Assalamualaikum..... today i would like to share with all of you about my group assignment that we suppose to do which is the comparison with Alibaba.com and Agribazaar.com.... Alibaba and Agribazaar is actually same like ebay.com and also Lelong.com but they have their own different procedures for their B2B e-commerce business concept. Alibaba.com is the world's leading B2B e-commerce company. We connect millions of buyers and suppliers from around the world every day through three marketplaces: an English-language marketplace for global importers and exporters, a Chinese-language marketplace for domestic trade in China, and, through a joint venture, a Japanese-language marketplace facilitating trade to and from Japan. Alibaba.com offers a broad range of products and services to both suppliers and buyers. Basic features such as standard supplier storefronts, product listings and communication tools are available for free. We also offer paid membership packages to verified suppliers. Alibaba.com is playing an important role in helping SMEs in China and around the world participate in global trade and become more competitive. We are creating jobs and opportunities for millions of companies by giving them a cost effective platform to market their products, find quality suppliers and grow their business.

Agribazzar.com is actually the Ninth Malaysia Plan states that efforts are being made to strengthen agriculture production and expand agro processing. Apart from grants and incentives, the Government has also taken the initiative to establish AgriBazaar. A joint effort of the Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems (MIMOS) and the Department of Agriculture, AgriBazaar is an internet-based infrastructure that assists producers and suppliers promote and trade their agriculture products. This move has certainly offered an alternative to the conventional avenues of trade in Malaysia. AgriBazaar offers better pricing, reduces buying and selling administrative cost and expedites the buying and selling process. Through this, buyers and sellers can be better informed and have the ability to access the website anytime, anywhere.

Can IT solve the electronic h ea lth records challenge?

Financial and technology issues make Obama's EHR push not so easy to execute.

President Obama's stimulus package addresses very diverse segments of the economy, including health care, education, research, and infrastructure. However, all of these components have one thing in common: the reliance on information technology as the engine powering these stimulus initiatives. A key initiative in the stimulus plan is addressing the issue of establishing electronic health records to reduce health care costs and improve the care itself by making all medical information for a patient available to anyone who treats her. The federal government has advocated for such a system for a decade, but little visible progress has been made.

So what about the Obama plan would change the equation? It's designed to tackle one of the two biggest barriers: the financial penalty that has existed so far for adoption. But it does little to solve the technology issues that will hinder large-scale deployment.

Human Resource Information Systems

Applications of HRIS

The efficiency of HRIS, the systems are able to produce more effective and faster outcomes than can be done on paper. Some of the many applications of HRIS are: Clerical applications, applicant search expenditures, risk management, training management, training experiences, financial planning, turnover analysis, succession planning, flexible-benefits administration, compliance with government regulations, attendance reporting and analysis, human resource planning, accident reporting and prevention and strategic planning. With the many different applications of HRIS, it is difficult to understand how the programs benefit companies without looking at companies that have already benefited from such programs.

New Technology

With the changing world and constant new technology that is available, managers need to be aware of the technology that will increase effectiveness in their company. Human resource information systems (HRIS) have increasingly transformed since it was first introduced at General Electric in the 1950s. HRIS has gone from a basic process to convert manual information keeping systems into computerized systems, to the HRIS systems that are used today. Human resource professionals began to see the possibility of new applications for the computer. The idea was to integrate many of the different human resource functions. The result was the third generation of the computerized HRIS, a feature-rich, broad-based, self-contained HRIS. The third generation took systems far beyond being mere data repositories and created tools with which human resource professionals could do much more (Byars, 2004).

Many companies have seen a need to transform the way Human Resource operations are performed in order to keep up with new technology and increasing numbers of employees. Terasen Pipelines moved its headquarters from Vancouver to Calgary to be closer to the oil and realized a major growth in employees. In the past recording keeping was done on paper and with spreadsheets. Mangers at Terasen realized that there was a need to change to a more computerized system and looked into different HRIS vendors. By making the move to a HRIS system, Terasen is able to keep more accurate records as well as better prepare for future growth. Another company that saw the benefits of keeping up with new technology is WORKSource Inc. To meet the challenge of handling 100 new employees, WORKSource Inc. acquired Web-based technology programs from GHG Corp. like electronic pay stub, electronic timesheet software, time-off system, and human resource information system (“Tips,” 2006). By adapting these new programs, WORKSource was able to reduce waste and cost.

The Internet is an increasingly popular way to recruit applicants, research technologies and perform other essential functions in business. Delivering human resource services online (eHR) supports more efficient collection, storage, distribution, and exchange of data (Friesen, 2003). An intranet is a type of network used by companies to share information to people within the organization. An intranet connects people to people and people to information and knowledge within the organization; it serves as an “information hub” for the entire organization. Most organizations set up intranets primarily for employees, but they can extend to business partners and even customers with appropriate security clearance (Byars & Rue, 2004).

ATM malware may help snatch your cash A prominent security vendor has come across malware targeting ATMs and implementing a virtual card skimmer.Security vendor Sophos has revealed that it has obtained malware samples that appear to specifically target Diebold ATMs. It appears to be an inside job, as it uses undocumented functions of the ATM software and appears to use the printer. This suggests the people behind the malware have access to the Diebold software (perhaps as a result of disassembling the code from an actual ATM) as well as physical access to one or more operational ATMs. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to liberalise the ATM market. When they were the exclusive domain of banks and similar financial institutions, you could be confident that the people involved had been reasonably well vetted. But the outsourcing of routine maintenance such as loading the machines with cash, plus the spread of third-party ATMs means we can no longer be quite so confident that everyone that has access to the devices is an upstanding citizen. According to Sophos, the malware is a Trojan - which implies that it must be explicitly run on the target system, as opposed to a worm that might find its way in over a network. Apparently the code 'skims' the details read from the magnetic card, logs the PIN entered by the user, parses the transaction details, and prints the stolen data.

iPhone 3.0 software coming soon Apple will preview its iPhone 3.0 software on Tuesday March 17. What might the revision bring?Various US media outlets have been invited to a "advance preview" (is there any other kind?) of the iPhone OS 3.0 software to be held at Apple's Cupertino campus next Tuesday. An updated version of the iPhone SDK will also be revealed. If the events of 2008 are any guide, iPhone 3.0 is likely to arrive midyear. So far, there are no solid clues concerning the new features of iPhone 3.0, though there is plenty of speculation. If Apple had been paying attention to its more vocal customers, you'd expect copy-and-paste to be at the top of the list. And while its not everyone's cup of tea, it's not hard to make a case for MMS, which is a standard feature of practically every other recent handset. Remember the push notification service that was announced for last September? Is it too much to ask for that to finally appear? Another potential feature that's been bandied about is turn-by-turn GPS navigation. There's been some question about whether the current iPhone's GPS is sufficiently accurate to be up to this job. What else might be on the way in iPhone 3.0?

'Controlled cloud' the way to go for security

By Vivian Yeo, ZDNet Asia Thursday, March 19, 2009 07:55 PM

Enterprise security will increasingly move to include a cloud component but in-the-cloud protection cannot be the only means of defense, according to security vendor Sophos.

Paul Ducklin, head of technology for the Asia-Pacific region at Sophos, told ZDNet Asia in a phone interview that the cloud "is something that will improve existing mechanisms for protection" as it can block access to harmful Web sites or retrieve updates in real time.

But, relying on a service in the cloud is not something that enterprises and individuals can afford to do. "The cloud isn't always there, no matter how incredibly connected you are," he pointed out, adding that there will be times when PCs are not connected due to flights, train rides or simply because there isn't a need to log on to the Internet.

"During those times you [still] want protection to continue--you want that protection to continue when someone plugs their USB drive or mobile phone into your computer so you can look at photographs and maybe pick up something along the way," said Sydney-based Ducklin. For instance, the Conficker worm used the USB drive as its primary attack vector, he noted.

In addition, users need to be protected when downloading content from the Internet that might be encrypted, where an external party is "not able to scan inside it by design".

Friendster launches new mobile site

As if it wasn’t hard enough already to avoid all your Friendsters lately and live a sedentary life just like the way we all used to, Friendster is adding yet another clever way for you to access your account directly from your mobile phone. It’s their first official mobile site, unsurprisingly called Friendster Mobile. You’d think this is probably because of all the buzz in mobile Internet usage recently, no?

You can access Friendster Mobile by going to m.friendster.com on your mobile phone, and here you will be able to connect with all 3 of your friends plus the 70 million other Friendster users who are, if you haven’t noticed it yet, complete strangers.

But you know what they say, strangers are just friends waiting to happen. I can’t believe I just wrote that, but I do know that Friendster will be adding support for multiple languages in its new mobile site, first Indonesian, and then others in the weeks to come.

So if you’ve nothing to do and are in the mood for some mindless surfing (with friends, of course), head on over to m.friendster.com.