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Marketing. The point of sale ( POS) or point of purchase ( POP) is the time and place at which a retail transaction is completed. At the point of sale, the merchant calculates the amount owed by the customer, indicates that amount, may prepare an invoice for the customer (which may be a cash register printout), and indicates the options for the ...
Whether a communication is connection-oriented or connectionless, is defined by the communication protocol, and not by application programming interface (API). Examples of the connection-oriented protocols include Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Sequenced Packet Exchange (SPX), and examples of connectionless protocols include User ...
Network socket. A network socket is a software structure within a network node of a computer network that serves as an endpoint for sending and receiving data across the network. The structure and properties of a socket are defined by an application programming interface (API) for the networking architecture. Sockets are created only during the ...
Retail software. Retail software is computer software, typically installed on PC-type computers post 2005, delivered via the Internet (also known as cloud -based). Traditionally this software was delivered via physical data storage media sold to end consumer but very few companies still provide their software using physical media.
E-commerce. The term mobile commerce was originally coined in 1997 by Kevin Duffey at the launch of the Global Mobile Commerce Forum, to mean "the delivery of electronic commerce capabilities directly into the consumer’s hand, anywhere, via wireless technology." [ 1] Many choose to think of Mobile Commerce as meaning "a retail outlet in your ...
A Boolean circuit can be seen as a computer network: each gate is a computer that runs an extremely simple computer program. Similarly, a sorting network can be seen as a computer network: each comparator is a computer. Distributed algorithms in message-passing model. The algorithm designer only chooses the computer program.
An infomercial is a form of television commercial that resembles regular TV programming [ 1] yet is intended to promote or sell a product, service or idea. It generally includes a toll-free telephone number or website. [ 2] Most often used as a form of direct response television (DRTV), they are often program-length commercials[ 1] (long-form ...
In 2020, e-commerce accounted for 19% of all retail sales in several major global markets, up from 16% the year prior, according to U.N. experts in trade and development.