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Web ratings: Numbers can lie
News Still, Media Metrix's revision of eFront's numbers drew little public attention until last month, when hundreds of pages of ICQ instant messaging logs between eFront chief executive Sam Jain and his correspondents, including some fellow executives...
[April 30, 2001, 13:05]
Start-up generates random numbers from space
News While the beta service will only use a single source — the solar wind — to deliver a selection of numbers, the full service, due at the end of January 2007, will have many more options, including the ability to give the site a list of choices and...
[December 12, 2006, 11:02]
US backs merging Net, phone numbers
News The Bush administration is lending its support to an international proposal to map telephone numbers to Internet addresses. In a recent internal letter, the Commerce Department recommended that the United States participate in an emerging...
[February 14, 2003, 7:42]
Hackers steal 40 million credit card numbers
News In sheer numbers, this is probably one of the largest data security breaches," said James Van Dyke, principal analyst at Javelin Strategy & Research in Pleasanton, California. Though credit card numbers were compromised, the cards themselves do not...
[June 20, 2005, 9:10]
Butler: IP Numbers
Downloads IP Numbers is a plug-in for Butler that displays your current IPv4 (Example: 127.0.0.1) and IPv6 (Example: fe80::1) numbers - either in an alert window or in Butler's menus. When browsing an IP numbers menu, selecting a menu item will put the...
[January 30, 2006, 6:00]
Getting good by the numbers
Leader And while the principle of adding up the numbers from the vendors, multiplying by two and adding a bit for luck works, it's worse than useless when optimising for efficiency — the basis of IT's contribution to corporate social responsibility.
[April 4, 2007, 17:37]
Regulator considers VoIP phone numbers
News The UK's telecoms regulator is considering issuing ranges of telephone numbers to voice and video services carried over the Internet. Oftel will launch a consultation paper on the future of the 05 prefix later this month, and will consider...
[April 2, 2002, 13:12]
Why Skype Insists on Spouting Inflated User Numbers
Blog Comment However, I strongly disagree, not only with your interpretation of the numbers, but also with your opinion of Skype's "leadership". Thanks for reading, and commenting. Your opinion may be correct, and in fact it may be best for the health of this...
[August 14, 2008, 6:54]
Disposable numbers fight online security fears
News Credit card giant American Express announced Friday plans to combat online fraud by issuing customers with disposable credit card numbers. Last month, utility firm Powergen accidentally exposed many of its customer's credit card numbers and...
[September 11, 2000, 10:01]
Australians auction phone numbers online
News The Australian Communications Authority has released the draft format for a planned auction of valuable commercial phone numbers, which will see it avoid the problems that plagued the auction of generic domain names last year.
[October 2, 2003, 13:05]
Applicant numbers for IT teacher training still falling
News The latest statistics from the Graduate Teacher Training Registry (GTTR) show total applicant numbers across all subjects for England, Scotland and Wales are 18 percent down on 2007, with IT showing the second worst decline among secondary school...
[July 2, 2008, 10:04]
Oracle Version numbers
Talkback How do Oracle version numbers work. The article suggests the previous version was 10g, the new one is 11g, so where does the g come from? Is it like the equivalent of a minor version number? In which case surely the new one should be 11a?
[July 12, 2007, 21:13]
5 Books of Moses - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deutronomy - on your phone (5 app pack!)
Downloads Applications pack: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deutronomy. The First 5 books of Moses. This is the english translated version from the King James edition of the Old Testament of 1611AD. With features including Larger than SMS text for...
[December 25, 2007, 6:00]
SkypeIn customers decide to move their 0207 numbers to new providers...
Talkback What customers are upset about is the fact they were given under a months notice that their London 0207 SkypeIn numbers were to be disconnected. From reading the SkypeIn forum it looks like customers have found a way of keeping their numbers by...
[November 24, 2007, 2:32]
Country Calling Codes, Dialing Instructions, and Worldwide Emergency Phone Numbers
Downloads This book brings you Country Codes, Dialing Instruction, Worldwide Emergency Phone Numbers and more in one package. Worldwide Emergency Phone Numbers. Navigate from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases.Table of ContentsCountry...
[June 19, 2007, 8:00]
Xbox losing the numbers game
News For the software publishing industry, video games are a numbers game. And for now, Microsoft is on the losing end. That's the upshot from the Electronics Entertainment Expo, the game industry's main trade show, where new games for Microsoft's Xbox...
[May 27, 2002, 14:44]
Memory Numbers
Downloads Play a classic memory game with numbers. A memory game consists of 9 number pairs.This app contains 27 different numbers.Analysis of the game contains the ratio of (average) time/move. Note: The "Download Now" link directs you to the iTunes App...
[March 18, 2009, 3:47]
Ofcom pushes profit-free national numbers
News Ofcom will introduce a new range of telephone numbers later this year that will allow public sector contact centres to receive calls without profiting from their callers. The new numbers, which will start with 03, will partly replace the existing...
[February 14, 2007, 12:48]
KAMAR Numbers
Downloads KAMAR Numbers is a plugin for Filemaker Pro 5, 6 & 7 which adds a range of number functions to Filemaker including Rank & Quartile functions, scaling, Text to Ascii, one or two dimensional arrays and new in this version, Calculations.
[June 19, 2004, 8:00]
Why Skype Insists on Spouting Inflated User Numbers
Blog Comment For the case in point, you came up with the numbers, which I thought were very good and very important. Possibly true. But I have yet to see anyone prove that the statements I have made in my blog are not true.
[August 15, 2008, 9:11]
