Catalogers’ E-commerce Tech Old and Homegrown

| MCM staff

According to a recent survey of more than 200 catalog companies by Woburn, MA-based on-demand e-commerce technology provider Demandware, standard e-commerce functions such as ordering management, inventory management, and call center applications are most often handled by technology that was developed inhouse.

Yahoo! Shopping’s Mobile Momentum

| Brian Quinton

There are about 200 million cell phones in use in the U.S. today, and the majority of those are capable of using the Internet. The major search engines, and some minor ones, have all shown they recognize that as a gateway to Web information, search will find a way onto the mobile phone someday. The big questions are, what search services will users want to use and pay for, and how far out ahead of this just-emerging market do the engines need to be?