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High Street Stores Fail Web Test
News Leading high street stores, including WHSmith, PC World and Dixons, have been accused by the Consumers' Association of providing a significantly inferior Internet service to online-only retailers. High street shops have been expecting people to...
[November 7, 2001, 17:24]
New Music Stores Serenade Web Surfers
Talkback Who cares? I'm not going to pay 99 cents for a song that I can record off of the radio using my stereo, or record on VHS via MTV or VH1. Todays music, with but very few exceptions, isn't worth a plug nickle.
[October 17, 2003, 10:23]
New Music Stores Serenade Web Surfers
Talkback The new music stores are all well and good, but what about people like me who were searching for obscure songs, many of which have nerver been released on CD? It is unlikely the new stores would even include these items because of the limited...
[October 17, 2003, 17:06]
New Music Stores Serenade Web Surfers
News Even BuyMusic, which currently sells music as a download from its Web site, says it's building a jukebox-style piece of music software to house its song store in the future. A Web store is great. An announcement is expected as soon as Monday.
[September 29, 2003, 14:55]
Demand For Elusive PS2 Swamps E-tail Sites
News Anxious parents and hardcore gamers are clogging the Web sites of online stores in search of the popular PlayStation2. As a result, many shoppers have parked themselves at some of the Web stores. When San Francisco-based BlueLight notifies...
[November 30, 2000, 10:00]
Bots Snarl Sites As Shoppers Seek PlayStation 2
News So-called shopping bots, programs that repeatedly log on to Web sites to help people search for prices or products, have contributed to some recently stalled or crashed Web stores. Many stores selling the PlayStation 2 have said they sporadically...
[December 8, 2000, 11:54]
Apple: Looking For A Few Good Converts
News The computer maker has adapted an exit survey conducted at its 28 retail stores for the Web, giving potential Windows switchers a greater opportunity to ask questions and lay their doubts to rest before making the leap to the Mac.
[March 27, 2002, 9:15]
Valentine's Day Goo Clogs Net
News It might not sound romantic, but large numbers of people are finding a variety of reasons for flocking to Web sites, 3-D chat rooms, and online stores ahead of Saturday's festival of love. Indeed, in the run-up to the holiday, home pages were...
[February 16, 1998, 9:31]
Intel Shuts Down Pilot Web Store
News Chip giant Intel has quietly shut down its first-ever Web Store in the world in Malaysia and nixed plans to open similar stores in developing countries in the region. When launched, Manuel Torres, then IADC's director of new business, development...
[January 15, 2001, 10:38]
Software Magic For E-tailers
News IBM, one of the largest players in the e-commerce software field, unveiled MerchantReach on 1 August for retailers that want to compile customer information from their stores and Web sites. Throwing the Web into the channel mix heightens the...
[August 14, 2001, 15:39]
Wal-Mart Accepts Electronic Cheques
News Wal-Mart Stores announced Tuesday it is accepting electronic cheques for online purchases, becoming the latest retailer to widen Web payment options in an effort to boost sales. We expect to have many people paying with cheques online, like they do...
[July 23, 2003, 8:42]
Firefox Snaps At IE's Heels
News As Firefox marks its five-millionth download and moves to retail stores, a survey showed Microsoft's heavyweight Internet Explorer slipping below 90 percent market share. It also will be sold at retail stores, according to Linspire.
[November 23, 2004, 8:05]
Google Launches Froogle Shopping Site
News Froogle (provides) a lightning quick way to search the largest collection of stores and products on the Web. Unlike the shopping pages on some portal sites, there's no central shopping cart or wallet, and the company has no special merchant stores.
[December 12, 2002, 14:56]
Google Scores Copyright Victory
News Google case in federal court in Nevada that concluded that cached versions of Web pages Google stores and offers as a part of many search results do not infringe copyright. When an ISP automatically and temporarily stores data without human...
[March 17, 2006, 9:30]
MailBase Email Archiver
Downloads It includes: Stores Emails in standard formats for retrieval at a later time, Users can access their archived emails via a web browser, Automatically creates storage folders for each email address, Runs as a service so the software can run when...
[October 8, 2007, 13:31]
Anti-spam Lists Bar Yahoo! Stores
News s stores site to its block list in response to an alleged spam pointing to a Web site called GoInk4Less.com, which is hosted by Yahoo! s stores to its list of suspected spammers. s stores site to its list of suspected spammers on Wednesday, some...
[September 13, 2002, 9:18]
Apple Goes On Safari With Open-source Browser
News Jobs also talked about Apple's retail stores and the "switchers" ad campaign -- Web testimonials, print ads and TV commercials featuring people who have switched from a Windows-based PC to a Mac. We were right on target" with $148m in December...
[January 7, 2003, 19:40]
Vendors Struggle To Ship Core Duo Laptops
News Comparable notebooks from Dell and Gateway won't ship until the first week of February, based on those companies' Web sites, while Apple's MacBook Pro won't appear in Apple stores until the second week of February, according to a sales...
[January 30, 2006, 8:35]
E-tailers Missing Out On Teen Sales
News Still, the company sends its monthly magazine, Pulse, to a disproportionate number of young people and promotes its Web site in all Tower stores. Our stores are our No.resource. The Oakland, California, resident knows which local specialty stores...
[July 4, 2002, 12:15]
DVD Copier Driven Out Of Business
News On its Web site, the company says some versions of its legal products are still available in stores. While no longer available in stores, the company's software, along with other DVD copying tools, are still being widely distributed through peer-to...
[August 4, 2004, 12:10]
