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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]
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]
Microsoft Keeps Quiet On Vista Figures
News If Microsoft's figures are to be believed, this means Vista sales are flat. Turner's figures mean that 20 million copies of Vista have been sold, on a wholesale basis at least, over the last two months, with 40 million sold in the first four months...
[July 30, 2007, 16:38]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
BSA Figures Do Not Add Up
Talkback How good of the BSA to not respond in person. They were more then willing to splatter something they like around the globe but they seem to point to someone else when it's time to respond to critics.
[July 1, 2005, 23:52]
