In the wake of the 21 century the Internet plays a crucial role in the lives of millions of people. Common use of the Internet includes information retrieval, entertainment and commercial transactions. A significant number of organisations base their existence solely on this relatively new medium for communicating and doing business. In addition, millions of individuals live in a virtual world ...

The user friendliness of the Internet has captured the interests of many individuals. Today, the use of Internet is not limited to information searching but also expands to other daily activities such as online banking and shopping. However, reports indicate that consumers vary in their levels of Internet adoption mainly due to perceived risk associated with online transactions. This study expl...

Although the Internet is useful for transferring information, transactions in Internet auctions can have a greater information asymmetry than corresponding transactions in traditional environments because current auction market mechanisms allow the seller to remain anonymous and to easily change identities. Buyers must rely on the seller's description of a product and ability to deliver the pro...

Following your need to always fulfil the inspiration to obtain everybody is now simple. Connecting to the internet is one of the short cuts to do. There are so many sources that offer and connect us to other world condition. As one of the products to see in internet, this website becomes a very available place to look for countless transactions on pattern languages of programming ii special lss...

In today’s business environment, it is difficult to imagine a workplace without access to the web, yet a variety of email born viruses, spyware, adware, Trojan horses, phishing attacks, directory harvest attacks, DoS attacks, and other threats combine to attack businesses and customers. This paper is an attempt to review phishing – a constantly growing and evolving threat to Internet based comm...

Due to the growth of the Internet, e-commerce is widespread and the security of Internet transactions is a matter that is becoming more and more important and challenging. Fortunately, the digital signature and the digital time stamp are welldefined tools used to address this challenge. Digital signature schemes are widely used in security mechanisms such as integrity, authentication and non-re...

Given the growing prevalence of Internet fraud and its enormous social costs, the goal of this article is to advance theoretical understanding of the power that perpetrators use when influencing victims in fraudulent transactions. Specifically, the article proposes an interactive model, combining the dimensions of power and negotiation from the management and psychology literature. We then exam...

Central in this paper is the question what choices customers make for specific channels (physical channel, mobile or Internet) in an eCommerce transaction processes and by what variables their choice is influenced. We are especially interested in the use of channels to collect specific information, initiate transactions, conclude actual fulfilment and offer after sales services. We argue that c...

The World Wide Web (WWW) has drastically changed the on-line availability of information and the amount of electronically exchanged information. Meanwhile the computer has mutated from a device for computation into a entrance portal of large information volumes, communication, and business transactions. Also, it starts to change the commercial relationships between suppliers and customers. The ...

We present a client-based characterization of endto-end Internet faults. Unlike prior studies of Internet faults that have focused on probing routers using tools such as traceroute and/or listening in on routing protocol messages, we consider a novel approach based on having clients passively observe endto-end transactions that they are involved in. Observations from multiple clients are combin...