When Nasdaq halted trading this week, once again demonstrated how global companies are a thank you to who created

"Data is the new oil," said Clive Humby, a Sheffield mathematician who, with his wife, Edwina Dunn, Tesco ? 90m to help your customer card system. Although he said that in 2006, the idea that there is much money to be made - and lost - by marshaling or neglect of "big data" attention has only begun at the dawn of business men

The accident knocked out the Nasdaq trading system was just an example, last week, Amazon, Google and Apple have all experienced service failures that affected its customers, lost sales or inconvenienced . They lost millions on the Amazon main site was offline for almost an hour, estimates suggest dollars in sales. When Google is disconnected for four minutes this month, the missed opportunity to display ads on the search could cost is $ 500,000.

Michael Palmer, the Association of National Advertisers, expanded Humby quote: "The facts are the same oil is valuable, but so gross that it can not be used should really be turned into gas .. plastics, chemicals, etc. to create a valuable entity governing profitable, so the data should be broken down, analyzed have a value "

for Amazon and Google in particular, the ability to process and store large amounts of data is critical to your success. But when things go wrong - which is inevitable - the effects can be dramatic. And the biggest problem might be that the data is "dirty", which contains false or misleading entries can corrupt files and launch systems in freefall. This can make the kind of "software problem" that caused the fall of the Nasdaq - or lead to lock servers and a domino effect of overload

"Whenever I meet people that I wonder about the quality of data," said Duncan Ross, director of scientific Teradata data, which provides data storage systems for customers such Wal-Mart, Tesco and Apple. "When I say that the quality is very good, I guess I have not really looked."

This is because companies use systems increasingly rely on external data, whether by governments or private companies, which can not be assumed to be reliable. Ross said: "It is always dirty"

And that puts companies to thank you data at high pressure tides occasionally. Inject the wrong piece of data and trouble continues. In April, when the automatic reading a tweet from the Associated Press Twitter feed, said the White House had been bombed and injured Barack Obama, who has sold shares faster than the blink of an eye, sending the Dow EE. States. 143 points a few seconds. However, data were dirty: AP Twitter was hacked

However, the amount of short-term data being processed is triggered. Twitter has recently rewritten backend system complete database, it would not be able to cope with 500 piles, each as long as a text message, which happens every day otherwise. (In comparison, the four mobile networks in the UK and handle about 250 million text messages a day, a figure that drops people change services like Twitter.)

Raffi Krikorian, vice-president of "engineering platform" Twitter - who is responsible for maintaining the ship in operation and whale away - admits the 2010 World Cup was a dramatic lesson when goals, penalties and free kicks are watched by a global audience chewed system and quail.


a major rewrite of its back-end systems over the past three years means that you can now "stand" that exposure events in Japan a new movie called The Castle in the Sky, which set a record number of 143,199 tweets to generate the second on August 2 at 15:21 CEST. "The number of teams involved in the service of the site was reduced from five to 12 times," he says proudly. Better yet, Twitter has been available for about 99.9999% over the past six months, although Japanese peak.
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A weak economy and high unemployment has forced Latvians create their own opportunities

In a country that was one of the hardest hit by the global recession, some young people say that has devastated economy, a glimmer of hope: the freedom to invent a life n ' would never have been worth it for the download time.

growing startup is not just for Silicon Valley and New York. Here in the Baltic nation of Latvia chance, young entrepreneurs, free of the constant prospect of working nine to five job, the parent companies from manufacturing of high-end bikes that aspire to be the next Skype, which began in neighboring Estonia.

With youth unemployment in the EU of 23% and above 50% in Greece and Spain, these twentysomethings say that the crisis was good for them, despite the economic pain that accompanied. Presidents and Prime Ministers have met a crisis meeting, international organizations have called for extraordinary measures to stimulate hiring and a whole generation has been forced to adjust their aspirations.

last year kanepe Davis, 28, took matters into their own hands in Riga. Is rented ruined school building on a corner Italian music down-on-his-heels at the center of the city, with some friends, he became a bar and a cultural center.

"Of course, it is difficult, and not work eight hours a day, but you have to work 14 hours a day," said kanepe a recent afternoon at his club, where people wore hand elegant-me-down sweaters and cups smoked black plastic frame and drank bottles of Belgian beers low tables.

"But if you start working when you are 19," like many Latvians in the boom years before the fall of 2008, "has not had time to think about what their real goals are "kanepe said. Those who had to push a steady job because of the bad economy had more time to decide what they want to do, he said. "We who are under 30 understand much better."

In this country of 2.2 million nestled on the shores of the Baltic Sea, some young fit for small businesses that blur the distinction between work and personal life, where it is not necessary to go to an office. Many say they would otherwise. If life is more precarious, they say, it is also more exciting.

A similar movement is underway in Europe and the United States, where the growing communities of small start-ups attract people who, before the crisis of 2008, went to work for a bank to investment and consulting company. Internet commerce allows creative types to sell services and products to destinations outside of the house. This gives an advantage to countries like Latvia, where the cost of living is low, so it is easier to make profits.

"If you have a hobby that you enjoy doing and want to do it as a living being, is very relaxed here," said Jurga Pupstyte, 32, who worked for an international bank in Riga but leave to get a master's degree in cultural anthropology. She held company kanepe a recent afternoon while selling baskets of fresh strawberries in the street outside his club.

analysts warn that the change in work habits is not enough to put a major dent in youth unemployment. Credit, which is crucial for launching businesses still choked tight. For each new business that thrives in sustainability, many more are doomed to failure. And in an economy where most people are employed, access to health care and decent retirement is becoming more exclusive, while social safety nets tend to be more generous than in European countries United States. UU ..

"There is no miracle" to the problem of youth unemployment solution, said Stefano Scarpetta, Head of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Economic Development, a group of the world economy. Last month, the OECD published a study in which he called on the EU to adopt measures to fight against unemployment, the removal of protective barriers around industries, encourage banks to lend more to companies that deserve and subsidies for employers to hire new workers.

"It gave me the freedom to think a little wider," he said.
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may not know exactly who told The Sun, but not more Page 3 campaign success is determined and not surprisingly slowly revealing.

include 28,500 primary school teachers (here), 300,000 teachers (here), 120,000 more teachers (here), 500,000 Guide (here) and 1.3 million public sector workers (in this case ). On the other hand, maybe not.

The fact that chief executives and activists of the National Union of Teachers, the National Union of Teachers, Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the Girl Guides Association and Unison voted against Page 3 is very unlikely that each of its members support the decision.

It is also unlikely that its members are doing something, like boycotting the Sun.

This is not to cancel the effect of the campaign so politely launched last September by Lucy Holmes. It is just the opposite. It has galvanized anti-Page 3 campaign like no other before him.

At the time of writing, his call to the editor of The Sun, David Dinsmore, "taking bare breasts The Sun" has 113.193 individual companies.

Prominent signatories Jennifer Saunders, Rebecca Front, Frances Barber, Eliza Doolittle, Alastair Campbell, Caitlin Moran and Lauren Laverne.

The campaign has been adopted by dozens of MPs, 51 of whom have signed a petition calling on the authorities to stop Parliamentary Sun storage until you delete page 3 images. Include Caroline Lucas, Sarah Champion, Valerie Vaz, Frank Dobson, Gerald Kaufman, Michael Meacher, Martin Caton, Jim Dobbin, Paul Flynn, Alan Meale, Barry Sheerman and Lindsay Roy.

Only a Conservative, Fiona Bruce, listed so far. More conservative, much more would be required if the Prime Minister David Cameron feels no pressure within the party.

However, be aware that your defense of page 3 as a "personal choice" better let "the consumer" may well be unsustainable, as Stephanie Davies-Arai holds today.

In fact, when he said that within hours of women (in its edition of 22 July), the interviewer usually impeccable, Jane Garvey, agonizingly missed a trick.

After discussing the government's initiatives to protect children against online pornography, turned to page 3. At one point (16 minutes 17 seconds) when Garvey said:

"I mean, I have the sun in my house. So I doubt it would be in yours and let their daughters see it ... Why do you not support the cause prohibition of page 3? "

the latest news about a new threat to Creasy, will ensure that the issue of male violence against women is still a hot topic.

much as the Sun would far Page 3 of pornography and the prevailing attitude (and actions) of men to women in development screaming in the general debate.
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