A review of a post on Legal from My E-Commerce blog

Today, we will discuss a post on My Ecommerce about legal. The post discuss about the United Kingdom Government intends to propose a new law that to cut the internet connection of illegal downloader.

According to information, around 6 million people download files illegally in UK. This fact heavily affects the revenue of such entertainment and creative industries. They lost million of money due to illegal download.

Besides, all Internet Service Provider (ISP) should support and help to enforce this new law. Any ISP failed to enforce these rules could be prosecuted, and those customers suspected of making illegal downloads would made available to the courts.

Although this new rules would benefit some industries, but I doubt that implementing this rules may face some problem. First of all, I doubt that ISP is possible and able to monitor their client’s internet access, monitor what website they visit, what data they are downloading, and every single packet of data transferred. And how ISP determine which website is illegal platform.

Although ISP has the technology or technique to obtain these data, can it proceed to monitor client. Those actions relate to the privacy of client, and they should be protected under data protection law. Furthermore, ISP may incur more expenses on this further action in order to enforce new rules.

Referred link:

1. (http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/search/label/Legal)

2. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7240234.stm)

Electronic Currency

Electronic currency is also known as electronic money, electronic cash, digital money and else. It refers to money which exchanged only electronically. One of the relevant systems is called BitPass. BitPass is a prepaid account that allows everyone purchases digital content and services. It was a California corporation with headquarter in Silicon Valley and founded in December, 2002.

It was partnered with few major technology and financial companies such as Microsoft, PayPal and the Royal Bank of Scotland. Content buyer signed up for the service and put money into an account by using credit card or PayPal, and this stored-value amount could be used to purchase digital content or services.

On 19^th January, 2007 BitPass have sent mass of email to announce that they were shut down and operation officially closed on 26^th January. Any unspent monies should be spent within 7 days period. Later on, the remaining unspent monies were refunded by its partner, Digital River to respective account holder.

Although BitPass did not announce the reason, we normally presumed that it was due to cash flow problem. We noticed that BitPass has invested 13 million in 2004 but their business model had few takers only and its transaction volume never ramped to sustainable levels.

Referred link:

1.Wiki - BitPass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitpass)

2.BitPass.Dead Pool. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/19/bitpass-deadpool/)

A Review on a post on Internet Security from My E-Commerce

Among those 26 posts about internet security in My E-Commerce, I have chosen the latest post which discuss about malware. It is a shocking news that more than one million viruses, worms and trojans in circulation in year 2007. And according to Symantec report, almost two third of all malicious code threats currently detected were created during 2007. Besides, F-Secure mentioned a doubling increase in the number of malware, and believed this condition getting worse in the future. The main reason of the increase is cyber criminals pump out the malware to fool the anti-virus programs. Besides, vast majority of malware programs are aimed at Windows machine.

These malware programs can copy itself and infect computer, and perform certain program which in fact is carrying a hidden virus and worm. It can be introduced through removable media, internet, network and email. And it is impossible that to isolate these sources in order to avoid getting and spreading computer viruses. If you do so, you will live or doing business just like 10 years ago.

There are few options to protect your computer against computer viruses. First of all, you need good anti-virus software and update the definitions weekly or daily. Then, be aware or put extra suspicion on those emails and attachment you received, scan it before you open it. Besides, scan any CD or removable storage you receive. Furthermore, it is time for you to backup your data. It is easy, cheap and would not cost you a lot of money. Do it now before you regret.

link:

1.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7232752.stm) 2.http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/search/label/Internet%20Security) 3.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware)

How does E-Commerce Reduce Cycle Time, Improve Employees' Empowerment and Facilitate Customer Support

Due to the booming usage of internet, E-Commerce is getting usual in our life. And now, its advantages will be discussed in this post.

Reduce cycle time
As we known, E-Commerce is designed as paperless based workflow with faster, more efficient and reliable communication between computers. And website can remain open 24 hours, it would not affected by the boundaries of geography and other barriers. So, E-Commerce reduces the unnecessary phone calls and mailings, electronic data exchange allows business to continue outside the normal business day. Besides, employees are allowed to access customer inventory data to decide whether to place order. As a result, it could reduce its cycle time from the stage of purchasing to delivery. Furthermore, all these stages can be monitored, and the orders can be easily passed and processed to other related department. For example,

Improve Employees' empowerment
Empowerment is defined as giving authority to employees in decision making in order to improve operation and quality, reduce costs without consulting manager. In Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) system, employees are given authority to access customer database to obtain relevant information. If customer's inventory below minimum level, employee will place the order. Besides, employees are allowed to verify order received and checking customer's credibility.

Facilitate customer support

Nowadays, efficient customer support is vital to E-Commerce business. Sometimes, merely publishing online catalog and offer a list of frequently asked questions will not satisfy online customer needs. So, immediate response to customer is viewed as important task of company. Since the company has shared database, employees can obtain customer and relevant information immediately in order to solve problem. Besides, customer can trace its product in which stage of production through seller’s website. For example, Dell provides this function to their customer to trace product. Moreover, customer can download relevant software from Dell website. It helps customer solve their problem.

link:

1.http://www.remarkable.co.nz/ebusiness/ebusiness_cost_benefit.htm 2.http://ecommerce.objectwareinc.com/art/benefit-of-ecommerce/index.html 3.http://203.210.126.185/dsdweb/v4/apps/web/secure/docs/2285.pdf

WelCoMe

Hello, helo, halo …

Welcome everyone. My official name is Lim Choon Heng, you can call me JunXing. I come from Johor Bahru, which is the southernmost city of Malaysia. I’m study in UTAR, and doing my assignment RIGHT NOW.

My hobbies are sleeping, watching movie, surfing, and doing nothing. Don’t be weird why everyone’s hobbies are similar, because they are common hobbies. I like action, adventure, sci-fi movie. Besides, I like surfing, for example surf other people’s blog, you can see the difference between them, especially their culture. And I discover that many mothers like to talk about their coming or newborn baby. They would like to share their experience, so do I, will post some e-commerce information in following weeks.

There are few websites I visit most:

Windows Live Space – this is another platform that can post blog. Most of my friends have blog here, so I can view their latest news through this platform.

DM 99770 – this is a Chinese comic website. As you can see, the purpose I visit here is all about comic.

Google – this is a good search engine. I use it everyday whether doing assignment or finding some information. It helps me to solve many problems.

Hotmail – Email. Check, receive, sent, forward message.

Blogger.com – Since we have to do this assignment, so this website should be the website I will visit most in FEW following weeks.

OK, that’s all for today.

At last, i like coffee...