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Review: Google Insights Can Help Merchants Optimize PPC/SEO Campaigns
Google Insights, a free and relatively new research tool, provides detailed search data that can help online retailers improve ... 1 Comment | Read More »
Cart of the Week: Sure Solutions’ Actinic Shopping Cart
Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart platforms. In this, our “Cart Of The Week” feature, we’ll profile—b... 0 Comments | Read More »
Credit Card Theft: Steps to Protect You and Your Customers
Having even one credit card number stolen from your site can tarnish your reputation and impact sales for years. It is importan... 4 Comments | Read More »
Camino Web Browser is Best in Mac Universe
The Camino Project released its newest version for Mac OS-X in September 2008. Version 1.6.4 of this union of Mozilla and Maci... 0 Comments | Read More »
Maxthon: China’s Ad Smashing, Proxy Switching, Web Browser
The Maxthon web browser brings several great features to the same platform as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) and lets users... 0 Comments | Read More »
Opera 9.6 Browser: Links Email, Desktop, and Mobile
If you want evidence that there is a hot browser war underway, you need look no further than the new Opera 9.6 web browser that... 1 Comment | Read More »
Google’s Chrome: The Prototype for Tomorrow’s Browsers
When Google introduced its Chrome browser on September 2, 2008, it began the foundation for an improved Internet experience—ful... 0 Comments | Read More »
Apple’s Safari Browser: “A Weak Contender”
In the ongoing battle for browser supremacy Apple’s Safari is little more than humdrum, but like all things Apple it has a comm... 1 Comment | Read More »
Browser Review: Mozilla Firefox 3
By some estimates, more than 1.4 billion people use the Internet for work, entertainment, or commerce. All of those web surfers... 2 Comments | Read More »
Browser Review: Internet Explorer
When Google introduced its Chrome web browser in September, it fired the first shot in a new browser war, challenging Microsoft... 4 Comments | Read More »
Yahoo! Store Users: SSL Servers are Moving
Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, a leading ecommerce provider, is migrating its secure socket layer (SSL) certificates to new servers... 0 Comments | Read More »
Open-Source Alternatives To Microsoft Office, Part II
In part I of this series we looked at why the use of open-source software is now gaining momentum. Here, we take a look at some... 1 Comment | Read More »
Open-Source Alternatives To Microsoft Office, Part I
Ten years ago, a tiny software community launched free Microsoft-like programs for those with UNIX or Linux computer operating ... 0 Comments | Read More »
PCI Report Card: Merchant X (A Photography Accessory Retailer)
Welcome to the inaugural PCI Report Card. In previous Practical eCommerce report cards, we’ve always been clear about the name ... 0 Comments | Read More »
The Challenges of Extended Validation SSLs
This piece, part two in Practical Ecommerce’s series on the new Extended Validation SSL certificates, looks at the challenges s... 0 Comments | Read More »
Interview: Comodo Exec On Extended Validation SSL Certificates
Like its SSL precursor, EV SSL certification encrypts customer inputted information and marks the page with a yellow padlock ic... 0 Comments | Read More »
Pay-Per-Click Tools Improve Productivity
Daily pay-per-click management routine is not a lot of fun. Thankfully, there are a few tools out there that make the work much... 3 Comments | Read More »
Effective Tools to Detect Stolen Credit Cards, Part 1 Of 3
There are hundreds of branded tools that ecommerce merchants can turn to for help in catching fraudulent credit card orders. So... 6 Comments | Read More »
Internet Security: The Seatbelt Is In The Trunk
Suppose you took delivery on your new car and the salesman told you, as you signed the order, that the seatbelt, antilock brake... 0 Comments | Read More »
Credit Card Fraud: How Big Is The Problem?
Reports of website data breaches, identity theft and credit card fraud are increasingly in the news. But is the problem as wide... 2 Comments | Read More »