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Blog We’ve come a long way since the days of Eddie Murphy in the movie Trading Places shouting “buy frozen orange juice” down the line to his trader on the stock exchange floor; things are clearly far more automated these days.
[February 9, 2008, 19:28]
Trading Standards condemns Internet shopping
News Shopping online has been condemned as too expensive, too slow and too much hassle in a Trading Standards Institute report released Thursday. Jenny McCruden, lead officer for National Consumer Week at the Trading Standards Institute argued "the...
[October 12, 2000, 12:50]
Ramco Systems Case Study: Trading Business
White Papers The trading arm of a highly reputed business conglomerate (pioneers and market leaders in several fields with over 40 manufacturing operations across 12 states in India) based in Chennai was using a FoxPro-based legacy finance and inventory system.
[June 27, 2009, 1:21]
Trading Standards orders dot-com shake-up
News The Institute of Trading Standards has warned UK Internet businesses to clean up their customer service reputation and online security record or see Britain's Internet industry fall behind competitors from abroad.
[October 23, 2000, 9:18]
Update: Stock market glitch resolved, trading resumes
News Serious technical difficulties at London's stock exchange were resolved mid-afternoon Wednesday, enabling market trading to resume after a day of inactivity on what should have been one of the market's busiest days of the year.
[April 5, 2000, 15:40]
Trading Latency for Energy in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using Message Ferrying
White Papers This paper investigates a routing paradigm, Message Ferrying (MF), to save energy while trading off data delivery delay. Power management is a critical issue in wireless ad hoc networks where the energy supply is limited.
[May 12, 2006, 0:00]
Trading Greenhouse Gases Outside Kyoto
White Papers In an effort to help reduce costs of complying with these targets, the Kyoto Protocol, once entered into force, will establish an international emission trading system between these countries. This paper explores how multiple regimes could co-exist...
[November 19, 2008, 23:00]
Trading Room Powers Real-Time Calculations With Distributed Architecture Solution
White Papers The Commodities Trading Room, a part of Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking, operates five offices that are responsible for trading derivative financial products on the commodities market.
[July 3, 2007, 1:00]
Sun plans trading floor for computing power
News Maybe people will be trading in this commodity. Sun and Archipelago Holdings plan to build an electronic exchange where companies can buy or sell processing power, a step Sun hopes will further its vision that such power will become a true commodity.
[February 4, 2005, 8:10]
Government advised to allow radio spectrum trading
News Spectrum trading would mean that companies could sit back and wait," Professor Cave suggested. The 3G auction, which took place in the latter stages of the dot-com boom, raised £22.5bn, so the Treasury may not be as keen as the private sector on...
[March 6, 2002, 17:33]
A Risk Management Data Warehouse for the National Stock Exchange of India Analyzes Member Trading and Payment Patterns for Risk Containment and Maintenance of Market Integrity
White Papers Our customer is the National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSEIL) - the largest securities VSAT trading network in the world. The stock exchange needed a data warehouse to analyze trading and payment patterns of members of the exchange, based on...
[May 8, 2009, 4:50]
File-trading future in hands of court
News If Wilson decides in favour of the record companies and movie studios, he could order StreamCast Networks, the parent company of Grokster and Morpheus, to stop distributing the file-trading software for those services, or he could order the...
[December 3, 2002, 13:33]
Freenet keeps file-trading flame burning
News The popular file-trading services, led by the still-dominant Kazaa, are meanwhile coming under increasing attack from record labels and movie studios desperate to put a halt to unauthorised trades of copyrighted works.
[October 28, 2002, 14:18]
SLA Trading Strategies
White Papers This paper discusses the concept of SLA trading, its position in SLA framework and its strategic meaning for Internet economy and providers. SLA trading can be seen in the long term a key factor towards a market and business driven multiservice...
[July 29, 2004, 3:00]
BCC and GlobalSign secure digital trading deal
News Digital certificates will play a key role in establishing secure e-commerce trading, giving trading partners guarantees about the integrity of a company and re-assurance about security of transactions.
[February 5, 1999, 11:21]
Software stops illegal song trading
News If built into file-trading programs such as Kazaa or Morpheus, it could help block large numbers of illegal trades, the record industry group said. Network-security company Palisade Systems this week will launch software that can identify and block...
[April 21, 2004, 15:20]
£10m blunder on electronic trading system
News The German-based employee's blunder caused panic across City trading floors as screens flashed the news that that someone wanted to sell 130,000 German bond futures contracts worth £11.5bn -- the largest single trade in German futures.
[November 19, 1998, 15:16]
CME Completes Successful Implementation of HP Integrity NonStop System for Electronic Trading Business
White Papers The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) - which adopted the more cosmopolitan name in 1917 - is the largest and most diverse financial exchange in the world for trading futures and options, handling more than 1 billion futures contracts (worth more...
[July 5, 2006, 0:00]
Global Currency Trading Firm Chooses World-Class CRM From Salesforce.com
White Papers Since it was founded in 1999, ForeX Capital Markets (FXCM) has grown into one of the largest currency trading firms in the world by offering traders direct access to this dynamic, global market. Microsoft Access could no longer handle the...
[July 12, 2006, 0:00]
Linking Domestic and Industry Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Systems
White Papers The purpose of this report is to examine issues related to linking emissions trading systems for greenhouse gases. Until international emissions trading (IET) under the Kyoto Protocol becomes operational (2008), any issues involved in linking...
[November 19, 2008, 23:00]
