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Full story: FT names Steve Jobs their Man of The Year
Mark Zuckerberg can be Time’s person of the year but here we have the FT’s man of the year – Steve Jobs, the man behind the continuing success of Apple and those so-gorgeous products everyone desires that include iPhone, iPad, Macbook and more. The Financial Times says Jobs is a “Silicon Valley visionary who put Apple on topâ€: […] When Steven Paul Jobs first hit the headlines, he was younger even than Mark Zuckerberg is now. Long before it was…
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Full story: Product placement comes to UK TV and radio
Broadcast industry regulator Ofcom confirmed this week that product placement – paid-for references for products and services – will be allowed in UK TV programmes for the first time from next February. […] Ofcom has today [December 20] published the rules governing product placement, including what can and can’t be shown on TV screens. We have also relaxed the rules on paid-for references to brands and products in radio programmes. Both sets of rules will enable commercial broadcasters to access…
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Full story: My Blackberry is not working
Harry Enfield and Ronnie Corbett – two veterans of British comedy – show how they’re still at the top of their game. Excellent parody of today’s tech brands. More sketches at The One Ronnie.
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #578: December 20, 2010
Content summary: Six years ago, we did our first FIR recording; FIR Live on Deepwater Horizon communications is posted; a question for listeners: should we keep doing FIR Live?; no report this week from Michael Netzley in Singapore; FIR Friendfeed Room round-up; News That Fits: Sanofi-Aventis lays off 1700 employees via conference call, Dan York reports on Delicious and Facebook, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, the Yahoo/Delicious mess, communicating in chaos in the snowed-in UK, Pollstream promo, the Pew…











