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Ticker tape was a means of transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines between around 1870 and 1970. It consisted of a paper strip which ran through a machine called a stock ticker which printed abbreviated company symbols followed by price and volume information. The concept of the stock ticker lives on in the scrolling electronic tickers on brokerage walls and financial television networks. The term 'ticker tape' came from the sound made by the machine as it printed and tape simply refers to the machines using a paper tape printout as a rolling display of stock prices. In 1867 Edward Calahan of the American Telegraph Company invented the first stock telegraph printing device. Early versions of stock tickers provided the first mechanical means of conveying stock prices over a long distance using telegraph wiring. The ticker used the same symbols as Morse code as a medium for conveying messages. Previously, they were hand delivered via written or verbal messages. The increase in speed provided by the ticker allowed for faster and more exact sales. Since the ticker ran continuously updates to a stock’s price occurred whenever the price changed. Stock Tickers became more effective much faster and stock trading became a more time sensitive matter. For the first time, trades were being done in what we think of as near real time By the 1880's there were about a thousand stock tickers installed in the offices of New York bankers and brokers. In 1890 members of the exchange agreed to create the New York Quotation Co. in order to buy up all other ticker companies. Stock ticker machines are an ancestor of the modern computer printer. Stock tickers were one of the first applications to transmit text over a wire to a printing device. Stock tickers in various buildings were connected using technology based on telegraph machines with the advantage that the output was readable text instead of the dots and dashes of Morse code. The machines printed a series of ticker symbols followed by brief information about the price of that company's stock; the thin strip of paper they were printed on was called ticker tape. The word ticker comes from the distinct ticking noise the machines made while printing. Newer and more efficient tickers became available in the 1930s and 1960s but the physical ticker tape phase was quickly coming to a close being followed by the electronic phase. These newer and better tickers still had an approximate 15 to 20 minute delay. Stock ticker machines became obsolete in the 1960s replaced by computer networks. In 1996 a ticker type electronic device was produced that could operate in true real time. One of the most famous displays is the simulated ticker located at One Times Square in New York City. The ticker symbol is a unique set of characters used to identify the company. The shares traded is the volume for the trade being quoted. Price traded refers to the price per share of a particular trade. Change direction shows whether the stock is trading higher or lower than the previous trade giving the terms downtick and uptick. Change amount refers to the difference in price from the previous day’s trading close. . Many tickers today include color to indicate whether a stock is trading higher than the previous day’s - green, lower than previous day - red, or has remained unchanged - blue or white.
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Office 2010 nearly ready; upgrade offer launched
Microsoft said on Friday that it plans to finalize the code for Office 2010 next month and, as expected, it kicked off a program enabling those who buy Office 2007 in the coming months to receive a free upgrade to the new version.
In a blog posting, Microsoft said that it will have a business launch for the Office 2010 products on May 12. The company has said it expects the software to be broadly available in June.
As for the technology guarantee program, Microsoft says it will apply to those who buy Office 2007 between now and September 30 and will allow an upgrade to the comparable Office 2010 product.
Though such programs are typical, this one had even less of an element of surprise after a Microsoft employee briefly posted details of the program last month. Microsoft CFO Peter Klein confirmed the program earlier this week, telling financial analysts on Tuesday to expect the company to defer revenue this quarter to next to account for the upgrades.
Although Office 2010 doesn't bring a radically different look or new file formats, as Office 2007 did, it introduces a number of changes, most significantly the addition of companion Office Web apps that work in a browser. Also, for the first time, Office will arrive in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
A beta version of the software has been available since November and Microsoft has also been doing limited testing of a close-final "release candidate" version of the software.
Originally posted at Beyond Binary
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Microsoft to fix eight Windows and Office holes
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Microsoft will issue two bulletins fixing eight vulnerabilities rated "important" in Windows and Microsoft Office products on Tuesday, the company announced on Thursday.
This represents a light Patch Tuesday, a contrast to last month when the company patched 26 holes with 13 bulletins, including critical vulnerabilities for Windows.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is continuing to monitor the situation with a VBScript vulnerability that was disclosed on Monday, Jerry Bryant, senior security communications manager guide at the company, wrote in a blog post.
Proof-of-concept code has been published on the Internet that exploits that vulnerability, which affects older Windows systems running Internet Explorer. Microsoft suggested several workarounds until it releases a patch, including avoiding pressing the F1 key when prompted by a Web site.
Originally posted at InSecurity Complex
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