(Mobile-COMMERCE) Using smartphones and handheld computers with wireless connections to place orders and transact business over the Web. See m-business and e-commerce.
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- EBay on Monday revamped its corporate portfolio laying off 1,000 workers, or 10 percent of its workforce, and buying online payment company Bill Me Later as well as a Denmark classifieds company. The layoffs were largely expected, but the Bill Me Later purchase for $820 million in...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Techies choose Obama - by a landslide
- If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
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- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Microsoft's search perks gambit eyes 22% of market up for grabs
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- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Andreessen joins eBay board
- eBay said that Marc Andreessen will join the online auctioneer's board of directors. The move, which is effectively immediately, brings some additional brainpower to eBay, which is trying to fend off rivals such as Amazon and Google. For instance, Amazon's fixed price model has been attracting merchants...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Web 2.0: Unprecedented data liabilities for users and businesses
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- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Amazon feeling first pinch of holiday economic slump
- The uncertainty surrounding the economy is starting to impact brand names that have become synonymous with online holiday shopping - notably Amazon. Lazard Capital analyst Colin Sebastian lowered estimates for Amazon's Q3, FY 2008 and FY 2009 this morning, noting in an investor's report that, despite its gains in e-commerce...
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Kentico CMS for ASP.NET (exe)
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- Software downloads 2008-09-23
- BPA story gets all political
- BPA story gets all politicalWhat a shock!And you are surprised by this? You can't be that naive.Big business, and even small business, has been bed with politicians forever...on both sides. It’s just more pronounced with this current bunch of Nazis in Washington for the past seven plus years. You know...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?
- Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?Obama's childish attack????Kinda like the one where McCain says Obama wants to teach sex education to kindergartners, when in fact, what he wanted was to teach them how to recognize inappropriate touching to protect them from child predators? Ridiculous, childish attack INDEED!Um ridiculous and childishlike...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?
- Did John McCain invent the BlackBerry? Well, no one actually said he did, although the Telegraph headlined a story as such. As the LA Times reports the episode, here's what happened: Asked by reporters today about McCain's grasp of technological issues, senior policy...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- J.Crew: Failed upgrade hits financial performance
- J.Crew: Failed upgrade hits financial performanceLooks Like Some Corners Were Cut on This Project$9,208.50 for shipping and handling -- Wow! Only in the dreams of those online merchants who look at S+H fee as revenue stream :-)On a more serious side, e-Commerce sites are not just websites. They need to...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- 'John McCain invented the Blackberry'
- 'John McCain invented the Blackberry'Dang. He and Al Gore must have the same speech writer...:D :D :D :D :DI don't think so....RIM is a Canadian company, and all Canadians know that it was, in fact, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney who coincidently was also Conservative who helped invent the...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- What makes Web shoppers click "Buy" or "Bye"?
- There's big money being spent in the Internet marketplace. Last year, more than $175 billion passed through the Internet in the form of airline tickets, insurance premiums, online bill payments and paperback books, among thousands of other items. But for many consumers, at some point in the process, the online...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconsitutional
- Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconsitutionalBad, bad decisionThat court is flat-out wrong. Spam has nothing to do with the First Amendment. No one has any "right" to put their email on any server, period. It has ZERO to do with content.Spammers should pay.Perhaps...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-13
- Sen. to carriers: Why do text messages cost $1,300 per meg?
- Sen. to carriers: Why do text messages cost $1,300 per meg?I don't get it[i]If cell phone users don't like it, call the person, it doesn't cost anything extra. [/i]How does this save me from having to pay for the SMS that some marketer sent me, or the one that was...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Ediware Client (exe)
- Ediware is a B2B integration software. The user can easily setup any EDI or e-commerce structure like EDIFACT, X12, XML, and Ediware will translate any such file into any other format. All formats and translation filters are user configurable. Ediware allows you also to define batch files in order to...
- Software downloads 2008-09-09
- NetSuite moves early to support Chrome
- NetSuite said Friday that it will offer native support for Google's Chrome browser, which is in beta and may not be enterprise strength yet. In a statement, NetSuite said its CRM, e-commerce, accounting and OpenAir unit will support Chrome in phases with support being complete in mid-October....
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Analyst: Dollar daze around the corner for Web giants
- J.P. Morgan analyst Imran Khan said Thursday in a research note that a stronger dollar will take a bite out of search, online travel and e-commerce companies. Khan's call Techmeme largely focuses on the fourth quarter given the dollar's resurgence began in the middle of the third...
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- E-commerce growth, Q2 2008
- Product Category Growth, YTY Total Retail Category 13% Video Games, Consoles & Accessories 73% Furniture, Appliances & Equipment 65% Home & Garden 23% Event Tickets 22% Sport & Fitness 21% Consumer Electronics 5% Apparel...
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
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