Comment Re:Bad Summary. (Score 1) 338
The caveat that there is no verifiable evidence to back up this story makes me surprised that Slashdot picked it up.
Submission + - Which e-commerce system will fail THIS season?
Esther Schindler writes: "Jingle jingle. Every year, there's some retailer whose e-commerce or supply chain fails. And it's a big deal, since the holiday shopping season can make or break their year. The IT challenge encompasses everything from server scalability to supply chain management to search engine optimization to database cajoling to business integration to... well, come to think of it, just about everything. Yet, "in the high-stakes season of holiday shopping, so much can—and has—gone wrong for retailers, airlines and others."
CIO.com has a big package of articles examining "Black Friday" and its implications (complete with a red bow on top) full of seasonal IT joy, all rolled up in E-Commerce and Supply Chain Systems Gird for Black Friday. It includes several articles, including:
Despite all this—and at least ten years of industry experience in e-commerce sales—we all just know that someone will make yet another big mistake. I wonder who it'll be this year?"
Online shopping is expected to top $33 billion this year, up 21 percent from $27 billion in 2006, according to a study from Forrester Research and Shop.org, a professional group for online retailers. Eleven percent of the 2,521 U.S. consumers surveyed said they would do at least 75 percent of their holiday shopping online.
CIO.com has a big package of articles examining "Black Friday" and its implications (complete with a red bow on top) full of seasonal IT joy, all rolled up in E-Commerce and Supply Chain Systems Gird for Black Friday. It includes several articles, including:
- Online Shopping: How to Get the Impulse Purchase
- The High-Stakes Search for Supply Chain Excellence During the Holiday Rush
- How IT Failures Wreck Holidays for Many Companies
- Business Intelligence: A Must for Winning the Holiday Shopping Wars
- Retailers Want BI Benefits, But Struggle With Challenges
Despite all this—and at least ten years of industry experience in e-commerce sales—we all just know that someone will make yet another big mistake. I wonder who it'll be this year?"
Submission + - Paranormal Investigators' Technology Use
Esther Schindler writes: "Sure, everyone uses technology on the job. But you may not have contemplated the tools used by paranormal investigators (at least, not until you began thinking about Halloween) who look for the truth in ghosts and other things that go Bump in the Night. In Paranormal Investigations and Technology: Where Ghosts and Gadgets Meet, CIO's Al Sacco writes about the most unusual of tool chests, with everything from thermometers to blimp cams."
eBay May Lose 'Buy it Now' Button in Patent Case 177
Spamicles writes "A judge has delayed his ruling on the eBay patent infringement case. eBay has been involved in a legal dispute over the use of its popular "Buy it Now" button, which allows consumers to skip the bidding and purchase items on eBay directly. The patent suit was filed six years ago by MercExchange L.L.C. In May of 2003, a jury ruled in MercExchange's favor finding that eBay did in fact infringe on the patent, but in 2005 the US Supreme Court ruled that MercExchange was not automatically entitled to a court order blocking the offending service, essentially handing a victory down to patent reform advocates. However, the ruling by the Supreme Court does not affect the final judgment of the court."
Submission + - Tech Lessons from the Mob and Red Light District (cio.com)
Chris Lindquist writes: "Organized crime, porn peddlers, gambling sites — they all use technology to make a killing. CIO.com has posted several stories that spell out how the seedy side uses IT for profit. From the online techniques of penny stock scammers to innovation lessons from a pair of "accidental pornographers," to what you can do to fend off cybercriminals, find out what they do right when they're doing wrong."
Submission + - Forensics Meets Its Match: New Tools Thwart Police (cio.com)
rabblerouzer writes: Antiforensic tools have slid down the technical food chain, from Unix to Windows, from something only elite users could master to something nontechnical users can operate. "Five years ago, you could count on one hand the number of people who could do a lot of these things," says one investigator. "Now it's hobby level." Take, for example, TimeStomp. Forensic investigators poring over compromised systems where Timestomp was used often find files that were created 10 years from now, accessed two years ago and never modified.
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