BRIEFCASE.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services VEDC's Barragan tapped for CRC (Cyclical Redundancy Checking) An error checking technique used to ensure the accuracy of transmitting digital data. The transmitted messages are divided into predetermined lengths which, used as dividends, are divided by a fixed divisor. VAN NUYS - Valley Economic Development Center President Roberto Barragan has been named chairman of the California Reinvestment Committee, the nonprofit business assistance group announced Thursday. A six-year member of CRC's board, Barragan has previously served as secretary and vice chairman for the group, which advocates investment in low-income and minority communities. MP3.com founder has new e-service The founder of pioneering music download A music download refers to the transferring of a music file from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment if required. Web site MP3.com is preparing to re-enter re·en·ter also re-en·ter v. re·en·tered, re·en·ter·ing, re·en·ters v.tr. 1. To enter or come in to again. 2. To record again on a list or ledger. v.intr. the digital music business with a new online music service set to debut next week. As when he launched MP3.com in 1997, Michael Robertson's new service, dubbed MP3tunes, will sell tracks in the MP3 format, which doesn't have any copy-protection restrictions and can be played on most, if not all, digital music players. The service, to go online Thursday, will sell individual tracks for 88 cents and albums for $8.88, said Robertson. Computer glitch A temporary or random hardware malfunction. It is possible that a bug in a program may cause the hardware to appear as if it had a glitch in it and vice versa. At times it can be extremely difficult to determine whether a problem lies within the hardware or the software. See glitch attack. halts Amex trades NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of - Trading at the American Stock Exchange American Stock Exchange (AMEX) Stock exchange in the U.S. Originally known as “the Curb,” it began as an outdoor marketplace in New York City c. 1850. It moved indoors to its present location in the Wall Street area in 1921. was halted 18 minutes before the end of the session Thursday due to a computer systems problem, a spokesman said. Trading was halted at 3:42 p.m. EST, and did not resume for the rest of the day. The Amex finishes its session at 4 p.m. Amex spokesman Dan Charnas said no equities, exchange-traded funds or options based on Amex equities could be traded, though orders could be made through other electronic markets. Charnas would not elaborate on the system problems. Sears, Kmart set to get 'junk' rating NEW YORK - The ratings agencies will give the combined Sears Roebuck and Co. and Kmart Holding Corp. a ``junk'' credit rating. On Thursday, Standard & Poor's said that after the merger, the combined retailer, known as Sears Holdings Corp., will earn a double-B-plus corporate credit rating - S&P's highest speculative-grade rating. Before the merger, S&P gave Sears a triple-B investment-grade rating. U.S. productivity up 4.1 percent WASHINGTON - The productivity of American workers, the critical component for rising living standards living standards npl → nivel msg de vida living standards living npl → niveau m de vie living standards living npl , increased by 4.1 percent in 2004, capping a remarkable three-year period in which worker efficiency climbed at the fastest pace in a half century. However, the Labor Department The Department of Labor (DOL) administers federal labor laws for the Executive Branch of the federal government. Its mission is "to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working reported Thursday that productivity for the final three months of the year was up at an annual rate of just 0.8 percent, which was the slowest quarterly increase in almost three years. |
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