Article links for today are about the next generation of Digital Rights Management for Movie downloads, Cloud Computing, and Google & China followup.
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Tags: DRM, Anti-Piracy, Cloud Computing, eBusiness, Cyber Attacks, Security

Article links for today are about the next generation of business computing, Google & China followup, and the New M-Commerce Frontier.
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Tags: Cloud Computing, eBusiness, Microsoft, HP, Google, Security, Cyber Attacks

Article links for today are about 2009s Patent King, Canada’s Privacy, Social Media & B2B, and high fines for data security breaches.
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Tags: Privacy, Patents, eBusiness, Security

Article links for today are about online banking, language barrier, call for increase of wireless internet access, Microsoft’s IE ambitions and cloud computing.
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Tags: Internet, eBusiness, Government, Microsoft

Article links for today are about looking back to Y2K and a somewhat humorous 2020 Vision.
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Tags: Internet, eBusiness, Government

In 1998 there were various moves towards XML as an EDI replacement. Towards the end of that year UN/EDIFACT users demanded that UNECE (CEFACT) created an XML solution in order to protect is investment and leading role as the standards setter in electronic information exchange.
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Tags: XML, EDI, eBusiness

The question left unanswered in my last posting was “Does XML have the advantage over EDI to open up eCommerce to small and medium-size businesses?”; There is no question that XML has changed the eBusiness world.
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Tags: eCommerce, EDI, XML, eBusiness

Lately I see more and more eBusiness standards/specifications being release with the promise that the new solution can be easily implemented by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). To me this is a clear indication that those responsible for the new specification are clueless about what the SMEs needs really are.
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Tags: eBusiness, EDI

Yesterday I made the point that today’s eBusiness standards/specification are way to complex for the implementers and that most standards/specification creators are assuming that small and medium-sized companies/businesses don’t care what is under the hood as long as it is simple the way their current fax works.
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Tags: eBusiness, eGovernment

In my last postings I asked the questions “where are the Simple eBusiness solutions?” and “if it works, why change?” I will ask now “what would it take to develop a eBusiness solution for SMEs to engage in the automated exchange of electronic data?”
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Tags: eBusiness, EDI

I was made aware that CEFACT is currently reassessing stakeholder needs and priorities to ensure that its work is addressing the most urgent requirements. On the surface this looks like a great idea, however ...
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Tags: eBusiness, Government, Trade, CEFACT

Can Information Exchange Standards Meet eBusiness Needs?

For years eBusiness information exchange standards and specifications, utilizing the latest thinking and technology, have been released with the promise that this latest solution can easily be implemented throughout the global business community.
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Tags: eBusiness