One thing that always irks me about things like "56 percent faster" is the potential confusion. On the one hand, it's fine to say you do things 56% faster: tha

One thing that always irks me about things like "56 percent faster" is the potential confusion. On the one hand, it's fine to say you do things 56% faster: that describes a rate of speed, and now the rate is 156% of baseline. But when they say, "it can help users find and begin a maintenance task in almost half the usual time," I'm not sure if 64% of the time is really "almost" half, or now if the writer seems to think they did it in 56% of the time. Still, pretty neat. I can't wait until this stuff trickles down into the public sector (more than just a handful of iPhone apps).