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    Who Is Thom?

    A self-proclaimed marketing guy in a geek's body, Thom's skills combine the best of technical programming and system administration with marketing skills that make him second to none in Web site design and promotion.
     

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    Don’t like those new options down the left side of your Google search results?  There’s an app for that.   Sorry – I got carried away.  There’s a plug-in for that.  If you use Firefox or Chrome and you don’t want to see those new search refinement options on the Google search results pages, Bruce Clay’s SEO Tools has a plug-in for you. Until Google’s recent interface change, you had the option to see tools that would help you refine search [...]

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    Google has changed their look and given a Web 2.0 face lift to the search interface. With it comes a plethora of tools and filters to let searchers control the search results and better decide what they want to see. A how-to guide on the new Google.

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    The Google Analytics team announced new changes to what they’re calling the Google Analytics Ecosystem.  Several announcements were made today at EMetrics.  Specifically, the team announced Analytics Apps, new reports for tracking AdWords campaigns, includnig AdWords Search Funnels now available in all AdWords accounts and asynchronous tracking is now officially out of beta. If you hadn’t used it before, you can add the code with these instructions. Apps are apparently where it’s at. After launching the Google Apps Marketplace, Google has [...]

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Why Is Apple So Angry Lately?

Posted by Thom On April - 28 - 2010 0 Comment
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Apple has shown a different side lately. They are aggressive, argumentative, genuinely full of angst. Steve Jobs led this company to the top (twice). Their sales are up in several of their verticals. Why can’t he handle a little competition?

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A Recap of Lost iPhone iProbe

Posted by Thom On April - 28 - 2010 1 Comment
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The Lost iPhone:

Has Apple gone too far pursuing their property? Who’s really telling the truth and which California and Federal laws really apply here?

This stinks like rotten apples.

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It’s the Apple Patent Tennis Match

Posted by Thom On April - 28 - 2010 0 Comment
iPhone

Apple Claims They Own Patents to Everything

Apparently HTC and others violate them, but HTC, Nokia and Elan Microsystems says the Same of Apple. Tennis, anyone?

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There is a Lifetime Limit on How Many iPads You Can Buy

Posted by Thom On April - 28 - 2010 0 Comment
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If you’re the parent of twins who are graduating from High School or have a birthday coming up, don’t go to an Apple Store to buy them iPads and expect to get one of your own, too.  Apparently there is a limit to how many you can buy. It might be two. But Apple Store “Geniuses” don’t have that information. Apparently a medical student who had legitimate reservations to buy iPads was trying to help overseas friends get their iPads, [...]

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