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	<title>Merchant Account Services Blog &#187; Ecommerce</title>
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		<title>Flash and Ecommerce</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Adobe Flash is &#8220;&#8230;the most advanced authoring environment for creating rich, interactive content for digital, web, and mobile platforms. Create interactive websites, rich media advertisements, instructional media, engaging presentations, games, and more&#8221;. Although Flash can be used to create dynamic applications it commonly is used for adding a &#8220;WOW&#8221; factor to many websites. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blocking High Risk Countries From Using Your Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A common problem in ecommerce is fraudulent orders from overseas customers. The risk is so high in fact that some merchant account providers will not allow their merchants to accept orders from foreign countries. Even if they did, and you wished to solicit foreign orders, some regions pose such a high risk for fraud that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Assurance SSL Certificates Make Their Debut</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As previously mention in our blog new high assurance SSL certificates have made their debut. If you visit Entrust&#8217;s home page in Internet Explorer 7 you will see the address bar turn green. As mention in our original blog post these new SSL certificates will be expensive. Entrust sells theirs for $99. Verisign is offering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Squeezing the Small Ecommerce Shop?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 05:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecommerce]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after the new year, Microsoft plans to move forward with a plan to flag certain ecommerce and banking sites as &#8220;safe&#8221; in an upcoming update to its Internet Explorer 7 browser. It will do this by looking for a special kind of SSL certificate called an &#8220;extended validation certificate&#8221;. For an ecommerce site to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When to use an SSL Certificate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A common question from merchants entering the world of online credit card processing is when should an SSL certificate be used on a website. SSL allows websites to encrypt sensitive data when in transit to and from a user&#8217;s web browser. This prevents hackers and other nefarious characters from stealing sensitive data being sent during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hosted Solutions versus Do It Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecommerce]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A big question for businesses entering the realm of ecommerce is how should they approach creating their ecommerce system. Should you use an out of the box package like Yahoo Stores or Shopify? Or should set up everything yourself (hosting, merchant account, shopping cart, etc.)? Well, let&#8217;s look at the pros and cons to each: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stopping Fraud by Blacklisting PCs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A company called Iovation has created a service that identifies computers that have been used to make purchases with stolen credit cards and then add them to a blacklist. Doing so prevents a user from using the same computer for more then one fraudulent transaction. They can constantly change their username or IP address but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is OSCommerce Really The Best Option?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shopping Carts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A common question asked by merchants looking to enter the world of online transactions is what shopping cart should they use for their new store. A common answer to this common question is to use os Commerce. osCommerce describes themselves as: osCommerce is an Open Source based online shop e-commerce solution that is available for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do I need an SSL Certificate?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.merchant-account-services.org/blog/do-i-need-an-ssl-certificate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecommerce]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A common question asked of new online merchants is whether they have to have an SSL certificate on their website. The answer is, it depends. If you want a transparent checkout where your customers never leave your website then you will need an SSL certificate to make sure your checkout page is secure. Besides the [...]]]></description>
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