Nasdaq Blames Rival NYSE for 3-Hour Trading Outage
After an investigation into the cause for Nasdaq's outage, the final verdict is in with the company running the Nasdaq had technical problems, but finger pointing at rival NYSE added to the findings for the failure.
"The combination of large system inputs and delayed outputs ultimately degraded the ability of the SIP system to process quotes to an extent that a shutdown of the system was in the broader public interest, to prevent information asymmetry and ensure fair conditions for all market participants."
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Molyneux's 'Godus' Beta Launching in Sept.
22cans announced on Friday the beta of the crowdfunded game Godus will be available for purchase on September 13th for Windows and Mac platforms.
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World of Warcraft Movie to Begin Filming
It's official: The World of Warcraft will begin filming in January. Cast has not yet been announced. Hopefully the producers will do a better job of bringing a video game to the big screen. So far, the record on video-to-big screen has been dismal at best.
Rumors are pegging the movie to not be some PG-rated flick, but will be a full-blooded fantasy flick, in the same path as The Lord of the Rings and will reportedly follow the RTS games from the 90s.
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Verizon Sends Angry Letters to 10TB FiOS Users
Verizon is joining the parade of ISPs that offer 'unlimited bandwidth', only to redefine the term unlimited when usage goes over the company's pre-conceived notion of what unlimited actually means.
Verizon's letter informs the affected users that they must decrease their usage to acceptable levels (under 10TB) by September 1st or they will be disconnected on September 18th.
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Gamers Report Big Problems with SimCity for Mac
At least Mac owners trying to install SimCity don't feel left out from the myriad of problems the earlier rollout debacle suffered back in the spring when SimCity was released for the PC. If nothing else, you can say Electronic Arts is pretty consistent.
Currently, the support pages for SimCity are dominated by messages from Mac owners reporting a wide variety of glitches.
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China Confirms First Moon Visit Later This Year
China will be joining a very exclusive club this year with the landing of their rover on the moon, searching for rock samples. The unmanned Chang'e-3 moon landing mission will be launched sometime later this year.
Once there, however, the Chinese government has said it plans to build the first manned lunar outpost, an objective NASA has already abandoned. ®
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Dell to Axe 1K-Plus Call-Center Enterprise Staff
Dell is beginning to restructure in the hopes of taking the company private and also to offset losses from the waning PC market. The position cuts will affect staff from all levels of Dell management, with the biggest cuts coming to the massive call center in India.
Those who can't be redeployed receive a competitive severance package, including outplacement assistance.
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Google Kills Off Pet Projects by Engineers
If you will remember the innovative approach Google instituted a few years ago to solve problems and create new projects with free time given to engineers to work? Well, that's all it is now: just a memory.
Now managers have clamped down on staff taking '20 per cent time' so as to avoid their teams falling down Google's internal productivity rankings, according to online reports.
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Postal Startup Draws the Scrutiny of the USPS
It's has become obvious that the US Postal Service does not like direct competition from the small startup company, Outbox, that literally delivers the US mail for its clients electronically. The USPS sees their business as something else entirely.
One way or another, Outbox is determined to overturn the status quo in the world of mail delivery, continuing a trend started by the likes of UPS and FedEx. Ironically, the company's run-in with the Postal Service only accelerated its efforts to changes the mail system.
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GTA 5 Trailer Teases with Arguments and Chases
Rockstar has released the third of three game trailers prior to the official release of GTA 5 and presumingly their last before the September 17th premier. Just a gentle reminder from Rockstar that the long wait is just about over.
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New Zealand Bans Software Patents
After five years of debate and an almost unanimous vote for the 'software is not an invention' faction, New Zealand has enacted a ban on future software patents.
It's an open question whether other countries will take up New Zealand's example. An outright ban on software patents in the US seems unlikely given the large corporations—in tech and other sectors—that would oppose such a move.
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Need to Activate Windows 8.1? Use your Windows 8 Key
For all of you 'can't stand to wait' early adopters out there, you may need to know how to activate your 'legitimate' leaked copy of Windows 8.1 RTM and it's much simpler than you may think. Waiting until the official release date is also an option.
We can almost guarantee that rumors will circulate soon that Microsoft is blacklisting any key that is used to activate Windows 8.1 as these rumors always make their way around the Internet, but this scenario seems rather unlikely.
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IDC Lowers 2013 Tablet Forecasts, Growth to Slow Quickly
It is a fact that tablet sales are on the rise over the PC platform, but now, even that blossoming market is beginning to slow more quickly than expected by analysts.
In particular, the firm points to the growing influence of smartphones with screens larger than five inches, the eventual impact of wearable computing, and simple market saturation.
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Office 2003's Burial Will Resurrect Hacker Activity
Overshadowed by its publicity sucking cousin, Office 2003 has been taking a backseat to Windows XP, both of which are scheduled to face the long dark of no further official support from Microsoft in April 2014.
"Windows XP and Office 2003 were great software releases more than a decade ago," the spokeswoman said. "But the way we work has dramatically changed and technology has evolved along with the needs—and more importantly—the expectations of customers and partners that have already adopted modern platforms and devices."
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Moore's Law Ending Soon?
Intel's Ex-Chief chip architect must be a psychic of sorts. He looked into his crystal ball and predicted the demise of Moore's Law within this decade.
"Let's at least face the fact that [Moore's Law] is an exponential, and there cannot be an exponential that doesn't end," he said. "You can't have it."
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Intel Ivy Bridge-E Core i7-4960X IPC and OCing Review
We debut Intel's next $1000 Extreme Desktop processor, the Core i7-4960X, this time with Ivy Bridge architecture and a couple of extra cores thrown in for good measure. It is a beast of a CPU for those that can actually harness its power and bandwidth, but how much better is it than Sandy Bridge-E and Haswell at the same clocks?
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