Monthly Archives: February 2005
RadioShack Sees Top January Traffic Spike
RadioShack.com had 25 percent more unique visitors in January than it did last year – the biggest increase among electronics e-retailers, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.Despite...
High-Income Households Are the Fastest Growing Group of Web Users
Households with incomes of $150,000 or more are the fastest growing group of people going online, with a 20 percent increase over last year,...
Supermarket Group Moving From Self-Checkout Hardware To Software
Supermarket group BI-LO is one of the first major retailers to change its self-checkout technology from a hardware-centric platform to a software-centric platform.The supermarket...
Should VeriSign Be the Name Police?
Im glad that Im still shocked when I find something innovative in its dishonesty, even though it seems to happen every other week in...
E-Commerce Programming Is About to Get a Lot More Complicated
In the early Web days, all that an e-commerce site developer/programmer needed to worry about were operating system version and browser.
Worst-case scenario: They could...
Actuates Financial Tool Helps to Toe the SarbOx Line
Actuate Corp. has published the Actuate Financial Performance Management (FPM) system, which integrates data from disparate systems to provide on-demand reports to every employee...
Holograms Poised to Reveal Bio Data
WASHINGTON—Biosensors evoke images of tiny chips and wireless technology, but the next generation of biosensors may be something strikingly more familiar: holograms.
Holograms cost only...
IBM: Government Should Provide Muscle for Health Care Standards
WASHINGTON—At a panel about how information access could improve health care, Carol Kovac, general manager of IBM Healthcare, repeated a joke: "The nice thing...
Panel: Cultural Shift Needed to Make Health Data Valuable
WASHINGTON—Health researchers are rewarded for hoarding data as opposed to sharing it, concluded experts on a panel on intellectual property and information access in...
RR Donnelley Beefs Up ShareStream
RR Donnelley has released ShareStream 3.1, which it terms a significant upgrade to its soft-proofing tool."With the release of ShareStream 3.1, we support an...