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Childnet helps parents get web savvy

Case Study Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008…   Video: CIO Agenda 2008   Naked CIO: The true cost of IT   Why IT must escape the belt-tightening   Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities diams...

Tags: parents, children, education

[08 May 2008]

Microsoft making a move on Facebook?

News Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008…   Video: CIO Agenda 2008   Naked CIO: The true cost of IT   Why IT must escape the belt-tightening   Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities diams...

Tags: facebook, yahoo, microsoft

[08 May 2008]

Microsoft claims can go it alone online

News Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008…   Video: CIO Agenda 2008   Naked CIO: The true cost of IT   Why IT must escape the belt-tightening   Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities diams...

Tags: aol, google, yahoo, microsoft

[07 May 2008]

UK online spend up 50 per cent this year

News The year-on-year online shopping figures for March show big increases in beers, wines and spirits purchases, which increased 28 per cent. Madden said: "I think shoppers feel a little bit more in control when they are shopping in their own homes.

Tags: consumer electronics, alcohol, online retail

[22 Apr 2008]

Changes to retail bricks to match online clicks

News Retailers are planning to close stores or alter existing store formats to bring the in-store experience in line with the self service customer experience shaped by the rise in online shopping. According to Visa Europe, current sector attitudes to...

Tags: kiosks, self checkout, visa

[09 Apr 2008]

Sears Uses Wireless Technology to Create Seamless Multi-Channel Shopping

whitepaper Accomplished in both its retail store and online shopping channels, Sears has combined the two modes into a seamless shopping experience that even has company executives surprised by its success. Using wireless mobile technology provided by Symbol...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications

[31 Mar 2008]

Increased Online Revenues With Secure and User-Friendly e-Commerce Shopping Site for the Largest Retail Network in the UK

whitepaper MindTree Consulting built a robust online shopping basket and an integrated Travel Money Card product for the largest post office network in Europe. Leveraging its competency in building e-commerce applications, MindTree designed a shopping basket...

Tags: e-commerce security

[27 Mar 2008]

End-to-End Retail Shopping Solution for a Leading Non Profit Organization

whitepaper The client succeeded in giving users a satisfying online shopping experience similar to what their buyers experienced in the retail outlets. MindTree implemented the end-to-end shopping solution using Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 and catered to...

Tags: asps

[27 Mar 2008]

Ocado Enhances the Retail Experience With BSI and Sun

whitepaper Ocado is a revolutionary online supermarket, designed to change consumers' shopping habits and make supermarket shopping a quick and easy, stress-free and enjoyable experience. As a greenfield site, Ocado needed a technical infrastructure to...

Tags: database management, sun microsystems, shopping, supermarket

[24 Mar 2008]

Amazon goes 'social <strong>shopping</strong>' on Facebook

Amazon goes 'social shopping' on Facebook

News The 'social shopping' apps work in conjunction with the US-based Amazon.com website - they are not yet available on Amazon's UK site. Online retailer Amazon has launched two applications for social networking site Facebook to allow users to share...

Tags: apps, facebook, online shopping, social networking

[14 Mar 2008]

UK Plc calls for national police e-crime force

News Small businesses cannot feel more confident about trading online, nor customers about shopping online, until more is done. Also swelling the fast-growing ranks of supporters are a former chief security advisor to the White House and IT bosses from...

Tags: e-crime, police, cyber crime, crime

[14 Mar 2008]

Internet shoppers clueless on web security

News Robinson said in a statement: "It is of the utmost importance that shoppers start to check up on their favourite shopping sites' security as only then will the UK's 62,000-plus internet traders take the shoppers experience and safety more seriously.

Tags: netbenefit, fraud, ssl, enter

[26 Feb 2008]

Top of the class for online ads? Search and social networks

News However, search might not be as well shielded, because even if marketers keep placing ads, searchers will be cutting back on their online shopping to try to save money, Lanctot said. For online advertising, the word is portals are out but search...

Tags: ads, search, social networking, microsoft

[25 Feb 2008]

Performance Testing for an Online Shopping Portal

whitepaper This company operates an online shopping portal which sees a large number of customers transacting through it every day. The company has a chain of over 800 stores in USA that sell domestic merchandise.

Tags: software engineering

[24 Feb 2008]

Web Application Penetration Testing for Leading E-Tailer

whitepaper The company's online shopping portal offers a vast array of merchandise ranging from Apparels and Books to Laptops, Mobiles and Kitchenware. The company is India's leading retail chain with a strong presence across fast moving consumer goods...

Tags: software engineering

[24 Feb 2008]

Online shopping up by 75 per cent

News Online shopping jumped in January, with sales reaching a record high of £4.5bn in the UK over the month.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Anthoula Madden, head of Capgemini's UK consumer products and retail team, said online growth is happening despite...

Tags: online, retail, capgemini, revenues

[22 Feb 2008]

M-commerce on retailers' shopping lists

News Gartner added that m-commerce vendors must offer "multichannel capabilities" to fit in with how the consumer wants to shop - by enabling mobile-phone-generated orders to be collected at a store, for instance, or letting consumers save a mobile...

Tags: m-commerce, shopping, mobile, store

[21 Feb 2008]

Training Store Aspires to Be the Biggest Online Shopping Mall for Training Products and Services

whitepaper The Training Store is an online, Web-based "Shopping mall" for training products and services. In the United States alone, some 20,000 training companies, representing numerous subject-matter niches, compete for awareness and business from their...

Tags: application servers

[19 Feb 2008]

Online age verification Bill is cynical manipulation

Leader Even though the MP for South Luton Margaret Moran's Ten Minute Rule Bill on age verification for online purchases has gone through to a second reading in May, it is at best ill-thought-out and at worst, nothing more than a cynical ruse to whip up...

Tags: retail, porn, alcohol, care

[22 Jan 2008]

Retailers count the online Xmas coffers

News The researchers noted that rather than growth in online shopping slowing to a natural market share of around 15 per cent, the trend is not stopping. Online sales reached £15.2bn in the UK in the last quarter of 2007 and could account for half of...

Tags: retail, tesco, john lewis, christmas

[17 Jan 2008]

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