According to Keynote Systems, a mobile and Internet technology measurement firm, most e-commerce sites performed well over the last several days, but Walmart.com, Macys.com and Footlocker.com all shut down at least temporarily, either because of technology glitches or because the sites were overwhelmed by traffic.
"The 2004 elections were for the most part problem-free, except for some isolated instances of technology process training glitches," he says.
Knight's travails are the latest in a string of technology snafus, such as glitches on Facebook's first day of trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange and a botched debut for BATS Global Market on its own electronic exchange.
At their best, glitch artworks remind us of the limitations and inherent physicality of technology, and nothing says "this object has limits" quite like old VHS tapes.
Denial of Service morphs and glitches Kinect footage in the video for personal track "Contour & Shape". Jason Akira Somma's four-part dance and glitch art exhibition at The Park Avenue Armory offered a giltch-perfect exploration of technology and the human body.
The combination of technology and open source will no doubt spit out some glitches that will need ironing out over time.
This is the same guy who made Office Space and Idiocracy, after all, and so comedy comes from inevitable glitches in technology — one of the biggest laughs of the first five episodes comes from a malfunctioning hologram machine.
Now all it needs is a glitch in technology.
He is slightly fuzzy due to one of the alchemical quirks and glitches of the various technologies involved, and appears as if he is vibrating.
"Mass-market users are far less forgiving of technology-related glitches," said Nicole Vanderbilt, senior analyst of digital commerce for Jupiter Communications, a New York-based market research firm.
