... Attempts Being Made To Improve E-Commerce Security? 2.1 Firewalls: As the name suggests a firewall is a security tool to protect a businesses private network from the public, its function according to Tresse et al. (1998, pg. 256) is intended to prevent problems from occurring as well as to prevent a problem from spreading. The definition of a firewall according to http://home.verio.net/services/ssolutions ... some of the main security issues that makes many users wary of using e-commerce. The strength of a cryptography security system depends on three main elements which are outlined in...

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... (2002) states "the hottest topic in the field of education today is distance learning". Distance learning is not a new idea, educational institutions have been offering correspondence degrees for decades (Turban et al, 2002). For years, distance education has been delivered via the mail, radio, television, video, and recently multimedia CD-ROM. In 1970, the birth of the British Open University was to ... be a catalyst in the new information society in education (Jarvis et al, 2001). Many colleges and universities are currently offering some form of distance learning or are planning to i...

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... an "approach to the study of media audiences which proposes that audience members' consumption of media output is motivated and directed towards the gratification of certain individually experienced needs- (O'Sullivan et al 325). Ruggiero states, "some mass communications scholars have contended that uses and gratifications is not a rigorous science theory- (3). He goes against these scholars and sides with Newhagen and Rafaeli ... familiar with the aspects of group process will conduct the interview. This will be done to avoid any researcher effects that may occur if I had conducted th...

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... drastically changing the way we do business today. New, better, cheaper and more efficient business models utilizing information and communication technologies (ICTs) are emerging (Deitel et al, 2001). The degree of a company's e-business activity extends from a simple web site of presence to a fully-fledged e-business that almost entirely eliminates ... why there is so much confusion and lack of appreciation of its value to business. Figures show that e-business is growing very rapidly, Deitel et al (2001) refers to a study by the Centre for Research in Electronic Commerce at the Univer...

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... are needed to provide the required support structure: database software, network switches and hubs, encryption hardware and software, multimedia support, and, of course, the World Wide Web."(Gary P. Schneider et al) Unique features of the internet include: The TCP/IP internet protocol Still is one of the basic operations that the internet rely on, the Transmission Control Protocol(TCP) and the ... What is marketing? "Marketing is a social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others."...

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... 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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... work at MIT (1961-1967), at RAND (1962-1965), and at NPL (1964-1967) had all proceeded in parallel without any of the researchers knowing about the other work (Cerf, et al., 1998). In 1966-67, MIT's Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts and System Development Corporation (SDC), in Santa Monica, California, got a grant from ARPA for a study on cooperative networks of ... of telephone circuit switching technology was inadequate to accomplish their goals. Thus their experiment set the ng research in setting up a nationwide store and forward, packet switching data network (Cerf, et ...

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... and cultivate positive relationships between students from diverse backgrounds in geographically diverse areas. This efforts have included videoconferences, computer conferences, interactions on the Web, and e-pals (Cifuentes & Murphy, 2000; Cifuentes et al., 1998). Technologies used with middle grade students have included interactive compressed video and use of two-way televised communication systems via telephone lines (Sembor, 1997). Teacher education students are using ... the duo a perfect pair. Concerned observers cite the divergent ideological underpinnings of multicultural educ...

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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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... , "It has been shown that children who frequently use the Internet tend to score higher on standardized tests of reading achievement than those who use it rarely" (Jackson et al par. 3). Tarpley also said, "Additionally, many child-based websites help to develop children's metacognitive functions, such as planning, searching strategies, and evaluating information" (Tarpley, par. 3). Nonetheless access to ... ...

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... framework that will eventually destabilize communications that are legitimate and ethically evaluated. The cable television communications have policies and codes of practice that regulate their broadcasting activities. According to Becker et al. (2010, p. 509), the net neutrality strategy will affect "telephone service, television programming, cable television, wireless services, information services, and converged telephone." When these television and phone services become ... ...

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... their computer networks. Federal law provides few guidelines related to online monitoring of employees, and only Connecticut and Delaware require companies to disclose this type of surveillance to employees (Tam et al.). "It is unlikely that we will see a legally guaranteed zone of privacy in the American workplace, "predicts Kesan" (293). This reality leaves employees and employers to sort the potential risks ... ...

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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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... Messages. Sales and customer service representatives are in direct contact with customers. Their actions send a strong message to customers. 4. Unplanned Messages. This includes word-of-mouth, expert opinion, news editorials, et. al. The Ford/Firestone fiasco is a classic example of the power of unplanned messages. Personal Selling Personal selling involves communicating and connecting with consumers and is directly related to increased sales ... ...

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... among businesses as it will enable it to gain the trust of the consumers in particular. Some kind of guarantee needs to be given to assure customers the confidentiality. (Hoffman et.al.1998; Earnes 2000). Even though online entertainment magazines do not usually make transaction with its online users, consumers still risk other potential threats such as virus attacks. Another part of ... ...

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... survey, contributing to a response rate of 72 percent. Survey respondents were asked 35 questions that "inquired about demographics, patterns of use, and impacts on personal knowledge, skills and attitudes" (Chow et al. 2002). The survey used forced-choice and short answer items to provide relevant data. Approximately two-thirds of the respondents were non-White, and half of the respondents reported an ... ...

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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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... relationships". (Brehm, Miller, Perlman, and Campbell, 2002) This is because "mutual self-disclosure and intimate sharing of private world-views are key" in relationships without face-to-face contact. (Brehm et al., 2002) However, a downside of written language is that it can be easily misinterpreted. Without the aids of body language, facial expressions, and tone of voice, mix-ups are common between ... ...

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