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	<title>The Funky Agency - social media management, digital marketing, design &#38; development agency.</title>
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		<title>NEWS:  Sunbelt Software Announces Top 10 Malware Threats for January</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunbelt Software, a provider of Windows security software, today announced the top 10 most prevalent
malware threats for the month of January 2010. The report, compiled from monthly scans performed by Sunbelt&#8217;s award-winning anti-malware solution, VIPRE® Antivirus + Antispyware, and its antispyware tool, CounterSpy®, is a service of SunbeltLabs™.
In January, the malware landscape remained remarkably similar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefunkyagency.com/2010/02/top-ten-malware-threats-for-january/</link>
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		<title>NEWS: Smartphone Apps are Game Changer for Brands Says Punch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The growing popularity of smartphones and their applications is having a
game changing effect on brand marketing strategies according to technology
PR agency Punch Communications.
Phones such as the iPhone and Nexus One have been just part of the massive
growth in popularity of mobile technology over the course of 2009, with
many consumers taking advantage of mobile internet access [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefunkyagency.com/2010/02/news-smartphone-apps-are-game-changer-for-brands-says-punch/</link>
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		<title>NEWS: Twitter beats YouTube and Facebook for Online PR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is the most popular of the leading social community networks (SCNs)
and interactive sites for online PR, according to a new survey of 107 PR
professionals.
It narrowly beats YouTube, in second place, and Facebook, in third, as a
preferred online PR tool.
But the survey, conducted by New Venture Publishing for its new Perfect
Online PR Masterclass, finds that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefunkyagency.com/2010/01/news-twitter-beats-youtube-and-facebook-for-online-pr/</link>
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		<title>What a cock up by Facebook!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Facebook’s recent changes to privacy settings are attracting lots of attention.  Unfortunately it’s of the wrong kind.  Electronic Privacy  Information Center (EPIC) along with nine other groups has filed a  complaint alleging that Facebook&#8217;s new privacy settings constitute an unfair and deceptive change in terms. The groups say that Facebook&#8217;s decision to institute [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefunkyagency.com/2010/01/what-a-cock-up-by-facebook/</link>
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		<title>NEWS: Mobile phones to begin replacing cash from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[14 January 2010
A new mobile phone technology called near field communication (NFC) will
begin to replace traditional wallets and purses from 2011, according to a
new research report published today.
Banks and mobile network operators will both be seeking to make money from
the introduction of the new mobile payments technology, the report
predicts, and are set to go head [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefunkyagency.com/2010/01/news-mobile-phones-to-begin-replacing-cash-from-2011/</link>
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		<title>Eek! Twitter’s first murder!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And there was us thinking that Twitter was a great way to communicate with your clients, colleagues and friends.  Unfortunately it would appear that Jameg Blake and Kwame Dancy used Twitter to further a bitter personal feud which ended up in an alleged murder.  New York Police think that Twitter will be asked to supply [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefunkyagency.com/2010/01/eek-twitter%e2%80%99s-first-murder/</link>
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: Facebook is bad for your marriage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is bad for your marriage according to research carried out by an
online divorce service in the United Kingdom.
Divorce-Online scanned their divorce petition database for the use of the
word &#8220;Facebook&#8221; and found 989 instances of the word in over 5,000 divorce
petitions sampled.
This means that just under 20% of all the petitions filed through the
company had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefunkyagency.com/2009/12/press-release-facebook-is-bad-for-your-marriage/</link>
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		<title>NEWS:  User survey shows half of documents scanned were originally “born digital”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to recent research by content management association AIIM, on
average 51% of the paper documents scanned by user organisations are born
digital, having been output directly from a computer application. The
survey also found that 25% of scanned documents are photocopied before
being sent for scanning, and that only 31% are destroyed after scanning,
indicating a reluctance by users [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefunkyagency.com/2009/12/news-user-survey-shows-half-of-documents-scanned-were-originally-%e2%80%9cborn-digital%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: NewsNow to pull links to National newspaper content</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UK’s largest homegrown news aggregator refuses to sign Newspaper
Licensing Agency agreement, branding it “unacceptable and of questionable
legitimacy”
London, UK: NewsNow.co.uk, the UK’s largest homegrown news aggregator, is
to pull all links to many national newspaper websites from its subscription
service as a result of a failure to reach agreement with The Newspaper
Licensing Agency Limited (the NLA) over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefunkyagency.com/2009/12/press-release-to-pull-links-national-newspaper-content/</link>
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: The Independent goes live with first white-labelled social event planning tool for brands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Independent News &#38; Media has partnered with iome to launch the first,
white-labelled social event planning tool on The Independent newspaper&#8217;s
website. The service creates new web and mobile revenues for the publisher,
as part of its 2010 digital media strategy.
The free-to-access service provides the 10 million* monthly visitors to the
Independent&#8217;s website with a useful tool that helps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefunkyagency.com/2009/12/press-release-the-independent-goes-live-with-first-white-labelled-social-event-planning-tool-for-brands/</link>
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