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E-Commerce Times: Telecom Shows Signs of Buckling Under Recessionary Pressures
The year-long U.S. recession has started to take its toll on the telecomm sector. AT&T and Verizon shares were hit hard Monday after being downgraded by Bernstein Research. The firm downgraded Verizon from market perform to underperform and AT&T from outperform to market perform. Verizon stock was down 7.16 percent to $32.15 per share and AT&T stock was down ...
E-Commerce Times: LG to Show Off Netflix-Ready High-Def TVs at CES
Netflix is coming to a high-definition LG Electronics television near you. The two companies on Monday announced an extension of an existing partnership whereby LG will sell Internet-ready TVs capable of streaming content from a catalog of 12,000 Netflix movies. The service is alreadyavailable on one of LG's Blu-ray disc players.
E-Commerce Times: Jobs Responds to Health Scuttlebutt
After several months of macabre speculation in the tech industry and on Wall Street, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has set the record straight. Yes, the cancer survivor has been losing weight. The reason is a hormone imbalance for which he is now receiving treatment. Jobs made the announcementvia a letter that was posted to the Apple Web site.
E-Commerce Times: Where the Tech Jobs Are, Part 1
Despite the daily onslaught of grim economic news, the need for skilled information technology staff remains stable, according to the Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report, released earlier this month. Twelve percent of chief information officers polled in the survey said they planned to expand their IT departments in the first quarter of 2009.
E-Commerce Times: The Recession, the Cloud and Salesforce.com
Google, Yahoo, Cisco, Intel, AMD and other companies are slashing employees and cutting expenses. And then there's Salesforce.com. During Thanksgiving week, the San Francisco-based software company began driving a big white truck -- a traveling billboard -- up and down Highway 101 as part of a major recruiting push.
E-Commerce Times: Changing Times Threaten to Stop the Presses in Chicago
A little more than a century ago, Chicago boasted 11 daily English-language newspapers. The fierce competition among them, immortalized in the 1928 play "The Front Page," even turned bloody at times, and that drive to outdo one another led to 35 Pulitzer Prizes, journalism'shighest honor.
E-Commerce Times: 7 Experts Paint Enterprise IT Landscape for 2009
Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 35, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, our guests make their top five predictions for IT in 2009.
E-Commerce Times: Will Work for Praise: The Web's Free-Labor Economy
It's dawn at a Los Angeles apartment overlooking the Hollywood Hills. Laura Sweet, a graphic designer in her early 40s, sits at a computer and begins to surf the Net. She searches intently, unearthing such bizarre treasures for sale as necklaces for trees and tattoo-covered pigs. As usual, she posts them on a shopping site called "ThisNext.com."
E-Commerce Times: A Modest Blogging Proposal
It all started with a simple question from Forrester Research analyst Jeremiah Owyang late in the afternoon on Friday, Dec. 12. A few days earlier, blogger Chris Brogan had written about his decision to accept $500 from Kmart to find out what's cool to buy at the discount retailer andthen write about it.
E-Commerce Times: Move Over Kindle - E-Books Hit Cell Phones
Adam Parks is an avid reader of digital books, but you won't find him downloading the 20 or so titles he reads each year onto an electronic book device like Amazon's Kindle. Instead, Parks flips through pages -- Web-site design manuals and Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" are recent favorites -- on his trusted iPhone.
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Online Retail Satisfaction Index: AMZN, NFLX Soar; Others Sag
8 in 10 Online Holiday Shoppers Read Web Reviews
Amazon hails commander in chief watchers and shoppers with a new web store
Corel Selects ATG to Power Global e-Commerce Sites
Amazon S3 Adds Option To Make Data Accessors Pay
E-commerce saw 20 pct jump in 2008
Priceline.com's Ski Sale Offers Champagne Powder On A Beer Budget
Amazon.com launches Inauguration Store
E-commerce Silver Lining Despite Holiday Dip
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·Telecom Shows Signs of Buckling Under Recessionary Pressures
The year-long U.S. recession has started to take its toll on the telecomm sector. AT&T and Verizon shares were hit hard Monday after being downgraded by Bernstein Research. The firm downgraded Verizon from market perform to underperform and AT&T from outperform to market perform. Verizon stock was down 7.16 percent to $32.15 per share and AT&T stock was down 4.35 percent to $28.15 in late-day trading on Monday.
·LG to Show Off Netflix-Ready High-Def TVs at CES
Netflix is coming to a high-definition LG Electronics television near you. The two companies on Monday announced an extension of an existing partnership whereby LG will sell Internet-ready TVs capable of streaming content from a catalog of 12,000 Netflix movies. The service is alreadyavailable on one of LG's Blu-ray disc players.
·Where the Tech Jobs Are, Part 1
Despite the daily onslaught of grim economic news, the need for skilled information technology staff remains stable, according to the Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report, released earlier this month. Twelve percent of chief information officers polled in the survey said they planned to expand their IT departments in the first quarter of 2009.
·Jobs Responds to Health Scuttlebutt
After several months of macabre speculation in the tech industry and on Wall Street, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has set the record straight. Yes, the cancer survivor has been losing weight. The reason is a hormone imbalance for which he is now receiving treatment. Jobs made the announcementvia a letter that was posted to the Apple Web site.
·The Recession, the Cloud and Salesforce.com
Google, Yahoo, Cisco, Intel, AMD and other companies are slashing employees and cutting expenses. And then there's Salesforce.com. During Thanksgiving week, the San Francisco-based software company began driving a big white truck -- a traveling billboard -- up and down Highway 101 as part of a major recruiting push.
·Changing Times Threaten to Stop the Presses in Chicago
A little more than a century ago, Chicago boasted 11 daily English-language newspapers. The fierce competition among them, immortalized in the 1928 play "The Front Page," even turned bloody at times, and that drive to outdo one another led to 35 Pulitzer Prizes, journalism'shighest honor.
·7 Experts Paint Enterprise IT Landscape for 2009
Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 35, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, our guests make their top five predictions for IT in 2009.
·Will Work for Praise: The Web's Free-Labor Economy
It's dawn at a Los Angeles apartment overlooking the Hollywood Hills. Laura Sweet, a graphic designer in her early 40s, sits at a computer and begins to surf the Net. She searches intently, unearthing such bizarre treasures for sale as necklaces for trees and tattoo-covered pigs. As usual, she posts them on a shopping site called "ThisNext.com."
·A Modest Blogging Proposal
It all started with a simple question from Forrester Research analyst Jeremiah Owyang late in the afternoon on Friday, Dec. 12. A few days earlier, blogger Chris Brogan had written about his decision to accept $500 from Kmart to find out what's cool to buy at the discount retailer andthen write about it.
·Move Over Kindle - E-Books Hit Cell Phones
Adam Parks is an avid reader of digital books, but you won't find him downloading the 20 or so titles he reads each year onto an electronic book device like Amazon's Kindle. Instead, Parks flips through pages -- Web-site design manuals and Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" are recent favorites -- on his trusted iPhone.
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·BBC News
Visit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.
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·Start-up takes aim at online prevention
Business Signatures last week unveiled software aimed at helping financial institutions curb online fraud.
·Plumtree overhauls flagship portal line
Plumtree last week began rolling out a major new version of its portal software product line, including new bundling options, broader platform support and a stand-alone product the company intends as the first in a line of customized industry applications.
·Freeing up paid content
Coming soon to a Web browser near you is a new search engine called Congoo that promises to provide regular users with once-again-free access to a selection of otherwise pay-to-peek content - albeit on a limited basis and with a few strings attached.
·Google's partnership with Sun draws skeptical analysis
Google may be a media darling flush with cash, but any attempt on its part to muscle into productivity and collaborative applications will find the company in an underdog role it might not be ready to handle, according to IT professionals and other industry experts.
·Internet Explorer required: Your comments
Last week's column discussing how the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Individual Assistance Center Web site required people filing claims to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 generated a lot of feedback.
·CTO with a bug ... well, you know where
Not only has widespread adoption of this lifesaving application failed to take hold in corporate networks, it is my understanding that many of you have gone so far as to expressly prohibit - prohibit! - the use of WeatherBug in your organizations. How do you sleep at night?
·PayPal debuts payment suite for SMBs
PayPal last week introduced a suite of services aimed at letting merchants offer buyers three payment options with the goal of giving PayPal customers more flexibility and control over the checkout process, the first nonhosted offering from this provider of online payments.
·Brother Bill and the next Holy War
When we look at Sun's Scott McNealy or Oracle's Larry Ellison, we see successful executives who every once in a while get tired of the game and take a physical or mental time out. Not Gates. He has just what he wants: a new Holy War.
·Microsoft to extend RSS support for lists
Microsoft is planning to extend the RSS standard to better support the publishing of ordered lists of information, a company spokesman said Thursday.
·More blogging off the cliff
Hey, let's all write blogs about the inner workings of our companies, warts and all. ... Transparency is the rage, you know. But before we get cracking, let's make sure our resumes are polished and our bank accounts can withstand a stretch of unemployment.
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·Job-creation panel endorses business tax credit
A plan to give a tax credit to Colorado companies that create 20 or more new jobs was endorsed Monday night by a committee of state lawmakers.
·BryanMark names Price K.C. office head
BryanMark Financial Group has named H. Joseph Price, currently head of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne’s tax & estate planning practice group, to serve as executive vice president in BryanMark’s Kansas City office.
·Win.Net files for Chapter 11 protection
WinNet Communications Inc., parent company of Internet service provider Win.Net Thursday filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
·Online video viewing soars
Americans viewed 34 percent more online videos in November 2008, compared with the same month the previous year, according to numbers gathered by Reston, Va.-based tracking company ComScore (NASDAQ: SCOR). (SCOR)
·Lithia Motors suspends quarterly dividend
Lithia Motors Inc., which in 2008 sold off several stores and lost $2.3 million in the third quarter, announced Monday that its board of directors voted to suspend its quarterly dividend for the fourth quarter of 2008 due to the current economic environment. (LAD)
·Perceptive Software lays off 53
In a second round of cuts, Perceptive Software Inc. laid off 53 employees on Monday, or 10 percent of its work force.
·LDK Solar lowers Q4 revenue outlook
LDK Solar Co. Ltd. on Monday lowered its revenue estimates for the fourth quarter to between $425 million and $435 million, compared to earlier guidance of $555 million to $565 million. (LDK)
·Rise in health care spending slows down
Health care spending in the U.S. grew 6.1 percent in 2007 to $2.2 trillion, or $7,421 per person, the slowest rate of growth since 1998, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
·SkyWi customers still being reconnected
Local voice and Internet service provider SkyWi Inc. said most of its voice and much of its Internet services in New Mexico was still down as of Monday.
·Pevely union officer pleads guilty to embezzlement
A Pevely union officer pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $24,000 from Glass Molders Plastics Local 30, U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway said Monday.
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