futures
RSS futuresChicago Mercantile Exchange Uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Double Daily Trades and Halve Hardware Costs
White Paper The more trades the futures exchange can complete in a day, the more money it makes. The futures exchange doubled the number of daily trades performed electronically from nearly 1 million in August 2003 to 2.2 million in October 2004 on its CME... [09 Jul 2008]
HP iPAQ Pocket PCs Help Bring the World to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Trading Floors
White Paper From its origins as the Chicago Butter and Egg Board in 1898, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has evolved into the largest futures exchange in the United States, offering products that range from frozen pork bellies to sophisticated... [09 Jul 2008]
FHT Esslingen University Students Gain DB2 Skills for Real-World Edge
White Paper But today, college campuses are embracing their role in preparing students for their futures. Once upon a time, university curricula might have been heavy on theory and light on the real-world teachings that can ready students for the job market. [03 Jul 2008]
Mobile broadband ushers in Blue day
News Malook spent 14 years as a market maker on the floor of the London International Financial Futures Exchange (Liffe) before using that knowledge to launch a desktop-based financial information service that he knew his peers would find useful in 2002. [03 Jun 2008]
EquaTerra Position: Service Provider M&A - Change of Control Doesn't Have to Mean Loss of Control
White Paper A solid outsourcing arrangement, however, is structured to anticipate and respond to futures changes. The outsourcing service provider market has historically experienced a steady stream of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) which began to pick up in... [21 May 2008]
Tech Futures: The talkification of the web
Comment The film and music industries have been turned upside down by the arrival of the internet. Now it's the turn of telecoms, argues Howard Greenfield. The internet is set to get louder with the talkification of the web. [01 May 2008]
Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?
Comment In 1999, four years after the collapse of Barings, Futures & Options Week editor Neil Wilson said: "It could happen again because the incentives are the same, if not greater. Experts say investment banking fraud can never be eradicated - even with... [15 Apr 2008]
Chinwag Live: Xmas Futures, Crystal Balls
White Paper The future shape of digital marketing, advertising, user experience, planning and digital agencies in 2012 was explored in this panel debate on 5th December 2007. Bringing together leading experts and practitioners from Agency.com, CIMEX, Agenda 21... [08 Apr 2008]
Qlisp: Parallel Processing in Lisp
White Paper Two new approaches to this problem look promising: the first is the concept of heavyweight futures, and the second is a new type of function called a partially, multiply invoked function. One of the major problems in writing programs to take... [04 Mar 2008]
Infrastructure and the Future Enterprise
White Paper This paper is focused on providing a futures-based consolidation methodology that includes the examination of existing technological advances in consolidation and virtualization technologies across today's most widely used platforms. [29 Feb 2008]
Optimal Bidding Strategy for Keyword Auctions and Other Continuous-Time Markets
White Paper It is shown that market fluctuations tend to decrease expected system revenue, thus search engines like Google and Yahoo have an incentive to create a secondary stable market such as a futures market or a reservation market. [14 Feb 2008]
Building Sustainable Futures: Clinton Global Initiative 2006
White Paper The presenter of this webcast talks about his participation in the 2006 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), as well as Cisco's commitment to sustainability initiatives. [06 Jan 2008]
European payment issues will top 2008 agenda
Comment The introduction of the Payment Services Directive will encourage this further, and many banks will face uncertain futures in their payments business. But Gareth Lodge argues that it is the changes in Europe that are having by far the greatest impact. [20 Dec 2007]
Nortel Network Case Study: Pike County School District
White Paper The local school system is addressing the harsh reality: today's students may have limited futures unless they can be prepared for technology careers. Located in the heart of Kentucky's Eastern Coal Field region, Pike County's fortunes have risen... [18 Dec 2007]
Gaitame.com Co. Improves WAN Data Transfer Rates by 20x Using F5's WANJet
White Paper LTD.is a financial futures transaction firm specializing in on-line services for individual investors. Gaitame.com Co. The company deals with eight currencies and provides users with real-time information on the world's exchange markets as well as... [02 Dec 2007]
