E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Monday -- July 27, 2009

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Today's Headlines:
Virtualization Reimagined
Efficiency Through Outsourced Marketing
Ericsson Scoops Up Lion's Share of Nortel's Wireless Business
Electronic Beacon to Shine Light on AP Content Thieves
Legal Tripwires Could Scuttle Pirate Bay Buyout
Little Bird to Tell Businesses How to Tweet for Cash

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Podcast
How Long Can AT&T Keep Its Beloved Ball and Chain? (11:50 minutes)
In this episode: Amazon pays close to $1 billion for shoe vendor Zappos;
rumors of a Yahoo/Microsoft deal resurface; Apple has its best
non-holiday quarter ever; AT&T sees profit drop by 15 percent; Palm
releases its Mojo webOS dev kit; Nokia plans to offer the N86 in U.S.
markets; Verizon swears off long-term handset exclusivity; report rails
on the state of U.S. cybersecurity; RIM makes a BlackBerry app for Mac
users; Barnes & Noble challenges Amazon in e-books.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-recap-2009-07-24.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Virtualization Reimagined
Let's look at a series of three important considerations when moving to
enterprise virtualization adoption. First, we'll investigate the ability
to manage and control how interconnections impact virtualization.
Interconnections play a large role in allowing physical servers to
support multiple virtual servers, which themselves need multiple network
connections.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67684.html

Efficiency Through Outsourced Marketing
It may seem that CSG Systems, a provider of customer interaction and
billing management software, acquired marketing company Quaero in the
nick of time. The deal was announced at the end of the year -- just as
it was becoming painfully clear that the recession was likely to be much
deeper than initially feared.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67697.html

Ericsson Scoops Up Lion's Share of Nortel's Wireless Business
Swedish wireless equipment maker Ericsson on Saturday said it had penned
a deal to buy a majority of Nortel Networks' North American wireless
business for $1.13 billion. The Stockholm-based group said the purchase
is on a cash and debt-free basis and covers the older CDMA and newer LTE
wireless businesses of Nortel's Carrier Networks unit.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67696.html

Electronic Beacon to Shine Light on AP Content Thieves
The AP is moving ahead with plans for a system to detect unlicensed use
of its content and potentially create new ways for the 163-year-old news
cooperative and other media to make more money on the Internet. As part
of a strategy approved Thursday by the AP's board, the cooperative will
start by bundling its text stories in an "informational wrapper" that
will include a built-in beacon.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67695.html

Legal Tripwires Could Scuttle Pirate Bay Buyout
The would-be buyer of Web site The Pirate Bay backpedaled in a Dutch
court Tuesday, saying that it is uncertain whether the purchase will
ever be completed. Lawyer Ricardo Dijkstra said Sweden's Global Gaming
Factory X would only buy The Pirate Bay if it can turn it into a
"legitimate business."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67694.html

Little Bird to Tell Businesses How to Tweet for Cash
Noting that more and more businesses are using Twitter to communicate
with customers, the San Francisco social networking startup has launched
a new sub-site to help companies learn strategies to leverage the
service to their benefit. Twitter101 provides a quick overview,
including a guide to Twitter jargon, a section on best practices and
case studies.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67685.html

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