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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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The Court has rejected claims made by BT and TalkTalk that the Digital Economy Act (DEA) violates EU laws. The ruling has been welcomed by the Government and representatives of the creative industries, but may yet be appealed by the ISPs to the UK Supreme Court.

We are pleased the Appeal Court has upheld the original ruling that the Digital Economy Act is a lawful and proportionate response to the threat posed by online piracy," a spokesperson for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said in a statement.

The DEA is a controversial law that includes provisions aimed at combating online copyright infringement.

In a judicial review ruling in April last year the High Court rejected claims by the ISPs that the DEA violated EU laws.

According to a summary of the Court of Appeal judgment by a coalition of creative industry bodies, the ISPs argued that the DEA breached EU laws on data protection and privacy. BT and TalkTalk also failed to convince the Court that the Act was "incompatible" with provisions set out in the E-Commerce Directive. The Court also rejected claims made by the ISPs that the DEA was unlawful because the Government had failed to give the European Commission enough time to scrutinise parts of the legislation, according to the bodies.

However, the ISPs did successfully argue that they should not be required to pay 25% of the "case fees" that would stem from ISP customers bringing appeals against warning letters they could receive for allegedly infringing copyright under measures allowed for by the DEA. The ISPs will still have to pay 25% of the costs they incur to comply with their obligations under the Act after the Court ruled that it was lawful to impose the charge on them, according to the creative industry bodies' summary.

The measures were always going to have to strike a balance between ISPs and rights holders and the court has decided that the balance struck by the Digital Economy Act is about right, said copyright law expert Iain Connor of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com. How this will operate in practice remains to be seen.

"Some may argue that BTs and Talk Talks public stance on the issue left the legislators no room to negotiate and so arguably a more conciliatory approach during the Bills passage through Parliament might have been better or at least so it seems with the benefit of hindsight, Connor said.

Both ISPs said they would consider what action, if any, to take next in light of the ruling.

We have been seeking clarification from the courts that the DEA is consistent with European law, and legally robust in the UK, so that everyone can be confident in how it is implemented," BT said in a statement. Now that the Court has made its decision, we will look at the judgment carefully to understand its implications and consider our next steps."

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NEW YORK Just forget about its giant screen for a moment.

Yes, that new plasma TV is gorgeous, that LED backlight efficient, and that refresh rate ridiculous. But in truth, just like smartphones and tablets, smart TVs are about platforms as much as pictures.

Today in New York, Samsung presented its updated line of smart TVs and related electronics, almost all of them available for sale now. The Korean electronics giant has too many new individual devices from cameras that sync with your TV over Wi-Fi and smartphone speaker docks with honest-to-goodness vacuum tube amplifiers to tricked-out, touchpad-and-microphone-equipped remotes that are 85 to 90 percent of everything you want a smart TV remote to be to give more than passing consideration here to each and every one of them. If you want to get started with that, Ars Technicas Casey Johnston has a great rundown of whats good and bad in all the new interface technologies for Samsungs smart TVs here.

Instead, heres my big takeaway from Samsungs event at least as I see it now, with an eye toward Apples definitely-an-iPad, most-probably-an-Apple-TV event on Wednesday.

In the future, the living room will replace the home office as most households home for the stationary personal computer. Instead of printers and mice and other corded accessories, networked appliances and post-PC machines share data with one another and with the cloud. Play and productivity both become decentered; gaming and entertainment might be on a tablet or a television, with recipes at the refrigerator, a shopping list for the smartphone, and an instructional video on the television set.

All of these experiences will be coherent, continuous and contextual. And like the personal computer at the height of Pax Wintel, the living room will be a platform characterized by triumphant pluralism.

The thing about the living room is that its universal; everyone in the household uses it, Samsung VP Eric Anderson told me at todays event. We know that were not going to capture every single member of the household. In my family, my wife and my daughter are Apple, me and my sons are Android, he noted, pointing out that the majority of devices introduced today can interact with either mobile platform.

The big question for us is what is the core of your household, Anderson added. What is the device of origin? Where do you start, and to where do you return? Thats why we look at the living room, the kitchen along with some mobile devices. Here, no company can be a platform purist: Every consumer electronics company is looking for a differentiator; maybe the differentiator here is the devices ability to work with anything.

Samsungs been manufacturing and selling smart TVs since 2008. Its sets have carried Yahoos widgets, Google TV, and now Samsungs own app-driven Smart Hub software. In those four short years, the technology powering the TV, customers expectations, and entertainment companies willingness to embrace cloud-delivered, app-based over-the-top content have all changed.

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