Electronic money, contracts catalog, accounting, auditing and taxation issues. Overview of technologies central to electronic business including communications, networking, the Internet, programming languages, security, databases and archiving, web authoring tools, multimedia, transaction processing, search engines, data mining and security issues. Establishing a Web Presence. Examines the technology of the Internet, the largest and most highly distributed information system ever created. Web site development issues including messaging strategies, development tools, design, security, scalability, implementation, delivery of content, and usability testing.
Students build a Web site.
Includes Web site development in conjunction with Establishing a Web Presence . Legal and Ethical Internet Issues. Overview of computer, high technology and intellectual property law, and ethical constructs, which underlie Internet, issues. Topics include patent, copyright, trade secret, contractual arrangements, technology licensing, technology failure liability, computer crime, and privacy. Ethical principles and the application of these principles to current business and technological issues are addressed by case study.