BENT1G3 E-COMMERCE WORLD

E-Government in Malaysia

2009-07-04T04:20:00.000-07:00

E-government is develop by government agencies though IT and e-commerce's such as Wide Area Networks, the Internet, and mobile computing that transform the relations with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government.

The purpose of the E- government is to improve the convenience, accessibility and quality of interactions with citizens and businesses.Besides, it also increased government accountability to citizens, greater public access to information, and cost-effective government. At the same time, it also will improve information flows and processes within government to improve the speed and quality of policy development, coordination and enforcement.The main vision is focuses on effectively and efficiently when deliver the services from the government to the people of Malaysia, and also enabling the government to become more responsive to the needs and wants of its citizens.

Implementation

The users of the E-government can gain a lot of the benefits though the online services, such as payment of income tax, online voting, and license renewal online.It's can increase the effectiveness of the process transaction. Consumers would not willing to spend 1 hour just for the payment at government department such as compound payment and taxes. E- government is very convenience for the internet users because they only need few second to click on www.gov.com.my and help us to solve our problems through internet.

Meanwhile,E-government is very useful but still need to improve because its not only benefits to the internet users,its should benefit to all of the people in Malaysia. Therefore, E-government should develop some website that easy excess and provide multilingual site to the users. I believe E-government will be widely adopted by Malaysian in near future.

There are 7 main pilot projects of the Electronic Government Flagship Application and it is list out as follows:

1) Project Monitoring System (SPP II)

2) Human Resource Management Information System(HRMIS)

3) Generic Office Environment (GOE)

4) Electronic Procurement (EP)

5) Electronic Services (E-Services)

6) Electronic Labour Exchange (ELX)

7) E-Syariah

Citizen's Adoption Strategies

The purpose of the E-government is to provide citizens with accessible, relevant information and quality services that are more convenience than traditional ' brick and mortar' transactions. Citizen citizens’ willingness to adopt and utilize these services are depend to their self-confident to e- transaction. Generally, citizens are expect governmental services with a high degree of quality, quantity, and availability in a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, and year-round fashion. Government must try their capacity to meet these emerging service needs and demands of citizens to increase the customer satisfaction.This is very important because success and acceptance of e-Government are highly dependent on citizen.

Click here for more details: http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/search/label/e-Government

Learn more about E-government: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Government

A Review on Real-world Case: Google is changing everything.

2009-07-03T23:10:00.000-07:00

Google is the successful and famous searh engine. It does better than its competitors such as Microsoft and Yahoo. According to Cnet, it stated that Google achieved 5.7Billion for year 2008.(http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10148339-93.html)

Google is using Google AdWords, Google AdSense and the new model i.e. cost per click model. Google AdWords is a pay per click advertising program of Google designed to allow the advertisers to present advertisements to people at the instant the people are looking for information related to what the advertiser has to offer. When a user searches Google's search engine, ads for relevant words are shown as "sponsored link" on the right side of the screen, and sometimes above the main search results. Google generate most of the revenue from Google AdWords.

New model is cost per click model. Google is currently testing a new advertising program that pays site owners based on a Cost-Per-Click model. The program, called Cost-Per-Action, was revealed via an invitation e-mail from the Google AdSense team to Web site owners.

Other than that, Google also develops open source of Google spreadsheet that similar to Microsoft excel that is used by many people in Malaysia. The additional function of Google spreadsheet is enable sharing of the information online. Moreover , Google developed Google Documents to compete with Microsoft Office.According to wikipedia, Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. Google Docs combines the features of two services, Writely and Spreadsheets, which were merged into a single product on October 10, 2006.

Besides that, the case also mentioned about the Kaiser that is using Google search to link all information together for its users benefits. Recently Google also implement new plan that called GOOGLE SEARCH APPLICATION 6.0 subscriber to search either intranet or internet. The new product also improve the quality when seaching information such as dynamic scability and GSA-to-GSA Unification. There are several success stories that using this product i.e. Sunnybrook, TiVo and REUTERS. Real story of SunnyBrook. Video!!!

After finished this blog, i reliased that Google is developing many new products and services to entertain the users of Google either individual or company. It also use the new products to generate more revenue. It keeps on growing to continue success in e-commerce industry.

The application of pre-paid cash card for consumer s.

2009-07-03T19:55:00.000-07:00

Prepaid cash card is same with credit or debit card? The answer is not. Credit and debit cards are allows you to withdraw cash, make purchases or access account information. Other than that, each of the purchase or withdrawal, funds are drawn down either from a bank account or from a prepaid balance on the card, it will link to the bank account .While, pre-paid cash card is a card that only spends the balance that has been preloaded onto the card.It is not involve the bank account.The prepaid cash card which have the Visa, MasterCard and discovers logos, act like portable checking accounts, though they are replenished with deposits made at retail outlets rather than banks. It means there is no risk of running into debt as it has no credit or overdraft facility.

When purchase the pre-paid cash card, we will be given a Pin number , and once money has been credited, it can be used in the same way as a debit or credit card – for high street, online or telephone purchases, as well as cash withdrawals from ATMs.

Money can be loaded onto a prepaid cash card by cash at a petrol station, post office and some of the book store as if popular.

Besides, pre-paid cash card can give a lot of advantage to consumers' in their daily life.

Convenience

It is convenience when the consumer is buying something that not using the cash.They can pay the payment using the pre-paid cash card. Consumers only need to bring a pre-paid cash card rather than bring thousands of the money to purchased their product.Thus, consumers only need to wait a few section to finish the payment process. After that, the payment will automaticaly deduct from the balance. It is convenience and save time.

2. Personal safety

Recently, the crime rate is climbing up, for instance, the snapping cases in town. We should not bring a large stack of money to shopping, especially withdraw huge amount of money from ATM. We easily become the target. Therefore, prepaid cash card can help us to reduce the risk and enhance the safety.

3. Self control

As we know, women like to shopping. They like to buy stuff without further consideration. They would rather just buy the item and ignore the price stated at price tag. If they holding a prepaid card, they have no choice but think twice before purchase stuff. This is because there is limit in the small balance of the card about hundred dollars contrast with credit card that enable them overdraft until few thousand. Hence, it helps women to control the money if they "unable" to self control.

Many banks provide the application of Pre-paid cash card to increase the revenues.The following are the banks that offer the prepaid cash card.

Online Savings Accounts
Get 2.50% PA High Interest Savings At Bradford & Bingley International

www.BBI.co.im

Expat Bank Account

Open an expatriate bank account today and earn up to 4.05% AER!

www.angloirishbank.co.im/expats

Malaysia Online Payment

Accept credit card payment NO monthly fee

www.netbuilder.com.my

HSBC Premier

Personalised banking services, expert advice on wealth mgt & more.

www.hsbcpremier.com

A discussion on E-learning offered in Malaysian Universities

2009-07-02T12:57:00.000-07:00

E-learning is the use of technology to enable people to learn anytime and anywhere that include training, the delivering just-in-time information and guidance from the experts. In other words, E-learning is the modern process of education where part of the learning experience takes place without face to face communication between the lecturer and the students. It is also known as distance learning.

E-learning was begun in the late of 1980's in Malaysia. One of the universit, MARA University of Technology is offering distance learning in 1990 but it was not successful due to lack of resources. On December 1998 was the first launched of e-learning system, 70 students enrolled by the time has increases up to 2,000 in 2006. Futhermore, there are more and more universities had moved to e-learning such as Universiti Putra Malaysia(UPM), Malaysia Institute of Management, Open University Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia(UTM) and others. However, there are pros and cons of e-learning.

PROS :-

From the student's perspectives, e-learning not only save the cost of travelling but it also save the time of traavelling. This can reduce the family budget. They can reduce the cost of living and expenses for those students are study apart from their hometown. Besides that, e-learning allows students to get the teaching materials and any other recources through e-libraries.

Another pros of e-learning is its time flexibility. One can get online resources, communicate with his/her tutor or even classmates, send his query and writing the term paper at anytime and anywhere with the use of the Internet. It is much easier for them to interact between each other rather than face-to-face communications.

Moreover, e-learning students may have the capability to study on their own space. Unlike traditional setting, e-learning students can study whenever they're free and the online faculty assigns project with a deadline and student can finish their projects at the time they find feasible within the particular deadline.

CONS :-

On the other hand, there are some drawbacks in using e-learning. One of the biggest arguments about e-learning is that it makes students lazy and ineffective, due to being spoon fed by the educational institutions. With e-learning, most of the educational task is done either by the tutor or some sophisticated software, leaving students with simple task of just downloading the notes and reading them. Although this may make the learning much more easier, it may runs the risk of creating independant and lazy students. When these students graduate and enter the working society, they tend to expect all the information to be delivered to them too. Since these students are used to be spoon fed, they become cripples in the working environment and unable to move forward without constant help from others.

However, e-learning will lead to lack of face-to-face communication between students and lecturer, and this will cause to some misunderstanding and conflict may arise. Lecturers may not understand student's needs, demand, interest and motivation and while for the students, they may not really know lecturers wants and requirement for his/her student as well. This may lose the students directions and get confused on the course of activities.

As a conclusion, e-learning will bring advantages and disadvantages to the students. Therefore, solutions are needed to overcome those problems.

Phishing: Examples of its prevention methods

2009-07-02T07:05:00.000-07:00

Phishing is a criminal mechanism employing both social engineering and technical subterfuge to steal consumers’ personal identity data and financial account credentials.Thus,phishing also is an act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. The e-mail directs the user to visit a website where they are asked to update personal information, such as passwords and credit card, social security, and bank account numbers.

How does phishing works?

Sometimes, we will received the email that make us confuse and think that someone has changed our email address and requests us confirm the changes. Again, it sends us the fake website for us to login to eBay .The purpose is to obtain eBay ID’s which then are used to sell fake or non-existent goods or such accounts can be sold further in the underground market.Other than that, phishing e-mails can appear to be from any bank, PayPal, eBay, credit card companies, and online retail store...

Example

Examples

Preventions

Give a fake password

When we are not sure if a site is authentic, we do not use our real password to sign in. If you enter a fake password and appear to be signed in, you are likely on a phishing site. Besides,we do not enter any more information and close the browser immediately.Thus,some of the phishing sites will automatically display an error message when we login the fake password, but we also cant assume that site is legitimate.This is the tactics of the phisher.

2.Installing Internet Explorer 7 and Microsoft Phishing Filter

We should install Internet Explorer 7, which includes the Microsoft Phishing Filter to help protect our personal data theft by warning or blocking our information from reported to phishing Web sites. Furthermore,Internet Explorer 7 can also provide anothers protection when we are visit the websites that use Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates. The Internet Explorer address bar turns green to alert you that there is more information available about Web sites. The identity of the Web site owner is also displayed on the address bar.

An EV SSL certificate not only helps ensure that the communication with a Web site is secure, but the certificate also includes information about the owner of the Web site, which has been identified by the Certification Authority (CA) issuing the SSL Certificate.

3. Never ever click the links within the text of the e-mail.

When we received the e- mail that we unknown,we should not click the following links to view. If we really want view that particular links, we can open in new windows or new tab.Besides, We can also ignore or delete the e-mail that we unknown. This will prevent "accidental" clicks from happening as well.

Review A Local, Transactional E-commerce Site

2009-07-01T00:19:00.000-07:00

I am reviewing on the lelong.com.my. It is a local, transactional e-commerce site most popular in Malaysia. It provides many services such as auction, selling, buying and open new e-shop. It also may choose the language that users prefer such as english, chinese or bahasa melayu.It is a success online marketplace in Malaysia. It has more than 3 million of transaction each month. It has more than 1 million customers. It also build a forum for the exchange of information among buyers and sellers in lelong.com.my.

The basic function provided by lelong.com.my as if ebay. Users can register an account to post some picture to sell things. Lelong.com.my only charges the small amount of money from Rm0.30 to Rm3 according to different types of selling process. For buyer, the wide range of items offered in well organized categories ease the buying process. Lelong.com.my also provides open store function that helps seller to create their own online store even they don't have programming knowledge. Only few simple clicks can create a new store with only RM168 per year. Besides that, lelong.com.my also allow users to put their banner in the lelong.com.my website.

Lelong.com.my also provides safe trade service. Lelong.com.my will keep the money of buyers until get instruction from buyer to release the money to seller. This can prevent fraud transaction that easily occurs in virtual marketplace.

Lelong.com.my suits the style of local in Malaysia. Although it success, it should keep on improve on service or the process of transaction to capture more users.

A Review On a Post On E-tailing from My E-Commerce blog

2009-06-30T22:47:00.000-07:00

Touch n Go .com.my

I am reading the "Using Touch n Go card to buy fast food in Malaysia will be a reality." Touch n Go in going to expand its application to 21 fast food outlets such as A&W, Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, 7-eleven, Caltex and others.

It is a good point to expand the application of Touch n Go into others industry instead only transportation as if Octopus Card in Hong Kong but i found out that Touch n Go card not really fully penetrate its market into transportation industry. In the public bus, they are still using manual collection of money from customers. The Touch n Go machine is not functioning. Other than that, there only few LRT station can reload the Touch n Go card. It is uncovenient for customers. The service level of Touch n Go still in not enough if compare to EZ-Link of Singapore. Therefore i see no reason for Touch n Go to shift from transportation industry to fast-food industry when the service level still low in current serving area.

Futhermore, if Touch n Go wants to shift into fast-food industry, KFC, Mcdonald and Pizzahut should be their first priority cooperate partners in the list. These are three major fast-food pionners with huge numbers of outlets that bring conveneint to Touch n Go users. According to Notion Master, Mcdonalds already have 139 outlets in Malaysia. Coorperate with these pioneers will benefits many users of Touch n Go as well as customers of these fast-food outlet.

Touch n Go should appreciates their core competitive advantage and improve service level.I strongly recommend Touch n Go to remain at transportation industry to improve its services hence build better foundation. As increment of popular of the usage Touch n Go card in transportation industry will benefit it when it wants to have next move in future.

How to safeguard our Personal and Financial Data?

2009-06-30T21:29:00.000-07:00

We are using computer everyday. Computer become one important "part" in our daily life. As internet become important path for us to connect with the world, it provides us many convenient ways or steps to do our daily activities through internet such as pay bills, buy computers, exchanges information. Therefore, we need to know how to protect our personal data such as personal ID number, cellphone number and address. There same to our financial data which is most important to us, for instance, credit card pin number, online banking username and password. If these data stolen by others people, they might use it to do crime or even transfer all the money in our account.

So, it is critical to safeguard our personal data as well as financial data. Here are some ways to cope with these problems:

Don't keep personal and financial data in computer. There is no way for virus or spyware to steal our data if we are not keeping data in computer. This is the simplest way to protect data. We might just buy a RM20 pendrive to store all data inside and keep it in safe place. Just plug in the pendrive when we need to use the data. Click to buy pendrive.

Avoid save info in shopping sites. We often shop online and buy stuff online. Usually, the shopping site required us to key in credit card info in order to finish the transaction. We should not save the credit card info although the site provides save info service. There is a risk when the shopping site database hacked by hacker, our data will be gone. Therefore, we need to avoid to save data in shopping sites.

Always clear the cache file after suft the internet. We should always clear the cache file in order to prevent the virus or worm programmes that hide in cache files. Moreover, if our computer being hacker by hacher, they can read our cache files or even retrieve datas from cache file because the websites we surfed often leave some cookies or path in cache file folder. Eg INTERNET ERASER.

Make sure antivirus program is functioning well. we need to set the antivirus program to auto update in order to prevent the entry of new virus in our computer. Some antivirus program can filter the webpage and enable time to time scanning to prevent virus, worm and trojan horse. There are several antivirus programs such as AVG, Avira and Avast. I prefer Avast because it is free and provide a good service too. Here is AVAST.

Use https url site instead of http. We may choose to carry out our transaction with the page starts with https. The page with https such as Amazon.com is more secure because the data transfer is encrypted and no ways for others people to read the data before decrypt it. it is safer to use https page to make transaction. Example of https page.

Please start to protect your data today!!!

Credit Card debts : Causes and Prevention

2009-06-29T08:39:00.000-07:00

A credit card is part of system of payments named after all the small plastic card issued by the banks and credit unions to the users of the system. It is a card enable its holder to buy goods and services based on the holder's promise to pay for these goods and services. Nowadays, credit cards has been widely used among all the people especially those undergraduates due to they can buy anything they want, even though without having cash in their hand. Therefore, it may causes them to the sea of debts. There are several reasons that causes credit cards debts.

Poor money management is one of the top reasons why people accumulated lots of debt. Due to the poor money management, people are not aware to conduct a monthly spending plan and do not keep track on the monthly bills or receipt to record how much money they have spent. Without keeping the bills or receipts, people will never realize how much they have spent on the products that leads them to raised a debt in one month. With the used of the credit cards, people will like to keep on spending by using the future money without perceive that they are unable to pay back the debts.

Besides that, unemployment is also one of the causes of credit card debts. Due to the economic crisis, many people lost their job and unable to maintain their living expenses. Therefore, people used the credit cards in order to cover their future living expenses. This may leads to a rise in debt when expenses are not to cut down to cover the reduction in income.

Now, lets us discuss on the ways to prevent credit card debts. The first steps is to have a financial planning. We need to a clear budget plan and it is a need to keep all the receipts or bills after making some purchase in order to keep track on how much you have spent on that month. This may help us to perceive and we will not overspend and prevent from the debts.

Secondly, people who is using the credit cards should learn how to have a better self control and discipline in order to prevent from buying those unnecessary things, people can control themselves by limit their credit cards amount in order to stop them when they have spend more than their budget.

Finally, the most obvious solution is to get a debit cards.Modern debit cards will work in any machine that accept credit cards, and they are accepted for online shopping as well. Naturally, if we use a debit cards we cannot spend more money than we have, that's why they are superb tools when we're trying to get rid of credit card debts.

In the conclusions, credit cards should be used for emergencies only, unless you plan on paying the entire balance off immediately.Never pay the minimum amount due unless you truly can't afford any more.

A new marketing communication tool for companies

2009-06-28T04:58:00.000-07:00

Corporate blog is a weblog published and used by an organization to reach its organizational goals. They have internal corporate blogs and external corporate blogs.
An internal corporate blogs, generally accessed through the corporation's Intranet, is a weblog that any employee can view. Many blogs are also communal, allowing anyone to post to them.
External corporate blogs are biased, though they can also offer a more direct view than traditional communication channels. However, they remain public relations tools. Company employees, teams, or spokespersons share their views in external blogs. It is often used to announce new products and services, to explain and clarify policies, or to react on public criticism on certain issues. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_blog)
The key prerequisites for successful corporate blogs:
1. Informal language
2. Symmetric communication (include using comments)
3. Integration with other media and other content.
4. Clear rules and purpose of publishing(regulations)
Setting up corporate blog often leads to challenges concerning the coordination. They are some challenges of corporate blogging:
1. Most do not receive a lot of traffic: It difficult to hit the marketplace as they wish.
2. May require a lot of time: It take long time to set up and update the blog.
3. Our employees do not represent our brand: Some employees may cast the brand name in the wrong way.
4. Being conversational is unnatural: It is difficult to dictates the voice and spirit of blogs created by employees.
5. Blogger can become more popular than the blog itself.

The advantages of the corporate blog:
1. Leaders can communicate directly with customers, suppliers and investors, as well as employees.
2. Blog give the writer an opportunity to answer critics in a controlled forum.
3. Compared with conference or printed memos to all staff, blogs are highly cost effective.

One of the corporate blog with recently added listing is Coca-Cola Conversations (http://www.coca-colaconversations.com/), authored by Phil Mooney, the historian/archivist for the Coca-Cola Company for last 30 years.

Electronic currency

2009-06-28T04:42:00.000-07:00

Electronic currency is also known as e-money, electronic cash, digital money, digital cash or digital currency which refers to money or scrip that is exchanged only electronically. This involves use of computer networks, the internet and digital stored value systems. Electronic Funds Transfer(EFT) is example of electronic money. EFT refers to the computer-based systems used to perform financial transactions electronically while direct deposit is a banking term used to refer to certain systems used to transfer money. Electronic currency allows its holder to buy the goods and services that the vastness of the internet offers. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cash)

Besides that, Electronic currency trading can let you to do business and earn only few dollars of investment. In fact, some of the experts will suggest the beginners to start with only a few dollars so that they can first learn the ropes of electronic currency. Low transaction cost is the benefit of electronic currency trading. With the advent of electronic currency trading anyone anywhere is the world can now trade and the account minimums offered by online currency brokers means that currency trading is not just for big players anyone can get involved. The advantages of electronic currency trading are numerous (http://www.learncurrencytradingonline.com/electronic-currency-trading.html).

Advantages

Banks offer many e-currency services to the customer that transfer funds, contribute to their retirement plans and offer a variety of other services without having to handle physical cash or checks. Customers do not have to wait in lines and this provides a lower-hassle environment.

Disadvantages

Although electronic currency has many benefits, but they are also many disadvantage. These include fraud, failure of technology, possible tracking of individuals and loss of human interaction. Besides that, key in wrong number or password when used electronic currency also is a disadvantage.

The application of 3rd party certification programme in Malaysia

2009-06-28T04:36:00.000-07:00

Third-party certification is a scientific process by which a product or service is reviewed by a reputable and unbiased third party to verify that a set of criteria, claims or standards are being met. The basic values of a third-party certification are to provide a measure of satisfy customer demands and limit the supplier risks.
Certification Authority (CA) is a trusted third party in a public key security system is responsible for vouchsafing the identity of users and issuing them with certificates that bind the public key to their identities. It provides security solutions and trusted services to help companies build a secure network and communications over the network. For example, MSC Trustgate.com Sdn. Bhd is the qualified CA (Certification Authority) for Malaysia and has started to expand its service offering to other Asian countries. The objective of MSC Trustgate is to secure the open network communications from both locally and across the ASEAN region. The products and services of Trustgate are SSL Certificate, Managed PKI, Personal ID, MyKAD ID, SSL VPN, Managed Security Services, VeriSign Certified Training and Application Development. (http://www.msctrustgate.com//)
MyKey is the MSC Trustgate.com Sdn. Bhd.'s Digital Certificate which is loaded into MyKad. It is governed by Malaysia Digital Signature Act 1997 and is accepted by the courts of law in Malaysia. (http://www.mykey.com.my/Website/home.php)
VeriSign SSL Certificates is the public encrypted key that Webmaster sends to CA which is a standard part of most web server and web browser packages when works in conjunction with the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. (http://www.verisign.com/)
VIP Fraud Detection Services utilizes a rules engine and a behavior engine to detect anomalies and automatically respond according to your intervention settings.

An example of an E-commerce failure and its causes

2009-06-28T04:16:00.000-07:00

Dell is an example of an e-commerce failure in its Business-to-business(B2B) strategies. Dell Computer Corporation is a multinational technology corporation, develops, manufactures, sells, and supports personal computers and other computer-related products. Dell employs more than 82,700 people worldwide. Dell is a large company, so it must compete with all the competitors in the computer industry. The organization must take chances to expand the business. One of the strategies that Dell used is business-to-business (B2B) approach. However the strategy failed. Dell Computer just runs its business-to-business (B2B) online- marketplace about 4 months. After that, Dell closes B2B marketplace. (http://www.out-law.com/page-1374) Dell’s business-to-business (B2B) exchange failed due to many reasons. The primary reason is lack of insight in the research and development areas. Without the knowledge in these areas show that Dell is taken high risk. “Some observers think that Dell’s strong name and recognition may have worked against it, causing the company to be viewed as purely a computer manufacturer rather than a site also for alternative business products” (Opinion Wire. 8 February 2001. www.serverworldmagazine.com). Another reason is Dell gave up too early because they expected cannot make more profits in the near future time.If the business allowed more time to prove it,Dell might able to solve some problems when they found it. One of the ways to do this would be to advertise the B2B reliability and value of their computers. Dell would target their loyalty customers, and build up their brand name. Business-to-business is a good opportunity for the future research and development. In this example, only a few months, Dell has decided to close its B2B Exchange at dellmarketplace.com. It seems that it failed to find any new partners to support the original grouping of Dell, 3M, Motorola and Pitney Bowes. In any case, B2B Exchange would to be a good idea for any company.

An example of an E-Commerce success and its causes

2009-06-28T01:35:00.000-07:00

Amazon.com, is an American e-commerce company based in Seattle, Washington.It was one of the largest Internet sellers of media in the world today. Nowadays, Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France, China, and Japan.

Amazon.com was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, and launched in 1995.
A businessman by the name of Nick Hanauer believed in Bezos’ idea and decided to invest $40,000 in the venture.When Amazon first decided to go online, its layout was not as flashy as it is today. Luckly, a man who name by the Tom Alburg decided to invest $100,000 in Amazon in 1995, which helped Amazon fund a better looking website and hosting its capabilities.

One of the reason Amazon.com success is because its come out an ideas which means recruit the companies like Target, Toys R Us, Old Navy to sell their products online such as VHSs, DVDs, music CDs, MP3s, computer software, video games, electronic, apparel, clothing, beauty products, house wares, furniture, food, toys through Amazon to creating a higher profit .

Besides,Bezos come out with a new idea to increase or maintain their customer retention which is added the option of buyers to write their own book reviews, which is a huge credit to Amazon.com’s success. In customer mind,Amazon as more of an online community and not just a place to purchase things. By 1997, Amazon.com had generated $15.7 million in revenue.

Others than that, Amazon.com also launched a new product name Kindle in November 2007. Kindle is an electronic book that allows readers to view the material from it.Besides, users of the kindle download the new material to the Kindle from amazon's "Whispernet" which works with EVDO cellular data transmission.Furthermore,Kindle users may also sign up to receive the New York Times, Washington Post, or other national news publication by wireless, and can browse the news just as easily as an other item with the Kindle. However the Kindle is not limited to just news and published books, the Kindle can also read many blogs and also be used to surf the Internet using the built in web browser.

Conclusion, Amazon is now back on its feet and remains one of the most popular online vendors in the world today.

The Threat of Online Security: How Safe Is Our Data?

2009-06-25T13:33:00.000-07:00

In the world of globalisation, the technology of internet are more widely use among all the generations. Most of the companies has use the internet to share information and make online transactions. Therefore, it is important for the users to aware when browsing through the websites as there are website thats are not safe to use. It is because some website contains malicious program such as computer viruses, worm, trojan horses and spyware.

The most common form of malicious code is computer virus which is a program or a fragment of code that replicates by attaching copies of itself to other programs. There are four main classes of viruses. The first ccategory of viruses consists of file infectors, which imbed themselves into ordinary executable files and attach to other system executables when the file run. It follows by the system or boot-record infectors, which it infect the first sector on a driver from which the operating system is booted-up. These viruses are not as prevalent now because floppy disk are less frequently used now. The third category which is called micro viruses. It infect data files that include scripting "macros" and finally multi-part viruses that are use more than one attack method. The examples of computer viruses are "I LOVE YOU" virus, "Melissa" virus or worm, AutoRun and etc.

The term of Trojan Horse came from a Greek story of the Trojan War. Trojan horse is a destructive progam that masquerades as a benign applications.It do not replicate themselves but they can just be as destructive. One of the insidious type of Trojan horse is a program that claims to rid your computer of viruses but instead introduces viruses onto your computer. Trojan horses are broken down in classification based on how they breach systems and the damage they cause. The types of Trojan Horse are Remote Acess Trojans, Destructive Trojans, Proxy Trojans, FTP Trojans and etc.

Unlike viruses and worms, spyware does not usually self-replicate. Spyware is a type or malware that is installed surreptitiously on personal computers to collect information about users, their computer or browsing habits without their informed consent. It can collect various types of personal information such as Internet surfing habits. Spyware may change the computer settings, resulting in slow connection speed, different homepage and loss of functionality of other program.

In order to prevent computer viruses, Trojan Horses and Spyware, the user must run a quality security software on their computer. There are few recommended solutions for quality security solutions.

First is to get a good anti-virus software such as AVG, Norton Anti Virus and McAffee Anti Virus. It is important to make sure to regularly update your "virus definations" once a week.

Second, install a quality Firewall. There are may firewall that are available such as FREEZoneAlarm. They provide a paid version with extra tools.

Third, install an Anti-Spyware application. There are many Anti-Spyware sofetware available such as Spy sweeper, CounterSpy, Anti Malware and etc.

And lastly, beware of the emails attachments. Do not open email attachment that you are not expecting. Viruses come with some very nasty messages to trick the user into opening the attachments. Besides that, do not open attachment you havent requested, even they appear to be from people that you know.

The History and evolution of E-commerce

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What is E-Commerce?

Electronic Commerce(EC) is the process of buying and selling of the product or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks.Certain EC applications , such as buying and selling stocks and airline tickets on the internet,are growing very rapidly, exceeding the non-internet trade.

A large percentage of electronic commerce is conducted entirely electronically for the virtual items such as access to the premium content on the website, but most electronic commerce involves transportations of physical items in some ways.

Electric Commerce is generally considered to be the sales aspect of e-business. It also consist of the exchange of data to facilitate the financing and payment aspect of the business transactions.

The History and Evolution of E-Commerce

In Early of 1970s, the first extended use of E-Commerce appears when a system which is the Electronic Fund Transfer(EFT) was introduced. EFT which refers to the computer-based systems used to perform financial transactions electronically. However, the application of EFT is limited for those financial instute and large corporations.

Therefore, Electronic Data Interchange(EDI) was developed in order to replace EFT. EDI used to electronically to transfer routine documents, that expanded electronic transfer from from financial transactions from to other types of transactions processing. EDI enlarge the pool of participating from manufacturers, retailers, services and etc where this systems is called Interorganizational system(IOS).

IOS is a systems which allows the flows of the information to be automated between organisations in order to reach a desired supply-chain management systems, which enables the development of competitive organisations.

In the late of 1980s, there are two new applications were widely adopted in the business which are the electronic mail(e-mail) and groupware.

In 1991, there's a significant change as the govenment of the United State allowes the public to access the Internet and it was the period that people participated in the World Wide Web(WWW).Therefore, online retailers exist in the Internet that gives the chances to the people to consume things off their computers. The launched of Amazon.com and Ebay.com

have represents the history of the E-Commerce as they are the first company who uses Electronic Transactions.

Introduction- Jolin Lee Siew Kuan

2009-06-21T07:44:00.000-07:00

Hi......everyone, I am Jolin Lee Siew Kuan, not Jolin Chai in Taiwan. I am 22 year's old and my religion is christian . Luckily my family have opportunity to know more about god and follow the god. Nowadays, my mother, sister and young brother have baptize. The feeling that I want to share with you is my family life totally change after knowing to god. God, thanks a lot. Thanks, does not leave me away.

I am not clever as my sister. After SPM, I directly study Pre-U at KTAR in setapak. After 2 years, my STPM result quite nice, i get 3.33 cgpa and I proud to it. Now, i study my degree in Utar.
When I take my trimester result,I feel nervous and scare. This is because my english is not very good,everytime i will worry about my english paper whether pass or fail. Luckily, i pass all my english paper. Really thanks god.

Besides, I also being an advertisement agent as my part time job. This job can let me gain the knowledge and working experience.It also help me to save money go to Sabah with my classmate in september 2009. Sometime i will go back to my hometown and work for my monther,my salary can go up to rm 50 per day, because i am the 'senior excecutive '.

My hobby is cooking, travelling and shopping. I am good in cooking the Switzerland chicken wings, honey chicken wings and puding . I like to cook because I enjoy the happiness with people who like my food.

The 5 top websites that I everyday login are www.facebook.com , www.hotmail.com , www.utar.edu.com.my , www.pbebank.com and www.airasia.com.my

Facebook is the website that can easily for me to know more other new friends and play some games to reduce stress.Examples, restaurant city, yoville and pet society.

Hotmail.com is for me to check my mail box everyday and send or forward the important mail to my friend.Others than that, we also use 'mail' way to send our assignment and report among our group members.It's really convenient for us.

Utar website is the website that i need to login everyday to check or update some lecture notes and tutorial questions. Besides, I also download some past years paper to review and understand better the trend how the exam question will be set.

When I want to spend some money to eat jogoya with my classmate, the website that i must login is not the jogoya.com , but is pbebank.com. Reason is because if my daily expenses exceed my budget, then i not suspose go to jogoya. Therefore, pbebank website is the important website to make me understand better my economic status.

As I wrote , I like to travel around to gain more knowledge and experience. I like to go some different country with different culture to understand their culture.I think we need to travel around the world and look the beautiful world now. Therefore airasia can help me to achieve my 'dream' with buying more affortable ticket to travel around.

Introduction- Darren Wee Chun Yip

2009-06-20T12:19:00.000-07:00

I am Darren Wee Chun Yip. I currently study at UTAR at Sg Long, Kajang. I am taking Bachelor of Business Administration of Entrepreneurship. My hometown is Ipoh. Previously, i studied at Poi Lam High School. I took O'level and UEC before i study at Utar. I am at Kuala Lumpur(KL) since 2 years ago. I strongly dislike KL life. I feel that KL always crowded with people anywhere. Besides that, traffic jam is the norms of KL. I love my hometown.

I like to play computer games especially Warcraft-Dota. It gives me challenges and funs when i play with my coursemate. Apart from that, i also like swimming. I like to swim at condominium's swimming pool with my friends. I don't swim recently because i am preparing my final year project.

The five websites that i like to surf are http://www.facebook.com/, http://www.google.com.my/, http://www.sinchew.com.my/, http://www.youtube.com/ and http://www.airasia.com.my/.

Facebook is the website that let me understand what my friends currently doing. I also update my profile such as photo to let my friends know my life at UTAR. I also play games in Facebook. that latest challenge game is TEXAS POKER.

GOOGLE is the most powerful searching engine providing me plenty of information. It is helpful when i searching information for my assignment. We developed new term when searched information by Google. Anything you want to know then you may "Google" it.

Sinchew is the chinese online newspaper website. I prefer read sinchew as chinese newspaper instead of the star online. I need to upgrate myself and understand what is happening now. I cannot just "hide" in Sg Long.

Youtube is a website that allows upload and watch short clips. I like to watch the funny clips in youtube to reduce stress. I also like to share with my friends.

Last is Airasia. I like to travel around, therefore I always login to airasia to grab some low fare air tickets. It can reduce my travel cost as i have limited budget. I am planning go to Melbourne but i need to delay my plan because of H1N1.

Contact Us

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Visitors may leave us a message, we would reply as soon as possible. Thanks.

Chia Hann Yeong => chiahy88@hotmail.com
Chan Elleen => elle_seed@hotmail.com
Jolin Lee Siew Kuan => siewkuan.lee@hotmail.com
Darren Wee Chun Yip => darrenwee5493@hotmail.com

BENT1G3

2009-06-20T11:18:00.000-07:00

We are students from University Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) Faculty of Accountancy& Management. We are studying Bachelor of Business Administration of Entrepreneurship(HONS). We need to set up a blog about E-commerce as our assignment. We have four members in this assignment group, i.e. Chia Hann Yeong (group leader), Chan Elleen, Jolin Lee Siew Kuan & Darren Wee Chun Yip. For futher our personal information, please read introduction. I hope everyone access to this blog happy to spent your time here.... Welcome to BENT1G3!!!

Introduction - Chan Elleen

2009-06-15T09:06:00.000-07:00

Hello. First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Chan Elleen and I'm 22 year-old who comes from a small town well knowned for the slanted clock tower, just like the Pisa Tower in Italy. Can you guys guess where is it? I'm just a simple girl with different emotions at different times who likes to shop and day dream about luxuries around the world. So what is my hobby? They are shopping, reading magazines, surfing through the internet, chatting with my friends and etc.

I am currently taking Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) Entrepreneurship in UTAR. Previously, I have studied Diploma in Business Administration at KTAR(Perak Branch) and upon graduation from KTAR, I have worked as a Casino Marketing Secretary in Resort World Berhad before I joined UTAR. Time flies so fast as I have already studied in UTAR for a year. I'm glad to know all my classmates and enjoy my life at KL.

Nowadays, internet has play an important our life. As for me, internet has dominated almost all of my time. Lets talk about the 5 top websites that i visited the most. They are:

http://www.facebook.com/

Facebook has become part of my life which i will never miss out. It allows me to get to know more friends and to check the latest updates about them by uploading their recent pictures. Facebook cheers my life with lots applications that allowed me to play games such as pet society and texas poker.

ashopaholicsden.com

The website that enable me to surf through the latest attire and fashion on all the e-boutiques around the Malaysia. Besides that, I get to know more updates about the offline bazzar which i can shop on the apparels on a discounted price.

http://www.google.com/

Google which is one of the search engine that have provide me with plenty of informations. It is so useful and it helps me alots on my assignments and my daily life routine.

http://www.thestar.com.my/

The website i visited the most as it updates me with the latest news on what is happening in our country and around the world. Besides that, its a cheapest way that i can save alot of money from buying a newspaper everyday.

http://www.youtube.com/

The people most favourite websites with lots of short clips of MTVs, Videos and etc. Usually i visited youtube to listen to some songs and watch those funny clips to kills my time and its also cheers me whenever i feel stress.

Thats all for my self-introductions. Thank you.

Introdution- CHIA HANN YEONG

2009-06-12T23:55:00.000-07:00

Hi, every one, this is the first time i'm writing a blog, hope can meet more friends at here. My name is CHIA HANN YEONG. I'm 20 year old and I come from ipoh, perak. Now, I study in University Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) and this year is my final year of my university life.

My hobbies are reading magazine, swimming, jogging and play badminton. Usually, I play badminton with my best friends or forum friends. Besides that, I am jogging with my friend in evening.

During my free time, I like to online, the website i usually visit are http://www.facebook.com/, http://www.klse.com.my/website/bm/, http://cforum3.cari.com.my/, http://www.malaysiakini.com/, and http://www.google.com.my/, there are the top 5 websides that I visted the most. I can make more friends and play some mini game inside facebook. Inside Bursa Malaysia, I can get information about the share and know more about Malaysia economy. Besides, cari forum is the biggest chinese forum in Malaysia and I alway discuss something that what I interest with my forum friends and read more news insite it. In the other hand, malaysiakini is the real and faster webside that i searched about the news, we can read more real news inside the website that never publish in newspaper. Finally, I search more information that use to complete my assignment and homework from Google.