Table of Content

1. Welcome to Electronic Commerce
2. The Network Infrastructure for Electronic Commerce
3. The Internet as a Network Infrastructure
4. The Business of Internet Commercialization
5. Network Security and Firewalls
6. Electronic Commerce and World Wide Web
7. Consumer-Oriented Electronic Commerce
8. Electronic Payment Systems
9. Inter organizational Commerce and EDI
10. EDI Implementation, MIME, and Value-Added Networks
11. Inter organizatonal Electronic Commerce
12. The Corporate Digital Library
13. Advertising and Marketing on the Internet
14. Consumer Search and Resource Discovery
15. On-Demand Education and Digital Copyrights
16. Software Agents
17. The Internet Protocol Suite
18. Multimedia and Digital Video
19. Broadband Telecommunications
20. Mobile and Wireless Computing Fundamentals
21. Structural Documents
22. Active/Compound Document Architecture

Salient Features

• Illustrates the radical developments in areas of electronic cash, secure electronic payments, and funds transfers
• Describes the changes taking place in online advertising, real-time promotion and new product introduction
• Introduces new technologies such as structured and compound documents, software agents and mobile computing, networked multimedia databases, firewalls and encryption