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The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up After a life at the grindstone of technology, he is now dedicating his life to philanthropic goals and (presumably) disposing of some of his considerable disposable income - heady times indeed for plaid shirt retailers in the Seattle area. [27 Jun 2008]
Name that tune...the rise of Shazam
Comment Shazam now also works with music retailers such as Amazon and iTunes, along with business-to-business players like AEI Mobile, Arvato and Musiwave, to encourage and monetise users clicking-to-buy the music they have tagged - exploiting what Fisher... [12 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: What's the score for the music biz?
Comment High-street retailers and their physical sales structures are being replaced by online music stores. From free downloads to albums you can pay as much as you like for, the internet has put traditional record companies in a spin. [22 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?
Comment Retailers have the most branches - on the whole most goods are still bought from shops and there are some very large retailers. But actually measuring how distributed a business is can be problematic. [24 Apr 2008]
Retail leaders will open up in tough times
Comment He recalled less-than-complementary blogs from customers slating his offers and admits that retailers can no longer control the flow of communication about their brands in the web 2.0 age. The danger is that a downturn will bite into IT spending... [13 Mar 2008]
Retail in a rut: IT to the rescue?
Comment As the Christmas sales figures proved, retailers looking for any significant growth this year will have to look online. But what impact will that have on retail IT investment in 2008, asks Penelope Ody. [25 Jan 2008]
Online age verification Bill is cynical manipulation
Leader The cases Moran is using as evidence for the need to step up the policing of age verification over the web by retailers appear to be isolated cases, rather than any real wave of under-age porn buying. [22 Jan 2008]
Geography lessons for online retailers
Comment For instance, online retailers and payment processors use geolocation to detect possible credit card fraud by comparing the user's location with the billing address on the account or the shipping address provided, or identifying known IP addresses... [09 Jan 2008]
Leader: Missing Xmas parcels highlight online fulfilment dangers
Leader It appears that the economic doom and gloom of the past few months was forgotten, for a while at least, with retailers such as Marks & Spencer launching their latest sales on midnight Christmas Day, ensuring consumers would not stop shopping even... [02 Jan 2008]
Can retail old dog learn new tricks?
Comment On top of this, ADT already has contacts with a number of global retailers, including Inditex, Karstadt and Tesco, that should be the envy of its rivals. This trump card shouldn't be dismissed by retailers - and incumbent IT suppliers should be... [08 Oct 2007]
Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain
Comment Does Tesco invest more than average in technology compared to other retailers? What's been the differentiator for Tesco.com compared to other online retailers? Cobain: "We start with the customers at the tills so throughout the group there are... [25 Sep 2007]
Full Disclosure - silicon.com launches data breaches campaign
Comment As the information commissioner Richard Thomas recently pointed out, there is a "frankly horrifying" roll-call of banks, retailers and government departments that have admitted serious security lapses. [16 Jul 2007]
Retail CIOs aiming to ditch legacy of IT complexity
Comment Competition between retailers is at times cut-throat and players in the industry are constantly investing in ways to pull shoppers in through the door. Yet retailers traditionally spend proportionally less on IT than almost any other sector... [02 Jul 2007]
Retail CIOs aiming to ditch legacy of IT complexity
CIO Analysis Competition between retailers is at times cut-throat and players in the industry are constantly investing in ways to pull shoppers in through the door. Yet retailers traditionally spend proportionally less on IT than almost any other sector... [06 Jun 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Computer says 'no'
Comment Nowhere is this more true than with retailers. Retailers take note: saying 'it's a problem with the computer system' doesn't mean you can wash your hands of the problem. Will Sturgeon explains why companies must realise switching on their website... [10 May 2007]
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