US agencies boost satellite use

May 13th, 2008

US agencies get wider access to spy satellites to boost national security and disaster response, officials say.

Russia throws out net piracy case

May 13th, 2008

A former owner of Russia's cut-price downloads website Allofmp3.com is acquitted of music piracy.

Compact disc hits 25th birthday

May 13th, 2008

Exactly 25 years ago the world's first compact disc was produced at a Philips factory in Germany.

Delivering An Effective Online Retail Strategy

May 13th, 2008

Free to retailers, this one-day event will address six important areas to help you develop or benchmark your current online strategy.

Bagga Grows Bigger Online

May 13th, 2008

Closing his premier high street store enabled Dave Lomax of Bagga Menswear to reduce overheads and focus more on web sales. His annual turnover is now approaching a million.

Better Cart info in Header v.1

May 13th, 2008

Modified to work easily with STS less that 1 minute to install.

European ecommerce set for 25% annual growth

May 13th, 2008

Ecommerce in Europe is expected to grow by 25% per year, from €106 billion sales in 2006 to €323 billion by 2011, says EMarketer - with Britain, France and Germany leading the way.

eTail UK – a few notes of interest from the conference

May 13th, 2008

I was one of the speakers and attendees at the inaugural eTail UK conference this year in the UK. I scribbled down lots of notes intending to do a series of blog posts based on what I heard and learned.

That was over 2 months ago now… But I thought I’d at least capture a few snippets of interest that I still remember.

Bypass Product Listing Page Ver. 1.0

May 13th, 2008

Version 1.1 contains both the original changes from Ver. 1.0, and a variation

that can be used to redirect to the first product of the category:

- IF the category isn’t the main catalog page (cPath=0),

- AND IF only one product exists for that category.



If the category does not contain any products, it will be processed the same as before

adding this code.



For this variation, there are only 10 lines to add to index.php, all together in the same location. Very simple install. (Equally simple to remove, if it isn’t what you expected.)



Full package. Contains one (1) file.

Internet Helps Small Firms Compete

May 13th, 2008

82 per cent of small firms believe working online has improved their competitiveness, according to research by IT company click4cashflow. They also found it made work time more effective, and improved employees’ work-life balance.