E-STRATEGIES AND TRENDS

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E-STRATEGIES & TRENDS

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  • Online Consumer Confidence Rising
  • Web Development Reigns
  • AOL's Global Strategy Looks Grim
  • Global Governments Go Online
  • VCs Helped Create 7.6 Million Jobs Over 30 Years
  • Permission is key to email marketing
  • 84M in the US Will Plug Into Wireless Internet by 2005
  • In-Building Wireless Infrastructure to Top $1B
  • Online Usage in U.S Dips in September
  • Bad news on tap from Japan's chipmakers
  • Tech Start-Ups Spend More On Marketing
  • Web Attacks Doubled In Last Year
  • Lower IT spending ahead
  • U.S. e-commerce returning to pre-attack levels
  • Sifting for gold in Net data
  • IT Spend Up For Consumer Goods Firms
  • Outsourcing Trends
  • New Study Proves Financial Rewards of Customer Satisfaction
  • Wireless Pricing Bytes
  • Worldwide IT Growth Slowed By N. American Dip In Road
  • Banks Benefit From Online Services
  • Booming Firewall Market

Online Consumer Confidence Rising
After the horrendous attacks on September 11th, consumers snapped shut their pocketbooks. To many, it seemed almost disrespectful to the victims to go to the mall or log on to the Internet to purchase frivolities.

Web Development Reigns
Programmers are increasing the time they spend developing for the Internet and building Web services

AOL's Global Strategy Looks Grim
AOL Time Warner's efforts to grow business internationally are beginning to look as productive as growing rice in the desert.

Global Governments Go Online
According to a recent "E-government" report from World Markets Research Centre, conducted by Brown University, 28% of government websites in North America offer online services.

VCs Helped Create 7.6 Million Jobs Over 30 Years
VCs have helped launch U.S. companies that created 7.6 million jobs while generating $1.3 trillion in total revenue during past three decades.

Permission is key to email marketing
A new report from Forrester advises email marketers to provide relevant content in their messages, and to keep those messages short and reasonably infrequent.

84M in the US Will Plug Into Wireless Internet by 2005
Business Users Will Lead Wireless Data Usage; Consumer Adoption Forecast to Take Off in 2003

In-Building Wireless Infrastructure to Top $1B
The market for licensed in-building wireless infrastructure in publicly used buildings and areas is growing at 20% per year, and will exceed $1B for the period from 2002 through 2006.

Online Usage in U.S Dips in September
The number of online users in the U.S. fell slightly in September after climbing a bit in August.

Bad news on tap from Japan's chipmakers
Japan's 5 major chip and electronics conglomerates are set to unveil half-year results and fresh full-year earnings forecasts over the next 2 weeks, with the market bracing for more bad news as the global economy sags.

Tech Start-Ups Spend More On Marketing
A new study has found that high-tech B2B start-ups have increased their marketing spend, despite the economic downturn.

Web Attacks Doubled In Last Year
Attacks on web servers doubled in 2001 compared to 2000, and nearly 90 percent of companies surveyed have been infected with worms or viruses, despite having anti-virus software installed

Lower IT spending ahead
Worldwide spending on information technology is falling and likely to move sharply lower next year amid a global economic downturn.

U.S. e-commerce returning to pre-attack levels
In the five weeks following the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, online shopping almost rebounded to its pre-attack levels, although travel services continued to drag

Sifting for gold in Net data
Cash hungry online companies are turning to Web analytics, which organizes customer data collected through cookies and similar tools, to pull in extra revenue as market research.

IT Spend Up For Consumer Goods Firms
Over half of US consumer goods companies are set to increase their IT budgets next year.

Outsourcing Trends
A new study suggests that customers want multiple outsourcing partners--rather than one--in order to choose best-in-class service providers.

New Study Proves Financial Rewards of Customer Satisfaction
Analysis Shows How Customer Retention and Referrals Dramatically Impact Earnings Growth and Shareholder Value Over Time.

Wireless Pricing Bytes
Will the Carriers Ever Make Money from Wireless Data?

Worldwide IT Growth Slowed By N. American Dip In Road
Even before September, 2001 wasn't stacking up as one of the happier years in the IT industry

Banks Benefit From Online Services
New research from Celent Communications has found that cost savings are the major return on investment for banks that have invested in online financial services offerings

Booming Firewall Market
Cahners In-Stat finds that the September 11 attacks provided a definite boost to the security industry and projects booming firewall revenues through 2005.

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