Anne Chen

When Body Shop Digital started planning its leap into e-business last year, CEO Patti Purcell, like most business-to-consumer e-commerce managers, thought the most important thing was attracting eyeballs to her new site. Revenues and profits, Purcell thought, could wait. But as 2000 wore on and the dot-com obituaries started piling up—particularly among other B2C health […]

Its ZanyBrainy.com llcs second holiday e-tailing season, and at the educational toy retailer, no ones going home early for the holidays. With the electronic retailing arm of Zany Brainy Inc. depending on the make-or-break holiday season for 60 percent of its profits, ITers will be putting in 14-hour days, making sure the Web site stays […]

Try as he may to secure telecommuters systems, Gerry Cullen, director of special projects at Detroit Diesel-Allison BC Ltd., in Vancouver, British Columbia, knows theres only so much he can do to keep corporate secrets from walking away when a company laptop PC is stolen. Forget hackers. IT managers like Cullen are becoming increasingly concerned […]

Hackers beware! if you think the telecommuters at Lexis-Nexis are easy targets, youd better think again. These telecommuters are not the kind who disable anti-virus software to download the latest version of Napster, thereby creating holes that hackers can use to access their companys network. Armed with strict security policies, firewalls on laptops, virus-scanning software […]