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Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center

Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center

Internet Data Mining Total Sites Across All Domains (logarithmic scale) Netcraft has explored the internet since 1995 and is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the internet. By surveying the web, collecting and collating as many hostnames providing an HTTP service as we can find, and systematically polling each one with an HTTP request for the server name, we are able to create datasets that give a clear picture of what is happening on the internet. Customers include: British Telecom, Cisco, cPanel, Datapipe, DigitalOcean, GoDaddy, Host Europe, Intel, Iomart, Microsoft, OVH, Parallels, Peer1, Rackspace, IBM/Softlayer, Symantec, United Internet and a range of investment and venture capital organisations.

$0.5 million or $75 million: pay now or pay later - Northwest Region - Battlefords News-Optimist Saskatchewan's western neighbour estimates the annual cost to municipal, agricultural and industrial infrastructure could easily be $75 million if quagga and zebra mussels invade Alberta's lakes, rivers and irrigation canals. In 2014, the Alberta government invested over $500,000 in an ongoing effort to stop that invasion. Saskatchewan's eastern neighbour is already playing catch-up, investing approximately the same amount in 2014 in a failed attempt to treat portions of Lake Winnipeg where zebra mussels were first identified as having reached Manitoba in 2013. The looming economic threat posed by invasive mussels to Saskatchewan is at least as high as for our provincial neighbours, and the numbers don't even come close to including the threat to the ecology of prized fishing and recreational lakes. The University of Windsor's Dr. The Prairie Waters Working Group, in collaboration with Saskatchewan's 11 water stewardship organizations, has invited Dr.

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