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E-Commerce

1.0 Introduction

E-commerce, e-business and m-commerce is the most visible examples of the way in which information and communication technologies (ICT) can contribute to economic growth. It helps countries improve trade efficiency and facilitates the integration of developing countries into the global economy. It allows businesses and entrepreneurs to become more competitive. And it provides jobs, thereby creating wealth.
The IT industry provides essential instruments that make e-business, e-commerce and m-business possible, including not only computer hardware and software but also fixed telephones, mobile telephones, telecommunication equipment and wireless transmission equipment. Even though e-business, ecommerce or m-business impinges on IT goods, this does not necessarily imply that having a local IT producing industry would be an advantage for the local business sector when it moves into e-business or e-commerce. However, when the business sector starts adopting new information and communications technologies in its operations, it relies heavily on local or locally available IT expertise in order to fully realize all the efficiency gains that the Internet makes possible at the level of a single firm as well as at the level of the industry and of the country’s economy as a whole.
There are two objectives of this sector which are it tries to present some long-term trends in the industry that produces the tools necessary for conducting ’e-business’, in its widest possible meaning. On the other hand, it attempts to present evidence about whether the conditions outlined above are realized, or in other words, whether the IT industry can contribute to development and growth by enhancing a country’s capacity to engage in e-business



Firefox

2.0 Purpose
Firefox is a free, open source Web browser for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It is based on the Mozilla code base and offers customization options and features such as its capability to block pop-up...