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The Brampton Factor: Microsoft vs EU
Comment Priceline.com was notoriously able to patent the idea of allowing consumers to propose transaction prices, despite this being a practice that dates back thousands of years. Microsoft is a pioneer in pushing... [18 Sep 2007]
Storage Consolidation Pays Off Big for Priceline.com
White Paper This case study from 3PARdata highlights the growth-related issues that caused e-commerce giant Priceline.com to look for a storage solution that offered increased flexibility and higher utilization rates at a lower... [20 Dec 2006]
Storage Consolidation Pays Off Big for Priceline.com
This case study from 3PARdata highlights the growth-related issues that caused e-commerce giant Priceline.com to look for a storage solution that offered increased flexibility and higher utilization rates at a lower... [20 Dec 2006]
Precision Response Corporation Moves to Oracle Clusters, Boosts System Availability and Utilization, Saves 37% in First Year
White Paper Founded in 1982, Precision Response Corporation provides outsourced customer care services for global companies such as American Express, AT&T, British Airways, DIRECTV, FedEx, and priceline.com. Because its SMP boxes... [08 May 2005]
Hutchison-Priceline Expands Outstanding Internet Travel Service Using Oracle
White Paper Hutchison-Priceline is the unique Name Your Own Price internet travel service, which lets travelers name the price they are willing to pay for airline tickets and hotel rooms. Hutchison-Priceline also... [03 Feb 2005]
Sun Case Study: Priceline.com
White Paper Priceline.com processes an enormous volume of transactions and needed an information system that could meet its very aggressive performance requirements. Priceline.com needed to build a... [06 Nov 2004]
Priceline Chooses Microsoft Server 2003 to Empower Asian Travelers to “Choose Their Own Airline” and Save
White Paper In 2002, Hutchison-Priceline Travel revolutionized both Asia's travel industry and online commerce in the region with its unique ? Name Your Own Price? service built around Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. Now it is making... [25 Feb 2004]
Small businesses to be hit by big fees
News Since US courts ruled that business methods could be patented in 1998, patent registration - and subsequent lawsuits - have mushroomed, with e-commerce giants such as Amazon.com, Priceline.com, Barnes&Noble.com and... [28 Aug 2003]
Amazon sued over 'business method' patents
News Amazon's suit unleashed several more of its kind, including Priceline.com's suit against Microsoft and its Expedia service for infringing on Priceline's business model built around its technologies that... [21 Jul 2003]
Silicon readers miffed as .uk.co falls off the face of the web
News It's understood that around 8,000 businesses and individuals used the domain, including Amazon and Priceline. Many organisations were left high and dry yesterday following the disappearance of the .uk.co domain from the... [19 Feb 2003]
Did Priceline name its own price for Lowestfare.com?
News Name your own price travel site Priceline.com has bought the online assets of its budget break rival Lowestfare.com. Priceline snapped up the discount travel store's domain names and trademarks and said... [06 Jun 2002]
ebookers flies in new faces
News Incoming CIO Philip Dale was previously at 'name your own price' business Priceline.com, where he oversaw a quadrupling in the ticket processing capacity of the site. Online travel agent ebookers has appointed a new CIO... [05 Jun 2002]
Kirk to advertise Priceline in Britain
News Priceline backer William Shatner is returning to UK TV screens in an advertising campaign for the name-your-own-price website. Priceline.com chief marketing officer Brett Keller said: "William Shatner is... [15 May 2002]
View from the bridge: Priceline's enterprise in good shape
News Priceline, the online travel site promoted by Star Trek's William Shatner, has boldly gone where it's only once gone before - into profit. Priceline first made a profit in the second quarter of 2001 but... [02 May 2002]
Priceline boss forced to live on paper for one year
News Priceline CEO Richard Braddock was paid in stock options instead of cash last year in a bid to motivate him to turn the company's share price around. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission... [29 Apr 2002]
