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Home Shopping Network Maximizes ROI By Switching To SQL Server 2000
White Papers The Home Shopping Network (HSN) sells goods through television 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In an effort to maximize its return on investment, Home Shopping Network decided to migrate the database tier of its Web solution from Oracle and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Broadband Lures Tesco.com Into Korean Expansion
News Tesco.com is to extend its online shopping service to South Korea -- the country with the highest penetration of broadband in the world -- this winter. Webvan was one of our biggest critics, and insisted that warehousing was the best way forward...
[August 13, 2001, 16:28]
Jesse Berst: Make Money From Your Personal Home Page
News I'm not talking about building an e-commerce site; I'm talking about using one of the just-add-water storefronts to add a shopping option to your home page. With services available today, you can add a shopping option for free and recommend model...
[September 28, 1999, 9:56]
Yahoo Goes For Google-like Look
News The company recently introduced a new product-comparison search site, in a bid to compete with niche players such as Shopping.com and with Google, which unveiled a shopping site called Froogle.com in late 2001.
[November 4, 2003, 7:40]
Lycos-USA: No E-commerce Home Run
News The theory behind the deal is simple: USA Networks has holdings whose expertise is selling, foremost among them, Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch (Nasdaq:TMCS) and the Home Shopping Network. While Ticketmaster could realise an immediate synergy with...
[February 10, 1999, 10:22]
White Paper On Home Networking
White Papers The price of home computers keep falling, while the advantages for consumers from being connected OE online investing and shopping, keeping in touch with long distance friends and tapping the vast resource of the Internet OE keep multiplying.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Interactive TV: An Approach Paper
White Papers Interactive TV is the combination of digital television and Internet technology to deliver a mix of programming, restricted or open Web access, email, on-line shopping and customer service to viewers watching at home.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Ramifications Of New Technology On The Record Business
White Papers The entertainment marketplace of the future could consist solely of a wall of interactive computer catalogues; consumers will go shopping with a compact disc and a credit card. The ramifications of this global computerized information network, and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Secure Web Access In An Environment Of Mutual Distrust
White Papers Users demand transparent access to secure resources in their "home" systems from insecure remote network infrastructures like Internet Cafe, airports, shopping centers, other companies. Further, network providers want to prohibit these users from...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
E-commerce Celebrates Double Figures
News That's why the Internet Shopping Network, which the Home Shopping Network later acquired, continued to gather customers' credit card numbers by phone and fax for most orders in 1994, Adams said. The Internet Shopping Network, which started selling...
[August 17, 2004, 11:00]
Consumer Online: Web Retailers Need To Get The Logistics Right
News According to Harris, Web based shopping is currently worth only 2% of the total home shopping spend in the UK. It will not have been missed by Paul Harris and others attending the conference that Germany has a huge catalogue-based home shopping...
[October 28, 1998, 9:20]
Neptune: Home Hub Of The Future?
News In addition, it will offer online shopping, data storage and software downloads for consumers. They will also be able to use home automation services or play networked games and stream audio and video using the Neptune enabled home network.
[July 7, 1999, 9:11]
Virgin Retail Plans Major Technology Upgrade
News The retail chain of the Virgin group of companies which includes the high-profile Virgin Megastores, is to upgrade its Internet shopping systems for customers in-store and at home. According to Tony Johnson, Virgin Retail's IT director the company...
[February 24, 2005, 16:20]
BT: Your Guardian Angel This Christmas
Blog If you’re shopping online and don’t know the company, look for a physical address (not a Post Office box) for the company on the Web site Know where to go for help if you have a problem setting up a new computer or you want to set up a network over...
[December 20, 2006, 15:15]
US Report: Is Amazon.com Eyeing TV?
News Gary Arlen, president of Arlen Communications, suggested that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos "wants to be the HSN [Home Shopping Network] of the digital TV platform. The other obvious path would be to create a streaming media service that serves up...
[November 2, 1998, 13:42]
Birdstep IP Zone
White Papers GSM and UMTS mobile network operators, ISPs and emerging IP zone network operators to build and maintain location-based services for numerous communities such as business campuses, train and hotel services, gas stations, shopping malls...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Sun, MS Duke It Out Over Digital Home
News Scan the empty carton with a barcode scanner and milk is added to your shopping list. All the devices used a home network gateway to communicate. As Sun had, Microsoft explained that the refrigerator and stove could talk to manufacturers over the...
[January 10, 2000, 9:26]
Wired Watford Hosts First Fully Networked Home
News There is a video conferencing system installed for those who want minimum real contact with the outside world, along with a hand-help bar code scanner to facilitate online shopping. The £500,000 house, one of ten on a Laing Homes estate in Watford...
[November 2, 1999, 10:59]
Apple Hints At 'breakthrough' Device
News The only place I have seen the iPaq device is the Home Shopping Network, which seems to indicate to me it hasn't done very well," Baker said. For the most part, PC makers have struggled to find the right way to market digital products related to...
[October 18, 2001, 9:24]
CeBIT: Brief Highlights From The Show
News Symbol also launched its first Windows CE-based product -- a pen-like scanner with a mini-terminal -- and a handheld scanner designed for use in home shopping schemes. The 8 ounce phone can use the network to place calls or use the phone network.
[March 19, 1999, 11:04]
