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Billionth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia One billionth is the reciprocal of a billion, which means it has one of two definitions depending on whether the long scale or short scale definition is being used. The prefix for this number is nano, and is abbreviated as "n" (for example, in electronics, one nanofarad would be written as 1 nF). The prefix for this number is pico, and is abbreviated as "p" (for example, in electronics, one picofarad would be written as 1 pF). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billionth   (142 words)

China Welcomes 1.3 Billionth Citizen in Mixed Mood : Fool Moon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) China Thursday morning welcomed its 1.3 billionth citizen, but experts cautioned that the country should get prepared to address its still growing population, increasing employment pressure and rising sex ratio imbalance before celebrating. The baby boy, born at two minutes past midnight Thursday in a Beijing hospital, was called a "lucky dog" by his father to be declared China's 1.3 billionth citizen. Experts say China's 1.3 billion population might have come four years earlier if it were not for the family planning policy the Chinese government adopted over three decades ago. foolmoon.com /showthreaded.php?Number=222731   (413 words)

2 Cents Worth » One Billionth Internet User I’ve been working on a reflective article for a number of days now, in amongst the holiday activities, but ran across this from Web Usability Guru Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox blog, and just had to pass it on. Some time in 2005, we quietly passed a dramatic milestone in Internet history: the one-billionth user went online. Because we have no central register of Internet users, we don’t know who that user was, or when he or she first logged on. davidwarlick.com /2cents/2005/12/24/one-billionth-internet-user   (434 words)

OCTA Billionth Bus Customer To help commend the occasion, OCTA officials were on hand at the Fullerton Transportation Center in Fullerton to celebrate and present the billionth customer with several prizes and awards as they officially stepped off OCTA bus number 2152 at the end of Route 43. With a tagline asking the question, "Are you the billionth one?," OCTA publicized the upcoming event through advertisements on its buses, bus shelters, bus schedule book, www.octa.net web site, and a variety of radio, newspaper, and direct mail ads. The billionth rider will receive a years' free groceries at Albertsons, four annual passes to the Disneyland® Resort, where you can enjoy a year of magic and adventure at both Disneyland® Park and Disney's California Adventure® Park, and an OCTA lifetime pass. www.trainweb.com /news/2002/2002e28a.html   (1004 words)

Intel Celebrates The Industry's 1 Billionth PC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) The industry reached this notable milestone in April 2002, roughly 25 years after the debut of the first commercially successful and widely available personal computer, the 1974 Altair powered by the Intel® 8080 chip. The 1 billionth PC is likely enabling its owner to do a variety of things once thought of as science fiction. Today, people rely on PCs to send e-mail and instant messages, surf the Web, manage a household budget and family calendar, edit home movies and burn them onto DVDs, mix music, create photo albums with narration and mood music, play action-packed games, and engage in a host of other compelling new uses. www.intel.com /pressroom/archive/releases/20020701corp.htm   (982 words)

Timing Apple's 1 Billionth iTunes Sale Fri, Feb 10, 2006 03:45 PM Long-range data is not going to be useful for predicting the 1 billionth song. There is going to be a flood of activity when the counter nears a billion. Interestingly, the billionth mark doesn't look like it was a significantly larger ripple. www.anders.com /cms/149   (783 words)

GSM to connect billionth user in 2004 - infoSync World GSM is on target to achieve an historic milestone during the first quarter of 2004. With more than 970 million users at the end of December and an average of 15 million new users a month throughout 2003, the GSM Association, the global trade association representing GSM operators worldwide, today said it confidently expects the billionth GSM user to be connected during the first quarter. The approach of the milestone will be a major theme at the 3GSM World Congress, the annual gathering of the global GSM community, taking place in Cannes, France in February. www.infosyncworld.com /news/n/4530.html   (842 words)

MacNN | Apple announces billionth song, winner The billionth iTunes song was "Speed of Sound," which was purchased as part of Coldplay's "X&Y" album by Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan. I find it ironic that the billionth song came from an album which was notorious for it's restrictive DRM. Coldplay's "speed of sound" is perhaps the easiest song to download from a free file-sharing network right now (hey, the last thing Chris Martin needs is another penny from me) and yet instead of the billionth song being something from an indie group or even some obscure track, it's the same-old, same-old billboard top 50. www.macnn.com /articles/06/02/23/billionth.itunes.song   (637 words)

MP3.com: iTunes nears billionth download As if its rivals needed any more reminders of the deficit they face in the digital music game, Apple's iTunes is letting the world know that it is rapidly approaching its one billionth download. The company has gone so far as to run a countdown-style meter on its site ticking off the downloads. But what will really set off a downloading frenzy as it gets within a few hundred downloads of a billion is the promise that the downloader of the billionth song will get a 20-inch iMac, 10 60GB iPods, and a $10,000 iTunes Music Card. www.mp3.com /stories/3233.html   (230 words)

digg - Apple sells billionth song. At approximately 12:37 PM Eastern on February 23rd, 2006, Apple sold its one billionth song on iTunes, marking the end of their Billion Song Giveaway campaign. Damn the prize for the billionth buyer is pretty cool - 20-in mac, 10 60GB ipods, $10,000 itunes gift certificate...almost makes me wish i had used itunes instead of downloading my music illegally all these years...but not quite... Wouldn't you just love it if the Billionth song purchased was a Kenny Rogers song... digg.com /apple/Apple_sells_billionth_song.   (1650 words)

iTunes Music Store Billionth Song Predictor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) Tiny VB6 App that shows the latest song count on iTunes Music Store, and predicts when the Billionth song will be sold. Apple says Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Mich., was the lucky audiophile who downloaded "Speed of Sound" by Brit pop band Coldplay, giving the Cupertino, Calif., company bragging rights to the 10-figure milestone. Wed, Mar 8 2006 11:34 PM If you want to do this again(say 2,000,000,000 song,) I would suggest using a progressive average. channel9.msdn.com /ShowPost.aspx?PostID=161742   (506 words)

Party poker 3 billionth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) PartyGaming expects to deal its 3 billionth hand of poker before the end of the year. Party poker is about to deal their 3 BILLIONTH hand. Party Poker is having a promotion revolving around the 3 billionth hand being dealt in its poker room. 3735.3jsdhsj.info   (704 words)

iTunes Reaches One Billionth Download A teenager in the US recently purchased the one billionth song from Apple’s digital music service iTunes. Please login or register to post a comment about itunes reaches one billionth download. Innovation and strategic advantage hinge on the ability to anticipate trends and identify the next big thing, like this trend, itunes reaches one billionth download. www.trendhunter.com /trends/itunes-reaches-one-billionth-download   (350 words)

Boing Boing: Xeni on ABC World News Tonight: billionth iTunes download I'll be a guest on ABC World News Tonight Thursday evening for a segment on the significance of a milestone for Apple's iTunes Music Store: the one billionth song was purchased and downloaded today. Here's a press release from Apple about the billionth download (a Coldplay song, btw). Worth noting also that it's taken Apple about three years to sell a billion songs, which is a drop in the bucket compared to CD sales and especially compared to P2P traffic, even today. www.boingboing.net /2006/02/23/xeni_on_abc_world_ne.html   (410 words)

Billionth Please look for Billionth, Biollante and Billionth Of A Second to find more Billionth information. UniSci is a newsletter of science stories from the major research labs. According to one estimate, at 1833 GMT on Monday 9 August the six billionth person will enter the world. billionth.info   (342 words)

Billionth Of A Billionth Second Pulse Now Detected Billionth Of A Billionth Second Pulse Now Detected Attophysics has become the short-timescale frontier of physics, with a report from an international collaboration that the briefest lengths yet have now been detected. An Austria-Canada-Germany collaboration reports that it has produced and detected, for the first time, isolated x-ray pulses lasting on the scale of attoseconds, where one attosecond is a billionth of a billionth of a second (10^-18 s). unisci.com /stories/20014/1204013.htm   (646 words)

DailyTech - Apple Gears Up For One Billionth iTunes Download Apple is starting the party early in anticipation of the one billionth download from the iTunes Music Store. It has revolutionized the way we [legally] receive audio content and Apple is now using that winning formula with downloadable TV shows and music videos. Isn't this more of a countup, since the counter is going UP to the billionth download... www.dailytech.com /article.aspx?newsid=759   (521 words)

Billionth Holding [OCLC] Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, Aug. 11, Anne Slane, a cataloger at Worthington (Ohio) Libraries for 23 years, entered the 1 billionth holding in WorldCat for the book, The Monkees: The day-by-day story of the '60s TV pop sensation. On the occasion of the one billionth holding symbol being added to WorldCat, I would like to thank OCLC member libraries, regional service providers, networks and international distributors for their continuing commitment to OCLC's public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing library costs. Thousands of catalogers and librarians around the world have worked together these past 34 years to create, keystroke by keystroke, record by record, and symbol by symbol, a unique and valuable library resource for knowledge seekers everywhere. www.oclc.org /news/releases/200517.htm   (919 words)

Nokia - Nokia Introduces Nokia 2652, fold design for new growth markets, Major milestone reached - one billionth Nokia ... Espoo, Finland - Expanding its wide range of elegant and affordable phones for consumers in emerging markets, Nokia today unveiled the Nokia 2652 phone. Since the early 1990's we have seen voice go truly wireless and mobile phones evolve from voice centric to feature driven devices. Earlier this summer, Nokia sold our one billionth mobile phone - a Nokia 1100 sold in Nigeria," says Öistämö. press.nokia.com /PR/200509/1012651_5.html   (780 words)

iTunes sales hits one billionth song download | MacMinute News Apple's home page has declared that one lucky fan has downloaded the one billionth song from the iTunes Music Store. As we marked our way to one billion, the music fans who downloaded every 100,000th song won a prize package featuring a fl 4GB iPod nano and a US$100 iTunes Music Card. The lucky music fan who downloaded the billionth song from the iTunes Music Store — won a new 20-inch iMac, 10 60GB iPods, and a $10,000 iTunes Music Card to jumpstart their digital music collection." The winners have yet to be announced. www.macminute.com /2006/02/23/itunes-one-billion   (198 words)

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | iTunes achieves one billion mark A teenager in the US has made the one billionth purchase from Apple's online music service iTunes. Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said the billionth download represented "a major force against music piracy and the future of music distribution as we move from CDs to the internet". Music purchases over the internet have led to a decline in CD sales in the US, according to official data. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/4750744.stm   (263 words)

Slashdot | iTunes Music Store hits Billionth Download Thomas Hawk writes "Apple is out hyping their one billionth iTunes download today, but is building your music library in a format that could be obsolete in the future really the best strategy? It just so happens my billionth free music download was a Coldplay mashup. Well sure, iTunes may be up to their billionth download, but my streams are louder. apple.slashdot.org /apple/06/02/24/0617244.shtml   (3699 words)

ABC News: iTunes: 1 Billion Served Apple's iTunes digital music service celebrated the downloading of its 1 billionth song last night. While every 100,000th music fan to download a song was awarded a fl 4GB iPod nano and a $100 iTunes music card, there could be only one 1 billionth customer, and Ostrovsky was it. Launched in April 2003, iTunes sold its first million tracks in just five days and celebrated 70 million downloads on its one-year anniversary. abcnews.go.com /Technology/story?id=1653881   (525 words)

Apple iTunes gearing up for the billionth download online on TechWhack News Apple does not only sell their iPod range of digital players in large numbers but also sells a whole lot of songs on their Apple iTunes digital media store. The store is now approaching a mega milestone of its one-billionth download and the company has announced some big prices for the individual who downloads the one-billionth song from Apple iTunes. Apple iTunes serve its one-billionth song Apple has yet again proved that they are the global leaders when it comes to digital music sales. news.techwhack.com /3140/apple-itunes-billionth-download   (804 words)

Intel Ships One Billionth Processor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) Intel shipped its billionth microprocessor this past April, an analyst has found, twenty-five years after Intel began shipping the first X86 processors. Analyst firm Mercury Research calculated that Intel reached this milestone in April, roughly 25 years after the debut of the first 8086 microprocessor on June 8, 1978. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of Ziff Davis Media Inc. is prohibited. www.extremetech.com /article2/0,3973,1122268,00.asp   (428 words)

Intel ships billionth chip - Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) That was Intel Corp. 's first microprocessor for personal computers in 1978, back when a "hand-held" was a transistor radio, computers were immobile mainframes, and the Internet was a project by a handful of research scientists. A quarter-century later, Intel has shipped its 1 billionth computer chip, according to figures compiled by semiconductor industry analyst firm Mercury Research and verified by Intel. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of bizjournals. sanjose.bizjournals.com /sanjose/stories/2003/06/09/daily13.html   (593 words)

TidBITS#818/27-Feb-06 Next time I visit Cupertino, I'll be looking to see if Apple has co-opted one of those McDonald's signs touting the number of burgers served to advertise the number of songs sold on the iTunes Music Store. If such a sign existed earlier this month, it would have had to add an extra digit on February 23rd, 2006, when the iTunes Music Store sold its one-billionth song (that's an American billion, not a British billion, though you probably would have assumed as much). That one-billionth song was "Speed of Sound" from Coldplay's XandY album, purchased by Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan. www.tidbits.com /tb-issues/TidBITS-818.html   (5348 words)

All things iPod, iTunes and beyond | iLounge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) Apple’s iTunes Music Store, which launched in April 2003, sold its one billionth song at approximately 12:40 a.m. The grand prize winner who downloaded the billionth song will receive a 20-inch iMac, 10 60GB iPods, and a $10,000 iTunes gift card. In addition, Apple said it will create a full-ride scholarship in the winner’s name to a world-renowned music school. ilounge.com /index.php/.../itunes-music-store-sells-one-billionth-song   (241 words)

Neowin.net - Billionth iTunes song downloaded A teenager from Michigan, US, has made the one billionth iTunes download Coldplay's Speed of Sound and earned himself some fantastic prizes. Alex Ostrovsky was downloading a selection of songs from the band's X&Y album has when he won a 20-inch iMac, 10 fifth-generation iPods and a $10,000 iTunes gift card. I'd love it if the Billionth Song was something really, really embarassing. www.neowin.net /comments.php?id=32389&category=software   (434 words)

The 2.4 Volt Experiment » Blog Archive » One Billionth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) So, Michigan teenager Alex Ostrovsky makes the one billionth purchase from iTunes and Apple say they will set up a music scholarship in his name. Well, the poor guy will go down in history as having no taste whatsoever as his purchase was a Coldplay track! This blog is protected by Spam Karma 2: 396 Spams eaten and counting... volts.megadome.co.uk /?p=104   (225 words)

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