... retailer, which has important product diversity and a good quality of services. There are an uncountable number of online retailers, which are still unknown. A French company, provence-outillage.fr sells home furniture, garden and plumbing accessories. It is sponsored by a French bank, Crédit Mutuel, as a proof of security and serious and it provides an important rang of equipment. ... .com, the Internet is represented as an occidental way. The strength of some powerful countries is noticeable. Secondly, the lack of censure is perceived as negative for the Internet. Free speeches and i...

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... to websites by doing something called direct disclosure. Direct disclosure is just that, the user gives the website information such as their e-mail address, home address, phone number, and any other information that is requested. Often, by giving up information, a user will receive special benefits for "registering" ... unreported incidents, may be costing U.S. corporations as much as $63 billion a year" (Rothfeder, "November 1996 Feature" 1).There are many ways for businesses to protect themselves. They can use a variety of techniques such as firewalls and encryption. Firewalls are one...

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... information that use to be free is now being held for a price to subscribe to a companies web site. This is mainly because of the money involved in the E-commerce businesses and the amount of information everyday in the use of the Internet. Internet businesses have gone from poor to ... are connected to the Internet and hookups in the classrooms have increased 20% since 1994. The Internet provides a convenience for people to learn at home. Internet based training has become a common business tool used to gain advancements in current jobs. Tutoring over the Internet is also available (Re...

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... countries just to have a meeting when they can each communicate from their own office. The Internet is a very good place to advertise companies. Businesses can build their own websites and buy their own memorable .com domains. This can be where they explain their company and the services they offer. Some ... also help them to keep abreast of their bank details more quickly and sufficiently. As well as Online Banking, the Internet offers things such as home shopping. You can buy almost anything off the Internet and have it delivered to your door. The Internet is an endless source of inform...

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... help filter the internet only to have it found unconstitutional soon after. So many people are affected by the internet either in the business place or at home it is going to be very hard to find a solution that satisfies everyone so maybe we should not censor it and just leave it how it ... are devoted to sexually explicit material is small". Although the actual amount of pornography sites on the web is small they are some of the most profitable e-businesses. "Despite the small number of Web sites devoted to sexually explicit material, commercial pornography sites are among the most pro...

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Why should anyone be concerned about pornography on the Internet? After all, this is a free country and everyone should have access to anything they want, right? This position would be true if only adults used the ... the Internet can come from commercial online services or through Internet service providers. Generally, home users connect to the Internet via the commercial online services over regular phone lines. Some of these services include Prodigy, CompuServe, and America Online. Businesses, universities, government agencies, and the like, often have direct connection to an Internet ......

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... in touch, E-commerce was also taking off. The ability to accept encrypted data such as credit card information was allowing existing business and new businesses alike to flourish on the Internet. The companies behind the Internet revolution also experienced unheard of growth financially as well as from a historical relevancy ... having the ability to not leave your house and get a product with out having to leave your front door was time saving and stress free. One of the primary reasons it was still cost effective was the fact that was and is currently no sales tax on the Internet. ......

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... universities, research organizations, and corporations, less than 10% of its users are women. (Hafner 51) Commercial on-line services are increasing in popularity, attracting subscribers through both home and the workplace, and they are far easier to use than direct links to the Internet itself. These services, however, are still typically male oriented and dominated. Prodigy, which boasts ... be 35% female. CompuServe, as second largest, estimates to only have between 10% and 17%. (Broadhurst 80) Both services have well over two million subscribers and cater to homes and businesses re...

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... and installed many of the additional features that can be seen now in Netscape and Internet Explorer. Like so many other Internet innovations, trial versions of Mosaic were made available free to the educational community. Within one year, thousands of Mosaic versions were installed on computers over the world. The potential of HTML to create graphically attractive web sites and the ... school/club/family sites. These developments were accelerated by the appearance of ever-more powerful personal computers, which increased both the number of net citizens and the potential market for busi...

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