Chapter 5 Electronic commerce information's search and selection In physical markets, consumer search activities include reading advertisements, calling endors, and visiting stores. In a virtual marketplace, all these activities seem to converge into Web searches and Web browsing. Not surprisingly, search services are the first market infrastructure to be built in the electronic marketplace
Chapter 3 Technology of Electronic Commerce 3.1 A short history of the Internet and the web The Internet was the result of some visionary thinking by people in the early 1960s who saw great potential value in allowing computers to share information on research and development in scientific and military fields. J CR Licklider of MIT, first proposed a global network of computers in 1962, and moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) in late 1962 to head the work to develop it Leonard Kleinrock of MIT and later UCLA developed
Chapter 12 Management of Electronic Commerce Security The business world has taken this to heart when it has come to the Internet. Companies have ventured onto the Information Superhighway in increasing numbers to \reduce distribution and marketing costs, eliminate the middleman, increase efficiency, promote impulse transactions and streamline distribution to far-flung locales\as well as to \connect directly with consumers at home, streamline operations and internal
Chapter Electronic Payment systems 10.1 Traditional Electronic Payment Systems for Electronic Commerce In electronic commerce, the challenges of payment transactions were initially underestimated Business via the internet and mobile telephony has so far been dominated by the methods of payment customary in traditional business. However, in light of technological progress
