The current Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies development for digital files makes it very inconvenient for users to store and move around their own files. As an alternative, the underlying DRM could be achieved by tracking the distribution path of a file -- Where it originates? How does it reach the destination computer? An ideal DRM method is not to prevent users from moving files around (that is how most existing DRM systems do), but to identify the path that the file travels, say to see if the file is moved from a forbidden source. In addition, what is the most effective way for handling the payment?

Thousands of new websites pop up every day and those with social networking features are getting more common. They all claim to use cutting edge technologies and have unique value propositions. However, at a glance, they may all look very much similar. How can a new social networking site manage to be the most popular and yet maintain unique differentiators and competitive advantage in the red hot market? What technologies could help gain strategic positions?

A world-wide toys company has over 90% of their manufacturing activities sub-contracted all over the world. Nowadays, in addition to cost consideration, product quality and delivery on-time are two very important aspects to be considered. Therefore, the company needs to visit manufacturers′ sites twice a month to ensure that the production processes meet the company′s requirements. The concern of the top management is to collect the most up-to-date information for monitoring and planning. Working with more than 500 manufacturers around the world, they currently need around fifty people for visiting the manufacturing sites regularly. Even with this, the manufacturing related data collected are still 2 to 3 days delayed. The challenge is how e-Business technology can be deployed to enable more real-time monitoring and planning to ensure high quality order fulfillment and delivery.

RFID has not yet been widely applied to tracking and tracking products at item level due to the cost and physical constraints, unless for expensive commodities and luxuries. Tagging at the carton and pallet level package is a more feasible option in existing applications, which however bears its own limitation. Thus, it is doubted in what specific ways the capability of RFID can facilitate e-business. For example, it is still arguable whether real-time or daily inventory data synchronization is valuable to e-business management, though RFID is able to support so.