e-commerce behind the scenes

Running an e-commerce website is no picnic.

Shopping splurge?

While consumers are increasingly moving their shopping online, delivery still has to be in the physical realm and this presents some problems.

Shopping

Nicola Mawson

A brave new world

The online world has changed the hospitality industry forever.

Online

Samantha Perry

Building your Online Home

COMMUNICATIONS - WEB SOLUTIONS Words: Carel Alberts INSIGHT Hans Wencke, managing director of specialist Web hosting company Hetzner, offers the following advice: - Plan: You will naturally want to avoid making costly mistakes.

Building

Search Engine Optimisation

SOFTWARE - MARKETING APPLICATIONS Words: Carel Alberts SEARCHING Online ad spending is just the beginning.

The Case For Online

SOFTWARE - MARKETING APPLICATIONS Words: Carel Alberts Viva the advertising revolution! South African online ad revenue will reach R200 million this year, up from R183 million in 2006.

THE

Get SaaSy: Software as a Service

SOFTWARE - BUSINESS APPLICATIONS Words: Pamela Weaver CURRENTLY RIDING high on the hype and excitement list, Software as a Service (SaaS) steers users away from the traditional, install-out-of-the-box model and into the realm of on-demand, browser based software applications, delivered online.

GET

1984 goes down the memory hole

By remotely deleting e-books that customers paid for, Amazon has shown the world the major problem with a proprietary e-book platform.

Amazon

Paul Furber

Local software a safe bet?

Bookies have always had the reputation of operating in a dark and secretive, but lucrative industry. On the web, too, betting and gambling websites are thought to function in dark corners.

Software

Hilton Tarrant

Seeing the e-services big picture

Online self-service can pay huge dividends, but requires more than just automation.

Seeing

Dave Paulding

Giving it all away

Why would you want to share your company’s intellectual property when your business is to sell content?

Business

Heather Ford

Music wants to be mobile ...and DRM-free

The world’s biggest handset maker is not surrendering. It wants to be the way you consume and experience music.

Music

Hilton Tarrant