These won infamy in 1998 as the "shopping cart" patents, which cover processes that allow buyers to accumulate items before checking out of a web storefront, how payment and purchase data is passed through a URL, and the use of "digital offers...
More sophisticated searches can be incorporated and developers can add the shopping cart functionality to their website. They can download the latest product information, manage their inventory, submit refunds and work out pricing for their goods.
The first is an ecommerce package that offers customisable shopping-cart and customer support functions, designed to handle data access for both business-to-business and business-to-consumer needs on a single website.
Sun said it has put together a web services starter kit to give businesses all the tools they need to start building robust web services. The starter kit will be free to developers for a year and will include directory server software, J2EE, Forte...
Like Scott McNealy's (16) Sun, it's his company's kit that is making the Internet tick. Case has done it by melding his own AOL with Time Warner; Murdoch will follow suit sooner rather than later. Chris Gent's Vodafone manages to tick all the hot...
Gujarat is a rich state with a heavily industrialised past but it was a late starter in information technology. What happens when these women start getting orders for 10,000 items from all over the world?