Multimedia and Society

Define the following terms
1. E- commerce-Commerce that is transacted electronically, as over the Internet.
2.B2B- business-to-business (denoting business transactions over the Internet):
3.B2C- Merchant sell their products through interactive cata logs and other online ordering systems.
4.Cookies-Computer Science A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site.
5.Encuyption-Which process that scrambles the data to make safe to send confidentail information over the enternet.
6.SSL- A protocol designed by Netscape Communications Corporation to provide encrypted communications on the Internet. SSL is layered beneath application protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, Telnet, FTP, Gopher, and NNTP and is layered above the connection protocol TCP/IP. It is used by the HTTPS access method.

Describe three benfits that e-commerce offers businesses?
1.You can use the site to purchase things.
2.It makes it easier to find the best prices and supplies.
3.They let you see online catalogs and pictures and informantion about the goods you want to buy.
Explain why some people have concers regarding business and e-commerce?
Some people feel that the techology behind targeted advertising pose a seriou threat to privacy. Every time you order merchandise on the internet, informantion about your purchase is recorded. Informantion about individual consumers and their shopping habits is also collected when they use credit cards in stores.