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iPhone calls up No. 1 ranking for mobile metrics

CNET Tech blog  Wed, 11/19/2008 - 9:14am

Apple's popular smartphone captures the top spot worldwide for advertiser requests on the mobile-ad network AdMob for the month of October.



 

Start-up Planet Metrics launches carbon data warehouse

CNET Tech blog  Tue, 11/11/2008 - 9:49am

The company attracts $2.3 million in funding and launches a service for modeling emissions at corporations looking to reduce their carbon footprint.



 

Ad agencies team up on social-media standards group

CNET Tech blog  Wed, 09/17/2008 - 12:58pm

Organized by the CEO of niche social network Gather, a group of ad agency types have joined up to come up with metrics and ground rules for what's known as "engagement advertising."



 

Corporate governance is a myth

CNET Tech blog  Fri, 08/01/2008 - 8:05am

Corporate governance implies laws, methods and metrics for governing our public corporations. As such, it's a myth.

Here's why.



 

Trend Micro proposes better mousetrap: cloud-based

CNET Tech blog  Tue, 06/24/2008 - 2:49pm

I've been using the tag line "information security is worse than you think" for several years. Every once in awhile, I meet with a security vendor who backs up my words with scary metrics.

Last week in New York, Trend Micro filled this role.

According to Trend Micro's ...



 

Clinton Wins Kentucky 65% to 30%

Donklephant  Tue, 05/20/2008 - 10:07pm

This in line with most predictions, but one has to think that Obama would have liked to have closed the gap somewhat.

Her are the final numbers:

Popular Vote
Clinton - 459,145
Obama - 209,771

Pledged Delegates
Clinton - 37
Obama - 14

If I can find any demographic info, I’ll post those metrics soon.



 

9 CEOs: Buy, sell or comb over?

CNN Money  Fri, 04/25/2008 - 10:58am

Skip the metrics: A look at the hairstyle of a CEO may tell you whether his firm should be grooming a successor.

Here's 9 top execs and their 'dos.



 

The peril of panels: Can Web traffic stats be trusted?

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Fri, 12/14/2007 - 4:25am

ComScore repeatedly warns in its Securities and Exchange Commission filings that if its statistics can’t be trusted its business model is in jeopardy.
I’m calling jeopardy.

I’m calling a bit of BS too.
Why? There’s no way that ComScore traffic metrics and what I see internally can be off by–oh let’s round it off–10 million or so [...]



 

AT&T: U-verse TV service to pass 30 million homes by 2010

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Tue, 12/11/2007 - 2:48pm

AT&T unleashed a bevy of metrics Tuesday at an analyst conference. The big one: AT&T’s U-Verse television service is expected to reach about 30 million homes by the end of 2010.
By the end of 2008, AT&T’s U-Verse service will top 1 million homes.
Simply put, AT&T plans on a big IPTV roll-out over the next two [...]