Local Fulfillment – Part 3
Thanks to Wolfgang Jung at IBM Deutschland GmbHR for telling me about how REI Inc., the outdoor sporting goods retailer, is using IBM E-Commerce Software for local fulfillment. It is great to learn that there are more retailers doing this than I realized. According to a story in Internet Retailer, REI’s in-store pickup is producing […]
Local Fulfillment – Part 2
Thanks to readers David Singer and Ken Corneliusen for pointing out that Circuit City is already offering a form of local fulfillment. They call it the "Express In-Store Pickup option" and it lets you buy online and pick up your purchases at your local Circuit City store "almost immediately". Express In-store Pickup allows you to […]
Local Fulfillment
The digital photography revolution is well under way, as we all know. There is a myriad of solutions for taking pictures and for storing, organizing, retrieving, posting, sharing, and printing them. For grandmothers and great grandmothers the 4" x 6" glossy print is still the preferred medium for sharing and discussing pictures. I decided to […]
Virtually Real and Really Virtual
Last week, IBM announced a new technology solution called the virtualization engine. VE, as it will undoubtedly get called, turns a real datacenter into a virtual datacenter. This is a really big deal. CEO’s, CIO’s, and CFO’s will surely like VE because virtual datacenters require fewer people, offer more reliability, and are much less costly […]
Japan 2004 – Day 5 (Traveling back home)
The Japan Airlines Flight #006 departed Tokyo International Airport in Narita, Japan exactly on time and landed in New York at John F Kennedy airport exactly on time. Upon taking off, the Boeing 747-400 headed north east, crossed the International Date Line, and a huge arc toward the top of the world and then south […]
