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BarnesBarnes and Noble Free ShippingBarnes and Noble has free shipping on orders over $25.

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Discussion threads 2007-11-03

Sapient and IBM Introduce Targeted Marketing, Greater Control and Flexibility to Barnes & Noble College Booksellers With New Commerce Site

Sapient is a global services provider that helps clients innovate in the areas of marketing, business operations and technology. This IBM Premier Business Partner distinguishes itself by delivering innovative and unique solutions to the innovative and unique Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 global enterprises it serves. Utilizing the Extended Sites...

Tags: Sapient Corp., Barnes & Noble Inc., IBM Corp., Marketing Research, Business Structures, Marketing, Finance

Case studies 2007-03-01

MoveOn.org's "net neutrality" petition is naive and silly: Pulver's Save the Internet initiative is not

MoveOn.org's "net neutrality" petition is naive and silly: Pulver's Save the Internet initiative is notThis reasoning promotes the problem it describesIt occurs to me that at a time when Republicans seem to be questioning traditional Republican beliefs (supporting the Bush administration, not caring for the environment), the feedback of thousands...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Naivety, MoveOn.org, MoveOn, Pulver, petition, Net Neutrality, Internet, Barnes & Noble Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-04-21

Top music retail sites: Barnes and Noble, BMG, Columbia House

ComScore Media Matrix named Barnes & Noble, BMG and Columbia House among the top music retail sites in February 2005. Top 10 retail music sites Rank Site Unique visitors, 000 Change February 2004 February 2005 % 1 Barnes & Noble 6,295 6,080 -3% 2 BMG Direct Sites 4,057 5,432 34% 3 Columbia House Sites 6,790 5,408 -20% 4 Apple iTunes 4,094 4,160 2% 5 RealPlayer Music Store N/A 1,489 N/A 6 Musicians Friend 1,104 1,176 7% 7 Sheet Music Plus 908 919 1% 8 CD Universe 982 887 -10% 9 Tower Records Sites 573 733 28% 10 AOL Shop 340 654 92% Source: ComScore Media Metrix

Tags: Barnes & Noble Inc., Bertelsmann Music Group

Blog posts 2005-03-30

Top music retail sites: Barnes and Noble, BMG, Columbia House

ComScore Media Matrix named Barnes & Noble, BMG and Columbia House among the top music retail sites in February 2005. Top 10 retail music sites Rank Site Unique visitors, 000 Change February 2004 February 2005 % 1 Barnes & Noble 6,295 6,080 -3% 2 BMG Direct Sites 4,057 5,432 34% 3 Columbia House Sites 6,790 5,408 -20% 4 Apple iTunes 4,094 4,160 2% 5 RealPlayer Music Store N/A 1,489 N/A 6 Musicians Friend 1,104 1,176 7% 7 Sheet Music Plus 908 919 1% 8 CD Universe 982 887 -10% 9 Tower Records Sites 573 733 28% 10 AOL Shop 340 654 92% Source: ComScore Media Metrix

Tags: Barnes & Noble Inc., Bertelsmann Music Group

Blog posts 2005-03-30

Great Expectations (Pocket PC) (lit)

Read the classic novel Great Expectations on your Pocket PC e-book reader. In the novel, young Phillip Pirrip's life is shaped by an act of kindness that raises him from poverty to wealth. One of the greatest works of classic literature, this novel is a timeless tale of love, hope,...

Tags: PC, Novel, Barnes & Noble Inc., Pocket PC, E-books, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Personal Technology, Software

Software downloads 2000-06-09

Bookseller Gains Business Insights Across Sales Channels With New Data Warehouse

Barnes & Noble, the world's largest bookseller, operates 821 stores in 50 states. To help improve its business operations and respond better to customer needs, the company needed new business intelligence tools that could access information faster and provide more detailed reports to managers. The company, which runs Oracle databases...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Intel Itanium, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Barnes & Noble Inc., Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Processors, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

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iPhone 3G availability tracker mashup

Looking for an iPhone 3G? Apple provides an iPhone 3G availability application on their retail Web page that lists iPhone availability by store location. The app appears to be offline as of press time. The problem is that Apple's availability application forces you to drill down store...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, Mashup, Chris Barnes, 3G, Collaboration, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

iPhone 3G poses barriers to business adoption

UK enterprise adoption of the iPhone 3G may be hampered by security issues and Apple's exclusive partnership with O2, among other factors. For years, Apple has paid little attention to products for enterprise users. Now it's pitching its new iPhone 3G as: "The best phone for business. Ever". But...

Tags: Barrier, Apple iPhone, Phone, O2 Plc., John Romeis, Gordon Barnes, Paul Jarvis, Phil Jackson, Ignacio Toro Lyng, 3G, Cellular Phones, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Natasha Lomas silicon.com, iPhone 3G, smart phones, Apple, IT

News items 2008-07-11

Rule change: we're playing corporate greenmail now

Rule change: we're playing corporate greenmail nowSelf-flagellation or propaganda?I actually agree with some of the basic sentiments expressed at times here.But it's like opposing the Iraq war - one may oppose it, but it's miserable to be lumped in the with the kooks, addle-minded airheads, and unreformed, aging hippies that...

Tags: industry, General Motors Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-04

Firescope crushes the BSM price point

Earlier today I spoke with Mark Lynd, president of Firescope, a company that's trying with very little funding - $4 million at the last count - to bring Business Service Mangement BSM to the mass of smaller enterprises. Earlier in the week, the company launched BSM-Business Edition at a starting...

Tags: Asset, SLA, Information Technology, Price, Small And Medium Business, Firescope, Asset Management, Smb/Sme, Service Level Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-23

TJX whistle blower sacked?

TJX, the retailer that was hit with a major security breach, has sacked a whistle blower who was exposing the company's security issues. According to the ha.ckers.org site: I had some very disturbing news today from one of the forum users - he had just been...

Tags: TJX, CrYpTiC_MauleR, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Office to support ODF, PDF as 'first-class citizens'

Office to support ODF, PDF as 'first-class citizens'I applaud the embracingBut I'll reserve judgment until we have an idea as to whether they plan on extending.Details, devil, all thatBesides being unable to set ODF support as the default (a deal-breaker for a lot of governments) I wonder what else Microsoft...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Adobe PDF, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., first-class citizen, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2008-05-21

Microsoft looks to buy search share (again)

Microsoft looks to buy search share againDidn't work last time, won't work this timeWho cares if the great Bloatfarm offers you 25 cents off? Do people quit Amazon for 25 cents off at Barnes & Noble?Even so, if the slagheap does it, google is much more powerful in search...

Tags: Engineering, Financial accounting, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., slagheap, MSFT

Discussion threads 2008-05-21

XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?

Updated: The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux. On the surface, a little choice isn't going to kill anybody. In fact, choice is good. And if some...

Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, XP Screen, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack information released

Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack information releasedApple products are very secureIf I were Apple I would just not worry about this because as many Apple software users know, they are secure as secure can be. I would just laugh this guy off because the perception is in play in the...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Apple Products, Apple Safari, Safari IS, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-05-15

Apple and AT&T providing free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users and oops... to everyone else as well!

You have to love security through obscurity... A friend of mine on a private mailing list passed me a link to a story on macrumors.com, which was quite interesting.  Apparently, Apple and AT&T has decided to provide free wireless access to iPhone users at places like Starbucks. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Wi-Fi Access, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Starbucks Corp., User Agent, MacRumors, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-01

AT&T hotspots free to iPhone users (updated)

A couple of MacRumors readers have noticed that AT&T hotspots are now offering free WiFi access to iPhone users. Barnes and Noble, Starbucks and soon to be AT&T's 71,000 other Wi-fi hotspot locations are now offering iPhone users free WiFi. A special iPhone formatted page...

Tags: Apple iPhone, HotSpot, AT&T Corp., Wireless, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-01

AT&T iPhone owners may be getting free WiFi at Starbucks and other AT&T hotspots

Although T-Mobile still has no 3G wireless data network, they at least provide free T-Mobile HotSpot WiFi service as part of their US$20/month EDGE data plan. I was concerned when I first heard that AT&T was taking over the Starbucks WiFi service from T-Mobile. However, T-Mobile then issued a statement...

Tags: Apple iPhone, SIM Card, HotSpot, T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., Starbucks Corp., Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-01

Forget the paperless office dream, but how about a paperless living room?

Like several high tech innovations Zinio began as a digital service aimed at B2B. But it worked, so it's inevitably grown to become a global, consumer-oriented service as well. If it works at work, just think how you can use it at home. And then...

Tags: Magazine, Zinio, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-04-30