Sep 15, 2010
What should you do with your old electronics? Well, gazelle.com has your answer. Gazelle.com offers to pay cash for your used, old electronics that you don’t use anymore. They recycle them or they re-sell them to other people. Gazelle.com is a company that buys and sells used electronics. They are definitely apart of the ebusiness [...]
Sep 15, 2010
The article “Top 5 Mobile Commerce Trends for 2010” explores the ever expanding m-commerce, or mobile commerce, market. Marketing expanded to the far reaches of the television and radio spectrum. Now, more than ever, companies are expanding into mobile technology. Now companies are expanding into mobile technology to conduct business and advertise. Now companies can [...]
Sep 15, 2010
The article I found is called Depositing Checks, Right From Your Phone by Sam Grobart. The article was published online on September 13, 2010. The article talks about some technological changes have a small impact on everyday things we do and others have changes that impacts us in a completely. The article goes into detail [...]
Sep 15, 2010
eBay bringing mobile apps into the future EBay has revealed their plans in moving forward in the mobile market. Previously users could place bids on an eBay auction using their mobile phones, but they could not make a purchase. In order to complete the transaction process they would have to log on to a computer. [...]
Sep 15, 2010
Website metrics allow decision makers the ability to gauge the effectiveness of their website. Metrics allow for the analysis of actions taken by visitors while they visit a website. Metrics include: Visitor Metrics – Identified and Unidentified Visitors, Unique Visitors, Session Visitors and Tracked Visitors Exposure Metrics – Page Views, Site Sessions Visit Metrics – [...]
Sep 13, 2010
It started with Cupcake. Then came Donut, followed by Éclair. Now we are in the era of Froyo. Are these delicious treats? No. I am talking about the Android mobile operating system developed by Google. The newest Android OS 2.2, “Froyo”, was released earlier this summer and has already garnered a lot of attention. According [...]
Sep 13, 2010
Chapter 3.1 E-Business and Internet In an article from Wired titled ” The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple is Just Fine,” Robert Capps talks about the success of the Flip Ultra by Pure Digital. Founders of the Flip Ultra, Jonathan Kaplan and Ariel Braunstein, noticed an opportunity in the camera industry, because [...]
Sep 13, 2010
Disruptive versus Sustaining Technology The article “Disruptive vs. Sustaining Technologies” by Russell Shaller, W. L. Gore and Associates, discuss the differences between disruptive and sustaining innovations. It talks about the situations of when it is best to improve a product rather than producing a new one. He gives one main example of how in the [...]
Sep 13, 2010
Chapter 3.2 Ebusiness Amazon Kindle (3G + Wi-Fi) As we, all know Amazon is one of the biggest E- Business books selling company in the world. Most of us have either bought or sold a book to Amazon. Amazon first started as being just an online bookstores but later diversified, selling anything from clothes, electronics, [...]
Sep 13, 2010
The Promise of E-Commerce Chapter 3.1 Ebusiness The internet has become a vital source in businesses all over the world. In many cases stated in the article, The Promise of E-Commerce, if a business does not have a web site then it is very likely that a business will not survive long. Consumers purchasing behaviors [...]
Sep 12, 2010
Chapter 3. Ebusiness Leslie Murillo PC World listed Cell phones as the top technology “that [has] shaken the digital world over the last 25 years” in the article, “The 10 Most Disruptive Technology Combinations” (Tynan, 2008). Cell phones have come a long way. They have redefined the way we stay in contact and communicate with [...]
Dec 16, 2009
“Company Offers College textbooks for free” This particular article informs the public of the website flatworld.com, a website where like the title suggests allows students to obtain their college text books for free. There are a few more details than that of course the website also offers printed versions of the texts book for up [...]
Dec 16, 2009
The article I read was from Prisonplanet.com and the article was titled Video adds in Magazines. The article talked about the new technology being introduced to the marketing industry. This technology is a mini display screen, the size of a wafer, that is inserted in a magazine add. The technology has speakers and visual effects. This [...]
Dec 14, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009 Chapter 3: IS in Business Ever since the inception of the Internet its been bound to happen…Being able to download copies of the latest movies, music and software with a couple clicks of the mouse. A recent dvd quality of a sci-fi blockbuster “District 9″ that was posted to file trading [...]
Nov 16, 2009
Doing e-business means a greater number of customers, partners and suppliers, and even government regulators need unparalleled access to corporations’ computer systems. it’s a very different security situation these days, where many of your insiders are not actually employees.virus and spam protection are only part of the picture. According to the State of Information Security [...]
Nov 6, 2009
An associated risk of using Ebusiness is e-commerce fraud. One common type is identity fraud. There are three warning signs of fraud. First, the order velocities should be monitored. Second, look for risky street address and investigate them; this process can be aided with Google maps. Third, avoid using free or anonymous email accounts. The [...]
Nov 5, 2009
In Charlie Sorrel’s “A tale of two iPods: Why the Touch has no camera,” Sorrel points out the reasoning behind Apple decision of not putting a camera on the iPod Touch, but putting it instead in the iPod Nano. By installing a video camera in the iPod Nano, Apple hopes to boost the sales of [...]
Nov 5, 2009
Ebay sells Skype In this article, Elizabeth Woyke discusses the recent sale of the rapidly growing internet calling service Skype by its parent company, Ebay. Specifically, 65% interest in Skype was sold to a number of venture capital investors, including Silver Lake Partners and Index Ventures. Although the management, largely coming over from Ebay, won’t [...]
Nov 5, 2009
Google, the most famous searching engine, starts to infuse its paid search advertising with video, images and other features. In this article, it represents that Google tries to advertise with progressive and effective techniques. When it comes to search, Google is the most powerful to search and learn something you want to get. Even [...]
Oct 30, 2009
Chapter 3 main topic is about the importance of internet to the success of new entering businesses. Many ebusinesses have emerged since the internet became available to the public, including Netflix, eBay, Amazon, Paypal, youtube, and TiVo Inc. However, I will focus on TiVo, the Alviso (CA)-based company creator of the DV recorders. TiVo’s success [...]
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