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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran's supreme leader ordered Wednesday the creation of an Internet oversight agency that includes top military, security and political figures in the country's boldest attempt yet to control the web.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the Supreme Council of Cyberspace will be tasked with preventing harm to Iranians who go online, state TV reported.

The report did not spell out specifically the kind of dangers that the council would tackle. But officials have in the past described two separate threats: computer viruses created by Iran's rivals aimed at sabotaging its industry, particularly its controversial nuclear program, and a "culture invasion" aimed at undermining the Islamic Republic.

Khamenei's statement follows ambitious plans announced by officials to create homegrown alternatives for Internet staples like Google, which would in effect make it unnecessary for many Iranian web users to visit any site based outside the country's borders.

The cyberspace council will be headed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and includes powerful figures in the security establishment such as the intelligence chief, the commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, and the country's top police chief.

It also includes the speaker of parliament, state media chiefs, government ministers in charge of technology-oriented portfolios, and several cyber experts.

"Given the need to make constant plans to protect (Iranian users) from harm resulting from (the Internet) requires a concentrated center for policy-making, decision-making and coordination in the country's cyberspace," Khamenei said in his decree.

Khamenei's order for creation of the council follows a series of high-profile crackdowns on cyberspace including efforts to block opposition sites and setting up special teams for what Iran calls its "soft war" counter-measures against the West and allies.

Iran has blamed Israel and the U.S. for Stuxnet, the powerful virus that targeted Iran's nuclear facilities and other industrial sites in 2010. Tehran acknowledged the malicious software affected a limited number of centrifuges a key component in nuclear fuel production. But Iran has said its scientists discovered and neutralized the malware before it could cause serious damage.

Tehran's perception of threats extends beyond viruses, however.

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SEO Positive is proud to announce the acquisition of a search engine optimisation contract with top London university body Brunel Business School.

(PRWEB UK) 7 March 2012

Brunel Business School approached SEO Positive in late 2011 searching for an SEO company with proven experience in their field. The organisation wishes to promote its business management programme and, as such, the campaign devised by the search specialists at the agency will focus on raising the profile of the organisations London MBA qualification, which is renowned as one of the most credible in the country.

The team will boost awareness of the School by improving the assigned websites rankings within the major search engines for relevant search terms, thus boosting traffic to the domain and encouraging greater interest in everything the Brunel Business School has to offer.

Matt Wood, Head of Search at SEO Positive and one of the search experts responsible for the smooth running of the SEO campaign, is delighted by the news.

Working with such a reputable body as Brunel University is fantastic for us and we look forward to generating an impressive return on investment for the organisation, Matt states.

SEO Positive was established in 2007 in Chelmsford, Essex with the aim of bringing effective yet affordable online marketing services to companies from all industries and backgrounds. The company offers a huge range of services including search engine optimisation, Pay Per Click account management, social media marketing and online reputation control.

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Fanplayr Inc., today announced the launch of Fanplayr Social Coupon & Offers, a new social coupon and offers marketing platform built to better reach, influence and monetize the social consumer across email, web, mobile and social marketing.

According to Simon Yencken, Fanplayrs CEO and Founder, Fanplayr is the first to solve todays number one marketing problem faced by SMBs, major brands and Internet retailers: How to reach, influence and monetize the new social consumer. Just this month Nike, P&G and Ogilvy & Mather each announced major realignments to their marketing and advertising strategies capitalizing on converging consumer trends across coupons, social media, gaming, mobile and interactive market spaces, which is exactly where Fanplayr sits.

Now, Fanplayr is first to apply social and mobile game mechanics to the multi-billion-dollar coupon and offers marketing industry that is led by Groupon, Living Social and Coupons.com. Fanplayr makes it easy for SMBs, brands and Internet retailers to extend Facebooks social fabric and game mechanics across these other important marketing platforms:

Email Newsletters

Web Pages and Microsites

Ecommerce Product Pages

Mobile Pages

Facebook Pages

Digital Ads

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Andrew Bolt Wednesday, March 07, 2012 at 07:55am

Heres another thing I dont understand about the Finkelstein inquiry, which recommends more government control on a media it clearly disdains:

MEDIA executives and journalists are being offered the chance to attend a $500-a-head workshop.

The workshop will be on the recommendations of the federal governments Finkelstein media inquiry, despite no indication it will lead to a new regulatory regime.

And the co-commissioner of the $1.4 million inquiry, academic Matthew Ricketson, will deliver the keynote address at the event, despite not commenting so far on the taxpayer-funded inquiry.

I have known Matthew for years. His highest achievement is the profession that his inquiry now seeks to have controlled was media and communications editor for The Age from 2006 to 2009.

To be perfectly frank, I did not consider him to be very good in that job. He seemed to break few stories, or offer any penetrating observations. His writing is not sparkling. He was well outshone by The Australians Amanda Meade, for one, and I do not think I am being unfair. I recently spoke to a senior Age executive who endorsed my overall opinion.

So heres my astonishment: how does a man who rose to no great heights in the media wind up as the presiding expert in an inquiry to determine how much freedom to give it?

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