ecommercetimes.com
Law to Fine Kid Buyers of 'Mature' Games Costs Minnesota
01.07.2008 20:17
ecommercetimes.com
Following its failed effort to curb youngsters' access to video games with "Mature" or "Adults Only" ratings by fining kids for obtaining them, the state of Minnesota on Monday was the one paying. The state paid the Entertainment Software Association $65,000, reimbursing the organization for attorney fees and expenses that resulted from the group's successful challenge to Minnesota's video game law.
World
E-commerce
Law to Fine Kid Buyers of 'Mature' Games Costs Minnesota
01.07.2008 19:14
ecommercetimes.com
Following its failed effort to curb youngsters' access to video games with "Mature" or "Adults Only" ratings by fining kids for obtaining them, the state of Minnesota on Monday was the one paying. The state paid the Entertainment Software Association $65,000, reimbursing the organization for attorney fees and expenses that resulted from the group's successful challenge to Minnesota's video game law.
World
E-commerce
Law to Fine Kid Buyers of 'Mature' Games Costs Minnesota
01.07.2008 18:20
ecommercetimes.com
Following its failed effort to curb youngsters' access to video games with "Mature" or "Adults Only" ratings by fining kids for obtaining them, the state of Minnesota on Monday was the one paying. The state paid the Entertainment Software Association $65,000, reimbursing the organization for attorney fees and expenses that resulted from the group's successful challenge to Minnesota's video game law.
World
E-commerce
Sprint Showing Signs of Resurgence
01.07.2008 18:20
ecommercetimes.com
Sprint may be seeing a resurgence in the mobile market. The company's stock climbed 13 percent last week following reports of a Verizon exec telling investors Sprint had started "doing better." The industry has since seen intense speculation that fewer Sprint subscribers are deflecting to the top two carriers, Verizon and AT&T -- a notion on which neither company will comment.
World
E-commerce
Sprint Showing Signs of Resurgence
01.07.2008 17:14
ecommercetimes.com
Sprint may be seeing a resurgence in the mobile market. The company's stock climbed 13 percent last week following reports of a Verizon exec telling investors Sprint had started "doing better." The industry has since seen intense speculation that fewer Sprint subscribers are deflecting to the top two carriers, Verizon and AT&T -- a notion on which neither company will comment.
World
E-commerce
Headed for an E-Commerce Upgrade? Take the 2.0 Track
01.07.2008 14:21
ecommercetimes.com
With the advent of new personalization technologies and the integration of user-generated content, social networking, RSS feeds, multichannel interaction and Ajax-based user interfaces, online retailers are rushing to upgrade their e-commerce sites to provide better user experiences and increase customer acquisition, retention and loyalty.
World
E-commerce
Headed for an E-Commerce Upgrade? Take the 2.0 Track
01.07.2008 09:18
ecommercetimes.com
With the advent of new personalization technologies and the integration of user-generated content, social networking, RSS feeds, multichannel interaction and Ajax-based user interfaces, online retailers are rushing to upgrade their e-commerce sites to provide better user experiences and increase customer acquisition, retention and loyalty.
World
E-commerce
Headed for an E-Commerce Upgrade? Take the 2.0 Track
01.07.2008 08:17
ecommercetimes.com
With the advent of new personalization technologies and the integration of user-generated content, social networking, RSS feeds, multichannel interaction and Ajax-based user interfaces, online retailers are rushing to upgrade their e-commerce sites to provide better user experiences and increase customer acquisition, retention and loyalty.
World
E-commerce
Google Media Server: A Giant Toe in the Door?
01.07.2008 08:17
ecommercetimes.com
It already dominates the Internet -- why not the TV? Probably Google wasn't thinking exactly in those terms when it conceived the idea for Google Media Server, its latest addition to a ballooning product line. But planting a foothold in a medium in which it so far only dabbles is clearly the driver behind this release.
World
E-commerce
Flying Colors
01.07.2008 08:16
ecommercetimes.com
Microsoft CRM 4.0 Applications certification is partly a way for Microsoft to quantify its relationships with its business partners and partly a credential to attract clients. The latter is particularly important, as 4.0 is proving to be Microsoft's most popular customer relationship management app yet.
World
E-commerce
Virtual Worlds: And the Children Shall Lead
01.07.2008 08:16
ecommercetimes.com
Virtual worlds, despite all the press attention of late, are still in the early stages of development. Virtual worlds came into existence several years before YouTube, MySpace and Facebook, but their adoption rates pale in comparison to these services. Only 7 percent of Internet gamers ages 13 and older visit a virtual world on a weekly basis, according to a recent Parks Associates survey.
World
E-commerce
Russia's Holding for the iPhone
01.07.2008 08:16
ecommercetimes.com
Will VimpelCom be the first wireless operator to sell the iPhone in Russia? If Chief Executive Alexander Izosimov has his way, it will. "Nobody's struck a deal with Apple yet, but we would love to," he says. Izosimov says no negotiations are taking place, and he has no idea whether his company will win the rights to sell Apple's coveted device.
World
E-commerce
Headed for an E-Commerce Upgrade? Take the 2.0 Track
01.07.2008 07:15
ecommercetimes.com
With the advent of new personalization technologies and the integration of user-generated content, social networking, RSS feeds, multichannel interaction and Ajax-based user interfaces, online retailers are rushing to upgrade their e-commerce sites to provide better user experiences and increase customer acquisition, retention and loyalty.
World
E-commerce
Yahoo Slaps Fresh Coat of Gloss on Microsoft Deal Defense
01.07.2008 07:15
ecommercetimes.com
Yahoo had made public a detailed presentation that it says makes it clear why the alternative slate proposed by Carl Icahn is wrong for it. Yahoo's presentation extols the virtues of incumbent board members and also provides more details of the company's interactions with Microsoft as well as a breakdown of why Microsoft's so-called hybrid proposal to buy only Yahoo's search business was not the right move.
World
E-commerce
Yahoo Slaps Fresh Coat of Gloss on Microsoft Deal Defense
01.07.2008 04:54
ecommercetimes.com
Yahoo had made public a detailed presentation that it says makes it clear why the alternative slate proposed by Carl Icahn is wrong for it. Yahoo's presentation extols the virtues of incumbent board members and also provides more details of the company's interactions with Microsoft as well as a breakdown of why Microsoft's so-called hybrid proposal to buy only Yahoo's search business was not the right move.
World
E-commerce
English