E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Monday -- June 1, 2009

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Today's Headlines:
Mobile Development and Multiplicity Madness
Riding Out the Storm: Q&A With Information Builders CEO Gerry Cohen
Tricky Software Pulls Off the Mac/PC Balancing Act
Fraud Alert Firms' Days May Be Numbered
On the Road to Salvation - or Perdition - With Online News Fees
Microsoft Chimes In on Bing Buzz

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Podcast
Mobile Development and Multiplicity Madness (34:30 minutes)
iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian, WinMo, Android -- the world is awash in
smartphone platforms, and this fragmented landscape is a pain for
developers, who have to build an app four or five times in order to
reach all users, as well as enterprises, which have to pay for the work.
However, if the mobile browser world were to rally around WebKit, could
it be the answer to simplified mobile development?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-gardner-2009-06-01.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Mobile Development and Multiplicity Madness
Bringing enterprise applications effectively out to mobile devices is a
complex subject that has required some harsh trade-offs from developers
in the past -- trade-offs between rich, native applications targeted at
specific devices versus standardized mobile application approaches that
have simply failed to impress users.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67201.html

Riding Out the Storm: Q&A With Information Builders CEO Gerry Cohen
Business Intelligence has evolved considerably in the last several
years. At one time the domain of PhDs or other highly trained employees,
it has become accessible to the masses. Indeed, one of the competitive
differentiators among the vendors in the market -- from the huge stack
players to the small best-of-breed providers -- is not whether, but how,
they make this complex technology available to business line users.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67206.html

Tricky Software Pulls Off the Mac/PC Balancing Act
For some developers, working for a multibillion dollar game powerhouse
with lots of resources would be a heavenly prospect. That wasn't the
case, though, for Zachary Waibel. Waibel is the founder and president of
Tricky Software, of Menlo Park, Calif., a maker of games like "Armado"
and "Spore Origins" for Macintosh and Windows computers, as well as
devices like the iPhone and iPod.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67204.html

Fraud Alert Firms' Days May Be Numbered
Companies that sell "identity-theft protection" present an alluring but
questionable proposition. For as much as about $100 per year, the main
thing they do is set fraud alerts that force banks to call people before
new lines of credit are opened in their names. The alerts can be useful
-- but people can set them themselves, for free.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67207.html

On the Road to Salvation - or Perdition - With Online News Fees
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is a rarity among large U.S. newspapers --
it's selling more weekday copies than a decade ago. In Idaho, the Post
Register's circulation has remained stable, while many other print
publications have lost readers to the Internet. How can this be?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67208.html

Microsoft Chimes In on Bing Buzz
Fresh off its attempt to sideswipe Apple with its "Laptop Hunters" ad
campaign, Microsoft is apparently now gunning for Google with its
upcoming search engine, Bing. Announcing Bing on Thursday, Microsoft
promised a worldwide launch by June 3 and pointed readers to a Web site
where the service would be located.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67202.html

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