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Viral Video: Nate Silver Declared President of United States of Pollsters
Apparently, every Obama poll had a Silver lining.
One More Election Prediction, From — No, Not Nate Silver or Karl Rove — SurveyMonkey
Whatever your choice: Go vote!
Decide.com Says It Will Accurately Predict Prices or Your Money Back
Decide.com helps eliminate buyer’s remorse by predicting whether the price of products will rise or fall. Now it is confident enough about some of its deals that it’s offering a money-back guarantee.
2012: Siri Is a Stunner, Amazon Is Amazin’ and Security Gets Spendy
Tech prognosticator Mark Anderson is back in New York with his annual predictions for the world of tech in 2012.
I Am Number 4S? — No Sparkly iPhone 5 Disappoints Apple Fans (and Wall Street)
Be nice to Mac fanboys today. Apple rolled out a new iPhone today. Sort of.
Liveblogging Yahoo's Q1 Earnings Call: Get Me to Funky Town
MicroHoo is funky! At least according to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz on the Silicon Valley search giant’s first-quarter earnings conference call about its recent financial performance. Yahoo’s results showed a continued worrisome revenue growth stall, due in large part to a search advertising fall-off, and a still-turning turnaround.
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Mobile Data Forecast: Unrelenting Downpour
No surprises here: Worldwide mobile data traffic is exploding. But the degree to which it’s exploding is pretty remarkable. Between 2009 and 2010, mobile data traffic nearly tripled. And according to Cisco’s annual Global Mobile Traffic Forecast, it will see a 26-fold increase by 2015. Staggering, though perhaps to be expected given the proliferation of data-intensive mobile devices. Cisco predicts that by 2015, there will be 7.1 billion of them slurping up 75 exabytes of data (an exabyte is 1 billion gigabytes). No wonder the unlimited data plan is being phased out.Still Strong: Microsoft Beat Estimates as Quarterly Sales Neared $20 Billion
Microsoft on Thursday reported earnings and revenue that topped expectations and rose significantly from a year ago amid strong sales from its Xbox and Office units. However, Microsoft’s outlook was limited, offering specific guidance only for operating expenses.
A $2 Billion Beat for Apple?
Apple will post results for its first fiscal quarter after the closing bell today, and like most of its financial reports in recent memory, they are expected to be quite strong. Wall Street analysts, on average, expect Apple to post earnings of $5.38 per share, up from $3.67 per share in the same period last year. Revenue is expected to be up 55 percent at $24.3 billion.
Forecast: IPad Will Generate Two Percent of North American Net Traffic by End of 2011
How’s this for a prediction? By the end of 2011, the iPad will generate more than two percent of all North American Web traffic.