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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 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. A prime number is one that is evenly divisible only by itself and 1, and a Mersenne prime is a...
[December 28, 2005, 11:45]
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]
Blair Accused Of Damaging IT Job Market
News Selous said: "Does the prime minister share the concern of a number of my constituents, who are well-qualified IT professionals, with the relevant skills, that 21,000 IT work permits are granted every year while 56,000 British IT professionals are...
[May 27, 2003, 14:20]
£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]
Government May Ease The Way For Wireless Broadband
News Householders may soon have much more freedom to install satellite dishes and other antennae on their houses, under proposed changes to existing planning regulations that were published on Monday by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
[April 8, 2003, 13:41]
Home Is Where The Computer Is
News The 2002 International Digital Lifestyle study polled 1,500 people in the US and Europe who own a computer and at least one other digital device -- a prime target market for many consumer electronics makers.
[November 25, 2002, 9:18]
Surveillance: How Encryption Works
News These bright sparks suggested it should be possible to obtain key pairs by multiplying two very large secret prime numbers -- an easy task. But the opposite task, finding the two secret prime numbers from the result, is enormously difficult and can...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Green Activist Slams Government's Teleworking Policy
News In particular, he criticised a report produced by the Department for Trade and Industry in 2003, entitled Telework Guidance, and a report by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister as respectively having "tokenistic references" and "only the odd...
[December 9, 2004, 13:25]
Prime Minister Gets Email - But Don't Expect A Reply
News You would be surprised at the number of people who write to the prime minister with an individual, political or social concern," he said. For the first time, it is possible to send the British prime minister a message over the Internet.
[August 21, 2003, 13:00]
Internet Fraudster Deceives Many
News According to one source, the company advertised with some legitimate companies across Australia, including Prime TV in Queensland. Prime TV, however, would not confirm details to ZDNet. Some weren't able to access the Internet at all, there were...
[December 8, 2000, 9:13]
Kent State University Uses An HP Digital Publishing Solution To Increase Admissions In Targeted Academic Programs
White Papers However, it wished to increase the number of applicants for specific academic areas. The University turned to Prime Business Solutions, based in Akron, Ohio, who recommended the use of HP technology for the generation of personalized brochures.
[April 9, 2005, 0:00]
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]
System Performance Comparison Of Optical CDMA And WDMA In A Broadcast Local Area Network
White Papers When more than seven wavelengths are available, optical CDMA systems using asymmetric prime-hop codes and all-optical signal processing are shown to have higher peak utilization and lower corresponding delay than a WDMA system with the same number...
[July 25, 2004, 0:00]
Comparison Of Diverse Optical CDMA Codes Using A Normalized Throughput Metric
White Papers We outline why the traditional performance metric of bit-error rate versus number of simultaneous users is lacking and propose a new performance measure - the peak throughput normalized with respect to the size of the code.
[July 25, 2004, 0:00]
Is VoIP Ready For Prime Time?
News Trials to date have tested only a relatively small number of users, averaging about 100 callers at any one time. But "cable's use of voice over IP technology is not quite yet ready for prime time. While still just a trickle, early defectors to...
[July 15, 2003, 11:43]
Twin Flaws Threaten Net
News The two flaws -- both made public on Wednesday -- affect a large number of computers and devices connected to the Internet, and that could make the two weaknesses prime targets of attack, said Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager for incident...
[July 18, 2003, 7:45]
Optimizing Spectral Efficiency In Multiwavelength Optical CDMA System
White Papers Prime codes are excellent candidates for use in multiwavelength optical code-division multiple-access (O-CDMA) systems. This paper shows that in an O-CDMA system using two-dimensional single-pulse-per-row codes, a single choice of the number of...
[July 25, 2004, 0:00]
China Seeks Technology Deal With India
News China and India are expected to sign a number of political, economic and cultural agreements on Monday, when Jiabio is meeting the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Associated Press reports that during a visit to the Indian city of...
[April 11, 2005, 12:30]
Microsoft Cashes In On Blair Campaign
News In October 1997, Microsoft founder Bill Gates met the prime minister at Downing Street, and offered to back an initiative to increase the number of schools connected to the Internet. Prime minister Tony Blair is accused of offering Microsoft free...
[May 30, 2001, 13:41]
