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Nov 1999 (16)
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Salon Technology | When help in the shop is a flop 0 - A short article on online shopping assistant agents -- "Online
shopping sites' cartoon helpers are
a pain "
Link to Customer Service: 0 - eedback Direct, based in Santa Monica, Calif., is creating a Web site that
will link users to the customer-service departments of thousands of
companies. The site, slated for a mid-December launch, will provide
visitors with free forms for filing complaints, compliments, questions,
requests and suggestions. The form will then be routed to the appropriate
company. (Los Angeles Times 9 Nov 99)
Senate Passes Electronic Commerce Bill 0 - The U.S. Senate on Friday passed the Millennium Digital Commerce bill, which
would set standards for electronic signatures and contracts, and would
protect consumers from companies that try to confuse them with electronic
disclosures or compel them to waive their rights to paper records.
Venture firms focus on business-to-business e-commerce 1
THE NEW LAWS of dynamic pricing 0 - Dynamic pricing is a growing trend in e-commerce, as technology
erases issues such as availability and facilitates negotiation,
writes Whit Andrews.
Venture funds for B2B e-commerce all the rage 0 - EDS is only the latest firm to set up a venture fund aimed
at capturing a slice of the lucrative business-to-business
e-commerce niche, widely perceived as the next big
thing on the Internet. In the past two weeks, Andersen
Consulting, Cambridge Technology Partners and Time
Warner announced similar plans.
Nielson//NetRatings 1 - Nielsen//NetRatings has released some numbers about the online holiday shopping frenzy. They started to monitor
e-commerce November 1, and produced a Holiday E-Commerce Index showing traffic for various shopping
categories such as toys, apparel, software, and so on. December 5 was the blowout online shopping day according
to the latest data.
NewML 4 - NewsML is an XML encoding for news which is intended to be used for the creation, transfer and delivery
of news.
NewsML is media independent, and allows equally for the representation of the evening TV news and a
simple textual story.

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