CP102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Retail, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, E-Commerce
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E-commerce: in b2c transactions, the end buyer purchases goods or services over the internet o in b2b transactions, business sell to one another, in c2c transactions, consumers sell to one another. A web browser is software installed on your computer system that allows you to locate, view, and navigate the web. The internet is a huge client/server network. Thus, a computer connected to the internet acts in one of two ways: it is either a client, a computer that asks for data, or a server, a computer the receives and returns the data to the client. Broadband connections offer faster means to connect to the internet. These include cable, satellite, fibre optic and dsl.
