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By Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE/RL

Iranian Culture Minister Ali Jannati has said that book censorship was too strict under the country's former government. In comments quoted by Iran's semi-official ILNA news agency on October 8, Jannati said censors would have rejected the Koran, which Muslims believe is a revelation by God.

Censorship (cartoon by Mana Neyestani)

"If the Koran hadn't been sent by God and we had handed it to book censors, they wouldn't have issued permission to publish it and would have argued that some of the words in it are against public virtue," he said.

Jannati said he had reviewed some of the titles that the administration of former Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad censored and concluded that in many cases, censors had objected to "irrelevant" issues.

He also said in many instances censors had based their decisions on personal opinions, and added that the reviewers lacked the necessary expertise.

Jannati has been culture minister since August after being chosen by Hassan Rohani, the moderate cleric who was elected president in June and who has promised to give Iranians more freedoms.

But limits remain. Jannati hedged his comments by also saying that book censorship will continue in Iran because the government must act in accordance with rulings made by the Supreme National Security Council and the parliament.

"How can we allow some problematic books to poison the society?" he asked.

Iranian Culture Minister Ali Jannati has said that book censorship (source: Etemaad daily)

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 09, 2013

Sex and the Social Network, the first book by Victoria Lexington, combines two of her favorite topics, sex and social networking. The erotica novel follows four women as their lives turn upside down after they pursue extra-marital Facebook relationships in real life.

The women in Sex and the Social Network, Liz, Maria, Julia, and Gabby, are all seemingly happy and satisfied married women in suburban California who take risks to find what is missing in their lives.

A search on Google for facebook adultery comes up with more than 22,000,000 results, and according to Maryland and D.C. divorce attorney, Regina Demeo, at least 20 percent of her cases involve illicit relationships that began on Facebook.

The Kindle edition of Sex and the Social Network is available for free from Wednesday, October 10, 2013 through Sunday, October 14, 2013.

Sex and the Social Network is available exclusively on Amazon.com in both paperback and Kindle versions.

About Victoria Lexington Victoria Lexington is a wife and mother of two, based in Northern California.

A former "mommy blogger" and social network addict, Victoria decided to bring two of her favorite pastimes together in her first novel, Sex and the Social Network.

She is currently working on her second book.

For more information about Sex and the Social Network, please visit http://www.threerockspublishing.com or contact her publicist, S. Brendan Magocasa, at smagocasa(at)threerockspublishing(dot)com or (415) 295-6069.

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NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Global Social TV Industry http://www.reportlinker.com/p01658725/Global-Social-TV-Industry.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Audio_and_Video_Equipment

This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Social TV in US$ Million.

The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Rest of World. Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2011 through 2018.

The report profiles 135 companies including key Social TV Application Developers and Service Providers such as Cablevision Systems Corporation, ClipSync Inc., ConnecTV, Facebook, Inc., GetGlue, GoMiso, Inc., IntoNow, Miso TV, Netflix, Inc., Never.no, SnappyTV, Starling, Inc., Tunerfish, TVplus, Twitter, Viggle, Inc., VLOOP LLC, and Zeebox. The report also discusses profiles of Social TV Analytics/Measurement Companies such as Bluefin Labs, Networked Insights, SecondSync Ltd., SocialGuide, Inc., and Trendrr.

Market data and analytics are derived from primary and secondary research.

Company profiles are primarily based on public domain information including company URLs.

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Oct. 7, 2013 Over the past 10 years, social media has changed the way that people influence each other. By analysing data from the social networking service, Twitter, and stock trading in the financial market, researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have shown that events in society bring rise to common behaviour among large groups of people who do not otherwise know each other The analysis shows that there are common features in user activity on Twitter and in stock market transactions in the financial market.

The results are published in the scientific journal, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"The whole idea of the study is to understand how social networks function. The strength of using the popular social media, Twitter, is that they are more than 200 million users worldwide, who write short messages about immediate experiences and impressions. This means that you can directly study human behaviour in crowds on the web. Twitter can be seen as a global social sensor," explains Joachim Mathiesen, Associate Professor of physics at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen.

Dynamic Twitter behaviour

Joachim Mathiesen developed a programme that could follow the use of Twitter constantly. He could see that there were periods with relatively steady activity and then there would be a very abrupt and intense upswing in activity. Suddenly there was an event that everyone had to respond to and there was an explosion in the amount of online activity.

"There arises a collective behaviour between people who otherwise do not know each other, but who are coupled together via events in society," explains Joachim Mathiesen.

The analysis also took into account how frequently approximately 100 international brands, like Pepsi, IBM, Apple, Nokia, Toyota, etc. occurred in messages on Twitter. Here too, the level is characterised by days of steady activity, which is interrupted by sudden, but brief explosions of activity.

"Something happens that encourages people to write on Twitter, and suddenly the activity explodes. This is a kind of horde behaviour that is driven by an external even and gets crowds to react," says Joachim Mathiesen.

But why is a physicist concerning himself with social behaviour?

"As physicists, we are good at understanding large amounts of complex data and we can create systems in this sea of coincidences. Complex systems are seen in many contexts and are simply learning about human behaviour in large social groups," he explains.

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HOUSTON, Oct. 8, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- While Facebook, Vine and Twitter remain atop the iTunes chart for top free social networking apps, a new face has broken into the top 50: Voxofon. The rapidly growing provider of over-the-top (OTT) voice and messaging services has experienced a surge in popularity since rolling out a significant facelift to its user interface in conjunction with adding app support for the Apple iOS 7 platform. Voxofon version 5.0 was released less than three weeks ago.

The popular new features and streamlined user experience resonate with customers, who continue to leave positive reviews and give Voxofon for iOS 7 a user rating of 4.5 stars. The enhancements make it easier than ever to call, text, and organize contacts. The new user interface offers German and Spanish localization, and makes it possible for users to quickly access contacts they can call for free or an international list of contacts. It also eliminates the complexities of calling internationally by offering dialing tips from within the app.

"Watching Voxofon climb the app charts is a lot like a band watching their single climb the music charts -- it is just great to get positive feedback from the user community and it makes us want to deliver more enhancements in the near future," said Alexey Goloshubin, CEO and co-founder of Voxofon. "We are planning on releasing an iPad-optimized version along with additional UI updates and Korean localization in the coming weeks."

Voxofon, which is among the fast growing providers of OTT voice and messaging services with nearly 1 million registered users, considers Korea a major market opportunity. Korea is among the top countries in terms of smartphone penetration with 73 percent and is one of the most active users of OTT communication apps. In comparison, smartphone penetration in the U.S. is less than 57 percent.

Voxofon has been focused on simplicity and flexibility to differentiate its app from other voice and messaging services. In addition to smartphones, Voxofon's apps can be used for international and domestic voice and messaging on feature phones, landlines, PCs and tablets. With Voxofon's iOS app, even wifi-enabled music players such as the Apple iPod touch(R) can send and receive calls and text messages from friends, family and business associates around the world.

Editors: Download image of Voxofon breaking the top 50 for top free social networking apps at: http://www.dpkpr.com/media/files/files/2556d784/Voxofon-Top-50.png.

About Voxofon

Voxofon, a provider of OTT (over-the-top) voice and messaging solutions, develops simple, easy-to-use apps (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry) that deliver free and low-cost calls and texts globally. Designed to enable both smartphone and feature phone users, Voxofon delivers a cloud-powered platform that makes it easy to have real-time communication with practically anyone in the world. Voxofon is based in Houston, Texas, and was founded in 2008. For more information, please visit http://www.voxofon.com.

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Voxofon Breaks Into Top 50 of Most Popular Social Networking Apps on iTunes