- Dell
cuts prices on corporate notebooks
- Straight
From The Showroom
- Bell South
To Block More Telemarketers
- PC
Industry's Holiday Fears Confirmed
- Time
Warner Wins Potter Domains
- Amazon
getting into outlet biz -- online
- Reports
Show E-Holiday Peaked Early
- What
is AMD's Marketing Strategy?
- Microsoft
CEO Sets Business Priorities, Details Plans To Cut Costs
- AMD,
Intel: Full speed ahead in 2001
- Telecoms
Facing Bumpy Road
- IBM Set To
Market Sedona's Intarsia
- Net
Pharmacy Race Remains Tight
- Small
Firms use Web for Promotion, not Ecommerce
- Profitable
Websites Invest in Infrastructure & Promotion
- Attention
on the Appliance Server Market Mounts
- Careful
Marketers Can Benefit from Online Promotions
- Online
'Window Shoppers' to Boost Offline Sales
- Free-ISP
closures stranding millions
- E-Holiday
Bells Ring : Cha-Ching
- Oracle
Aims to be the Microsoft of e-biz
- Napster,
Click Rates Rising
- At Least
Online Campaign News Stats Are Official
Dell
cuts prices on corporate notebooks
Dell Computer said it's cutting prices
by up to 20% on most of its Latitude notebook PCs for corporate users, a move
it attributed to lower costs for components used in the machines. Straight
From The Showroom
Faced with an industry-wide slump in PC sales, Gateway
announced that it will carry some inventory in its 320 showrooms, temporarily
altering its build-to-order business model. Bell
South To Block More Telemarketers
BellSouth received regulatory approval
Wednesday from the North Carolina Utilities Regulatory Commission to offer telephone
screening services that can block telemarketing calls in that state. PC
Industry's Holiday Fears Confirmed
Personal computer makers and retailers
worrying that a weaker-than-expected holiday response to their products would
not be enough to pull PC sales out of the doldrums had their fears confirmed by
the numbers. Time
Warner Wins Potter Domains
A total of 107 dot-coms related to Harry Potter
- many of them already registered to another company - are awarded to Time Warner,
which already owns the series' marketing rights. Amazon
getting into outlet biz -- online
The e-tailing giant is testing an online
outlet store, betting that it will be as popular as bricks-and-mortar, bargain-basement
counterparts. Reports
Show E-Holiday Peaked Early
Two new studies indicate that consumers remain
wary of making last-minute holiday purchases online, although the reports disagree
about exactly when this year's holiday shopping reached its zenith. What
is AMD's Marketing Strategy?
Is it a coincidence that Intel is executing
poorly just as AMD seems to have hit its stride... ? Microsoft
CEO Sets Business Priorities, Details Plans To Cut Costs
Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer held a virtual company meeting today after issuing a memo that outlined
the software vendor's business priorities and detailed plans to "eliminate unnecessary
expenses." AMD,
Intel: Full speed ahead in 2001
Coming off its best year ever, AMD will
be going after the big-money corporate market. Meanwhile, Intel sees its future
largely in the Internet. Telecoms
Facing Bumpy Road
Successful applications for long-distance authority
by Verizon Communications in New York, and SBC Communications in Texas, may have
created a regulatory roadmap for other regional Bells, but a roadside warning
is still in order. IBM
Set To Market Sedona's Intarsia
Sedona Corporation, a CRM provider to
community banks and credit unions, said that IT giant IBM has agreed to market
its product to its community financial services customers as an affordable customer
retention tool. Net
Pharmacy Race Remains Tight
Online pharmacy Drugstore.com continues to
narrowly outpace niche competitor PlanetRX.com and retains the No.1 spot among
Internet health retailers, according to new rankings released by Forrester Research.
Small
Firms use Web for Promotion, not Ecommerce
Small businesses are setting
up websites primarily to advertise and promote their business Profitable
Websites Invest in Infrastructure & Promotion
ActivMedia's research
shows that companies online for three or more years are far more likely to have
become profitable than companies in the early stages of website development.
Attention
on the Appliance Server Market Mounts
Intel Gathers Momentum for Appliance
Servers and Then Changes Gears Careful
Marketers Can Benefit from Online Promotions
Consumers are willing to
participate in online promotional programs even it means giving up some personal
information Online
'Window Shoppers' to Boost Offline Sales
Traditional high street stores
in Europe will benefit this holiday season from Internet 'window shopping'
Free-ISP
closures stranding millions
With the erosion of online ad spending and
growing concerns about just how many people notice banner ads anyway, free ISPs
are fading fast. E-Holiday
Bells Ring : Cha-Ching
Holiday shoppers reportedly expect to spend 38
percent of their holiday budget online this year. Also, online advertising in
France, and the No. 1 myth in online marketing. Oracle
Aims to be the Microsoft of e-biz
Larry Ellison built Oracle Corp. into
the world's No. 2 software maker by dominating the database business. Now, he
wants to own the e-business market -- all of it. Napster,
Click Rates Rising
Click rates for top banner ads jumped in October, and,
despite its legal difficulties, Napster rose to 22nd in terms of unique visitors
for the month At
Least Online Campaign News Stats Are Official
Eighteen percent of Americans
went online for election information during the 2000 campaign. Also, increasing
the banner ad response rate, and the use of online banking by U.S. households
grew by 60 percent in 2000.
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