online retail in comment and analysis
silicon.com old school
Comment Others have carried on in business titles, such as Building, Regeneration and Renewal, and Retail Week. The business processes around producing and selling an online publication were at the time non-existent, so we had the luxury of establishing... [07 Jul 2008]
Minority Report: What's in store for the iPhone?
Comment It's ironic that less than a month ago, reports were foretelling that Apple and its retail partners were likely to be faced with huge, unsold piles of Edge iPhones following the expected release of its 3G sibling. [23 May 2008]
Retail in a rut: IT to the rescue?
Comment With high street sales struggling to keep pace with inflation and online trade increasing by 54 per cent from 2006 to 2007 - according to the latest IMRG Capgemini Index - any retail CEO looking for growth in 2008 will be taking a long hard look... [25 Jan 2008]
Online age verification Bill is cynical manipulation
Leader The British Retail Consortium points out that ages are checked on delivery and that retailers risk losing their licence to sell age-restricted goods, if they sell them indiscriminately. Even though the MP for South Luton Margaret Moran's Ten Minute... [22 Jan 2008]
E-tailers beware: OFT web sweep is imminent
Comment The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and the Local Authority Trading Standards Services are planning a sweep of the UK's top 600 retail websites to ensure they meet key legislation. It will also be interesting to see whether the OFT also looks at... [14 Dec 2007]
Q&A: Julian David: IBM's vice president public sector business
Comment Julian David, IBM's vice president public sector business, has been with the company 26 years, with previous roles seeing him involved with retail and small business units. That's what's enabled them to do things like become the biggest online... [05 Dec 2007]
Leader: Why the BBC must do more with iPlayer
Leader silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. The BBC is in the process of developing a video streaming version of iPlayer, its online on-demand TV service, for both Windows XP and non-XP platforms... [19 Oct 2007]
Pizza sauce runs in our veins, says Domino's IT chief
Comment Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. Kimberlin won't employ anyone who doesn't like pizza - though some might argue IT workers' liking for pizza is a given.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [24 Sep 2007]
Leader: Time for a ceasefire in iPlayer row
Leader The Beeb's attempt at an on-demand, online TV service has been slammed for its lack of compatibility with non-Windows technology and for the varying performance of the beta version currently available for public testing.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [31 Jul 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
Comment In recent months this has seen many of the high street retail banks, including Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland, introduce home chip and PIN readers for their online customers in an attempt to combat rising levels of fraud through this... [19 Jun 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
CIO Analysis In recent months this has seen many of the high street retail banks, including Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland, introduce home chip and PIN readers for their online customers in an attempt to combat rising levels of fraud through this... [06 Jun 2007]
Colin Cobain
CIO Profile He is challenging Wal-Mart for the mantle of the world's best retail IT function. Colin Cobain joined Tesco in 2001 and is now group IT director for the world's biggest retail IT function outside of Wal-Mart, tasked with setting and managing the... [06 Jun 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Computer says 'no'
Comment The automation of much of the retail process - through the switch to ecommerce - is a major bonus for consumers but that doesn't mean a human being shouldn't be able to step in at any time to resolve a problem in those rare moments when technology... [10 May 2007]
Supply chains go on-demand
Comment Supply chains can be the single most important competitive advantage in certain industries such as retail and manufacturing. A number of high profile suppliers have emerged including WebEx, with its online conferencing service; Salesforce.com... [04 Apr 2007]
Leader: RIP the IT department?
Leader Just look at online retail giant Amazon, which may soon become an IT supplier to businesses by renting its spare storage and data hosting capacity to other companies for as little as 15 cents per month per GB. [12 Oct 2006]
Keep updated for stories matching online retail in comment and analysis via RSS
