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Submission + - Microsoft Buys MultiTouch Pioneer Perceptive Pixel

Submitted by theodp on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @12:23AM

theodp writes: Back in 2006, a post on Jeff Han's multi-touch screen technology — a real TED crowd-pleaser — gave Slashdot readers a taste of the iPhone and iPad future. Han spun off his NYU Research into a company called Perceptive Pixel which, among other things, gave the world CNN’s Amazing Magic Wall. On Monday, Steve Ballmer announced that Microsoft is acquiring Perceptive Pixel, which not only means you'll be able to run Windows 8 on an 82-inch touchscreen, but that the Apple v,. Motorola Mobility lawsuit is about to get more interesting!

Submission + - StatCounter blasts Microsoft's claim about IE still being the number 1 browser (statcounter.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @05:09AM

An anonymous reader writes: Do you remember when microsoft tried to claim that IE was still the number 1 browser by accusing StatCounter of using a flawed methodology? Well StatCounter has just blasted that claim in their response.

Comment original links (Score 1) 1

by aodhan on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @09:10AM (#32417964) Attached to: IE6 Finally Nearing Extinction

Not sure why my links were edited to remove the most important part of the URLs. Here are links to stats for Europe, US, Asia and Africa

Comment Re:StatCounter etc (Score 5, Informative) 350

by aodhan on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @05:51AM (#29976022) Attached to: Firefox Passes IE6 In Browser Share

Hi,

I work at StatCounter and I would just like to point out that we have a very diverse sample size from around the world.

As per http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#sample-size for July 2009 here was the breakdown of our sample pageviews for the month.

* 1.3 billion United States
* 570 million Brazil
* 280 million Turkey
* 260 million Germany
* 250 million Thailand
* 240 million China
* 240 million United Kingdom
* 180 million Indonesia
* 160 million Canada
* 140 million India
* 109 million Russia

Comment Re:I Still Don't Buy It (Score 2, Informative) 319

by aodhan on Monday June 08, 2009 @10:44AM (#28251703) Attached to: Has Bing Already Overtaken Yahoo?

StatCounter is a global service with members from every country in the world but it is more popular in certain countries. Therefore we collect more data from these countries. This means reports for Worldwide/Asia/Europe/North America/Oceania/South America can be skewed towards the countries where StatCounter is more popular. However, you can view each stat on a country level which negates any potential for a bias.

We could compensate for this bias in our reports for Worldwide/Asia/Europe/North America/Oceania/South America based on the total internet population size from each country. But this would mean manipulating the data, and we prefer to leave the data untouched. If other people want to build upon this data and manipulate it to account for any regional bias then they are very welcome to do so per our licensing agreement http://gs.statcounter.com/about.

Comment Re:StatCounter's Baidu Stats is Alarming (Score 5, Informative) 319

by aodhan on Monday June 08, 2009 @09:11AM (#28250587) Attached to: Has Bing Already Overtaken Yahoo?

We talk about our methodology here.
Our stats are based on aggregate data collected by StatCounter on a sample exceeding 4 billion pageviews per month collected from across the StatCounter network of more than 3 million websites. From this sample we analyze the sources of the referring traffic to compile our search engine reports.

Comment Re:StatCounter's Baidu Stats is Alarming (Score 5, Informative) 319

by aodhan on Monday June 08, 2009 @08:40AM (#28250225) Attached to: Has Bing Already Overtaken Yahoo?

I'm from StatCounter and I would just like to address your concern. The detection for baidu was added on the 5th March 2009 at 21.00 GMT. When a new detection is added it is noted on the visual graph (but not in the csv download).
Also if you look at the stats just for China you can easily see Baidu's dominance there.

Submission + - Angry villagers run Google out of town (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by

Barence

on Thursday April 02, 2009 @11:47AM

Barence writes: "A Google Street View car has been chased out of a British village by angry residents. The car was taking photographs of Broughton in Buckinghamshire for Google's when it was spotted by a local resident who warned the car not to enter the village then roused his neighbours, who surrounded the vehicle until the driver performed a U-turn and left. "This is an affluent area," protestor Paul Jacobs said. "We've already had three burglaries locally in the past six weeks. If our houses are plastered all over Google it's an invitation for more criminals to strike. I was determined to make a stand, so I called the police.""

Bookmark Firefox 3 eclipses IE6 in web share, threatens IE7 (electronista.com)

by aodhan on Thursday March 05, 2009 @08:52AM

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