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Chapter 3

3.1 Introduction

This chapter discusses the topic of Electronic Commerce (Ecommerce). A brief history, definition, the main elements, influences, incentives and future prospects of the subject will be provided in the following sections.

3.2 A brief history of Ecommerce

Electronic commerce, being a new field, is still developing its theoretical and scientific foundations. Concepts such as email and file transfer data from the 1960s. In the early 1970s the extent of electronic applications was limited to large corporations, financial institutions, and a few daring small business (Turban, 2000). Since the 1960s and 1970s development such as video links and multimedia applications have evolved. Multimedia offers the potential for a number of innovative applications such as banking transactions, civil administration and commerce activities without using office space. Communication usage via email has rapidly grown, billions of email messages are now sent over the......

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