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Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo spin NPD numbers. We investigate

When the NPD Group sends over its numbers for console and software sales every month, every console manufacturer follows almost instantly with its reaction to the numbers. If you read these announcements, it seems like every month had three winners, as Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft all argue for why they came out on top. Today, let's take a look at what the numbers say, and how each company reacted.

Museum numbers as dynamic as their displays

Te Papa may need its bright lights to attract visitors as museum numbers are up but visitor numbers stay the same.

Harvard hacker may have gained access to 6,600 Social Security numbers

Last month’s hack of a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Web server may have compromised 10,000 sets of personal information from applicants and students, including 6,600 Social Security numbers and 500 Harvard ID numbers, the University said Wednesday.

Turtle Nesting Numbers Reveal Both Good and Bad News: Loggerhead Numbers Decline, but Other Species on the Rise

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Measuring web sales' impact on financial success

Many chain retailers have been secretive about online sales. While some report their numbers deep in government-required filings, those numbers often get little or no mention in earnings releases and many senior executives don’t mention them in analysts’ calls unless asked. That needs to change, says Nikki Baird, managing partner of retail research company RSR Research. “Wall Street should be asking retailers about their online sales numbers,” Baird says. “Those are important to know because you can’t succeed today with just stores.”

ComScore: Defending The Google Miss; Value Of Third-Party Data Debated

After taking a beating last night, comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is out defending itself from the charge that its Google (NSDQ: GOOG) paid click numbers were inaccurate. In a post on the company’s blog, analyst Andrew Lipsman makes some fair points: First off, he notes that data that comScore releases to the public each month only refers to Google search ads in the US, and not to international numbers, or to Adsense ads on partner sites. He’s also right in noting that comScore hadn’t attributed its projected decline to the economy (as some interpreted)—in fact back in February, it made a point of downplaying the meaning of its numbers, after a release caused Google stock to sink.

OCR for Linux: Teaching Linux to Read

Computers are excellent number-crunching machines, but they've traditionally been very poor at dealing with the" fuzzier" everyday world at which humans excel. Ask a computer to add a thousand numbers and it wouldn't blink an eye if it had one; however, ask a computer to read those thousand numbers from a sheet of paper and you'll run into problems. Even with a scanner attached to the computer, a computer will have a hard time recognizing printed numbers (or, generalizing a bit, letters and punctuation) for what they are -- a task that even kindergarten children can master.

Happy Pi Day

Jonathan writes "Today, the 14th of March, is Pi Day 2008. Pi Day is internationally celebrated in honor of the mathematical constant "Pi," who's actual value will — now and forever — remain unknown. NeoSmart Technologies has a run-down on the history of Pi, Pi Day, and the significance of Pi and other such "magical numbers" to science and technology. 'Pi isn't just a number that you can use to calculate circle-related mathematics, it's a symbol of something by far greater. Pi is one of many "magic" numbers that are found everywhere — if you know where to look. These magic numbers can't be explained, they just are. And if you use them right, they make it a lot easier to do a lot of really complicated things... In a way, they're a testimony to technology and computers (or vice-versa, depending on how you look at it).

DP6806 Paintings and Numbers: An Econometric Investigation of Sales Rates, Prices and Returns in Latin American Art Auctions

Paintings and Numbers: An Econometric Investigation of Sales Rates, Prices and Returns in Latin American Art Auctions

Record numbers of on-site and online bidders participate in CA$46 million Ritchie Bros. Grande Prairie auction

GRANDE PRAIRIE, AB, April 21 /CNW/ - Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA) conducted one of the largest Grande Prairie auctions in Company history last week, selling more than 2,400 equipment and real estate items for total gross auction proceeds in excess of CA$46 million (US$46 million). The unreserved public auction attracted record numbers of in person and online bidders for that site, with buyers coming from as far away as Chile and the United Arab Emirates. Almost CA$17 million (US$17 million) of equipment was sold to buyers from outside Alberta.

Microsoft's search numbers show need for Yahoo

The latest monthly market share numbers from Comscore show Microsoft still struggling just to tread water against Google.

Safety in numbers for speeding drivers

BEIJING (Reuters) - Speeding drivers in south China are getting clear away thanks to machines which switch the numbers on their licence plates in seconds, state media said on Tuesday.

Price cut plan for 0870 numbers

The cost of calls to 0870 numbers will be cut under proposals by the regulator after complaints about price clarity.

Recipe for the Universe - Just Six Numbers

Our whole Universe is governed by just six numbers, set at the time of the Big Bang. Alter any one of them at your peril, for stars, planets and humans would then not exist.

Google's Strong Q1 Numbers May Lift Street Sentiments - Update [GOOG]

4/17/2008 6:38:49 PM Thursday after the bell, Internet search engine giant and market leader Google Inc. (GOOG) delivered better-than-expected first quarter numbers amidst challenging scenario and concern over the trouble in converting web searchers into advertising viewers. The results come on the heels of the fears expressed by investors that the online advertising is vulnerable to a weakening economy. As a result of strong results, the stock gained more than 17% in the extended hours trading.

Nanotubes grown straight in large numbers

Duke University chemists have found a way to grow long, straight cylinders only a few atoms thick in very large numbers, removing a major roadblock in the pursuit of nano-scale electronics.

Nanotubes Grown Straight In Large Numbers

Duke University chemists have found a way to grow long, straight cylinders only a few atoms thick in very large numbers, removing a major roadblock in the pursuit of nano-scale electronics.

Nanotubes grown straight in large numbers

Duke University chemists have found a way to grow long, straight cylinders only a few atoms thick in very large numbers, removing a major roadblock in the pursuit of nano-scale electronics.

Nanotubes grown straight in large numbers

Duke University [profile] chemists have found a way to grow long, straight cylinders only a few atoms thick in very large numbers, removing a major roadblock in the pursuit of nano-scale electronics.

Cybersquatters have reached record numbers, says WIPO

Everyone has had it happen to them: you're trying to remember the URL to your bank's web site, but type in some variation of the domain—americabank.com instead of bankofamerica.com, for example. Next thing you know, instead of your bank's web site, you end up at some place trying to sell you cheap Viagra. Cybersquatters are the bane of many users' (and businesses') existence, and the World Intellectual Property Organization says that they have grown to unprecedented numbers in recent years. WIPO says that it received a record number of complaints over cybersquatting in 2007—2,156 to be exact, which is a nearly 50 percent increase since 2005.

Nanotubes Grown Straight In Large Numbers

Durham, NC — Duke University chemists have found a way to grow long, straight cylinders only a few atoms thick in very large numbers, removing a major roadblock in the pursuit of nano-scale electronics.

Nanotubes grown straight in large numbers

25 Apr 2008 - Duke University chemists have found a way to grow long, straight cylinders only a few atoms thick in very large numbers, removing a major roadblock in the pursuit of nano-scale electronics. These single-walled carbon nanotubes also follow parallel paths as they grow so they don't cross each other to potentially impede electronic performance, said Duke associate chemistry professor Jie Liu, who leads the research. Carbon nanotubes can act as semiconductors and could thus further scale-down circuitry to features measuring only billionths of a meter.

Nanotubes grown straight in large numbers

(Nanowerk News) Duke University chemists have found a way to grow long, straight cylinders only a few atoms thick in very large numbers, removing a major roadblock in the pursuit of nano-scale electronics.

Nanotubes grown straight in large numbers

DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University chemists have found a way to grow long, straight cylinders only a few atoms thick in very large numbers, removing a major roadblock in the pursuit of nano-scale electronics.

Nanotubes Grown Straight in Large Numbers

DURHAM, N.C., April 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University chemists have found a way to grow long, straight cylinders only a few atoms thick in very large numbers, removing a major roadblock in the pursuit of nano-scale electronics.

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