Commerce Definitions & History on the Internet

Electronic Commerce Definitions - Excellent overview of electronic commerce from Roger Clarke of the Australian National University.

The History of the Net - A master's thesis on the Internet from 1993.

Quick review of the Internet and Electronic Commerce - A brief review of the growth of the Internet and factors influencing electronic commerce over the Web.

The Future of Internet Commerce: Building the Imarket - Powerpoint presentation on the past present and future of electronic commerce via the Internet.

The Strategic Challenges Of Electronic Commerce - Authors: Derek Miers, Graham Hutton - Enix Consulting Limited - Interesting paper on the Commerce and the Internet.

 

Electronic Commerce Publications

EDI World - Monthly Magazine on electronic commerce.

Web Commerce - Up to date information on all the latest Internet and Electronic Commerce news. Replaces Interactive Age Daily from CMP.

Making Money on the Web - Report from the archives of Interactive Age Daily.

Doing Business Online (Special Report) - Financial Times December report on the state of doing business over the Web. You must register to view this article!!

The Color of Virtual Money - A Ziff-Davis editor's spin on the commerce revolution and payment mechanisms. Short overview of competing payment schemes.

emmerce - The webzine for electronic commerce strategists, from Computerworld.

News.com - Search with keywords Electronic Commerce, E-cash, and Digital Money to get the latest news stories in these areas. Provides links to related articles.

Journal of Computer Mediated Communication - Special Electronic Commerce Issue

EC World - On-line journal for electronic commerce. Check out their Resource Directory

Keys to Electronic Commerce - Periodical on doing business securely on the Internet. Read through the back issues.

Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce - Good source of article discussing various issues related to commerce and banking over the Internet.

Buyer's Guide to Electronic Commerce - Listing of electronic commerce product and service providers. (This Web site uses with Frames)

 

Electronic Commerce Organizations

Electronic Commerce World Institute - An organization promoting electronic commerce and EDI. Check out their Resource Center for more info.

Commerce Net - Industry consortium leading the way in research and commerce development. Look at their SECTS demonstration. (Secure Electronic Commerce Technology Showcase)

Center for Electronic Commerce - Research and projects designed to improve supply chain integration.

 

Internet Payment Mechanisms

Cybercash - Cybercash provides consumer with wallets for secure credit card purchasing over the Internet. They also provide merchants with the software they need to accept Cybercash payments.

Net Commerce Payment - Net.Commerce Payment is a complete solution for handling credit card transactions securely over the Internet. IBM offers software and services for the consumer, merchant, and acquiring banks (credit card processors) based on the globally accepted SET standard.

Checkfree - Checkfree also provides consumers with wallets for making secure credit card purchases. (Wallet is free)

Mondex - Mondex's position on commerce and info on their smart card technology. Mondex was primarily designed as an alternative means of payment to cash in the physical market place, it can also offer the Internet user a payment option that meets these needs in the virtual marketplace.

Mondex USA - Consortium of American companies adopting the Mondex standard for development of Smart Card technology her in the U.S.

InfoDial - home of CashierTM and Internet Checks. CashierTM is InfoDial's Electronic Commerce System that allows you to combine shopping carts with transaction processing . Visitors to your website can fill up their virtual baskets with goods from your site, and buy them directly online, via credit card or by check. The order is received by you via email, and you can then send the customer their purchase. The customer can check the status of his order online, and the system lets both you and him know whether or not the transaction was approved.

Internet$ - The Internet Dollar is a new tool for paying for things on the Web. Not many vendors signed up yet so, be careful.

First Virtual - First Virtual's e-mail payment system conducts the transaction entirely off-line. They charge a consumers credit cards off line, after the consumer confirms a purchase via e-mail.

Mini-Pay - IBM's micropayment technology. MiniPay is a set of modules and protocols which implement a complete and secure payment solution for `pay cent per click' applications. Here you can find The Sub-$ Registry. - A listing of various micropayment development efforts currently underway.

NetBill - A dependable, secure and economical payment method for purchasing digital goods and services through the Internet. Developed by the folks at Carnegie Mellon. NetBill is currently in alpha testing at Carnegie Mellon University only.

Millicent - Digital's micro payment designed for purchases costing fractions of a cent. Millicent (patent pending) is a lightweight and secure protocol for electronic commerce over the Internet. As a microcommerce system, Millicent is designed to support purchases costing fractions of a cent.

Digicash's Ecash - Information about Digicash's E-cash, an electronic form of money. E-cash is currently in a trial period and under evaluation.

NetChex - Internet check payment system, an extension of your traditional checking account.

Joint Electronic Payment Initiative - Multi industry project to develop an Internet payment negotiation protocol. (Currently under development)
Get the latest JEPI Progress Report from Commerce Net.

NetCash - E-mail based payment system, allows merchants and their customers for the first time to conduct and conclude cash transactions over the Internet in an easy, natural and secure way.

Electronic Payment Schemes - List of other payment proposals, many smaller, lesser known ones can be found here.

Last modified on 19 Sep 1998
by dsim@comp.nus.edu.sg