E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Tuesday -- August 11, 2009

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Today's Headlines:
Toshiba Finds a Spot at the Blu-ray Lunch Table
Is ICANN Cooking Up a Storm?
Oracle Gives JD Edwards a PIP of an Upgrade
Nortel CEO Makes 'Bittersweet' Departure
GM May Trade In Clunky Sales Model if eBay Gamble Works
Failure to Monetize Dooms Tr.im

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Today's Story Highlights

Toshiba Finds a Spot at the Blu-ray Lunch Table
If Toshiba's announcement 18 months ago that it was dropping the HD-DVD
format was the anticlimatic thud that ended the DVD format wars,
Tuesday's announcement that it would join the Blu-ray Disc Association
was little more than a dull echo. However, it did settle one important
question: whether the one-time champion of HD-DVD would refuse to go
along with Blu-ray.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67828.html

Is ICANN Cooking Up a Storm?
While it would be difficult to define a single theme of meetings as
diverse and sometimes as contentious as the recent ICANN consultation
sessions in July in New York and London, the most broadly based concern
was clear. Rights holders, whether they own trademarks and brand names,
or whether they own other intellectual property on the Internet, are
worried.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67824.html

Oracle Gives JD Edwards a PIP of an Upgrade
Oracle is giving users of JD Edwards -- one of the myriad enterprise
software suites the company has acquired over the last decade -- a new
set of tools to leverage through its value chain planning applications.
It's upgrading the JD Edwards offering with a bundle of SCM-related
applications and best practices that Oracle developed for its own
products over the years.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67826.html

Nortel CEO Makes 'Bittersweet' Departure
Nortel Networks CEO Mike Zafirovski is stepping down from the troubled
telecommunications company, saying "a natural transition point" has been
reached as the company continues to liquidate. The company also
announced Monday that its board of directors will be reduced to three
from nine, and that its second-quarter losses more than doubled, partly
on reorganization costs.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67830.html

GM May Trade In Clunky Sales Model if eBay Gamble Works
eBay and General Motors announced Monday that 225 of the carmaker's
California dealers would begin selling new cars through the e-commerce
powerhouse in what appears to be a limited promotion that could
nevertheless presage a more permanent, national approach to selling cars
online. Sales will begin Tuesday and go through Sept. 8.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67822.html

Failure to Monetize Dooms Tr.im
Nambu is shutting down Tr.im -- a Web service that allows users to
create a small URL to stand in for a long one, usually to save space in
a blog post or tweet. Its reason? It has not found a way to make the
service pay -- or a buyer interested enough to gamble on it. The logical
partner, according to a corporate blog post announcing the decision,
would have been Twitter.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67821.html

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