Currency-only hedge funds made a 6% loss in 2011 and a gain of just 0.8% in 2012, according to a benchmark index run by fund-of-funds manager Parker Global Strategies LLC.

WSJ: Strong Start to 2013 Hints at Revival for Currency Funds

In a letter this week to shareholders, Miller said that investors buying into LMVTX because of its 15-year run of benchmark-beating may be setting themselves up for disappointment.

FORBES: Beating Bill Miller

Last month the folks who run the benchmark Russell 2000 small-cap index did their annual reconstitution--replacing 377 of the 2, 000 companies that had outgrown or become too small to fit the index.

FORBES: A Hedging Hand

And due to the current state of the silicon (even though vendors like ZTE are already sampling it), we weren't allowed to run any benchmark tests on the Snapdragon 800 development devices on display just yet, though we've been told to stay tuned in June.

ENGADGET: Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 to enter mass production in late May

Although international tradeshow WiFi connections are typically dreadful, we did manage to successfully run the Sunspider benchmark to get a quick taste of its rendering performance.

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While those rumors have yet to be confirmed, it does seem possible that Apple is indeed working on a way for OS X users to run Windows apps, and wants to use BAPco's tools to benchmark the Windows-on-OS X performance (though the tools are said not to work all that well in virtual environments).

ENGADGET: Is Apple getting ready to run Windows?

The benchmark of success is whether or not Taiwan's proportion of overweight people drops in the long run.

BBC: Taiwan wages nationwide battle with the bulge