November – December 2009

The Internet has made the buying of goods even simpler and certainly in some cases cheaper. In fact, when it comes to shopping online there are thousands of places from which you can buy a variety of goods from. However, as is most cases of life, online shopping has its advantages as well as disadvantages […]

There’s no doubt that online shopping is increasing in popularity. In fact, online shopping is quickly becoming the way of the future. The advancements of technology are creating avenues of convenience to suit the ever-increasing busy lifestyles of this century.

As e-commerce continues to grow in popularity, so is the number of people using online payment-processing services, with PayPal being the best-known service. However, it is definitely not the only such service around. Launched in 2006, Google Checkout is another online checkout system that lets people make purchases from participating merchants using a single sign-in

These are interesting times for mobile marketers as we are seeing more and more brands actively evangelizing the use of mobile as a marketing channel. It has become a viable new way to create customer loyalty, boost sales and increase awareness for e-commerce business.  The mobile offers increasingly attractive returns on investment especially during the

We all know that emails are one way of carrying threats into the hearts of businesses and individuals.  But cyber-criminals are now increasingly exploiting the web as a malware delivery mechanism.

The purchase of goods and services over the Internet is according to various e-commerce experts today safer than ever. The same applies to online banking, despite activities of e-mail scammers that necessitate certain precautions especially in the e-mail communication, although recently released figures showed that the number of criminally motivated spam, so called phishing activities,

Whether you plan the re-launch of an existing online store or being a newcomer in the topic of e-commerce, at the beginning of planning an e-shop you are confronted with the task of finding an adequate system as a basis for its implementation. Especially because of the close integration and interaction of an e-shop project

These days online shopping has revolutionized the internet space and many businesses have powered their online existence with strong e commerce based applications such as the shopping cart. If you looking for a fully-featured online shopping cart utility then check out Ubercart ,  an open source e-commerce solution fully integrated with the popular Drupal Content

Behavioral targeting which refers to the tracking of you online activities to provide you with more targeted advertising is creating a stir in the online shopping world with a study this year by AudioScience revealing that online shoppers are becoming more receptive to this form of advertising. Whilst this may be good news for advertisers

This year, AudienceScience released the results of a commissioned study conducted on its behalf by JupiterResearch, a Forrester Research company, designed to measure the receptiveness of online shoppers to behavioral targeting. What is behavioral targeting? It’s tracking a user’s online activities to deliver advertising targeting to that user.