Doing business in cyberspace. (electronic commerce on the Internet)(includes related articles on the Greet Street greeting-card company and on CD-ROM publisher Voyager Co)(includes vendor directory) (Internet
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The wide acceptance of RSA encryption, Netscape's endorsement of the Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol and the merger between Visa's Secure Transaction Technology and MasterCard's Secure Electronic Payment Protocol have eliminated the major barriers to conducting electronic commerce online. Electronic commerce will free businesses from distribution channels and middlemen, will allow customers to make immediate purchases, will facilitate the immediate delivery of products via digital media and will allow consumers to locate specific vendors quickly. Forrester Research predicts that online commerce will increase to $31.6 billion by the turn of the century. The four main security issues for network transactions are privacy, authentication, message integrity and message nonrepudiation. Several companies are providing turnkey solutions to these issues, including CyberCash Inc, First Virtual Holdings and Open Market Inc. The success of electronic commerce also depends on consumer privacy and the acceptance of online banking.
Publication Name: Newmedia
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 1060-7188
Year: 1996
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MPEG titles: one more year
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The market for MPEG video compression/decompression hardware and MPEG CD-ROM tiles will grow significantly in 1996. Philips kept the market alive in 1995 by utilizing MPEG in its CD-Interactive products. There were, though, only about 100 commercial MPEG CD-ROM titles in the 1995 holiday season. Analysts expect the number of titles to grow to more than 1,000 by the 1996 holiday season. Several factors are driving the growth: Microsoft plans to use Mediamatics' software-only MPEG in the next Windows 95 version; PC vendors plan to install MPEG chips on motherboards; and a major upturn will occur in sales of MPEG playback boards. MPEG on the motherboard will mostly be MPEG-I-compliant, but one analyst expects over 10 million PCs to include it in 1996. Another analyst expects 1.4 million MPEG playback boards to ship in 1996. Potential impacts of high-capacity Digital Video Disc players and software vendors' hedging their bets with multi-format disks are discussed.
Publication Name: Newmedia
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 1060-7188
Year: 1996
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Multi-player games move to the Internet. (Internet
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Multi-player computer games have existed on the Internet for several years, but have failed to make an impact due to problematic pricing and game designs. Multi-player Internet games have enormous potential, as they involve continuos revenue, interactive communication and user focus groups. Computer game vendors displayed their interest in online gaming at the Feb 1996 Moving Multiplayer Games onto the Internet conference in Santa Clara, CA. The conference focused on technical issues, such as bandwidth and latency. Latency is a major obstacle to online gaming, and is caused by poor-quality networks, end-to-end links and the usage of several modems at once. Mpath Interactive, the sponsor of the conference, offers its Mplayer GameWay software developer kit as a solution to latency problems. The kit allows developers to implement low-latency gaming features and supports two-way voice communication.
Publication Name: Newmedia
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 1060-7188
Year: 1996
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