Apple raised CEO Tim Cook's salary by 55% for 2012 and awarded him a $2.8 million bonus, but said the chief executive's pay was still "significantly below the median" of comparable firms. "Mr. Cook remains significantly below the median ...
The future of appliances--refrigerators, toasters, washers, dryers, you name it--can be summed up as "smarter." But this smart revolution has already come to the trusty alarm clock, of which Stem Innovation's $100 Time Command is a good ...
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IDG News Service - The first week of class at Washington State University has been a tumultuous one for students and parents who depend on financial aid, due to a software glitch in a recently installed Oracle PeopleSoft system. Hundreds ...
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Macworld UK-Yesterday,more than 100 apps began to experience significant corruption problems after Apple had approved their updates,causing some apps to crash nearly instantly when you attempted to launch them.Now,Apple has responded to the ...
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NatWest is today facing another significant outage, leaving customers unable to access online banking or use their debit cards. Customers have been complaining about the problems, with a number of readers contacting Computer Weekly to ...
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Insurance company More Than is looking into technology to alert it to problems on its site after some web customers were affected by a glitch in the system. More Than's home insurance customers attempting to renew policies were told by ...
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NETFLIX says it restored streaming video services a day after an outage triggered by technical problems at web service provider Amazon stretched across the Americas. The outage affected customers in the Americas starting about 12.30pm PST ...
Computerworld - Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at chip maker AMD, recently deployed a 6TB all-NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment. The result, he said, was astounding. In AMD's virtualization ...
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MIT is aiming for a leadership position in mobile technology with the launch on Thursday of its latest research center, Wireless@MIT. Also known more formally as the MIT Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing, the new ...
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Skype, a division of Microsoft, confirmed on Monday that a glitch in its software has led to instant messages being shared with unintended parties. The company said it will deliver an update to fix the problem in "the next few days." ...
The IT failure that struck Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will cost the bank more than expected as £50m is paid to customers in compensation. The IT problems that struck in June meant customers of the bank and subsidiary NatWest had ...
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Major high street banks are planning to impose new terms and conditions on customers that would make them squarely responsible for credit and debit card fraud. Further reading Seven-year glitch earns Bank of Scotland 4.2m fine Banks' IT ...
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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has demanded details of how major banks plan to prevent a repeat of the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) software glitch in June 2012. The glitch in the CA7 batch process scheduler meant 12 million ...
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South Africa - After the success of the lively dancing competition, Step Up or Step Out, Blond Productions were once again commissioned by their client Endemol South Africa, to supply the lighting, sound, screen and design for the second ...
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The Mars Curiosity Rover, a robot sent to Mars by Nasa principally to investigate the possibility of extra-terrestrial life on the planet, uses many technologies which will be familiar to those in the tech industry. It landed in a crater ...
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