Thursday 3 January 2019

E-Commerce Minute

E-Commerce Minute: Thursday -- January 3, 2019

The E-Commerce Times -- E-Business Means Business
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4 Retail Tech Trends to Watch in 2019
2019 CRM Wish List
The Economics of E-Commerce Chargeback Fraud
6 E-Commerce Shipping Strategies That Level the Playing Field for SMBs

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4 Retail Tech Trends to Watch in 2019

Year over year, we see the numbers. In 2017, e-commerce represented 49
percent of all total retail growth, up 16 percent. If this year's
$119.99 billion holiday shopping season spend indicates anything, it's
that 2018 is projected to be yet another banner year for commerce.
Online shopping will hit unprecedented, never-before-seen rates of
growth, and it'll be all thanks to technology.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85766.html

2019 CRM Wish List

I've been writing a forecast column every year at least since W was
president. Nothing's wrong with that, lots of people do. However, I
often find that my forecast is more of a wish list than a true
prognostication, so this time I'll dispense with the fiction of
analytical rigor and just say what I think needs to happen. First, the
industry is consolidating. The big and successful companies are
competing on a different plane than the smaller ones.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85765.html

The Economics of E-Commerce Chargeback Fraud

E-commerce fraud is an ongoing problem for online merchants and credit
card companies. It has been growing at twice the rate of e-commerce
sales. Identity theft traditionally has been one of the most common
sources of e-commerce fraud, but online merchants increasingly have been
suffering more from chargeback fraud, which requires them to absorb the
costs of disputed credit card transactions.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85763.html

6 E-Commerce Shipping Strategies That Level the Playing Field for SMBs

E-commerce continues to become more competitive as large companies like
Amazon, Target and Walmart soak up market share and customer attention.
Shipping window expectations have become shorter, and many online
retailers struggle to keep up, particularly SMBs. How can SMBs compete?
Not only is competing possible, there are many SMBs that have been
finding exceptional success.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85757.html

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Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Thursday -- January 3, 2019

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Voice-Controlled Online Entertainment Is Gaining Traction
Kodachi Builds Privacy Tunnel for Linux
DNA Printing in the Cloud, Part 3
The Smartest Tech Products of 2018
It's Time to Take a Hard Look at Healthcare Cloud Security

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Voice-Controlled Online Entertainment Is Gaining Traction

Smart speakers are becoming a more common platform for controlling
connected entertainment due to a rapid increase in popularity and ease
of use. Household penetration of smart speakers is expected to reach 47
percent among U.S. broadband households by 2022. New entrants in the
connected consumer electronics market are likely to make announcements
about new voice-controlled speakers at CES 2019
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85767.html

Kodachi Builds Privacy Tunnel for Linux

Online and Internet security are not topics that typical computer users
easily comprehend. All too often, Linux users put their blind trust in a
particular distribution and assume that all Linux OSes are equally
secure. However, not all Linux distros are created with the same degree
of attention to security and privacy control. Kodachi Linux offers an
alternative to leaving them to chance.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85762.html

DNA Printing in the Cloud, Part 3

DNA printing has given rise to the world's first "DNA printer" on the
market, a claim advanced by the product's creators. The BioXp 3200
System is available from SGI-DNA, a division of Synthetic Genomics, a
San Diego biotechnology company. The BioXp 3200 System is a DNA/RNA
assembler and synthesizer made out of steel, glass, plastic, insulated
wire, laboratory instruments and microprocessors.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85764.html

The Smartest Tech Products of 2018

Picking a product of the year is anything but trivial because the
products I cover every week range from headphones to laptops to books,
cars and more. So, I thought I'd try something different this year and
pick six products that each deserve the title and then name a winner
that stands out from the rest. This allows me to simplify the task and
get around a bit of a writer's block I've been having on this subject.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85761.html

It's Time to Take a Hard Look at Healthcare Cloud Security

The healthcare cloud has been growing incredibly, becoming an ever-more-
important element of health information technology, or HIT. There are
many reasons why the HIT cloud has been becoming more prominent, such as
research and development and collaboration. Since the cloud has been
expanding so rapidly, this may be a good time to reconsider security.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85759.html

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The Morning After: Apple's bad news

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It's Thursday, January 03, 2019.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

Everyone’s back, and just in time too -- a pair of space missions are making history from Earth’s moon to the Kuiper Belt, and we’re preparing for an 8K onslaught during CES. Also, Tim Cook gave Apple investors some bad news, and Tesla is cutting prices on its cars.

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Crush the ‘gram.

China's Chang'e-4 touches down on the far side of the moon

While you were sleeping, China’s space program was making history. Its Chang’e-4 lander is the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the far side of the moon, and the mission already sent back pictures of the surface via a relay satellite.

The farthest flyby in human history

New Horizons probe sends back clear images of a distant Kuiper Belt object

The snapshots, captured from as close as 17,000 miles away, show that the 21-mile-long Kuiper Belt object (486958) 2014 MU69 is a "contact binary" where two spheres slowly collided and fused. The two may have linked up "99 percent of the way" to the start of the Solar System, Johns Hopkins University APL said.

The shutdown won’t stop Project Soli.

Google wins FCC approval to keep developing radar-based hand sensor

Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) team has been working on Project Soli since 2015. The gesture-based system uses broad beam radar to detect and capture hand movements, turning them into commands for mobile devices. Until now, though, the tech has been restricted, with some companies -- including Facebook -- claiming that the frequency levels required might interfere with existing technology. Now, the FCC has granted a waiver that will allow Soli to operate at higher levels than currently allowed.

Get ready.

LG's 2019 TVs add HDMI 2.1 and 8K

With CES 2019 right around the corner, LG just dropped in a preview of its upcoming TVs. They include two 8K models (an 88-inch OLED and a 75-inch LCD), but more importantly, models will pack HDMI 2.1. That’s crucial for anyone trying to watch 8K without plugging in four HDMI 2.0 cables, and also for delivering high frame rate (HFR), enhanced audio return channel (eARC) or gamer-friendly features like variable refresh rate (VRR) and automatic low latency mode (ALLM). There’s also an updated processor inside that can automatically adjust the picture and sound based on room conditions, and an Amazon Prime button on remotes for Alexa routines.

Uh-oh.

Apple blames China struggles and slow iPhone upgrades for earnings miss

Apple has lowered sales guidance for its first fiscal quarter (October to December of last year) from a minimum of $89 billion down to $84 billion due to a variety of factors, most notably due to "fewer iPhone upgrades than we had anticipated." Most of the shortfall, Apple said, stemmed from China's weak economy. The company added that its reduced iPhone battery replacement prices might have also played a role by encouraging people to keep their iPhones a while longer.

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1. USB-C could soon offer protection against nefarious devices

2. Tesla slashes EV prices by $2,000 to offset reduced tax credits

3. New 'Meditations' gaming platform will debut one short game each day of the year

4. YouTuber Logan Paul hit new lows in 2018, but it doesn't seem to matter

5. Hacker forces internet-exposed Chromecasts and smart TVs to play a particular YouTube video

6. Roku's free movie and TV channel is adding premium subscriptions

7. UN ambassador Nikki Haley gives up 1.6 million followers to satisfy the State Dept.

8. Latest 'Fallout 76' bug disabled nukes on New Year's Day

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Wednesday 2 January 2019

E-Commerce Minute

E-Commerce Minute: Wednesday -- January 2, 2019

The E-Commerce Times -- E-Business Means Business
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Part of the ECT News Network

Headline Scan
The Economics of E-Commerce Chargeback Fraud
6 E-Commerce Shipping Strategies That Level the Playing Field for SMBs
Is Weak Data Integrity Foiling Your CRM?
The Do's and Don'ts of Designing a Great Digital UX

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Today's Story Highlights

The Economics of E-Commerce Chargeback Fraud

American companies spend an enormous amount of money on training.
Spending reached more than $90 billion in 2017, an increase of over 32
percent from 2016. It's unlikely that even a small share of the billions
spent on training last year were devoted to educating and motivating
employees to regularly and accurately input data into a company's CRM.
Maybe it should have been.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85758.html

The Do's and Don'ts of Designing a Great Digital UX

In tech parlance, the emotional result of a person's interaction with a
website or digital app is called "user experience" or "UX" -- and the
success of a business depends on it. Users who have easy, positive
experiences with websites and apps likely will be drawn back to the
business. On the contrary, websites and apps with poor navigation and
slow loading times likely will turn off consumers.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85756.html

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