* This paper is based substantially on this author’s article ‘Electronic Commerce Law in Asia: A Case for Convergence’. 1 Samtani Anil is a Professor of Law in the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has been admitted to the Roll of Advocates and Solicitors in Singapore and to the Roll of Solicitors in England and Wales. Mr Samtani specializes in the areas of electronic commerce law...

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The growing demand for shopping assistants in E-Commerce was identified by many researchers. Some retailers try to address this need by introducing totally autonomous agents; others make extensive use of human resources, shifting operators from telephone lines to chat-based interactions with online customers. The recently developed 3D Electronic Institutions methodology provides facilities to c...

Abstract: Despite the public attention on the threat to sales and use tax revenues from electronic commerce, details on the current impact are limited. In this paper, the state and local sales tax bases in Florida are examined for an e-commerce effect. The data indicate strong revenue growth across much of the state and some anecdotal evidence that high-profile sales categories, with strong com...

Activities of insurance, like other work fields, have been greatly influences by new technologies; therefore, they must be at the suitable level of electronic readiness to provide more effective information services in line with the needs of new era. But the question is, are the insurance companies in Iran ready to use the e-commerce opportunities efficiently? To answer, it is necessary t...