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Now cue the noktards..."well NetApplications isn't credible", etc...

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New data has been revealed by NetApplications for the month of April 2013, so lets take a look at how well Microsoft's Windows Phone platform has fared. When compared to the month of March 2013, Windows Phone has actually dropped by 0.36% in market share.
Some bad news here for Microsoft's Windows Phone platform as the operating system has dropped to 1.14% in market share, down by 0.36%. This is a big drop considering that Windows Phone was gaining in market share as of March 2013. But for April 2013, the figures are not too considerate.
Windows Phone is not the only one that dropped in mobile market share. Apple's iOS dropped to 59.04%, from 61.41% the previous month. Google's Android claimed 26.02%, on the other hand, up from the previous month's 24.85%. BlackBerry snagged a 1.51% market share, up from 1.38% the previous month.
Windows Phone is still, on the other hand, behind Google's Android and Apple's iOS in terms of market share. BlackBerry has once again come out on top of Windows Phone, at least according to data from NetApplications.
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Sentiment: Strong Sell

on ZDNet now....

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Summary: The latest operating systems numbers are in, and Windows 8's failure is clearer than ever. Can Microsoft, like Coca-Cola before it, bring victory out of a defeated product launch?



How bad are Windows 8 sales? In April 2013's Net Applications numbers, Windows 8 barely crept up to 3.82-percent. That still leaves Windows 8 behind Microsoft's last operating system flop, Vista, after seven months in the market. Windows on tablets fared even worse with touch-screen-based Windows 8 devices and Windows RT devices coming in at 0.02-percent and 0.00-percent each. The last was not a typo. The Surface RT is now in the running for worst Microsoft launch ever.
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w8 is a FAIL.

Sentiment: Strong Sell

Well, well, well....some actual physicists have published some utter rubbish by crackpots who claim to have made fundamental new discoveries in physics, including half of Jeffro's claims. How much of Jeffro Q Merkustitty's claims do you see here?

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Since the 1990's, some physicists at the California Polytechnic State University have collected physics-crackpot letters in what they call "the box". In his talk, Dr. David Dixon described some features of the theories in those letters and the theorists who composed them.

He had a classification of physics crackpots:

Crazy: Incoherent, with lots of loose associations and making no overall sense. Could some of the authors have schizophrenia?

Naive: The authors seem to lack a science education or a recent science education. They often do a lot of concept mixing.

Stubborn: The most interesting type. "Bob" concluded that E != mc^2, and he hoped to write a book on this "discovery" which he hoped would sell very well, making him famous and rich. What they like to create and what they do:

Theories of everything
Self-aggrandizement: they often think that they are great geniuses
Lack of disproof = proof
Specious precision, like 30+ digits
"Deriving" fundamental constants: the fine-structure constant is a favorite
Convenient redefinitions

Why all the engineers? Especially retired engineers. Not many from the natural sciences.
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Sentiment: Strong Sell