E-Commerce Times: Because E-Business Means Business

Leading an Image Recognition Firm Into Uncharted Territory

Saturday - May 17, 2008

When Jim DeBello launched his technology career two decades ago, a mentor told him that on top of getting an education, he'd also get bloodied and bruised. "He was right on all counts," says DeBello, CEO of Mitek Systems. "It's been a school of ups and downs and sideways." Not that DeBello, a defensive end for his college football team, minded getting knocked around. Just the opposite: The lessons from his failures have improved his game immeasurably. "It's a lot of fun to be challenged by the unknown and untried," he says. [More...]

Apple: Winning Converts Worldwide, One Store at a Time

Saturday - May 17, 2008

Apple has seen the future, and it is about customer service. On Thursday, Apple opened its largest U.S. store, a building in Boston with a glass and steel facade that a senior company executive said reflected Apple's plan to expand its retail ventures at home and abroad. Sandwiched between aging brick buildings on Boylston Street, the store features a ground floor with more than 100 Mac computers. [More...]

INSIGHTS
Bringing High-Def Into Focus

Saturday - May 17, 2008

It seems as if everywhere I look these days, HD is there. An increasing number of TV programs come with an "available in HD" logo at the bottom of the screen, and it looks as though every consumer store that sells any form of electronics has photos of widescreen televisions plastered all over the advertisements they jam into the Sunday newspaper. [More...]

RIAA's Legal Steamroller May Grind to Halt

Friday - May 16, 2008

Last year, in the first file-sharing lawsuit ever to go to trial, Jammie Thomas was found liable for sharing two dozen songs -- and the judge ordered her to pay $222,000 to Capitol Records. Now, that judge has admitted that he made a "manifest error" during the trial, and Thomas may get another day in court. [More...]

Verizon Snags $678M Deal to Overhaul DHS Network

Friday - May 16, 2008

Verizon Business has won a massive government contract to deploy and manage a global IP network for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The contract is for a cool $678.5 million over 10 years, and to bank the bucks, Verizon will act as the primary service provider under the DHS OneNet program, an advanced next-generation network effort designed to consolidate multiple legacy networks into a new, secure IP network. [More...]

Orange to Peddle iPhone in Eastern Europe, Africa

Friday - May 16, 2008

Orange, a subsidiary of France Telecom, has signed a new deal with Apple to offer the iPhone to its customers in several parts of Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean. The company already has an exclusive deal with Apple to sell the phone in France. The Orange deal follows a series of hookups with several other carriers around the world who signed contracts to sell the iPhone. [More...]

B2B in a Web 2.0 World, Part 2: Social Media Marketing

Friday - May 16, 2008

Corporate social networking ... channel communities ... enterprise social software applications -- the business of business has entered the Web 2.0 world, and there's no going back. Business-to-consumer e-commerce has been fully engaged by Marketing 2.0/SMM, and now it's business-to-business' turn. [More...]

WEEKLY RECAP
Cox Throttles, AT&T Flip-Flops, MacBook Finds Itself

Friday - May 16, 2008

If you're tired of picking on Comcast for the way it throttles back peer-to-peer traffic, you can now direct your angry gaze to Cox Communications. Cox does the same thing, according to researchers at the Max Planck institute. In fact, it's one of three ISPs they caught engaging in P2P management. [More...]

TECH BLOG
Who Is Facebook Trying to Protect?

Friday - May 16, 2008

Google and Facebook have been at each other's throats in recent days over Friend Connect, Google's platform for mirroring your social networking data around the Web. Apparently, Facebook doesn't like the fact that Friend Connect does exactly what it's designed to do. [More...]

Virtualization: Savings Are Not Guaranteed

Friday - May 16, 2008

Virtualization is one of the most significant hot-button topics in enterprise today. Linux server virtualization has allowed enterprises to leverage resources more efficiently. It also is giving CIOs and IT managers a tool to address growing corporate concerns over environmental issues and rising energy costs. [More...]

OPINION
Bear Stearns: Are the Directors at Risk?

Friday - May 16, 2008

The recent fall and near collapse of Bear Stearns has been breathtaking. What has caused this once great company to flirt with becoming a penny stock? Will there be stockholders' suits for this remarkable collapse of value? Management of Bear Stearns decided to ride the mortgage-backed securities boom at the worst time. [More...]

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