Introduction to E-Commerce
A(n) ____ is an exchange of value, such as a purchase, a sale, or the conversion of raw materials into a finished product.
A way of organizing the activities that each strategic business unit undertake to design, produce, promote, market, deliver, and support the products or services it sells
What is a value chain
This uses a specific set of rules and connects networks all over the world to each other.
What is Internet?
This language specifies a set of tags that are inserted into the text.
What is text markup?
The group of logical, related, and sequential activities and transactions in which businesses engage are often collectively referred to as ____.
business processes
______ Means a translation that considers multiple elements of the local environment, such as business and cultural practices, in addition to local dialect variations in the language
What is localization
An email address that forwards any message it receives to any user who has subscribed to the list.
What is a mailing list?
This structure resembles conventional paper documents in that the reader begins on the first page and clicks the Next button to move to the next page in a serial fashion.
What is linear hyperlink?
____ occurs when one business transmits computer-readable data in a standard format to another business.
Electronic data interchange (EDI)
A company that arranges shipping and insurance for international transactions.
What is Freight Forwarder?
This sells Internet access rights directly to larger customers and indirectly to smaller firms and individuals through other companies called Internet service providers.
What is Network Access Providers?
In HTML, hyperlinks are created using the HTML ___.
What is an anchor tag?
Businesses that engage in EDI with each other are called ____.
trading partners
A secure location where incoming international shipments can be held until customs requirements are satisfied or until payment arrangements are completed.
What is a bonded warehouse?
Computers directly connected to the Internet.
What are Internet hosts?
The amount of data that can travel through a communication line per unit of time.
What is bandwidth?
Answer: Web 2.0
The subset of the Internet that includes computers and sensors connected to each other for communication and automatic transaction processing.
What is the Internet of Things?
_____connections provide the same bandwidth in both directions.
What is symmetric?
business model
A network of computers that are located close together.
What is local Area Network.
The telephone lines used to cover the vast distances between rural customers are usually_____ lines, which costs less than telephone lines designed to carry data, are made of lower grade copper, and were never intended to carry data.
What is voice grade?
A specific collection of business processes used to identify customers, market to those customers, and generate sales to those customers
revenue model
The combination of telephone lines and the closed switches that connect them to each other.
What is a circuit?
The most common wireless connection technology for use on LAN 's.
What is Wi-fi?
A product or service that is hard to distinguish from the same products or services provided by other sellers; its features have become standardized and well known.
commodity item
The computers that decide how best to forward each packet.
What is Routing Computers?
Many mobile phones have a small screen and can be used to send and receive short text messages using a protocol called.
What is SMS?
A product's _____is the collection of attributes that affect how easily that product can be packaged and delivered
shipping profile
A collection of rules for formatting, ordering, and error checking data sent across a network.
What is protocol?
This is used by universities to conduct large collaborative research projects that require several supercomputers connected at very fast speeds or that use multiple video feeds features that would be impossible on the Internet given its lower bandwidth limits.
What is Internet 2?
____ sites are Web sites that individuals and businesses use to conduct social interactions online
Social networking
The use of reserved private IP addresses within LAN 's. And WANS to provide additional address space.
What is subnetting?
This Project envisions words on web pages being tagged using XML with their meanings.
What is Symantec Web?
_____are the total of all costs that a buyer and seller incur as they gather information and negotiate a purchase and sale transaction
What are transaction costs
The purpose of this is to respond to requests for web pages from web clients.
What is a web server?
A set of standards that defines, in detail, the relationships among RDF standards and specific XML tags within a particular knowledge domain.
What is ontology?
The practice of an existing firm replacing one or more of its supplier markets with its own hierarchical structure for creating the supplied prioduct is called____
What is vertical integration
A software interface that lets users read or browse HTML documents and move from one HTML document to another through text formatted with hypertext link tags in each file.
What is a web browser?
One particular combination of product, distribution channel, and customer type.
What is strategic business unit
A way of presenting program control functions and program output to users and accepting their input.
What is Graphical User Interface?
Entities that come together as a team for a specific project or activity
What are strategic partners
The store of information that is available through the web.
What is Deep Web?
As more people or organizations participate in a network, the value of the network to each participant increases. This increase in value is called _____
network effect
Set of words that are assigned to specific IP addresses.
What are domain names?