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ALL ECMGT.COM E-NEWS - E-STRATEGIES
- E-PRODUCTS
- E-SERVICES
- E-MARKETING
- SUPPLY
CHAIN
- CONTENT, PORTALS & COMMUNITY
- GOVERNANCE
& GOING GLOBAL
- PARTNERS & DEALS
- MOVERS &
SHAKERS
E-STRATEGIES
NEWS
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ToC
- Companies Are More Aggressive Than Ever Before In Adopting And
Deploying Leading-Edge Technology. The Reason: Fear Of Being Left Behind.
- Building
Silicon Valley On the Potomac
- Web Innovators – Commerce's
Wins Big By Thinking Small
---- Companies Are More Aggressive
Than Ever Before In Adopting And Deploying Leading-Edge Technology. The Reason:
Fear Of Being Left Behind.
At CUNA Mutual Group, a shift is under way
regarding the company's willingness to adopt leading-edge technologies. CUNA Mutual,
which provides financial services and insurance to credit unions and their 40
million members. is about to go online with an object-oriented database that tracks
customer information scattered across a wide range of data sources. Building
Silicon Valley On the Potomac
The internet elite, seated at an oval conference
table, was assembled to form the first think tank devoted solely to online issues.
They were from companies like MCI-WorldCom, America Online and Network Solutions
. Also present were representatives from Johns Hopkins University and the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. Microsoft
executives were phoning in. Even Robert E. Kahn, co inventor of the TCP/IP protocol,
was in attendance. Web
Innovators -- Commerce’s Wins Big By Thinking Small
While most Web
integrators seek to extend their reach into large corporate accounts, Commerce’s
Inc. is thinking smaller. ###
E-PRODUCTS NEWS
ToC - CVS Unveils Pharmacy Web site
- BuyWiz
Launches Universal Shopping Cart
- BlueGill To Offer Interactive
Bill Presentment, Payment
- CompUSA To Build Independent Online Store
- Innosoft
International Directory Portal Products
- Tool Analyzes Storefronts
- Tibco
Targets E-Businesses With Updated Middleware
---- CVS
Unveils Pharmacy Web site
CVS, the country's largest drugstore chain,
today unveiled a new Web site that it said is the first to combine an established
online pharmacy with a traditional brick-and-mortar pharmacy chain. The site is
the result of the company's recent acquisition of Soma.com, the Internet's first
online pharmacy, CVS said. The newly designed CVS site offers over-the-counter
and prescription items and 24-hour-a-day access to pharmacists. The site also
lets consumers place a prescription order online and choose between same-day in-store
pick up at a CVS pharmacy or optional overnight or regular delivery to their home
or office, the company said. BuyWiz
Launches Universal Shopping Cart
BuyWiz Inc. launched the beta version
of a free, PC-based universal online shopping cart that offers built-in comparison-shopping,
price tracking and one-click buying. BlueGill
To Offer Interactive Bill Presentment, Payment
BlueGill Technologies Inc.
next week will introduce new products for companies that want to offer online
bill presentment and payment. Web Direct software will convert standard print-stream
data being used to produce paper invoices into HTML or a PDF file so it can also
be presented on the Web. And three new payment modules will let merchants receive
funds directly from customers or via the two primary bill-processing companies,
CheckFree and TransPoint. CompUSA
To Build Independent Online Store
Computer retailer CompUSA Inc. this
fall will re-launch its Web storefront, relying less on cut-rate discounts and
more on building one-to-one relationships with customers. But CompUSA's approach
is distinctive in other ways. CompUSA is maintaining the wall between its traditional
and Web businesses, and keeping the two IT departments and infrastructures separate.
The delineation affects customers as well: Online buyers can't return purchases
to brick-and- mortar locations, something many E-retailers have begun to accommodate.
Innosoft
International Directory Portal Products
Three new products from Innosoft
integrate XML and LDAPv3 to provide a directory-enabled Web application server
platform. DirectoryPortal deploys Web applications that dynamically access and
integrate content from LDAP directories. Tool
Analyzes Storefronts
E-businesses are demanding tools that deliver top-level
views of all their customer interactions, online and offline. Tibco
Targets E-Businesses With Updated Middleware
Tibco Software Inc. will
seek a higher profile among e-businesses this week when it rolls out the second
version of its TIB/ActiveEnterprise middleware suite. ###
E-SERVICES NEWS
ToC - HP, Yahoo Team Up On Intranet
Services
- Dell Reveals Internet "Self-Service" Products
- Smart
E-Businesses Know That Service Is King
- 'My Price' Is Ultimate In
Web Customization
---- HP, Yahoo Team Up On Intranet
Services
Hewlett-Packard AND Yahoo Inc. will jointly offer hosted intranets
that combine corporate data with portal services such as calendaring, message
boards and stock portfolios. Dell
Reveals Internet "Self-Service" Products Michael Dell revealed
today how the Internet will make life easier for corporate PC buyers. Speaking
at Dell's DirectConnect Conference in Austin, Texas, Dell unveiled Internet-based
software tools that will make it easy for customers to monitor and repair system
problems and provide integration across all the departments involved in the procurement
process. Satisfaction
Guaranteed -- Smart E-Businesses Know That Service Is King
Customer service
is the name of the game for e-commerce sites. And it's even more important for
Web-based businesses. 'My
Price' Is Ultimate In Web Customization
If the Web is the ultimate one-to-one
medium, then what is the ultimate in customized information? News? Stock quotes?
The weather? You can get all those today, but they miss the boat. ###
E-MARKETING NEWS
ToC - Network Solutions To Sell Ads
on Whois Page
- Make Web Caching Pay Off
- E-Commercials:
Revolutionizing Electronic Marketing
- Delphi Strays From Banner
Ad Model
---- Network Solutions To Sell Ads on Whois
Page
Reversing an earlier policy, Network Solutions plans to open up Whois,
its popular domain look-up site, to advertisers. Make
Web Caching Pay Off
Buying in bulk is a fitting analogy for Web caching.
Rather than dragging yourself to Best Buy or surfing to an online store every
time you need a new Palm Pilot stylus, you can visit a warehouse with the ultimate
in buy-one-get-very-many-free sales. E-Commercials:
Revolutionizing Electronic Marketing
When start-up DataZone Corp. launched
a marketing campaign earlier this year to target its new mobile storage unit at
resellers, it decided to try a fresh approach. Delphi
Strays From Banner Ad Model
Delphi Forums on Monday rolled out Session-Impression,
a sponsorship model for online advertising that lets users navigate without traditional
banner advertising. ###
SUPPLY CHAIN NEWS
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ToC - Harley-Davidson
To Deploy Internet Procurement System
- Wells Fargo To Test Web Procurement
System
- IBM, i2 Form Supply-Chain Alliance
- Clarus
Changes E-Procurement Rules
- E-Procurement With A Twist -- Free
Trade Zone Locates Hard-To-Find Goods
---- Harley-Davidson
To Deploy Internet Procurement System
Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson
Inc. will deploy Oracle's Internet Procurement software in an effort to meld all
its procurement processes, including domestic manufacturing and non-production-related
purchasing operations, into a single, automated system used to manage nearly $1
billion in materials and services purchases. Wells
Fargo To Test Web Procurement System
Wells Fargo & Co. this week will
become the second major financial-services company to unveil a Web procurement
service for its business customers. The bank views the as- yet-unnamed service
as a way to leverage electronic commerce to expand relationships with its small
and midsize business customers, which number in the millions. IBM,
i2 Form Supply-Chain Alliance
IBM and supply-chain management vendor i2
Technologies yesterday disclosed a joint marketing, sales, and development alliance.
IBM will sell i2's Rhythm suite through its global direct sales force in combination
with IBM platform products, system integration services, and E- commerce software.
In addition, IBM plans to set up global centers of excellence to explain the value
of supply-chain technology. Clarus
Changes E-Procurement Rules
Just when you thought buyers and sellers
were in agreement on the best way to handle Web procurement, along comes a renegade.
E-Procurement
With A Twist -- Free Trade Zone Locates Hard-To-Find Goods
In the electronics
industry, it can take a manufacturer weeks just to find the parts it needs, let
alone price and purchase them. But IBM and PartMiner Inc. are working on a new
e-procurement service that will help electronics manufacturers. ###
E-COMMERCE CONTENT, PORTALS & COMMUNITY NEWS
ToC - HP
To Build Insurance Portal
- Sybase Updates Database Server, Maps
Portal Strategy
- 1-4 Worthy Causes' E-Commerce Portal Donates 100%
of Referral Fees
- Amazon's Bestseller Lists Spotlight Local Tastes
- Epicentric
Helps Create Niche Portals
- Sybase Updates Server, Maps Portal Strategy
- Tibco
Tips Portal Software, Upgrades App Integration Suite
- eBay Struggles
To Please
---- HP To Build Insurance Portal
Hewlett-Packard and Delphi Information Systems Wednesday said they've formed a
partnership to build the world's first insurance industry portal, ebix.mall, which
is set to debut next month on Delphi's ebix.com site. Sybase
Updates Database Server, Maps Portal Strategy
Laying the groundwork for
what it hopes will be a return to healthy sales growth, Sybase Inc. today unveiled
the next major release of its database server and detailed plans to provide technology
for building enterprise information portals. 1-4
Worthy Causes' E-Commerce Portal Donates 100% of Referral Fees Worthy
Causes is an e-commerce portal of online shopping malls that have been created
for select non- profit organizations free of charge. Featuring popular e-commerce
sites like, J. Crew, Avon, Priceline, Office Max, and Renaissance Cruises, these
malls are set up so that 100% of the referral fee from every online purchase is
sent to a cause a shopper has chosen at no additional cost to the shopper. Amazon's
bestseller lists spotlight local tastes
Books by Patricia Cornwell, Stephen
King, and the young-adult author J.K. Rowling are topping nationwide bestseller
lists this summer, but what is popular in Peoria doesn't always play in Palo Alto,
California, as a new local bestseller list from Amazon shows. - CNET
News.com
- http://www.news.com /News/Item/0,4,0-40826,00.html?st.ne.180.head
Epicentric
Helps Create Niche Portals
Oliver Muoto and Ed Anuff don't think there
are enough portals. Sybase
Updates Server, Maps Portal Strategy
Laying the groundwork for what it
hopes will be a return to healthy sales growth, Sybase on Monday unveiled the
next major release of its database server and detailed plans to provide technology
for building enterprise information portals. Tibco
Tips Portal Software, Upgrades App Integration Suite
Tibco Software Inc.
next week will unveil server software for business portals, along with an upgrade
to its application-integration suite. eBay
Struggles To Please
Amid user protest about its proposed policy change,
the Web's leading auction house endeavors to balance company strategy with customer
demands. http://www.news.com
/SpecialFeatures/0,5,0-40844,00.html?st.ne.180.head ###
E-COMMERCE GOVERNANCE & GOING GLOBAL NEWS
ToC - Overseas
E-Commerce to Equal Half of Global Spending By 2003
- ICANN Domain
Policy Shuns the Courtroom
- British E-Commerce Held Hostage By Telcos
- Web
Trading Communities Instill Free Trade Ethic
- Court Rules Against
Trademark in Cyber Squatting Case
- Congress Went After Online Booze,
Drugs and Cyber Squatting Before Recessing Week
- Student First to
Be Convicted Under E-Theft Act
- Day Trading Hits the U.K.
- AOL
Wants It Both Ways With Free Service
---- Overseas E-Commerce
to Equal Half of Global Spending By 2003
According to researchers International
Data Corp., almost 60 percent of the worldwide online audience comes from outside
the U.S. and that population will generate nearly 46 percent of global e-com spending
by 2003, up from 1998 levels of just 26 percent. ICANN
Domain Policy Shuns the Courtroom
The international body that administers
addresses in cyberspace votes to require domain-name registrants to agree to take
disputes over names to an administrative process before heading to court. British
E-Commerce Held Hostage by Telcos
Last week, British Prime Minister Tony
Blair commissioned a blue-ribbon panel to examine why U.K. e-commerce companies
lag miserably behind the United States, Germany and France. - ECommerce
Times
- http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/viewpoint/view-990826.shtml
Web
Trading Communities Instill Free Trade Ethic
As we enter the last year
of a Clinton presidency long on rhetoric but short on conviction, talk is turning
to the administration's legacy. Court Rules Against Trademark in Cyber Squatting Case
Reversing
an earlier decision, a federal appeals court in California this week ruled that
a company with a trademark does not necessarily have the right to prevent others
from registering coincidental domain names. Congress
Went After Online Booze, Drugs and Cyber Squatting Before Recessing Week
The
Senate passed a bill to allow trademark owners to recover damages in cases of
"cyber squatting," when it can be proven that a trademarked name was
registered in bad faith. The House also passed a measure to curb Internet alcohol
sales, giving state authorities the ability to go to federal court to prosecute
out-of-state companies that illegally ship alcohol. And a bill was introduced
calling for online drugstores to disclose who actually sells the drugs and where
they are licensed. Student
First to Be Convicted Under E-Theft Act
A 22-year-old University of Oregon
student who posted copyrighted software, music, games and movies on his Web site
for download is the first person to be convicted under the 1997 No Electronic
Theft Act, officials said today. Day
Trading Hits the U.K. While the United States casts a stern eye on
day-trading investors, the U.K. is seeing the stock-flipping gambit for the first
time, as several firms try to convince the British public that it's all right
to make a fast quid AOL
Wants It Both Ways With Free Service
AOL Europe gave in on Tuesday to
the tidal wave of free ISPs threatening its market share in Britain by launching
a free service there, but it will continue to charge some customers, in a dual-market
approach. ###
E-COMMERCE PARTNERS & DEALS NEWS
ToC - Compaq
Partners With CGMI To Advance E-business
- Razorfish Acquires I-Cube
- Clarify
Acquires Newtonian
- Internet Reseller Inks agreement With Bloomberg
- US
Interactive, BroadVision Launch Partnership
- Women.com Forges Japanese
Alliance
---- Compaq Partners With CGMI To Advance E-business
Compaq furthered its Internet business strategy today with a partnership with
Internet marketing tools vendor Engage Technologies, Inc., and an extension of
its relationship with CMGI, the new owner of the AltaVista search engine. Razorfish
Acquires I-Cube
Razorfish, a New York design and Web-integration company,
on Tuesday announced the acquisition of International Integration, a Cambridge,
Mass., technology-integration company known as I-Cube. Clarify
Acquires Newtonian
Customer-relationship management vendor Clarify Inc.
broadened its front-office portfolio last week by acquiring sales configuration
software vendor Newtonian Software Inc. for $16.5 million in stock and cash. Internet
Reseller Inks agreement With Bloomberg
Onvia.com Inc.'s efforts to provide
an online operations center have spread to online media. US
Interactive, BroadVision Launch Partnership
Web professional-services
company US Interactive (USI) struck an alliance with e-business software developer
BroadVision to offer customer relationship management (CRM) and other solutions
to clients looking to restructure their business strategies for the Internet.. Women.com
Forges Japanese Alliance
On the verge of an initial public offering, Women.com
announced Wednesday that it has licensed its content to a Japanese women’s
site in its first international venture. ###
E-COMMERCE MOVERS & SHAKERS NEWS
ToC - White House
Names Director of E-Commerce Task Force
- Melinda French Gates Goes
to Drugstore.com
- SGI Chief Heading to Microsoft
----
White House Names Director of E-Commerce Task Force
The Clinton
Administration appoints Elizabeth B. Echols, a senior adviser, to a new position
coordinating electronic commerce issues. Melinda
French Gates Goes to Drugstore.com
Online pharmacy Drugstore.com said
that founder Jed Smith is leaving the company to pursue a new venture, and that
Melinda French Gates, wife of Microsoft chief Bill Gates, has been appointed as
a director to the company. SGI
Chief Heading to Microsoft
Silicon Graphics Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer Richard Belluzzo has quit his post and is expected to take the reigns
of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet operation. ###
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