Women, of course, make up 49% of all e-commerce consumers but make more online purchases at 61%.

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In fact, Price Waterhouse Coopers, in their Global Entertainment and Media Outlook report, projects that e-books will make up 50 percent of the U.S. trade book market by 2016.

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Chase Manhattan, for instance, has been talking up the potential savings firms could make through e-billing.

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Osmetech is planning to speed up negotiations with other companies as part of plans to make the e-nose commercially available.

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They will make calls, listen to both e-mail and voice messages and give spoken instructions to pull up stock prices.

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Simple things like adding the ability to take screenshots or video, to modding tools or all the way up to getting seriously involved in E-sports are all ways that companies can make money by keeping fans involved.

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The next day, they met for smoothies in Palo Alto and came up with the idea that became PayPal: a system of electronic payment designed to make e-commerce easy, consistent, and secure.

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She has Outlook set up with folders that she created to store her e-mails under a bunch of names that make sense to her.

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The government has already declared its intention to make the UK the best place in the world for e-commerce and it is attempting to keep the public sector up to speed with developments in the business world.

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