Show #469 - July 27, 2009

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Content summary

Flight delays for Shel; upcoming FIR Interview with Dell's Richard Binhammer and Kerry Bridge; Michael Netzeley reports from Singapore on the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and 'respondeat superior'; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: crisis PR and the SpinVox kerfuffle, marketers are emailing in the dark survey says, Universal McCann's Wave4 study shows global active internet audience of 625 million, Twitter launches guide to using Twitter for business; FIR Friendfeed Room round-up; music from Sunshine Variety Club; and more.

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Contributions and Comments from these Listeners

Michael Netzley

Links

http://www.chinalawblog.com/2009/07/the_foreign_corrupt_practices.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8163511.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8166602.stm
http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=spinvox
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-1202185/Pay-cut-SpinVox-phone-text-tycoons-told.html
http://blog.spinvox.com/2009/07/23/spinvoxs-response/
http://www.spinvox.com/how_it_works.html
http://www.spinvox.com/spinvox-shares-details-of-its-world-beating-speech-technology-breakthroughs.html
http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/07/spinvox_claims_only_2_of_messages_are_referred_to_humans.html
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=spinvox
http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/922095/Marketers-emailing-dark-survey-says/
http://www.nevillehobson.com/2009/07/26/messages-from-unreal-people/
http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/922675/Internet-reaches-625m-global-users-two-thirds-using-social-networking-sites/
http://www.umww.com/wave4/
http://business.twitter.com/twitter101
http://friendfeed.com/fir
Today's music: The Party's Over by Sunshine Variety Club. http://www.myspace.com/sunshinevarietyclub

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• Neville Hobson