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Hacking Will Cost World $1.6 Trillion This Year
News Malicious computer misuse such as hacking and virus writing will cost the world economy an astounding $1.6 (£1.05) trillion this year, according to a study released Monday. The study -- commissioned by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and carried out by...
[July 11, 2000, 9:01]
Hacking Will Cost World $1.6 Trillion This Year
Talkback If $1.6 trillion was the anticipated cost in 2000, how has that changed in four years? Have security precautions, for example, reduced the anticipated losses? Has the sophistication of hackers developed exponentially to increase the risk and the cost?
[February 5, 2005, 13:26]
One Trillion Reasons To Take Corporate IM Seriously
News The number of people using instant messaging (IM) software at work is set soar over the next few years, as part of a wider boom that will see more than a trillion IMs sent worldwide each day by 2006, according to the latest research.
[June 12, 2003, 12:16]
A Year Ago: Hacking Will Cost World $1.6 Trillion This Year
News Malicious computer misuse such as hacking and virus writing will cost the world economy an astounding $1.6 (£1.05) trillion this year, according to a study released Monday. The study -- commissioned by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and carried out by...
[July 11, 2001, 6:28]
IT Heading For The Trillion-dollar Barrier
News The global IT market is shaping up to be worth $1.3tr (£720bn) by the end of 2009, with banking, manufacturing and government set to be the biggest tech spenders, research has found. According to a report from analyst firm IDC, the communications...
[August 16, 2005, 16:40]
We Just Averaged Over Two Trillion Cross-Country Growth Regressions
White Papers Many empirical studies of the growth of countries attempt to identify the factors explaining the differences in growth rates by regressing observed GDP growth on a host of country characteristics that could possibly affect growth.
[September 18, 2003, 4:59]
2002 State Expenditure Report
White Papers Total state spending in fiscal 2002 was just more than $1 trillion. The estimates of fiscal 2003 spending in this paper indicate that between fiscal 2002 and fiscal 2003, state spending increased by 4.8 percent, to just more than $1.1 trillion.
[July 12, 2005, 6:00]
IBM Breaks The Petaflop Barrier
News Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop — 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second — twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, Blue Gene.
[June 10, 2008, 11:09]
IBM Sells Supercomputer To GM
News General Motors has purchased an IBM supercomputer capable of performing 9 trillion calculations per second to speed up crash and safety simulations, giving a significant shot in the arm to Big Blue's supercomputer effort.
[April 22, 2004, 9:30]
IBM Aims Blue Gene At Supercomputing Top Spot
News IBM plans to reveal the first indication of the performance of its Blue Gene/L supercomputer on Friday, a machine about the size of a dishwasher that can perform 1.4 trillion calculations per second. With the full configuration of 64 racks and...
[November 14, 2003, 8:40]
1888 Number To Word Converter
Downloads Get the answers starting from zero and up to trillion. This conversion tool is also helpful if youre writing checks or in case you forget if six zeros means trillion or billion. Download free converter to convert number into words.
[July 14, 2007, 12:46]
SGI Supercomputer Breaks Speed Record Twice
News Even as Silicon Graphics trumpeted on Tuesday a new speed record with the Columbia supercomputer it built for NASA, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned, it quietly submitted another, faster result: 51.9 trillion calculations per second.
[October 27, 2004, 14:25]
China Launches First Supercomputer
News Named the Legend Deepcomp 1800, Legend said its first supercomputer was able to reach a speed of 1.06 teraflops, or one trillion floating-point operations per second. A teraflop is a trillion floating-point operations per second.
[September 2, 2002, 8:57]
Hensarling Entitlement Cap Amendment Would Require Deep Cuts In Entitlement Programs
White Papers The CBO projections and data indicate that over the next ten years, the entitlement caps would be a total of $1.55 trillion below what the entitlement programs will cost under current law. As a result, the amendment mandates $1.55 trillion in cuts...
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
AMD's Opteron Gets Supercomputer Boost
News The supercomputer, code-named Red Storm, will contain approximately 10,000 Opteron chips and be capable of churning 40 trillion calculations per second (40 teraflops) when it becomes operational in 2004.
[October 22, 2002, 7:36]
Blue Gene Unfolds At Japan Lab
News The new machine, to be used at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) should be capable of sustained performance of 17.2 trillion calculations per second, IBM plans to announce on Tuesday.
[September 7, 2004, 9:00]
Japanese Chip 'faster Than Supercomputer'
News Research also continues at the University of Tokyo to develop a quasi general purpose chip capable of 1 teraflop, or a trillion calculations a second. RIKEN, an anglicised acronym for Japan's Research Institute of Physical and Chemical Research...
[August 25, 2004, 7:55]
Bright Future Ahead For LCDs
News The group, which is a joint venture between Holland's Philips Electronics and LG Electronics of South Korea, made a profit of 1 trillion won (£474m) in 2003 compared to 289 billion won (£137m) in 2002.
[March 30, 2004, 16:05]
Compaq Supercomputer Set For Debut
News The system can perform six trillion calculations per second, Compaq said, roughly the same power as 10,000 desktop PCs. Meanwhile, another Compaq supercomputer is under construction at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a model that's expected...
[October 29, 2001, 9:00]
IBM Sews Up Second Blue Gene Deal
News The system, which is expected to be complete in 2005, will run the Linux operating system, use about 12,000 processors and perform more than 30 trillion calculations per second, sources familiar with the plan said.
[February 23, 2004, 9:40]
