Archive for February 2008

Be Prepared To Pay More For Tech Expertise

admin • February 12th, 2008 • Investment, entrepreneur

IT organizations will pony up decent size pay raises this year, despite the past few shaky economic months, thanks to continuing business investment in networking initiatives and internal application development work.
The move to boost IT compensation, while at the same time meeting company mandates to improve efficiency and cut costs, will remain a big [...]



Checklist When Shopping for a Shopping Cart

admin • February 12th, 2008 • IT Spotlight

Your site might be the belle of the ball. The pages are stunning, aptly attracting attention to your wares. And the material is smartly written, conveying every tidbit of information a potential buyer might ever want. A key part of that total package is missing, however, unless customers can gather the goods they want to [...]



E-commerce sales to boom for next 5 years

admin • February 12th, 2008 • Featured Articles

February 5, 2008 (Computerworld) Online retail sales in the U.S. are expected to grow about $20 billion to $30 billion each year for the next five years, reaching somewhere between $215 billion and $335 billion by 2012, according to two recently released reports on e-commerce.
In 2007, non-travel-related e-commerce sales reached $175 billion, [...]



Nokia integrates Google into its search application

admin • February 12th, 2008 • IT Spotlight

February 12, 2008 (IDG News Service) Nokia will integrate Google’s search engine into its own search application on four of its latest phones unveiled at the Mobile World Congress, the companies said on Tuesday.
Google will appear on the N96, N78, 6210 Navigator and the 6220 classic in select markets at [...]



Microsoft spurned, but will likely win Yahoo in the end

admin • February 12th, 2008 • IT Spotlight, News

February 11, 2008 (Computerworld) Now that Yahoo Inc. has formally turned down Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover bid, some industry observers say the most likely outcome is that Microsoft will raise its offer and Yahoo will be forced to accept it.
Today, Yahoo’s board told Microsoft that its $31 per [...]