Assign 4 4.4 Describe m-commerce and explain how it is different from regular EC. 4.5 How does taxation pose a threat to EC? 4.6 How does net neutrality pose a threat to EC? Assign 1 1.1 What is the “post-PC era”? 1.2 Define the term “knowledge worker.” Who coined the term? 1.3 List and describe several reasons why companies are choosing to outsource business activities. Solution ASSIGN-4 1) Mobile electronic commerce, or m-commerce, is defined as any electronic transaction or information interaction conducted using a wireless, mobile device and mobile networks that leads to the transfer of real or perceived value in exchange for information, services, or goods.] 2) >Taxation slows EC growth and opportunity. >Taxation creates an additional compliance burden for e-tailers. >Taxation causes e-tailers located in one state to have to subsidize other states or jurisdictions. >Taxation drives EC businesses to other countries. ASSGN-1 1) The use of mobile devices rather than only desktop computers for games, Internet access, general computing and as a terminal to the corporate network. We are in the post-PC era today. or The Post-PC era is a market trend observed during the late 2000s and early 2010s involving a decline in the sales of personal computers in favor of post-PC devices; which include mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers as well as other mobile computers such as wearable and ubiquitous ones. 2) Drucker first used the term in 1959. It is generally taken to refer to workers who use, create, modify, and/or synthesize knowledge as a fundamental part of their jobs. 3) To need less people at the company. If a company outsources certain parts need by the company such as the accounting that is less people to have to offer benefits to. It also allows the company to work in smaller buildings. More people mean that work for a company means that they have more room and a bigger space compared to outsourcing and only needing a small building or space. Outsourcing also allows a company the opportunity to make someone else reliable if things go wrong such as if a situation dealing with shipping in packaging occur Most important reasons include the following (King, 2003): • To reduce or control costs • To free up internal resources • To gain access to world-class capabilities • To increase revenue potential of the organizational • To reduce time to market • To increase process efficiencies • To be able to focus on core activities • To compensate for a lack of specific capabilities or skills .

1. Assign 4
4.4 Describe m-commerce and explain how it is different from regular EC.
4.5 How does taxation pose a threat to EC?
4.6 How does net neutrality pose a threat to EC?
Assign 1
1.1 What is the “post-PC era―?
1.2 Define the term “knowledge worker.― Who coined the term?
1.3 List and describe several reasons why companies are choosing to outsource business
activities.
Solution
ASSIGN-4
1)
Mobile electronic commerce, or m-commerce, is defined as any electronic transaction or
information interaction conducted using a wireless, mobile device and mobile networks that
leads to the transfer of real or perceived value in exchange for information, services, or goods.]
2)
>Taxation slows EC growth and opportunity.
>Taxation creates an additional compliance burden for e-tailers.
>Taxation causes e-tailers located in one state to have to subsidize other states or jurisdictions.
>Taxation drives EC businesses to other countries.
ASSGN-1
1)
The use of mobile devices rather than only desktop computers for games, Internet access, general

2. computing and as a terminal to the corporate network. We are in the post-PC era today.
or
The Post-PC era is a market trend observed during the late 2000s and early 2010s involving a
decline in the sales of personal computers in favor of post-PC devices; which include mobile
devices such as smartphones and tablet computers as well as other mobile computers such as
wearable and ubiquitous ones.
2)
Drucker first used the term in 1959. It is generally taken to refer to workers who use, create,
modify, and/or synthesize knowledge as a fundamental part of their jobs.
3)
To need less people at the company. If a company outsources certain parts need by the company
such as the accounting that is less people to have to offer benefits to. It also allows the company
to work in smaller buildings. More people mean that work for a company means that they have
more room and a bigger space compared to outsourcing and only needing a small building or
space. Outsourcing also allows a company the opportunity to make someone else reliable if
things go wrong such as if a situation dealing with shipping in packaging occur
Most important reasons include the following (King, 2003):
• To reduce or control costs
• To free up internal resources
• To gain access to world-class capabilities
• To increase revenue potential of the organizational
• To reduce time to market
• To increase process efficiencies
• To be able to focus on core activities
• To compensate for a lack of specific capabilities or skills