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Swedish Online Retailer Increases Security, Confidence and Sales
White Papers Misco is a leading European online provider of IT products - with a presence in Germany, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands and Sweden - and with global internet sales reaching £458m in 2007. The challenge was to prevent online security...
[September 19, 2009, 1:22]
Microsoft sets UK prices for Windows 7
News It's up to the manufacturer or retailer to have a separate agreement for that. The company has also said that, due to the European Commission antitrust ruling on Internet Explorer bundling, it will not be offering the cheaper upgrade versions of...
[June 25, 2009, 14:02]
Email Address Validation Study of 50 Leading Retailer Websites
White Papers With substantial amounts of money being spent on email marketing, internet retailers risk losing millions of dollars by populating their email databases with bad data. This paper is the second in a series of examinations of the email validation...
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
Microsoft brings embedded products to the cloud
News This is in contrast to the current retail model where users have a support relationship with the retailer instead. Microsoft also outlined its cloud ambitions in opening up much of its internet services to developers earlier in 2007.
[March 31, 2009, 9:10]
Web Application Security: Too Costly to Ignore
White Papers A major retailer's website is hacked, and thousands of customer records, including credit card numbers, are stolen; a single flaw on the web page of a federal agency has leaked Social Security numbers onto the Internet.
[March 24, 2009, 0:20]
Cost of online-banking fraud doubled in 2008
News The value of card-not-present fraud — which covers transactions made by phone, internet or mail order where no physical card is handled by the retailer — also rose year-on-year. The cost of online banking fraud more than doubled in 2008.
[March 23, 2009, 7:42]
The Problem with Clouds
Blog This is a speciality retailer who can’t afford this unrecoverable loss of income - who can these days? Yesterday’s Gmail outage http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39617755,00.htm brought to light the issue that will blight every Cloud...
[February 25, 2009, 16:18]
Microsoft puts Exchange, SharePoint online
News One of the early customers is video retailer BlockBuster, which has been using Exchange Online for about six months. Chief information officer Rich Mozack said the clothing retailer wanted to move off Notes but couldn't make the numbers work to run...
[November 18, 2008, 8:45]
PC World claims UK first with Atom netbook
News The accessibility to the internet and portability of netbooks has seen extremely strong pre-sales through PC World online. The UK computer-store chain PC World is claiming to be the first retail outlet in the country to offer a netbook using Intel...
[July 7, 2008, 15:17]
Bathroom Retailer Supports Online Sales With New Phone Infrastructure
White Papers The existing Taurus telephone system could not cope with the new demands of the internet business. Taurus Bathrooms has operated a successful, family-run business for 25 years. They didn't physically have enough lines coming in to provide the best...
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
Web Retailer Improves Service, Streamlines Management With Platform Upgrade
White Papers The company is upgrading to Windows Server 2008 Standard to take advantage of new technologies in Internet Information Services 7.0 and the Active Directory service. Quixtar stays at the leading edge of technology so that it can provide outstanding...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Microsoft: Streaming Office 'infringes licence'
News This is not normally the case with educational licences, which usually require some evidence to be shown to the retailer to prove that the user is enrolled in an educational institution, and not simply trying to get a cheap version of the package.
[February 8, 2008, 14:59]
International Clothing Retailer Promotes Remote Working With Messaging Solution
White Papers Using the Microsoft Solutions Framework for best practice, Ted Baker deployed Microsoft Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 at the heart of the environment, supported by Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 and Active Directory...
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
IBM urged to lead green-technology charge
News The retailer's chief information officer fought off strong competition for the award from a shortlist including Neil Cameron of Unilever, Trevor Didcock of the AA, Simon Jennings of Oxfam and David Lister of Reuters.
[September 25, 2007, 15:12]
Online Retailer Boosts Customer Conversions 20 Percent, Cuts Service Costs 58 Percent
White Papers Wine.com, the largest retailer of wine on the Internet, wanted to continue its remarkable growth by revolutionizing the service it provides to customers both before and after the sale. That meant providing more value, more information, and more...
[September 5, 2007, 1:00]
City-wide Wi-Fi networks set to soar
News Milton Keynes' network is based on this type of "mixed" public-private model — it was launched by wireless communications company Briteyellow in partnership with Invest Milton Keynes — an arm of English Partnerships, the government's development...
[July 26, 2007, 19:04]
Woolworths enters home-software fray
News Mixed merchandise retailer Woolworths has followed in Tesco's footsteps by launching its own range of PC software, due to hit the shelves in the middle of next month. The move is in line with the retailer's strategy to revamp its flagging...
[March 29, 2007, 15:46]
Database Upgrade Helps Enhance Business Continuity and Reduce Complexity
White Papers Online-only retailer Odimo relies on its Internet presence for all revenue generation. The company's database systems - formerly running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - are at the core of that presence. Odimo needed to: Enhance mechanisms that help...
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
IE7 gives green light to trusted websites
News VeriSign has about 300 customers, including online retailer Overstock.com, that have signed up for the green bar certification process, said Spiros Theodossiou, a senior product manager at VeriSign. Microsoft has quietly flipped the switch on a new...
[February 5, 2007, 7:35]
PC World waves goodbye to floppy disks
News The computing retailer claims the amount of data (1.44MB) a floppy disk holds is no longer adequate for most day-to-day requirements. The company also says the increased availability of broadband and wireless internet connections has made small...
[January 31, 2007, 8:39]
