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...sound like a digital-age version of "the dog ate my homework," but we swear that the reason our Reuters news feeds are down is probably because of the same glitch that knocked out up to 90 percent of America's pagers, as well as various radio and TV broadcasts and even many card transactions at gas pumps and ATMs -- PanAmSat's Galaxy 4 satellite has gone a-wanderin'. After the failure of onboard control systems left technicians powerless to stop the key communications satellite from drifting out of position yesterday evening, the binary fabric of our electronic society began...
Huppe said the blotter omission was the result of a "computer glitch...
Huppe and McCarthy said last night that they remain "unsure" as to whether the omission was due to human error--failing to include the first minute of Sunday morning in the printout--or a "computer glitch...
...trade barriers and revise its banking structure--moves demanded by Rubin and transmitted to the IMF. Mindful of the likely congressional reaction, the U.S. offered only to provide a small amount in loans--but not unless necessary. American officials played down the crisis. Clinton called the Asian markets a "glitch." Still, the markets kept glitching. After a brief rise, South Korea's stock market plunged again. By mid-December more than $1 billion a day was flowing out of Korea...
...error resulted from a glitch in the software the Coop uses for billing, he said...