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Apple revs iPhone availability tracker

Apple's iPhone availability tracker is back and better than ever. The Web app allows you to see which Apple retail stores have stock of the new iPhone 3GS, broken down by capacity and color. Unlike last year's version which relied on the Apple store’s JSON data feeds,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone Availability Tracker, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Retail, Sales, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Want an iPhone 3GS? Go for the 32GB white one

Apple has detailed supply issues for its iPhone 3GS at its retail stores, but there seems to be ample inventory of the 32GB white version. A spot check of Apple's iPhone 3GS widget details sellouts in most states for the 16GB iPhone 3GS Techmeme. The black 32GB...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Cellular Phones, Retail, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-28

Corrispettivi Grande Distribuzione 1.0 (Mac)

Permits electronic communication of daily cash by Italian retailers. Questa applicazione consente la creazione dei files per la trasmissione telematica dei corrispettivi giornalieri da parte delle imprese della Grande Distribuzione (art.1, comma 429, della legge 30 dicembre 2004, n. 311), secondo le specifiche tecniche di cui al Provvedimento Agenzia delle...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Electronic Communication, Comma, VinBoiSoft, Online Communications, Retail

Software downloads 2009-06-24

NolaPro Free Accounting 4.0.4602 (Windows)

NolaPro is a premium, completely free web-based suite. It includes AP, AR, Payroll, Order Tracking, Inventory Control, POS, B2B, and an Ecom Shopping Cart. Many plug-ins and add-ons are available such as a TimeClock, QB converter, development API, and a Hosting Manager revenue module for CPAs, VARs or consultants. Global...

Tags: Revenue, Accounting, Microsoft Windows, Noguska, NolaPro, Operational Accounting, Retail, Channel Management, Financial Services, Finance, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-15

Brick and Click Stores: How Circuit City Could Re-Open Its Doors

Why doesn’t a consumer electronics store work this way, in the age of the Internet? You walk into the digital photography section. On a slanted shelf sit 15 different cameras, each tied to its stanchion for security. But there’s a big screen...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Camera, CompUSA Inc., Fiorentino, Internet, Retail, Branding, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-12

European SaaS vendors: not quite comfortable in their skins

This week in Amsterdam, our own Phil Wainewright was compering and moderating panels for the annual SIIA On Demand conference. If you've not met Phil he is the overseas person's image of the 'perfect English gentleman.' He did a great job herding the cats aka the saas industry's spokepeople and...

Tags: Channel Management, Dennis Howlett, Google Inc., Management, Marketing, Retail, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Zach Nelson: Optical problems for saas VARs

Zach Nelson, CEO of Netsuite used SIIA Europe as a platform for setting out his vision of the VAR market. Using a Microsoft example, he said that while the traditional one to three times license revenue might look fine in the on premise world, it doesn't work the same way...

Tags: Zach Nelson, Value-added Reseller, Retail, Channel Management, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Enterprise 2.0 Case Study: Following Zappos

Zappos spends about $300,000 a year on utilizing the various tools of digital communications such blogs, microblogs and streaming video as customer interaction channels. That's a good though not easy to quantify investment---considering the online retailer garners $1 billion in annual revenue. But when it comes to customer service the...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Zappos, Web Site Development, Retail, Web Technology, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Personal Technology, Marketing

Case studies 2009-06-06

Behavioral Data: Valuing Customers. Then Avoiding Them.

There’s little question that just about every profit-making company out there would like to know exactly what you’re doing on the Web, all the time. And that there’s a clear profitable market to be had in data that captures your “behavior” on the Internet. ...

Tags: Customer, Channel Management, Retail, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Will the Windows 7 price be right?

A confidential memo from giant retailer Best Buy reportedly contains details of an upcoming price promotion for Windows 7. A few months ago, Microsoft promised "aggressive pricing and great deals" on its new OS. So how good a deal can you expect? by Ed Bott

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Retail, Pricing, Operating Systems, Marketing Research, Software, Marketing, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Measure your data center environmental stats with AlertWerks

Data center integrator Black Box Network Services (tell me how they managed to protect that name!), which is a Cisco Gold Certified VAR, started selling an Environmental Monitoring System this spring that isn't strictly marketed as a piece of green infrastructure but that can be an ally in terms of...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Retail, Linux, Storage, Branding, Channel Management, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-01

ShowTheOffer 1.1.1 (Windows)

Never miss a voucher code again. Our clever little application alerts you to available money-saving coupon codes at the time you visit a relevant retailer. It's so simple. If a voucher code is available when you visit a retailer you will receive an alert with the voucher code ready for...

Tags: Retail Company, Microsoft Windows, Submission Technology, Retail

Software downloads 2009-06-01

Pricecheckah 1.3 (Mobile)

Pricecheckah allows iPhone and iPod Touch owners to easily compare prices across multiple retailers with a single search. Specifically designed to provide comparison prices with the UPC and ISBN codes found on almost all products, it also gives results for keyword and product number searches. Using Pricecheckah's own UPC Searcher...

Tags: Mobile, Retail Company, Nice Apps, Pricecheckah, Retail

Software downloads 2009-05-22

AMD: Intel's Otellini 'doesn't get' his consumer disrespect, has 'no remorse'

After listening to Intel CEO Paul Otellini speak in a brief conference call this morning about the $1.45 billion fine Europe levied against the company this morning, AMD CMO Nigel Dessau has strong words for the chief executive of the world's largest chip maker: "I think he doesn't get,...

Tags: Consumer, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Dessau, Retail, Operational Accounting, Processors, Finance, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Spying on the Virgin Megastore liquidation sale

The Virgin Megastore is following Circuit City into the abyss, as the chain's U.S. retail stores are in the process of closing down. Similar to Circuit City's infamous liquidation sales, Virgin is currently offering its wares at "up to 30 percent off," according to the copious signage spotting outside the...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Virgin Megastore, Retail, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-05-05

Forrester: e-commerce 'better suited to withstand economic downturn'

Online retailers are shifting marketing efforts from traditional print advertising to cheaper tools such as Facebook, Twitter and e-mail to gain market share or retain customers in the economic downturn, according to an industry study being released Tuesday via the AP. According to...

Tags: Marketing, Retail Company, E-business, Forrester Research Inc., Retail, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Large-format, newspaper-friendly Kindle may be coming

Amazon's last New York press conference gave us the Kindle 2. Now there's one scheduled for Wednesday morning at Pace University in lower Manhattan, and rumor has it that it's "a new, large format device that's optimized for reading newspapers and magazines." Pace University happens...

Tags: Pace University, Amazon.com Inc., Retail, Wi-Fi, E-business/E-Commerce, Wireless And Mobility, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-04

SuccessFactors lands big deployment, new cloud computing VP

SuccessFactors, which offers on-demand human capital management software, said Wednesday that it has landed a deployment of 300,000 users bringing its user base to 4.5 million. In addition, it has named former eBay exec Tom Fisher as vice president of cloud computing. The 300,000 user deployment was...

Tags: SuccessFactors Inc., Human Capital, Retail, Cloud Computing, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Dell Solution Increases Data Transfer Speed for a Major Retail Company by Over 83 Percent and Cuts Administration Time by 400 Hours

With a centralized procurement that handles thousands of outlets across Indonesia, server reliability is critical. The servers supplied by the retail company's previous vendor were not able to deliver the performance level required, nor the support needed. The retail company upgraded its data centers to help with time-consuming reporting and...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Administration, Retail Company, Retail, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2009-04-27

Do you spend money on expensive cables?

Whenever I visit a store to buy cabling I'm staggered by the price of some of the offerings. Do people really think that higher price means a better cable or are retailers simply hoping that people don't look a the price tag? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Price, Cable, Retail, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-04-22