Micropayments: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed Twice?

IEEE Security and Privacy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-63

  Lesk, Michael ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASH TRANSFER; MICROPAYMENTS; SHAREWARE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC MAIL; MARKETING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PURCHASING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 2342637084     PISSN: 15407993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSECP.2004.1264856     Document Type: Review

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