New research from eCommera suggests that online retailers are learning as much as they could about what works in their business – because they’re not taking a rigorous-enough approach to measuring profitability.

Online services such as ‘click and collect’ will be key to helping out-of-town retailers to turn around their fortunes in coming years. But those trading in these locations must now compete on customer service as well as purely on price.

Debenhams is outsourcing production of the photography and video for its website to ecommerce fashion photographer Fashshot.

Ministry of Sound apps for iPhone and Windows Phone 7 allow groovers to buy tickets and tunes

From November Ministry of Sound will be the first major music brand in the world to enable music lovers to purchase club tickets and provide delivery of club tickets to their mobiles via an App, in partnership with Trinity Mobile

Electronics retailer Best Buy’s much-anticipated ecommerce site is now live. Features include advice, reviews, delivery from free, and a price promise to match its rivals’ prices.

Do you have a single view of your customer, that shows you how and when they deal with your organisation? If not, you’re far from alone, according to new research.

An Internet Retailing webinar to be held on November 16 will focus on how etailers can use email and social media to recover abandoned shopping baskets and web forms. Find out more about the event here.

Peter Rowe, managing director of affilinet UK looks at how internet retailers can best prepare their marketing campaigns for the festive rush online and how affiliate marketing can help direct consumers to their websites to make their Christmas purchases.

Retailers are now more likely to send their customers’ goods by premium services than by their economy equivalents, says delivery specialist Metapack.

Department store Debenhams has extended its online offer to Ireland. Shoppers can take advantage of free delivery until November 21.

This Christmas, as many as 7.7 million time-poor UK consumers with smartphones want to shop on their mobiles to buy gifts, do their food shopping and send presents directly to save time. However, only a handful of the retail giants, such as Tesco, M&S and Amazon, are prepared with mobile shopping sites

Paul Skeldon talks to BT Expedite’s COO Richard Dodd and CTO Steve Thomas about how loyalty schemes are where mobile in retail really comes into its own and how everyone should learn to do ‘the bump’

‘Strong’ growth in online sales at Next helped maintain an overall improvement across the brand, the company said in a management statement.

E-commerce industry body IMRG is joining forces with fellow trade associations Internet Advertising Board (IAB) and the Association for Interactive Media and Entertaiment (AIME) to roll out a joint industry committee on m-commerce – snappily titled MC-JIC – that hopes to, in its words, “represent the whole value chain in m-commerce and m-retail”

Appcelerator, a platform provider for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications has signed an agreement with PayPal to offer a fully integrated mobile commerce offering called Titanium+Commerce to over 8 million PayPal merchants in the first half of 2011

Online property search business, FindaProperty.com has rolled out an app for its online service that uses augmented reality to offer property information overlaid on the screen when users wave their phones about within “the built environment”. Estate Agents tremble with fear

Auto Trader, the UK’s most popular motoring website, has partnered with Nokia to launch an OVI App around the much anticipated Nokia N8 phone launch – driven as much by the device’s caché as by the fact that 18% of the 500,000 visitors to Auto Trader’s .mobi site currently hit it through Nokia devices

While new devices such as the iPad and other tablets are shaking up the consumer facing m-commerce arena, UK device maker X2 is rethinking the of sale (PoS) and shop floor services within retailers with a range of new touchscreen, card swiping, mobile devices

Nick Bond, telco specialist at Zeus Technology, discusses the importance for retailers to make sure the right they have the solutions in place to prevent problems with mobile web performance

BeeBeep.Tv, a website dedicated to the buying and selling of vehicles and vehicle parts, is now allowing people who want to list their car – or parts – on the channel the ability to set up and pay for an advert on a recurring basis via mobile