This is a review on legal post from My E-Commerce blog, which focus on the new rules for cyber cafes. There will be some new guidelines will be implemented by government soon in order to regulate the businesses of internet and cyber cafes. The new rules are:
1. Have to close by midnight daily.
2. Banned from using tinted glasses in their premises (must be able to see through from the outside) .
3. Only allowed to operate from the ground floor.
4. Those under 12 years old must be accompanied by parents or guardian and only allowed to stay up to 10.00pm.
5. Prohibited from providing gaming activities, gambling, pornography, music and publications with negative element.
6. Cigarettes and alcohol to be prohibited from being sold.
7. A book log to record the entry and departure time of the patrons.
These new rules provide advantages for society and also disadvantage to the cyber cafes businesses. One of the new rules stated that those who under 12 years old must be accompanied by parents or guardian. This rule is beneficial to the society because parents no need to worry that their children will go internet café without their knowledge. Besides that, it also will enhance society trust and confidence on internet café because internet cafes are not allowed to provide games and also activities with negative element to customers. This means that they only can offer useful activities to customers.
In addition, the new guidelines such as internet cafes have to close at midnight are a treat to the cyber cafes businesses because most of the cyber cafes’ customers are likely to go there at midnight. However, through the enforcement of this new rule, they no longer can do so. This will significantly reduce the earnings of their businesses.
Furthermore, gaming activities are the major source of activities to attract customers. By implementing this new rule, gaming activities are no longer available in internet cafes. This will leads to a cut down of their businesses income and perhaps will cause them closing down soon.
I think that these new guidelines need to do some amendment due to the benefits of the cyber cafes businesses. Otherwise, cyber cafes businesses will not sustain for a long time or the owners will not follow these new guidelines due to their own advantages.
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There are many popular and successful transactional e-commerce website in Malaysia such as lelong.com.my, gsc.com.my, tgv.com.my and mudah.com.my. These pages become so successful for the reason that the advantages they provide to their customers.
However, today I’m going to make a review on Blooming.com.my which was the first online florist in Malaysia. Blooming Florist began operations in 1981 and is managed by May and Martin Cheah. It has grown from a small retail shop till its present set of five retail outlet in Klang Valley. Today, with advancement of technology, Blooming is linked with most reliable florist throughout Malaysia and they also networked more than 100,000 florists worldwide through its membership in Interflora Pacific Unit Limited.Blooming Florist Sdn Bhd was ranked at the fourth (4th) place of the Malaysia Top 5 Ecommerce Companies. With it promise to deliver quality flowers and quality service for its customer, the company business has maintained consistently through the years. User must register with Blooming first before they can start purchasing or ordering online. There are many benefits when a user registers themselves as a member such as they can track their orders, set up email gift reminder and speed up their order process in the future as they do not need to fill up their personal details again for the next purchase. What's more, shopping cart is provided on the top of right hand to add more convenient to user.
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At the homepage of Blooming, there is six (6) links where it has been cat
egorised from home, hand bouquets, flowers & gifts, baskets, congratulations and seasonal which can help customer to choose their flowers faster and more efficiently. Once you click inside any links, pictures will appear and when you click inside, a clearer picture will be shown with description of the product chosen. In addition, there is a live interactive link where you can ask questions or ask for live support. Besides, frequent ask questions (FAQs), refund policy and delivery services are stated clearly in the homepage of Blooming. Moreover, in this homepage, there are several tips has been provided floral arrangement & care as well as the meaning of the flower.
In order to enhance customer confident, there is a VeriSign button at the bottom of left hand corner where it stated that Blooming.com.my is a secure site verified by MSC Trustgate.com Sdn. Bhd. Blooming.com.my uses secure server software (SSL) to encrypt all information you input before it is sent to us. Furthermore, the entire customer data collected is protected against unauthorized access. This disclaimer is written in the privacy policy of the company website. 
There are various ways such as paying by credit card (VISA, Mastercard, AMEX, Diners Club and JCB), through online banking (maybank2u.com, RHB ebanking and Hong Leong e-Payment) or pay through Kawanku ATM machine. 
In addition to the above, Blooming's also have tied up monthly promotion with other merchant such as MyStyle, UOB Bank Credit Card, Hong Leong Bank Credit Card,Citibank Clear Card Holder, Aeon Credit Card holder and Rakan Muda Member. Any customer who uses the above credit card to purchase flowers and gifts from Blooming are entitled for 10% to 15% discount.
Blooming’s product pricing is average and buying gifts and flowers online for loved one through Blooming.com is definitely more expediency and easier as it can be done by just clicking few clicks and reduce hassle of buying at storefront. Additionally, Blooming.com provide free delivery service around Klang Valley therefore, Blooming florist delivery service is getting more popular due to good customer service and security.Related Useful Link:
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Of all the e-tailing topics on My E-commerce blog, the one interested me the most is a post of Selling fish online in Malaysia.This post is telling us about 2007 trend of bidding fish via e-mail. The action seems to be initiated by Fishermen in Tanjung Dawai. By selling their fish up to worldwide Internet, they are literally having an international business. People from all over the world who are interested in buying their fish may register their name and be given code number as an ID to auction the fishes bid.
Auction is open everyday from 3 pm to 7 pm Malaysian time. The fish can be sent anywhere as long as the buyer bears the transportation costs and also 5% surcharge to Tanjung Dawai Fishermen Association. During the bidding time, the fishermen of Tanjung Dawai will gather at the auction hall and watching three 29-inch televisions which show the latest bidding list from buyers. When there’s an agreement, the bidder will be e-mailed for further transaction.
As I read the mentioned system, I can’t help but questioning about how it works. There seems to be several flaws on this online bidding system. It was stated that buyers may put their bid and email it to pnktdawai@yahoo.com and the bid will be shown on TV at fishermen auction hall. Tanjung Dawai Fishermen Association doesn’t seem to have a website yet. It is unknown how the bidding fishes are exhibited to the worldwide buyers. That the buyers might buy Tanjung Dawai fishes without confirming the quality of the fishes first. And it is also not explained how buyers monitor updates on their bidding item price, so that they can bid even more when desired. It is also a challenge to advertise the system to new potential buyers out there when all the association are not able to post their email address and phone number on a website, when they don’t have a website.
Passwords give painful headaches to many people, especially when the person has multiple passwords for multiple programs they have subscribed to. It annoys me sometimes because the main problem with passwords is that I tend to forget them.Thus, in the effort to not forgetting them, users will opt to simple tings which could be remembered easily forever. For example, their dog’s name, first child’s name, birth
dates, special occasions date and many more – anything that will give them clue to remember what their passwords is. This is the main factors of human habit that hackers used to gain access to people’s computer system. Without resorting to any specialized tools, a hacker can discover the basic personal information needed to hack into the person’s system by trying out all the potential passwords from it.
A good password is one that cannot be easily guessed. In the blog read, it stated “For better protection, it is safer to choose a password that is longer than 8 characters with one capital letter and one symbol.” I agree to that very much. Longer password means lesser possibility for hackers to crack the password used. It is generally recommended that passwords be between 6 and 9 characters. Greater length is acceptable as long as the system or application allows it. Most important of all, passwords longer than 9 characters are encouraged if the user can remember it. In a nut shell, longer is better.Besides that, the user can also use a password with mixed-case letters, for example AppLEpiE. This will add the security to your passwords from being hacked easily too. Good passwords can also be added punctuations, alphanumerical characters because they are hard to predict. Random selections of letters and numbers are as
well very useful seeing that hackers could not foresee the possibility of that phrase would be used as a password. Moreover, passwords must also be able to be type in quickly. This is for the reason that it makes it harder for someone to steal your passwords by looking at your keyboard.A common theme for passwords used should be easy for users to remember them. Avoid passwords that need to be written down in order to be remembered and never use short easy passwords for convenience purposes. It is a thousand NO to use real word for your passwords.
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After reading the E-Commerce textbook chapter 1 pg.38, I recognized that Google is the most successful E-Commerce (EC) company in today world and it has influenced our daily life greatly. Google aims to deliver technologies to manage world’s information and make it globally accessible and informative. Google’s has both useful and well-organized IT and EC management strategy. This is one of the reasons why it is successful than its competitor. Besides that, it also expands rapidly than its competitor. In addition, Google make revenue quickly than other EC companies. Google is the most helpful search engine to search for beneficial resources especially for student like me to search information when doing assignment. Furthermore, Google also offers advertising tools. Its related-targeted advertising tools provide the advertisers much more proceeds per click in search outcomes than other EC companies. 
Morever, Google also provides many other products such as Google Spreadsheet. Google Spreadsheet is a free Web-based application that can be shared with up to ten users at the same time and easily for users to input and share data. Google Spreadsheet is aimed at small work teams in social situations or small businesses, but not big organization. This program is intended to assist people arrange their own information and make it more simply accessible by others via the web. Data in the spreadsheets are saved automatically with each user action over the Web onto Google computer servers. Google also offers several user productivity applications other than Google Spreadsheet, such as Writely word processing application and Google Calendar. 
Besides that, Google also provides an online database service called Google Base which allows Google users to upload a variety of information online. Google Base is examined by analysts as a stepping stone into organized e-advertising, an e-commerce activity, by assisting users figure out relevant information on Google’s main search index, its Froogle shopping comparison tool and Google Local search.
During year 2006, Google developed into the software business, presenting Google Office. There are many different types of Web programs, including e-mail and communication. In addition, Google provides Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Mini. Based on my opinion, Google really can impact our work and life without our notice and will causes inconvenience in our daily life if without Google. And I believe that it will continue improve in the future to make it remain successful among its competitors and contribute more efforts in satisfying its users’ needs.
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