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Food 2.0: Takeout Hits the Web

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

The Web provides an excellent way to order food online, but it has been costly for a local eatery to process orders from the Web. Restaurants were luddites during the genesis of e-commerce; now, with the advent of new services, mom and pop are online. Services including Delivery.com, GrubHub, and SeamlessWeb have made it possible for [...]

Researchers Demo E-Commerce Insecurity

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

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When you see the little padlock icon in your browser, it’s supposed to indicate that the Web page you are visiting is legitimate and that your connection is secure. Today, at the Chaos Computer Club’s annual conference in Berlin, a group of researchers undermined that assumption by exposing flaws in the underlying authentication mechanism [...]

Microsoft’s Black Friday Black Eye

Monday, December 1, 2008

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If Microsoft wants to become a serious Web competitor to Google it should stop tripping over its own feet. On Black Friday, it was offering more apologies than bargains after embarrassing technical glitches incapacitated the company’s Live Search Cashback, scuttling its initiative to gain a larger share of the search market by giving searchers discounts [...]