An emergency response demo that was a real train wreck

Posted by on Oct 7, 2009

Standards body meetings aren’t usually all that exciting, but last week’s National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Training Event and OASIS Emergency Management Interop was an exception. The centerpiece of the Interop was a demo designed to show how NIEM, Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) standards could help a dozen government agencies share...
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High frequency trading spotted drinking Cristal in the VIP room

Posted by on Oct 5, 2009

High frequency trading (HFT) is the media’s new “it girl”, and is generating attention everywhere she goes. First Forbes magazine did a cover story on The New Masters of Wall Street, highlighting the hedge funds, prop traders and big banks that are turning HFT into big business. Then Traders Magazine did a related story about how the exchanges are responding in their Race to...
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