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Rookie Thompson sets pace in Georgia as Simpson lurks

American Horschel, a stroke in front of Thompson with three holes to play, doubled-bogeyed the 16th after dumping his tee shot into water on the way to a 70 as he ended the day in second place at 12 under.Simpson, who has won twice in his last five starts and has a chance to beat world number one Luke Donald of Britain to the PGA Tour money-list title, was a further stroke back after carding a 69.”My caddie and I had a tough time reading the greens,” Simpson told reporters after mixing three birdies with two bogeys. “I gave myself plenty of opportunities but the greens, as we get late into the week, are getting tough to putt.”The goal for today was just to give ourselves a chance to win tomorrow. We hung in there and stayed in the golf tournament. That’s all you can ask.”Simpson trails money-list leader Donald by $68,971 and both are scheduled to compete in next week’s season-ending Disney Classic at Lake Buena Vista, Florida.Thompson, who has recorded just one top-10 finish on the PGA Tour after 23 starts this season, was delighted to be in position to claim a breakthrough victory.”I’ve just got to try to hit solid golf shots tomorrow,” said the 26-year-old who lipped out with a nine-foot birdie putt at the last that would have given him a two-stroke lead.”I was kind of struggling coming down the stretch there but tomorrow is a new day and I’m going to enjoy it.”Former U.S. Masters champion Trevor Immelman equalled the course record with a sizzling 62 to finish level with Simpson at 11 under.”That’s always going to help your round,” South African Immelman said after covering his last five holes in six under.”I played real well today, drove the ball well, hit some nice iron shots and made some putts. It really was a fun day.”

Posted 1 year ago
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Factbox - Q&A on RIM’s secretive BlackBerry network

Here are some questions and answers about the epic failure:Q. What happened?A. RIM said that a switch used to direct messaging traffic failed at a data center in Europe. Its back-up switch also failed, causing a huge backlog of traffic.Q. What caused the failure?A. RIM has yet to disclose the cause of the failure, but a company executive said at a press conference on Wednesday that company technicians believe they have identified the cause. IDC analyst Rohit Mehrasaid he suspected that the failure in those switches could have been caused by a software bug.Q. Was hacking involved?A. A RIM executive said at a press conference on Wednesday that there is no evidence or hacking or a system breach.Q. Why did the problem spread from Europe to the Americas?A. All of the RIM data centers are connected. So eventually traffic got so backed up that it had an impact on messages of customers in the Americas, the RIM executive said.Q. Will RIM compensate its customers for their inconvenience?A. A RIM executive said at the press conference that the company has yet to make a decision on that matter.Q. How big is the RIM network?A. Nobody outside the company knows for sure.Jefferies & Co analyst Peter Misek estimates that there are more than six major data centers around the world and “little nodes all over the place.” On top of that, he said RIM operates the world’s largest telecommunications network. “It includes dark fiber. It includes connections to multiple data centers around the world. It includes connections to carrier networks, software at the cell site.”RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky said RIM has two centers at its Waterloo, Ontario, headquarters for traffic in the Americas and Asia-Pacific, and another in Britain for traffic in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.Q. Why does RIM send the traffic through its data centers?A. That is part of the “special sauce” behind the BlackBerry formula — all BlackBerry traffic is encrypted through servers controlled by corporate clients or telecommunications carriers, then funneled through RIM data centers that monitor the traffic to make sure it is secure.But the central handling makes BlackBerry traffic vulnerable to widespread outages — something that rivals such as Apple and Google don’t need to worry about with the iPhone and Android devices.Q. Is that the only way to secure email on mobile devices?A. No. When RIM first launched the system in the 1990s, no competitors could often similar security features. Many alternatives have since been launched for the iPhone, Android and other devices that do not require customers to use centralized data centers. Instead they can host the services at their own, internal data centers.

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Factbox - Q&A on RIM’s secretive BlackBerry network

Here are some questions and answers about the epic failure:Q. What happened?A. RIM said that a switch used to direct messaging traffic failed at a data center in Europe. Its back-up switch also failed, causing a huge backlog of traffic.Q. What caused the failure?A. RIM has yet to disclose the cause of the failure, but a company executive said at a press conference on Wednesday that company technicians believe they have identified the cause. IDC analyst Rohit Mehrasaid he suspected that the failure in those switches could have been caused by a software bug.Q. Was hacking involved?A. A RIM executive said at a press conference on Wednesday that there is no evidence or hacking or a system breach.Q. Why did the problem spread from Europe to the Americas?A. All of the RIM data centers are connected. So eventually traffic got so backed up that it had an impact on messages of customers in the Americas, the RIM executive said.Q. Will RIM compensate its customers for their inconvenience?A. A RIM executive said at the press conference that the company has yet to make a decision on that matter.Q. How big is the RIM network?A. Nobody outside the company knows for sure.Jefferies & Co analyst Peter Misek estimates that there are more than six major data centers around the world and “little nodes all over the place.” On top of that, he said RIM operates the world’s largest telecommunications network. “It includes dark fiber. It includes connections to multiple data centers around the world. It includes connections to carrier networks, software at the cell site.”RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky said RIM has two centers at its Waterloo, Ontario, headquarters for traffic in the Americas and Asia-Pacific, and another in Britain for traffic in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.Q. Why does RIM send the traffic through its data centers?A. That is part of the “special sauce” behind the BlackBerry formula — all BlackBerry traffic is encrypted through servers controlled by corporate clients or telecommunications carriers, then funneled through RIM data centers that monitor the traffic to make sure it is secure.But the central handling makes BlackBerry traffic vulnerable to widespread outages — something that rivals such as Apple and Google don’t need to worry about with the iPhone and Android devices.Q. Is that the only way to secure email on mobile devices?A. No. When RIM first launched the system in the 1990s, no competitors could often similar security features. Many alternatives have since been launched for the iPhone, Android and other devices that do not require customers to use centralized data centers. Instead they can host the services at their own, internal data centers.

Posted 1 year ago
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Wall Street protesters target homes of executives

Around 500 people marched through Manhattan’s Upper East Side, passing the high-rise buildings where many of the executives live. Among them are Paulson, global media mogul Rupert Murdoch, JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon and David Koch, co-founder of energy firm Koch Industries.The protesters chanted “Banks got bailed out, we got sold out” and “Hey you billionaires, pay your fair share” and carried signs that read “Stop robbing from the middle class to pay the rich” and “We are the 99 percent,” a reference to the idea that the top 1 percent of Americans have too much.Mustafa Ibrahim, 23, an engineer marched on the “Billionaire’s Tour” during a visit to New York from Cairo, where he said he was arrested during a popular uprising this year which toppled Egyptian autocrat Hosni Mubarak.”It’s pretty much the same thing as Egypt,” Ibrahim said. “The problem is the rich keep getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.”Since September 17 protesters have been camped out in a park in Lower Manhattan near Wall Street, rallying against bailouts for banks during the recession, which allowed them to earn huge profits while average Americans suffer high unemployment and job insecurity with little help.As protesters took their grievances to the homes of the rich, the Paulson & Co hedge fund defended its status.Paulson took home $5 billion in 2010, the hedge fund industry’s biggest ever paycheck, but this year one of his main funds has fallen 47 percent after he mistimed a call that the economy would recover strongly.”The top 1 percent of New Yorkers pay over 40 percent of all income taxes, providing huge benefits to everyone in our city and state,” Paulson & Co said in a statement, adding that New York has the highest income taxes of any U.S. states.”Instead of vilifying our most successful businesses, we should be supporting them and encouraging them to remain in New York City and continue to grow,” it said.The Occupy Wall Street movement is burgeoning ahead of planned global protests on Saturday. On Wednesday, the Service Employees International Union will march on New York City’s financial district for good jobs, while U.S. college students plan solidarity protests on Thursday on at least 56 campuses.According to Occupy Together, which has become an online hub for protest activity, the Occupy Wall Street movement has sparked rallies in more than 1,400 cities throughout the United States and around the world.ARRESTS IN BOSTON, WASHINGTON D.C.Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein canceled a talk at New York’s Barnard College, and though the company — which received and repaid a big federal bailout during the financial crisis — said a scheduling conflict would keep him away, students from nearby Columbia University were planning to protest his appearance.”Don’t look at the Arab spring, look here because things are going to boil over,” said protester Charles Evans, 62, as he marched on the “Billionaire’s Tour.”Fifth Avenue resident Lorna Goldberg, 57, said she was surprised to see the protesters near her home. “But I guess they’re getting their point across by coming here,” she added.Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat, last week likened the growth of the protest movement to the grass-roots Tea Party, but the conservative group on Tuesday sought to distance itself from the protesters.The Tea Party Patriots said in a statement that its supporters were “not lawbreakers, they don’t hate the police, they don’t even litter.”

Posted 1 year ago
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