E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Monday -- June 15, 2009

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Today's Headlines:
IT Needs a New Drug
Citrix Online Brings SMBs Into the Virtual Meeting Room
Turning 'Interesting Moments' Into Sales
Glad Works Makes Marketing Moves Through iPhone Apps
New Yahoo CFO Embarks on Journey to Cost Control
Spain's Music Piracy Battle
EC Scoffs at Microsoft's Offer to Ship Browser-Free OS

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Podcast
Clampdown Week: iPhone vs. Pre, China vs. Web, FTC vs. Worst ISP
Ever (11:23 minutes) In this episode: Google releases
admittedly half-baked alphas of Chrome for Linux and Mac; U.S. feds
freeze accounts related to offshore poker Web sites; China demands PC
makers preinstall software that could be used for spying; FTC shuts down
ISP it says actively engaged child pornographers and botnet operators;
Palm Pre goes on sale; new Palm CEO takes office; Apple introduces
iPhone 3GS; AT&T says it won't be ready to support new iPhone features
for weeks; Snow Leopard supports Microsoft Exchange out of the box;
iPhone fans weigh their options regarding the new handset.
http://www.ectnews.com/shared/audio/ect-recap-2009-06-12.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

IT Needs a New Drug
Let's talk about the next era of information technology. We seem to be
in it, but we don't have a name for it yet. Suddenly, "cloud computing"
is the dominant buzzword of the day, but the current confluence of
trends includes much more. There is business process modeling, business
intelligence, complex event processing, service-oriented architecture,
Software as a Service and Web-oriented architecture.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67324.html

Citrix Online Brings SMBs Into the Virtual Meeting Room
The economy is still broken, and businesses are scampering to save money
and entice back lost customers. Don't remind Brett Caine, though. As
president of Citrix Online, he's too busy growing the company's customer
base into a $100 million business that a few years ago didn't exist. As
a young startup in 1997, Expertcity was a provider of Web-based desktop
access and help-desk services.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67328.html

Turning 'Interesting Moments' Into Sales
If there is any one characteristic of the current economy that stands
out, it is that people are just not buying. From billionaires to budget
shoppers, frugal is in. Enter Marketo, a startup whose raison d'etre is
to get people to buy. Surprisingly -- or not, given its product lineup
-- Marketo is doing very well these days.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67331.html

Glad Works Makes Marketing Moves Through iPhone Apps
What do you do when you're a newly independent public radio station and
your signal is only reaching 75 percent of your home state? For WRNI,
Rhode Island's only public radio station, the answer was to turn to its
advertising agency. The agency, Providence-based Glad Works, is glad the
station did, because it opened up a whole new world of opportunity for
the firm.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67330.html

New Yahoo CFO Embarks on Journey to Cost Control
Yahoo has hired a cost-cutting specialist as its new chief financial
officer, signaling the Internet company's determination to weed out the
bureaucracy that has been dragging down its profits for the past three
years. The company said Thursday that it had lured Tim Morse away from
computer chipmaker Altera.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67321.html

Spain's Music Piracy Battle
Pablo Soto's story may be every computer whiz kid's dream -- or
nightmare. After leaving school at 16 to support his family, he managed
to eke out a living doing what he loves most: designing computer
programs. Then in 2001, the Madrid native launched Blubster, one of the
world's most popular peer-to-peer Internet file-sharing programs of
recent years.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67332.html

EC Scoffs at Microsoft's Offer to Ship Browser-Free OS
Europe's nearly 18-month battle against the dominance of Microsoft's
Internet Explorer has entered a new stage. The EC has rejected
Microsoft's offer to strip Internet Explorer from some copies of Windows
7 destined to ship to the EU when the new operating system is released
in the fall.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67323.html

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