Archive for the 'Ecommerce' Category

Nokia will host commercial OMA PoC and Presence services for 3

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Nokia will host commercial Push to talk over Cellular (PoC) and Presence services for 3 Scandinavia in Sweden and Denmark, thus allowing the operator to roll out the solution more quickly and efficiently. The service, enabling people to use their mobile phones like walkie-talkies, communicating with a selected group or with individuals at the push [...]

Online Internet Shopping is the Craze in Australia

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Aussies and the world are logging on in record numbers, recent surveys conducted found that:
• Australians spent an average of $471 online in November (Nielson/NetRating)
• The number of Australian shoppers utilising the Internet has grown exponentially, almost doubling to 2.3 million in the past twelve months (news.com.au)
• 68% of Australians have a home Internet connection (Nielson/NetRating)
• Australians are spending [...]

Os Commerce - An Intro

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Executive Summary
eCommerce platforms are being commoditized. Enterprise level solutions are coming down in price and new open source solutions are being made available to anyone with an internet connection for free.
The most robust of these open source solutions is OS Commerce (OSC) &ndash a community driven eCommerce solution that is flexible, scalable, and user friendly. [...]

Online Or Offline, Price Comparison Tools Help Consumers Shop Smart

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

While comparison shopping is nothing new, the way shoppers conduct their research is. Years ago, shoppers combed through retail shelves in pursuit of the perfect deal, an effort that took time, effort and gas. Today, the web fills the gap between time and space with an array of comparison shopping sites that offer customer reviews, [...]

Online Payments Make It Easy For Your Customers To Buy

Friday, March 13th, 2009

In the last column we discussed the process of credit card enabling your brick-and-mortar business. I pointed out that research has shown that accepting credit cards can help increase revenue and speed up cash flow. This week we will look at setting up an online payment system for your business website. If you think hooking [...]

Online purchase of flowers

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

To a great extent our day to day life has a great relation with the existing and developing computer trends which has in many ways made our life a bit easier in some sense of the term
To particularize on this context I take the opportunity to focus on the online shopping system which offers more [...]

Online Purchase Parameters Fortified and Simplified

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

An interesting ruling was made in the British Court of Appeals recently ...
The justices determined that British customers who use a credit card abroad or on the internet will be given the same protection as those who shop in Britain.
This decision allows purchasers to reclaim funds from their card company if the product they buy [...]

Online Trading Speeds Up

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Online trading flourished during the dot-com boom and remains a popular way for individual investors to manage their portfolios. Long gone are the days when one needed to call a stockbroker to trade stock and the high fees associated with such one-on-one transactions.
Traditional online trading is conducted using a Web browser and an online broker. [...]

Online Shopping Boom in Australia

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Online Shopping
As everyone knows, the Internet is a great place to find bargains and great deals on any product you can name. Want heated socks? You’ll find them online. Discount books? No problem. Any and everything can now be purchased online, and most Internet shoppers know that buying online is [...]

Online Turnkey Sites - Good and Bad

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

You have decided to open a site online, but are not sure where to start. This brings us to the subject of the online turnkey sites.
Online Turnkey Sites &ndash Good and Bad
An online turnkey site comes in a couple of variations. All of them are designed to give you a base to work off for [...]