Commerce - e-commerce

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e-tailer

Electronic retailer.

e-security

Electronic security on the internet.

escrow account

An account where a third party holds money until goods are delivered.

Online fraud

Intentional deception committed on the internet.

Scam

Obtaining money by means of deception.

encryption technology

Scrambles data travelling over the internet to prevent unauthorised access.

Hyperlink

A feature highlighted within a document that triggers a link to another document, which may be located on another computer.

Cookie

A file that a web server stores on the user's computer when a website is visited. It gathers information about the user.

Search engine

A program that gathers and sorts through information on the web.

Cybermall

A virtual shopping centre.

Portal

A website designed to offer a variety of internet services from a single conventient location.

Online

Being connected to a network of computers.

Net investing

Direct investor trading over the internet.

Copyright

Protects an author, artist, musician or publisher by giving them exclusive rights over their creation.

Import duty

Tax on an imported good.

e-commerce

The buying and selling of information, goods and services via the internet.

Identity theft

The crime of stealing personal information in order to assume that person's name.

Phishing

The use of a fake bank account website to elicit a customer's account details.

Invasion of privacy

The wrongful intrusion into the personal life of another.

Defamation

Unlawfully damaging a person's reputation.

Spam

Unsolicited email, usually advertising, which is sent to a large number of people.

Telecommuting

Using technology to work from home.

Hot desking

When telecommuters visit the offer and sit wherever they can find a spare desk.

World wide web

is a system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a markup language called HTML


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