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Friday, August 31, 2012

Amazon to beat Walmart by 2020

Technology for e-commerce is geared to drive some big battles, like the one engaging Amazon and Wallmart for the world´s biggest retailer title.

Not long ago people were thinking that online commerce would replace the traditional way of shopping. They also thought stores would disappear, and then got all excited about it. That has not happened yet, and it seems will not, completely, at least not in the foreseeable future. Physical stores are not going to disappear because people really enjoy taking walks to the nearest mall just as much as they like window shopping downtown, or being able to touch and feel the quality of the products they are getting. Online stores have not come up with a better alternative to that, so far.

On the other hand, there is no substitute for efficiency, excellent customer care, logistical speed, and the comfort of being able to purchase something that is only available in far away locations, even if that means across the globe. These are aspects where Amazon started to make a huge difference years ago, and since then many others have tried following, either successfully or otherwise.

As a sign of the times we are living, Walmart has decided to develop Polaris, which is its own e-commerce search engine designed to help it compete at a large scale with online giants like Amazon or Google. The idea is to produce more relevant results for customers' queries on the

Searching for the future e-commerce solution

2012 might very well confirm a drive towards what could amount to be a trending movement where different platforms could converge.

Keywords such as innovation and internationalization are more often becoming part of our vocabulary. The reason for this is that international markets are becoming a necessity, rather than an option, to fill up the gap left by the local options for companies to sell their products and services.

Similar to the convergence of internet, TV and phones into one device, a major

Microsoft launching new TV service

In order to compete with Apple's iTV and Google TV, services anounced earlier, Microsoft is entering the Internet TV arena which looks every time more competitive and promising.

There are infinite possibilities for all three, and others to come, if we consider the increasing computing power of new devices, which allows companies to offer millions of apps and services that will be have to be introduced by this sector, which is starting to shake up due to the impact internet will most likely

Google Voice initiative

Google is offering free phone calls from within the United States and people are taking advantage of this service. Some people have also placed calls from Europe to the States using PCs or other devices, and it seems there is no charge either. The idea is nice for the company, if it later will be used to gain a greater

Heavy competition drives Fujitso - Toshiba merger in mobile phone market

Aiming to become the leading supplier in Japan, the merger is to be completed by October 1, 2010. So far, the two companies hace been supplying phones that are re-branded by others.

Based on the state of the japanese economy, more mergers like this one are expected.

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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Apple blocking rivals from accessing its apps

In an sudden move, Appple has decided to block some rival brands from accessing its apps.

One of these is iTunes which Palm Pre is able to synch with. This is one of the ways Palm was planning on going after Apple, even though it was predictably hard to do.