measurement system in news
Google judges ad quality in real-time
News Google plans to update its mechanism for judging ad-quality scores - a critical measurement that influences whether advertisements are placed next to search results - so that judgements of ad quality are made immediately. [22 Aug 2008]
Roadrunner runs away with supercomputing prize
News The main measurement used in compiling the list is the Linpack measurement, which puts each system through its paces by having to solve a dense system of linear... [19 Jun 2008]
Beep beep! Move over for IBM's super Roadrunner
News The main measurement used in compiling the list is the Linpack measurement, which each system having to solve a dense system of linear equations. The... [13 Nov 2007]
Is Facebook key to teaching staff better security?
News A good measurement of the success of a company's security policies and practices is when information security is integral to the organisation's culture - for example, when staff dispose of paper by shredding it or... [30 Oct 2007]
Motorola slaps Aruba with patent suit
News Wireless Valley's supposedly infringed patents include "method and systems for designing or deploying a communications network which considers frequency dependent effects" (6,625,454), and "system and method for design,... [29 Aug 2007]
Google, Yahoo! et al take aim at click fraud
News and others to form the Click Measurement Working Group. Stuart said: "It took us 14 months to do impression guidelines," referring to industry work that relates to audience measurement for online banner... [03 Aug 2006]
Microsoft: 'Get ready for Vista now'
News For example, Aero graphics require a certain amount of memory bandwidth - a measurement of PC performance that few people are likely to know about in their machine. On Thursday, the company kicked off a campaign aimed at... [19 May 2006]
CIO Jury: Businesses "obsessed" with IT metrics
News Half of silicon.com's 12-man CIO Jury user panel said there is now too much focus on performance metrics and measurement simply for measurement's sake. Ian Auger, IT director at ITN, said: "The knock-on... [21 Apr 2006]
New tech speeds up motorway crash investigation
News They will also test the latest 'total stations' - electronic surveying instruments mounted on a theodolite - which measure angles between points using a laser distance measurement system. Police are... [22 Aug 2005]
BitTorrent gets Opera's support
News Reaching most consumers will ultimately require support from Microsoft, whose Internet Explorer retains nearly 90 per cent of the browser market share, according to web measurement and marketing company WebSideStory. [08 Jul 2005]
IBM wins supercomputing crown
News Computers are scored by the Linpack benchmark, a convenient measurement but even list organisers recognise it is an incomplete measurement of real-world ability. The ascendance also highlights the rise... [09 Nov 2004]
Sun rises on pay-as-you-go grid computing
News As with its top-end 9900 series line in a program launched in June, Sun will own, install, maintain and operate the systems according to the consumption of "Sun power units - a measurement of storage capacity and... [21 Sep 2004]
Windows update site overwhelmed by patch-hungry users
News Internet performance measurement service Netcraft noted the problems as well, stating: "A browser request through Internet Explorer eventually raises the site after an extended wait and in some cases it is possible to... [15 Apr 2004]
HP server passes million milestone
News Sun Microsystems has bowed out of the race with the criticism that the test has become a distorted measurement of real-world challenges. The system, an $8.4m HP Integrity Superdome with 64 1.5GHz Itanium... [05 Nov 2003]
Hackers take down SCO site
News Performance measurement statistics from Netcraft indicated that the site had been down since Friday night. In a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, numerous computers simultaneously send so much data across a... [26 Aug 2003]
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