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  • Personalizing E-Commerce with We-Commerce
    Social shopping sites are now harnessing the power and promise of networks. They are evolving along with consumer expectations and desires, shaping a new world for e-commerce.

  • Hyundai’s Nameless Telematics System to Rival OnStar
    Hyundai’s system focuses on “four buckets of service”: Safety and Security (including theft immobilization and automatic emergency service notification in the event of a crash), Infotainment (wireless connectivity features for telephone, music, etc.), Navigation (like OnStar’s turn-by-turn direction service), and Vehicle Diagnostics, a tool for both owners and dealers that could help track the need [...]

  • Android to usher in age of M-Commerce?
    Contactless payment technologies have been around for years, and buying goods with cellphones is commonplace in some parts of the world, but in the U.S., e-wallets haven’t caught on. Android’s upcoming Gingerbread OS update may change that. “This mode of payment has been crying out for more enabled devices,” said Nitesh Patel, a senior analyst [...]

  • Storm A’Brewin’ at Verizon
    Verizon Wireless only added 997,000 new customers compared with 1.2 million new customers during the same period one year earlier. There was a 25 percent drop in third-quarter profit. Its net income dropped. Operating revenue dropped. And it won fewer new customers than AT&T Mobility.

  • ShopRunner, Amazon & the Cold World of E-Commerce
    In a world where convenience is king, mega online retailers continue to stake their claim. Amazon, ShopRunner, WalMart, Target, etc. all provide online access to everyday and niche items that can be delivered to your door with a swipe of your credit card (not really but you get the idea). Lost in the excitement of [...]

  • FCC Broadband Plan Still an Enigma
    The Federal Communications Commission wants to bring broadband to everyone in the country, and both government and industry agree it is necessary. But like many grand plans, the devil is in the details.

  • Nokia Siemens Considers Cash Infusion
    Nokia Siemens Networks is in talks with several buyout firms about selling up to a third of the company for at least $1 billion in cash, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing “people familiar with the matter.” Potential investors reportedly include Silver Lake Partners, TPG, Blackstone, Bain Capital and KKR. As the name [...]

  • Social Media and the Sustainable Supply Chain
    In the current market, product line extension and value engineering are more important than conventional innovation. But as we all begin to innovate internal to our products rather than by building new categories, the risks associated with getting innovation wrong escalate. This is where social media plays a role.

  • Cloud Computing on the Rise
    A new study has found a rise on the adoption of cloud computing among small and medium sized businesses in the first half of 2010. During the first half of 2010, 14 percent of small and medium businesses (SMBs) reported using cloud computing services and another 10 percent reported plans to deploy cloud-based services, according [...]

  • Global Sat SBD Connections To Expand Asset Tracking Market
    The proliferation of standardized, interlinked GSfM/GPRS networks across large swaths of landscape, coupled with the development of smaller, lower-power GPS devices, have been the primary drivers for the surging market for asset tracking and monitoring in the last few years. We might describe this as Phase 1 of the Mobile Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Revolution. But [...]

  • AAA Files to Offer Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance
    The Automobile Club of Southern California has submitted an application to the state Department of Insurance to offer an insurance program that rewards California drivers who voluntarily drive fewer miles with lower auto insurance rates. The voluntary pay-as-you-drive initiative allows insurers to offer plans based on more accurate mileage, so that people who choose to [...]

  • SoCal Edison Installs 1 Million Smart Meters
    Southern California Edison (SCE), an Edison International company, has installed one million smart meters. The Edison SmartConnect™ smart meter program began in September 2009. The company will install approximately 5 million smart meters for residential and small business customers by the end of 2012.

  • Motorola Exits Wireless Network Gear Biz with $1.2B Deal
    Motorola is exiting the wireless network gear business, turning over its assets to Nokia Siemens in a $1.2 billion deal. The move will give the company more agility as it prepares to split into two separate operations — one dedicated to business solutions and the other oriented toward the development of smartphones and other consumer [...]

  • TheFind Finds its Niche in E-Commerce
    The e-commerce industry is growing quite rapidly despite the recession and high unemployment. That in fact helps us, as it is also causing people to search much more to make sure they are finding the best options. People are looking for coupons, local stores, bargains. A relative newcomer, TheFind has posted remarkable growth in a [...]

  • Booming Facebook Finds CRM Partner in Salesforce
    As many are still trying to climb out of a deep recession; Facebook is celebrating tremendous sales growth. In fact, this sales growth is getting beyond what Facebook can handle on its own and the social networking giant has turned to an industry expert: Salesforce.com. The enterprise cloud computing company announced that it has been [...]