Oracle releases Fusion Apps

The first release of Oracle's Fusion Applications will be generally available in the first quarter of 2011, CEO Larry Ellison said during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, says Computerworld.

"We knew we had to do a next-generation, bringing together the best features of PeopleSoft, E-business suite and Siebel," he said. "More than five years later, we're finally there. It was an enormous amount of work... It has been, and continues to be, an enormous engineering effort."

Oracle had to re-implement those features "on top of a modern middleware infrastructure," namely Oracle's own Fusion Middleware, Ellison said.

Online shopping in China reached 250 billion yuan ($37 billion) in the first half of 2010, equal to the whole of last year, according to Chinanews, writes PeopleDaily.com.

A Ministry of Commerce report says there are now more than 100 million online shoppers in China. Most are female, as are the majority of online shop owners.

Xu Ruihong, CEO of Febay International E-commerce Great China, told the 2010 Guangzhou E-business Trade Conference that since females dominate online buyers, female retailers are best placed to understand their needs.

Verizon has announced an online tool that makes the process of analysing and selecting the right mobile solution for businesses of all sizes, notes PR Newswire.

The Business Solution Finder is claimed to enable customers to search the online portfolio of industry-specific, best-in-class partners by industry, business need, and operating system platform and business segment.

All partners presented in the Business Solution Finder, the company says, offer unique wireless solutions that can be integrated into the Verizon network.