Since then, San Diego-based TurboTax and its parent company Intuit have overhauled their system, investing in new hardware and running stress tests to make sure they're ready for a crush of last-minute filers.

NPR: TurboTax Prepared for Filing Crunch

Sun said in-house tests showed the application server running on a 64-way Sun Enterprise 10000 to be capable of handlingover 1, 500 Web-to-database transactions per second, and more than 2, 600 page views per second, or 225 million page viewsper day.

CNN: Sun unveils app server strategy

Sadly, Pebble won't be making its way to backers by its original September estimate, but the design team wants you to know that it's hard at work, traveling the world to source components, running shipping tests and spending time refining the user interface in order to provide a top-notch experience once you do receive your device in the mail.

ENGADGET: Pebble team posts UI preview, provides an early look at how you'll interact with the E-Paper Watch

Even before running any statistical tests on the two samples, I discerned that pay-performance anomalies abound far more than in the secretarial world.

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