E-Commerce Effects To Consumers

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reasons, including our areas of expertise and experience, we will concentrate on this definition of E-Commerce. The web is the way to do business for many reasons. Thin, ubiquitous clients, the wide availability of access, and consistent interfaces to many different platforms are among the reasons to choose web solutions for many problems. In addition, the limited nature of the HTTP protocol makes security issues simpler. However, any transaction taking place across the public Internet is open to a wide variety of security problems.
B2C vs B2B: B2B or Business to Business involves information (PO Orders, invoices, Sales orders, orders confirmations) exchange between business partners computers (vendors, distributors, merchandisers) who are working closely together. Traditionally industries were performing transmissions using EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) standard. EDI is a set of formats used to describe electronic documents. [Then I will insert something about running EDI via third party companies, how secure it is and how expensive and that now it would be great to go to Internet-based EDI One of examples of an expensive but secure EDI solution may be the way Ford communicates with its suppliers (using BTAM protocol)] Since company decide to save some money and go with Internet solution for EDI they can face some problems. They have to take care about authentication, encryption etc. [then talk about certificates and running secure FTP]. And then continue that may be EDI is not as good and its kind of boring to follow those old-fashioned X.12 standards. And may be its time to try a new cool stuff called XML. There are some attempts to come up with industry standards for XML standards and if I figure out what that TPA thing is (the one I have sent to you) we can mention this. I noticed that there is a build-in reference to certificate authority into XML document that describes a service interface
B2C describes the interaction b...