Because member and customer data are among the most valuable assets your company has, guaranteeing their security and integrity is critical. Customers want to be sure that information about their preferences and behavior will remain private and won’t end up in the wrong hands. If you can’t give your customers that assurance or control who […]
Information Process
A merchant site that accepts electronic payments must include the following processing functions: (1) promotion; (2) welcoming; (3) payment; and (4) back-office.
Promotion
Successful implementation of a merchant site depends on a variety of factors, including site promotion. This can be done through fliers sent to the client or through fidelity programs. The promotion server can […]
Nevertheless, the transformation of the county fair into a supermarket is taking longer than originally anticipated. Use of the Internet for economic exchange clashes with the culture of freely available information, absence of a central authority, and the legitimate concerns regarding the security of information on the network. Security on the Internet is an afterthought; […]
The arguments in favor of the Internet sound, at a decade interval, like an echo of those that were previously formulated in praise of the Minitel. This passion for information technology is displayed in a context where ambitious growth rates are not physically sustainable, due to market saturation in rich countries, the progressive depletion of […]
JEPI (Joint Electronic Payment Initiative) is a joint initiative of the W3C and the CommerceNet consortium. The purpose is to allow a server to negotiate, with a client, the payment protocol advantageous to both parties. Membership of the JEPI project includes several suppliers of solutions for secure payments (Cybercash, GCTech), software (Microsof, IBM, OpenMarket), services […]
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The proliferation of incompatible payment systems creates difficulties for all concerned — users, service suppliers, financial institutions, and regulatory bodies. History has shown repeatedly that the expansion of commerce requires a stable and uniform environment. Yet, in a single aspect of electronic commerce such as electronic purses, there are more than 20 commercialized schemes in […]
The automation and dematerialization of monetary exchanges are not objectives per se, but are solely means to improve the productivity of financial institutions. In this regard, an overabundance of standards, and sometimes their competition, may constitute a barrier to the establishment of electronic commerce. Even if some manufacturers think they can profit from this situation, […]
The modern monetary system freed itself of material support by replacing it with a generalized system of trust based on continuous growth. In the past, monetary creation was absolutely limited by the scarcity of materials to be exchanged or of precious metals for minting coins. Now, however, money liberated from a material basis, in particular […]
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How Legal Wire tapping Works
CALEA requires that communications providers allow law enforcement officials to be able to listen in on phone conversations and get information about those phone calls, but only when the law enforcement agency has gotten approval for the tap.
The law enforcement agency goes before a judge and presents reasons a wiretap is […]
In this section we will build a very basic front end that makes a connection to our database, validates a user’s login, and retrieves (searches for) data. Although this is just a start, it will provide the building blocks you need to develop it further for your own needs.
This unlike the others, is more like […]
Indexes, like triggers, have always been a part of SQL Server but now we have even more features that we can take advantage of when creating indexes.
One of the biggest changes is allowing us to have an index on a computed column. A computed column is the answer from a sum. For example, consider a […]
As you move into a multi-user environment, security, user, and resource management will become key to the performance and integrity of your application. Some of these security features are available on Windows 2000 only.
Understanding Kerberos and Security Delegation
Unfortunately, we cannot take advantage of these new enhancements. We are not running Windows 2000—maybe that’s a good […]
The first screen (Welcome) of the wizard appears. What you can do here is definitely limited. If you are sure you want to continue with the installation, click Next.
The second screen (Computer Name).
The third screen you see (Installation Selection).
After you have completed this installation, if you want to modify the installation or remove it, you […]
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To finish the development of our Spy Net application, we must install a Web server of some sort onto our machines. We must set up our machine as a Web server so that we can leverage the deployment of the interface. The installation of Personal Web Server (PWS) for Windows 98 is covered in this […]
If you ask a typical consumer about wireless communications, you might hear about Wi-Fi or wireless Ethernet, but it’s just as likely that cell phones, smartphones, or PDAs with onboard wireless networking would also be part of the conversation. These devices offer web browsing, email, video and still image capture, and text messaging, and they […]
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