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SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire -07/24/12)- EdgeWave Inc. (EWVE) (EWVE), a leading provider of Secure Content Management (SCM) solutions, today announced that its iPrism Social Media Security solution can help schools comply with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules requiring them to monitor and filter student interaction with social networking sites in order to qualify for E-Rate funds. Schools must be in compliance with the new rules as of July 1, 2012, or risk losing access to the funds. In conjunction with its new social media solution for schools, EdgeWave has established a cyberbullying resource center that includes information on cyberbullying and how iPrism can help schools mitigate online threats to students at cyberbullying.edgewave.com.

iPrism Social Media Security allows schools to seamlessly monitor and control user interactions with social networking applications such as Facebook and Twitter and gives educators visibility into student interactions with these sites. The FCC rules pertain to the certification of compliance with CIPA requirements established on August 10, 2011. The Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act revises a portion of the Commission's rules, and requires that a school's "Internet safety policy must also include monitoring the online activities of minors and must provide for educating minors about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms and cyberbullying awareness and response."

According to Melody Sheppard, Director of Technology for Warren County Public Schools, "We are very concerned about social media use at our school and our need to comply with the new CIPA rules. Virtually all of our students are using social networking in one way or another and it's something we would like to be able to manage rather than just block completely."

The FCC rules require K-12 schools to initiate policies and training with the goal of teaching minor students appropriate online behavior. It also requires that technology be in place to assure the safety of minors and the protection of their personal information online, including protection from participation in illegal activities, including "hacking." In addition, language in the legislation acknowledges that social networking sites are not inherently harmful and in fact can be a resource for positive learning experiences when used appropriately. According to the FCC, social networking sites "have the potential to support student learning" and can enable users to "participate in online social networks where people from all over the world share ideas, collaborate, and learn new things."

"The new rules reflect the concern of legislators about both the use and misuse of social networking by K-12 students," said Steve Brunetto, EdgeWave Director of Product Management. "EdgeWave assists educators in using social networking safely, without having to employ an all-or-nothing approach. Solutions such as iPrism Social Media Security and YouTube for Schools provide granular control over popular social networking platforms, allowing educators to use social media to enrich the learning experience while providing the tools they need to deal with problems such as cyberbullying."

About EdgeWaveEdgeWave offers iPrism Web Security, a comprehensive Secure Web Gateway solution that includes Hybrid Remote Filtering and iPrism Social Media Security. EdgeWave also offers Email and Web Security products and services including the ePrism Email Security Suite, which includes fully-hosted solutions for Email Filtering, Email Data Loss Protection with DLP and Encryption, Email Continuity, and Email Archiving that can be accessed from a single user interface.

Based in San Diego, California, EdgeWave markets its solutions through a network of value added resellers, ISPs and MSPs, distributors, system integrators, OEM partners and directly to end users. For more information about EdgeWave, visit http://www.edgewave.com

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ScienceDaily (July 24, 2012) New research from North Carolina State University shows that informal social networks play an important role when it comes to finding jobs in both the United States and Germany, but those networks are significantly more important for high-paying jobs in the United States -- which may contribute to economic inequality.

"It is interesting to note that the open market system in the United States, with minimal labor regulations, actually sees people benefiting more from patronage -- despite the expectation that open markets would value merit over social connections," says Richard Benton, a Ph.D. student at NC State who co-authored the research.

The researchers looked at nationally representative survey data from the United States and Germany to compare the extent to which people find new jobs through "informal recruitment." Informal recruitment occurs when a person who is not looking for a new job is approached with a job opportunity through social connections.

The study shows that, on average, informal recruitment is significantly more common in Germany, where approximately 40 percent of jobs are filled through informal recruitment -- as opposed to approximately 27 percent of jobs in the United States.

However, the jobs people find through informal recruitment in the United States. are much more likely to be high-wage managerial positions. Specifically, in the United States, the odds that a job will be filled via informal recruitment increase by two percent for every dollar of hourly wage that the job pays.

For example, the odds that jobs paying $40 per hour ($80,000 per year) will be filled through informal recruitment are about 66 percent better than the odds that a minimum-wage job ($7.25 per hour) will be filled through informal recruitment.

By comparison, the researchers found that wages in Germany did not appear to be linked to how workers found their jobs.

"Ultimately, this suggests that U.S. economic institutions offer greater rewards to sponsorship and nepotism than what we see elsewhere, which could help to explain why inequality is so extreme here." says Dr. Steve McDonald, an associate professor of sociology at NC State and lead author of the paper.

The paper, "Dual Embeddedness: Informal Job Matching and Labor Market Institutions in the United States and Germany," was published online July 19 in the journal Social Forces. The paper was co-authored by Dr. David Warner of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The research was supported by NC State's College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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The company wants to create a place for people to share user-generated videos created through its app, hopefully setting itself from a crowded field.

If you look at Ptch's pedigree, you have to take the start-up seriously.

Ptch CEO Ed Leonard was the former chief technology officer of Dreamworks, known for films such as "Shrek" and "Kung Fu Panda," but left to run the start-up, which last week launched an iPhone app that allows users to easily and quickly create minute-long montage videos out of their existing photos and video clips.

The premise sounds familiar, right? In a previous column, I profiled a company with a similar mobile service called Animoto. Vyclone and Viddy offer similar remix video and photo services. Autodesk just spent $60 million buying Socialcam, which also does video sharing.

Ptch aims to be different because Leonard sees his service as second to the company's goal of becoming its own social network, where individuals follow each other, like their videos, and interact to create new videos.

"We really see this as a platform for living media," Leonard told me in an interview.

Still, with such a crowded field the company will face many challenges in winning converts. Leonard, however, felt so strongly about the company that he opted to leave the big studio behind, he told me in an interview.

"I felt so strongly about the company I decided to leave Dreamworks," he said. "I was excited to jump in with both feet."

Ptch came about as a result of Dreamworks' desire to improve its mobile presence. The company was incubated out of Dreamworks for the past nine months before going public last week.

I tried out Ptch, and like many of the other video services, the interface is easy to learn and fairly slick. By logging in through Facebook, you can automatically pull videos and photos from the site, as well as from your iPhone. You can mix and match, choose music, as well as a "style" that customizes how the photos are presented.

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One man was killed and another was shot this month at parties in Charles County, and the sheriffs office said news of both parties was spread through social networking, which has been leading to trouble.

Across the nation and even here, the sheriffs office said in a statement, police are responding to more and more reports of parties that get out of control because the party is posted on social media.

The sheriffs office urged parents and teenagers to recognize that social media has changed the way people party. It said addresses of parties are forwarded to friends, who send the information to additional friends.

Soon, hundreds of uninvited people show up and in some instances violence has broken out, according to the sheriffs warning.

It may be tempting to go to one of these parties, the statement said, but those who do could be placing themselves in a dangerous situation.

The man who was killed, Jerry Adam Gilchrist, 18, of Cheltenham was involved in an altercation at a party July7 in the Indian Head area, the sheriffs office said. He died at a hospital, which reported that he had suffered blunt-force trauma, the sheriffs office said.

In the second incident, the office said, uninvited guests showed up at a party after learning about it through social networking. After an argument, there was gunfire and a 19-year-old was wounded. An arrest has been made, the sheriffs office said.

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The social networking spent $960,000 on lobbying in the second quarter of 2012, the first time it has come close to spending seven figures in a single quarter.

Facebook has once again significantly increased its budget for wooing politicians. The social network giant spent $960,000 on lobbying in the second quarter of 2012, the transition quarter during which the company went public. This is up exactly 200 percent from the $320,000 the company spent in the first quarter of 2011, and up 47.69 percent from the $650,000 it spent in the fourth quarter of 2012.

As you can see in the chart below, Facebook has been lobbying since 2009 but only cranked up the gears last year. In fact, 2011 was the first year Facebook spent more than $1 million for lobbying. To put the latest numbers into perspective, Facebook spent almost $1 million this past quarter alone, and in the first half of 2012 ($1.61 million) it has already blown past its total 2011 expenses ($1.35 million):

Facebook's 16-page lobbying report for the second quarter of 2012 (PDF) lists the following specific lobbying issues:

In summary, Facebook lobbied lawmakers on advertising, cybersecurity, employment, patents, privacy, taxes, and IPO issues. There are many reasons why Facebook's lobbying is increasing: the improving U.S. economy, the upcoming 2012 presidential election, as well as the various Internet-related bills making their way through Congress.

As all technology companies of Facebook's size, the social network will continue to friend Washington, D.C. as long as it has a list of items it wants help with. Working with the government is one of many ways Facebook is working to protect its interests, and in some cases, the interests of its users.

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