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THE DEVELOPMENT OF GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES has been driven by the need for better decision making. Early innovators were motivated by the belief that experts in a wide variety of fields […]

After a dozen years of on-line banking, many financial institutions are still struggling with the business case for Internet-based services. Having been disappointed by excessive claims made during the dot [...]

First Financial Credit Union has been using seven fingerprint biometric kiosks for just over a year. Yet only 100 of its 70,000 members use the fingerprint function. 'The problem we […]

..... In September 11 traditional telephone providers did a heroic job of struggling to restore service. When the World Trade Center towers fell, they severely damaged a Verizon central office [...]

Users can save money setting up frame relay and ATM networks by using DSL access links rather than more expensive 56K bit/sec or T-1 lines. Supporting speeds from 144K bit/sec […]

'The library's 'computing system' is not just the OPAC, but is unique set of technologies that each library must juggle In the past, the core function for a computing unit […]

Recently, Marilyn Cade, the director of e-commerce and Internet policy for AT&T, mentioned to me that, with this summer's introduction of new top-level domains, ICANN's UDRP will soon be the […]

The Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language (EBXML), a broad standard intended to facilitate e-commerce between organisations that is backed by the United Nations and many leading computer companies, has been […]

HR wants to move from paper-pushing to strategic planning and decision-making. Workforce asked industry leaders to talk about powerful Internet solutions that can move HR to the next level. * [...]

Each day, RMR's managers receive the results of a two-page satisfaction survey that customers have completed on the Web. The old, paper version of the survey got a 15% response, [...]

How e-commerce has helped the Department of Defense devote more resources to acquiring new weapons systems. As the Department of Defense (DOD) struggles to keep up with e-business, e-tailing, in [...]

Several years ago, Philip Condit, chairman and CEO of Boeing, asked how much business the company did with major suppliers. 'To find out, each unit at Boeing had to ask […]

The recording industry has been celebrating the supposed defeat of Napster. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed the grant of a preliminary injunction that may well [...]

Last year, Aetna U.S. Healthcare found itself with several rich but disparate Internet assets: a popular consumer health content site, InteliHealth.com; several Web applications that enable members to look for [...]

We can't all afford the sexiest software and cutting-edge kit. GUY CLAPPERTON offers advice on squeezing the maximum value from a limited IT budget Despite the hype, e-business is not […]

Online direct marketing pro-viders are making it easier and more efficient for large national companies to maintain consistent brand messages in their franchisees' mail and on-site marketing efforts. Zipm, Chicago, [...]

Customer service initiatives are fuelling the global, growth of e-government. Citizen demand for better service is fuelling the global growth of 'e-government' as government leaders focus on matching the new [...]

An Accounting Crystal Ball Businesses can't afford to communicate the way they used to; the pressures of speed and timeliness are simply too great. It is the role of CPAs, [...]

SYNDICATING CONTENT ACROSS THE NET IS A GROWING BUSINESS, BUT IT'S NOT NECESSARILY A MONEY MAKER FOR EVERYONE THE WORLD WIDE WEB STARTED OUT AS A STORE OF SHARED INFORmation. […]

ALTHOUGH I'VE LIVED IN DENVER FOR 22 years, I don't want to be here anymore. The town is filling up with Silicon Valley rent refugees. Denver's leading-edge communications infrastructure is [...]

Scalability problems with Secure Sockets Layer could he to blame for the recent series of high-profile e-banking failures. According to Nigel Hawthorne, managing director at network caching specialist Cacheflow, encryption […]

Elsevier Science, Secondary Publishing Division, has introduced two highly customizable web-based information services: embuse-drugfinger.com and embasediseasefinder.com. Designed primarily to meet the needs of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and biomedical industries, clients [...]

Railroads' dot.com: CP and three other major railroads--CSX, NS, and UP--have taken a plunge into the dot.com craze by investing in a California company, Arzoon, that has helped link Internet [...]

Asian banks are racing to get their services on-line - and some are even setting up independent Internet banks. Asia's tech-savvy depositors are already able to carry out a range […]

The supermarket chain Tesco will invest £35m this year in its online shopping service, following its decision to split Internet shopping into a separate business unit -- Tesco.com -- with […]

PUSH TECHNOLOGY moved from being heralded to being vilified in less than a year as IT managers resisted product offerings that brought the network to its knees. Since then most […]

There can be no more substantial monument to the analogue world of knowledge and its full shelves of books than the mighty Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Its sheer physicality -- […]

As a defensive move against nascent Internet banks that may be luring profitable customers, BankZip, Pottstown, Pa., was launched by Patriot Bank, First Penn Bank, and IGA Federal Savings Bank [...]

Granite Broadcasting Corp. is planning to broadcast Internet content using digital signals from its nine U.S. TV stations and technology from SkyStream Networks and Harris Corp. Current tests involve Granite's [...]

buzz box * e-commerce is the marketing, selling, and buying of products and services via the Internet. * e-business is using electronic information to improve performance, create value, and enable [...]

Offering something immediate is the trick, a site finds PERSONALIZED CONTENT may be the key to success for many Web sites. But it's a tricky proposition involving sensitivities to privacy, […]

E-Stamp Corp. is launching an eponymous service that will allow you to purchase U.S. postage online. A small parallel-port device works in conjunction with its site, e-stamp.com, to enable customers […]

1. Which databases get a lot of traffic? The three largest International DNA databases are the European Bioinformatics Institute's (EBI) EMBL, the US National Center for Biotechnology Information's (NCBI) GenBank, [...]

Q: We are looking to expand our business into mainland Europe. Who can we get to help translate our product literature and web site into various languages? A: Launching a [...]

Many of the UK's top shopping Web sites are feeling the strain of too many users in the run-up to Christmas, suggests research by Internet performance services provider Keynote Systems. […]

E-mail discussions enable association members to share information directly with colleagues. Shared experiences from organization members have been identified as one of the most valuable member benefits an association can [...]

A mid-sized consumer goods company can increase revenues up to 56 percent over an eight year time period by implementing e-CRM strategies, according to a new Datamonitor report. Entitled 'Understanding [...]

A digital middleman, electronic redeemables, and a site for young shoppers are redefining e-tailing to provide a better way to deliver value Though online stores are attracting millions of customers […]

MasterCard, Amex Push Online TrackingCorporate customers to get Internetaccess to track their line-item spendingThe business-to-business electronic-commerce market sizzled last week with competing announcements by MasterCard International Inc. and American Express […]

14 products offer free access THE INTERNET Just when everybody thought that Internet access for a flat rate of $19.95 per month was going to become the standard, one company [...]