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Subject: December 2001 ECMgt.com: Year-end 2001 in Review
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December 1, 2001 *4,300 subscribers* Volume 3, Issue 12
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  • Growing Pains...the Birth of New Domains
  • Toys Sold Online Highlighted in Consumer Warnings
  • Hidden Messages: Any There There?
  • EBay To Conduct First Online Auction of New Homes
  • Calculating Costly Content Management
  • Photo Finishing From Afar
  • FastTrack Approaches Napster's Former Popularity
  • Bluelight.com: Not Your Parents K Mart Anymore
  • Broadband defectors on the rise
  • Security Expertise In Short Supply
  • Amazon Heads for the Web-Free Internet
  • U.S. Army leading the way in portal technology
  • Nordic Firms Plan to Boost Remote Working
  • Online Bill Payment Gains Converts
  • Harry Potter Web Sites To Muggle Up With
  • Orbitz Tells U.S. It Brings Competition to Online Travel
  • Online Message Boards Increasingly Screened
  • Salesforce.com Gets into Financial Planning Game
  • Playboy says hacker stole customer info
  • Good News for E-Commerce, but Shoppers Be Wary
  • Dos and Don'ts for Small E-Businesses
  • E-mail overhaul to avoid overload?

Growing Pains...the Birth of New Domains
The highly controversial global top level domain .biz opened up for business on the public stage, the second new TLD approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers this year.

Toys Sold Online Highlighted in Consumer Warnings
Web sites selling toys on the Internet are increasing in popularity, but fail to provide the same choking and age warnings found on toys sold in stores.

Hidden Messages: Any There There?
Niels Provos, a computer science graduate student at the University of Michigan, took the dais at a Stanford University lecture hall Wednesday evening with what seemed a comforting message.

EBay To Conduct First Online Auction of New Homes
Following its purchase of an online auctioneer of foreclosed homes, EBay now steps further into Web real estate sales with an upcoming auction of new homes in L.A. County.

Calculating Costly Content Management
CrownPeak Technology, Calif.-based content management Application Service provider, unveiled its ROI calculator, a new tool for determining return on investment of a firm's content management initiatives.

Photo Finishing From Afar
A proposed standard for moving images across the Internet would let users send prints with a system similar to an ATM network.

FastTrack Approaches Napster's Former Popularity
Napster has been offline since mid-summer and is struggling to put together a marketable subscription product while at the same time, according to a new study, many people are flocking to free peer-to-peer file-swapping alternatives.

Bluelight.com: Not Your Parents K Mart Anymore
K Mart, long the domain of bargain-seeking shoppers, is getting a face-lift on the Internet with the opening of its Hewlett-Packard online store.

Broadband defectors on the rise
Katy Ling, a software consultant who had her home wired for high-speed Internet access last year, did what many technology analysts said would never happen: She bailed out of broadband.

Security Expertise In Short Supply
According to a recent report from online certification company Brainbench, disaster-recovery and network-security skills are scarce within the IT workforce.

Amazon Heads for the Web-Free Internet
With the recent restructuring of Amazon, Bezos looks to be positioning his company to join a race that has barely begun -- Internet commerce that goes beyond the World Wide Web.

U.S. Army leading the way in portal technology
The U.S. Army has created a new intranet portal "Army Knowledge Online" that will provide all 1.2 million active duty soldiers, National Guardsmen, reservists, civilians and contractors a one-stop shop for Army information.

Nordic Firms Plan to Boost Remote Working
The vast majority of Nordic firms plan to let their employees access company data remotely because using mobile technology boosts efficiency

Online Bill Payment Gains Converts
Following numerous anthrax scares, worries about handling mail are almost as strong as concerns over late-arriving payments as a reason people cite in signing up to pay bills online, a new study has found.

Harry Potter Web Sites To Muggle Up With
So you can't quite get to the village of Hogsmeade, but you can chill with Harry Potter and his crew in some rather magical places online.

Orbitz Tells U.S. It Brings Competition to Online Travel
According to online travel site Orbitz - which is run by the airlines themselves - rivals Travelocity and Expedia were operating in a 'cozy market.'

Online Message Boards Increasingly Screened
Critics say double standard exists in favor of harsh, anti-Arab messages

Salesforce.com Gets into Financial Planning Game
Salesforce.com, which hosts CRM applications, has forged a new partnership with Closedloop Solutions, a vendor of financial applications.

Playboy says hacker stole customer info
Playboy.com has alerted customers that an intruder broke into its Web site and obtained some customer information, including credit card numbers.

Good News for E-Commerce, but Shoppers Be Wary
There's good news for online merchants as yet more surveys predict a ho-ho-ho kind of holiday selling season. But it comes with a warning for consumers as another report says online rip-offs of shoppers are on the rise.

Dos and Don'ts for Small E-Businesses
Looking to raise money for a small online business? Experts say that in today's difficult economic environment, some basic tenets for securing financial backing remain

E-mail overhaul to avoid overload?
If you struggle to keep up with today's e-mail volumes, what will you do in the future when you get ten times as many messages, including unsolicited e-mail from corporate systems and alerts from a variety of devices?

 

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