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IT "glitch" brings down Tesco tills
News We have had a problem caused by an IT glitch," the spokesperson told silcon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Monday. Supermarket chain Tesco has been unable to take money at a number of its stores following technical problems... [11 May 2009]
"We don't need custom services, we don't need anything fancy"
Comment One glitch in this matrix would mean serious repercussions indeed. People and services are always on the mind of Joe Harley, the CIO of the Department for Work and Pensions. The DWP deals with 20 million 'customers' per... [06 Apr 2009]
Thanks for holding: Customer service gets automated
Comment If you have ever tried to call a freephone number to check on that credit card charge, convert frequent flyer miles or solve your computer glitch, you may have been confounded by recorded expressions of exquisite... [27 Nov 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.11.08
Round-Up Oh, you've not heard of that glitch? Now at this point, the Round-Up admits to thinking it all sounds a bit of a hoax, and the answers from the Apple faithful on the forum ranged from the practical "the iPhone has fairly... [21 Nov 2008]
Listen to the Music Carmen Rizzo Makes on His Dell Precision Workstation, and You Won't Know What to Expect Next
White Paper As a solution Carmen Rizzo deployed a Dell Precision mobile workstation runs leading edge cross-platform and PC music tools, such as Glitch and Z3TA+. Carmen Rizzo wanted to touch people in new ways through music... [08 Nov 2008]
3G glitch halts BlackBerry Bold sales
News Orange has temporarily stopped selling the BlackBerry Bold while it tries to figure out a solution to unspecified 3G-related problems on the handset. The operator halted sales of the popular handset last late week. [14 Oct 2008]
UK flights grounded by air traffic control glitch
News National Air Traffic Services (Nats), which oversees much of air traffic control in the UK, suffered a glitch that stopped data reaching workstations at its London area control centre at Swanwick in Hampshire. [26 Sep 2008]
Stock Exchange back to normal after outage
News She said the problem had been identified but at time of writing the exchange had not revealed the reason behind the glitch. The London Stock Exchange is back to normal after an outage yesterday that ceased trading for... [09 Sep 2008]
Glitch takes Sainsbury's shopping offline
News Supermarket chain Sainsbury's has taken its groceries website offline after it developed a fault with online ordering. The company froze the section of its main site on Tuesday afternoon, after discovering that orders for next-day... [18 Jun 2008]
XP SP3 starts endless reboot for some AMD PCs
News The reboot cycle glitch is the latest hiccup for Microsoft with the service pack update. Owners of some AMD-based computers are finding the move to Windows XP Service Pack 3 has sent their systems into an endless reboot... [14 May 2008]
Travel site bookings fly when glitch fixed
Case Study Usability testing software has helped a holiday company boost its sales by spotting a glitch in its website's navigation that could have been costing it tens of thousands per week in lost business. Thomson Holidays is a... [09 May 2008]
Glitch delays Windows XP SP3 release
News Microsoft has said it is delaying the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because of a newly uncovered glitch. The glitch also exists between Microsoft Dynamics RMS and Windows Vista Service Pack 1,... [30 Apr 2008]
BT Yahoo! Mail suffers email update glitch
News Several thousand BT Yahoo! Mail customers have been unable to send email from their accounts following a Yahoo! security update. Users have been receiving a 553 error message when trying to send emails from Outlook, Outlook Express,... [31 Mar 2008]
Hotmail back up after outage
News Although a large number of Windows Live servers are running on Microsoft's Windows Server 2008, which is due to be launched today, a representative said the problem is not a glitch with the new operating system. [27 Feb 2008]
Why did tech ground Heathrow baggage?
News Airport group BAA has still not been able to pinpoint the exact software glitch that left 6,000 British Airways (BA) long-haul passengers unable to take hold luggage on flights. The exact cause of the technical fault... [21 Feb 2008]