Computer systems, hardware and networking technologies have improved so much that two of the world’s largest trading exchanges say they have begun measuring transaction times in microseconds. What is ...

It’s 10 a.m. Do you know where your latencies are? In the fast-moving, fragmented marketplace in 2008, speed became an increasingly critical factor in making trading decisions. Brokers stepped up ...

Picoseconds are the typical rate used in ultrafast optical imaging, while high-speed electronic cameras can take images at the rates of millisecond and microsecond. The research team’s spectrum ...

Everyone, from developers to software corporate marketing departments to even consumers, seems to have a slightly different answer. So let’s explore the question “What does ‘real-time’ really mean?” ...

EVERY microsecond counts in stock trading. The New York Stock Exchange handles a third of the world’s stock trading – around 22 billion messages a day. But NYSE Euronext, which operates the exchange, ...