Stories about: ECOM

USB flash drives are very small, very portable, very convenient -- and very easy to lose. In fact, the question to ask these days isn't how to avoid losing your flash drive, but how to make sure your data is safe when you do. As a result, Computerworld decided it was time to look at seven USB flash drives that are outfitted with security features to keep your data safe.

Sun has released the final version of its Open Document Format (ODF) plug-in for Microsoft Office, designed to allow the ODF standard to better compete with Microsoft's dominant Office formats.

Although EBPP (electronic bill presentment and payment) has long been a key component of b-to-c transactions, b-to-b transactions are still largely handled by legacy, batch-oriented methods, such as ACH (Automated Clearing House). To CTOs and other business leaders, EBPP may not seem like a huge priority but it should. Legacy methods of supporting electronic transactions require separate communications programming and integration efforts for each trading partner. This adds to the cost of processing b-to-b transactions and also makes it difficult to add or change trading partners.

Telephony hardware provider Avaya Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a new VOIP (voice over IP) networking tool that lets enterprises gauge the potential impact of new voice applications on existing data networks.

Adacel attracts Intel for e-business pushListed software developer Adacel Technologies has entered an alliance with Intel through which the US chip manufacturer will provide marketing assistance for Adacel's applications in Australia and the Asia/Pacific region.

A new level of Mac reseller has been born with PC dealers moving to become Authorised Apple Solutions Resellers.

Chrome Global takes the unusual step of outsourcing its software development to Vietnamese programmers, Powerlan takes its training program to India, and Wavenet builds base stations for Motorola customers around the world. And there was plenty more action around the traps during this very busy week

ASX-listed Powerlan's training subsidiary the Australian IT Careers Institute (AITCI) has entered an agreement with a similar British-based firm to provide trans-national training courses for Indian students.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body charged with overseeing the creation of Internet domain names and with resolving domain name disputes, has unveiled the list of the new proposed top level domain (TLD) names.

Fullerton, Calif.-based Internet marketplace Ecom Textile and Easysourcing.net, of Hong Kong, a business-to-business vertical portal site for apparel, textile, and accessories, this week announced a partnership to enhance the exchange of information across each other's Web sites to support the textile, apparel, machinery, and sewn products industries.

Stand next to any graduate business school these days, and you may hear some strange rumblings. Unless you're standing on a fault line, chances are the buildings themselves aren't coming down. The reverberations are less tangible than aftershocks, but they have far greater implications for the future of graduate business education and the greater business world. They are the sounds of e-commerce shaking business schools to their cores.