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Holiday E-Tail Performance Index 2004
White Papers The E-tail index itself consists of benchmarked availability and response time data for 20+ of the biggest online retailers' web applications during the weeks leading up to, and including, the holiday season.
[January 24, 2006, 23:00]
Demand For Elusive PS2 Swamps E-tail Sites
News Thousands of shoppers stay logged onto e-commerce sites for hours at a time in the hopes of getting their hands on a PlayStation2. Anxious parents and hardcore gamers are clogging the Web sites of online stores in search of the popular PlayStation2.
[November 30, 2000, 10:00]
China Opens Up To E-tail
News On 16 March, businesses outside China will be able to register .cn domain names for the first time ever -- providing Western e-tailers the opportunity to gain access to the country's vast and rapidly growing online population.
[March 11, 2003, 9:03]
Forecasts Clash On Year-end E-tail Sales
News Most of the big e-tail and retail companies are interested in what we think they're going to do, but they factor our info in with their own intelligence. Lori Iventosch James, director of e-commerce research at Harris Interactive, who helped...
[November 8, 2001, 15:18]
E-commerce Still Booming
News Statistics published on Friday by the federal agency indicate that e-tail sales reached $15.7bn (£8.65bn) in the US during the second quarter of 2004, a 23 percent increase over the same period last year.
[August 23, 2004, 14:10]
Festive Buying Slays Records
News In the e-tail sector, spending continued to gain momentum as the holidays drew closer. Overall, ComScore has charted $9.4bn in e-tail sales since the beginning of the holiday season on 1 November, a 29 percent increase over 2002 returns for the...
[December 22, 2003, 9:55]
US Experiences Record Breaking E-Christmas Sales
News The positive notes on holiday shopping also come despite persistent performance problems at some of the most prominent e-tail sites. During the comparable week last year, 7.9 million consumers shopped each day at one of the e-tail sites.
[December 14, 2000, 8:19]
E-tills Ring Out For Internet Shopping Day
News The event is organised by e-tail body IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group), and will be supported by high street staples such as Boots, Virgin and Debenhams and the charms of the event's frontwoman, Melinda Messenger.
[July 24, 2003, 16:14]
E-tailer Boxman Seeks Liquidation
News Ernesto Schmitt, president of music download Internet site peoplesound.com said "pure e-tailing doesn't work -- Boxman was inhabiting the deeply unfashionable e-tail space that is incapable of delivering real value".
[October 11, 2000, 13:31]
Amazon Strengthens Ties With Drugstore.com
News Amazon.com has expanded a deal with Drugstore.com to establish a health and personal care department on its Web site, as the e-tail giant continues to add to its array of consumer products. Amazon, which started as an online bookseller, has morphed...
[December 19, 2003, 10:05]
Yahoo! Pulls Remote Village From Wilderness
News The inhabitants of mainland Britain's most remote village have the chance to join in the Christmas e-tail bonanza thanks to Yahoo! and a progressive pub landlord. Inverie in North West Scotland isn't even connected to the UK's road network, with...
[December 2, 2002, 14:33]
Tech Purchases Set To Drive Christmas E-shopping
News Another e-tail sector that could be having a very merry Christmas is online food shopping, according to the analyst house. Christmas is coming -- and the only thing that's looking like getting fat are e-tailers' bank balances.
[November 26, 2003, 8:50]
A Study Of TCP Fairness In High-Speed Networks
White Papers Well-known mechanisms to avoid synchronization are based on injecting randomness into the network, e.g.introducing background traffic, using random drop (as opposed to drop-tail queuing). Under the TCP congestion control regime, heterogeneous flows...
[October 30, 2007, 23:00]
London Voted E-business Capital Of Europe
News The Energis e-tail confidence report questioned 250 companies across Europe that sell goods and services online. British e-tailers are the most confident in Europe, with London emerging as the e-business capital of Europe, according to a report...
[April 26, 2001, 7:08]
Price Wars Give Amazon An Edge
News The e-tail giant posted a net loss of $35m (£22m), or 9 cents per share, on sales of $851m. The e-tailer's shipping services lost $10m on $73m in revenue in the quarter, compared with a loss of $2m on $74m in revenue in the year-ago period.
[October 25, 2002, 9:10]
Amazon.co.uk Refuses To Join UK Charts
News The e-tail giant is unwilling to supply its CD sales figures to Chart Information Network (CIN) -- the company which compiles the official UK charts -- because the information is private, the company said.
[September 28, 2000, 15:00]
Online Christmas Shopping Soared In 2001
News Twenty-nine percent of British customers visiting e-tail sites in December went on to make a secure connection, while just 6 percent of Italians visiting shopping sites, and 8 percent of Swedes, were enticed into doing so.
[January 24, 2002, 17:03]
AOL Members Set Shopping Record
News Comscore Networks, which tracks e-tail activity, reported last week that online shoppers were on track to hit, or slightly beat, its forecast of $10bn to $10.25bn for the fourth quarter, excluding travel and auction sales.
[January 2, 2002, 16:39]
Online Businesses Feel Impact Of Attack
News E-tail leader Amazon.com said that while it doesn't expect the groundings to affect the shipments it receives from suppliers, the company will delay overnight deliveries to customers. Package deliveries slowed, online transactions ground down, and...
[September 13, 2001, 9:36]
Online Retailers Fumble On Customer Care
News Comscore Networks, which tracks e-tail activity, has said that online shoppers looked last week like they were on track to hit, or slightly beat, its forecast of $10bn to $10.25bn. That's slightly better than last year's 27 percent, and much better...
[January 4, 2002, 6:31]
