SGI Unveils Integrated E-Comm
Toolkit
Silicon Graphics has introduced an integrated set of tools
designed specifically for Web commerce site developers to create,
manage and deploy commerce storefronts.
Grocer Streamlines Supply Chain
Kings Super Markets has adopted an EDI service that manages the
electronic commerce requirements of the supply chain so that both
retailer and supplier can electronically trade business documents in
their own data formats via their preferred delivery method.
The "Push" Is On for Desktop
Delivery
The Yankee Group predicts that the key to continued growth via
the Internet is desktop delivery, or "push," technologies.
Briefly Noted...
A quick look at the latest news affecting the electronic commerce
industry.
CommerceNet Sponsors EDI-Over-Internet
Initiative
CommerceNet has sponsored an ongoing initiative to demonstrate
and promote the interoperable exchange of EDI data over the Internet.
At the RSA Data Security Conference, five EDI vendors exchanged
digitally-signed data, believed to be the first time that such an
event has occurred.
NetDox Debuts with Internet Messaging
Solution
Deloitte & Touche LLP and the Thurston Group have formed
NetDox, a company that will provide a commercial-quality means of
delivering sensitive and high-value documents over the Internet.
Web Spoofing Is No Laughing
Matter
A Princeton research team has uncovered a major security flaw in
the Web known as "Web spoofing," which allows any Internet server to
place itself between a user and the rest of the Web. In that middle
position, the server may observe, steal and alter any information
passing between the browser and the Web.
CONNECT Teams Up with Strategic
Tech
CONNECT has signed an agreement with Strategic Technologies to
sell, market and integrate CONNECT's OrderStream e-comm application.
Corporate Express, HP Develop E-Comm
Front-End
Corporate Express and Hewlett-Packard are jointly developing an
electronic commerce front-end application for the procurement of
goods and services from Corporate Express.
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