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MobFinance (UK Edition for BlackBerry) 3.3 (Mobile)

MobFinance is a powerful real-time portfolio management program that enables an investor to monitor stock portfolios traded on London Stock Exchange by retrieving stock quotes, live charts, and related business headlines directly to your mobile phone. It offers a broad range of trade information for stocks, mutual funds, and derivatives...

Tags: Mobile, London Stock Exchange Plc., Stock, RIM BlackBerry, Investor, IMOBLIFE, MobFinance, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2009-04-15

MobFinance (UK Edition) 3.3 (Mobile)

MobFinance is a powerful real-time portfolio management program that enables an investor to monitor stock portfolios traded on London Stock Exchange by retrieving stock quotes, live charts, and related business headlines directly to your mobile phone. It offers a broad range of trade information for stocks, mutual funds, and derivatives...

Tags: Mobile, London Stock Exchange Plc., Stock, Investor, IMOBLIFE, MobFinance, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2009-04-15

London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect prices

London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect pricesMicrosoft Technology at its finestSince Both NASDAQ and the London Stock Exchange were MS case studies about how great Windows is, guess Windows really is the POS we all thought it is.Funny how they never had these errors on previous systems and now with...

Tags: Investment, Operating systems, Web site, Microsoft Corp., London Stock Exchange Plc., stock, London Stock Exchange website, incorrect price, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect prices

The London Stock Exchange LSE website displayed incorrect prices for the important FTSE 100 index yesterday morning. It's not the first time they've had problems. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: London Stock Exchange Plc., Web Site, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., MarketWatch, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-10-09

About that London Stock Exchange IT failure

About that London Stock Exchange IT failureYou do know, right?You do know that the outage was caused by a [b]network[/b] problem, and had nothing to do with MS technology, right?http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/infrastructure/networks/news/index.cfm?newsid=10912And about those performance rantings of yours:http://www.londonstockexchange.com/NR/exeres/5CA1EB52-2B47-4922-A6F1-E9EC32D0152B.htmhttp://www.londonstockexchange.com/NR/exeres/A1B303DD-86EE-4D84-9B4F-BADFA1C770C7.htmSeriously, is there [b]any[/b] truth in any of your rantings? Don't you get tired...

Tags: .NET, London Stock Exchange IT failure, Murph, LSE, Microsoft Corp., London Stock Exchange Plc., ranting, network story

Discussion threads 2008-09-13

About that London Stock Exchange IT failure

The obvious lesson from the correlation between Microsoft's eagerness to brag about the performance and reliability of the system installed at the London Stock Exchange and it's actual performance and unreliability is that pride goeth before a fall - but the deeper lesson is that top management didn't do its...

Tags: Incentive, Hewlett-Packard Co., London Stock Exchange Plc., Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., LSE, Infolect, Linux, Sales Force Management, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Sales, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-09-13

Did Microsoft tech play a part in London Stock Exchange meltdown?

Did Microsoft tech play a part in London Stock Exchange meltdown?In light of this news, look at this old Sun commercialhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNqPTOb31S8I like Windows on my desktop but for the back end... no thanks. The reasons aren't worth getting into but for particular services, identity management ActiveDirectory and RDBMS SQL Server,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Operating systems, UK Economy, London Stock Exchange Plc., tech play, meltdown, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

Did Microsoft tech play a part in London Stock Exchange meltdown?

So far, no one is pointing fingers at specific technology vendors for the September 8 meltdown of the London Stock Exchange. But one thing is certain: Microsoft and its hardware and services partners are on the short list of companies that power the LSE by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., London Stock Exchange Plc., Microsoft Corp., LSE, Databases, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-09-09

London Stock Exchange hit with 'connectivity issue'

London Stock Exchange hit with 'connectivity issue'which version of windows do they run?.... :o)RE: London Stock Exchange hit with 'connectivity issue'People wanted to cash in on the money speculators were making from the taxpayer. Socialize the risk, privatize the gain! http://tinyurl.com/6r9qo5

Tags: connectivity issue, London Stock Exchange Plc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

London Stock Exchange hit with 'connectivity issue'

The London Stock Exchange is on hold Monday following a "connectivity issue" that halted trading. The timing couldn't have been worse: Volume was heavy in Europe after the U.S. government bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The UK's Times Online reports: The LSE suspended connection...

Tags: Trader, London Stock Exchange Plc., Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

London Stock Exchange (LSE) system failure stops trading

London Stock Exchange LSE system failure stops tradingMaybe they should not have went to Windows....:) PS This is just a joke, Seeing as Zdnn had all of those Adds with London Stock Exchange going to WindowsRE: London Stock Exchange LSE system failure stops tradingSame is true for everyone on this...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, London Stock Exchange Plc., system failure stop

Discussion threads 2007-11-08

London Stock Exchange (LSE) system failure stops trading

Technical problems with the London Stock Exchange's Infolect data delivery system interrupted trading yesterday for 40 minutes, just before the market closed. The timing was highly unfortunate, as it coincided with US stock markets having one of their worst days of the year. From the Times Online:...

Tags: London Stock Exchange Plc., Infolect, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-11-08

The London Stock Exchange Transforms Itself for Global Competitiveness as It Innovates on Efficiency, Latency, and Speed to Market

The London Stock Exchange LSE is one of the world s premier financial exchanges. LSE wanted to find a way to frame and demonstrate the benefits of the services it provides to its members and customers. It also needed to determine where the next major IT investment should be made...

Tags: Financial, Latency, London Stock Exchange Plc., Cisco Systems Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2007-03-01

Reviewing a Microsoft anti-Linux case study

Reviewing a Microsoft anti-Linux case studyTime to prepare tendersfor when this 120 server monster lifts its head briefly to life before expiring with a wimper.The talk of "messages" leads one to believe that the CIO of the LSE will shortly be replaced by someone who has a clue about data...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Unix, Microsoft Corp., LSE, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., London Stock Exchange Plc.

Discussion threads 2006-11-21

Reviewing a Microsoft anti-Linux case study

As most people know Microsoft has an anti-Linux program called "Get the Facts" featuring case studies arguing the Windows case. When one of those, wearing the title: London Stock Exchange chooses windows over Linux for reliability, arrived in my email last week, I was sufficiently intrigued by the relative...

Tags: General, Linux, Vistabulations

Blog posts 2006-11-21

Lightning-Fast Data Delivery at the London Stock Exchange

A recent review of future requirements identified a need for a technology solution for London Stock Exchange that offered broader functionality than the London Market Information Link LMIL, with support for multiple protocols and data specifications. In selecting a new technology platform, the Exchange benefited from a long-term strategic relationship...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., London Stock Exchange Plc., Investment, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies

London Stock Exchange Cuts Information Dissemination Time From 30 to 2 Milliseconds

As part of its strategy to win more trading business and new customers, the London Stock Exchange needed a scalable, reliable, high-performance stock exchange ticker plant to replace its earlier system. Roughly 40 per cent of the Exchange's revenues are generated by the sale of real-time information about stock prices....

Tags: London Stock Exchange Plc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows, Investment, .Net, Databases, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware

Case studies