A computer glitch at The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. last Wednesday caused incorrect closing prices to be listed for a number of New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks traded through Nasdaq. Nasdaq blamed the glitch on "several problems" with its trade reporting interface to Securities Industry Automation Corp., which runs computer systems for the two exchanges and disseminates market data.

Oracle updates plans for Fusion

Work on Oracle Corp.'s Fusion technology, which promises to link the company's myriad applications, is more than half done, according to Oracle President Charles Phillips. The technology is still slated to be ready in 2008, accompanied by rewrites of Oracle applications built internally and acquired. The company has also divulged plans to release Version 9.1 of its green-screen World applications in 2007.

Symantec shipping via LiveUpdate

Symantec Corp. has started delivering security product updates to users through its automatic LiveUpdate feature. The updates were previously delivered only with the company's annual release of new product versions. Symantec said it started pushing out updates through LiveUpdate in December to keep up with continually evolving threats.