Electronic Commerce 12th Edition Gary Schneider - Solutions

Using your favorite search engine, find at least two companies that provide technical support for users of the Apache Web Server software. Learn what services they provide and, if possible, what they charge. Review their Web sites to learn more about the companies and summarize your findings in a
What is a static Web page?
In about 100 words, describe how an n-tier architecture might be used by an online business. Include in your answer an outline of the functions that would likely be performed by computers configured in this way.
What is platform neutrality?
Asheville is a steadily growing, prosperous city in Western North Carolina with a metropolitan area population of about 250,000 and an annual operating budget of more than $150 million. The city operates a Web site with information about the city and links to a variety of online services.
In about 200 words, describe the technologies Web servers use to tailor customized Web pages that respond to users’ requests. In your answer, include a comparison of client-side and server-side approaches and outline the advantages of each.
Briefly explain the concept of nexus as it relates to taxation generally.
What is cyberbullying?
What is product disparagement?
What is a digital watermark?
What is a patent troll?
What is vicarious copyright infringement?
What is fair use under U.S. copyright law?
Briefly explain the differences among trademarks, service marks, and trade names.
Briefly explain the differences between copyrights and patents.
What is a right of publicity?
What is a warranty disclaimer and when might an online business use one?
In about 100 words, explain how a value-added tax (VAT) is calculated and collected. In your answer, contrast the use of a VAT with the use of a combined system of sales taxes and income taxes
What is the body of U.S. law that concerns contracts called?
The merits of allowing companies to patent their business processes have been debated by legal scholars and business experts. One proposed solution to this debate would allow the issuance of business patents, but restrict the patent protection period to a short time, perhaps two or three years. In
What is an implied contract?
In one or two paragraphs, outline the key factors that determine fair use of copyrighted text under U.S. law.
What are the three key elements of a contract?
Under what conditions might a conflict of laws occur?
In the United States, Great Britain, and many other countries, contracts of certain types must comply with the Statute of Frauds to be enforceable. In about 100 words, describe the specific elements a contract must include to comply with the Statute of Frauds. In your answer, provide one or two
What is judicial comity?
To be enforceable, every contract must include an offer and an acceptance. Consider a typical online retail transaction in which an item is ordered and paid for online by a purchaser and shipped by the seller. In two or three paragraphs, identify specifically and describe the actions that
In about 100 words, explain why constructive notice in international transactions can often be less effective when those transactions are completed online.
In about 100 words, outline at least three ways in which a mobile phone’s GPS capabilities can be used to provide benefits to users of a social network.
What does it mean to monetize Web site visitors?
In a paragraph or two, outline why most mobile phones are sold today with a common operating system rather than one developed by the phone manufacturer.
What is a MOOC?
What is social shopping?
A number of Web sites offer a service that allows volunteers to answer questions posted by other site visitors. Uclue provides a similar service, but allows researchers to charge fees for their answers (and takes a percentage of that fee). In about 100 words, explain why a person might use a paid
What is the term for the practice of online newspapers and magazines to have their readers help write their own news?
In a paragraph, explain how blog sites such as Gothamist or TechCrunch generate revenue.
In this and earlier chapters, you have learned that the development of open-source software has been facilitated by Internet technologies. In about 100 words, explain how a group of open-source software developers might be described as a virtual community using social networking tools to accomplish
Name three Web sites that created virtual communities or facilitated social networking before Facebook was founded in 2006.
What does a microlending Web site do?
In about 100 words, describe two or three social networking apps that could use a smartphone’s GPS capability. Be sure to make clear the benefit of using the GPS in the app in each case.
In about 100 words, explain how the lock-in effect might operate in a general consumer auction.
How can companies use social networks internally; that is, by limiting access to employees of the company?
What is a phablet?
In about 200 words, explain how sniping software works and why some auction participants feel its use is unfair to other bidders.
What does it mean to jailbreak or root a smartphone?
What is a shill bidder in an online auction?
What is a Yankee auction?
What is a Dutch auction?
What objective is a Vickrey auction designed to accomplish?
What is a reverse auction and when is it most likely to be used in a business-to-business setting?
What is a proxy bid?
What function is served by an online liquidation broker?
What is the main purpose of an auction escrow service?
Briefly explain the role borders play in determining jurisdiction.
In about 100 words, explain how the concepts of power, effects, and jurisdiction are related to each other.
Companies that use Internet technologies to change the structure of the industry in which they operate can create new legal questions, especially in businesses that are subject to governmental regulation. As you learned earlier in this chapter, Ride brokering services such as Lyft and Uber have
What is jurisdiction?
The levels of authority and autonomy with which governments of various countries operate vary significantly from one country to another. In about 100 words, explain how different cultures allow these variations yet still perceive their own government to be legitimate.
Briefly explain the difference between notice and constructive notice.
What is the difference between a breach of contract and a tort?
In the past, geographic borders have helped governments assert jurisdiction effectively. In about 100 words, describe one way the Internet has changed the role borders play in the determination of jurisdiction.
What is the difference between subject-matter jurisdiction and personal jurisdiction?
Online businesses are capable of committing a crime, breaching a contract, or engaging in a tortious action. In about 200 words, provide a specific example of each in an online commercial setting. In your answer, explain why each action you describe is either a crime, a breach of contract, or a
What is a long-arm statute?
Write a paragraph in which you outline the reasons an online business might want to use a forum selection clause in its terms of service statement.
What is the difference between a negligent tort and an intentional tort?
What are the basic ideas that underlie permission marketing?
What is domain name parking?
Standard Metal Shaping Systems (SMSS) provides repair and maintenance services to companies that use large metal-shaping machinery to fold, bend, crease or otherwise shape aluminum, copper, steel, titanium, and other metals as part of a precision manufacturing process. These machines must be
To examine how that company implements occasion segmentation with its individual products and its monthly club services. Write a report in which you describe two clear examples of occasion segmentation on the site. Also identify two examples of product segmentation on the site and explain how the
Briefly define and distinguish between emotional and rational branding.
Briefly define the term “viral marketing.”
Briefly define search engine positioning and explain why companies use it.
Impact sourcing, also called smart sourcing, was developed to provide opportunities for workers in less-developed countries. In two or three paragraphs, explain how and for what specific purposes impact sourcing can be used in developed countries.
In 2015, the world’s largest retailer, Walmart, announced a quarterly increase in sales that was accompanied by an increase in expenses that reduced its hoped-for profit. In discussing the higher expenses, the company mentioned “shrinkage” three times in its written press release and 13 times
The purchasing process in a business can be much more complex than most consumer purchasing processes. In about 100 words, outline the differences between a typical consumer purchase and a business purchase and explain why the business purchase decision is more complex in most cases.
What is business process offshoring?
Some business and political leaders argue that offshoring is dangerous because it can move jobs from developed countries to less-developed countries. Others argue that although offshoring might displace workers in the short run, in the longer term, everyone benefits by having developing economies
What is impact sourcing?
In a paragraph or two, explain how the Internet has reduced the spend of many U.S. manufacturing companies.
What activities are included in the procurement function called “sourcing”?
Would the use of purchasing cards be more helpful in controlling direct materials costs or indirect materials costs? In a paragraph or two, explain why.
Briefly outline the differences between direct materials and indirect materials.
Using your library or your favorite search engine, identify the main reason a large transportation company might want to use p cards for its MRO spending. Summarize your findings in two or three paragraphs
Briefly define the term spend as it is used in business purchasing.
In about 100 words, explain why smaller companies might outsource elements of their human resources, payroll, or retirement plan management operations.
What is spot purchasing?
You have just started work as an intern in the purchasing department of Westridge Laboratories, an independent materials testing lab. You do not know much about the business, but your supervisor has given you the task of learning more about gas chromatographs, an instrument that the labs use for
What are MRO supplies?
About 200 words, explain how using EDI can lead to supply chain efficiencies. Include in your discussion the merits of using either direct connection or VAN-based EDI and how a company would choose between these approaches.
What is a p-card?
Internet access from smartphones and tablet devices has greatly improved the work environment of long-distance truck drivers. Using your favorite search engine, identify at least three apps that a trucker might use to do two or more of the following: obtain routing information, manage fuel
What is a third-party logistics supplier?
In about 100 words, outline the advantages of using RFID technology instead of bar code scanning technology in managing the inventory and direct materials in a manufacturing company.
Provide three specific examples of business support activities.
In about 100 words, explain how the Web can help build and maintain trust among participants in a specific supply chain.
Companies in a particular supply chain can work together to eliminate costs from the supply chain. In many cases, these cost savings are not shared evenly among the companies in the supply chain. Using research resources on the Web or in your library, identify an industry in which savings are not
Provide one specific example of how a government unit or agency could use the Web to operate more efficiently or service its constituents better.
In a paragraph or two, explain what a customer portal (also called a private store) is and describe the key features you would expect to find in one.
What is a supply web?

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