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New Web Platform Gives Retail Manufacturer Faster Development And Greater Reliability
White Papers The company maintains approximately 50 Web sites for its various brands and until recently outsourced its Web operations to an Internet service provider (ISP) running Linux and Oracle. However, in mid-2002, Combe found itself in a tight spot when...
[June 11, 2004, 0:00]
Update: EToys Makes Shock Announcement To Partners
News Troubled retail site eToys issued an email Friday stating it would terminate its business relationship with UK Web sites on 31 December. This would be a sad move for the UK's retail Internet sector as eToys is probably the UK's best toy retail site.
[December 22, 2000, 21:10]
BT Rolls Out One-stop Shop For Web Payments
News BT Retail is to begin trialling a system for making small payments online that could be attractive to thousands of Web sites, at a time when Internet companies are pinching pennies. It's growing very quickly," said Ian Price, chief executive of BT...
[July 2, 2002, 13:28]
AOL Casts Doubts On BT's Child-porn Protection
News The BT technology, called Cleanfeed, has been introduced by BT Retail to prevent any of its Web users accessing sites that the Internet Watch Foundation says contain paedophilic images. According to Lambeth, it's relatively easy for BT Retail to...
[July 20, 2004, 17:45]
Banks Still Top Targets For Phishing Scams
News Executives at APWG said the predominance of financial services phishing scams during the month of December bucked the widely held notion that retail sites would come under intense attack as unsuspecting consumers logged on to do their holiday...
[January 21, 2005, 8:30]
Microsoft Expands E-commerce Downloads
News Several of the retail partners have already begun selling the media package through their sites, including CompUSA and OfficeMax, which both have the product listed for $19.95 (£11.10), the same price Microsoft charges at its own Download Centre.
[September 1, 2004, 12:05]
Camera PDA Seen In Palm Readings
News The Palm Zire 71 will run on a TI OMAP ARM processor, and could retail between $249 and $299 (£157 and £188), according to Web leaks. The device is expected to retail at about $499. Palm appears to be readying new Zire and Tungsten devices...
[April 2, 2003, 17:45]
UK Heading For A Record E-Christmas
News Hitwise, which tracks UK Web traffic, agrees, It reported on Wednesday that visits to retail sites rose five percent week-on-week, for the week finishing 19 November. It can't give precise figures for the number of visits, but it did say that more...
[November 24, 2005, 16:40]
Movie Studios Sue DVD Software Firms
News Tritton released its DVD CopyWare software, created by an affiliated European company, to mainstream retail channels in August. The lawsuit is the second focusing on software distributed at mainstream retail stores that gives consumers the ability...
[September 18, 2003, 9:55]
High Street Brands Yet To Embrace E-commerce
News The research looked at 100 top-name brands, all featured in the Retail Week Top 500, and found only 40 of them ran a transactional Web site. Names such as the Body Shop, JJB Sports and Safeway are still very much offline, despite competitors...
[June 17, 2003, 13:40]
Virgin Retail Plans Major Technology Upgrade
News Virgin Retail is planning a significant upgrade to its Internet operations in the next two months which will affect both its high-street and online presence. The retail chain of the Virgin group of companies which includes the high-profile Virgin...
[February 24, 2005, 16:20]
More Partners For BT's No-frills Broadband
News This deal significantly increases the amount of broadband content that BT Retail will be able to offer to customers. BT Retail has claimed that such prices are not sustainable in the long term. BT Broadband has been available since June, but BT...
[August 5, 2002, 13:22]
2003 Year In Review: Online Retailing And Web Marketing
White Papers In this webcast, you will learn key technologies that helped drive some of the most successful retail Web sites - from retailers like the Benetton Group, to manufacturers like Amway Corporation and also mixed B-to-B and B-to-C companies like...
[August 11, 2005, 0:00]
BT Blocks Thousands Of Child-porn Requests
News The technology, called BT Cleanfeed, prevents BT Retail customers from accessing a list of Web sites identified by the Internet Watch Foundation as containing images of child pornography. BT said on Tuesday that its new Internet filtering tool was...
[July 20, 2004, 14:20]
Report: $1.5tr In E-biz By 2004
News In a report on the sector, Goldman says that the retail sector, with sites like Yahoo! Within many companies, information technology managers, whose main concern in the past has been automating corporate services, have increasingly become "vocal...
[September 17, 1999, 9:53]
Computer Makers Ignore Customer Emails
News Firms were divided by retail categories. But the worst performing retail category was overwhelmingly computers and electronics, said Eyeconomy Consulting, the online marketing consultancy that conducted the survey.
[April 30, 2001, 12:16]
Software Magic For E-tailers
News They call it "multichannel Web marketing," and experts say it could revolutionise the way people shop -- both online and in retail stores. In essence, many retailers maintained two database and order-entry systems: one for their traditional retail...
[August 14, 2001, 15:39]
High Street Stores Fail Web Test
News High street shops have been expecting people to come to their Web sites because they know the retail name. Specialist computer e-tailers Dabs and Jungle came top in the availability of stock on their Web sites.
[November 7, 2001, 17:24]
Dell Axim Mis-pricing Sparks Customer Furore
News Online pricing mistakes are increasingly common on retail Web sites. The Axim X3i, which normally sells for $379, is the latest victim of pricing errors -- apparently the scourge of e-commerce sites. This is the latest in a string of pricing errors...
[November 26, 2003, 17:00]
MP: ISPs Must Come Clean On Paedophilia
News Last year, BT Retail became the first UK ISP to announce it was blocking access to sites identified by the IWF as containing paedophilia. Parliament will debate on Wednesday whether ISPs should be forced to declare whether they block customers from...
[October 26, 2005, 12:25]
