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The title says, “Advertising Growth Spreads in All Mobile Formats”The stats: “38% of US mobile phone owners recall seeing advertising on their cell phones in the Q1 of 2009″
“…for Smartphone (such as iPhone) users, 59% recalled seeing mobile advertising”  (From this point on, it looks like “iPhone” is used as a generic term for “Smartphone”

The iPhone [...]

Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension

The whole reason I don’t use Internet Explorer except on rare occasions is that I don’t want website add-ons to automatically install without a little bit of fuss. I would expect this “ClickOnce” support would make accidental installation of malware more likely. No, thanks. I disabled it until I absolutely see a [...]

Comparison Table of SMS Gateway Providers and some good mobile information

I’ve been trying to ramp up my knowledge of mobile and SMS. Every time I find a small tidbit of information it always leads me to 10 other things I want to read up on.What I found this morning:List of providers of short codes, short codes for SMS reverse billing and premium SMS, SMS [...]

History repeats itself, affiliate naughtiness and twitter spam

Looking at the updates to How to Sell Your Soul on Twitter and Who’s Buying – ReadWriteWeb, it looks like all the “funding” for BeAMagpie is drying up. Box.net and StubHub have booted BeAMagpie from their affialiate programs, and I suspect the rest of the companies will too, once it gets on their PR [...]

Bookmark: 301 (etc…) Redirect Cheatsheet – mod_rewrite, javascript, cfm, perl, php, refresh, python

From the AskApache.com blog: Includes 301, 302, and 404 redirection methods.
python, perl, http-equiv, mod_rewrite, mod_alias, ASP, CFM

301 Redirect Cheatsheet – mod_rewrite, javascript, cfm, perl, php, refresh, python.Also: smart HTTP and HTTPS .htaccess Rewrite
.Force url to use SSL/https

10 Special Purpose Linux Distributions

10 Special Purpose Linux Distributions | LinuxHaxor.net.Distributions specifically built for certain applications… Scientific
Security testing
Educational
Partitioning tool and disk imaging (parted magic/clonezilla — free clones of partition magic and ghost)
Multimedia editing
System rescue
Gamers
Religious (WARNING: one of the links under #9 may be NSFW)
TV/PVR

Some of these come in Live CD form.

Free Computer, Programming, Engineering, Mathematics, Technical Books, Lecture Notes and Tutorials

Free Computer, Programming, Engineering, Mathematics, Technical Books, Lecture Notes and Tutorials.

Death by statistics – Facebook could kill Google

FACEBOOK COULD KILL GOOGLE — Analyst (GOOG).Interesting statistical analysis, although I would equate it to technical trading without knowledge of the underlying stock’s business itself.Facebook has been suicidal lately.  While one could argue that its redesigns have been for the better, the design churn has aggravated users who find it difficult to find their favorite [...]

Emulating Grep in Powershell

Emulating Grep in Powershell. The option presented is to perform a grep on several files.For a search in one file, with results going to output.txtselect-string -pattern “{pattern}” -caseSensitive c:\path\to\file.txt > output.txtOne note: The lines wrapped at the width of the command window, even when redirected to a file.

Mobile Billing Meter

Billing Meter bit.ly link or Billing Meter tech0×20 link.This isn’t perfect. First of all, some connections are just too slow for a constant refresh rate of less than 20-30 seconds. Secondly, I think many mobile browsers have a refresh cut-off at which point they will ask you if you really want to keep [...]
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