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Saturday, 01 May 2010 |
By ColderICE
 business! According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 66% Americans have purchased a product online and 93% have used e-commerce activities such as researching and bidding.
Internet has changed the world, becoming a trendy time-saver and a resourceful way to find and compare virtually any kind of item and service; with e-commerce, it has changed the way we buy. You can shop in your pajamas, don't have to drive to the mall or physically move from shop to shop and wait in line at the register... Remember those times?
E-commerce history dates back to the invention of the old notion of "sell and buy", electricity, cables, computers, modems and the Internet; although most people don't realize that e-commerce was originally conceived to facilitate business transactions - not personal transactions - using a technology called Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), developed in the 1970's, that allowed business to electronically exchange things like purchase orders and invoices. The 1970's also brought the 'Electronic Fund Transfers' (EFT) that allowed payments to be processed online. The EFT and EDI were the enabling technologies that laid the ground |
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Friday, 30 April 2010 |
By Roberto Garabell
 Most modern stories about the fax machine talk about the Xerox company, and a few of its employees, as if they invented not only the photocopier but the fax machine, as well. This is true in the sense that they built new products based on existing ideas and technology, but not in the strict sense of who really invented faxing. The technology used in the fax machine took a long, circuitous route to get to a product that today's office worker would recognize.
A German inventor named Arthur Korn invented what he called telephotography in 1902. He devised an electro-optical means of breaking photographs down into tiny elements and transmitting those over wires. History records that he sent what we would call a fax in 1907, between Munich and Berlin. It was a photograph, and it came through clearly enough to excite many people, including other inventors and engineers. Many of them went right to work trying to perfect the technology and bring a product to market.
Making a beeline, literally
The Frenchman Edouard Beeline named the Belinograph after himself, of course. |
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