Posted in E-Commerce News on June 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Paul Mutton at 28 March 2008
Amazon has made a significant and much bolder step into the web hosting arena, extending its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service by introducing Elastic IP Addresses and Availability Zones.
The Elastic IP Addresses allow Amazon Web Services users to set up static IP addresses, making it easy to host [...]
Posted in E-Commerce News on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Jakob Heuser Published on May 6, 2008
Not too long ago, JavaScript made it possible to add nice effects to a page. And with the emergence of libraries, robust applications are emerging built on top of Prototype, Dojo, YUI, and other toolkits. Unfortunately, the people that pay the price for these so-called ‘thin clients’ are the [...]
Posted in E-Commerce News on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Paul Mutton at 16 May 2008
A security researcher in Finland has discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability on paypal.com that would allow hackers to carry out highly plausible attacks, adding their own content to the site and stealing credentials from users.
The vulnerability is made worse by the fact that the affected page uses an [...]
Posted in E-Commerce News on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Paul Mutton at 2 May 2008
Ranking by Failed Requests and Connection time,
April 1st – 30th 2008
NaviSite is the most reliable hosting company site for April 2008.
NaviSite was incorporated in 1998 and provides application solutions and hosting services using its web infrastructure platforms in 18 data centers. The company recently announced an alliance [...]
Posted in E-Commerce News on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Paul Mutton at 21 April 2008
A security weakness in Barack Obama’s website has been exploited to redirect visitors to Hillary Clinton’s website. Visitors who viewed the Community Blogs section of the site were instead presented with Clinton’s website as a result of a cross-site scripting vulnerability.
Barack Obama’s visitors were redirected to this site.
A [...]
Posted in E-Commerce News on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Paul Mutton at 24 April 2008
While Clinton and Obama are battling it out in the political arena, security researchers are continuing to find vulnerabilities in the candidates’ and supporters’ websites. Interestingly, while a typical exploit is to redirect one party’s site to their opponent’s, the reasons for seeking to discover such vulnerabilities [...]
Posted in E-Commerce News on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Shannon Watters
Published on June 18, 2007
Whether you’re a freelance designer looking for a solution for your latest client, or a new company preparing your first online store, choosing an eCommerce package can be a daunting decision. The industry’s rapid growth over the last few years makes it difficult to immediately determine whether a specific [...]
Posted in E-Commerce News on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An unexpected earnings blowout from Google and results from Citigroup that weren’t as bad as feared sent stocks soaring on Friday.
April 18, 2008
By Paul Shread: More stories by this author:
An unexpected earnings blowout from Google and results from Citigroup that weren’t as bad as feared sent stocks soaring on Friday.
Google shares soared 20%, or nearly [...]
Posted in E-Commerce News on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Chris Nerney on April 4, 2008 3:58 PM
It’s almost impossible to spend time on any enterprise technology web sites these days without coming across articles about the importance of aligning an organization’s technology with its business goals. Jupitermedia, our parent company, even has an entire site, bITa Planet, devoted to business-IT alignment issues.
And [...]
Posted in E-Commerce News on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lawrence Person writes
“According to a story up on Writer’s Weekly, Print on Demand publishers are being told to use Amazon’s own BookSurge POD printer or else Amazon will disable the ‘buy’ button for their books. After hemming and hawing, an Amazon/BookSurge rep ‘finally admitted that books not converted to BookSurge would have the “buy” button [...]
