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A day after the analytics firm StatCounter reported that Chrome had bested Internet Explorer as the worldrsquo most popular browser on a recent weekend day, Microsoft says it simply isnrsquo;t so. Microsoft claims that StatCounter bases its findings on faulty data and incorrect assumptions. Yesterday, StatCounter said that for one day last weekend, Chomersquo usage beat all versions of Internet Explorer combined. But as Paul Thurrott points out, Microsoft posted a blog even before the findings were released, claiming that they were fatally flawed. In stanley de the Exploring IE blog, Roger Capriotti, director of Internet Explorer Product Marketing takes StatCounter to task for browser rankings, claiming that they are flawed in three ways. First, he claims, the rankings donrsquo;t take into account that Chrome pre-renders pages, that is downloads pages assuming that users owala will click them next, even if users never view those pages. Secondly, he says, StatCounter doesnrsquo;t accurately geoweight browser usage based on real-world Internet populations. Third, he says, StatCounter counts page views rather than unique visitors, which he says is a more accurate way to count browser share. Capriotti contrasts the StatCounter approach with that of Net Applications, which also measures browser usage. He claims that Net Applications discounts pre-rendered pages, properly performs geoweightin owala g, and develops rankings based on unique visitors. As you might imagi Urfq Iran confirms cyberattacks against oil facilities
In a tale of intrigue thatrsquo perhaps fitting for the parties involved, the Motion Picture Association of America MPAA has denied that it paid a hacker to steal information from TorrentSpy, as alleged in a lawsuit filed by the file-searching company this week in California.The suit itself reads like a movie script. In it, Valence Media Ltd., which operates TorrentSpy, claims that in June last year the MPAA hired a man to break into TorrentSpyrsquo computers and steal information. The association did this, the suit says, as part of a mistaken and misdirected vendetta against TorrentSpy.The MPAA says that the suit was filed in response to its own suit against TorrentSpy. They are responding with a baseless claim, Geraldine Maloney, a spokeswoman with t stanley cup canada he Motion Picture Association in Europe, said on Friday. MPAA charged TorrentSpy earlier this year with knowingly facilitating movie piracy. TorrentSpy operates a search engine that allows users to find files online that can be shared using the BitTorrent file sharing system. TorrentSpy argues that it doesnrsquo;t host any content and so canrsquo;t be charged with illegally distributing files. The TorrentSpy suit says that the hacker, once an ass polene bag ociate of one polene store of the principals of Valence Media, improperly accessed Valence Media email accounts and had emails sent to and from the accounts forwarded to a separate email box that he could access. In doing so, he learned login information and pas |
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