Cyberspace

Cyberspace
Introduction
"Cyberspace is the place where a telephone conversation appears to occur. Not inside your actual phone, the plastic device on your desk. Not inside the other person's phone, in some other city. Theplace_between_ the phones. The indefinate place outthere_, where the two of you, human beings, actually meet and communicate."
Bruce Sterling [The Hacker Crackdown]
The word "space", on the other hand, connotes several aspects. First, a space has a virtually infinite extension, including so many things that they can never be grasped all at once. This is a good description of the already existing collections of electronic data, on e.g. the Internet. Second, space connotes the idea of free movement, of being able to visit a variety of states or places. Third, a space has some kind of a geometry, implying concepts such as distance, direction and dimension.
Benefits of email and the internet
However, to take advantage of these benefits, it is vital that you fully understand the potential for the internet and email to enhance the ways in which you do business. This guide provides an overview of the essential components of the internet and email, the opportunities for using them to do business more effectively and the ways in which they can help you to promote your business online.
Buying and selling online
The internet can open up new opportunities for your business to buy and sell goods or services online. Such activities are generically referred to as e-commerce.
The business relationships supported by e-commerce can be broadly split into two main categories:
  business to consumer (B2C) - selling products or services   directly to individual consumers
      business to business (B2B) - selling goods or services to other   businesses
    B2C e-commerce
Selling goods in a B2C environment typically requires a website with an online shop front. Consumers anywhere in the world can browse your online shop. When they...