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9 secrets of getting stuff done in a big company

2011-11-09T18:06:00.000+08:00

9 secrets of getting stuff done in a big company

Published: 08 November 11, 15:53 GMT

Security may be a hot-button issue for business executives, but in an
environment of ongoing economic uncertainty, support for security
initiatives isn't always easy to come by.

Whatever's standing in the way - be it politics or personal agendas,
inflexible budgets or outright adversaries - security professionals
need to work hard to loosen the purse strings and get funding for the
programmes they believe in.

"There's no carte blanche for security," says Roland Cloutier, CSO at
ADP, a $10 billion business solutions outsourcer.

"It's an ongoing chore to prioritise our spend, align with business
priorities and promote our requirements so we can get that extra
dollar to protect the company," he says.

Dave Cullinane, CISO at online auction giant eBay, agrees. "Where
we're spending, what is the risk and what is the appropriate
expenditure - all these things put together are making it more
challenging to get things approved," he says.

We asked several CSOs to tell us their best getting-it-done tips, and
we distilled them into nine tactics for getting your security
initiatives moving despite numerous obstacles.

1. Do the maths

With funding tighter than ever, it's crucial to present hard numbers
on why your project or initiative is important. "If it's just
marginally improving the level of security, that's probably not
enough," says Richard Gunthner, CSO at Mastercard Worldwide. "There
needs to be a return on investment that makes sense."

With so many potential exposures - malware, system threats, new
regulations - Cullinane says a big part of his job is calculating a
risk picture and quantifying it to show the residual risk and the ROI
of your intended fix. "If I can demonstrate that a $6 million
investment will result in a $300 million risk reduction, the CFO gets
that," Cullinane says. "But you have to prove the initiative will
result in that reduction, and quantification is the hard part."

Then, follow up with the results. "It's showing them, here's where we
started, and here's where we came to in a short period of time,"
Cullinane says. Once you build credibility, the money will come more
easily. "I'm giving the CFO back $5 for every dollar he gives me, so
he's willing to give me more - one of the nice things about security
is you can demonstrate that," Cullinane says.

One example is a recent investment Cullinane's organisation made in
advanced malware-detection tools. When Cullinane asked his
investigative team to conduct a pilot test to detect any major issues
with employee laptops used to work from home, "we found we had a much
more significant malware problem than we thought we had, especially
targeting people in HR and finance," he says.

This could have resulted in leaked information on organisational
changes or planned acquisitions, but by making a small investment in a
malware product, the exposure could be drastically reduced, he says.
Cullinane also recently made a large investment in intelligence
information to focus on major sources of fraud. "It was essential in
arresting individual fraudsters and kept our fraud rate down 100
percent more than the investments we made," he says.

Ideally, you should show the investment will close a hole you have in
your organisation that has resulted in a security lapse tied to a
financial loss. If you can't pin it to an internal event, show what
happened in another company, preferably in the same industry.

"It shows it's not pie-in-the-sky but can and has happened, and
therefore there's a risk that needs to be remedied," Gunthner says.
"That makes it much easier to sell."

Present your request for funding in what Cloutier calls "a
risk-informed manner."

"Everything can't be important, so we have to show what's important
and why," he says. Cloutier works closely with the financial
organisation to create models of risk impact - how it affects
investments, revenues or business-unit financial models - and
probability, based on comparisons with others in the industry.

"We use a lot of financials because we're a financially focused
company," he says.

2. Show the business link

Even if you can't get hard numbers, be sure to request funding only
for initiatives that align with current business concerns, Cloutier
says.

For instance, if the current business concern is top-line revenue, how
can you help do that faster? If it's closing the sales cycle faster,
what programme can you initiate to speed that up? If the concern is
expense reduction, what can security do to reduce fraud and waste?

"If you can articulate that and show a direct link - not just a speech
that points to something, but actually show a link - that gets
corporate leaders behind your efforts to support them in reaching
their goals."

3. Watch your language

You won't get far in your spending requests if you don't tune your
message to the audience, whether you're presenting your case to the
executive board, the IT group or the mailroom staff.

"You should constantly be shifting gears in the way you talk to
various prospective customers," says Jason Clark, chief security and
strategy officer at Websense, a security solutions provider. "IT cares
about operational details, but that's not the same conversation you
should have in the boardroom."

Alan Nutes, senior manager of security and incident management at
Newell Rubbermaid, echoes this advice. "If you're talking to senior
management, use C-level words," he says. "A security professional
might say 'loss prevention,' where a C-level executive will understand
'asset management.'"

In an executive-level pitch for more firewalls, you might use the
metaphor of needing brakes on a car, not for stopping but to go faster
safely, Clark suggests. "Or if executives want to bring iPads in, you
don't want to be the guy saying, 'No iPads'; it's 'Yes, iPads, but
here's an extra piece of software on the network to secure it."

The fact is, most business executives only become concerned about
security violations when it's clear how the exposure will affect the
top or bottom lines, and it's your job to make that connection for
them. When Cloutier's team recently conducted a review of
business-process risk, for instance, it discovered its data-monitoring
controls were no longer optimal for one unit because of a change in
the way the unit was transferring data. To make the case for the
technology upgrade that would fix the issue, the team made the link
between the security weakness and the unit's ability to get
certifications that would allow it to win more contracts.

"We put it in terms the unit would understand," Cloutier says. "They
weren't so concerned about the actual security violations, but how it
would impact their ability to generate new revenue because certain
certifications would not be available to them otherwise." As a result,
"they became our number-one business supporter in deploying new
technology to remediate it," he says.

4. Make it personal

If you want to get someone's attention, lay an issue right in their
front yard. Once people are made to feel accountable, they will take
interest in - and hopefully become advocates for - your proposal. For
instance, Cloutier makes a habit of identifying which business leaders
"own" which risks and then publicises these assignments.

"That's powerful - people don't want to be seen as responsible for
risk, so they become supporters in helping to mitigate it," Cloutier
says. "It's not about fear and uncertainty, it's about feeling
accountable for a problem in their area and deciding they're going to
help resolve it." The technique encourages a partnership approach,
which drives the needed resources.

Clark similarly believes in the power of publicising ownership. He
uses a device that he created earlier in his career, which he calls
the "Good, Bad and Ugly" chart. The diagram depicts where each
division stands in its progress on current security initiatives. At
one company, Clark shared this chart with the CEO and requested that
the CEO voice his support for the initiative in his quarterly address.
Not only did the CEO promote the project, but he also called out the
president of one division that had fallen far behind in achieving
project milestones, saying that failing to catch up would result in
termination. "Suddenly, everyone was coming to me, asking what they
needed to do to catch up," Clark says.

In large companies, it can take some educating to get certain
divisions to feel ownership. For instance, at a global manufacturer
that Clark worked for, the oil refinery division had lots of interest
in security, but a manufacturing division was more tuned in to keeping
its factories operational.

"We had to show them that regardless of what they're protecting,
they're part of the overall corporate risk," Clark says. "You're only
as good as your weakest link. That is a conversation I've had multiple
times because different areas didn't want to spend the funds."

5. Preview your plans

You usually only get one shot when you request funding, so Gunthner
suggests practising your pitch before showtime. "When I set out to
sell a new initiative, I'm looking at three things: Does it make
financial sense, what is the business value, and does it support the
business strategy," he says. "So after doing all my homework, before
officially presenting it, I present it informally to various key
stakeholders so I'm not taking something out of the box they've never
seen or heard of before."

By the time you make the formal presentation, you have a number of
people in your corner who understand the value of what you're trying
to do, he says. And if there's a lot of pushback, you need to evaluate
whether it's time to move forward or go back to the drawing board.
"You typically only have one chance of getting a yes, and if you get a
no, you can't go back for several years," Gunthner says.

The stakeholders you gather don't need to be part of the ultimate
group making the decision, he says. They just need to be people in
divisions who may be affected, for example, facilities, a particular
business unit, finance, legal or HR. "I try to rally as many of those
people in my corner as I can so that when the day comes - whether
they're in the room or not as part of the official decision making - I
can say I consulted with XYZ and they're in support of it," he says.

Even if it takes weeks or months, Gunthner says he doesn't move
forward with his funding requests until he gains consensus. "All it
takes is one stakeholder to say, 'I don't agree,' and the thing is
dead in the water," he says. "Let them shoot holes in it--you would
rather know beforehand versus when you get turned down altogether."

6. Play politics

It's also a good move to surround yourself with people who hold power
in the organisation, such as top money-making business areas, Clark
says. "If you get them bought in, everyone else will say, 'If it's
good enough for them, it's good enough for us,'" he says. Does that
sound cynical to security do-gooders? "That's how the business world
works," says Clark.

Additionally, when communicating to the company about the security
organisation's activities, it's not a bad idea to piggyback
newsletters or articles onto communiques that a high-level executive
is already sending out. At a previous employer, Clark contributed a
monthly column to a weekly newsletter that the number three executive
in the company sent out. At another company, he paired up with the
CIO's ongoing communications.

"I ask the highest-level person I have a relationship with to send it
out," he says. These missives are also a good way to build a campaign
for an initiative for which you're trying to gain support.

7. Read their minds

It doesn't take a psychic to forecast the concerns and questions
certain stakeholders will have - all it takes is a quick study in
human behaviour. "Certain individuals have hot-button issues they
particularly want to dig into," Gunthner says. For instance, HR may
have a particular sensitivity to certain employee relations issues,
while facilities may be concerned about misplaced assets. "To know
what those are and address them in advance gives you a much better
opportunity to get your proposal through," he says.

8. Watch your timing

Timing is not always something you can control, but it's important to
keep in mind that it's "key, key, key," Gunthner says. Even great
projects that clearly support business strategy and promise a great
return can get turned down if the decision maker is, for whatever
reason, having a bad day. "You have one opportunity to get a 'yes,' so
timing is crucial," he says. "If you have the ability to pick the
right time to present your project, do so. This will increase your
chances of getting a 'yes.'"

9. Show, don't tell

When presenting to the C-suite, visuals can express your ideas more
clearly and quickly than words. When Clark wanted to convey risk
exposure to executives at a former employer, he created a mash-up of
the company's web security tools and a spinning globe. He showed a
rain cloud advancing over certain cities to show where the risk was
highest. "The CEO asked if I could guarantee we wouldn't get hacked,
and I said, 'Can you make it stop raining?' No, but you can prepare
for the storm to reduce your risk," Clark says.

At eBay, Cullinane has developed a dynamic "risk curve" visual that
illustrates the relationship between spending and risk levels. "It
tends to get pushed up to the right as new exposures are found and
moves down when we take actions to reduce exposure," he says.

Clark also believes in the power of storytelling as a vibrant way to
enliven security exposures and successes. He has gone so far as to
hire a security marketing analyst, who spends one-third of his time
storytelling, whether it's to secure funding or report on ROI. This
person is a creative communicator and natural salesperson who, for
instance, tells executives what they got for their money, beyond
standard ROI, and puts relevant context around news stories of
security mishaps and explains what could reduce that kind of risk.

Beyond visuals and storytelling, Cloutier has occasionally turned to
the power of the hack to illustrate a technology-related risk.
"Especially on the cyber side, we show them how easy it would be to
get hacked," Cloutier says. "It's hard to argue."

Similarly, Clark has set up hacking challenges that determine whether
he gets funding. At one company with a large number of external-facing
websites, the developers firmly believed they had battened down all
the hatches and were balking at putting up the money for a particular
security initiative. Clark issued a challenge: If he could hack into
five of the websites, they would allocate the funds. They agreed, and
he was successful. "It was a gamble, but I was pretty confident," he
says. Doing something attention-grabbing is sometimes key, he says.

"To be a change agent, you have to be creative and convey things in
interesting ways they haven't heard of before," Clark says. "Often,
people have their objections already lined up, so you have to think
two steps ahead and come at it a completely different way."

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http://www.computerworlduk.com/advice/security/3316810/9-secrets-of-getting-stuff-done-in-a-big-company/

Blue Coat rolls out new cloud connectivity option

2011-11-09T18:03:00.000+08:00

Blue Coat rolls out new cloud connectivity option

By Joan Engebretson

Cloud-Connector aims to minimize traffic between branch offices and corporate data centers for a performance boost

Blue Coat Systems today announced Cloud-Connector, a new cloud connectivity option for enterprises with branch locations. The offering, which is implemented on the same platform that supports Blue Coat's WAN optimization service, aims to minimize the amount of Internet-destined traffic from branch offices that first flows through the corporate data center, thereby enhancing performance and potentially reducing costs.

As Blue Coat Senior Director of Product Marketing Mark Urban explained in an interview, many corporations have a "fear of opening the branch office to the great unwashed Internet." Accordingly, they set up their networks so that Internet traffic to and from branch offices flows through a central corporate data center.

"In April we rolled out security as a service," explained Urban. "With Cloud-Connector, you can use the same box [that supports the security service] to forward Internet traffic to a web security cloud and remove security concerns using our cloud service." Also supporting the offering is an additional box at Blue Coat's data center.

Urban sees demand for this type of application growing as cloud services become increasingly popular. The Cloud-Connector offering removes cloud access traffic, as well as recreational traffic such as You Tube from the corporate data center.

Some customers have already used the service
Instead of the single wide area network connection that each branch location typically would have had previously, each branch now will require two connections to support Cloud-Connector—one to the Internet via Blue Coat's data center, and one to the corporate data center. To implement the dual connections, corporations can order an additional virtual circuit or configure a split tunnel on their MPLS service, Urban said.

Blue Coat rolled out Cloud-Connector to several customers several months ago. "We wanted to get it in environments working with the cloud before we started to talk about it," said Urban. The company now plans to market the service "more actively" on November 22, he said.

Cloud-Connector joins Blue Coat's suite of cloud services, which also include caching (CP: As mobile data booms, Blue Coat triples cache performance), security and WAN optimization, which is designed to enhance the performance of a company's internal applications.

Snaptu: Jobs's Death Was Like Lennon, JFK Getting Shot, Wozniak Says - BusinessWeek

2011-10-07T00:14:00.001+08:00

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Facebook not-so-secretly records your stalking habits

2011-08-19T09:48:00.000+08:00

By Zack Whittaker | August 18, 2011, 11:07am PDT

Summary: Facebook monitors whose profile you visit — friend, or otherwise. Now it has been discovered, what else can Facebook do with your usage data?

It has long been believed that Facebook employees can access your data — or at least, have the means to do so, if necessary. Governments are a little more open about this, and actively use social media sites to collect information of persons of interest.

But a lot of mystery surrounds what the California-based social network actually do with your data. One particular area has been discovered, however.

It turns out that Facebook records whose profiles you visit, and ranks them based on scores — to then deliver the most accurate search results.

Discovered by a startup working on an autocomplete search facility for their upcoming website, they discovered a client-side code script which can be executed within the browser, to display Facebook's 'rankings' from your profile.

Facebook uses a server-side script, loaded when you use the site, called first_degree.php. This acts as a ranking algorithm, likely to be based on those who you interact with, the profiles you visit, who you chat and communicate with and those who you have recently become acquainted with.

The higher the negative number, the more likely the person attached to it will display in Facebook's autocomplete search — at the top of the window.

While visiting someone else's profile does not affect the global search rankings of Facebook profiles — so it cannot be 'Google-bombed' — Facebook only reflects these to the individual user.

As described by the discoverers, there are probably two crucial files — one that opens your "first degree" friends, and another which loads your "first degree" pages and events. By indexing these results over time, it allows Facebook to deliver seemingly the best user for the search query.

But perhaps more worryingly, this is client-side, making this data available to the computer you are using — and any malware lurking on it, too.

After trying this out for myself, not only is it relatively accurate, with a few odd exceptions, I was overcome with a sense of violation.

Why is Facebook recording which profiles I visit the most? What other data collection means is Facebook using to 'enhance the experience'?

What is not clear is how Facebook directly uses this information outside of the search function. What is clear, however, is that Facebook is a goldmine of information. Even clicking on someone's profile can alter the algorithm-like functions of the site, to seemingly rank one person higher than the other.

Talk about creepy.

APT Attackers Hiding In Plain Sight

2011-08-19T09:38:00.000+08:00

Researchers detail how these persistent attackers employ HTML comments, other benign-looking methods to do their dirty work -- and keep a low profile

By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Dark Reading

Ever wonder exactly why cyberespionage attackers can be so difficult to detect? These so-called advanced persistent threat (APT) attackers increasingly are camouflaging their activities by using tools that exist in the targeted host, operating via commonly used network ports, and even hiding their command-and-control (C&C) communications within HTML comments.

"They're hiding in plain sight," says Shawn Bracken, chief scientist at HBGary, who studies these attacks firsthand in forensic investigations. "It really harkens back to their sophistication in being aware of behavioral blocking and analysis [that organizations] are using."

Rather than making any moves that could trigger an alarm or raise suspicion because it's out of the norm, these attackers instead just try to blend in. "The tools they are installing are specifically installed not to run afoul of the IPS [intrusion prevention system]. They use legitimate, published APIs and make a special effort not to do things out of the ordinary."

That means using real systems admin tools resident in the targeted operating system, and increasingly using HTML comments for their C&C. There are at least three APT groups, including the ones behind theOperation Shady RAT campaign, using that technique to conceal their communications. "You can't block [all] websites that contain comments," Bracken says.

Joe Stewart, director of malware research for Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit, says the use of encrypted HTML comments on Web pages has been part of APT-type attacks for some time. "This is a technique which has been used for several years, and security researchers who have been following APT activity, I believe, have been aware of it for several years," Stewart says. "Knowledge of the HTML comments can be used to help detect APT traffic, however, only for the specific malware using specific HTML comments and their respective formats."

It works like this: The attackers exploit a Web server somewhere on the Internet or a social network site, such as a blogging site. The attacker then tucks his encoded instructions as a hidden comment on that website, and the RAT regularly checks the page.

"We've seen two scenarios -- a compromised Web server that a hacker will penetrate into, using SQL injection, for example, and then hide his comments on that server," says Greg Hoglund, CEO of HBGary.

The RAT has a hard-coded DNS name in it to connect to, which is then altered to match the IP address of the infected site. "So the RAT makes the outbound connection and grabs the instructions," he says.

The second scenario is where attackers use a legitimate social media or application site, such as Google BlogSpot, to host their hidden instructions in an HTML comment, Hoglund says. Those instructions are often configuration instructions, such as ordering a machine to connect to a specific machine in the victim's network and leave open a TCP connection. That provides the attacker with an interactive link to the machine, "and he gets command-line access," Hoglund says.

Even the remote access tools are purposely not stealthy: "They don't appear to be armored for anti-forensics," Hoglund says. "They make it look like a normal piece of software."

So if you can find the HMTL comments, you can figure out on which machines the RAT is installed, he says. But there are also likely more RATs in the network, Hoglund says.

HBGary's blog post on APT attackers employing HTML commands is here.

http://www.darkreading.com/advanced-threats/167901091/security/attacks-breaches/231500180/apt-attackers-hiding-in-plain-sight.html

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2011-07-12T11:14:00.001+08:00

MANILA, Philippines - Pop Star Princess Sarah Geronimo turned down the invitation of "Star Power" grand winner Angeline Quinto to attend her debut concert.

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Snaptu: The Twitter Endgame: IPO, Chess, or Roulette?

2011-07-11T18:25:00.006+08:00

Reports are swirling that Twitter is in talks to raise $400 million, valuing the company close to $8 billion. It seems as if it was only yesterday that Twitter raised $200m from Kleiner Perkins. At the time of Kleiner's investment, some pundits…

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Snaptu: Despite Google+ Competition, Disco, Google’s Hushed Messaging App, Continues To Improve

2011-07-11T18:25:00.005+08:00

It has been over three months since we first broke the news on the existence of Disco, the group messaging app made by the Slide team within Google. Google still refuses to talk about it. But work continues nonetheless. Today brings version 3 of the…

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Snaptu: How Apple Led The High-Stakes Patent Poker Win Against Google, Sealing Ballmer’s Promise

2011-07-11T18:25:00.003+08:00

"It's not like Android's free. Android has a patent fee. You do have to license patents." That was Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in an interview last year with The Wall Street Journal. At the time, Microsoft was on the verge of releasing their first…

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Snaptu: Google+ Added $20 Billion To Google’s Market Cap

2011-07-11T18:25:00.001+08:00

How much is social worth to Google? Investors added $20 billion to Google's market cap the first week after the launch of Google+ on June 28. A Morgan Stanley downgrade on Friday, brought the total down to $15.8 billion because of doubts whether…

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Snaptu: Justin.TV: The Movie

2011-07-11T18:24:00.001+08:00

While the historical accuracy of Facebook tell-all The Social Network was questionable, the movie did tremendously well at the box office. And at the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars. Now Hollywood producers are looking for the next big story…

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Snaptu: College2Startup Wants To Connect Startups To The Best Young Talent (And Vice Versa)

2011-07-11T18:23:00.001+08:00

Those media experts among us may be familiar with "Help A Reporter Out", or HARO, which brings reporters and bloggers to quotable sources, and helps small businesses promote their brands. It's an interesting, if not completely proven, model. Now,…

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Snaptu: Is Nothing Sacred? First Broadway Cam Surfaces

2011-07-11T18:22:00.001+08:00

It seems the the Book of Mormon is one of the first Broadway musicals to receive the popular pirate treatment. As of yesterday, there was a bootleg version of the show floating around the sharing sites complete with instructions on how to improve…

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Snaptu: Nike+ GPS social update may make people run from your Twitter, Facebook accounts

2011-07-11T18:21:00.001+08:00

Nike this week rolled out updates to its Nike+ GPS app, including bug fixes and an auto-calibration feature, which should help improve the accuracy of your run. Also on-board are social features, which push running updates to Facebook and Twitter.…

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Snaptu: Apple coughing up $8 million to Personal Audio in iPod playlist settlement

2011-07-11T18:20:00.003+08:00

Ah, the Eastern District of Texas. Home to tumbleweeds, free range cattle and boatloads of patent trolls. Personal Audio, a patent licensing company with a highfalutin' facility in Beaumont, Texas has become the latest outfit to claim victory over a…

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Snaptu: Google pulls co.cc subdomains from search, brings our global malware nightmare to an end

2011-07-11T18:20:00.001+08:00

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Snaptu: Microsoft Explorer Touch Mouse quietly revealed, touts BlueTrack and haptic feedback

2011-07-11T18:19:00.005+08:00

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Snaptu: Lenovo U1 tablet arrives at FCC, finally

2011-07-11T18:19:00.003+08:00

Well, hello there little guy. Did you get lost on your way to production? Many, many moons since we got our first hands-on with the thing it looks like the Lenovo U1 has found the way to retail reality, making a stop by at the FCC to ensure that it…

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Snaptu: HTC rolling out unlocked bootloaders to select phones in August

2011-07-11T18:19:00.001+08:00

HTC is rocking the world this Sunday evening with an announcement on its Facebook page, stating that, as promised, it's ready to begin rolling out unlocked bootloaders to the global HTC Sensation in August, followed by the Sensation 4G on T-Mobile…

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Snaptu: How would you change HTC's Arrive?

2011-07-11T18:18:00.003+08:00

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Snaptu: Steve Jobs impersonator officiates mock keynote, hawks Taiwanese tea (video)

2011-07-11T18:18:00.001+08:00

Well, there's clearly no better way to legitimize any new product than to have a faux Steve Jobs hawking it on-stage, in front of dozens of applauding mock journalists, with a 20-foot iPad 2 projected behind. The Jobs / John Stamos hybrid dropped by…

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How to Import Your Facebook Friends to Google+

2011-07-10T15:21:00.003+08:00

Google+ is a new social networking site with the revolutionary abilities to create circles of friends, hang outvia group video chat with your circles, find online articles based on your interests, and more. Google has made it easy to connect with your Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail contacts, but it has interestingly left off Facebook^[1], where many people have spent the most time consolidating their friends. Read this article to find out how to import your Facebook friends to Google+.

Create a new Yahoo Mail account. You can do this at: http://mail.yahoo.com. Or, log into your existing account. Or, if you don't have a Yahoo Mail account, click the "Create New Account" button to make one.
Click on the "Contacts" tab, and then on "Import Contacts." Click on the "Contacts" tab, and then on "Import Contacts.
Select Facebook.
Enter your Facebook account information to log in, and then select "Okay" to allow Yahoo to see your Facebook information. You can always remove this accesslater.
Wait for Yahoo to find and import all of your Facebook contacts. Then select "Done.
Log in to Gmail. Go to the Google+ toolbar near the top of your webpage browser and click on your name. In the box that pops up, click "Circles."
This will open your Circles page in a new window. Locate the "Find Friends" section above all of your suggested contacts, and select "Yahoo."
Press "Agree" to share your Yahoo contacts with Google+. Wait for the import to sync.
All of your contacts will appear in the "Find and Invite" section of your Google+suggested friends. Now you can organize them with Google+!

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