experienced smokers only, please.
Each of the sites boasts levels of technological sophistication more
associated with mainstream 21st century e-commerce outfits such as Amazon
or eBay. Most sites support one click ordering and secure digital
payment systems such as Paypal and its smaller rival
ney by
charging both the purchaser and the seller a fee on each transaction. It is
what as known in E-Commerce parlance as a B2B outfit, or business to
business. Most of you are probably familiar with so-called B2C's--business
to consumer--like amazon.com. Although nearly all of these outfits ar
Two good articles in today's NYT on the whole e-commerce patent absurdity.
On the good side, under pressure and threats of boycott by activists of the
Internet community, Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com has come out in favor of
restricting e-commerce patents, even calling for a wholesale revision
friend who sent below to me didn't identify source... Michael Hoover
E-tailers aren't the only ones cashing in on the online retail craze
universities are also getting in on the action. More colleges are
offering e-commerce majors in response to growing demand for workers
CBS Last Update: 8:48 PM ET Apr 16, 1999
LOS ANGELES -- The so-called Internet economy is looking awfully big.
So big that -- if we're to believe John Chambers, chief of Cisco
Systems -- electronic commerce will boom to more than $3 trillion by
2005 and could account for as much as 25
