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Online retailers hope the convenience of the Web, plus discounts and deals, spur still-nervous shoppers to spend more online this holiday season - even as traditional retailers brace for mediocre sales.

Ericsson and Kapsch AG have agreed to buy GSM wireless assets from financially-troubled Nortel.

Amazon has led the way in driving acceptance of ebook reader devices with its Kindle, but now the market has gotten crowded.

Fewer organizations expect to outsource IT application development in the coming year, due to concerns about cost and time overruns and a wish to keep initial application work in-house, according to recent research.

London, -- Fujitsu was among the select group of companies that Forrester invited to participate in its recent independent report, "The Forrester Wave: Oracle Services Providers, Q4 2009", Forrester Research, Inc., October 2009.

Cloud computing is poised to win the title of most popular, and populist, buzzword of 2009.

A whopping 80% of U.S. consumers surveyed by Forrester Research said they were unwilling to pay for access to online content.

Forthcoming data from Forrester Research Inc. indicates that Microsoft's blockbuster SharePoint platform is making inroads into records management systems , a subset of enterprise content management .

As Sony Corp. a s e-book devices vie with the Kindle to win over readers, the real showdown may come later: when a shift to electronic textbooks at schools threatens to eclipse the current market for the products.

Indian outsourcers increased their focus on the European market as the recession ended to make up for the loss of business in their main market, the U.S. Their efforts have not been very successful, because these companies are up against resistance to outsourcing in Europe and a preference for suppliers with a significant European presence, ...

Search leader Google again topped the list of consumers' favorite online brands, with Yahoo and Amazon behind it, according to Forrester Research online brand analysis published November 16.

The topic for discussion would be "Risk and Compliance Management: Learning from Leaders and Steps You Can Take". The webinar is scheduled to take place at 9:00 am Pacific on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.

" November 19, 2009 - " Independent analyst firm Forrester Research, Inc. positioned Axway as a Leader in the October 2009 - The Forrester Wavea : B2B Service Providers, Q4 2009' report.

The worldwide recession that has battered so many markets has not spared the market for ERP software -- but that might be good news for ERP buyers, according to Paul Hamerman, analyst with Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research.

If Hewlett Packarda s bid to acquire 3Com is approved, it would give HP data centre core technology that its Procurve unit does not already have.

November 16, 2009, 06:10 PM - IDG News Service - Bad news for newspaper and magazine publishers hoping to boost their flagging businesses by charging for content: Most consumers in the U.S. won't pay for it.

Interactive marketing will grow at a 16% compound annual growth rate over the next five years.

Siperian, Inc., a leading provider of multidomain master data management solutions, recently announced significant financial growth and support of its Siperian MDM Hub .

Strickland, Jonathan. "What happens to all my social networking information when I die?." 11 November 2009.

Corporate IT budgets may have gotten slashed in 2009, but that apparently didn't stop companies from investing in their ERP software this year.