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The New England chapter of the United Way is launching its biggest effort ever this fall to drive contributions to the charitable organization via a newly updated Web application. United […]

Commerce One Inc., the sourcing software and services vendor, said today it has been selected by Kellogg Co. to help publish product information to the UCCnet Globalregistry, a repository of […]

As Best Buy stores refill their shelves for the final week of holiday shopping, they're stocking items from many of the same suppliers as last year. The parent company's strategy […]

General Motors is folding its e-GM e-commerce group into its overall corporate organization. A GM spokesman said the company is still committed to selling and marketing cars to consumers over […]

ACTIVITY: Launches www.itrust.com, an online store for financial products and services that the retailer will market to employees, customers and the general public. E-VANGELIST: Federated's Web initiative is a natural […]

Your company's Web site architects, like everyone else in your IT organization, are subject to payback or more stringent ROI analyses. But site infrastructure and the costs associated with downtime […]

Application integration is proving to be the first killer app for Web services, as early adopters build on these standards to improve internal and cross-enterprise collaboration. The experiences of Imperial […]

Eastman Kodak Co. is adding reverse auctions to its e-commerce strategy, which already includes electronic requisitioning for both direct and indirect materials. The $13 billion photography giant is in the […]

Los Angeles-Some early users of Web services are finding that these standard software interfaces may indeed pay off. Trans World Entertainment Corp. will launch a 21-store Web services pilot by […]

In a bid to boost in-store sales, media retailer Virgin Megastores plans to install up to 300 Web kiosks in its 22 U.S. outlets. Following a three-month pilot in Los […]

Once they've done their homework on Hyatt's Web site, customers who call the hotel chain's phone center are ready to book, says senior VP Tom O'Toole. Travel and hospitality companies […]

Much like that other life-altering emotion, transformation means never having to say you're sorry-especially when business is bad. But changing core business processes isn't easy. Companies have to continually reassess […]

Copart posted record earnings of $42.7 million in fiscal 2001 largely because of its Web business, says CIO David Bauer. You've either been preaching it or hearing it for years: […]

Garment retailer Lands' End has found that consumers who virtually "try on" clothes are more likely to make purchases and spend more when they buy. Lands' End lets site visitors […]

Owens & Minor Inc. isn't as well-known as other companies in the health-care industry, even though the Richmond, Va., medical supplies distributor has delivered syringes, bandages, surgical gloves and other […]

Sharper Image, hoping to squeeze extra revenue from its Web site, has taken the unusual step of adding an online "mall" that links consumers to other merchants. The jury's out […]

As the major Hollywood studios embark on the most ambitious Internet film distribution project to date, experts warn that delivering huge multimedia files to potentially millions of consumers will be […]

As it seeks to boost profits and increase market share in an increasingly volatile transportation market, trucking giant Roadway Express Inc. is relying heavily on two key weapons: the most […]

Start-up Kontiki, which began network testing two weeks ago, aims to provide a service that makes peer-to-peer technology mainstream for corporate customers. The chief selling point of the service, available […]

Rather than wait for vendors to develop the middleware and communications interfaces needed to expand its online advertising services, The New York Times Co. is developing the applications itself. The […]

Transportation company J.B. Hunt this month is kicking off a concerted program to move its biggest customers off expensive EDI networks and onto the Web. The deployment, which will cost […]

MetLife Investors Group, a company created by No. 1 U.S. life insurer MetLife Inc., has implemented an online application to generate digitized contracts. Its move from a paper-based model has […]

E-business: Knight Ridder E-vent: The nation's second largest newspaper publisher signs a deal with application service provider AdStar to help Knight Ridder's newspapers offer classified advertising on the Web. E-vangelist: […]

Albertson's is stepping into the breach left by online grocers that collapsed under their own cost structure. Because Albertson's is leveraging its brick-and-mortar presence to fill online orders, officials believe […]

Convenience store operator Sheetz Inc. is turning to the Internet to test an idea for attracting more customers and streamlining a key management task. Sheetz, with 258 stores in Maryland, […]

The statement was somewhat startling, coming from someone who runs a Web operation. "The Internet business is never going to be the business focus of Federated Department Stores," said the […]

New York-Federated Department Stores is relaunching its two biggest shopping sites and merging its direct mail and Web infrastructures in an effort to ramp up online sales this holiday season […]

Golden, Colo.-Like many beer makers, Coors Brewing Co. has always had trouble forecasting demand. The company hopes a new extranet will help it better determine how much beer to produce […]

An e-marketplace for construction equipment is attempting to mimic the economics of volume purchasing with highly customized goods. TradeMC, the marketplace founded by Fluor Corp. and IBM, will begin promoting […]

MarketMile, the online procurement exchange backed by American Express and Ventro Corp., plans to launch this fall after delays stemming from last year's B2B e-commerce bloodbath. The marketplace, aimed at […]

Cisco wants you to know it's not the Jim Fixx of e-business. Fixx, who evangelized the sport of running and wrote a best seller called "The Complete Book of Running," […]

"With each new application, our customer base seems to leap forward." Dan Commiato, senior director of e-commerce (left), and Robert Hitt, director of systems development. A little more than a […]

Uncertainty has debilitated many e-businesses, with staffers and managers alike wondering when things will pick up. But optimism is still in the air at Enron Net Works, the e-business arm […]

No set of e-business applications has disappointed as much as personalization has. Now vendors and their customers are realizing that truly personalized Web commerce requires a re-examination of business processes […]

GE had hoped to save $10 billion through e-business this year, but now admits that only $1.6 billion will be saved. What does this e-business bellwether's slow start mean for […]

If your e-business plans are under siege because of the slow economy, look to Don Stoller for inspiration. Stoller, director of information management at medical products distributor Owens & Minor, […]

Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines is equipping its newest ship with 500 Internet appliances to give crew members access to the Net from their quarters. The IBM NetVista thin client hardware […]

Last November we detailed how Staples and its rivals were jealously eyeing the market for small-business services provided through the Internet. Last week Staples.com launched new services it hopes will […]

Jacksonville, Fla.-Nearly five years after rail freight giant CSX Corp. rolled out one of the first Java-based B2B applications, the company is trying to get its e-business efforts back on […]

Hershey Foods Corp. officials expect a recently adopted technology that speeds downloads of visual images to accelerate the rapid growth of the company's Hersheygifts.com retail site. Hersheygifts.com last month began […]

Is American International Group's approach to e-business frugal? Or just slow and fragmented? That's the question former AIG IT pros asked us after reading last week's page 1 story on […]

WARREN FRISS CoDIRECTOR OF TOPPS INTERNET GROUP AND GENERAL COUNSEL TOPPS CO. -Current big project/focus: Start-up of eTopps, an online trading floor for Topps trading cards Reports to: Arthur Shorin, […]

Dotcom start-ups are turning into modern-day lepers. No one wants to be one, no one wants to be seen with one and no one wants to be associated with one. […]

Washington Mutual Inc., the nation's biggest savings and loan, next week will launch the first Web site to offer end-to-end loan transactions for mortgage brokers. The new site is part […]

Microsoft, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Center for Internet Security are making it simpler and safer for companies to install patches to fend off e-mail viruses and hackers. Recent […]

In a bid to address a history of outages, eBay will move each of its auction categories onto separate systems and databases, CEO Meg Whitman said last week, elaborating on […]

The move to bring Web spin offs back into the corporate fold is creating a number of IT problems. Among them: unifying customer data, linking separate logistics systems and maintaining […]

What can you learn from Nike's recent inventory problems, and the ugly blame game it's playing with supply chain software supplier i2 Technologies? There's such a thing as going too […]

Credit-card companies are walking a tightrope these days. If a site is hacked, the issuing bank is on the hook, even if it's because the merchant didn't adequately secure customer […]

Credibility. In the end, it's what separates the captains of e-business from the gung-ho buck privates and hidebound drill sergeants. For a vivid example, visit the toy retailing camp. Our […]