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E-commerce held back by outdated laws

Insight perspective The legal and regulatory scheme for buying and selling online across European borders needs a rethink, says legal expert.

Friday, April 24 2009 03:47 AM

Tags: E-commerce, E-business, European Union, payment security, Petra Papinniemi, Europe, member state, U.K., data protection, European Commission

Mobile phone sales figures not pretty

News Manufacturers shipped between 245 million and 282 million units in the first quarter, compared with 282 to 290 million a year earlier. Only bright spot was smartphone sales.

Tuesday, May 05 2009 12:07 PM

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Apple Inc., Mobile, Quarter, Motorola Inc., Smart Phone, International Data Corp., Cell Phone, Sales

Retailers must innovate amid downturn

News Through ICT, Malaysian retailers can be leaner and more agile to respond to changing market forces and provide services that better meet changing consumer needs.

Friday, March 13 2009 12:44 PM

Tags: Strategic analysis, Customer resource management (CRM), Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Data warehousing/business intelligence, Software, eBay Inc., Information And Communication Technology, Malaysia, Lifestyle Segmentation, sales revenue

eBay pumps up PayPal protections

News Starting this fall, the company says it will cover 100 percent of the price of items in soured transactions for both buyers and sellers using PayPal.

Sunday, June 22 2008 11:39 PM

Tags: E-commerce, PayPal, Seller, eBay Inc., Advertisement, customer experience, online auction company, payment, online auction, United Parcel Service of America Inc.

Internet Archive's BookServer could 'dominate' Amazon

News A new initiative from the nonprofit Internet Archive aims to make all books, commercial or public domain, available for digital distribution. If it works, Amazon could be in serious trouble.

Tuesday, October 20 2009 02:06 PM

Tags: Handhelds, Publisher, Google Inc., Barnes & Noble Inc., search engine, e-reader, BookServer, Amazon.com Inc., public domain, Amazon Kindle

Let's kill the OS upgrade disc

News Life would be easier if we paid for ongoing OS upgrades the way we pay for other digital assets--by subscription.

Monday, November 02 2009 11:06 AM

Tags: Windows 7, Mac OS, Apple Inc., Upgrade, App, Computer, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., software, Windows 7

Cutting costs sensibly

Blogs I've been quiet for a while, watching how people in our industry will react to the ongoing global economic turmoil. O...

Sunday, November 30 2008 07:44 PM

Lightning takes down Amazon cloud

News The latest disruption to a high-profile cloud-computing service follows outages from other providers, including Google and Salesforce.com.

Friday, June 12 2009 09:57 AM

Tags: Cloud computing, Virtualization, Google Inc., Xen, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, online retail company, software-as-a-service, data center

Sony officially unveils new Readers

News Vendor also drops price of e-books, matching Amazon's US$9.99 price tag on new releases and best sellers.

Wednesday, August 05 2009 09:38 AM

Tags: Handhelds, Battery, Sony Reader, E-book, Wireless, USB cable, font size, Touch Screen, public domain, Adobe PDF

Windows 7: Microsoft vs. the PC makers

News A battle is shaping up over the pricing of the next version of Windows as both sides struggle to profit while hardware prices fall and sales stay flat.

Monday, June 22 2009 03:00 PM

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Acer Inc., PC Company, Microsoft Windows 7, operating system, Notebook, Microsoft Windows, pricing strategy, PC, Netbook