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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Oct 4, 2012) - reBroadcast.me announced today the launch of its social marketing platform.reBroadcast.me enables businesses to expand the distribution of their social media by leveraging the connections of their fans, followers, employees and other social media accounts that are not centrally managed.

"We are very excited about the launch of reBroadcast.me and are very pleased with the traction that we are seeing right out of the gate," said Mike Cunningham, CEO of reBroadcast.me."Supporters of a particular business, whether they are employees or followers, are your best asset when it comes to spreading your message.reBroadcast.me helps put this inherent support to work by allowing businesses to request the sharing of social media on Facebook and Twitter."

reBroadcast.me is one of the first social media management platforms that actively grows social following and increases the social reach of content organically by putting relevant content in front of actual live people, not bots."There are lots of great social media managers out there and they are very good at increasing the effectiveness of social campaigns, publishing across platforms, and on the analytics side," said Cunningham."We are different in that we go beyond the creation, management, and reporting of social campaigns and instead focus on increasing the conversion rate of a larger audience.It''s a great complimentary product that adds a shot of steroids to your social media campaign."

While the concept is very simple, the platform can be embedded into the core function of a website.Businesses can utilize reBroadcast.me to turn users into social marketers by incentivizing them, through discounts or advanced features for example, to become followers or to share social content."reBroadcast.me is truly taking social media marketing to a new level by enabling businesses to drive follower acquisition from their core online business activity as opposed to simply putting up a few social media buttons here and there," said Cunningham.

reBroadcast.me is the first product from FeedSeed Social Reader and is available at http://www.reBroadcast.me or as an app on Facebook at http://apps.facebook.com/rebroadcastme/.

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LONDON (Reuters) - A leading media watchdog has accused Iran of trying to cow journalists into silence and self-censorship, adding to international pressure on Tehran over its treatment of activists and the press.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)said Tehran, which is facing tough international economic sanctions over its nuclear program, was also trying to restrict internet access.

"The situation for independent journalists is Iran is worsening by the day," CPJ Deputy Director Rob Mahoney said in a statement on Wednesday.

"High-profile persecutions and imprisonments are an attempt by the authorities to intimidate the media into silence and self-censorship. The international community must speak out against such actions."

The United Nations human rights office called on Tuesday for the immediate release of prominent activists and journalists arrested or intimidated in what it called an apparent clampdown on critical voices ahead of next year's presidential election.

The CPJ expressed concern about Ali Akbar Javanfekr, press adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and head of the state-run IRNA news agency, who was jailed for six months for insulting the Supreme Leader and Reuters Bureau Chief Parisa Hafezi on trial on charges of spreading lies and propaganda.

In citing a series of arrests of print journalists, it said Iranian authorities had maintained a 'revolving-door' policy, freeing some temporarily as they took others into custody.

In March, the Iranian government suspended the press accreditation of all Reuters staff in Tehran after publication of a video script on women's martial arts training that erroneously referred to the athletes as "assassins". Since then, Reuters has been unable to report from Iran.

Reuters, the news arm of Thomson Reuters, the global news and information group, corrected the script after the martial arts club complained and apologized for the error.

Reuters' Bureau Chief in Iran, Iranian national Parisa Hafezi, was subsequently charged on several counts including spreading lies and propaganda against the establishment. Hafezi had not been involved in drafting the video script.

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Viscount Systems Inc. (VSYS) a high technology supplier of IT-focused solutions for physical security under its Freedom product line, announced today that the company has filed a series of patents for securing facilities and tracking users through the use of mobile, handheld devices such as phones or PDAs. The patents deal with the ability to use mobile devices to communicate with a door reader, rather than using traditional ID/access cards. The company previewed the technology at the recent ASIS security conference in Philadelphia and received excellent feedback including media coverage.

Security InfoWatch, a leading security industry magazine publisher, began their review of new technology at ASIS by stating, When you think of what might be the greatest access control innovations from the show floor at ASIS this year, your first thought was probably a neat way to open doors with an iphone Viscount used a mobile phone to open a door using only a QR (Quick Response) code. The code is mounted above the door, and the user need only scan the QR code to be granted access.

With Freedom we have already demonstrated our ability to dramatically improve ROI by eliminating the control panel component of systems, noted Stephen Pineau, President and CEO of Viscount. With Freedom Mobile we can now also eliminate the cost of RFID readers and cards to further improve ROI. The patents we have filed and the technology we are developing represents a tremendous opportunity for Viscount to deliver solutions as low cost Cloud applications based on a recurring revenue model that are normally delivered as electronic hardware.

Mr. Pineau continued, In addition to securing doors we have filed wide reaching patents covering mobile security applications that we have encountered in the past, but that for reasons relating to cost, end-users were hesitant to proceed. For example, large retail chains and restaurants have been looking for ways to track deliveries and contractors such as garbage and snow removal but the cost of wiring dedicated RFID systems is prohibitive. Other users have requested ways to locate staff without using expensive RFID muster stations in the event of emergencies and evacuations. Finally, there are large corporate and financial clients who are looking to secure shared printer networks for compliance reasons. With Freedom Mobile we now have a solution to these applications where there is basically no cost to deploy the technology. The solutions simply require a nominal monthly recurring revenue Cloud fee with no upfront capital cost. We believe there is great potential with this approach.

About Viscount Systems

Viscount Systems Inc., designs unified software platforms for building security and emergency planning. Recent awards include SIA Convergence Solution of the Year 2011 and Platinum Award for Emergency Response and Gold Award for Access Control at GOVSEC 2011. Additional information on Viscount's products may be obtained on-line at http://www.viscount.com.

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WASHINGTON (AP) Big Bird is endangered. Jim Lehrer lost control. And Mitt Romney crushed President Barack Obama.

Those were the judgments rendered across Twitter and Facebook Wednesday during the first debate of the 2012 presidential contest. While millions turned on their televisions to watch the 90-minute showdown, a smaller but highly engaged subset took to social networks to discuss and score the debate as it unspooled in real time.

Until recently, debate watchers would have waited through the entire broadcast to hear analysis and reaction from a small cadre of television pundits. Social media has democratized the commentary, giving voice to a far wider range of participants who can shape the narrative long before the candidates reach their closing statements.

"People still use old media to watch the debates, but they use social networks and other new media to have influence, voice opinions and be involved," said Scott Talan, an assistant professor of communication at American University who studies social media and politics. "Old media is not dead; it's growing. But now we have more people involved and engaged because of digital means."

The political conversation plays out across a range of social platforms, especially on the industry giant Facebook and on Twitter, the social networking hub where opinions are shared through 140-character comments known as tweets. Reflecting the changing times, many television analysts now monitor Twitter and Facebook feeds and use information gleaned from those platforms to inform their punditry.

Twitter announced shortly after Wednesday's debate that it had been the most tweeted event in U.S. political history, topping this year's Republican and Democratic National Conventions.

With 11.1 million comments, Wednesday's debate was the fourth most-tweeted telecast of any kind, coming in just behind the most recent Grammy awards, MTV's Video Music Awards and the Super Bowl, according to William Powers, director of The Crowdwire, an election project of Bluefin Labs, a social analytics firm. It was far higher than the previous political record holder: the third night of the Democratic National Convention in September, which drew 2.5 million comments.

A significant spike in social media commentary came from women, The Crowdwire found. Some 55 percent of comments about the debate were made by women, compared to just 39 percent during the Republican primary debates.

Unlike the wider viewing audience, debate watchers who comment on social media "are politically engaged in the strongest possible way," Powers said. But, he added, "it's a bit of a hothouse population. It does skew younger, and I'm not sure how much middle America is represented."

Twitter scored Romney the debate's clear winner according to Peoplebrowsr, a Web analytics firm. The group found 47,141 tweets mentioning Romney and "win or winner" compared to just 29,677 mentioning Obama and "win or winner."

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Facebook on Thursday announced that it now has more than 1 billion monthly active users, more than any other social network in the world. The social network also said that more than 600 million users are now accessing Facebook from their mobile devices.

In comparison, Twitters latest official update pegs it at 140 million active users (some estimate there are some 500 million total users), while would-be Facebook rival Google+ has 100 million monthly active users and 400 million signups.

Mark Zuckerberg celebrates Facebooks latest milestone.

Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the milestone on his Facebook profile on Thursday morning, saying: This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life. I am committed to working every day to make Facebook better for you, and hopefully together one day we will be able to connect the rest of the world too.

In a fact sheet released to mark the occasion, Facebook detailed that it reached 1 billion monthly active users on September 14 at 12:45 p.m. PT. The top five countries where people connected from at the time the milestone was reached were Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the United States.

Facebook was launched in 2004, and by 2006, it had 23 million users. That number doubled by 2007, and again in 2008, when it reached 100 million users. By 2010, Facebook hit 500 million users, doubling that number two years later. Currently, Facebook says the average age of its users is around 22 years old, down from 26 in 2008.

Facebook says that more than 219 billion photos were uploaded on the social network, with some 140 billion friend connections. With people putting so much of their personal life on the social network, Facebooks growth has not been without privacy blunders, and legislators in Europe are still investigating Facebooks data mining techniques.

Facebook still has challenges ahead, though. Local social networks in China and Russia have a foothold on their market and Facebook has been slow to make forays in those countries. Then there is the financial aspect: Facebook had a shaky initial public offering earlier this year, and it is still looking at ways to make display advertisements for the mobile users who represent 60 percent of the social networks monthly traffic.

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