The glitch that caused the panic has been fixed, he said.
Ken Winell, the head of digital technology strategy for the organization, said his team had fixed a glitch that caused the site to freeze during last year's race.
On April 26th Amazon's finance chief, Thomas Szkutak, said the firm was still trying to get to the bottom of a glitch that caused numerous websites it hosts for other businesses to crash or run painfully slowly during the previous week.
But they were stone-faced about the still-unidentified glitch that caused their Russian capsule to break off a computer-guided descent for a far sharper drop to Earth, subjecting them to crushing gravity forces and leaving them 300 miles short of their landing target.
Update: This article and headline were edited to clarify this is a glitch and related to Gmail, but until we can confirm with Google we won't assume it's the same glitch that caused the Gmail outage or is related to that outage.
The Zune never sold very well, and perhaps the most notable moment of its life was a bizarre glitch that caused almost all Zune players around the world to freeze simultaneously on December 31, 2008; Microsoft immediately issued a fix that involved draining the battery and then recharging after 12 PM Greenwich Mean Time on January 1.
But, unlike its bigger rival, Zany Brainy is unlikely to suffer the sort of technical glitches that caused toysrus.com to gridlock in November.
While trying to sort out the reason for the increase, transit officials stumbled upon a software glitch that was causing errant error messages for riders.
(In January, the company found a software glitch that was causing brakes to momentarily lose power, but only fixed cars still in its inventory).
Segway has announced that it is recalling about 23,500 of its Personal Transporters due to a software glitch that has caused injuries.
