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Competition among online shops intensifies
News E-commerce landscape gets more crowded as transactions grow and increasing number of entrepreneurs set up online stores, says PayPal.
Tags: E-commerce, E-business, PayPal, eBay Inc., Online Payment, Portal, Sales, e-mail, payment, online store
Windows Mobile gets own app marketplace
News update Windows Mobile will get an app store to be launched Wednesday, allowing users to download and purchase mobile apps over-the-air, Microsoft reveals.
Tags: Mobile applications, Windows Mobile, Software engineering/development, .NET, Google Inc., App, Microsoft Corp., software, mobile, Mobile applications
E-reader trend needs common standards
News More players eye piece of e-reader market, but consumers benefit only if readers are built to support one common standard, say industry players.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Standards, E-book, Spokesperson, Standards, Korea, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., digital-rights management, public domain, Notebooks and tablets
Google brings e-books to browser
News Google to launch online e-book store, challenging e-readers by taking e-books directly to browser.
Tags: Handhelds, Google Inc., Barnes & Noble Inc., e-reader, Amazon.com Inc., E-book Reader, Web Browser, E-book, handheld, online store
Ning officially launches apps platform
News Build-your-own-social-network service makes public a platform that lets users embed more than 90 apps and widgets for things like donation collections or ticket sales.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Google OpenSocial, Marc Andreessen, Forbes, social networking, online store, Silicon Valley, Web 2.0
Browserless Windows 7 refuses to go gracefully
News Microsoft said last month that it was scrapping entirely its plans for separate "E" versions of Windows 7, but these are still listed in company's online store.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web Browser, Microsoft Windows 7, Europe, software company, computer company, Microsoft Windows, online store
Apple selling used products online in China
News The company has launched an online store in China selling refurbished products in an aim to boost its business there.
Tags: Sales/revenue, Sales strategy, Web sites, Apple Inc., Product, Yuan, Apple iMac, Apple iPod Shuffle, Apple iPod, News.com
Apple retail stores will match reseller prices
News Apple is reiterating that its retail stores are willing to match the prices of Macs and iPods sold by authorized outlets like Best Buy and Amazon.
Tags: Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPod, retail company, News.com, online store, Best Buy Co. Inc., blog, reseller
Apple selling unlocked iPhone 3G in Hong Kong
News The price is steep, but Apple is giving consumers in this tiny Chinese territory the option of choosing any carrier they so desire.
Tags: Smart phones, 3G (Third Generation), Mac OS, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Hong Kong, phone, 3G, SIM card, online store
Apple's Snow Leopard to get early release
News New version of the OS X operating system, which marks Apple's move to 64-bit support, will be made available ahead of its original September schedule.
Tags: Mac OS, Apple Inc., Apple iWork, Apple Mac OS X, Apple iLife, hard-disk space, online store, 64-bit CPU, software engineering, Mac OS
Easing XP netbook owners' path to Windows 7
News Microsoft plans a tool that will allow users to download Windows 7 and create a bootable USB drive that can be used to upgrade machines that lack their own DVD drive.
Tags: Windows 7, Notebooks and tablets, Netbook Owner, bootable USB, Microsoft Corp., Windows 7, USB Flash Drive, Tool, Microsoft Windows 7, BIOS
Why Apple leaves low-end computers to the competition
News Apple with its luxury-goods maker strategy adheres to graceful design esthetic and limits lineup keeping margins sky-high.
Tags: Personal Computers, Consumer Technology, Apple Inc., Computer, laptop computer, Apple iMac, Apple Macintosh, keyboard, NPD Group Inc., desktop
Apple to reinvent Apple TV...for the rest of us
News Apple is trying to persuade programmers to make their TV shows available as part of a subscription via iTunes.
Tags: Video, TVs, Apple Inc., Satellite, TV, Apple iTunes, Apple TV, billing, Apple iPhone, PC
Websense: Hijackers target S'pore site
News Security vendor reports Web site of local book and stationery store Popular Holdings fed visitors malicious code on Saturday; firm says problem has been rectified.
Tags: Network security, Data security, Security Management, Security, Trend Micro Inc., Attack, Singapore, Websense Inc., payment, security company
Big software plans for Amazon's Kindle?
News Amazon.com's buying and hiring signal that many more Kindle apps may be on the way and software to put Amazon books on other mobile devices.
Tags: Business applications, Development/design, Applications and tools, Business Strategies & Functions, Mobile, Smart Phone, E-book Reader, E-book, Amazon.com Inc., online retail company
