Electronic Commerce (Charles River Media Networking/Security)

There are millions of information sources of all types available online, with many of them accessible through the World Wide Web. This section offers links and descriptions of some of those relating to electronic commerce, divided by categories.

Electronic Commerce Companies

These companies make information available online about their products and services, all of which are directly related to electronic commerce. Many of these companies work together in strategic partnerships, licensing arrangements, consortia, and other arrangements. Some of the listed organizations are in the process of acquiring others, whereas some of the listed organizations may have been spun off from other companies. The point is that these URLs should be considered starting points for searches, rather than authoritative addresses.

BroadVision, Inc. http://www.broadvision.com/OneToOne/SessionMgr/homepage.jsp Develops portal software to support foundations for electronic buying and selling.

Cardservice International http://www.cardsvc.com Offers credit card services to Internet merchants.

ClickShop.com http://clickshop.com/ Provides services extending from consulting and custom programming to Web development and design.

CyberCash, Inc. http://www.cybercash.com/ Provides payment services for the Internet, and was recently acquired by VeriSign.

CyberSource http://www.cybersource.com/home.html Provides businesses with services and software designed to automate the commerce transaction process in multisales channel environments.

eB2B.com http://company.monster.com/eb2b/ Builds and operates electronic commerce networks between manufacturer and retailers.

eHost.com http://www.ehost.com/esupport/index.cgi Provides domain name registration/forwarding, Web hosting, and payment and billing services.

Enterprise Integration Technologies http://www.eit.com Provides full contract electronic design and manufacturing services to OEMs from product concept through distribution and aftermarket support.

Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com/country/us/eng/welcome.html Provides hardware and software in many vertical markets, including electronic commerce; a leading provider.

Internet World Media http://www.iw.com/events/spring2003/index.php Provides much current information on this Web site; a publisher and trade show sponsor with strong Internet orientation.

Microsoft Corporation http://www.microsoft.com Continues to lead the electronic commerce community; a software giant.

Mondex USA http://www.mondexusa.com/ Responsible for the global Mondex functions of branding, interoperability, security, risk management, and future technology development.

Netscape Communications Inc. http://home.netscape.com/ Provides the latest information from the Web browser/server publisher.

Peregrine http://www.peregrine.com/us/default.htm Provides Consolidated Asset and Service Management solutions.

RSA Security, Inc. http://www.rsasecurity.com/ Licenses public key cryptography algorithms.

SafeNet http://www.safenet-inc.com/ Develops the technology that provides the foundation of Internet security.

SPYRUS, Inc. http://www.spyrus.com/ Provides infrastructure and authentication Identity Management software to improve secure access to data and enhance network security.

Styleclick, Inc. http://www.internet.net Provides e-commerce technologies and services to companies interested in expanding their online sales channels.

Sun MicroSystems http://www.sun.com Offers network security solutions among many other products; an Internet pioneer.

Technology Integration Group http://www.tig.com Provides electronic commerce consulting and services.

Trilegiant Corporation http://www.netmarket.com Provides personal shopping services.

Verifone http://www.verifone.com Provides secure electronic payment technologies; a leader in the industry.

VeriSign, Inc. http://www.verisign.com Provides public key certificates to individuals and companies; a spin-off from RSADSI.

Financial Institutions

The number of banks offering some type of service over the Internet, from simple information services to actual banking services, is growing rapidly. The following banks are just a small sample of the large number that have gotten online already; many more will certainly be there by the time you read this.

Bank of America http://www.bankofamerica.com/ Currently offering information services online.

Bank of Montreal http://www.bmo.com/ Canadian bank with WWW services.

BankNet Electronic Banking Service http://orders.mkn.co.uk/bank/ First bank to allow deposits online, in United Kingdom.

Barclays Bank http://www.barclays.co.uk/ Major U.K. bank offers information services online.

Citibank http://www.citibank.com/us/index.htm Major bank offering global services; site provides information about services.

KeyBank http://www.keybank.com/ One of the nation’s largest bank-based financial services companies.

MasterCard International http://www.mastercard.com/mcweb/index.jsp International payment services organization, including credit and debit cards.

Visa International http://www.visa.com/globalgateway/ggselectcountry.html?retcountry=1 International payment services organization, including credit and debit cards.

Wells Fargo Bank http://www.wellsfargo.com/ Major bank, offering actual online services as well as information.

General Catalog and News Services

These general catalog services should be the first stop in tracking down new information sources. The interested reader will find some of them invaluable for tracking down the latest and most updated sites for electronic commerce, as well as other topics. Also included here are some sites that are neither comprehensive nor catalogs, but that are maintained (usually by individuals) to provide pointers specifically to topics related to online commerce.

All-Internet Shopping Directory http://www.all-internet.com A directory of sites offering items for sale over the Internet, including e-mail sales.

AltaVista http://www.altavista.com/ A very robust search engine provided by AltaVista Company.

AT&T AnyWho Info: Toll Free http://anywho.com/tf.html A list of searchable, toll-free numbers by company, category, and location.

Lycos http://www.lycos.com/ One of the most comprehensive Internet catalog sites.

Overture http://www.overture.com/d/home/ The global leader in commercial search, offering new and more powerful ways for businesses and customers to connect on the Internet and beyond.

Nando Media http://www.nandotimes.com/ An online, 24-hour Internet “newspaper.”

TIME.com http://www.time.com/time/index.html The daily online component of TIME magazine. TIME.com is updated several times a day with analysis of the day’s news, plus photo essays, polls, message boards and chats, and features such as Innovators of the 21st Century, Arts & Culture Sampler, and Campaign 2002.

WebCrawler http://www.webcrawler.com/info.wbcrwl/ Another Internet catalog site, powered by InfoSpace, Inc.

Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/ One of the most popular Internet catalog sites.

Online Commerce Organizations

Trade and industry groups are an important set of resources for any industry, but particularly for a new industry.

The Electronic Commerce Technical Assistance Group

http://www.ectag.org/ An organization that provides resources especially for small businesses to help learn more about: e-commerce, defense procurement initiatives, step-by-step information on how to register to conduct business with the federal government, and how to meet your customer’s e-commerce requirements.

CommerceNet http://www.commerce.net A global, nonprofit organization that has been evolving to meet the needs of companies doing electronic commerce.

Data Interchange Standards Association http://www.disa.org An association that is home to numerous organizations developing e-business standards, it helps individuals and the business community improve business processes, reduce costs, increase productivity, and take advantage of new opportunities.

Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) http://www.fstc.org/ A nonprofit consortium of financial services companies and academic and research organizations working toward the goal of enhancing the competitiveness of the U.S. financial services industry.

World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ A consortium dedicated to the development of the World Wide Web.

Online Marketing, Buying, and Selling

There are literally thousands of electronic malls on the Internet. This list is hardly comprehensive, but gives pointers to a few of the more interesting Web pages devoted to buying and selling, as well as some of the more typical digital malls. For a more complete and current listing of digital malls, check one of the Internet search engines.

Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com A major online bookseller.

America Online http://www.aol.com The online service provides numerous opportunities for shopping using their own software interface, as well as linking members out to the Internet for Web-based shopping.

CompuServe http://webcenters.compuserve.com/compuserve/menu/default.jsp In addition to their online service, CompuServe offers private network applications for their customers looking for ways to transact business in a “closed-circuit” environment.

TechSavvy.com http://www.techsavvy.com/ A powerful, technical Web site that helps you identify suppliers, locate critical information, and order worldwide standards, military specifications, millions of parts, and hard to find historical data.

Styleclick: USA Interactive Information and Services Group Company http://www.isn.com A company that designs, builds, operates, and hosts destination stores on the Web, assisting companies to increase sales, grow their customer base, and extend their brands via the Internet.

Specifications and Standards

One of the most important reasons the Internet is so rapidly moving to become a medium for commercial transactions is that it is a system with open standards. Here is a place to look for the open standards being proposed and developed by some of the participants in the electronic commerce marketplace.

http://www.mastercardintl.com/newtechnology/set/