UK e-tailers improve on accessibility

… the need for e-tailers to provide accessible websites. Some highlights from the study: … gainer in the study, raising its accessibility score from a pretty poor 37% to … and John Lewis. Of the 20 accessibility guidelines that Webcredible looked at, the …

Q&A: Dennis Mortensen on Yahoo Analytics

… is often more harmful than good. There's no insights built into that. You need to take the next step — give dashboard access, scheduled emails, custom reports for certain user groups. We're trying to figure out ways to communicate the info. We need to …

Ad wars: AT&T forced to fight Verizon on its own

… 3G network, allows customers to talk and surf the web at the same time, has the most popular smartphones (read: iPhone) and provides access to over 100,000 mobile apps (read: iPhone). In other words, it's seeking to reframe the debate. That's a smart, …

Salesforce.com tries to bring social networking to the workplace

… .com really seems to be making the biggest push: allowing developers to extend its functionality. The Chatter platform gives developers access to APIs that can pull in data "from any app, including on-premise software apps, so that any enterprise app can …

How can etailers handle the Christmas rush?

… Jonathan Bowers: If retailers are struggling to cope and haven’t put anything in place, they may be able to do two things: access extra bandwidth there and then, but this will be difficult on an over contended network, or to bolt on extra servers that …

Google fights scammers with one strike and you're out policy

… keep up with the scammers. The economics of online crime favors scammers. A single hacked computer could easily give scammers access to multiple financial accounts, and infected machines can be bought and sold to botnet operators for a pretty penny. The …

The market for paid news: does size really matter?

… for the news. This includes those who would pay for mobile access. The UK and US tied for last place in the nine countries … that "most consumers (80%) say they wouldn't bother to access newspaper and magazine content online if it were no longer free". …

Why newspapers need brand managers

… readers if they aren't armed with the necessary information about what people think of their brand. A brand manager would have access to all of the relevant data that they need. They would also work closely with the paper's stakeholders to elicit their …

Can News Corp. win its game of chicken with Google?

… results, readers might stop seeing the benefit of paying for access. News Corp. is hoping that other news outlets will come … another search engine like Bing, they could potential give users access without Google. But that is a bet that they could …

Holiday shopping 2009: five tips for online retailers

… are relevant to their profiles. Also consider what you can do to lure in existing customers and make them feel special. Early access to holiday sales, for example, might be a good way to show your existing customers that you're thinking about them. Don' …

EU: no cookies without consent. Will EU affiliate programs be killed?

… in the electronic communications sector, facilitating access to and use of ecommunications for … in such storage or gaining of access. The methods of providing information and … situations where the technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the …

Salon bets on ecommerce for Black Friday and the future

… to monetize online. The 15 year old site installed a pay wall eight years ago, and while online readers could access individual articles after viewing advertising, it was created under the presumption that dedicated readers would pay for content free of …

Is online video destined to look like television programming?

… of online information, but traditional video creators are slowly realizing that online viewers will sit through ads if it means accessing content they want to see. The online video segment is quickly growing.  quality videos have been performing well …

Mobile news sites: best practice tips

… the mobile version when they are accessing on their phones will save time … , and users may prefer to access the full range of content from … for those that want to access it. The Guardian does this … pay 59p per week to access the magazine's content, though its …

Site review: Whistles.co.uk

… , it has made it harder for shoppers to use the site. There are other issues I haven't explored fully, including the accessibility of the site, and the SEO effects of having so much Flash on there. Perhaps this approach works for this particular …