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Analysts have said that mobile app stores in 2010 will experience more than 4.5 billion downloads, with about 80% of those being free to end users.  Games remain the most popular apps purchased.

As the industry grows, consumers will continue to experiment with downloads.  Apps for social networking, shopping, as well as productivity and utilities continue to grow and garner more money as smartphone mobile devices with Internet and app capabilities expand.

Gartner says that as the market becomes more saturated with cheaper smartphones, users will become less tech-savvy and more hesitant to pay for apps.  As a result, the firm thinks  that advertising sponsors will see growth.

By 2013, the company expects about 25% of revenues will come from paid-for apps and advertising-sponsored free apps as the industry will likely become more advertising and sponsorship based.

App developers will need to find not just the right revenue model, but the the right platforms.  The professionals at appslawblog can answer questions about how to get an app-based business off the ground. Contact them through this site.

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In an interview with e-Commerce Times, Arnstein & Lehr attorney Misha Kerr made the point abundantly clear that “what you think is a private page is not private, and you never know who has access to it.”

Privacy settings and how you use them are becoming the subject of intense litigation. Kerr represented a person who inadvertently attended a filming party for an adult website.  The young woman never signed a release for her images but ended up on the adult Web site anyway. Kerr sued on behalf of the client, claiming violation of privacy and damage to her reputation.

The defendant responded by showing photos the woman had posted to a social networking site which were risque, arguing that her reputation could not be damaged too seriously. Just a few changes to the woman’s privacy settings could have changed the lawsuit’s outcome.

Many Facebook users face a similar risk of having their private lives exposed if they opted for settings Facebook recommended in December 2009. They may not have understood to what they were were agreeing.

If you fall into this category, read on. If not, you should still read on unless you don’t care about your privacy. The recommended settings are somewhat unsettling.  They give Facebook the right to publicize your own Facebook page’s private information  such as your photos, status updates and items you’ve posted.

The Web site ReadWriteWeb.com lists the three most important privacy settings to make sure you have set to your needs.  The first covers things you share, such as your status updates, photos, videos and other posted items; the second addresses who can see your personal information; and the third determines whether your account is accessible to search engines like Google.

All three  settings and more can be modified. For step-by-step directions, visit the ReadWriteWeb.com link.

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There are conflicting reports on Google’s future in that nation.  National Public Radio (NPR) reports that Google may pull out of China altogether rather than deal with Chinese government censorship.

Google’s controls are not fail-proof, that much is certain.  The attacks on Google appear to be politically motivated.  They originated in China and targeted intellectual property and e-mail accounts of human rights activists. As the  Guardian reports:

“The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China said in a statement today that Gmail accounts used by journalists in at least two bureaux in Beijing had been hijacked and their emails forwarded to unknown email addresses. Last week several well-known Chinese advocates of human rights complained of the same problem.”

Although it has not been officially confirmed, the attacks targeted people with access to specific parts of Google’s networks. Those efforts may have been helped by Google’s own employees in the company’s China offices.

Guardian reports that the malware (malicious software) used in the attack was a modification of a trojan called Hydraq.  Trojans are hidden programs whose purpose is to provide unauthorized access to a computer.

The malware is not that important.   Who was targeted is at the heart of the matter.  The victims allude to the attack coming from the inside because the assailants knew exactly who they were seeking.  Furthermore, some Google China employees were denied access to internal networks, some were put on leave, and some were transferred to different offices, all shortly after the incident took place.

Google will not comment on its business operations, so it will be interesting to see what transpires, both from legal and business perspectives.  Google will not quickly forget a security breach of this magnitude;  a company always looking to grow may need to  expand upon its security measures as well.

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