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Monday, June 13, 2011
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Monday, February 7, 2011
Real Page Numbers Coming To The Kindle! (AMZN)
Amazon just announced a bunch of minor tweaks coming to the Kindle e-reader software, which you can try out now.
Among them: Real page numbers! (No longer just Kindle "location" information.)
Amazon explains...
"Our customers have told us they want real page numbers that match the page numbers in print books so they can easily reference and cite passages, and read alongside others in a book club or class.
Rather than add page numbers that don’t correspond to print books, which is how page numbers have been added to e-books in the past, we’re adding real page numbers that correspond directly to a book’s print edition. We’ve already added real page numbers to tens of thousands of Kindle books, including the top 100 bestselling books in the Kindle Store that have matching print editions and thousands more of the most popular books.
Page numbers will also be available on our free “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” Kindle apps in the coming months."
Read: How Amazon Saved The Kindle
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Real Page Numbers Coming To The Kindle! (AMZN)
Monday, November 15, 2010
DiceTV Update: Good Numbers in Silicon Valley and Seattle
The recovery has the legs of a wounded duck, but Silicon Valley keeps looking like it's making a comeback. The Business Forecasting Center at the University of the Pacific says Valley's likely to recover faster than the rest of Northern California. In fact, the center says the San Jose area is the only area in Northern California that's clearly recovering." It forecasts job growth of 3 percent next year and in 2012. Meanwhile, the UC San Diego extension says four of the top ten most promising fields for new graduates are in IT. The four are healthcare IT, mobile media, data mining, and embedded engineering.
Let's go north. To Seattle. The business community there is feeling pretty good about 2011.That seems to have surprised a few people at the area's chamber of commerce, which conducted a survey of local businesses.But then some say Washington State has some reasons to be optimistic.For instance, while the state lost about 6 percent of its jobs during the recession, Idaho and Oregon lost 8.2 percent and California lost 9 percent. Forty one percent of Seattle's businesses expect to add employees next year.Only about 8 percent expect to let people go. And the new jobs - most of them will be with businesses with six to 100 employees. One of the most optimistic sectors is technology - in this case, IT and gaming. Others are human services, international trade, and food/beverage/retail.
If you're one of the people who don't really want the iPad in the enterprise - well, sorry. The mobile services company BoxTone surveyed IT executives at 800 companies, the Baltimore Sun tells us. Roughly 75 percent expect to deploy iPads or similar devices within the next year. About 25 percent expect to do it almost immediately. And more than half plan to deploy an iPad app of their own within 12 months. Two words: Mobile applications. I just checked and there's 2000 jobs in that search result.
Post originale: http://career-resources.dice.com/articles/content/entry/dicetv_update_good_numbers_in
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Wow -- Check Out How Blatantly Our Government Misled Us With The October Jobs Numbers!
Remember last Friday's payrolls numbers--the ones that blew away expectations about the number of jobs created and got everyone talking about recovery again?
Well, even at the time those payroll numbers were confusing, because the other part of the jobs report--the "household survey"--showed yet another crappy number.
But by pointing to the crappy household number and ignoring the payroll number, the bears seemed to be trying to make lemons out of lemonade.
But it turns out that there was a simple reason why the payroll numbers looked so good--a reason that had nothing to do with underlying strength of the jobs market.
What was that reason?
The government changed the "seasonal adjustment" it made to the payroll numbers--and, in so doing, boosted the number of "jobs" created in October by 100,000.
Stephanie Pomboy of MacroMavens (via John Mauldin) explains:
" 'The seasonal bar which the payroll data must jump was (inexplicably and dramatically) lowered from prior Octobers.
" 'Thus, in October 2009, the BLS set the bar at 870,000 jobs, similar to the 840,000 it anticipated in October 2008. This year, by contrast, it lowered the bar to 768,000. Mumbo, jumbo, payrolls presented "an upside surprise" of 100,000.'
Alan Abelson of Barrons (again via John Mauldin) adds the following:
"According to John Williams at Shadow Government Statistics, the BLS' fiddling with the figures via what he calls 'seasonal-factor games' actually created 200,000 phantom jobs last month. John cites such finagling as the reason his prediction of an October decline and a rise in the jobless rate was wrong. It also explains why seasonally adjusted payrolls were revised upward by 110,000 in September, including 56,000 in August."
In other words, it wasn't that there were a surprising number of jobs created in October. It was that the government changed its "seasonal adjustment" assumption in a way that made it look as though there were a surprising number of jobs created in October.
Now, seasonal adjustment is an art not a science. And maybe the new seasonal adjustment is more defensible than the old one. But if our government is going to publish a number like this that represents such a major "surprise," we would expect it to at least be upfront about the reasons for the surprise. And in this case those reasons had NOTHING to do with the jobs market, and EVERYTHING to do with the seasonal adustment assumption.
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See Also:
- Those Jobs Numbers Were Much Worse Than They Looked
- This Is The First Respectable Jobs Report In Years... And It Was Still Full Of Problems
- Here's What No One Told You About The Supposedly Great Jobs Report
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Amazon Touts Kindle Sales Numbers Without Sharing Kindle Sales Numbers
Unsurprisingly, the fourth quarter is usually the best sales period for the Kindle (and most retail products), but it looks like this year will be especially strong as more consumers flock to e-books. After announcing a new e-book loan feature last week, Amazon is revealing a number of new Kindle stats today in time for the holiday shopping rush. According to the company, sales of the new generation Kindle devices have already surpassed total Kindle device sales from the holiday season of last year (October through December 2009).
Sales of individual Kindle titles are flying off the digital bookshelves. Amazon sold more than three times as many Kindle books in the first nine months of 2010 as in the first nine months of 2009. Amazon also said that Kindle book sales continue to overtake print on Amazon.com. This data is consistent with Q2 and Q1 Kindle numbers Amazon revealed during its earnings call in July. And in the past 30 days, Amazon.com customers purchased more Kindle books than print books, which includes both hardcover and paperback combined, for the top 10, 25, 100, and 1,000 bestselling books on Amazon.com. 
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