E-Commerce Blog

It was an interesting week last week, made even more interesting by a bunch of news services calling our U.S. president-elect either the new Hitler or a Marxist, suggesting these folks got some really bad eggnog. This should be filed under NOT HELPING. While tempted, I’ll avoid further mentioning that insanity in the hope they sober up and instead focus on some interesting tech moves. EMC formed Decho, which could be its most powerful unit yet focusing on cloud-based services for next generation sync and backup.

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EMC in Sync With Move to the Cloud

In four years, driving a car in the San Francisco Bay area may involve a variation of the “plug and play” concept. Think “plug and drive,” if the mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose and start-up Better Place have their way. The company, founded by former SAP executive and Wired magazine cover subject Shai Agassi, announced a private-public partnership Thursday with the three mayors and regional entities to begin building the support infrastructure for electric car use in the Bay Area.

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Agassi’s Electric Car Plan Gets Bay Area Jump-Start

TV shows like “The Hills” focus on the petty squabbles that go on in the world of spoiled, vapid socialites. I can’t think of a program that gets into the catfights that go on in the IT world, and I don’t know whether there’d really be a huge audience for something like that, but they do happen, and court documents in an ongoing lawsuit have revealed some juicy tidbits. The class-action suit concerns the promises made by some PC makers that their computers — even some really weak-kneed models — could shoulder the weight of Microsoft’s latest operating system, Vista.

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HP’s Wrath, Baidu’s Greed and Other Deadly Sins

The rest of the economy may be tanking, but online advertising in the U.S. posted big year-over-year gains, according to the New York City-based Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Internet advertising revenue reached nearly $5.9 billion in the third quarter, an 11 percent increase compared to the same period the year before. However, the news on a sequential quarterly basis was less spectacular.
Online advertising revenue in the third quarter was up just 2 percent over the second quarter, IAB reported.

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Online Advertising: A Glimmer of Light?

Yahoo and T-Mobile jointly announced that Yahoo oneSearch will be the default mobile engine to power Internet search made through T-Mobile’s new Web2go service. The new Web2go service is basically a customizable home page on a mobile phone that makes it easier to view and navigate the Internet on the handheld device. Yahoo oneSearch is designed to help users find what they are looking for, Yahoo said, including news, financial information, weather conditions, Flickr photos and Web images.

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Yahoo Calls Dibs on T-Mobile Handset Search