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Ecommerce or electronic commerce is easily defined as, operating a business and obtaining new customers, using the internet.

There are four essential components you need to build a successful ecommerce web site.

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In terms of compatibility with your existing businesses, Google building a phone would be like Chrysler starting an ISP.

But rumors about Google building a phone reveal plenty about the frustrations and desires of the American technorati.

It’s almost pointless to describe what the mythical Google phone will look like and do because, like the iPhone before it, it’s a template for pundits to staple their wish lists.

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Microsoft has released new versions of its Hosted Messaging, Collaboration and Windows-based solutions, to assist web hosting providers in maximizing the benefits of Web 2.0.

Debuted at the Microsoft Hosting Summit 2007, the updates for he two solutions for hosting service providers: Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) Version 4.0 and Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting Version 4.5., are designed to take advantage of new features in the recently launched Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Version 4.0 will be available worldwide in April 2007.

The two key Microsoft products were developed to improve communications, information sharing, and increase worker productivity. With these updates, service providers will have an expanded set of tools along with guidance to help them deliver a complete suite of hosted services to small and midsize businesses (SMBs).

John Zanni, Director of Worldwide Hosting at Microsoft offered, “Hosting providers are at a critical crossroads as the demand for hosted services continues to increase exponentially, particularly from SMBs. Successful hosters need to go beyond traditional hosting and cost-effectively develop and offer value-added services that will help deepen customer relationships and differentiate themselves from the myriad commodity options that currently exist. Microsoft provides the platform, solutions and guidance to help service providers achieve this.”

The new version of Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration utilizes Exchange Server 2007, the industry’s leading platform for e-mail, calendaring and unified messaging. Exchange Server 2007 helps protect the organization with built-in technologies that provide high availability, reduce spam and viruses, enable confidential communications, and aid compliance of regulatory or corporate policies. Employees benefit from anywhere access* to their e-mail, voice mail, calendars and contacts from a variety of clients and devices. Exchange Server 2007 enables new levels of operational efficiency by optimizing hardware, networking resources and features that help make administrators more productive.

In addition to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Hosted Messaging and Collaboration also incorporates Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 to provide a complete messaging and collaboration service delivering the best possible user experience.

Amir Hudda, Chief Executive Officer of Apptix remarked, “We rely on Microsoft to help us deliver premier on-demand e-mail and collaboration solutions to our SMB customers. Due to recent acquisitions, we currently operate on multiple platforms comprising different architectures and provisioning systems. With HMC Version 4.0, we will be able to consolidate these systems onto a single platform and turn our focus to new revenue opportunities that will allow us to offer more applications, deliver best-in-class services and support, and attract more customers. We believe that the Hosted Messaging and Collaboration solution has matured to a point where we can now gain significant benefits.”

Service providers and resellers can also work with an HMC private-label provider such as groupSPARK to reach the SMB market with a variety of hosted services. GroupSPARK, a leading Exchange-hosting private-label provider, has developed a platform that allows it to power the HMC solution for resellers, including web hosters, value-added resellers and systems integrators, that in turn resell the services to SMBs. This model enables resellers to speed time to market while requiring minimal investment in IT infrastructure.

Russ Sprunger, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at EasyStreet Online Services Inc. offered, “We work with groupSPARK to deliver to our SMB customers an enterprise- class e-mail and collaboration service that takes full advantage of HMC. Choosing to white-label the service gave us an extremely quick time to market with minimal risk, while giving our customers the security- enhanced and reliable experience they were looking for. We not only offer customized services branded with our company name but also offer our customers the local EasyStreet technical support that they know and love.”

Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting Version 4.5 helps service providers reduce operational costs for web hosting and offer a broader set of web applications to SMBs. The new version incorporates Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, which provides the ability to deliver lightweight web-based applications to address specific business needs such as time management and project tracking. SharePoint also features collaboration tools that help organizations increase team productivity and streamline business processes. Available today with SharePoint 3.0 are 40 pre-built application templates. The SharePoint designer tool allows hosters and independent software vendors to customize the applications as well as easily create new ones to better address their particular client needs.

Mark Richman, Director of Windows Development at Affinity Internet Inc. remarked, “As a web hosting company with a strong focus on the SMB market, we find Windows SharePoint Services Version 3.0 to be a powerful enhancement to the Windows-based Hosting solution. The addition of the new application templates helps our customers address real business needs and allows us to rapidly implement the IT solutions they require. The solution also enables us to more easily provision new customers and manage, monitor and update our systems so we can focus on delivering richer applications and better service to our customers.”

In addition to supporting Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Windows-based Hosting Version 4.5 provides a Microsoft SQL Server(TM) Hosting Toolkit, which makes it easy for hosters to deploy a SQL Server database in their hosted environment. With ASP.NET AJAX framework support, hosters can now offer developers a richer environment on which to build next-generation web applications. The technical guidance and tools delivered in Windows-based Hosting 4.5 help service providers lower operational costs and build new service offerings for SMBs.

Also available is guidance on how to utilize Microsoft Virtual Server in a hosted environment. This guidance outlines how Virtual Dedicated Hosting Scenarios offer new opportunities for service providers by increasing hardware utilization and enabling organizations to rapidly configure and deploy new offerings. With its hosted solutions in the market since early 2000, Microsoft is committed to providing the solutions, tools, guidance and ecosystem of partners to help hosting providers create a more dynamic web experience for end users. To date, more than 1,000 partners worldwide deliver hosted Exchange services, and more than 250 are making use of Windows-based Hosting.

Affinity provides more than 200,000 web professionals and small businesses the tools to develop, maintain, market and support their web presence, making the Internet a useful and relevant part of their businesses.  Affinity’s brands include: ValueWeb, for web design, eCommerce hosting and online marketing solutions and Gate.com, the cutting-edge UNIX and Windows web hosting service.  Affinity’s co-brand and private-label partner programs enable leading service providers and Internet brands to extend their value proposition to include feature-rich web site, ecommerce and online marketing services and applications. Affinity’s services are supported by its customer service “success guides” – knowledgeable consultants with a passion for serving small businesses and a dedication to ensuring their growth and success. 

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In an effort to offer an overall better service we have upgraded your server and migrated it to a different network. The new server will have better performance by running the new Intel Dual-Core Dual Xeon Woodcrest processors with 4GB of memory and will be located in the Atlanta DC with Gigabit connections to Global Crossing, Telia, PCCWBTN, and Savvis. In addition, the servers are connected to a Route Science route optimizing system that route connections to the server on the fastest possible route by identifying any problematic areas (bottlenecks, packetloss, etc) then re-routing the traffic to ensure the highest performing route from end user to server.

The old server will remain online until March 22, 2007 should the need arise to retrieve data from the old server. Should you have any questions and/or concerns regarding the migration, procedures, or anything related to our service in general or are confused by what you may need to do please don’t hesitate to contact us for further information.

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We are currently updating our current sever to brand new server with better performance and speed and dependability, to ensure the highest and most advance service to our valuable client base. This may take few hours to complete and during this time you will not experience any server down times or or any other service related problems.  Just sit back and enjoy your service and we’ll take care of the rest

As online merchants we all would love to reach out to the global market and increase our profits margins while maximizing our client base. And as online buyers we all would be very pleased to have a “Convenient online Shopping experience” without having to go through unwanted problems and make smooth transactions and purchase whatever we want…. But the worlds leading payment processor is one step or should i say 2-3 steps behind by assisting the online merchant community and buyers to achieve this goal. Continue Reading »

By Tim Gray

Though Google downplays the severity of the click fraud problem, it nevertheless is responding to concern over its prevalence with a new set of tools to detect and neutralize illegitimate clicks.

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG)  plans to provide Web advertisers with more data and tools to combat click fraud, a damaging practice that costs advertisers an estimated US$16 billion a year.

The new tools are part of an effort to crack down on click fraud and dull its impact on the otherwise highly profitable pay per click online advertising  model.

“There has been an increasingly growing cloud over Google on this issue,” Ron Enderle, a principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. “If folks have been gaming the system , advertisers want to see some corrections.”

Per Click Model

With the pay per click model, advertisers pay every time someone clicks on their ads. However, some companies mount campaigns to click repeatedly on their competitors’ ads just to drive up their costs.

The practice takes advantage of the system Google currently has in place for Internet advertisers to pay their fees.

Now, Google intends to address the issue by providing advertisers with a means to scrutinize the process and gain more control over it, according to Enderle.

Blacklisting Fraudsters

In March, Google will begin allowing advertisers to blacklist certain IP addresses if click fraud is suspected — for example, if a large number of clicks from a particular address results in few or no sales.

The company also plans to launch a Web site resource center to combat click fraud, where it will post information and tutorials to educate its advertisers on the issue of invalid clicks.

Behind the Data

On Wednesday, Google released data indicating that most fraudulent clicks are automatically detected, but it acknowledged that its pay per click Web advertising system has been abused.

Critics contend the practice is already out of control, claiming that up to half of all ad clicks are fraudulent. However, that figure is overblown, Google maintained, pegging the true number at closer to 10 percent.

Google bases its estimate on the average number of invalid clicks it catches, and doesn’t charge for. The 10 percent represents an estimate US$100 million in lost revenue, Google said.

Google conceded that it doesn’t catch about 0.02 percent of the click fraud that occurs — those instances are brought to its attention by advertisers.

More Fraudulent Clicks

However, says Enderle, the information Google released does not present a complete picture. What is missing is the number of fraudulent clicks neither the search giant nor the advertisers catch.

Google is now moving to put adequate tools in place so it can more accurately measure what is happening.

“Google is realizing it better get its arms around this, or advertisers will fix the problems themselves,” said Enderle, “and Google won’t like that.”

By GARY GENTILE

The Walt Disney Co. is launching a new Web site aimed at moms who are increasingly turning to the Internet for answers to everything from problems with teething babies to financing college. The new site, Disney Family, is a departure for the media conglomerate, which has primarily launched Web efforts to promote its own brands and products, keeping strict control over content and presentation.

By contrast, the new site is a one-stop site for parents, especially mothers, providing everything from Internet search to user-generated articles on key topics such as education and food, and, eventually, a “ParentPedia,” a compilation of information on 1,000 topics that can be expanded by users.

The site, to be announced Tuesday in Los Angeles, will go live later this week at http://www.family.com and remain in beta, or testing, stages until the summer, said Paul Yanover, executive vice president of Disney Online, a unit of the Walt Disney Internet Group.

Disney hopes to make money from selling advertising and from sponsored search, text ads that appear next to search results.

The launch marks Disney’s second big Web announcement since it revamped its main Disney.com site in January to include more video, games and interactive features.

“This is uncharacteristically good,” said principal analyst Josh Bernoff of Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research.

“To get community right, you need to have the right mix between homegrown content plus the ability to loop in people and content from outside. That takes guts because you don’t really know what users are going to say. It’s uncharacteristic for a company that wants to control things as much as Disney.”

Yanover said the openness of the site is what the more than 30,000 mothers surveyed over the past year said they wanted, along with trusted content vouched for by Disney.

The company will include Disney products on the site and promote Disney films, but alongside similar products and content, Yanover said.

“We want to be clear that ‘Disney’ does not necessarily mean Disney-branded products and services,” Yanover said. “It means Disney as a reliable brand. We don’t just want to push Disney products.”

Parents have become a larger part of Disney’s online audience, accounting for nearly half of the 25 million unique visits per month to the Disney.com site, the company said. Most of those are moms.

In addition, the company has seen growth in a smaller site, FamilyFun.com, that is coupled with a magazine and aimed at providing craft and other projects for families with younger children.

Other sites already cater to parts of the audience Disney is hoping to reach by aggregating various topics under one roof.

“Can Disney bring more to the party with this integration approach than the other guys can and compete against them?” asked David Card, media analyst for Jupiter Research. “I think they’ll do well, but they have some serious competitors out there.”

Disney formed an advisory board that includes mothers who had launched their own online Web journals, or blogs, some of which will be featured on the site. Yanover figures the “mommy bloggers” alone account for 9 million unique visitors each month.

One feature that should appeal to moms is the “Family 1,000,” a prefiltered list of smaller Web sites that typically do not rank high on searches using traditional Web search sites such as Google and Yahoo, Yanover said.

The list will change as users nominate their own sites, and the ranking will change based on how users rate them.

“As a family, we have to go to the Internet to get answers,” said Victoria Pericon, who runs the Web site SavvyMommy.com and served on Disney’s advisory board. “I need a convenient source, but is it also trusted? Because it’s Disney, you know it is, so you don’t have to question that.”

The site will be monitored for foul language, racist remarks and other comments that go against the “house rules,” Yanover said.

Guests will be able to load their own profiles to the site and make connections with other users.

But the site is not meant to become a dating service.

“This audience doesn’t want to ‘hook up,’” Yanover said. “They want to find someone who says ‘I’ve been through that as well.’”