... was more perceived to have political censorship by three different sample groups (graph 1), while no country listed was believed to achieve adequate political transparency. This result is corroborated by Blight et al' s (2012 , which found that China pervasively censored political content on the internet, although the observed level of filtering vary a great deal from country to country, most current government ... was believed to restrict websites expressing views in opposition to the governing party (Blight et al, 2012). A possible explanation for this phenomenon could be that the maj...

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... setting. However, service quality attributes such as accessibility, communication, credibility, understanding, appearance and availability should still be relevant to e-commerce. Based upon six focus group interviews, Zeithaml et al. (2001) have identified 13 e-service quality dimensions. These are reliability, responsibility, access, flexibility, access, flexibility, ease of navigation, efficiency, assurance/trust, security, price ... knowledge, site aesthetics and customization/personalization. A content analysis of customer evaluations of Internet pharmacy services conducted by Yang e...

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... question of whether the use of internet damages mental health and social interactions has been at the center of research since the very inception of the internet itself. In Kraut et al.'s (1998) study of longitudinal adoption, an experiment was conducted by taking a sample of 93 families. "Kraut and his colleagues tracked these families, who previously did not have computer or internet ... these findings have been criticized by various groups. Kraut's study has been criticized by some on the grounds that he did not include a control group. Others have noted that "Kraut et al.'s explanat...

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... of rapid changes in the competition. Companies that can respond quickly to customers' needs and changes in customer demands often sell more products and services at a higher profit margin (Hutley et al, 2003). In every industry, it is the needs of the customer that drives the business. Cisco CEO, John Chambers, has often been called the most customer-centered CEO in the ... other organizations that have complementary cores, an organization can achieve the benefits of industry scale and innovation that it could not achieve it if tried to do everything itself (Hutley et al, 2003). In addi...

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... page in a search engine's "natural" or un-paid ("organic") search results (Wikipedia.com). SEO may target different kinds of searches, including image search, local search, video search, academic search (Beel et al. 176-190), news search and industry-specific vertical search engines. All major search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo have primary search results, where web pages and other content ... ...

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... the Web.' Soon, search engines were being celebrated as "the great new gatekeepers of culture "(Gain, 2005). Back in 1995, when few people realized the Internet's infinite possibilities, Vice President Al Gore described the technology as representing a "Global Internet Infrastructure (Introna and Nissenbaum, 2000, p. 169). In a perfect world, search engines would be powered by scholars, scientists, business entrepreneurs, and politicians with ... that can manipulate the algorithm in order to achieve a desired ranking (Introna and Nissenbaum, 2000). This can be achieved through such unet...

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... is that the banking sector in Nigeria today is at the threshold of change of such a magnitude as to alter completely the fabric of business and indeed, lives (Archibugi, Howells et al. 1999). This change is rooted in the phenomenon of electronic business. This sector is highly competitive and competition is expected to intensify as new players of local and global scope ... ...

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... from (www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/.../se/Slides/ process/process-1.html). For more information on the development stages incorporated in the waterfall model refer to; Systems Analysis and Design (Yeates, et al. 1994:379-394.) Each activity in the Waterfall model represents as separate process phases. After each stage is defined it is signed off' and development goes on to the following ... ...

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