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		<title>NEWS: Skype becomes the largest provider of cross-border communications in the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Skype&#8217;s international phone-calling traffic has accelerated at a time when
international telephone traffic has slowed, according to a new report by
TeleGeography.
Skype traffic has been soaring despite the background of slowing growth by
conventional phone companies, according to the report. Where international
calling volumes from telephones was growing at a compounded annual rate of
15% for the past 25 years, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefunkyagency.com/2010/02/news-skype-becomes-the-largest-provider-of-cross-border-communications-in-the-world/</link>
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE:  MOBILE IQ DEVELOPS iPHONE APPS FOR MAJOR UK BROADCASTER</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barcelona, February 17 2010 – Today Mobile IQ  announced that it is
developing the BBC’s	first official iPhone applications &#8211; which will be
focused on news and sport.
The first app will be launched in early April and will offer audiences a
breaking news service with the very latest stories. It will provide the
same distinctive content already available on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefunkyagency.com/2010/02/press-release-mobile-iq-develops-iphone-apps-for-major-uk-broadcaster/</link>
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		<title>Social Media Is Serious &#8211; Honestly!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At The Funky Agency offices we do like to take a breeze through the ‘papers’, well hundreds of websites actually, on a daily basis.
And as we predicted, a number of stories are cropping up on a weekly basis (it will be daily soon) about large companies (Vodafone is one that has been mentioned this week) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefunkyagency.com/2010/02/social-media-is-serious-honestly/</link>
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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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