Varien has now released their new product to Magento, called Magento Mobile. In short the Magento Mobile is a fully standalone mobile application which can be customized to fit your store’s requirements, and which pulls out the data from a particular StoreView in your Magento installation.
The Magento Mobile application is currently available for Apple iPhone only, but will be made available for other platforms like Android and Maemo later this year.
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Here’s a list of the new features in Magento 1.4.1.0, the most important ones being re-design of some important template files, recurring payment and billing agreements. Read more
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We have now got informasjon from trusted sources on that Varien is planning to release a Magento Professional Edition.
The Professional Edition will include most of the features from Magento Enterprise, including Customer Credits and Gift Cards.
We know this has been heavily asked-for by many clients and this will guaranteed boost Magento even more. We will be following this more next week and bring you more up to date news on it as we get it.
If you have upgraded to Magento 1.4.0.0 and 1.4.0.1 your Google Analytics tracking will not work any more. This is due to two bugs in these releases which misses a essential line in the Google Analytics code in Magento Core.
Magento Enterprise 1.8 was released earlier today, with many new exciting features.
New Features in Enterprise Edition Version 1.8
Magento Enterprise Edition Version 1.8 features a new module enabling merchants to increase customer retention through sending configurable, automated email reminders for abandoned shopping carts and wishlists. This enables merchants to target promotions and discounts to customers based on browsing activity.
Magento Enterprise Edition Version 1.8 also includes the addition of Solr as an alternative search engine to the standard Magento search, providing options to merchants for on-site search, and bringing enhancements to the speed, quality and relevancy of the search results provided to customers.
Additionally, Magento Enterprise Edition Version 1.8 includes performance enhancements through a Flat Sales module, as well as a module providing merchants the ability to archive orders after a configurable time-period. These modules are joined by a new feature that allows customer service representatives to assist customers in shopping through adding items to shopping carts, modifying wishlists, and more. All of this is coupled with many other enhancements and improvements to the existing functionality.
Today Silverthemes.com released a 100% free Magento theme over at SmashingMagazine.com. The theme, a grungy really SM-styled theme, got a lot of positive feedback from the community right after release. Be sure to check out the free Magento theme.
Silverthemes has released the Magento Brage theme a few weeks ago, with a huge success. Already almost 100 stores have purchased the theme and either used it as-is or customized it to fit a particular design.
The Brage theme also come in six different color schemes, which can be selected directly from the Magento Admin without having to touch any code whatsoever.
Below are some screenshots of the theme.
Magento Community 1.3.2.3 was released yesterday. We have gone through the update and although this is a minor update it solves several critical issues, like PayPal payment handling which has had a few issues around capture. The 1.3.2.3-release also solves several issues related to Category management, plus add a speed improvement to the general maintenance of the categories, which is very welcome.
To see a full list of the issues solved go here:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/download/release_notes#Release%20Notes%20-%20Magento%201.3.2.3%20%28July%2022,%202009%29
Download the diff-file for this update here:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.3.2.3/1.3.2.2-1.3.2.3.diff