Electronic Commerce
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Initially, the Internet was designed to be used by government and academic users,
but now it is rapidly becoming commercialized. It has on-line "shops", even
electronic "shopping malls". Customers, browsing at their computers, can view
products, read descriptions, and sometimes even try samples. ....
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.... supply of electronic money will
motivate more Internet surfers to become on-line shoppers. Electronic money
will also make it easier for smaller businesses to achieve a level of automation
already enjoyed by many large corporations whose Electronic Data Interchange
heritage means streams of electronic bits now flow instead of cash in back-end
financial processes. We need to resolve four key technology issues before
consumers and merchants anoint electric money with the same real and perceive ....
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