Mathematical breakthrough could bring disaster for ecommerce
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Mathematicians are close to solving a 150 year-old theory - and the solution could add up to problems for internet commerce. The Riemann hypothesis, formulated by Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann in 1859, would
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If a shopkeeper tried to charge $1,000 for a broken computer, you'd probably be outraged. You might even complain to the government.
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E-commerce Web services specialist is helping retailers take the guesswork out of setting up shop on Amazon.
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Circuit City's sales predicament is worrisome -- when will it recover?
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Irregular hors d'ouevres, scheduling mishaps, and the stockbroker's eternal dilemma.
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Who says cricket matches are unpredictable? A business solutions company in Mumbai has devised a computer model that forecasts cricket scores with apparently astounding success.
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Some unscrupulous vendors manage to worm their way into price comparison site listings. Knowing how these shopping engines work can help you avoid the bad apples.
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Despite more than a decade of experience with e-commerce, many major online retailers continue to experience outages, slowdowns and outright glitches on their websites. Why can't they get it right?
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Growing profits isn't magic. It's math.
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Why Adobe's Apollo software could unleash the next wave of creativity and commerce.
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eBay's latest auction trend may give the company a major headache.
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Research work could mean data gets in and out of computer chips at speed of light.
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As one user found out, crisis may shake management up and send them scurrying to identify disaster recovery solutions that work out of the box, but there's no guarantee by the vendor that they can instantly recover the data with their product.
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Hackers have crippled one of the internet&#39;s biggest credit card processors, and tens of thousands of online merchants are losing business while the company struggles to recover.
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A group of mathematicians look at how order theory might help in the war on terror. The branch of abstract math resembles classic military strategy but applying computers to problems might increase accuracy of predictions and strategic moves.
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New report on offshoring's implications from the British Computer Society.
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Plus: At 80, fractal discoverer Benoit Mandelbrot says he has much math work left to do. [News.com Extra]