Editors' note: Microsoft has discontinued the Xbox 360 Core version discussed here and replaced it with the Xbox 360 Arcade, which is available for $200. That model includes HDMI output, a 256MB ...

Coupled steel-plate test specimens, shown before concrete filling is added, have various spacing and quantities of cross ties and shear studs. A radically different shear-wall core system for simpler ...

Picture this: A company has an outdated core system, so its executives decide to upgrade it. After months of contract negotiations, they strike a (costly) deal for an upgrade, and the implementation ...

Core Banking is the computer system (software) used to process and manage bank and financial institutions’ operations. It includes different modules: account management, payments, loans, accounting, ...

Big financial services firms — banks, brokerages and insurance — were early adopters of computers. One unfortunate aspect is that many are still running mainframe legacy systems that are 30-plus years ...

If ever, or at least the past 45 years, there was a software marriage (integration) of two core systems that I considered the perfect transaction, it would have been Metavante's IBS and Temenos's T24.