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U.S. Web holiday sales seen up 8 pct - Forrester
Reuters | 20 days 16 hours 45 minutes ago
NEW YORK, Nov 2 (Reuters) - U.S. online sales are expected to rise 8 percent this holiday season, with mass market retailers who can offer discounts performing best, according to Forrester Research Inc.

Amadeus Targets Travelers With New System
Wall Street Journal, The | 5 days 4 hours 27 minutes ago
European travel-reservation company Amadeus IT Group SA launched a new Internet booking system Tuesday that aims to boost airline ticket sales by letting consumers search more naturally than current systems allow.

Amadeus s New Booking System Targets Leisure Travelers
Wall Street Journal, The | 5 days 8 hours 57 minutes ago
European travel-reservation company Amadeus IT Group SA launched a new Internet booking system Tuesday that aims to boost airline ticket sales by letting consumers search more naturally than current systems allow.

Turning a page on technology
Boston Herald | 21 days 17 hours 56 minutes ago
Perhaps you’ve seen them on store shelves, or peered over the shoulder of someone eRead-ing on the train. eReaders are rising in popularity, and experts foresee a bump in the market this holiday season. “It’s the beginning of mass marketing for eReaders,” said Steve Haber,...

Marketers have a growing number of tools to track online display ads
Internet Retailer | 23 days 13 hours 10 minutes ago
Marketers have a growing number of tools to track online display ads With an expanding selection of technology vendors and tools for measuring customer activity against online display advertising, the most popular tools for now, at least are web analytics applications, Forrester Research Inc. says in a new report, "The Interactive Attribution Landscape.." Forrester surveyed 168 marketers in the second quarter who use online display ads. When it ask...

E-readers: Electronic reading machines gain in popularity -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) | 36 days 12 hours 33 minutes ago
As machine prices drop and more books become available electronically, more South Florida readers make the switch. Will e-readers put bookstores and libraries out of business?

Light Reading - Services Software - CA Tackles Virtualization - Telecom News Wire
Light Reading | 19 days 13 hours 26 minutes ago
ISLANDIA, N.Y. -- CA, Inc. (NASDAQ:CA) today announced 12 new and updated Enterprise IT Management products that will help enterprises and service providers gain increased business value from virtualized environments. CA's solutions allow organizations to realize greater cost savings, efficiency and flexibility from virtualized computing environments through comprehensive capabilities for IT management, governance, automation and security.

IBM's WebSphere Commerce 7 supports mobile and social commerce
Internet Retailer | 9 days 10 hours 59 minutes ago
IBM's WebSphere Commerce 7 supports mobile and social commerce With the WebSphere Commerce 7 e-commerce platform IBM Corp. released yesterday, shoppers can use a synchronized shopping cart across conventional and mobile commerce sites, says Errol Denger, director of business and product strategy for WebSphere Commerce. Retailers can coordinate marketing across web sites, mobile phones and social networks, he adds. "We're enabling large and small re...

Amadeus's New Booking System Targets Leisure Travelers
Wall Street Journal, The | 5 days 16 hours 49 minutes ago
European travel-reservation company Amadeus IT Group SA launched a new Internet booking system Tuesday that aims to boost airline ticket sales by letting consumers search more naturally than current systems allow.

Heavy Demand Delays Some Orders for Barnes & Noble e-Book Reader
Wall Street Journal, The | 14 days ago
Demand for Barnes & Noble Inc.'s yet-to-be-released electronic-book reader is so strong that the retailer is telling customers that new pre-orders won't ship until Dec. 11.

Business interruptus: Prep now to avoid H1N1 flu outages later
Computerworld | 16 days 22 hours ago
Don't be fooled by the mild flu season so far. Even a contained swine flu outbreak could disable IT departments on short notice.

Businesses: Prep Now to Avoid H1N1 Flu Outages Later
CIO Insight | 16 days 13 hours 5 minutes ago
Last spring, when the first cases of H1N1 flu appeared, Gartner Inc. was getting lots of calls from alarmed clients wanting to know if and how they should adjust their disaster recovery plans.

Kindle Looks to Europe
Wall Street Journal, The | 40 days 4 hours 44 minutes ago
European publishers gathering in Frankfurt Wednesday for their biggest conference of the year hope some of the buzz around electronic books in the U.S. will rub off on them now that the international version of Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle is on its way.

Consumers - We think travel websites are confusing.
4Hoteliers | 31 days 10 hours 3 minutes ago
With travel trying to cram more and more information into their websites - we are beginning to see a customer backlash.

Amazon takes on retail chain rivals with same-day delivery in seven cities | InternetRetailer.com
Internet Retailer | 22 days 5 hours 8 minutes ago
In what some analysts see as a challenge to bricks-and-mortar retailers, Amazon.com Inc. announced last month a new shipping option that offers same-day delivery on items ranging from gourmet foods to hardware in seven major cities Baltimore, Boston, Las Vegas, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle and Washington, D.C. The leading online retailer also said it plans to extend the program to Chicago, Indianapolis and Phoenix in coming months.