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INTERNET COMERCIAL [3 records]

Record 1 2007-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electronic Commerce
DEF

A commercial Web site that includes a number of virtual shops where Internet users can purchase various products and services online.

CONT

A leading U.S. virtual shopping mall is run by the Internet Shopping Network, a subsidiary of Home Shopping Network, the giant television merchandiser. I.S.N. offers electronic browsers access to 600 "stores" selling approximately 20,000 different products, and attracts about 10,000 shoppers a day.

CONT

In Canada, a former distributor of furniture parts, Jacques Dussault, has set up a virtual shopping centre that already has 150 tenants. When you call up his Alliance 9000 Business Centre on your computer screen, there is a picture that resembles a shopping centre, accompanied by a directory that can lead you to anything from a computer bookstore to a management consultant to a telegram office.

Key term(s)
  • virtual shopping center
  • cyber mall
  • cyber-mall

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce électronique
DEF

Site Internet qui regroupe plusieurs commerçants virtuels.

CONT

Pour ceux que les grandes surfaces rebutent, le commerce électronique est une solution. Pourquoi ne pas se promener dans un centre commercial virtuel, entrer dans certaines boutiques pour «essayer» des articles, les faire pivoter dans les trois dimensions, les changer de couleur? Il n'y a plus qu'à commander, payer et attendre la livraison.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comercio electrónico
DEF

Localización Internet que reúne a varios comerciantes en línea.

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Record 2 2007-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electronic Commerce
DEF

The part of the Internet that is made up of merchant Web sites, where electronic commerce is conducted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce électronique
DEF

Partie du réseau Internet constituée par l'ensemble des sites Web marchands, où l'on fait du commerce électronique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comercio electrónico
DEF

Parte de Internet que está formada por los sitios Web comerciales, donde se realiza el comercio electrónico.

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Record 3 2007-05-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Social Problems
OBS

Every person who is in a position of trust or authority toward a young person or is a person with whom the young person is in a relationship of dependency and who (a) for a sexual purpose, touches, directly or indirectly, with a part of the body or with an object, any part of the body of the young person, or (b) for a sexual purpose, invites, counsels or incites a young person to touch, directly or indirectly, with a part of the body or with an object, the body of any person, including the body of the person who so invites, is guilty of indictable offence.

OBS

Term and observation taken from chapter 19 of the 3rd supplement, section 150 of the act modifying the Criminal Code.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Problèmes sociaux
OBS

Est coupable d'un acte criminel toute personne qui est en situation d'autorité ou de confiance vis-à-vis d'un adolescent ou à l'égard de laquelle l'adolescent est en situation de dépendance et qui, selon les cas : a) à des fins d'ordre sexuel, touche, directement ou indirectement, avec une partie de son corps ou avec un objet, une partie du corps de l'adolescent; b) à des fins d'ordre sexuel, invite, engage ou incite un adolescent à la toucher, à se toucher ou à toucher un tiers, directement ou indirectement, avec une partie du corps ou avec un objet.

OBS

Terme et observation sont tirés du chapitre 19, 3e supplément, section 150 de la Loi modifiant le Code criminel et la Loi sur la preuve au Canada.

Spanish

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