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Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment Liability vs responsibility Auctions sites and brand owners will have to work together increasingly in monitoring infringement. Taken as a whole, it is thought that as much as £5 in every £100 spent online goes on bogus items. [22 Jul 2008]
Viral Marketing Best Practices
White Paper The focus of this white paper is not on brick and mortar viral marketing programs, which are necessary, but rather on the ingredients required for formalizing and automating the online viral marketing process, and particularly, in corporate web... [15 May 2008]
Half of online shoppers dissatisfied with purchase
News The site will be running a series of controlled eBay auctions in 2008 to define exactly how much more people are willing to pay on top of the purchase price to see video clips. Nearly half of online shoppers have purchased an item on the web that... [28 Nov 2007]
Trade Me and HP: Optimizing Business Technology
White Paper This webcast shows how Trade Me, New Zealand's leading shopping Web site, uses HP BladeSystem c-Class and StorageWorks EVA to improve customer experience for thousands of online auctions & classifieds. [02 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...
Comment The price of software m illegal software haul from online auctions Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. Something catching… [04 Oct 2007]
$8m illegal software haul from online auctions
News Online auctions selling illegal software worth more than $8m have been detected and closed down during the first half of 2007. Anti-software piracy body the Business Software Alliance, which represents the likes of Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and... [02 Oct 2007]
Cyber criminals turn pro
News The security company said further evidence of more organised malicious online activity is an increase in 'underground economy servers' used by criminals to buy and sell stolen information to carry out identity theft. [17 Sep 2007]
Amazon's Production Software Group Builds Auction Site Prototype
White Paper When Amazon decided to expand into online auctions in 1999, the company's production software group faced a daunting challenge: build a prototype of a complex, robust auction site as quickly as possible. [13 Sep 2007]
Amazon's Production Software Group Builds Auction Site Prototype
White Paper When Amazon decided to expand into online auctions in 1999, the company's production software group faced a daunting challenge: build a prototype of a complex, robust auction site as quickly as possible. [13 Sep 2007]
BEA Systems Case Study: Amazon.com
White Paper Amazon.com opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers "Earth's Biggest Selection," along with online auctions and free electronic greeting cards. As part of Amazon.com's continuous efforts to evolve and improve its... [03 Aug 2007]
Online Agricultural Auction Site Has Room to Grow With Microsoft Windows DNA
White Paper Built on the Microsoft Windows DNA platform (Microsoft's Web solution platform), Farms.com was among the first sites to introduce real-time auctions of agricultural products and commodities. The platform provides Farms.com with the robustness it... [03 Jul 2007]
E-auctions slash Whitehall buying costs
News The report said these e-auctions - which allow suppliers to bid online for business - are resulting in savings of around 20 to 25 per cent of the project value through "transparent negotiation" and simpler processes.silicon.com Public Sector [25 Jan 2007]
Ofcom plots spectrum auction
News The auctions will take place online. Two separate auctions are being proposed, with two bands packaged into a number of lots for one, and the 2,290MHz to 2,300MHz band being packaged as a single lot in the other. [11 Dec 2006]
eBay pirates cough up $100,000 in ill-gotten gains
News The two traders completed more than 8,000 auctions on eBay over two years. Liu and Tian were among the first people sued by Siia under its Auction Litigation Programme, which monitors popular online auction sites such as eBay. [27 Nov 2006]
Online pirates face Redmond legal blitz
News Microsoft and eBay together intervene in about 50,000 software auctions per year that are deemed to be infringing copyright, said Redmond. Microsoft is planning to file more than 50 lawsuits worldwide against online merchants who allegedly peddle... [31 Oct 2006]
