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Male Internet Users Worldwide 2002 to 2006 (July 2002)
The following table shows the number of male Internet users by country for 2002 with projected growth in users through 2006.
July, 2002
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Internet B2C Transactions 2002 to 2006 (July 2002)
This data shows the dollar volume of Internet B2C transactions projected for 2002 through 2006 by country. B2C Internet transactions are broadly defined as items purchased by consumers including household goods, entertainment tickets, digital products, books, airline tickets, online bill paying, gift items, and gift certificates.
July, 2002
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Internet Users North America 2002 to 2006 (July 2002)
This data shows the number of Internet users in North America for 2002 with projected growth in users through 2006 for all Internet users, females, males, and users under 18 years old. Internet users are defined as individuals who consistently use the Internet with access from either work, school, home, or multiple locations.
July, 2002
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Internet Users Under 18 Years Old Worldwide 2002 to 2006 (July 2002)
The following table shows the number of Internet users under 18 years old by country for 2002 with projected growth in users through 2006.
July, 2002
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Emphasize Storage Management Over Storage Capacity (July 2002)
With disk storage only costing about 5 cents per megabyte, many IT managers fall into the trap of believing that increasing capacity is the economical way to go. These managers fail to realize that the management, operation, and maintenance of those disks will annually cost them 50 cents per megabyte or more.
July, 2002
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10 Rules for Maintaining a Website (July 2002)
By nature websites are expandable and dynamic. Sites that stagnate are doomed to failure, but keeping sites fresh demands a great deal of maintenance grunt-work. Although it isnât nearly as glamorous, website maintenance is every bit as important as web design. Companies that dedicate time and resources to maintaining a superior website are the most apt to experience both hard and soft return on their investment.
July, 2002
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Banks Move to Squelch Online Gambling: Why It Matters (July 2002)
The threat to a free market on the Internet no longer comes only from governmental interference. The financial community has decided to get in the game. Internet commerce depends upon credit card transactions for the vast majority of all payments for goods and services. Until recently, the financial institutions which facilitate these transactions took no interest, so to speak, in the nature of the purchases.
July, 2002
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XML Takes on New Web Services Roles (July 2002)
The need to tie IT systemsâfrom backend files through front-end securityâtogether in order to build web service engines is driving a number of parallel efforts, all of which employ XML as the binding glue. The potential of XML to allow disparate vendors and suppliers to integrate their e-commerce sites is being realized by the formulation of a variety of standards and the implementation of products based on those standards.
July, 2002
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Overcoming the Impact of Irrational Management (July 2002)
The newspapers and trade magazines are full of stories about layoffs and the impact of the economic downturn on IT departments, as well as a full array of contradictory predications about when things are going to get better. The downturn is being blamed for everything from low morale to lethargy in the IT department.
July, 2002
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Budget Directions Impact Staffing and Acquisition Trends (July 2002)
How an organization allocates IS budgets and sets acquisition plans is influenced by, but not totally dependent on, whether budgets are being decreased, increased, or held steady. We have examined four key benchmarks from our 2002 study to illustrate how budget directions influence spending and staffing trends.
July, 2002
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Management Tools and IP Move Into Enterprise Storage
Among the hottest issues of enterprise storage are far less interoperability among storage vendors than in other IT applications, competing transfer technologies, and an ever-growing need for larger capacities and faster data transfers. Despite the difficulty managers encounter in configuring their storage systems, the outcome...
June, 2002
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Deep Linking Lingers On
One of the most fundamental characteristics of the Internet--perhaps the one feature which defines the vast, interconnected array of communications and computer systems--is the ability to direct users seamlessly from one point to another. That feature is generically referred to as "linking," and the practice gives rise to many legal issues and several unresolved questions.
June, 2002
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SPC-1 Storage Performance Benchmark (July 2002)
In 2001 the Storage Performance Council (SPC) announced SPC-1, the first industry-standard benchmark for enterprise storage systems. This benchmark specification is designed to give users a clearly applicable, vendor-neutral process to accurately compare and configure direct attach or network storage technology.
June, 2002
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Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Update (June 2002)
Sometimes referred to as cell relay, ATM uses short, fixed-length packets called cells for transport. Information is divided among these cells, transmitted, and then reassembled at their final destination. ATM consists of a series of layers.
June, 2002
