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Evocative Commerce: Using VeriSign to Provide Seamless Payment Solutions to Online Stores

Evocative's core service is Evocative Commerce, which is a fully outsourced e-commerce solution. The challenge was to provide secure payment services for e-commerce sites. Evocative selected Verisign. VeriSign's PayFlow Pro is a payment gateway solution for credit-card verification and the processing of other kinds of payments, such as checks or...

Tags: Payment, VeriSign Inc., Online Store, E-business, Evocative, Operational Accounting, Security, Finance

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E-Selling for Partners: Kaba Benzing Optimizes Its Ordering Channels With the SAP Markets Online Store

Kaba Benzing's sales partners used to place their orders by fax. But the large number of possible product variants meant that orders were often wrong or incomplete. When it came to finding an alternative, the company wanted a solution that would stem the tide of paper-based orders, keep ordering errors...

Tags: Partnership, SAP AG, Online Store, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Pricing, Software, Finance, Marketing

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Selects mySAP Customer Relationship Management With SAP Online Store to Increase Sales and Improve Customer Service

VSE, a leading provider of energy services, saw an opportunity to improve its ordering and fulfillment processes while improving customer service. By implementing SAP Online Store a key capability of mySAP Customer Relationship Management, they now provide online ordering and tracking, anytime. Additionally, VSE has optimized back-office integration. Processes are...

Tags: mySAP, Customer Service, SAP AG, Online Store, Sales, Back-office, mySAP CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Operational Accounting, Software, Finance

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ROFLthing 2008

Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang wanted to have a smaller get together in San Francisco to chat about memes. Welcome to ROFLthing...

Tags: Humor, Rickroll, Chuck Norris, Internet, Strategy, Management, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Windows Mobile magazine ends, but iPhone Life launches on September 9th

While I get the majority of my news and content online, I still do subscribe to a few magazines including MacWorld, Laptop, and Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine. I am very saddened by the news that there will be one final issue of Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine. As you...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Magazine, Smartphone, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-08-29

JavaScript 2.0: Why Give Programmers Crutches?

[Guest Comment from Shane Steinert-Threlkeld] A new spec on which JavaScript 2.0 will be based , should be finalized by the end of the fall. Yet most of the proposed changes do close to nothing to actually improve the language. A lot of...

Tags: JavaScript, Programmer, JavaScript 2.0, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Top Web sites in Germany in June 2008

Property June 2007 June 2008 % Change Total German Internet Audience 32,857 34,986 6% Online Gaming 9,609 10,502 9% Zylom 1,977 2,492 26% Spill Group 1,521 1,542 1% Gameforge Sites 1,224 1,446 18% SPIELAFFE.DE 498 1,173 136% ...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Games, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Personal Technology, Internet, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-08-29

iPhone tethering rumored

When I travel I carry a second phone alongside my iPhone – for one reason. Tethering. I need to be able to get online wherever I am and Wi-Fi isn't exactly ubiquitous and free Wi-Fi seems to be getting scarcer with each passing day. To make matters...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Apple Inc., 3G, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Mobile access to your SIS

Several student information system SIS vendors offer to sync data with a Palm Pilot or Windows Mobile PDA. This is a handy feature for teachers on field trips, assistant principals stalking the halls, etc. It's fairly limited in it's utility, though since it generally only provides a static...

Tags: Mobile, SiS, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-29

My father, the casemodder

I love hearing about these wacky aesthetic computer modifications that people do. While a lot of them definitely have the "cool" factor, most aren't exactly useful or practical. But when I heard about one particular "casemod" from one of my readers, I was intrigued. It just so happened that this...

Tags: Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-29

New Android Market is YouTube for mobile applications

Google released early details yesterday about their plans for Android Market, an online bazaar for programs that run on Android phones. Essentially an Android version of the iPhone's popular App Store, it offers three key advantages over Apple's offering: It will follow the YouTube model of instant...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Mobile, YouTube Inc., Apple Inc., Mobile Application, Android Market, Sales Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, Sales, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Microsoft to bolster Live Search in Europe with Greenfield acquisition

Microsoft said Friday that it will acquire Greenfield Online, which owns Ciao, a price comparison, shopping and reviews site in Europe, for $17.50 a share, or $486 million. The goal: Expand Live Search in Europe. Greenfield Online, which also owns an Internet survey business, will be split...

Tags: Acquisition, Europe, Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Survey, Ciao, Survey Business, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-29

News to know: Dell; Comcast's cap; Yahoo Mash RIP; Google Apps

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins Google, Mozilla extend search box deal Jason Hiner: Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Hydrogen Road Tour, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies

Blog posts 2008-08-29

TV Software Pro (exe)

TV Software Pro is a software to watch thousands of satellite movies and listen to radio channels from all over the globe. With over 3000 channels, quality and quantity is here. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com. Note: The Download Now link will download a small installer...

Tags: Software, Radio, Satellite, TV Software Pro, Advertising & Promotion, TVs, Network Technology, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking

Software downloads 2008-08-29

Map Suite Web Edition (zip)

Map Suite Web Edition is an ASP.NET server control that you can use to develop Internet and Intranet GIS applications with rich, interactive maps. Designed as an easy-to-learn .NET native component, Map Suite Web Edition makes Web-based GIS accessible to beginning and veteran developers alike. Now even more simple to...

Tags: Web, Tool, ThinkGeo, GIS, .Net, C#, Channel Management, Productivity, Programming Languages, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-08-29

US online households pay 11 bills a month online

63.1 mln US households are paying their bills online rather than writing paper checks, according to Fiserv. 13% of respondents cited online security as the top reason for not using the online bill payment service, down from 17% in the 2007 survey. Overall, online security ranked third among barriers to...

Tags: Online Bill Payment, Survey, Online Bill Payment Adoption, AM

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?

The first computer I ever bought had a whopping six-gigabyte hard drive inside - far more storage capacity than anyone might have ever dreamed of using some ten years ago. Back then, no one was really downloading music or uploading digital photos, let alone streaming video or placing VoIP phone...

Tags: Innovation, Web, Bandwidth, Comcast Corp., Internet, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash

On today's web, so many social sites never get off the ground because users don't easily migrate from their online communities. As much as I want MySpace to die, people will still be using it as long as their friends are using it. Yahoo's mashup social network...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Social Networking, Collaboration, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-28

FBI warns 'electronic Pearl Harbor' possible

FBI warns 'electronic Pearl Harbor' possibleWake Up!Just when are the public and the goverment ever going to realize that there is ABSOLUTELY ZERO SECURITY when it comes to computers? It makes no sense for banks and any goverment agency to have their networks connected to the internet. How many more...

Tags: Federal government, INTERNET, PRODUCTIVITY, Financial services, Pearl Harbor, FBI

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Android Market is Google's competitor to the Apple iPhone store

Android Market is Google's competitor to the Apple iPhone storeWhen there are enough models available, Google should open brick and mortarstores to sell the many brands of Android phones, accessories, and of course software.

Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-28