Archive For June 2009

Poll: Online reviews influencing purchases

1st June 2009

New research has found that online reviews have a significant effect on purchase decisions for most online consumers.The survey by Ciao.co.uk revealed that 76 per cent of its users had changed a decision to buy a particular product after reading an online review, compared with two per cent stating...

Tips offered for mobile e-commerce usability

1st June 2009

Mobile e-commerce sites should ideally allow shoppers to buy products without having to set up a full account.This is one of several tips offered by Linda Bustos of the Get Elastic blog for improving the usability of mobile shopping websites.She advises website owners to enable a guest checkout...

Adobe unveils new development products

1st June 2009

Adobe has announced the availability of a range of new products aimed at internet application developers.Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and the Flex 4 framework are now available in beta form to developers wanting to speed up the application design and building process.Built on the open source...