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=Recent News Items about Issues with eCommerce=

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[|Dubai traders are optimistic about the future of eCommerce] (Dolyana,) E-commerce these days have a huge impact on international business (not only in Dubai) since it has an influence to increase the market size and improving the efficiency of the process in business. As a result, 98% of the Dubai (eCommerce) Traders were optimisticc(67% highly optimistic, 31% quite optimistic) and have high respect towards eCommerce. On the other hand, 2% of the respondents were quite pessimistic about the future for eCommerce. increasing the efficiency of commerce, ...improving market share and broadening circles of suppliers and customers.**"
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[|UK 'lacks urgency' over e-commerce] (Tom & Linda)
The UK government has been criticized by a committee of MPs for a "yawning gap between ambition and achievement" in the promotion of electronic commerce. The Trade and Industry Select Committee says in a report that it is concerned at the lack of urgency in bringing forward an Electronic Commerce Bill and appointing an Internet czar or e-envoy (part of the prime ministers delivery and reform team) as promised and the share man of the community is concerned becausee it's started rather late in addressing this issue of opening up the Internet to small businesses and the home user

[|Dubai worried about 'digital divide'] **(Tom & Linda)**
An Organisation for Economic and Co-operation Development electronic commerce conference in the Gulf Emirate of Dubai has been warned not to allow technological gaps between countries to grow out of control. The fact that the United Arab Emirates, an emerging market is hosting the e-commerce conference is intended to demonstrate that the OECD is addressing the problem of a knowledge gap between indust The warning comes amid increasing evidence that differences in the e-business capability of developed and developing countries are growing wider and wider. rialised  and developing countries. A phenomenon known as the "digital divide".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/7095409.stm (Gareth) Websites in Dorset, which offer the same services as eBay and paypal, being goods and other materials, "The investigation by Dorset County Council's Trading Standards Service found 40% of sites breaching the law"(BBC news, 2007). The websites though were told, they need to ammend their websites so that they do not violate consumer protection laws. Officers visited and inspected websites and found that 32 out of 80 businesses were not complying with the regulations.