Microsoft, which no longer produces Zunes, declined to comment on any likelihood of leap-year bugs this year.
One code-writer's trick, for instance, was to encode dates using the 1, 461 days that make up a full leap-year cycle.
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The 23-year-old honey from Holland made a long-legged leap up the charts from her second-to-last position last year.
MetroPCS says it added 249, 000 net new customers in the third quarter, doubling its year-earlier increase, and Leap Wireless says it gained 156, 000 net customers, more than tripling its year-earlier growth.
The total is expected to nearly double next year, leap-frogging Indonesia for the title of second largest market.
It requires no manual adjustment before March 1, 2100, since century years are an exception to the four-year cycle governing leap years.
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Embarking on a six-month or year-long adventure often can mean taking a leap of faith and leaving key responsibilities behind, like arranging for an extended leave of absence or resigning from a job.
The quarterly cash cost per user of Leap Wireless soared nearly 16% year-on-year.
Nationwide today about 1.3 million kids, or 28% of all four-year-olds, attend state-funded pre-K, a leap from 14% in 2002.
Meanwhile, more than 423, 000 people travelled through Glasgow Airport in February, representing year-on-year growth of 2.1% after adjusting for 2012 being a leap year.
Neat stacks of medical text books, a sharply-designed carrier bag from a clothes store, an English novel and pairs of smart shoes in the draughty bedroom of the 23-year-old Delhi gang rape victim, tell the story of a woman determined to make the leap to a middle class lifestyle for her and her family.
In 1996, computers at a New Zealand aluminum-smelting plant failed to process the 366th day in leap year.
Ubisoft's long-running Ghost Recon series is also making a leap forward in time this year.
In May this year 26.8 million people visited the site, with Facebook leap-frogging MSN to become the UK's second most visited site.
Comcast's wide-ranging On Demand movie lineup features new release films such as: Nine, Leap Year, The Blind Side, Crazy Heart, The Hangover, The Hurt Locker, Precious and Twilight: New Moon as well as classics like Casablanca, The Exorcist, The Godfather and The Blues Brothers.
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Bradford says fewer than 10% of hiring relies on one-way video interviewing at this point, but HireVue has seen its revenues leap by 500% this year, and is getting set to announce a Series C round of funding shortly.
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The event has helped make 2008 a pivotal year for China--just in ways not fully foreseen, even by those who appreciated the leap of hosting a noisy world party in a society that is still closed in important ways.
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