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The U.S. Department of Commerce reports that 2005 U.S. e-commerce sales rose to $86.3 billion -- 25 percent over 2004 sales. Yet e-commerce represents only around 2 percent of U.S. retail sales.

Across the U.S., city-sponsored plans to provide low-cost wireless Internet access have sparked opposing pieces of legislation in the House and the Senate. H.R. 2726 would prohibit municipal governments from offering telecommunications, information or cable services, while S.B.

"Just as parks have benches and trees, community wireless is a community benefit," according to a nonprofit Wi-Fi provider in New York City. "Wi-Fi has become an amenity that's almost a necessity for the business traveler," says one ASU professor. Another professor at the W. P.

Cultural compatibility, along with quality software engineering and support, made India-based Tata Consultancy Services a $2.24 billion software outsourcing company with a tight grip on the Western market.

Keyword searches can be a waste of valuable time, affecting productivity in a company with an extensive database. New research from an information systems professor at W. P.

Banner Health System saved $5 million and saw misdiagnosis claims from patient lawsuits drop 58 percent in just a year thanks to an insightful collaboration between hospitals and doctors determined to change the status quo.

Online retailers looking to connect with customers and increase sales and profits would be wise to demonstrate values that appeal to those customers, according to researchers in the Department of Information Systems.

  Associate Professor Marilyn Prosch heads up the "Privacy by Design Research Initiative" at the W. P. Carey School's Department of Information Systems.

When James Kallof Jr. and Joey Calca were undergraduates in W. P.

 Despite summer session classes, the pace at the university slows a bit between May graduation and the start of the fall semester. But research activity among faculty never really loses momentum. Uday Kulkarni is one example.