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Cybercrime losses on the slide
News While many headlines spell doom and gloom when it comes to computer-related misdeeds, the average losses at businesses due to cyber crime continue to drop, according to a new survey. For the fourth straight year running, the financial losses...
[June 15, 2006, 11:05]
De-Randomizing Congestion Losses to Improve TCP Performance Over Wired-Wireless Network
White Papers Currently, a TCP sender considers all losses as congestion signals and reacts to them by throttling its sending rate. With Internet becoming more heterogeneous with more and more wireless error-prone links, a TCP connection may unduly throttle its...
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
Gov't departments reveal laptop losses
News Figures for the Department of Health and its agencies show that the number of laptops lost or stolen reached a peak of 36 in 2008-09, up from 14 the previous year, with all other years showing fewer losses.
[July 14, 2009, 8:42]
BenQ quits Europe after unsustainable losses
News Ailing mobile handset manufacturer BenQ is pulling out of Europe following what it admitted were "unsustainable losses". Despite the progress achieved in reducing cost and expenses, widening losses have made this very painful decision unavoidable...
[September 29, 2006, 13:30]
A TCP With Guaranteed Performance in Networks With Dynamic Congestion and Random Wireless Losses
White Papers It is well-known that TCP performs poorly in the presence of packet losses happening for reasons other than Internet congestion. One increasingly important source of such errors is wireless links. In this paper, networks are studied where the...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
Heavy losses force Madge to restructure
News Heavy second quarter losses have forced Madge Networks founder and CEO Robert Madge to admit defeat in his attempt to make the company a one-stop shop networks solutions provider. The company has pulled out of ATM, axed its ATM staff and...
[July 25, 1997, 10:58]
Has HP underestimated job losses?
News US-based IT industry analyst Giga Information Group, believes job losses resulting from the merger of Hewlett Packard and Compaq have been underestimated greatly. While Hewlett-Packard estimates that it will have to terminate around 15,000 jobs...
[May 14, 2002, 10:51]
UK chipset designer predicts larger losses
News Arc International, the UK chipset designer, brought more bad news to the technology sector on Friday when it warned that its losses for the second quarter of 2001 would be 50 percent worse than expected.
[July 6, 2001, 16:48]
Amazon cuts 1,300 jobs on Q4 losses
News The Seattle-based company posted a pro forma net loss of $90.4m (£61.8m), or 25 cents per share, excluding investment and other non-operating losses. Amazon.com posted fourth-quarter results Tuesday that slightly exceeded expectations and said it...
[January 31, 2001, 7:55]
Struggling Baltimore cuts jobs as losses grow
News Irish security firm Baltimore is to de-list from the Nasdaq and restructure its business after making larger losses than expected in the second quarter of its 2001 financial year. However, compulsory jobs losses on top of the 220 already announced...
[August 22, 2001, 9:18]
Banks dismissive of 'phishing' losses
News Fraud losses experienced after the spam email and ghost Web site criminal attacks are not material compared to other forms of fraud," said Bell. However, Australia's main banking industry body, the Australian Bankers' Association (ABA), says losses...
[March 11, 2004, 8:15]
Analysis of Scalable TCP in the Presence of Markovian Losses
White Papers This paper first presents an approximate expression for the throughput of a long lasting Scalable TCP session when the losses are i.i.d.and due to window dependent errors. It then presents an analysis when the losses are due to Markovian window...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
AMD's losses grow, president resigns
News AMD reported a net loss of $163m on sales of $595m for the second quarter, compared with $65 million in losses for the same quarter a year ago. Struggling microprocessor maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.revealed a staggering $1.10 loss per share...
[July 15, 1999, 8:23]
Lastminute losses grow
News Travel site Lastminute.com saw its losses more than double year-on-year to £15.4m, the site announced Monday. Turnover boomed by seven times, however, to £2.9m, and gross margins rose 5.5 percent to 13.7 percent.
[February 13, 2001, 13:17]
METALIS Cuts Losses, Increases Profits With Price, Stock and Credit Controls
White Papers Leveraging Oracle E-Business Suite applications, METALIS is building competitive advantages with better price, reserves and credit controls, which is helping the company reduces losses and boost earnings, and yielding solid investment returns.
[February 9, 2008, 0:17]
Sony stems losses with salary freeze
News To stem continued losses, Sony said Thursday there will be no pay increases for non-managerial employees this year. Sony does not give automatic raises every year based on seniority — unlike many other Japanese companies — but instead awards them...
[March 20, 2009, 7:52]
SCTP and TCP Variants: Congestion Control Under Multiple Losses
White Papers Inefficiency in the current specification of SCTP's congestion control is characterized, which degrades performance when there are multiple packet losses in a single window. An SCTP variant, called New-Reno SCTP is presented, which introduces three...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
Sony Ericsson warns of deepening losses
News Sony Ericsson has warned of worsening losses in its upcoming quarterly financial results, blaming weak consumer demand for a drop in sales. In a statement released by the handset maker on Friday, Sony Ericsson said its results for the first quarter...
[March 20, 2009, 11:21]
Microsoft: Phishing losses greatly over-estimated
News The financial losses experienced by victims of phishing scams may be up to 50 times less than estimated by analysts, according to a Microsoft study. Previous studies by organisations such as Gartner, which in 2007 estimated US phishing losses at...
[January 9, 2009, 16:15]
News Roundup: April brings showers of job losses
News Ericsson warns of 12,000 job losses Blair intervenes to prevent 3,000 mobile job losses Tue, 10 Apr Government acts to prevent Motorola job losses Union members claim that, despite the intervention of the prime minister, Motorola is poised to close...
[April 19, 2001, 13:02]
