E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Wednesday -- October 29, 2008
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The E-Commerce Times -- E-Business Means Business
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Part of the ECT News Network

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Today's Headlines:
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1. Q&A: How to Stake Out Your Territory in the Online Ad Migration
2. Picture This: Image Processing Grows Up
3. The Obvious, the Easy and the Space Between
4. Sony Delivers on Bleak Expectations
5. Qwest Cuts Workforce as Profits Sag
6. Economic Woes Fail to Throttle Comcast Earnings
7. Microsoft Office to Go the Way of the Web
8. Google Settles Book Search Suits for a Song
9. Net Heavyweights Hammer Out Human Rights Guidelines
10. Yahoo's Zimbra Connects the Campus to the Cloud

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Podcast
CEO Paul Martino on Staking Out Your Online Ad Territory (18:05 minutes)
-- ECT News Network interviewer Blake Glenn speaks with Paul Martino,
CEO of the online advertising and marketing firm Aggregate Knowledge,
about the movement of advertising dollars online and how advertisers are
trying innovative new ways to get you to respond to their message.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-glenn-2008-10-29.mp3

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Story Highlights
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1. Q&A: How to Stake Out Your Territory in the Online Ad Migration
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Paul Martino, CEO of Aggregate Knowledge, describes three categories for
online advertising: Rich media, video and traditional display. Based in
San Mateo, Calif., Aggregate Knowledge provides technology for online
advertising and search. In an ECT News Network exclusive interview,
Martino discusses the present and future of the online advertising
market.

See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/64974.html

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2. Picture This: Image Processing Grows Up
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The money trail of big tech pay-offs began with voice, then moved to
text and now is headed squarely to image data. No longer are businesses
or individuals satisfied with words on a page peppered with flat and
lifeless 2-D images. Today's big data boost is far more colorful and
dynamic than that.

See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/64964.html

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3. The Obvious, the Easy and the Space Between
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Last week NetSuite held a user group meeting in Boston for OpenAir, a
company that they had bought earlier this year. OpenAir, if you don't
know, provides an application for managing professional services
engagements. When integrated with NetSuite's front and back office
applications, the combination provides a lot of functionality for a
professional services group.

See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/64950.html

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4. Sony Delivers on Bleak Expectations
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Sony posted a 90 percent fall in quarterly profit as the global slowdown
boosted the yen, battered stocks and stoked price competition, and the
company kept its annual profit outlook of a 58 percent decline. The
steep profit slide was expected after the electronics and entertainment
conglomerate last week cut its annual operating profit forecast by 57
percent.

See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/64979.html

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5. Qwest Cuts Workforce as Profits Sag
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Qwest Communications posted a profit for its third quarter Wednesday,
but said the continued slide of its traditional phone business is
forcing it to cut 1,200 jobs, 3 percent of its workforce. The cuts will
come before the end of the year, which will leave the company with
33,500 employees, 9 percent fewer than at the end of last year.

See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/64978.html

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6. Economic Woes Fail to Throttle Comcast Earnings
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Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator, on Wednesday reported a 38
percent increase in earnings for the third quarter as a sharp drop in
capital spending and higher cable TV rates buoyed its bottom line.
Bucking the trend among cash-strapped companies, Comcast also said it
expects to exceed its free cash flow growth forecast of at least 20
percent in fiscal 2008.

See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/64975.html

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7. Microsoft Office to Go the Way of the Web
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Software behemoth Microsoft on Tuesday gave the first demonstration of
its online Office suite, which is due for release in early 2010. The
move comes after Google launched a set of online applications last year
and the recent launch of IBM's Lotus Symphony set of free online
services.

See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/64977.html

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8. Google Settles Book Search Suits for a Song
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Search engine giant Google has settled two copyright lawsuits over its
Google Book Search program for $125 million. In two separate lawsuits,
the New York City-based Author's Guild and McGraw-Hill sued Google in
2005, alleging it had violated copyright laws through its scanning and
online distribution of copyrighted and out-of-print books.

See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/64971.html

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9. Net Heavyweights Hammer Out Human Rights Guidelines
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Several high-profile technology companies, human rights organizations,
academics and investors have joined forces to launch the Global Network
Initiative. Announced Tuesday, the GNI intends to protect and advance
freedom of expression and privacy throughout the information and
communication technology industry.

See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/64972.html

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10. Yahoo's Zimbra Connects the Campus to the Cloud
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The Yahoo-owned open source messaging software firm Zimbra announced
Tuesday that it's taking its act into the cloud. Universities and other
educational institutions can now access the Zimbra Collaboration Suite
via Yahoo's worldwide infrastructure. Formerly, Zimbra was managed by
users on-premise; however, now they can choose a delivery method.

See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/64969.html

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