One thing a number of our customers have in common is that they truly believe load testing—and the impact it has on website performance—is tied directly to the sales process. Service providers and vendors that provide value-added services, demonstrate improved system performance and reduce service outages often see increased trust in their capabilities from their [...]
Infrastructure Intelligence Success: Load Testing Is Part of the Sales Process
Mobile Messages for the Holidays
This has been an important year for mobile. Worldwide there will be 6 billion mobile connections at the end of November. 6 billion! What are we doing with all these mobile connections? Checking Fantasy Football stats. Updating our Facebook status. Just to put some facts to that observation–nearly 70 percent of wireless users in the [...]

Moving Telephone Numbers Into the Internet Age
In this final posting of our series on the future of telephone numbers, Neustar’s Tom McGarry explains why rapid changes in Internet and communications require evolving telephone numbers. Now that we’re 20 years past TN 2.0, well into the 21st century, and onto the 3rd generation of the web; it is about time we move [...]

The Ghosts of Cyber Mondays Past and Future
Today, otherwise known as ‘Cyber Monday’ kicks off the holiday shopping season, and has become one of the biggest days for online shopping for the entire year. Many shoppers hoping to get the best deals on the newest electronics will spend hours while at work buying for their friends and family. The only thing more [...]
Cyber #Fun, or Cyber #Fail? Cyber Monday Could Go One Way or the Other. You Decide.
Today, otherwise known as ‘Cyber Monday’ kicks off the holiday shopping season, and has become one of the biggest days for online shopping for the entire year. The term was coined after the ever-famous ‘Black Friday’. Many shoppers hoping to get the best deals on the newest electronics will spend hours while at work buying [...]

Happy Thanksgiving from Neustar
Feast. Give thanks. Relax. From all of us to all of you, have a Happy Thanksgiving.
Pre-Packed Solutions Equal Headaches. Professional Services Don’t.
Learn why, and lose the Excedrin. Every company has its own totally unique business and technical needs. This often makes finding prepackaged products, software and services that are generic and self-serve quite challenging—like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. Typically, businesses resort to selecting a solution based on price alone that [...]
New Study Confirms One Nationwide NPAC Administrator Provides the Most Economic, Reliable and Effective Numbering System
Today, Neustar released an economic study by Dr. Scott E. Masten, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. This study finds that maintaining a single number portability administrator nationwide provides substantial economic benefits to support innovation, reliability, and the effectiveness of numbering services. Download the full [...]

Grace Hopper Celebration: The Business Case for Diversity on Technical Teams
We spent a great week in Portland, Oregon, where over 2,900 attendees representing 34 different countries gathered at the Grace Hopper Celebration to honor women in computing. Researchers presented their current work, while special sessions focused on the role of women in today’s technology fields, including computer science, information technology, research and engineering. Colleagues from [...]
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Series
- Physical Office Security in a Digital Security World May 16, 2013
- IP Geolocation: Four Reasons It Beats the Alternatives May 16, 2013
- Internet and Digital Literacy Hold Keys to Future Success for Students May 9, 2013
- What do you mean my password isn’t strong enough? May 9, 2013
- The Evolution of DNS – Starting from the Beginning May 2, 2013
- Why Neustar is Acquiring TARGUSinfo October 11, 2011
- Five Reasons the NPAC is Invaluable to Communications Service Providers September 12, 2011
- Neustar Bloggers Share Their Desert Island Movies February 24, 2012
- Candy QR Code: Tasty Tasty Halloween Marketing October 14, 2011
- Two Generations of Telephone Numbers November 21, 2011








Neustar: The Technology Behind the Technology
We are very pleased to launch this week an effort at using online and print advertising to communicate more about who we are and what we do. Over time, a number of people have said to me, “Neustar is the best kept secret in technology.” We aim to rectify that. It is important that our [...]