Ecommerce
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 |
Amazon.com Inc. launched hosted e-commerce payment services for merchants that want to use a third party solution for their online transaction processing tasks.
These services namely, Checkout By Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay, are the latest services for businesses introduced by Amazon, which is best known for its massive online retailing operation.
The products is going to compete with other established online payment services, which includes providers such as eBay PayPal and Google Checkout.
Amazon have described Checkout By Amazon as a “complete checkout solution” equivalent to the one that the company provides at its own online store.
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008 |
MasterCard has announced that its PayPass chip technology will soon be available in cell phone form as a mobile contactless payment pilot across Canada.
They will be testing near-field communications (NFC) technology on the Bell network with phones from an unnamed vendor. The closed trial will be done with MasterCard Canada and Bell Canada employees.
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Monday, December 17th, 2007 |
It’s December and best time for online sales, its right time to exploit the holiday season and make the best out of it by improving your sales and website offerings.
Currently I am working on some landing pages and I thought of sharing few ideas with you, there are few considerations that need to be kept in mind while creating a landing page. As landing pages are the specialized pages that your website visitors are directed to once they have clicked on an advertised link or via your sales newsletter.
Such a web page is focused on a particular product or service aiming at the visitor to quickly buy or take some instant of action that will ultimately lead to a conversion. It is based on my observation that although maximum percentage of your website visitors come on your homepage, but best conversions happen on website inner pages where visitors land directly through search engines. So each page is important.
There are varieties of approaches on different landing pages that you would see on most ecommerce or service based websites. Most common found are the landing pages which are based on offering deals just on product or service. Another type of landing pages will have one main offer and other penetration links that will lead them to other areas on your website, this approach helps if visitor is not interested in the main offering but it paves a way for them to explore more offers on your website. (more…)
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 |
A tech savvy friend of mine asked me to try out Eloops, it is a collaboration suite that allows you to manage your work groups, back up your content, share data, calendars, files and much more from a single interface…its another web2.0 collaboration applications that have cropped up in recent times.
Eloops provides you with a neat application for sharing project information. Eloops has everything that your workplace needs to get collaboration rolling. Eloops includes a calendar, project list, task list, notes, a discussion board and file storage. It also includes a basic quoting and invoicing feature. (more…)
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 |
Qloud, a Washington, DC based startup, recently launched a music search with social networking features and tagging. Qloud music search allows a number of search options as users can search for music by artist, song, keyword, genre or a number of other criteria.
Upon finding a song it can be previewed, added to a wishlist, sent to a friend or purchased from a number of different music services (including AOL Music, Amazon and iTunes).
An interesting feature is the ability to export any search to an RSS feed, an email, or most importantly, a playlist to get onto your iPod. (more…)
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Monday, November 20th, 2006 |
Sony’s PlayStation 3 have jumped to nearly $4,000 on eBay listings after the gaming console was launched in the US this week.
As soon as the devices went on sale, eBay reported that close to 800 PlayStation 3 systems had sold at an average price of $2,716.
Sony is launching two models of its next-generation gaming console, a 20GB version at $500 and a 60GB version at $600. Games go for $60 each.
The company started selling the console at midnight on Thursday, five days after the launch in Japan. (more…)
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 |
Lendmonkey is a free-membership Media trading community which allows members to trade in media items like books, movies, games, music.
Lendmonkey is a media swapping site that helps you trade movies, games, books, and music. You can put up titles you have and are interested in bartering or you can alternatively search for movies, books etc you need and pick it from members who have listed it. Every successful delivery entitles the sender to a credit which can e collected and later used for other trades.
It also has a RSS feed which gives you a list of latest items put up on Lendmonkey.
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Monday, November 13th, 2006 |
Motorola has acquired Good Technology, maker of push email and secure connectivity software for handheld devices, the companies announced today. The two companies have previously been in a business relationship, and the acquisition is said to extend Motorola’s mobile computing capabilities and enterprise client base.
Good Technology’s push email solution is used in the popular Motorola Q smartphone, and is designed to compete with market leader Research In Motion’s Blackberry service. Over the last six years, Good Technology has received over US$200 million in funding, though the specifics of Motorola’s acquisition were not disclosed.
The deal is expected to close early 2007 pending regulatory approval and other customary conditions.
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Saturday, November 11th, 2006 |
Vouchor is your online key to identity management. You can use Voucher ID’s to gain access to dozens of affiliated sites and also your Numly account to preserve your Copyrighted content.
Vouchor is an identity 2.0 service, brought to you by the makers of the copyrighting application- Numly. Vouchor was created to establish certified Numly IDs.
As Numly allows authors and artists to register their digital works as copyrights. Assigning them with Numly numbers as a form of identification. Numly serves as a source of non-repudiation verifying that certain works were submitted by certain user ids at certain times. To prove a copyright claim, Numly needs to know to whom the user id belongs. (more…)
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Saturday, November 11th, 2006 |
After years of super hype and speculations, the latest round of video game console wars is finally about to begin.The sleek PlayStation 3 by Sony Corp. is the priciest system, crammed with the very latest in cutting-edge technology. The Xbox 360 from Microsoft Corp., meanwhile, has had a yearlong head start to build a fan base.By touting intuitive controls over fancy graphics, Nintendo Co. has billed its Wii as a simpler, cheaper alternative to Microsoft’s and Sony’s offerings.
If you compare the trio to automobiles, said Bruno Bonnell, chairman and chief creative officer at publishing giant Atari Inc., the PS3 “is a kind of prototype Formula 1. The Wii is definitely a fun car, a Mini Cooper or a Beetle, something that everybody can enjoy riding. The 360 fulfills so much of the demand of the standard player, it’s one of the Toyotas or standard GM cars.”
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