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Published on: 2011-04-07 15:59:50

Marketing departments should consider hiring their own COOs to oversee data management, due to the exponential increase in information available to marketers and the regulation of data collection and use, said Bruce Biegel, managing director of the Winterberry Group.

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Marketing departments need COOs to manage data: NexTargeting Summit 2011

Research In Motion has agreed to allow Indian security agencies to monitor its BlackBerry services after the government raised concerns over the smartphones’ messaging technology.

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Blackberry opens its traffic to government monitoring

SMS is the obvious “lowest common denominator” mobile marketing solution… yet critics still talk about apps and website and vouchers

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Guest comment: No rival to the SMS text exists in the market today

Saudia Arabia and The United Arab Emirates are both banning some of BlackBerry internet-based functions over ‘security issues’.

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Gulf nations ban BlackBerry web functions over ‘security issues’

Ofcom’s latest UK Broadband Speeds study has found that UK ISPs regularly overstate their broadband speeds and only rarely give consumers the speeds they advertise.

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Ofcom: ISPs not giving consumers the broadband speeds they pay for

Providing universal access to broadband speeds of a minimum of 2Mbps will take until 2015, three years longer than Labour had predicted, the government said last week.

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Universal broadband delayed until 2015

Facebook has finally launched its much-anticipated ‘panic button’ on its site, as the social networking giant looks to increase protection of its young users.

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Facebook finally launches panic button for kids’ safety

High-profile Twitter users, including Lady Gaga, Barack Obama and even the British PM’s Twitter page (10 Downing Street), may be faking their follower numbers, according to a new report from uSocial.

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Celebs on Twitter: Are they faking follower numbers?

Downing Street and Facebook have launched a landmark initiative aimed at making public spending more effective.‘The Spending Challenge’ initiative marks the largest public engagement project ever launched by the British Government, and saw Prime Minister David Cameron meet Mark Zuckerberg via webconference to discuss its implementation.

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When Cameron met Zuckerburg: Govt. asks Facebook users for spending cut advice

Facebook has tweaked its privacy policy to ensure third party app developers to specify to users what personal information they will access and use.

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Facebook forces app makers to seek permission for user data