Exercise 2: Technology and the Evolution of Business Options

Web quest: Find a range of five sites each offering different business options:
Online Shopping, Electronic Payments, Database Access, WAP sites for mobile phones.
Key words for your search engine: M-commerce, T-commerce and E-wallet

Answer:

M-commerce is known as Mobile Commerce and is the ability to conduct commerce, using a mobile device, like PDA or Mobile Phone, through Internet. (Wikipedia-1, 2009)
T-commerce is known as Television Commerce and is e-commerce undertaken using Digital Television. It has yet to become as widespread as e-commerce on Internet. (Wikipedia-2, 2009)
E-wallet is a continuation and progression of the core idea behind credit schemes such as CashRegister. Such wallets keep track of your credit card payments, administer the use of number of credit cards and automate much of the processing of the buying of goods on the Internet. (Ince, 2004)

After seeking with the keywords and the business options in the search engine, we have:

Online Shopping -

1. Buy.com - http://www.buy.com
   
2. GiftTree.com - http://www.gifttree.com
3. TVSHOP - http://www.tvshop.com/GB
4. TVSN Channel - https://www.itvsn.com.au/
5. EBGAMES - http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/default.asp

Electronic Payment -

1. globalcollect - http://www.globalcollect.com/s-55-About%20us
2. osCommerce iPay88 - http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5165
3. MPP globalsolutions - http://www.mppglobal.com/iShop-eCommerce-sell-online-shop-store-solution/1-ecommerce-online-store-solution-e-commerce.asp
4. STS - http://www.sts.com.jo/index.php?q=node/35
5. A2Z E-Payments - http://a2zepayments.com/

Database Access -

1. TrackVia - http://www.trackvia.com/
2. CASPIO - http://accessdatabaseonline.com/
3. AeroHOST - http://www.aerohost.com/
4. ZOHO Creator - http://creator.zoho.com/
5. Mono - http://www.mono-project.com/Database_Access
   

WAP for Mobile Phone -

1. mobilemo - http://www.mobilemo.com/main.php
2. golive!mobile - http://www.golivemobile.com/wap-sites.htm
3. MobiWeb - http://www.mobiweb.mobi/
4. mobiSiteGalore - http://www.mobisitegalore.com/whatsnew.htm
5. CellAdmin - http://www.celladmin.com/dynamic.asp?cid=6730
   

Reference:

1. Wikipedia-1 (2009). "Mobile Commerce". Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, Retrieved Mar-14th-2009 from URL - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-commerce
2. Wikipedia-2 (2009). "T-Commerce". Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, Retrieved Mar-14th-2009 from URL - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-commerce
3. Ince Darrel (2004). "Developing Distributed and E-commerce Applications", 2nd Edition. United States of America, Pearson Education Limited. (p.330)