SAS November Traffic Up, Load Factor Falls
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Scandinavian airline SAS said its passenger traffic rose 2.9 percent last month from a year earlier but failed to keep up with capacity growth, prompting it to repeat cautious comments on competition and pricing pressure.
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NEW YORK, December 2  - The US witnessed increased factory activity in November, with new orders and employment picking up in the manufacturing sector.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 4 -- Low-cost carriers Southwest Airlines Inc., JetBlue Airways Corp. and Independence Air on Thursday reported upbeat October passenger traffic figures, signaling greater demand for air travel and lifting airline stock prices.
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The run-up to November's presidential election has benefited websites, bringing increased numbers of visitors. Now, the trick is to maintain that traffic surge. By Daniel Terdiman.
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NagVis is a visualization addon for the well known network managment system Nagios. NagVis can be used to visualize Nagios Data, e.g. to display IT processes like a mail system or a network infrastructure.   I'm proud to present you NagVis 1.2 in the final version. It's nearly 3 month since the final release of NagVis 1.1, there have been some interesting changes. We had a very little amount of bug reports in the last weeks, maybe not so much people tested it. But I won't be so pessimistic and hope this version is as stable as it occurs.  Here a small list of key features since 1.1 final:   * Recoded map rotation feature: Maps rotation can be stopped and restarted on demand. There is a countdown to the next reload/rotate in the header menu. It also can be included to the map in a textbox via macro. You can also define several map rotation pools in the main configuration.   * Added Dynamic Favicon to increase comfort when using tabbed browsing   * Added better value validation to prevent wrong configuration   * Increased Performance (map load time) up to 50%    Note:  For details see the full 1.2 changelog (http://www.nagvis.org/docs/1.2/changelog).  Note2: All changes in the documentation are marked with a yellow image.  You can download via the Download page (http://www.nagvis.org/downloads).  Have fun with this version and please keep bug reporting.
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InfoWorld - Internet traffic from India to countries like the U.S. and the U.K. has slowed down, as Internet service providers (ISPs) have started diverting traffic from Middle Eastern links to slower links through the Asia-Pacific region, according to the head of an ISP association in India.
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The application traffic management space is getting resurfaced as vendors such as F5, Radware, and Redline green-light new products with traffic compression, DoS attack protection, server-side caching, and other features aimed at simplifying and lowering the cost of network management.
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Global air passenger traffic continued a steady rise in the first nine months of this year, rising 17.7 percent from the same period in 2003, the International Air Transport Association said Wednesday.
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End-user adoption of Linux servers for enterprise workloads hosting ISV applications and databases is ramping up rapidly, with newly published data indicating that uptake of the operating system has doubled over the past year.
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Blog: Internet statistics firm says social-networking site experienced 89 percent growth in traffic, mostly outside "collegiate" demographic, when it dropped its exclusivity.
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When you sign up with a high-bandwidth service plan with an ISP, you'd think you'd be able to transfer data at the advertised speeds. That's not always the case.
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Linux's server growth is slowing vis-a-vis Windows server growth.  The reasons are several.  The answer is clear: take on Microsoft directly.
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Throughput improvements to 200 kilobits per second (up from between 70 kbps and 135 kbps) noted by multiple users.
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By The Philadelphia Inquirer  Dec. 13--Traffic.com Inc., of Wayne, today said it has broadened its relationship with the Missouri Department of Transportation to provide additional digital traffic-information services for the St. Louis metropolitan area.
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Services carry the load Despite falling product revenue, Sun Microsystems posted decent enough second quarter results.â¦
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Sales of semiconductors in November indicate that consumer products such as LCD (liquid crystal display) TVs, digital music players, and other devices sold well during the holidays, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said Monday.November chip sales rose 2.3 percent year-on-year to $23.1 billion, the SIA said.Unit demand has far outpaced last year. But falling chip prices have hurt industry revenue, the chip association said. For example, DRAM (dynamic RAM) bit shipments grew 25 percent in the three months through mid-December, but average selling prices have declined 20 percent over the same period.The association also noted that rising energy prices and concerns about the sub-prime lending issue in the U.S. do not appear to have had a significant impact on consumer spending for the holidays, the SIA said. The group reiterated its forecast that worldwide semiconductor sales will reach a new record in 2007. But it will take a stronger than expected December selling season to reach the 3.8 percent growth goal the group had&#160;forecast earlier this year, the SIA said.Investment banking firm Credit Suisse was not as optimistic as the SIA.The November data was below normal seasonal trends, noted analyst John Pitzer, in a report on Monday. Even if December reaches its normal seasonal growth, 2007 industry revenue will only reach $255.7 billion, up 3.2 percent over last year. The growth percentage would fall short of the SIA&#39;s 3.8 percent target.The slow November prompted Credit Suisse to lower its 2008 chip industry revenue forecast to 9.4 percent year-on-year growth, down from a previous target of 13 percent.
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The SAS Institute has updated its products for data mining and forecasting.The releases represent a greater leap in functionality over other recent revisions, according to Mary Grace Crissey, a product marketing manager for SAS. The earlier versions were &quot;much more GUI-driven,&quot; she said.Enterprise Miner 5.3 features 15 new analytical tools and additional algorithms, the company said. An accompanying Text Miner product can analyze unstructured data, such as blogs or customer feedback forms.Forecast Server 2.1, another updated product, includes improved filtering, more than a dozen additional project management macros, and scalability improvements for working with large data sets.One satisfied customer is Tim Rey, manager of the data-mining and modeling group at Dow Chemical. He said that the firm took &quot;a considerable amount of time to study both Enterprise Miner and Forecast Server before we purchased.... The products are well-designed, supporting many robust methods that are enabled by easy-to-use interfaces and supported by functional graphics.&quot;Rey&#39;s company has not yet deployed the newest versions, but it has &quot;reviewed what was coming and thinks they are welcome additions,&quot; he said.Dow is using Forecast Server to build forecasting models for a variety of scenarios, such as demand and raw materials costs. The firm is using Enterprise Miner in a number of areas, including finance, fraud, engineering, research and development, supply chain, and human resources, he said.Rey noted that &quot;in both products, you have to have your data in SAS format prior to using them.&quot;To that end, Enterprise Miner 5.3 includes a new wizard designed to make it easier for users to push their data into SAS&#39; software, Crissey said. Longtime SAS customers tend to keep preformatted data sets at the ready, she said.Enterprise Miner licensing starts at $120,000, with the Text Miner add-on costing an additional $80,000. There is a desktop version of the product that costs $40,000, plus $20,000 for the text-mining option. Enterprise Forecaster pricing begins at roughly $150,000. SAS charges annual renewal fees that are a percentage of the initial cost, according to a company spokesman.