Digital Commerce

Issue of plagiarism

The Pew Research Centre published a study titled: The Chronicle of Higher Education stating that more than half of 1055 college residents included in the survey had indicated a rise in plagiarism in the last 10 years, as quoted by Tim Goral, (2012). Turnitin also published a white paper that defined the varying types of plagiarism. The paper indicated that students plagiarise in varying degrees. “Clone” is when a student submits the work of someone else, using exactly the same words and claims it as their own. Second in line is “CTRL-C” that represents large sections of copied text within a text. Additionally other types of plagiarism include “Mashup” that uses the information obtained from several sources, without any citation and “Aggregator” that uses proper citation, but very little original work, (Goral, 2012).

To view more details regarding plagiarism, click on the following Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

History of e-commerce

On www.spirecast.com a very good overview of the history of e-commerce.

The early years:

·         Electronic Data Interchange and Electronic funds Transfers appeared in the late 1970 and signified the execution of electronic transactions between businesses.

·         EDI and EFT transactions laid the ground work for e-commerce as we know it today.

·         In 1982 the Boston Computer Exchange, a market place used for computer equipment, was one of the first examples of e-commerce.

·         During the 1980 credits cards, ATM machines and telephone banking signified the next steps in the development of e-commerce.

·         In 1994 e-commerce as we know it today begin to accelerate with the introduction of high speed internet connections (such as DSL) and security protocols provided the opportunity for much faster online transactions.

E-Commerce Begins to Engage:

• The first rudimentary e-commerce websites were built between 1998 and 2000.
• 2000 saw a change in how e-commerce was defined, with the dot-com collapse signifying the demise of thousands of internet businesses.
• In 2001 business to business transactions became available online and provided a glimpse of serving a global customer base electronically.

E-Commerce Pioneers:

• eBay and Amazon launched in 1994 and have grown to be the largest e-commerce brands in the world.