Boss Cart Free Shopping Basket
May 27, 2006
Availability for download of Boss Cart shopping basket was announced by the BossCart.com recently. Boss Cart is billed as a search engine friendly ecommerce shopping basket system, created using PHP scripting language with MySQL as the back end database.
Boss Cart is said to be designed to help you get your business online within a few hours.
You can view a demo version of Boss Cart shopping basket by clicking here, another demo of Boss Cart shopping basket can be found here. There is not significant difference between the two demo versions, demo one demonstrate Boss Cart capability to display raw flash in its shopping basket system while demo two demonstrate a static contents.
M-Commerce is here!
May 21, 2006
The long awaited e-Commerce revolution on the mobile phone, popularly called M-Commerce is finally here.
Mobile phone users can now use their phone as and electronic wallet, by connecting it to a credit card, a debit card or a bank account, thereby enabling them to purchase items usually mobile phone contents but leading online payment provider PayPal who boast of over 100 million users worldwide has also joined the M-Commerce revolution. PayPal version goes beyond purchasing mobile contents to purchasing good on PayPal parent website; ebay, and to pay for goods and services from other PayPal account holders.
At presents, most contents are purchased using premium rate text messaging which cost 25% more than rates charged by M-commerce.
Though, a few years ago, a company called playbox launched this service but it did not take off mainly due to lack of the necessary
technologies. All the technologies required are now in place, a company called LUUP a joint British and Norwegian venture is expected
to lead the M-Commerce revolution in UK. The five mobile phone network operators are also setting up a rival service called
Pay4it.
Oodle meta search engine
May 19, 2006
A new meta search engine dedicated solely to classified ads has gone online. Oodle searches the database of popular classified advertisements sites such as Loot, Fish4 networks and others, bringing the results from the various classified websites into one search result page.
.tel domain name approved
May 19, 2006
ICANN has approved the top level domain name .tel . .tel will be operated by UK company Telnic Limited. Telnic on its website www.telnic.org promise to post the time table for making the domain extension available shortly.
