Archive for Dezember, 2005

Meebo?

Finally someone started to hack something for mobile Instant Messaging. I know there are mobile clients for smartphones that connect to AOL, for example, but I’ve been missing the browser equivalent of Trillian for some time. For those that don’t know Trillian, it’s an IM client that can connect to virtually any IM server in [...]

Little error. Huge impact.

“Are you sure you want to proceed with this transaction?” At least that kind of question I would have expected in yesterday’s Mizuho disaster. To recap, a broker at Tokyo-based Mizuho Bank accidentally sold 610.000 J-Com stocks for 1 Yen, instead of selling 1 J-Com stock for 610.000 Yen. Tiny difference.
As an analyst [...]