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Fraudsters Recruit Computer Kids For Crime
News A recent survey from business information company Experian estimates that in certain retail sectors, such as software and ticket sales, fraudulent transactions can account for as much as 40 percent of all Internet sales.
[September 28, 2000, 15:58]
A Stronger Case For Gift Cards
White Papers These days gift cards are the most popular form of gift to give and receive among young people, and their sales presence is powerful enough to garner them exclusive space in retail stores. In fact, giant grocers like Pathmark and Safeway are...
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
E-Christmas May Not Live Up To Promise
News Online shopping will be more significant by Christmas 2003, but it is still very small compared to high street sales," he said. According to Verdict's figures, online shopping accounted for just 0.2 percent of total retailer sales in 1998, rising...
[November 15, 1999, 16:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog More to the point, for people who equate right and wrong with profit and loss, does it really hurt sales? According to the NY Times, Mitch Bainwol, chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of America, believes ''CD burning is a...
[August 19, 2005, 18:45]
End Of An Era As Sanders Leaves AMD
News Since 1999, though, new chip designs and strategic relationships with IBM and others have led to more consistent sales. Sales was in charge of everything. The long-term investment proposition has been questionable because they've had such a tough...
[April 25, 2002, 9:32]
Sun Opens Java Peer-to-peer Project
News But a spokeswoman confirmed that Sun is building a team that is exploring peer-to-peer technology development, in part as a way to help boost sales of the company's Java software and industrial-strength network server systems.
[December 8, 2000, 11:43]
Apple Sends Out IPod Mini
News Apple is still watching to make sure that the iPod Mini doesn't cannibalise sales from the original iPod, but Ng said that so far, it appears to be attracting a new audience. Ng declined to quantify traditional iPod sales since the Mini's...
[February 18, 2004, 10:00]
Brit Inventor Designs In-shoe Mobile Charger
News Last year's astonishing mobile phone sales -- 40 percent of the UK population now own a handset -- and the popularity of trainers with young people leads Baylis to believe that it could be the next hot, 'must have' product.
[January 12, 2000, 9:04]
Where Did Microsoft Put 10,000 New Employees?
News The big winners overall were the key area of product research and development, which grew by 4,000 (17 percent), and what some would argue was the equally important area of sales and marketing, which also grew by 17 percent with another 3,000 people.
[August 31, 2006, 16:40]
Sales Staff Cause Biggest Security Headache
News Junior sales staff are causing more security breaches than any other type of employee. These days sales are pounding the cyber-highway using email, IM, web browsers and mobile devices," Mark Sunner, MessageLabs' chief technology officer, told ZDNet...
[March 29, 2007, 17:30]
Club La Costas A Joke
Talkback Oh the star prize I mentioned a "free" holiday which appears to be the same as every other one mentioned on here, is not free at all, with booking fees and other costs and again the pushy presentations and sales pitches.
[September 22, 2007, 9:53]
Record Industry Accuses BT Of Aiding Pirates
News The music industry body, which blames file-sharing for falling CD sales, told the BBC that BT has consistently refused to discuss the phenomenon of file-sharing and the online distribution of copyrighted material which first came to prominence...
[March 18, 2003, 10:27]
Tumbling Market To Calm IT Nerves?
News The issues that tend to prevent people moving are perceived threat to job security because the startup companies are in a fast-moving and ever-changing market," said Steve Lorde, UK sales director of recruitment firm Elan Computing.
[April 17, 2000, 13:13]
Microsoft Opens Web For Small Biz
News By some estimates more than $400 billion in business will be conducted over the Internet by 2002, including consumer sales and business-to-business transactions. The small business area is going to get very competitive because people do understand...
[March 4, 1999, 17:14]
US Report: Red Hat's Red Letter Day
News It doesn't affect the support going on behind NT," Intel's VP of Sales and Marketing Sean Maloney said of Microsoft's server software, a market Linux is targeting. Red Hat Software CEO Robert Young isn't snubbing the money -- but he said new...
[September 30, 1998, 8:34]
IM - That's 'Instant Money'
News That potentially drives traffic to eBay, which indirectly boosts sales. People don't want to be interrupted by anything. Sure, tens of millions of people use instant messaging technology on the Web. Instant messaging is likely to appear on cell...
[August 25, 1999, 9:44]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Continental supermarkets are lifting the whole market for PC sales in Europe by piling them high and selling them cheap according to a report in Business Week. Dataquest analyst Philip Williams says first quarter European PC sales were up 26% over...
[July 27, 1998, 8:59]
Dell Vetoes Eight-processor Server
News Dell had been funding Intel to build a chipset to yoke together as many as eight Intel Xeon processors for larger servers that are used for such demanding tasks as housing sales databases. Dell plays a small part in the eight-processor Intel server...
[July 21, 2003, 13:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We're worried that it's losing us sales! Cap Gemini Ernst & Young: An Apology Last month, I wrote a short piece about Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's new enterprise project management system, Event Driven Package Implementation.
[December 5, 2003, 16:30]
Businesses Still Wary Of SaaS
News On the one hand there are the on-demand pure-play start-ups, such as NetSuite and Salesforce.com, with their sales force automation and CRM tools, and on the other there are the traditional big vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, which have...
[September 21, 2007, 13:15]
