Internet Herb Portal set up by Malaysian firm

A local company, Hewo Sdn Bhd, has set up an Internet herb portal to document and provide information on medicine herbs. This will help to boost Malaysia's position as the region's herbal hub.

The portal, www.hewo.com, is backed by a panel of 7 health care experts as advisors, hopes to provide accurate information and advice on how to obtain health benefits from herbs. Information from more than 15,000 plant species can be found in the portal such as its scientific names, common names and medicinal uses.


Among the interesting section of the portal are Herbal World, What's Herb, Did You Know?, Top Health Topics, Lifestyle, Technology/Environment, Blog and Communities.

Tech Tags: herb portal medicine

IMPACT - to fight cyber terrorism

Malaysian Government has approved RM43 million to set up an international centre which offer the world the best brains and facilities to help fight cyber security threats.

The center is called International Multinational Partnership Against Cyber Terrorism (IMPACT). It will be based in Cyberjaya with leading names in the IT industry serving on its advisory board.

This will be the world's first international public-private sector collaborative institution against cyber terrorism. This idea was brought out last year by our Malaysian Prime Minister at the World Congress on Information Technology in Austin, US.

Well known names like Symantec Corporation, TrendMicro, F-Secure and Kaperskylab have agreed to be the key partners and serving the advisory board.

IMPACT will be run and coordinated by two local IT companies namely Ascendsys Sdn Bhd, a security services company and GITN Sdn Bhd, a government IT network company.

Tech Tags: IMPACT cyber terrorism Malaysia partnership

Another spammer gets jailed

A 2 years' jail is awaiting a 28-year-old spammer from New Jersey for sending out millions of unsolicited email, spam mails.

Todd Moeller were sentenced to 27 months jail and fined more than US$180,000 by a New York judge. Moeller revealed that he was able to send large volume of spam in a way that can concealed the email's true source.

Other related cases on spammers in US are listed below:

• Spam king arrested!
• Spammer Agrees to $10 Million Settlement
• Spamming - Spammer Found guilty! and pay US$ 1.1 millionPublish Post

Tech Tags: spammer jail

Olympic Games Ticket System Crashes

Overwhelming demand for the Olympics 2008 tickets caused the booking system to crash, jamming the telephone lines and lengthy queues when the sales was opened on 30th Oct.

A total 8 million hits on the ticketing website were received in the first hour. The telephone calls received were exceeding 3.8 million.

This resulted the tickets sales to be suspended until further notice on Nov 5th.

This is an official announcement from the Games' website:

(BEIJING, October 30) -- The head of the BOCOG Ticketing Center said Tuesday that after careful consideration and discussions with the relevant technical partners, and to ensure the interests of the public, BOCOG has decided to temporarily halt the domestic ticket sales in the second phase to improve the technical plan and will announce new ticketing information on November 5.

Efforts have been taken to improve the system. A press conference was also being held to explain the suspension by the BOCOG official - BOCOG official explains the suspension of the domestic ticket sales

Tech Tags: Beijing 2008 tickets

Maybank targeting double on online stock trading deals

Malayan Banking Berhad (Maybank), the largest bank in Malaysia, is forecasting that its online stock trading at its Maybank2U Internet portal to be doubled from the current transaction volume in six months time.

Currently, its online trading transaction is about RM30 million daily. An average of 9,000 transactions were conducted everyday. The online trading portal which was launched in 2000 has about 10,000 users.

Maybank is expecting the trading transaction to hit RM60 million in six month time. In order to achieve this projection, Maybank will be reducing the trading fees for its online traders from November 2007 onwards. Maybankinvest online customer can save up to 63% on their trading fees which enable them to break even their investment faster.

Maybank was the first local bank in Malaysia that introduce online banking. Maybank2u is controlling about 60% of the local Internet banking market. It has 3.6 million registered users, of which 830,000 were active.

The portal conducted more than 24 million of transactions in a month, valued at RM3.2 billion.

Tech Tags: Maybank online stock trading online banking

Electronic Commerce - Blog Carnival (2nd November 2007)

Welcome to the November 2, 2007 edition of electronic commerce. (Vol 1, No. 4, 2007)

ElTio Rob presents Open Source - essential to success? posted at Hortal.com, saying, "Open Source gives PayPal that rarest form of competitive advantage: control. With it, they’ve taken to change the world, redefining financial services for consumers worldwide. Banks, insurance companies and the rest of the eBusiness world better take notice."

Doris Chua presents Advice on Online Store Needed posted at A Meeting Place for All Home Office Women.

Stefan Töpfer presents THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG » Blog Archive » Work-Life Balance 2.0 and Small Business posted at The Small Business Blog.

John W. Furst presents Attract International Buyers More Easily posted at E-Biz Booster Blog, saying, "Do you get orders from international customers? If not as many as you wish, you might look at your order process from the standpoint of an international shopper. Fix some basic most common problems and those customers are yours. Too many Web shop operators believe that their business will be an international one automatically. Not really, but it takes a one-time effort to get there."

James D. Brausch presents You Don’t Need Any Money posted at jamesbrausch.com.


That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of electronic commerce using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Technorati tags: electronic commerce, blog carnival.

Top 5 posts for October 2007

Finally the marking was over by the end of September. Another new semester commenced in mid-October.

These are the top 5 posts for the month of October.

1. Latest on Google PageRank: My E-Commerce is now PR3!
2. How to lose your ID easily to fraudsters at home?
3. 10 free e-books on blogging
4. Net Revolution in Africa soon
5. WidgetBucks - New PPC for bloggers


In case you have missed out the Top 5 posts of the previous months, you can get it here:
1. Top 5 Posts for June 2007
2. Top 5 posts for July 2007
3. Top 5 posts for August 2007
4. Top 5 posts for September 2007

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