Independent toy retailer The Entertainer has completed a website refresh and contracted ecommerce specialist Escalate Retail to provide a software suite for the back-end.

The system replaces a bespoke implementation made before thetoyshop.com and The Entertainer's other brand Gadgetshop were acquired, which was deemed too inflexible to be able to cope with the peaks and troughs of traffic.

BizAtomic Introduces Version 5 of its SEO Optimized E3 Ecommerce ...

BizAtomic introduces version 5 of its SEO optimized E3 Ecommerce software. The new version offers many SEO enhancements; including Search Engine Friendly URLs, a large number of HTML code enhancements and standards compliant HTML.

St. Augustine, FL (PRWEB) September 7, 2006 -- BizAtomic, a national leader in Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimized (SEO) ecommerce application development, today announced the release of E3 Ecommerce version 5. E3 is a professional, robust, and reliable ecommerce software system featuring an easy to use shopping experience with a quick checkout process, a web-based admin area that enables on-demand changes to the look and feel of the E3 storefront, and extensive marketing and comprehensive reporting system. BizAtomic augments its E3 websites with a complete line of professional services including SEO, marketing programs, and superior hosting and support.

Mosso's utility hosting turns Impressionistic

As web-based, on-demand computing continues to grow in popularity, there will be plenty of twisting and turning as companies feel the market out.

Digital River Expands E-Commerce Agreement with Skype

Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, announced that it expanded its e-commerce agreement with Skype. As part of the agreement, Digital River is now hosting all of Skypes e-commerce operations and globally supporting the newly designed online Skype Shop. The online Skype Shop, located at www.skype.com/shop, now features multiple languages and currencies.

We continue to expand our presence in the consumer electronics market, deploying large-scale, global e-commerce operations and driving online efficiencies on behalf of leading high-tech companies, said Joel Ronning, Digital Rivers CEO. We are excited to further extend our relationship with Skype, implementing our e-commerce best practices, smart sourcing solution and central management across a very complex shop configuration.

FactCheck: why do we need ID cards?

More hard-hitting words from Blair's monthly press conference in August 2006, when he said that ID cards were "major, major issue for us and will be a major plank of the Labour Party's manifesto at the next election, and that is for a very simple reason, if people want to track illegal migration and organised crime in this country you have got to have identity cards".In February 2007, he emailed more than 27,000 who had signed a petition calling for ID cards to be scrapped as they would not prevent terrorism or crime, and would be yet another tax.Blair kicked off his response by saying that, although ID cards will not prevent all terrorist outrages, they would have an important role to play in making our borders more secure, countering fraud, and tackling international crime and terrorism.

Hulkmania Hits the Water

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Hulk Hogan, one of the most charismatic icons of popular culture and co-host of the new wildly popular NBC-TV show, "American Gladiators," has teamed up with FLW Outdoors to become the celebrity spokesperson of its world renown professional angler fishing tournaments and its new FLW Fantasy Fishing game in 2008, the largest and richest fantasy sports game in the world.

Fans the world over have followed Hogan from his beginnings as the world's biggest pro wrestling star to his induction into the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Hall of Fame, to his many movie and television roles, including his most recent success as the co-host in the over-the-top reality TV show hit, "American Gladiators." The show ranked No. 2 in prime time in the January 14 Nielsen ratings with 10.7 million viewers, according to a report in the New York Times.

Drupal Functionality in Context of Free Web Hosting (php_safe_mode On ...

Drupal is a universal purpose content management system suitable both for beginners as well as advanced webmasters. It is flexible and its functionalities can be multiplied and improved through modules, due to its modular structure. Practically it is suitable for management of any type of content ranging from personal pages and blogs to complex portals and e-commerce websites. .

Posted by: Peter Burrows on January 28

And more than ever, it proposes a vision in which data centers are defined not by a computer architecture, be it mainframe or PC server farm, but around the network itself. That makes sense. After all, almost every kind of software is evolving from something that was written for a particular computing platform, into something that is written to be delivered as a service via the Internet. And not static services, either, but ones that can be adapted at a moment's notice on a users' whim—say, by adding a new widget to Facebook, or a new customer order on Salesforce.com. These days, the communication of information—not just the processing of information—is where the action is. Specifically, the company announced the Nexus 7000, its biggest upgrade of the basic corporate network switch since Cisco started selling its now-ubiquitous Catalyst line in the mid-1990s.