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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]
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Considerations For The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
White Papers This paper also provides guidelines to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) describing conditions under which new values can be assigned. The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an extensible protocol.
[December 10, 2004, 23:00]
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]
AMD: Chips Shipped In Record Numbers
News Still, AMD's current numbers show that the PC market is gaining some of its strength after a disastrous slide that began in August 2000. AMD posted another record for processor shipments -- a milestone that let the company beat analysts' financial...
[April 18, 2002, 9:13]
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]
Spreadsheet Simulation Of The Law Of Large Numbers
White Papers This remarkable fact, known as the law of large numbers, holds true if a person draws samples from a population of discrete or continuous values, or draw them from a population with a skewed distribution.
[January 1, 2007, 23:00]
CompuServe Goes Flat Now Numbers Hit Stability
News CompuServe reckons it has some 400,000 users now, all "professional consumers", with no climb in numbers from last year. Up from 200,000 in 1996, the service has grown negligibly in the last twelve months.
[July 1, 1998, 6:00]
Hacking Goldmine As BT Publishes Remote Dial-up Numbers
News BT has admitted that it published the private remote access numbers of a number of British companies on its Web site -- a move that could expose the firms affected to hacking attacks. The numbers were published on the public BT Together Web site in...
[March 25, 2002, 18:00]
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]
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]
Apple Investors Await IPhone Numbers
News Analysts are waiting for Apple to disclose iPhone data for those two days even though few expect those numbers to make a meaningful difference to the company's overall performance. IDC reported that Mac shipments increased faster than the overall...
[July 24, 2007, 12:58]
Dell Fudged Numbers To Meet Quarterly Targets
News I think every company that's public feels the pressure of being a public company and [hitting] quarterly numbers. What we know now is that Dell's finance department was apparently willing to fudge numbers to ensure it would hit or surpass its...
[August 17, 2007, 10:33]
Revised Server Numbers Show HP 'decline'
News Overall, HP sold $10.8bn worth of servers in 2002, 25.2 percent of the $43.1bn market, under the revised numbers. Gartner analyst Jeff Hewitt said the confusion came about because Gartner released its figures before HP released quarterly results...
[June 5, 2003, 12:28]
Crunch Big Numbers With GT3 Using A Quadratic Sieve: A Factorization Service For Computational Grids
White Papers Most of today's secure communications, including SSL and cryptographic algorithms, rely on the simple mathematical fact that factoring very large numbers is computationally difficult. And by "difficult," it is meant that given current computational...
[November 25, 2004, 23:00]
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]
Phone Numbers Replace Dot-com Addresses
News Australian company Nacomms claims to be the first in the world to go online with numeric addressing, where telephone numbers are used in replace of the ubiquitous dot-com address. Businesses can also acquire extension numbers that, when entered...
[November 30, 2000, 15:24]
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]
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]
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]
