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Fred / A VC:
Three Statistics That Lie — I love the line about lies; “there are lies, damned lies, and statistics”. You can use numbers to tell any story you want. — In the realm of web statistics, there are three numbers that are great to use if you want to tell lies. They are: — RSS subscriber numbers
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:FriendFeed Follower Patterns Exposed: How Jason, Mike, Loic & Robert …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Mobile ad company Admob is about to mint money — Advertising on mobile phones is a trying market. Americans have been slow to surf the mobile web, in large part because dominant carriers have made browsing the web so painful. — But one young company, Admob, is showing impressive results despite …
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Drew Cullen / The Register:
O2 starts 3G iPhone stampede - and runs away — O2 today started taking pre-orders on its website for Apple's iPhone 3G - and stopped taking them again within minutes of opening the doors. — Customers were told by text message that new iPhones were available to existing customers who upgrade.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Segway CTO Leaves for Apple as Product Design VP — Phil Torrone noticed today on the Segway Chat forums that “Doug Field, the chief technology officer at Segway who heads their entire engineering team (and has since Day 1), is leaving Segway to become a VP of product design at Apple.”
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Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
COBOL: Don't Call it a Comeback — While COBOL is solidly into middle age - and many COBOL developers are well beyond that — companies such as Micro Focus, Microsoft and Veryant are moving to help enterprises take legacy COBOL applications to more modern architectures. — “Don't call it a comeback!
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Google, Zen Master of the Market — Bill Gates, who walked away from full-time work at Microsoft last month, was perhaps the foremost applied economist of the second half of the 20th century. — Mr. Gates and Microsoft fundamentally shaped how people think about the behavior of modern markets …
Suzy Jagger / Times of London:
Yahoo! re-enters merger talks with Time Warner — Yahoo! spent the July 4 bank holiday weekend in discussions with its lead adviser, Goldman Sachs, and potential bid partners including Time Warner to defend itself from a break-up by Microsoft. — The online search engine is seeking …
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Pioneer Succeeds in Developing World's First 16-Layer Optical Disc — July 7, 2008, Tokyo, Japan - Pioneer Corporation has succeeded in developing a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400 gigabytes for the first time in the world*1. Its per-layer capacity is 25 gigabytes …
BBC:
Google defends Street View tool — Google has defended its controversial Street View photo-mapping tool, saying it will meet local privacy laws in European countries at launch. — The tool, which matches real world photos to mapped locations, has drawn fire from some privacy campaigners.
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Link by Link: Poof! You're Unpublished. — FOR generations, people and institutions have had second thoughts about decisions: stock exchanges delist companies; higher courts overrule lower ones; tennis players do over a disputed point; celebrities reinvent their personalities.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
The Facebooker Who Friended Obama — Last November, Mark Penn, then the chief strategist for Hillary Rodham Clinton, derisively said Barack Obama's supporters “look like Facebook.” — Chris Hughes takes that as a compliment. — Mr. Hughes, 24, was one of four founders of Facebook.
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Alex Mindlin / New York Times:
DRILLING DOWN; Phones' Texting Feature Often Unused — In a recent survey of people from 11 countries, South Koreans were the second most likely to own cellphones with e-mail capabilities. Sixty-nine percent of the South Korean respondents had such phones, compared with 89 percent of Japanese respondents, who came in first.
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