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Red Hat disputes CERT vulnerability figures
News The two figures are not representative of today's two major operating system platforms. The report — Cyber Security Bulletin 2005 — was published last week and claimed that out of 5,198 reported vulnerabilities, 812 were found in Windows operating...
[January 6, 2006, 13:45]
Massaging the figures
Blog How on earth did IDC, the analyst firm behind the research, come up with these figures? One of my pet hates is massaged statistics. Now you might think that with a degree in Mathematics I might be fond of statistical manipulation.
[January 26, 2007, 17:07]
Insurance fraud adds to mobile theft figures
News As-yet unpublished research from the MPICAF has found that a disturbingly high number of people are falsely claiming their phones have been stolen -- at a time when politicians and the public are increasingly concerned by rising crime figures.
[May 7, 2002, 18:39]
Salesforce.com explains figures
News Some analysts assumed we'd ramp up over and above [already healthy] Q1 figures. Fresh from its flotation on the New York Stock Exchange, Salesforce.com is once again talking up its business model - and talking down rivals in CRM such as Oracle, SAP...
[July 23, 2004, 11:30]
AOL releases figures, Freeserve still on top
News According to its figures, AOL and CompuServe combined has 1.2 million users -- 800,000 of which are registered with AOL. The quiet announcement seems to have signalled the end of the days when Freeserve and AOL battled it out on numbers as AOL...
[February 7, 2000, 11:24]
PDA shipment figures slump again
News The latest figures from IDC suggest that the traditional PDA could be in terminal decline. The analyst firm reported on Thursday worldwide shipments of PDAs dropped by over 20 percent year-on-year to 1.7 million units in the second quarter of 2005...
[July 29, 2005, 12:55]
Hiep Phong Boosts Pharmaceutical Distribution Figures With Intel Technologies
White Papers Powerful broadband-enabled, Intel technology-based computer systems allow Hiep Phong to bolster its growth by optimizing its country-wide distribution channels of retail pharmacies and doctor clients to better its already impressive sales figures.
[May 17, 2007, 1:00]
Government e-commerce figures 'massaged'
News But research company Forrester points out that the accuracy of the ONS figures is distorted by the inclusion of financial trading figures. A report by the Office of National Statistics has found that £56.6bn worth of goods and services was sold...
[September 13, 2001, 8:30]
No, Minister, the figures don't add up
Leader According to these figures, there have been seven all year! The figures are there to do that. What are the unrecorded figures, then? Release the figures in the summer, when nobody cares. These figures are meaningless.
[July 12, 2005, 13:45]
Vista - a false promise & false figures
Talkback Why would MS so blatantly over-state the figures for the product? 20 million copies shipped .hardly. Of these 20 million, a large percentage will be corporate subscription take-ups, which are purchased licenses by default.
[April 3, 2007, 9:40]
Mobile handset figures branded fake
News However, handset retail giant Carphone Warehouse has cast doubt on the accuracy of the ownership figures being claimed by the mobile industry. Unlike its major rivals in Britain, who announced their subscriber figures for Q1 2001, Orange does not...
[April 9, 2001, 10:08]
Server sales figures signal market shift
News The figures suggest companies have shifted away from the "bare minimum" approach to buying servers that had been prevalent, Eastwood added. These figures also show a more mission-critical mix is working its way into the Linux ecosystem," Eastwood...
[February 28, 2005, 9:25]
News Burst: Government figures on 'Wired Schools' branded "suspect"
News Government figures on the number of schools connected to the Internet have been branded "suspect" by educationalists. The criticism responds to figures released by the Department for Education and Employment last week claiming that 86 percent of...
[September 11, 2000, 10:56]
Red Hat disputes CERT vulnerability figures
Talkback "The two figures are not representative of today's two major operating system platforms. One figure represents the vulnerabilities found in Windows operating systems: XP, NT, 98, and so on. The other represents a total figure not just for Solaris...
[January 6, 2006, 23:03]
Figures show Intel's chips are down
Leader The question isn't so much whether you should choose AMD or Intel, but why should you pay over the odds for a heavily promoted brand when the figures say otherwise. In a world in which hype and counterclaim are increasingly used to disguise lack of...
[August 24, 2004, 12:25]
Gov't figures on 'wired' schools branded 'suspect'
News Government figures on the number of schools connected to the Internet have been branded "suspect" by educationalists who argue that it takes more than a single PC in a school to make it Internet-ready.
[September 11, 2000, 12:22]
Opera: Firefox user figures 'inflated'
News The chief executive of Opera Software claimed on Monday that the market share figures for Mozilla Firefox are inflated, due to its support for link prefetching. Firefox and Opera have a market share of 8.7 and 1.0 percent respectively, according to...
[June 20, 2005, 14:15]
SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) at HOCHTIEF: Transparent Figures Ensure Efficient HR Management
White Papers HR figures can be drawn up for the whole group or for individual divisions. Through SAP Business Information Warehouse, HOCHTIEF Software GmbH, a SAP partner for SAP's Human Resources (SAP HR) solution, has created the basis for strategic HR...
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
Windows 2000 figures not the whole story
News After promising for several months to release sales figures for Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft finally revealed Wednesday that it expects to have sold 1 million licences by the end of this month. But the company still won't talk about Active...
[February 8, 2001, 8:29]
Home Office says 'no' to cybercrime figures
News The Home Office will not be recording cybercrime figures, despite investing £25m in a National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) launched on Wednesday. Up-to-date British crime figures have been collated by local police forces and recorded according to...
[April 20, 2001, 15:10]
