The travel megasite under development by four U.S. airlines got a huge boost last week after 23 U.S. and foreign carriers signed on as associate members. But the added support will leave IT with a big headache.
After six years of stirring the pot about possible Y2K glitches on his Year2000.com Web site, Canadian computer consultant Peter de Jager says he's used to hate mail and pranks.
In a departure from its typical retail roots, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in Bentonville, Ark., is going into the travel business.
The $US10 million bid for the year2000.com domain name turned out to be a hoax - as well as at least four other bids above $2 million.
Three months after Wal-Mart Stores Inc. put the brakes on its Web site redesign, the retail giant relaunched Walmart.com Jan. 1 with a new look, some new products and a few new features.
After six years of creating awareness of possible Year 2000 glitches as the result of the date rollover from 1999 to 2000, Canadian computer consultant Peter de Jager says his work is nearly done and he's ready to cash in his URL.
Leading makers of software for Internet marketing, tracking and analysis are working together to develop a standard for sharing personal information about online customers across different enterprise applications.
British oil giant BP Amoco has outsourced its US accounting processes and related information systems to PricewaterhouseCoopers in a 10-year, $US1.1 billion deal.
The deal is one of the largest business process outsourcing agreements ever.
Internet browser competition is over, and Microsoft is the winner, with Netscape Communications a distant second, declared Zona Research.
The US National Federation of the Blind has filed suit in against America Online, charging its internet service is inaccessible to the blind and violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Whirlpool executives and their implementation partners made a risky and ultimately damaging business decision by going live with an SAP R/3 enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications over the three-day Labour Day holiday, knowing that "red flags" had been raised, according to SAP officials.
E-commerce has opened rich veins of opportunity for many industries within the past year. But in the petroleum industry the well is still running dry.
The recent spate of Web site outages at Charles Schwab & Co and Britannica.com underscores a growing demand for technology that manages the flow of Web content regardless of traffic volume.
Nissan North America has outsourced its entire IT operation to IBM Global Services in a nine and a half-year, $US1 billion deal designed to help Nissan cut costs and streamline its IT operations, company officials said in a statement.
US-based Hershey Foods has reported a 19 per cent decline in third-quarter earnings, blaming the drop on snags in new customer service, warehousing and order fulfillment systems that went live in July.