Blame Technology for May 6 Stock Plunge?
Posted by udi on May 12, 2010 in Business, Technology |
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Billions Lost: Blame Technology for May 6 Stock Plunge? Maybe it wasn’t Greece after all. Thursday’s massive stock plunge was originally blamed on the fragile Greek economy — but a Chicago-based computer glitch may be the true culprit. Because machines now perform the task of transferring stocks — instead of floor traders matching buyers and sellers – the rate of...
Read MoreUsers: iPad is a giant heavy iPhone
Posted by udi on May 10, 2010 in Business, Technology |
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iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing Summary: iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles cause further usability problems. “It looks like a giant iPhone,” is the first thing users say when asked to test an iPad. (Their second comment?...
Read MoreFacebook investor DST gets some Groupon
Posted by udi on Apr 20, 2010 in Business, Networking, Technology |
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Russian Internet investment group Digital Sky Technologies, which bought a $300 million stake in Facebook last year, has led a $135 million investment round in Chicago-based social-commerce website Groupon. DST and co-investor Battery Ventures said most of the money would be used to fund global expansion at Groupon, which uses collective buying power to secure large discounts on...
Read MoreBiz traffic heads to Facebook
Posted by udi on Apr 16, 2010 in Business, Networking, Technology |
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Business NET Traffic Increases To Facebook & YouTube More business internet traffic goes to Facebook than to any other internet site, according to analysis by managed security company, Network Box. Analysis of 13 billion URLs used by businesses in the first quarter of 2010 shows that 6.8 per cent of all business internet traffic goes to Facebook – an increase of one per cent since the last...
Read MoreSourceSafe’s Get By Date Saves The Day
Posted by udi on Apr 12, 2010 in Business, Technology |
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If you are unable to use a good alternative to VSS (Visual SourceSafe – Microsoft’s Source Destruction System), you may want to learn to use certain VSS features which are not available through the GUI. Recently I needed to get a snapshot of the code base from a point in time to correct an issue in Production after we have done much new development. Normally with CVS or...
Read MoreiPad like it’s 1995
Posted by udi on Apr 12, 2010 in Business, Technology |
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Microsoft founder and current chairman, Bill Gates, has tried time and time again to make tablet computing the center of the digital world. In 2002, the first Tablet PC launched. Sadly, the device never really took off. In 2005, after the Tablet PC failed to achieve what he believed it would, Bill Gates was still adamant about the future of the touch style tablet. “We need to keep...
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