OpenX 2.8.4 Released – More OpenX Market Integration Options

February 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · Online Advertising, eCommerce

OpenX announced the release of the next version of their ad serving tool yesterday.
There are quite a few good features announced, but all of them listed so far, appear to be related mainly to OpenX Market integration – not a bad idea though.
For those of who, who are not familiar with OpenX, it started as [...]

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OpenX Statistics missing after upgrade to 2.8.3 – - Reverting back to 2.8.2

February 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Auro News, Online Advertising, Open Source, eCommerce

As many of you know, our ad server runs on OpenX.
Two interesting things happened yesterday:
1. We upgraded to the latest version of OpenX (2.8.3)
2. We also moved our adserver to a new server.
Right after these changes, the statistics stopped getting captured.

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OpenX – Click Tracking of unknown providers

February 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · Online Advertising, Open Source, eCommerce

We are currently having some difficulty in tracking clicks from unknown ad providers.
We are looking for OpenX experts to help us with this. Please find below our requirements with the details of the issue. If you feel you could be of any assistance, please feel free to reply.
This is a very quick task for a [...]

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Squareup – Site to watch

February 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · General News, Website Recommendations, eCommerce

Square up is a new website that has been launched by one of the founders of Twitter.
This site is gaining a lot of public attention, not only for its high profile founder, but also for the fact that it satisfies a need in the market today.
Squareup allows payments to be accepted from mobile devices and [...]

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Magento eCommerce Hosting and Shopping Cart Template Enhancements

August 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Auro News, eCommerce

We at Auro Infotech have successfully completed two significant enhancements in Magento based Shopping cart for Weavez.
Weavez is a online Indian Kurti store that has many different trendy Indian kurtis. We had rewritten the entire site using Magento Shopping Cart earlier this year. Last month we completed a few major design enhancements for this site. [...]

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OpenX Ad Solutions – Limitations and Workarounds

July 31st, 2009 · Comments Off · Auro News, Open Source, Social Networking, eCommerce

OpenX is an open source advertising solution that has been widely recognized as the best open source tool for developing ad networks. They also have a hosted solution which handles a large volume of advertisers and publishers. They are now heavily funded by venture capitalists and have elaborate road maps for handling many of the [...]

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Magento Based Shopping Cart Updates

July 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · Auro News, Auro Technology Research Program, Open Source, Web 2.0, eCommerce

Wanted to provide a quick update on three new ECommerce Shopping Cart websites that were developed and launched last month.
After a successful implementation of Magento shopping cart (for Weavez website), as a part of our Technology Research Projects, the design team and the development team have successfully combined together to complete two Magento based shopping cart websites.
In two of [...]

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Server Upgradation – 38.103.145.98

June 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Auro News, Open Source, Web Hosting, eCommerce

Hi,
Please note that we are upgrading our server 38.103.145.98 to handle mangento in it. This will affect the following IP ranges 38.103.145.98 through 38.103.145.102 and 38.101.159.97 through 38.101.159.126.
During this upgradation proccess HTTP (Apache) will be down for next 5 hours. While all other services like email, FTP will work in the way it should.
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Auro Infotech iPhone Application Development Contest

April 25th, 2009 · Comments Off · Auro News, Auro Team, eCommerce

Auro Infotech is initiating a iPhone Contest for Auro Infotech employees.
We can choose from any one of the three categories:
Music Plugin Player
MPMLA Widget
ECommerce Application
Any employee can participate in this contest and win an iPhone if they successfully deliver any one of these three applications. There is one iPhone per category available as the prize for [...]

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Held Inventory in Online Shopping Carts

April 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Web Design, eCommerce

Held inventory is a very interesting feature that has to be handled by every single online ecommerce shopping cart site.
Held inventory is the term used to represent the inventory of the items that people keep in their shopping cart for longer durations.
Here is an example.
Lets assume there is a product P1 and it has two [...]

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