Staples' voucher giveaway runs into a system glitch
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That wasn't so easy. Staples ran into problems yesterday while handing out vouchers worth $7.50 each as part of a class-action settlement for failing to com ply with a state regulation requiring it to mark prices on individual items.
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I believe you have my stapler Sun Microsystems has gone very granola by buying desktop virtualization software player innotek. (The small 'i' stands for big innovation or something like that.)â¦
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The "cheap chic" retailer's results are hit-or-miss.
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Airport clocks failed to go back on schedule A "computer glitch" at Gatwick airport which lead to the clocks not going back on Sunday morning led to travel "chaos" as "arrivals and departures were advertised an hour late", provoking nonplussed passengers to besiege check-in desks.â¦
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Marks & Spencer suffers a blow to its "Christmas spectacular" when a glitch on its website leaves customers unable to place orders.
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HOW'S about this for spreading some festive cheer?   Today we're giving Mirror readers the chance to win pounds 1,500 worth of Tesco Direct vouchers and give to a good cause at the same time.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it faced glitches with its gift-card verification system on the day after Christmas, when a large number of its customers came to its stores for post-Christmas shopping, but resolved them on the same day.
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Net payment system Worldpay is under attack from hackers delaying transaction times for hundreds of online retailers.
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The latest craze in software: giving stuff away. BEA Systems, Computer Associates and IBM all recently started releasing the source code, or underlying instructions, for some programs, which amounts to distributing those products free. Even the loosest definition of incentive rebates would probably stop short of 100% discounts, but then the economics of software are peculiar (see story, p. 161). The giveaways were celebrated, especially by the noisy "open-source" movement, which wants all software distributed this way. (They're not kidding.)
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The software giant is doling out vouchers to people who bought Windows, Excel or Word between 1995 and 2001.
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Here's a screen shot of the HTML source.  Looks like it's trying to serve some kind of ActiveX control. Happy to be using a Mac.  PS: Scoble just showed up and TM works on his cell phone so there's something weird going on.
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Staples is offering the latest version of Peachtree Pro, a small-business accounting suite, for free after a $140 mail-in rebate.
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Things get ugly for Buy.com customers when rebates go missing.
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A software upgrade was inadvertently given to PCs not intended to receive it, which made payment processing systems at Britain&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions stop working, EDS&#39; investigation revealed.
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As website wobbles too The MasterCard website struggled to cope with Christmas shopping demand that left it unreachable for nearly five hours in the run-up to Christmas. More seriously MasterCard's Maestro system also experienced glitches in the immediate run-up to Xmas. The extent of the problem with the debit card system remains unclear.â¦
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HUNDREDS of shoppers were bombarded with offers of pounds 500 Marks & Spencer vouchers in an internet scam.   They were told to forward the email to 20 other people to pick up the freebie.
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Flood of data interrupts Authorize.net's credit card processing for Internet merchants, leaving the company scrambling.