Nationwide, The World's Largest Building Society, Turned To Prime Business Solutions For Help With Its Wireless LAN And Video Conferencing Over IP
White Papers Nationwide had started looking at wireless LAN in 1999, testing the technology in a number of business areas. Prime helped Nationwide by producing a detailed White Paper on the wireless LAN technology and how it could best be implemented by the...
[January 17, 2006, 23:00]
Distributed Computing Enjoys Prime Success
News A Central Missouri State University team using more than 700 computers has found the largest prime number so far, a gargantuan 9,152,052-digit numeral. The discovery, made Dec.and confirmed Saturday, marked the second time this year that a...
[December 28, 2005, 11:45]
Web Cooperative Unearths Top Prime Number
News An effort in which thousands of people donate their computers' unused processing power has uncovered the largest prime number so far known. The number, with more than 6.3 million digits, is the sixth so far uncovered by the Great Internet Mersenne...
[December 3, 2003, 10:05]
Distributed Computing's Prime Moment
News A 20-year-old in Owen Sound, Canada, has found the world's largest prime number using a mere desktop computer. Cameron's computer took 42 days to verify that the number was a Mersenne prime. Using a computer with an 800MHz chip from Advanced Micro...
[December 13, 2001, 13:44]
£150,000 Crypto Cracking Challenge Launched
News Factoring a number means representing it as the product of prime numbers -- numbers that are not evenly divisible by any smaller number other than one. Cryptography experts must determine the two prime numbers that have been used to generate eight...
[July 24, 2001, 13:56]
Google Uses Toolbar To Unlock Genes
News Most recently, one effort with 210,000 participating computers uncovered a 4,053,946-digit prime number, the largest found so far. The movement has had grand ambitions to cure cancer, but thus far its chief successes have been curiosities such as...
[March 25, 2002, 9:33]
Privacy International Cries Foul Over ID Cards
News A number of representatives of business, welfare and political groups have joined with Davies in sending an open letter to the prime minister Privacy International claims that the Home Office has breached several key requirements of the Cabinet...
[January 30, 2003, 17:55]
Birmingham Begins Major Open Source Pilot
News The council - the largest in Europe - will move 1,500 desktops and all the associated back-end servers in its library service to Linux and other open source software including OpenOffice and Firefox. The council has been given a grant amounting to...
[May 16, 2005, 17:55]
Intel Unrolls Blueprints Programme
News Now an expanded version of the industry-specific effort is ready for prime time, the company says, as some of the world's largest companies move to use server software for challenges ranging from financial accounting to data management.
[March 26, 2002, 6:31]
Vodafone Chief Knocks Microsoft's Mobile OS
News Vodafone has backed away from adopting Microsoft's operating system for mobile phones, declaring it "not quite ready for prime time". Microsoft is working with Vodafone on a number of areas, including a mobile Web services standards initiative and...
[December 23, 2003, 14:20]
Amazon Unveils Google Search Rival
News Amazon.com has officially taken the wraps off its Internet search engine, joining the contest to unseat number one provider Google. More specifically, shopping search has emerged as prime terrain among the top players because it's often the last...
[September 15, 2004, 11:35]
Amazon Sellers Fume Over Auction Glitch
News Despite being a part of one of the largest e-tail sites, Amazon's auction service has struggled to compete with eBay, the online auction giant. Amazon's auction site has battled a number of glitches and outages in recent months.
[May 31, 2001, 9:52]
E-Commerce Minister Fleshes Out Rural Broadband Plans
News Alexander will tonight say that "The public sector is the largest single consumer of broadband services at the moment, and we need to use that purchasing power to leverage growth in the market more effectively.
[November 6, 2001, 17:30]
The Hunt For ET Via The Net Begins...
News But the acid test will come when the number of users rises to tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. If even half of the 400,000 volunteers from 96 countries actually download and use the software, that would make SETI@home the world's largest...
[May 14, 1999, 14:35]
