Exorbitant shipping fees result in abandoned shopping cart

Small and medium scale businesses offering products online might do well to take note of a recent survey commissioned by Internet payment company PayPal Inc. Unexpectedly high shipping fees are the No. 1

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 17th, 2008 Linda Rosencrance

Microsoft disputes CardSpace can be hacked despite paper outlining how it can be done

Microsoft is disputing that its CardSpace authentication management technology can be hacked despite a research paper that outlines a proof-of-concept attack.CardSpace manages personal information that might be needed to access certain Web sites

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 3rd, 2008 Jeremy Kirk

Credit cards “won’t be” dominant payment mode in few years

Retailer dismay over increasing transaction costs and several new emerging technologies could soon disrupt the dominance of credit cards as a payment mode, say e-commerce specialists. A report titled: Disruption of the Payment

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 12th, 2008 Nestor Arellano

E-commerce takes off in Canada as online selling becomes simpler

Online sales in Canada continued to soar in 2007 as companies profited from offering instant gratification to customers (whether consumers or businesses), according to Statistics Canada.E-commerce continued its double-digit growth for the sixth

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 12th, 2008 Brian Jackson

How to use search engines and advertising to boost your online business and bottomline

You can't simply open a new Web site, sit back, and expect to welcome a horde of visitors showing up at your virtual storefront. If you want your online business to be successful,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 24th, 2008 Richard Morochove

Web sites where information workers can find great tech deals and bargains

We're either in a recession or teetering on the precipice of one. Want to discuss the Bear Stearns collapse, the slumping housing market, rising oil prices? Let's not and say we did. Regardless

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 4th, 2008 James A. Martin

How to start multi-language e-commerce sites without breaking the bank

When you're a global company that keeps expanding into new countries, how do you keep all of your consumer sites updated in the local language-without spending a ton of time and money?PayPal realized

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 26th, 2008 Laurianne McLaughlin

Telling her story – recognizing contributions of women to technology

Women's contributions to technology are often taken for granted, merely rolled up as part of the great tidal wave of innovation surrounding the Computer Age.Women's Herstory (also spelled "her story"), celebrated each year

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 20th, 2008 Keith Hanks

Microsoft’s Ballmer grilled on Yahoo offer

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer couldn't avoid being trampled by the elephant in the room -- the company's bid to acquire Yahoo -- during a quirky keynote question-and-answer session at the company's MIX 08

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 7th, 2008 Elizabeth Montalbano

Phishing attacks unlikely to chill online shoppers’ enthusiasm

Online shopping will carry on at full tilt this Christmas season.Cyber shoppers are unlikely to be deterred by all the recent reports about online fraud, say e-commerce experts. (One of the most recent

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 21st, 2007 Nestor Arellano

3.3 millions Canadians will be their own boss in 2008

More Canadians are turning to a life of entrepreneurship, and part of the reason is because so many tools are now available to help them make that transition.An Ipsos-Reid poll conducted on behalf

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 19th, 2007 Vawn Himmelsbach

Need mobile spyware? Search eBay

Think your wife may be cheating on you? Wondering who your boss might be talking to? "Learn the truth. Spy today."So reads an ad for "Bluetooth Spy Pro-Edition," one of nearly 200 mobile

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 13th, 2007 Robert MacMillan

How to make keywords work for you

It's crowded at the top. The top of online search pages that is.Building a credible Web presence that brings a company to that much coveted virtual real estate can take months and serious

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 19th, 2007 Nestor Arellano

Responsys tailors e-mail marketing solution for Liz Claiborne

For a successful e-mail marketing campaign, off-the-rack just won't do, fashion retailer Liz Claiborne Inc., recently found out.The New York-based company recently enlisted application service provider (ASP) Responsys of Redwood City, Calif., to

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 23rd, 2007 Nestor Arellano