Mobile users will increasingly demand access to Electronic Commerce services. Therefore existing technologies have to be investigated if they can be used unchanged in mobile Electronic Commerce or whether they have to be adapted to the mobile environment. This article presents an overview on the state of the art of Smart Cards for mobile Electronic Commerce. The GeldKarte system and the Home Ba...

In the last decade, electronic commerce has significantly contributed to national economic growth. This is evident in that “according to Forrester Research, the United States (US) online retail reached $175 billion in 2007 and is projected to grow to $335 billion by 2012”. (Source: http://www.sescommerce.com/ecommerce-growth.asp; accessed 9 May 2009) And yet, although the electronic commerce ma...

This paper presents the findings from the first stage of a preliminary study which assessed the potential for an electronic commerce portal in Sri Lanka’s Central Province. Sri Lanka is an island state of contrasts in terms of its electronic commerce and overall ICT capability. In the Capital of Colombo, ICT and electronic commerce capability are relatively sophisticated while in regional Sri L...

Electronic commerce (E-commerce) is sharing business information, maintaining business relationships, and conducting business transactions by means of telecommunications networks. Traditional E-commerce, conducted with the use of information technologies centering on electronic data interchange (EDI) over proprietary value-added networks, is rapidly moving to the Internet. The Internet's World ...

Legal aspects of e-commerce have recently been extensively explored in a number of academic fora. The subject matter of cyberlaw has increasingly gained the recognition of legal community as a distinct area of legal analysis at the national, regional and global levels with the EU directives relating to e-commerce being fine examples of regulatory framework under development, ratification and im...

In recent years there has been a movement toward deployment of distributed approaches for electronic commerce. Intelligent software agents, for instance, may be instructed to act on behalf of human users in electronic transactions. A challenge with this approach is that the agents would be entrusted with access to sensitive personal or business information. How can this sensitive information be...

Electronic commerce is widely expected to promote “friction-free” capitalism, with consumers sending software agents to scour the Net for the best deals. Many distribution chains will indeed be simplified and costs substantially reduced. However, we are also likely to see the creation of artificial barriers in electronic commerce, designed by sellers to extract more value from consumers. Freque...

Internet, as an extension of the real world, is affected by the regulations of one or several countries on activities carried out through the web. For instance, Electronic Commerce activities between two parties are regulated by the law of the parties’ countries plus international commerce treaties. In the HealthCare field, highly regulated, the citizens’ rights are precisely defined and regula...