Video Gaming industry hasn’t been this popular ever, average video game users are just climbing up by minutes. Video game industry is already a huge economical power house and it’s getting huger. The scenario is a lot different than what its used to be 5 years ago. Console games are not making money, while online and mobile games are taking over the market. Currently online and mobile games generates about 35% of total game industries revenue, and it’s market share growing. The way it’s going Consol game will be a relic like thingy in near future. So why is such a boom we are seeing in gaming economy? Console games revenue model was typical selling the game model, which …
We all aware of that finding an open source software based on Microsoft technology is like searching for needle in a hay stack, let alone a suitable one. dashCommerce is one of those very rare open source .NET ecommerce platforms in the wild, other two available option you have- DotShoppingCart and nopCommerce (we will come to these two in the future).
dashCommerce formerly known as the Microsoft Commerce Starter Kit, is a complete CMS (Content Management System) and ecommerce open source solution. Current stable version dashCommerce 3.0 is quite flexible and robust in nature, as it’s incorporates all three major components of an ecommerce application:
Product Catalog
Shopping Cart
Order Fulfillment …
PrestaShop is what we consider a one-stop shop and a lot simpler to install and setup than most open source ecommerce platform. This is a scalable open source platform, which means it can grow as your business grows. PrestaShop is a free solution, and their easy-to-use back office tool allows anyone, regardless of skill level, to use and maintain an online store (sort of like ecommerce for dummies 
). PrestaShop is available under the Open Software License and officially launched in August 2007 for small to medium-sized businesses. The software, which is based on the …
Varien a LA based Web firm turn ecommerce platform provider developed Magento, one of the most vibrant, feature rich open source ecommerce platform. Varien was founded in 2001 which worked with osCommerce. They originally planned to fork osCommerce but later decided to rewrite it as Magento. Though Magento version 1 publicly launched on March 31, 2008, the official development started way back in early 2007. Magento is built on components of the Zend Framework. It’s available under the Open Software License …
There was a time when e-commerce was either costly bespoke development or extension of popular CMS . But those days are long gone, last few years e-commerce development really started to take off. e-commerce has its own platforms to choose from for easier and rapid development and deployments. e-commerce platforms gain immense amount of popularity not only among clients but as well to the developers due to the fact is:
It’s easier and faster to go in production phase.
Able to deliver feature rich online stores.
Integrated SEO, analytics functionalities.
Easier to install, deploy and maintain. …
The mass improvements of Internet technology and virtualization bring us in a stage where we nearly buy/want to buy everything from online. But as the online shopping spree grows so is the online scam and fraud. There are thousands of online shopping sites out there with lowest quality products (that they can’t sell on site), some with zero customer care, much worse some are just crooks/frauds. So they only way to be safe is buying from someone reliable, certified by proper authority. In United States BBB online reliability program is one such scheme, where they scrutinizes online companies to adhere some basic guidelines to make online shopping safer for consumers. …
Up until now ICANN, the organization that assigns Internet domain names was busy with different TLDs to make domain name more custom, but always limited within roman characters. It’s been a long time coming. A little over seven years ago, ICANN, committed to the idea of providing support for internationalization of those names. ICANN has now announced that the first sites using fully internationalized domain names will be accessible to Internet users starting Monday (15th Aug 2007). On Monday ICANN will begin testing of whether allowing the character sets of 11 languages to be included in top-level domains (TLDs) causes widespread online anarchy. Currently, the use of non-Roman characters is allowed in all portions …
Let’s begin this with a very simple question, what is the most fundamental means of interaction with a physical object? Undeniably the answer would be “Touch” or “Grab”. Microsoft re-introduced that very basic method of interaction recently at the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California, with the launch of Surface.
Six years ago Stevie Bathieche and Andy Wilson of Microsoft had a concept to mix virtual and physical worlds to bring a rich interactive experience. Half Dozen years later, Microsoft today revealed its plans for Microsoft Surface, the first product of …
There was such a time when business community used to gather in country clubs or aristocratic restaurants/bars to exchange views and information for mutual benefits. Those sorts of clubs still do exist, which are strictly limited to members and memberships are hard to come by. But business world did changed a lot, especially when more and more industry started to have their cyber journey. In this new age we have new kinds of portals, the online portals where business community gathers for mutual benefits, by breaking down the aristocratic, national, international, and cultural barriers. Sounds world-shattering isn’t it . As you must know by now that, we are living in age which sometimes referred as crowdsourced or more …