Month: July 2010
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XP: The OS that won’t die
Microsoft announced yesterday that a public beta of the forthcoming service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is available for download. In his post yesterday, Brandon LeBlanc, Windows Communications Manager at Microsoft, said that after only 7…
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The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #555: July 12, 2010
Content summary: The new FIR iPhone app and a contest for free downloads; new FIR interviews posted; review of ‘Open Leadership’ book coming this week; listener comments and Friendfeed FIR Room round-up; 5 minutes on… Google Street View cars back…
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New FIR iPhone app launched
If you were a fan of the iPhone or Android app for the For Immediate Release podcasts that we launched in February, you may have been as dismayed as we were when both apps stopped working properly not long after…
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FIR Interview: Jennifer Cohen on Uni-Ball Facebook campaign
The recent Uni-ball campaign in the US to give away 10,000 pens a day via Facebook launched a round of criticism of companies that concentrated efforts on Facebook to the detriment of their own websites. eConsultancy’s Patricia Robles wrote a…
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FIR Interview: Jack Holt, Sr Strategist for Emerging Media, US Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) in February adopted a new policy toward staff access to social sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and others. The policy, which covers everyone from Pentagon-based staff to soldiers in the field,…