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Special Delivery: Bringing SMBs Into the Global Shipping Network

Of the Web's many attractions, the potential to tap into a global marketplace, has perhaps been first and foremost for businesses. If you are a manufacturer, distributor or merchant, designing and launching a Web site is but one piece of putting together and solving the e-commerce puzzle, however. B...

High-End CE Sales Online, Part 2: New Shopping Tools and Trends

Though opinions are mixed, industry experts and economists expect a reasonably good holiday retail sales season this year despite an economy struggling with higher oil and import prices, decreasing home values and the after-effects of mortgage market problems. Online holiday sales, in particular, s...

The Evolution of Spam, Part 3: Now Taking Control of Your PC

Who would have thought that it would be so easy to get PC and network users to install viruses, worms, application-downloading Trojan horses and other forms of malware on their PCs? Through a simple form of social engineering -- sending out enticing, unsolicited e-mail spam -- Internet users are doi...

High-End CE Sales Online, Part 1: Will Bells Be Ringing?

The holiday shopping season is upon us. Import prices are up as the U.S. dollar continues its descent, oil prices are hitting record highs, and the American economy is still struggling to absorb shocks from mortgage market problems, falling home values and tighter credit conditions. Given a backdrop...

What’s Hot and What’s Not in Digital Toys

Web portal Lycos has released its eighth annual list of the Top 50 most popular holiday season toys and games, and already a few online sales trends are becoming apparent in the realm of consumer electronics. The quality of video games continues to improve along with the increasing capabilities of ...

The Evolution of Spam, Part 2: New Defenses

Spam network operators, otherwise known as "botnet herders," are becoming increasingly proficient at evading detection and harnessing the power of peer-to-peer computing, much to the consternation of spam detection, prevention and IT security specialists, as Part 1 of this series discusses. Botnet o...

The Evolution of Spam, Part 1: New Tricks

It's not a comforting thought, but while you're sleeping peacefully, your PC may be hard at work acting as a spam server or peer-to-peer node, providing processing power to a malware network engaging in any of a variety of criminal activities online. Spam is being used by botnet operators in a multi...

Shopping Cart Options for SMBs, Part 2

There's a wealth of opportunities available for aspiring and small to medium-sized business e-tailers looking for shopping cart technology. While this makes it easier than ever to find this important piece of the e-tailing puzzle, it also means startup and SMB e-tailers face greater challenges when ...

Shopping Cart Options for SMBs, Part 1

For those aspiring or already doing business as an e-tail merchant, there is no shortage of e-commerce software developers with shopping cart technology for start-ups and small to medium-sized businesses. The real difficulty may lie in choosing among them and then putting it to productive use. To ge...

The Internet and the Law: Work in Progress

New laws and regulations inevitably follow massive and profound technological changes as societies come to grips with how new technologies may be used. Given the extent of changes the Internet has fostered across nearly every aspect of modern life, it comes as no surprise that innovations dealing wi...

EULA: What Are You Signing Away?

When consumers buy software, they typically don't spend much time reading through the rather long, tortuous legalese that makes up the end user licensing agreement or terms of service agreement that users must agree to before getting access to a product or service. However, distributed applications,...

Ethernet’s New Security Layer

Ethernet has been steadily extending its influence as it continues to evolve beyond the local area network. The ongoing development of virtual local area network, or VLAN, standards, is paving the way for Ethernet to play a key role in next-generation networking. As networks expand, so do opportunit...

Greasing the Wheels of M-Commerce, Part 2

In five years, the number of mobile phone subscribers is expected to increase by almost two billion -- at that point, the way people purchase goods and services could be forever changed. For now, text-messaging, or short message service, is chiefly used for communication, but businesses hip to m-com...

Greasing the Wheels of M-Commerce, Part 1

Originally established as part of a series of the global system for mobile communications standards in 1985, short message service, or SMS, has come to play a pivotal role not only in the evolution of personal mobile communications but in the development of m-commerce as well. In 2006, SMS -- aka "t...

The Great Internet TV Race, Part 2

The great Internet TV race is on, and the field is crowded -- and getting more crowded all the time. The biggest names in U.S. TV broadcasting want to make sure they stay in the middle of things. Cable TV broadcasters such as Cablevision, Comcast and Time Warner got an early jump on their broadcast ...

The Great Internet TV Race, Part 1

There's a new wave of changes headed for the TV and film industries: Television viewers can choose what they watch, when and how they view programs, and where they catch up on their favorite shows. That's just the beginning. The interactivity of the Internet, the emergence of DVR technologies, easie...

M-Commerce Hot Spots, Part 2: Scaling Walled Gardens

M-commerce, or mobile commerce, is poised to grow into a multibillion dollar market over the next decade. Phone handset makers, telecoms and content providers are pushing the technologies that will enable users with m-commerce-enabled devices to easily purchase products and services via the phone. W...

M-Commerce Hot Spots, Part 1: Beyond Ringtones and Wallpaper

As voice, data, wired and wireless telecommunications converge, conditions are ripening for the extension of e-commerce to mobile, or m-commerce, in markets around the world. Juniper Research estimates that global m-commerce revenue will exceed $88 billion by 2009, a $69 billion increase from year-e...

Tricky Business: Building Fault-Tolerant Web Services

Web services and underlying SOAs offer organizations a heretofore unattainable capacity to capture information from disparate information resources by directly representing and linking these assets, making them available selectively across their information systems environments. Given their scale, s...

Is the World Ready for Mobile Marketing?

As the evolution of integrated, multimedia wired and wireless networks and services continues apace, be prepared for the rise of mobile marketing -- or m-marketing -- in the United States as telcos open up their platforms to third-party content providers. More companies are developing mobile adverti...

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