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.

Online shopping sites:

1. Yahoo Shopping (http://shopping.yahoo.com/)
2. RCmodel Online Shop (http://Shopping.rcmodel.hk/)
3. Lady Dress (http://www.lady-dress.com/)
4. The Country Porch (http://www.countryporch.com/)
5. SHOP.COM (http://www.shop.com/)

Electronic payments sites:

1. PayPal (https://www.paypal.com/)
2. E-Payment Pty Ltd. (http://www.epayment.com.au/)
3. Payment Vision (http://www.paymentvision.com/)
4. Word Pay (http://www.worldpay.com/)
5. 2Checkout.com (http://www.2checkout.com/)

Database access sites:

1. Bharat Book Bureau - International Market Research Online Database (http://www.bharatbook.com/)
2. World Book Online (http://www.worldbookonline.com/)
3. HeinOnline (http://www.heinonline.org/)
4. Hoovers (http://www.hoovers.com/)
5. Grolier Online (http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/grolier/)

WAP sites:

1. Hong Kong Observatory WAP site (http://www.hko.gov.hk/hkowap.htm/)
2. NBA Mobile (http://wap.nba.com/)
3. Yahoo! WAP site (http://wap.oa.yahoo.com/)
4. MLB.com (http://wap.mlb.com/)
5. Sohu (http://wap.sohu.com/)