's Payment Processor.&quot; In other words, developers must use Google Checkout.&quot;It looks like they're pulling an Apple but just for us,&quot; GigaOM quoted Hollander as saying. &quot;There was no warning that they're going to enforce this, which makes it worse than Apple. Even if you disagree with Apple, they gave until June to remove their apps. Here, there's no choice.&quot;Google responded to GigaOM but would say only that it removes apps that violate its terms of service.Apple's new subscription service drew the ire of magazine and newspaper publishers when it was announced on February 15. Publishers don't like the fact that Apple is taking a 30 percent cut of revenue on customers it brings to publishers and that the company is not sharing customer information with them. Apple is giving consumers the option to share information with publishers, instead of forcing the issue.Just days after Apple's service was announced, rumors of an FTC investigation into the service began popping up, but a probe may have to be expanded if Google is found to be doing something similar.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cooliris&' new LiveShare app refocuses on photo-sharing]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>oversoftijs</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=coolirisrsquo-new-liveshare-app-refocuses-on-photo-sharing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Palo Alto startup Cooliris has built its reputation by creating a slick experience for browsing photos, videos, and other media, but now ita4a4s making the famous Silicon Valley a4Apivota4 with a new mobile and Web application called LiveShare.Co-founder and chief executive Soujanya Bhumkar told me the LiveShare app tackles a common problem with photo-sharing: trying to control who sees the photo. With LiveShare, you arena4a4t limited to either sharing photos with everyone or with a preset group of friends. Instead, for each set of photos you determine who gets access. Then the people youa4a4ve invited can look at your photos and add pictures of their own. Ita4a4s an evolution of the original form of online photo-sharing, where you just emailed pictures to your friends.Co-founder and director of product Mayank Mehta offered a couple of instances where this approach makes sense. You could create LiveShare streams around one-time events like conferences or parties, or you could use a stream to continually share photos with a small group of people, like your immediate family.Cooliris is one of a number of high-profile startups that have jumped on the mobile photo-sharing bandwagon in the past few months, but its approach sounds pretty different. Apps like Instagram (which was also a shift from the startupa4a4s original location app Burbn) and Picplz focus on allowing you to share your pictures with everyone. Path emphasizes creating a small group of connections that you share everything with.Bhumkar argued that this isna4a4t a complete change for Cooliris, but rather an evolution of its existing products. It sounds like an attempt to offer something a bit more practical than Coolirisa4a4 3D wall, which was cool but not something Ia4a4d use every day.The connection between Coolirisa4a4 old and new products is particularly evident in the Web version of LiveShare (there are also downloadable apps for iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone 7), whose appearance is similar to the 3D Wall. The app will take advantage of the technology that Cooliris has built for displaying high-quality brand advertising, Bhumkar said, and it also integrates with one of Coolirisa4a4 other products, the Gallery app that comes preinstalled on Android phones. Gallery users will now be able to share photos directly to LiveShare from the app.Cooliris released the first version of LiveShare about a month ago, and ita4a4s making its first big publicity push this week at the Mobile World Congress.The company also just announced a new $9.6 million round of funding from existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers, DAG Ventures, The Westly Group, and Deutsche Telekoma4a4s T-Venture. Cooliris has now raised $27.6 million.Next Story: How Zendesk&amp;'s iPad app makes customer support child&amp;'s play Previous Story: MasterImage 3D shows glasses-free 3D on a 7-inch tablet displayPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: LiveShareCompanies: Cooliris, Dag Ventures, deutsche telekom, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers, The Westly GroupPeople: Mayank Mehta, Soujanya Bhumkar          Tags: LiveShareCompanies: Cooliris, Dag Ventures, deutsche telekom, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers, The Westly GroupPeople: Mayank Mehta, Soujanya BhumkarAnthony 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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<title><![CDATA[China&'s alternative Android Markets: lots of app choices, piracy, and security risks]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>oversoftijs</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Google hasn&amp;'t opened an Android Market in China, so a number of Chinese carriers, phone makers, and independent companies have opened their own versions of the Android Market there. The result is a lot of app choices for Chinese users, but there are also more security risks.Android has a lot of potential in the Chinese market. If the marketplace for apps can come together, then China could become a land of huge opportunities for app developers. But there are a lot of problems to fix still. That&amp;'s one of the conclusions I draw from the latest data from the App Genome Project, a massive study of apps undertaken by Lookout Mobile Security.Lookout studied two alternative Android markets for Chinese users. While these markets serve a legitimate need for localized Chinese language apps, they also hosted pirated and repackaged apps.Some 61 percent of the apps in these stores were unique, most likely because they were converted into the Chinese language. About 11 percent of the apps available on the markets were repackaged and likely submitted by someone other than the original developer.Kevin Mahaffey, co-founder of Lookout, said in an interview that repackaging happens when someone downloads an app from Google&amp;'s Android Market. They can then inject their own code into the app and then upload it to an alternative Android Market. Sometimes they inject malware. Sometimes they inject their own ad code so that advertising dollars flow not to the original app maker but to the person repackaged the app.Of the repackaged apps, a quarter request more permissions than the original app. (On Google Android phones, users are often prompted to give their permission for an app to access certain functions within the phone, such as accessing their contact lists). That&amp;'s ominous, considering malware often triggers permission requests.Alternative app stores for Apple&amp;'s iOS (iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) also exist. Lookout found that one of the markets existed mainly for pirates, as 85 percent of its apps were pirated. Users who &amp;''jail break&amp;'' their phones, or circumvent Apple&amp;'s security software, can download pirated apps from these alternative stores. Roughly 8 percent of the paid apps in the Apple App Store, or nearly 20,000 apps, were found in pirated form on one alternative iOS market. That&amp;'s got to be depressing for app developers.Lookout also found that about a third of the free apps in both the Apple App Store (34 percent) and the Android Market (28 percent) have the ability to access a user&amp;'s location. About 7.5 percent of free apps in the Android Market and 11 percent of free apps in the Apple App Store can access contact information.That&amp;'s not alarming by itself, but it&amp;'s a potential red flag for privacy violations. Lookout found that there was some good news here, as the number of apps having access to location or contacts has fallen in the past six months. That may be due to more developer sophistication and a heightened awareness of privacy concerns after a big scare on the Android phones last summer.Speaking of scares, Lookout identified a new trojan, HongTouTou, or the ADRD trojan, in popular repackaged apps targeted at Chinese-speaking users. The malware has 14 different versions so far repackaged in game and wallpaper apps.[image credit: HTC Wildfire Android Heaven]Calling all developers: We want to write up your app for VentureBeata4a4s Mobile App Spotlight! If you have an innovative mobile app that hasna4a4t been featured on VentureBeat yet, submit it for consideration right away. The Mobile App Spotlight is sponsored by The Intel AppUp developer program.Next Story: Paid apps are on the rise in the maturing Android Market Previous Story: Deals &amp;038' More: Catch grabs $7M for mobile note takingPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: ADRD trojan, Android Market, App Store, China, HongTouTouCompanies: Apple, GooglePeople: Kevin MaHaffey          Tags: ADRD trojan, Android Market, App Store, China, HongTouTouCompanies: Apple, GooglePeople: Kevin MaHaffeyDean 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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