E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Monday -- July 20, 2009

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Today's Headlines:
Virutalization, Consolidation and Modernization
Nurturing Leads: Q&A With Manticore CEO Jeff Erramouspe
Is Redmond Getting Its Groove Back?
Calf Trail Geotags the Road Not Taken
The Cryptic Credibility of Online Hotel Reviews
IBM and the Magic of Squeezing Margins
June Not Much Fun for Video Game Makers
Microsoft and Yahoo, Together Again

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Podcast
Rifling Through Twitter's Underwear Drawer (10:13 minutes)
In this episode: Hackers send private Twitter documents to online
publications; Canadian privacy commissioner puts pressure on Facebook;
PC shipments set to slip for the first time in a decade; about 60
percent of businesses say upgrading to Windows 7 is not a priority; Bing
hits grow through June; Microsoft takes swing at Google Apps with Office
2010's online features; Verizon puts social widgets on the TV screen;
Blockbuster follows Netflix to Samsung's door.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-recap-2009-07-17.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Virutalization, Consolidation and Modernization
Today, we discuss combining some major efforts in IT administration and
deployment in order to both cut costs in the near term and also to put
in place greater efficiencies, agility, enterprise business benefits,
and long-term cost benefits. We're going to be talking about how
consolidation, modernization, and virtualization play self-supporting
roles for enterprises.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67624.html

Nurturing Leads: Q&A With Manticore CEO Jeff Erramouspe
This is the marketing resource management world: There are the
enterprise-oriented types of platforms that can handle robust
applications. Their downside is that they require consultants to manage
their difficult implementations and dedicated personnel for their
ongoing use. Then there are the lower-end tools that give users
relatively limited functionality -- but are easy to implement and
operate.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67633.html

Is Redmond Getting Its Groove Back?
Google's Chrome OS may still be vaporware, but its announcement has set
off reverberations in the blogosphere as strong as any produced by much
weightier matter. Indeed, ever since the official announcement nearly
two weeks ago, countless conversations have scrutinized the few details
that are currently available about the Linux-based OS.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67630.html

Calf Trail Geotags the Road Not Taken
In 1895, during the era of Horatio Alger, an obscure poet named Sam
Walter Foss published "Calf-Path." It's about men following the road of
least resistance and what we call today "thinking outside the box." "For
men are prone to go it blind/Along the calf-paths of the mind," Foss
wrote. "And work away from sun to sun/To do what other men have done."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67629.html

The Cryptic Credibility of Online Hotel Reviews
The hotel review may sound too good -- citing obscure details like the
type of faucets -- or perhaps one stands out as the only negative rating
of an otherwise popular location. The influential travel Web site
TripAdvisor has been quietly posting disclaimers to warn customers of
hotels writing fake reviews to improve their popularity rankings or hurt
competitors.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67631.html

IBM and the Magic of Squeezing Margins
IBM has proved a rare animal in the recession. Like everyone else, its
sales have been hurt. Profit margins, though, have only gotten better
and better, and on Thursday IBM ramped up its full-year earnings
forecast. It was a rare sign of confidence for a major corporation these
days, but says more about IBM's execution than overall corporate
technology spending.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67632.html

June Not Much Fun for Video Game Makers
Though the video game industry weathered several months of relatively
healthy sales despite a troubled overall economic climate, declarations
that the sector is recession proof may have been premature. Video game
industry sales fell 31 percent year-over-year for the month of June,
totaling $1.17 billion dollars against the $1.7 billion racked up in
June of 2008, according to a report from the NPD Group.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67627.html

Microsoft and Yahoo, Together Again
Microsoft and Yahoo may be close to finalizing details on the elusive
search and online advertising deal that the two have been flirting with
for more than a year. Microsoft executives reportedly have flown from
their Redmond headquarters to Silicon Valley to finalize details
relating to the deployment of the technology.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67625.html

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