glitches

The company plans to make at least 40 million iPhones in the next year; selling so many will hinge on global success and fixing connection glitches.

Microsoft Corp. was criticized on Tuesday for being slow to resolve problems in the technical documentation it was required to provide to rival software makers as part of its 2001 antitrust settlement.

Engineers have created a software program to help avoid the network timing glitches called 'cyclic jitters' that can cause real jitters, making production line machines jump or shake, damaging products, even shutting down assembly lines.