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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Chapter 13 Reading Questions, Part 2

6) What is the purpose of an extranet? What are the main characteristics?
The main purpose of this technology is to let the outsiders for the firm to communicate with the organization as when required. Extranet use the same protocols as intranet for the sake of data sharing and communication through web with little enhanced security and privacy.

7) Describe some of the issues a company must deal with to successfully conduct business with consumers over the internet.
In order to successfully conduct business with consumers on the internet, companies must ensure to the user that they have legit business transactions, because people do not want to be scammed. The main issue is trust in the website, and if a business can get a consumer to trust them, then they are good to go.

8) List the capabilities e-commerce software should provide
E-commerce software should provide an easy way for users to buy and sell the products that they are trading, for this is the most essential part and the foundation of e-commerce. It should provide users control to edit prices, items, etc.

9) Describe some ethical issues involved in electronic commerce.
There are a few, but two that immediately pop into mind are integrity and global equalization. As for integrity, the e-commerce sites must make sure that it is nearly impossible to hack them, because people can get scammed and that will lead to a lot of trouble. As for global equalization, if an e-commerce business wants to exceed, they must make sure users all over the world have access, so they must set up global shipping.

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