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Disruptions: Celebrities’ Product Plugs on Social Media Draw Scrutiny – New York Times (blog)

Disruptions: Celebrities' Product Plugs on Social Media Draw Scrutiny
New York Times (blog)
It's unlikely, and that lack of clarity, increasingly common in the social media postings of celebrities, is starting to draw the attention of federal officials. “In a traditional ad with a celebrity, everyone assumes that they are being paid,” said …

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Survey: Business continuity plans still need work
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Quake unlikely to raise prices, say Taiwanese PC makers
Taiwanese PC makers said on Thursday that product prices would hold steady this year despite disruptions...

General Mills Adds Social Media to Product Pitch – New York Times (blog)
General Mills Adds Social Media to Product PitchNew York Times (blog)General Mills, a marketer whose...

Week in Geek: WWDC, Ethernet Plugs, Touchless Gesture Control
This week has been dominated by all that's been going on at the WWDC, like iOS 4 and the awesome iPhone...

Consumers Feel Left at the Social Media Altar – Fox Business

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Consumers Feel Left at the Social Media Altar
Fox Business
By Ned Smith, senior writer at BusinessNewsDaily Though consumers and marketers both say that interacting through social media has strong benefits, there is a disconnect between consumer expectations and marketer engagement, a new survey shows.
Lithium Response Aims to Calm Social Media DisruptionsCMSWire
Consumers Expect More Social EngagementMediaPost Communications
Too Many Brands Stuck on Media Part of Social MediaAdAge.com
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Safari 4.0.5 offers improvements to Top Sites, plug-ins
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Could China easily take down US military’s air-refueling logistics in a cyberwar?

A lengthy report prepared for the U.S. government about China’s high-tech buildup to prepare for cyberwar includes speculation about how a potential conflict with the U.S. would unfold — and how it might only take a few freelance Chinese civilian hackers working on behalf of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to sow deadly disruptions in the U.S. military logistics supply chain. [...]

What a cyberwar with China might look like
If there is a cyberwar with China, as described in a new hypothetical scenario, it will not necessarily...

Joint ventures by US tech firms with China pose cyberwar risk: report
Should conflict occur, China's cyberwar plans target the U.S., and today's Chinese joint ventures with...

Experts: US gov’t needs to prepare for cyberwar
The U.S. government needs to figure out how it will respond to acts of cyberwar, as foreign governments...

Nations, companies should prepare for cyberwar, experts say
The world hasn't yet seen examples of true cyberwar, although governments around the world need to prepare...

Chinese government whitepaper reaffirms Internet policies
A Chinese government whitepaper released on Tuesday praised the Internet for improving access to information...

Chinese policies put foreign firms at disadvantage, U.S. report concludes
In order to boost local Chinese companies and thwart foreign-based firms, the Chinese government has...

US lawmakers quiz ZTE, Huawei over spying concerns
Two U.S. lawmakers have asked executives at Chinese telecom companies ZTE and Huawei to explain their...

US expert: Chinese gov’t likely behind massive cyberattacks
The Chinese government is likely behind recent cyberattacks on U.S. government Web sites and on U.S....

Taiwan’s Compal to raise laptop part prices
Compal Electronics, one of the world’s biggest contract laptop makers, will raise component prices...

Apple orders spur growth for Taiwanese parts makers
Two Taiwanese firms that make touchscreen panels for Apple have reported sharp first-quarter revenue...

Small PC makers hiking PC prices on hard-drive shortage
The early brunt of a hard-drive shortage resulting from widespread flooding in Thailand is falling on...

Taiwanese LCD maker pleads guilty to price fixing
HannStar Display, a Taiwanese maker of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), has agreed to plead guilty and...

Quake may affect tech industry for six months, says analyst

World technology hardware supplies will take as long as six months to resume normal flows following disruptions from last week’s massive earthquake in Japan, a lead Bank of America Merrill Lynch researcher said on Wednesday. [...]

Quake unlikely to raise prices, say Taiwanese PC makers
Taiwanese PC makers said on Thursday that product prices would hold steady this year despite disruptions...

How to survive CIO regime change
How long does the average CIO stay on the job? Not very long. According to a Gartner Inc. survey of 1,527...

High-tech hardware spending returns, no help for IT jobs
IT decision makers will be investing in hardware in the coming six months, but high-tech executives say...

CIO Resume Makeover: Before-and-After Editions
James Jordan had been trying to fund his own healthcare technology company with the profits from his...

CSO ultimate guide to business continuity, disaster recovery

This 11-page PDF is rich with practical advice on keeping your business humming through a variety of potential disruptions, based on CSO’s topnotch reporting of business leaders’ real-world experience. [...]

Survey: Business continuity plans still need work
Most business report they have been negatively impacted by network disruptions in the last year, according...

Axcient releases unified backup, disaster recovery service
Axcient today announced an appliance and cloud-based service for managed service providers and SMBs that...

Severe weather intensifies focus on disaster planning
Severe thunderstorms, wildfires and droughts should put companies on alert to look into their business...

9/11 continues to influence IT strategy
Many companies had refined their IT disaster recovery programs prior to 9/11, but the attacks exposed...

Wall Street Beat: Tech stocks show some resilience
Despite an unusual earnings miss Thursday by Internet bellwether Google, continuing geopolitical turmoil...

SMBs unprepared for disasters, Symantec finds
Small businesses shouldn't be so confident about their disaster recovery plans, survey founds....

SandForce releases SSD controller for the cloud
SandForce today announced its newest NAND flash controller that is aimed for use with SSDs in cloud computing...

Article: Double-Digit Growth Again for Online Ad Spend
Digital shows resilience around the world...

Do Not Track: Is Government Intervention Necessary?
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission made clear it endorses an online do-not-track tool, while Republican...

Iran blocks access to some outside websites, services
The Iranian government has severed some citizens' connections to secure websites and services, including...

Stay away from OpenOffice.org until Oracle shows commitment, analyst says
A European IT consulting firm is warning large enterprises and government entities not to deploy OpenOffice.org...

Government moves to the cloud, slowly
A year and a half after the U.S. Office of Management and Budget declared a "cloud first" strategy requiring...

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