Hello? Videophones planned as e-commerce devices

If J.D. de Haseth has his way, customers of HSN and Paramount Pictures will press buttons on their Internet-based telephones early next year to purchase general merchandise and movie tickets.

Posted 08/16/2005Kurt PetersPost a comment

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FordDirect routing more customer calls over the Internet to dealers

FordDirect is expanding a Voice Over Internet Protocol service to route consumer calls to more Ford and Lincoln-Mercury dealers. The service also helps dealers track the addresses of callers to better control ad campaigns, FordDirect says.

Posted 08/03/2004Paul DemeryPost a comment

The key to free

Free or low-cost tools offer big potential to retailers with small budgets—as long as they can cover the hidden costs.

Posted 04/01/2009Internet RetailerPost a comment

Don’t Call Us...

Jaduka combines the Internet and conventional telephones to help e-retailers reach out and touch someone.

Posted 04/30/2007Internet RetailerPost a comment

Tug of War

Philip Krim, president and co-founder of online retailer The Merrick Group, is on a roll. His company doubled sales last year to about $9 million, and he expects to come close to doubling that amount this year. “We’ve been growing tremendously,” he says.Merrick Group, with four web sites that sell bedding supplies, embodies the power of the Internet by figuring out how to capitalize on its open nature to meet specific needs of consumers and...

Posted 04/28/2006Internet RetailerPost a comment

It`s survival of the fastest. As broadband grows, so will pressure to add multimedia apps

On the Internet, fast is fuel. And these days, nothing spells speed like broadband. Twice as fast as a 56Kbps modem, broadband Internet access via DSL service or cable modem puts muscle behind highly interactive applications that soak up bandwidth, speeding downloads and smoothing out jerky audio, video and animated features. For e-retailers, broadband promises to jazz up the selling space by making existing bells and whistles work faster and...

Posted 12/26/2000Don DavisPost a comment

/ Press Release

Interactive Intelligence Releases Interaction SIP Station

New communications device offers affordable, reliable and simple alternative to IP desk phones INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 16, 2009 -- Interactive Intelligence (Nasdaq: ININ), a global provider of unified IP business communications solutions, is releasing the Interaction SIP Station™, a new communications endpoint device designed as an affordable, reliable and simple alternative to IP desk phones. “While IP desk phones increasingly offer sophisticated...

Posted 11/23/2009

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VoSKY Launches Web Click-to-Call Back

Offering Businesses a Cost-effective Way to Enhance Online Sales and Support Sunnyvale, Calif., July 14, 2009 – VoSKY, the market leader in developing Skype for business solutions, delivers Web Click-to-Call Back (C2CB), a valued service that seamlessly integrates a company’s website to its phone system to provide real-time communication between the company and visitors to its website. This unique service allows website visitors to instantly talk...

Posted 07/14/2009