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RSS glitchGlitch Analysis and Optimization
White Paper This paper focuses only on the second type of noise - glitch noise. First, it discusses analysis methods designed to reduce the large number of false errors that are too common in existing glitch analysis tools. [03 Jul 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 delivery were not... [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 cycle. [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 subsidiary of TUI Travel. [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, though that product has already been broadly... [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, Thunderbird and... [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 that caused two days of luggage... [21 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.01.08
Round-Up The problem was quickly identified as being a glitch in a computer program that coordinated the detonation display. In January 2007, Microsoft underwhelmed the world with the public launch of Windows Vista. [04 Jan 2008]
PC Hacks: Fix the Master Boot Record on FAT Partitions
White Paper The Master Boot Record can be corrupted by an improper shutdown, power glitch, or disk failure. FDISK is a DOS program that can actually help one out of some of those nasty "Unable to locate operating system" and "No boot drive available" error... [17 Oct 2007]
AMD's quad-core chip to launch next month
News In an interview published in the San Jose Mercury News, Ruiz said: "Every time we ran into a gotcha [or a technical glitch], it created a six-week-or-so hole in the schedule as we went back and fixed it. [21 Aug 2007]
Microsoft rolls out Vista patches
News The first update, dealing with various problems with performance and reliability in Vista, fixes a glitch which means that, if User Account Control is disabled on the computer, a user cannot install a network printer successfully. [10 Aug 2007]
BEA Systems Case Study: Amazon.com
White Paper BEA WebLogic Enterprise and BEA WebLogic Server fit the profile perfectly, enabling Amazon.com to support its current high level of customer service and help ensure it is ready to expand to handle growing numbers of customers - without... [03 Aug 2007]
Microsoft faces $1bn hit over faulty Xbox 360s
News Microsoft said it views the number of faulty Xboxes as unacceptable and has corrected the hardware glitch after investigations revealed the source of the failure. Microsoft is facing a $1bn repair bill as it tries to appease Xbox 360 customers... [06 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.06.07
Round-Up In one instance e-ballot papers suffered a glitch whereby the wrong party logos, those of the likeliest competitors for power, Labour and the Conservatives, were mixed up and appeared next to the wrong candidates' names. [29 Jun 2007]
